The Business Times, 9 August 1993

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    14 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (F) 552/12/92 Monday August 9 1993 75* S
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      Lock icon Lufthansa offers link up to Austrian Airlines
      80 1 Reuter FRANKFURT Deutsche Lufthansa AG has offered fellow carrier Austrian Airlines a cooperation deal which, if realised, would be a blow to plans by three other airlines for a European mega-carrier. The proposal could lure Austrian Airlines away from the Alcazar plan being
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      Lock icon Clinton vows action against Somali attack
      48 1 Reuter WASHINGTON US President Bill Clinton yesterday condemned a Somali attack that killed four US soldiers and vowed "appropriate action" against those responsible. "We will do everything we can to Find out who was responsible and take appropriate action," he told reporters.
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    108 1 Exchange rates USS ss USJ 1.614 1.493 2.410 DM 0.584 0.943 100 Yen 0.958 1.546 MS 0.392 0.632 HKS 0.128 0.208 Baht 0.039 0.064 Rupiah 0.047 0.077 Crude oil USS C hange WTI 17.59 -0.20 BreiH blend 16.56 0.11 Dubai fateh 14.28 0.24 Minas 17.40 unch Tapis blend
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    S'pore posts sparkling 10.1pc growth in second quarter
    614 1  -  Govt revises 1993 growth projection to 7.5-Bpc By Kenneth James SINGAPORE Ahead of National Day's Fireworks display this evening. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong last night delivered sparklers of the economic kind when he announced sharply higher economic growth of 10.1 per
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    A big and pleasant surprise: analysts
    500 1  -  Financial services believed to have led growth By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Up to last night, almost every analyst in town would have dismissed out of hand any suggestion that economic growth during the April-June quarter could have reached 8 per cent, let alone hit
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    Lock icon China prepared to wait for better deal before joining Gatt
    224 1 Reuter BEIJING China is in no rush to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt), a senior member of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade said. The China Daily Business Weekly yesterday quoted Long Yongtu, head
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    Lock icon Dead tramp's hypnotic hymn mesmerises music world
    228 1 Reuter LONDON A hypnotic arrangement of a 26-word hymn sung by an unknown tramp more than 20 years ago is set to become a surprise hit in Britain's classical record charts. Jesus' Blihxl Never Failed Me Yet. which runs for nearly 75 minutes,
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    Lock icon Victorious Clinton promises more spending cuts
    457 1 Reuter WASHINGTON Fresh from a slender Senate victory. President Bill Clinton pledged on Saturday to work for more cuts in government spending in answer to members of Congress who reluctantly supported his budget plan. "Our work is far from Finished," Mr Clinton said in
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    Lock icon Apec can help to revive world economy: Suharto
    396 1 AFP NUSA DUA, Indonesia Indonesian President Suharto yesterday threw his support behind the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum, saying the grouping could help revive the world economy. Mr Suharto said that Apec "should be able to become the spearhead of efforts to
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  • THE REGION
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      Anwar has the upper hand but his impatience could backfire
      659 2  -  KL Correspondent Leslie Lopez discusses the looming Ghafar-Anwar battle Leslie Lopez KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's declaration over the weekend that he would remain neutral in any contest for the deputy leadership of the United Malays National Organisation (Umno)
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      Lock icon Abdullah warns Umno of dangers in money politics
      299 2 Bernama KEPALA BATAS, Prai Umno Vice-President Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday Umno may end up being led by leaders who are sponsored by its enemies if the practice of money politics is not checked. Umno would be in big danger if
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      Lock icon Chinese-Taiwanese trade to hit record
      243 2 Reuter BEIJING China's trade with Taiwan will hit a record USSIO billion (5516.14 billion) this year with Taiwan posting a surplus of USSB billion, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. In the first half of the year. Taiwan's exports to China, mostly industrial raw
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      Lock icon China begins raising funds for Yangtze dam
      300 2 AFP BEIJING China said yesterday it would have no problem financing the construction of a massive dam in the Yangtze River's Three Gorges region as state banks prepared to raise funds for the controversial project. The start of fund-raising for the dam, expected
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      Lock icon Investments in Taiwan set to top US$37.7b
      186 2 AFP TAIPEI An economic pump-priming package and the start of major development projects has revived Taiwan's domestic investment after a slump of several years, the economics ministry said yesterday. Domestic investment in major projects in expected to break the U5537.7 billion (Ss6o billion)
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      Lock icon Alarm over increasing gun crimes in China
      298 2 UPI, Reuter BEIJING Authorities are becoming alarmed by a rising number of violent crimes involving guns in China unleashed by lax enforcement, weapons thefts and gun-run-ning from Vietnam, an official magazine reported yesterday. The state-run weekly Beijing Review cited an upswing in murder,
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      Lock icon Japanese dailies welcome new PM but fear instability
      551 3 Reuter, AFP TOKYO Japanese newspapers broadly welcomed the election of anti-graft campaigner Morihiro Hosokawa as Prime Minister, but expressed concern about the possible instability of his coalition government. Mr Hosokawa won a parliamentary ballot late on Friday to become Japan's 79th Prime
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      Lock icon Bhutto's brother to fight her party in polls
      374 3 Reuter ISLAMABAD The exiled brother of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is gearing up to challenge her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in forthcoming elections, officials and family said yesterday. Sarwar Khan Durrani, joint secretary of Pakistan's Election Commission, said an application for
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      Lock icon National Party of Australia urges cut in number of migrants
      275 3 AFP SYDNEY The leader of Australia's conservative National Party, Tim Fischer, has called for a reduction in migrant numbers and questioned the nation's policy of multiculturalism. Mr Fischer's National Party traditionally represents rural Australia and is the junior partner in
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      Lock icon Aussies cash in on Asian thirst for education
      220 3 Reuter CANBERRA Australia, shrugging off the collapse of about 30 colleges catering to foreigners, is forging ahead with plans to cash in on Asia's thirst for education. The country, more famous as a commodity exporter, earned about US$75O million (SSI.2 billion) in
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Deng in good health, says Jiang
        98 3 AFP TOKYO China's ageing paramount leader Deng Xiaoping is in good health and Premier Li Peng has been recovering steadily from illness, Chinese President Jiang Zemin said in an interview published here yesterday. "I can say it with responsibility that comrade Deng Xiaping is
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        Lock icon Foreign investment in Philippines falls
        96 3 Reuter MANILA Net foreign investment in the Philippines fell to US$2Bl million (*****.4 million) in the first four months of 1993 from US$34l million a year earlier, the Central Monetary Authority (CMA) said. The 17.6 per cent fall was attributed to the sharp increase in
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        Lock icon Taiwan to attend South Pacific Forum
        69 3 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's foreign ministry announced yesterday that it will send a delegation to Nauru to attend non-member talks at the annual South Pacific Forum following the organisation's formal meeting. "Vice-Foreign Minister Fang Chin-yen will lead a 13-member delegation to Nauru on Tuesday, and
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        Lock icon Thais detain armed UN soldiers
        105 3 AFP BANGKOK Thai authorities briefly detained three armed UN soldiers recently who crossed into Thai territory from Cambodia, a police official said yesterday. The soldiers were part of a 50-man Malaysian contingent who went to the key border town of Aranyaprathet on Friday to shop,
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        Lock icon PNG border not a problem: Indonesia
        58 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's armed forces chief said that the frontier with Papua New Guinea (PNG) no longer posed problems for his country, the official Antara news agency reported. General Feisal Tanjung, speaking on Saturday in Jayapura, 3,800 km east of Jakarta, said the two
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        Lock icon Japan at mercy of typhoon and quake
        78 3 AFP TOKYO A powerful typhoon churned towards the southern Japanese islands yesterday, threatening to bring more rains to flooded areas, while a strong tremor shocked an earthquakedevastated island in the north. In Kashima, two bodies were recovered from debris at a hospital which
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Clinton budget seen slowing growth
      558 4 But economists say spending cuts won't trigger recession Reuter WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton's economic plan that just squeaked by in the US Congress will slow growth next year, but not kill it, economists say. They said that any programme to cut the bulging federal budget
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      Lock icon Fed governor warns of latent inflation threat
      517 4 Reuter WASHINGTON A Federal Reserve policymaker has voiced confidence that the US economy will slowly gather steam in the months ahead but said the central bank must be on guard so that faster growth does not reawaken inflation. "There is a latent inflation
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      Lock icon France aims for EC economic convergence
      253 4 Reuter PARIS France is looking for ways to reinforce European Community (EC) economic cooperation after the virtual floating of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) last weekend, Economy Minister Edmond Alphandery said. In an interview published in Liberation newspaper, he repeated that the European Monetary
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      Lock icon EC urges members to cooperate closely
      178 4 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Commission says it is essential that member states cooperate as closely as possible in coordinating their economic policies if progress towards economic and monetary union is to continue. "The lesson is clear. Without strengthened coordination of economic policies, it will
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon CIS economic union summit proposed
        88 4 Reuter MOSCOW Russian, Kazakh and Central Asian leaders have appealed to fellow members of the Commonwealth of Independent States to hold a summit on Sep 7 to create an economic union, Itar-Tass news agency said last Saturday. Tass was quoting Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, speaking
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        Lock icon Kuwait may set up free-trade zone
        103 4 Reuter KUWAIT The Kuwaiti government may set up an experimental free trade zone to try to boost the sluggish economy, the English-language Arab Times reported yesterday. The proposed zone, probably based around warehouses at Kuwait international airport, would be used mostly for re-export and
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        Lock icon Russians on Kuriles back Japan: report
        70 4 Reuter TOKYO About seven in ten Russian residents of the disputed Kurite islands claimed by Tokyo want all or some of them to revert to Japanese rule, according to a survey published by the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper yesterday. The survey, conducted by a private
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        Lock icon Belgium to swear in King Albert II
        46 4 Reuter BRUSSELS Belgium's Prince Albert of Liege will become King Albert 11 today when he takes the royal oath to succeed his deceased brother King Baudouin in the country's first change of monarch for more than four decades. Reuter
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        Lock icon Iran's Rafsanjani reshuffles Cabinet
        38 4 Reuter TEHERAN President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has just begun a second term in office, presented a new Cabinet to Iran's Majlis (parliament) yesterday with six changes including the interior and defence ministers. Reuter
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Companies given 48 hours to respond to KLSE queries
      614 5 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE), irked by late replies, now requires public listed companies to respond to its queries within 48 hours. All queries from the KLSE now carry the condition that a reply must be furnished
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      Lock icon HK investigating Guoco's share price surge
      451 5 HONGKONG The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is conducting an inquiry into Guoco Group's sudden share price surge before the formal announcement of its successful acquisition of Overseas Trust Bank (OTB), the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday. Talking about the selling process
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      Lock icon Kodak chief takes the rap for group's sluggish performance
      434 5 Reuter NEW YORK Eastman Kodak Co's announcement last Thursday that its board would replace chief executive Kay Whitmore was a pleasant surprise for Wall Street. Kodak's stock jumped US$3.5O to close at U5558,625 on Friday in New York Stock Exchange trading,
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      Apple said to be selling part of stake in IBM joint venture
      201 5 SAN FRANCISCO Apple Computer Inc is rumoured to be interested in selling some of its stake in its new software company, Taligent Inc, forged to develop the latest generation in operating software. One industry source believes Apple is
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      Lock icon HK stocks set to hit new highs this week
      392 5 MARKET WATCH Reuter HONGKONG Analysts see Hongkong stocks rising again this week and possibly setting new records after last week's surge despite bearish forecasts. The blue chip Hang Seng Index ended at 7,396 points on Friday, 89 points higher on the
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      Lock icon Campbells denies bid to soak up Arnotts
      249 5 AFP SYDNEY American soup giant Campbells has denied that voting restrictions on its stake in Australian biscuit maker Arnotts Ltd would result in the US company launching a bid to soak up minority shareholdings. Chief executive David Johnson said that Campbells did not
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Nod for plan to sell Manila Hotel
        96 5 Reuter MANILA A plan to sell Manila Hotel this year has been approved by a Philippine government committee which oversees privatisation of state assets. Finance Undersecretary Romeo Bernardo said yesterday. The plan involves selling 55 per cent equity in the state-owned hotel to
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        Lock icon Timber firms sue US govt
        110 5 Reuter WASHINGTON A coalition of US timber companies on Friday sued the Clinton administration, charging it v iolated a law requiring open federal advisory board meetings when it developed a recovery plan for the Pacific North-west. The suit, filed by the North-west Forest Resource Council
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        Lock icon Exxon's coker unit badly damaged
        114 5 Reuter NEW YORK Exxon Coip on Friday said a fire that broke out last Monday at a coker unit at its 420,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery in Baton Rouge. Louisiana, had caused "extensive" damage to the unit. The company added it does not know
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        Lock icon Reebok to sue Atlanta's Hotel Nikko
        122 5 Reuter ATLANTA Reebok International Ltd said on Friday it is suing Hotel Nikko of Atlanta for allegedly giving preferential treatment to Japanese business travellers and tourists. The Stoughton, Massachusetts, based sports apparel maker is seeking about US$l.l million (SSI.7 million) in damages against the
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        Lock icon Mirage may spin off Golden Nugget
        81 5 Reuter LOS ANGELES Mirage Resorts Inc is considering spinning off its Golden Nugget casino to shareholders, following bondholders' rejection of an exchange offer, director of investor relations Dan Lee said. Mirage, in its exchange offer to holders of the 12.75 per cent of its
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      Lock icon SUMMARY
      319 5 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Aug 6 Last Scmc Index Stork salt Owe (actor notm <$) Avimo I 870 -0.010 1.41 -1.47 CAC 7.350 5.56 Cerebos 6 150 0.200 4.65 29.41 FAN 13.600 0 200 10 28 29 41 GF Asia 3 200 0.080 2.42 11.76
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        Lock icon Fed reports steep US$7.6b rise in consumer credit
        255 6 Reuter Washington consumer credit rose at its fastest rate in nearly six years in June, the Federal Reserve said on Friday, as Americans went deeper into shock on their credit cards and lined up for loans at banks. The Fed, the nation's
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        Lock icon Brazil's old cruzeiro bills get the rubber stamp
        55 6 Reuter BRASILIA, Brazil Brazil's central bank is rubber stamping old cruzeiro bills in order to adjust them to the country 's new currency, the cruzeiro real. The stamped 50, 100, 500 criizeiro real bills are expected to begin circulating within a 30-day
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        Lock icon M'sia seeks better deal from China for palm oil and cocoa
        437 6 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday despatched a high-powered delegation to firm up a deal that would allow China to buy its palm oil on credit and to seek lower import duty for the commodity's entry into Beijing. The 45-member
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        Lock icon WEEKLY REGIONAL CURRENCY REPORT
        142 6 AFP THE European Monetary System (EMS) crisis last week was good news for virtually all currencies in the region as investors sought safer havens until the dust settles. The S$ firmed against the US$ to 1.6170 from 1.6215 in the previous week. Dealers said the uncertainty
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        2011 6 •Rates art the average of 9 selected banks 7 index cokukunl again*! Spares tap 14 trading partners Base year I9SS BANKS ABN Amro Bank NV 5V, ANZ Banking Group 6 Allied Irish Bank PLC 6Vj American Express Bank 6Vi Arab Banking Corp 6V« Arab Bank PLC Asahi Bank Lid 6
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        Lock icon Chicago exchange plans stock matching system
        288 6 Reuter CHICAGO The Chicago Stock Exchange filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to establish its institutional stock trading system, the Match Market Exchange (MMX), the Chicago exchange said. The MMX was developed jointly by the Chicago Stock Exchange and Global Trade, Inc. a
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      • SMALL CHANGE
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          Lock icon Maybank appoints new director
          98 6 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Maybank Bhd, Malaysia's leading commercial bank, has appointed a retired central bank adviser as director with the intention of making him the bank's chairman later this year. Mohamed Basir Ahmad, 55, the husband of Malaysia's Minister of International Trade and Industry Rafidah Aziz,
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          Lock icon Union seeks seat in Bundesbank council
          79 6 Reuter FRANKFURT The German DAG union of white collar workers is demanding that unions be represented on the policymaking council of the Bundesbank, Ursula Konitzer, DAG deputy chairwoman, told the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau. In view of the critical economic situation in Germany, the consensus
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          Lock icon Eight more underwriters for PAL bond
          93 6 UPI MANILA Eight more banks and investment houses have been named to underwrite 100 million Deutschemark (5594.25 million) worth of Eurobonds floated by Philippine Airlines (PAL) this month, a PAL statement said yesterday. Chemical Investment Bank is the lead manager of the issue, with
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          Lock icon Lloyd's may sell stake in Frankfurt bank
          94 6 Reuter FRANKFURT Lloyds Bank pic is looking to sell its majority stake in the Frankfurt-based private bank Schroeder Muenchmeyer Hengst Co (SMH), the business magazine Forbes said. Adolf Kraus. managing partner at SMH, told Forbes he knew of repeated requests for information on
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        Lock icon Bundesbank warns against expecting rate cuts
        196 6 Reuter FRANKFURT Bundesbank director Johann Wilhelm Gaddum warned that growing market expectations of further interest rate cuts in Germany might be disappointed, the Boersen-Zeitung newspaper reported. He said it was by no means certain that the central bank would set a variable rate tender
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        Lock icon Bank of Taiwan cuts prime lending rate
        260 6 AP, Reuter TAIPEI Bank of Taiwan, the bellwether of the island's banking industry, said its prime lending rate will be cut from today by 0.125 per cent to 7.875 per cent to complement a government economic stimulus package. Time deposit interest rates will
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
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        Lock icon Dealers seek yen as safe haven
        753 7  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Woo Peck Har, MMS International THE dollar-mark started the week heading higher to 1.7485 marks on expectations that the European Monetary System would come to an end soon. When the announcement came that the ERM had widened the hand for
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        Lock icon Coffee firmer while precious metals follow gold lower
        803 7 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON The prices of coffee and the precious metals moved sharply and unpredictably last week in the volatile trading conditions. Meanwhile, gold prices fell 8 per cent from their level of last week, depressed by profit-taking as calm
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1531 7 Rubber HAS Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 1pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sell (tonnes) Interest Sep 93 134 50 134.50 134 25 150 3.125 Oct 135.00 134.75 134.75 475 5.825 Nov 135.50 135.25 135.25 1225 5.950 Dec 136.00 135.75 135.75
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      BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
      4683 8 CORPORATE RESULTS Net t arn KPS Dale TY LY TY LY Coapany inn (Sm) CSml (cts) (ets) AMDB* Aug 5 P 7.863 15.142 1.3 2.8 Acma Jun 16 F 14.268 10 647 23.1 17.3 Alex Hldgs Jun 25 P I 479 1.050 7.39 5.25 Alliance Tech
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      CHARTING SERVICE
      750 8 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
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        Lock icon All that glitters is not gold but Clinton's budget
        632 9 FT Ncw York THESE should be the dog days of August for US stock markets, a period when dealers and investors enjoy short, quiet weeks and long, quiet weekends. Instead. the dogs of August are up and yapping at everybody's heels.
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
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          Australia
          169 9 Gold bullion nervousness eroded a week of gains to leave Australian shares marginally easier in net terms last week. After days of steady rises with the All Ordinaries establishing a new post-1987 crash high of 1,867.4 last Thursday, a wave of goldinduced selling plundered the bourse last Friday, shearing
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          Taipei
          93 9 Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange rebounded over the 4,000-point mark during a colourless week on light trading. The 340-issue Weighted Price Index climbed 31.73 points or 0.8 per cent to finish at 4.025.93 points last Friday. Analysts predicted the benchmark index will move between 4.000 and 4,150
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          Bangkok
          71 9 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index rose 30.64 points or 3.3 per cent over the week to close at a five-month high of 958.84. The average volume of shares traded daily in the holiday-shortened week was 132.3 million, up sharply from the previous week's average of 91.2 million
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          Bombay
          132 9 Share prices rose for the second consecutive week on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), as iocal buyers and foreign institutional investors went on a speculative spree last week. The 30-share BSE Sensitivity Index gained 53.97 points during the week to close at 2,382.18 points last Friday. The National Index,
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          Manila
          169 9 Philippine share prices fell last week amid profit-taking, stockbrokers said last Saturday. The market had risen to record highs the week before and in the first half of last week, but began tumbling on Wednesday. Many brokers said they were still hopeful the market would recover soon, saying the
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        Lock icon EMS turnaround boosts stock market
        316 9 AFP London THE turnaround in the European Monetary System (EMS) the previous week boosted shares on the London stock market last week, sending them to a record high close on Friday on hopes of a cut in European interest rates. Dealers were disappointed that the
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        Strong buying continues on anticipation of good results
        524 9 Hongkong THE market's strong performance over the past fortnight, which has seen a gain of 646 points, has been due to the anticipation of strong corporate results. a perception that agreement on the airport financing is nearing and. possibly, to the switching
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        Lock icon Shares fall back amid EMS crisis and Japan's political turmoil
        387 9 Yen shoots up to global record high in New York AFP Tokyo SHARE prices gave up early gains to close lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week, shaken by the crisis of the monetary system in Europe and political
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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          2249 9 London Aug 6 Pence Industrials A. ACorpVJr 31 -16/8 Ahbes National 402 -2 Allied Lsons 13 \mec 93 I Asda (iroup 65 4/8 I BAT Ind 4*2 BK 441 II BOT Ciroup 7oo 5 B(X (.roup 7 00 5 BR Petroleum HN BTR 403 f 7 4/1 ■MM 4M 3
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          New York
          886 9 11.46 US stocks managed a late rally last Friday despite worries over the crucial budget vote in Congress, led by gains in three blue chip issues. The Nasdaq Index extended its advance into record territory to a third straight day. ending up 2.58 points to 718.08. The Dow
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          Toronto
          262 9 12.38 Fluctuating gold shares dominated a day of sluggish trading last Friday in which Toronto stocks recovered slightly from Thursday's fall, dealers said. "Gold dominated the activity again although there was no particular direction." one trader said. The TSE Composite Index closed 12.38 points higher at 3.959.96 on volume
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      Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2776 12 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info u Gr IjmI Vol w«k l ast Quote Di» l)i» > Id Net M (ip High Low Company Sale 000) High Ion Bum Seller S CVr S P/t Smil MALAYSIAN STOCKS 159 102 USB MV 136 Ml -10 26 140 136 137
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
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        Lock icon Strong institutional buying a booster for index
        5523 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices closed higher but away from their highs on profittaking last week. Reflecting the strong buying trend experienced earlier, the KLSE Composite Index soared to an all-time high on Thursday at 785.49 points. But the index slipped 6.83 points
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
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        Lock icon Market rallies on expectation of good economic news
        7798 15  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE The Singapore market last week started on a strong note bolstered by widespread buying into banking stocks as investors revalued several financial counters. Shortly after, US funds entered the local market, buying up mainly index-linked counters. And the
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  • Business IT
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      DRAM prices ease from recent record highs
      639 13  -  But prices are unlikely to fall to pre-Sumitomo fire levels, as Bernard Chew discovers Bernard Chew SPOT prices of DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips, a key component of computers, have eased somewhat after a July 3 fire at a Sumitomo factory sent
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      Is the real 'RAM crisis' still to come?
      373 13 SPOT prices of DRAM chips have doubled since the July 3 fire that destroyed the source of half the world's supply of epoxy rtsin, a key requirement for the chips. A simple matter of supply and demand? Well, Texas Instruments, one of
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      S'pore IT community mourns loss of a mentor and champion
      408 13 THE sudden death of Senior Minister of State for Education. Dr Tay Eng Soon, has robbed Singapore's budding information technology sector of a valued ally and friend. Although better known for his contributions to higher education. Dr Tay also played
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      IBM's software hard-sell
      486 13  -  Joseph Rajendran checks out the reasons for Big Blue's new software division Joseph Rajendran IBM Singapore is setting up a new division in the Republic to market its software more aggressively in the region. The move to set up the division. called Personal Software Products (PSP) Asia
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      Kiwis offer fruit of software developers
      492 14  -  Goods and Services Tax packages are among the goodies offered by a New Zealand delegation due here on Thursday. Schutz Lee reports Schutz Lee NEW ZEALAND. Land of scenic mountains, sheep farms, the kiwi, the All Blacks rugby team, bungee jumping and software. Few
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    • TECH TAKES
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        Amdahl wins MBf contract
        39 14 SINGAPORE Mainframe maker Amdahl, through its Malaysian distributor Fujitsu Systems, and lease lines provider Comdisco, has secured a contract from MBf Holdings. The Amdahl 5995/1400 A will be chosen to run a 24-hour continuous operation.
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        Sun behind Jurassic special effects
        61 14 SINGAPORE Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park cinematic adventure has attracted crowds to the big screen. And the Sun Sparcstation was the key computer used to study the anatomy of the dinosaurs. Using a new technique for scanning dinosaur fossils, the computers helped one of the curators
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        AST claims major market share
        70 14 SINGAPORE AST Singapore, the local subsidiary of USbased PC giant AST, has just finished its financial year with a "significantly improved market share". The company claims, according to data from Survey Research Singapore, that it holds a 10 per cent market share in the region,
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        Minolta wins NCB printer deal again
        78 14 SINGAPORE Minolta Singapore has secured a contract for the second year running to supply laser printers to the National Computer Board. The contract, which will run to June 1994, consists of delivering, installing, testing, and maintaining laser printers at various government departments and ministries.
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        Training for Datacraft customers
        51 14 SINGAPORE Data communications firm Datacraft Asia is setting up a new facility in Singapore and Hongkong to conduct training for its customers. The company said that it was "investing substantially" in the training set-up and plans to train around 1,000 students in the first year of
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        Bank Islam to get Bull smart cards
        72 14  -  Compiled by Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd has awarded a contract to French firm Bull to supply smart cards for standalone ATMs. The value of the contract is U*****,000 (SSl.l million) and it involves Bull supplying 20 units of its Questar
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      IT Moves
      80 14 TEXAS Instruments Asia has appointed a new managing director and a new general manager of memory operations in Singapore. Goh Geok Ling has assumed the responsibility as managing director for Texas Instruments Singapore and will report directly to the company's regional head Marco Olandi. Mr Goh's responsibilities will
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      Don't underrate good logistics
      735 14  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Lau Eng Boon outlines the reasons why logistics has become a tool for competitiveness in the 1990s Lau Eng Boon The writer, a manager with Andersen Consulting, is currently helping clients in various industries re-examine their logistics management systems SIMPLY PUT,
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      If PC prices are so cheap, why aren't folks buying?
      1075 14  -  WINDOWS OF OTORTUNJW DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA), a Brooklyn-based management consulting and software development firm, and also writes on IT issues. He contributed this commentary to BusinesslT. THERE'S a story they teach in journalism school. It
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      Investments to rise 20pc
      302 14  -  Bernard Chew on Tandem's regional plans Bernard Chew TANDEM Computers intends to spend 20 per cent more in Asia in the coming financial year from Oct 1, 1993, despite having to cut its global workforce by 15 per cent as a result of a massive restructuring
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      726 16 Nothing Beais A Bud. iFV^fll OF J. (iiwynifij 1/ l j«ii\ 1 J JITIPJ i.i In August, visit Cafe Carousel for the most f i delicious local food prepared hawker-style! Mouthwatering favourites include: 1 Bak Kut Teh nVTVnTlT^^ll I Nonya Popiah $13.80++ (OCWt) S D,S: reßO)ak $10.80++ (child) r® Over
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      298 16 WHERE TO WINE, OINE AND ENTERTAIN There's no covering up our Singaporean Tummy. August 1-31 mam Thai s right, we re at Singaporean to Singaporean, there s no keeping a food secret. And at Cafe Plaza, one buffet tells it all. Nasi Padang, Laksa, BakKutTeh,HainaneseChickenßice,Rojak, Wanton Noodle... the choice is
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      Lock icon Early Music goes flat in NY
      1455 17  -  Why is the Early Music movement struggling in New York when it is doing so well in other cities? James Oestreich finds out James Oestreich NYT NEW YORK does not always lead the international classical-music scene, but it generally follows close behind. Lord knows,
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      1306 17 TV RADIO Dances With Wolves, 9.40pm, A soldier (Kevin Costner) is sent to guard an empty fort in the Dakota plains, circa 1860. vHtn throws in his *ith the Sioux. When the army fi- 1 nally looks him up, they find a i/m■ man Dances With '/M Ifll Wolves. Costner's
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      Australia retains Nomura Cup
      641 18  -  16th Asia-Pacific Golf Championship Golf Reports by Shahiron Sahari in KUALA LUMPUR TWO successive eagles on the back nine broke Japan's back and won Australia its second consecutive Nomura Cup here yesterday. Australia, the defending champions, won the 13-team biennial tournament at the Royal Selangor Golf
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      Defending champions take the pressure and the cup
      386 18 AUSTRALIA played consistently rather than spectacularly to win its third Nomura Cup and second back to back yesterday. Despite finishing at 12-under 852 over four days, six ahead of runners-up Japan, none of its players topped the individual scores on any of
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      691 18 AFP STUTTGART, Germany Athletic fortunes can change so quickly that last year's Olympic heroes could well find themselves classed as imposters by the time the fourth World Championships are wrapped up. Primo Nebiolo's decision to make the championships a two-yearly event gives Sergei Bubka, Colin
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      Lock icon Zoeller takes four-stroke lead at Buick Open
      392 18 Reuter GRAND BLANC, Michigan Veteran Fuzzy Zoeller took a giant step towards his first PGA Tour victory in seven years when he burst to a commanding four-shot lead after the third round of the US$l million Buick Open on Saturday. He played a
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      Lock icon Rookie Gary Orr shoots 66 to get within stroke of lead
      199 18 AP MUNICH PGA European Tour rookie Gary Orr of Scotland shot a 6-under 66 on Saturday to move within a stroke of lan Woosnam and the lead after the third round of the BMW International Open. Orr, who graduated
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      Lock icon Lofland-Dormann recovers from poor start
      234 18 AP STRATTON MOUNTAIN, Vermont Dana LoflandDormann, the leader for two rounds, fell behind after four holes on Saturday, then rallied with three birdies on the final seven holes to retain the lead in the McCall's Classic. She notched birdies on Nos 12, 14 and IS
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        Lock icon Husband and wife win Sydney City-to-Surf
        150 18 Reuter SYDNEY Australian marathoner Andrew Lloyd, 34, and his wife Carolyn Schuwalow, 27, yesterday became the first husband and wife to win the men's and women's section in the gruelling 14 km Sydney City-to-Surf fun run. Lloyd clinched his fourth City-to-Surf victory in a
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        Lock icon Baseball
        249 18 Reuter AP NEW YORK Results of Major League games played oa Saturday American League: Boston 4 Detroit I; Milwaukee 7 Toronto 1; Baltimore 8 Cleveland 6; Chicago 6 California 4; Kansas City 5 Oakland 2; Minnesota 6 New York 5; Seattle 2 Texas 1. National League: St Louis 4
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        439 18 Reuter Reuter Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Fnal results of the 16th Asia-Pacific Golf Championship yesterday Team: 852 Australia 210 212 215 215 858 Ja- 5215 210 211 222 866 India 215 218 213 867 NZ 219 220 214 225 868 Taiwan 221 205 217 225 872 S Korea 222 218
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        Lock icon Motor-racing
        79 18 AP ROTORLA, New Zealand Leading standings yesterday's final six stages of the 2,032 km, 36-stagt Roth mans Rally of New Zealand: I Colin Mcßac/Derek Ringer (Brit) Subaru Lcgacy. 6hr I2min 3lsec 2 Francois Delecour/Daniel Grataloup (Fra) Ford Escort. 6:12.58 3 Dider AunoL/Bernard Occelli (Fra) Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD. 6:13.00
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        62 18 AP Reuter LOS ANGELES Semi-final results of the LS$3OO,OOO Volvo Classic. Saturday: Richard Krajicek (Neth) b Pete Sampras (US) 6-4. 3-6. 7-6 (7-3): Michael Chang (US) b Chuck Adams (US) 6-3. b-1. CARLSBAD, California Semi-fi-nal results of the Mazda Classic, Saturday: Steffi Graf (Ger) b Conchita Martinez (Spn) 7-5
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      It's service first at URA
      875 19  -  David Gabriel looks at service excellence in a public sector organisation David Gabriel THE word these days in the public sector is that it must change its mindset and become more pro-business. A new service-oriented approach by civil servants to the private sector is seen
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      652 19  -  Just watch out for the pitfalls, says Adrian Furnham Adrian Furnham The author is head of the business psychology unit at University College. London, and advises organisations on management appraisal systems. FT. CUSTOMER satisfaction surveys and rating forms are, like
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    481 19 RICHARD Ellis has appointed Dr Steven Choo Kian-koon as its director of development consultancy and research. Before joining Richard Ellis. Dr Choo was a senior lecturer and the director. Centre for Real Estate Studies, at the School of Building and Estate Management. National University of Singapore. Dr Choo
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    Lock icon Hosokawa puts final touches to cabinet to be sworn in today
    550 20 Reuter TOKYO Morihiro Hosokawa, about to become Japan's 79th prime minister in a historic transfer of power from the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), hurried to put the final touches to his multi-party cabinet yesterday. Emperor Akihito will formally
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    Lock icon SEC proposes ways to improve executive pay rules
    473 20 Reuter WASHINGTON Federal regulators backed revisions in the way companies disclose executive pay last Friday, including a change that would close a loophole allowing firms to give fat bonuses to departing executives without reporting them. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted
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    Lock icon Massive quake hits Guam, cutting power and injuring 40
    212 20 AFP AGANA, Guam A massive earthquake registering an estimated 8.1 on the open-ended Richter scale rocked the Pacific island of Guam early yesterday, injuring about 40 people, officials said. The quake, centred about 100 km off the US territory, collapsed a
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    Lock icon Jiang welcomes Japan's new premier, rules out change in ties
    187 20 AFP TOKYO Chinese President Jiang Zemin has welcomed the election of Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa. ruling out any change in the close ties between the two neighbours, the newspaper Asahi reported yesterday. "Although we may not have been familiar
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    Lock icon Expo excitement
    35 20 Reuter TAEJON, South Korea South Koreans crossing the Expo bridge on Saturday, the first day of the three-month long World Expo 93. One hundred and eight nations are participating in the Expo. Reuter
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    Lock icon EC union still on track after crisis, says German minister
    312 20 Reuter FRANKFURT German Finance Minister Theo Waigel said yesterday that the timetable for closer union within the European Community was sound despite last week's drastic reshaping of the bloc's currency grid. "The timing of the second stage of monetary union,
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    EC's option after the ERM: A 13th parallel currency
    798 20  -  The Bottom Line MICHAEL HINDLEY MICHAEL HINDLEY The writer, a Briton, is a member of the European Parliament HOW ironic that the UK House of Commons should, after months of agony which split the Tory party, finally pass the Maastricht Treaty
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    Lock icon Foreign workers at Kuwaiti refinery stage angry protest
    257 20 Reuter KUWAIT Foreign workers at a Kuwaiti refinery went on a rampage during a strike over poor conditions, overturning vehicles and smashing their residence, reports said yesterday. The disturbance highly unusual among Kuwait's foreign labour community took place on Saturday during a
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    Lock icon France slams US for including film, TV in free trade pact
    210 20 Reuter PARIS France's new conservative Culture Minister, echoing the anti-Americanism of his Socialist predecessor, slammed the United States yesterday for striving to include film and television in a new free trade pact. The European Community is worried that moves
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    Lock icon Major signals end of state welfare benefits for middle-class
    271 20 Reuter LONDON British Prime Minister John Major warned middle-class, traditional supporters of his Conservative Party yesterday that an era of state welfare benefits for everyone may be ending. Mr Major said in an article in the Ne*s of the World his
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      APL, Sea-Land slam proposal to delay re-flag of US ships
      572 21  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE American President Lines (APL) and Sea-Land Service have criticised a congressman's suggestion to impose a moratorium on the re-flagging of American ships. In a joint statement last week, the two companies said the step was both
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      Lock icon Bringing salvation to Cubans?
      57 21 Reuter HAVANA Members of the US religious group, Pastors for Peace, arriving in Cuba on Saturday on one of several vehicles donated to the country. The group, which opposes the US economic embargo against Cuba, arrived aboard the Cuban freighter, Pinar del Rio, along with tonnes
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1124 21 Page Col ABC Containerize 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Africa Container 15 3 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 Alpha Feeders 6 1 ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Appenship 18 3/4 Arabian Express 15 4 ASCL 5 5 ASXCL Shpg 15 2 Avant
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      Lock icon Beijing protests against US 'bullying' of China ship
      238 21 Reuter BEIJING China has strongly protested against what it called the bullying of the US in preventing a Chinese cargo ship from reaching its scheduled ports in the Middle East, the Xinhua News agency said yesterday. It said assistant Foreign Minister Qin
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      Lock icon Penang to maintain check on Myanmar barges entering its waters
      177 21 AP KUALA LUMPUR The local government on Malaysia's north-western state of Penang plans to start chccking Myanmar barges entering its waters and turn back those lacking proper documents or carrying illegal immigrants, an official said last Friday. A task force
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      280 21 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Shipments of aluminium ingots to Japanese buyers from Brazil may be delayed if operations at Brazilian ports continue to be plagued by nationwide unionised worker slowdowns, traders say. Operations at most Brazilian ports have fallen by about 30 per cent
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      Lock icon China trying to ship corn to Japan on time: traders
      130 21 Knight-Ridder TOKYO China's CeroHfoods is trying to get corn shipments to Japan on schedule, but shipments to some Japanese trade houses continue to run behind time, trade house dealers here said last week. The trade houses have asked Ceroilfoods, China's
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        216 22 Vnwl No Berth Vrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berft Vmal Dgrtw Marina Whams k*> Smirnov n/93w poi 0908/1400 1008/0300 Batamindo 2 2182S* MQ1 09 08/0800 09.08/1900 Never On Sun 45 P04 0908/2300 10.08/1830 Unamonte 78 K24 09.08/2200 15.08/2300 Panama Maru WAA37B P08A 08 08/1500 09.08/1500 Rata* Brooke
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1078 22 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Rtcord Booking/Balance Rifts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Pariod From To From Ao lotas 41B 10/0500 2 06/1700 09 0659 09/0900 3 09/0700 09/1159 09/1400 Mi tirade 23/096 12/2300 3 OcHta) 4 09/1200
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      9769 30 This 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. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      773 37 FREIGHT market sentiment took support from firmer shipping rales in the Pacific, dry cargo brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index rose one point to 1.331 on Aug 5. This resersed the index's 11-day decline. A.I Pacific grain routes and all timecharter sub-indices were marked up but the Atlantic
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      COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
      932 37 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Pnces shown are based on avcrage-si/ed stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      Lock icon Norway shipping regains confidence
      1157 38 1 his is the first of a two-part feature on the Norwegian shipping industry. Part Two will be published tomorrow Lloyd's Shipping Economist Following the heady expansion of the Norwegian-con-trolled fleet in the late 1980s, the early 1990s have been a period of consolidation for the
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        Modest profits seen for Asian luxury rail in first year
        467 40  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE The operator of the region's new luxury train service expects profits to be modest in its first year on the tracks. Caroline Rathbone, public relations manager for the Eastern Oriental Express (E&O), told BT: "Contrary to
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        Lock icon British rail may survive privatisation era
        452 40 Reuter LONDON Britain's era of big privatisations may be drawing to a close just as other countries are gearing up to sell their state family silver. Among remaining assets targeted for sale are the national railway, London buses and possibly the money-making Royal Mail,
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        Lock icon Largest US airlines join in autumn fare sale
        251 40 UPI NEW YORK The US' two largest air carriers, American Airlines and United Airlines, followed the lead last Thursday of No 3 carrier Delta, offering discounts of up 35 per cent on 14-day advance purchase fares for the fall travel season. USAir
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        Lock icon Delta's July air traffic down 4.4pc from last year
        213 40 UPI ATLANTA Delta Air Lines reported last Thursday that July traffic was off 4.4 per cent compared with July 1992, when traffic hit high levels due to a half-price fare war. "Delta's system performance in July reflects strong consumer demand though
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        Lock icon Rolls-Royce to close Welsh plant this year
        411 40 FT LONDON Deeside Titanium, a Rolls-Royce subsidiary which makes titanium sponge granules, would shut because demand was falling and imports were cheaper, RollsRoyce said last week. It was opened only 11 years ago because the UK wanted its own source of a material
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        Lock icon Viet ex-customs chief, HK residents jailed in Hanoi's biggest smuggling case
        251 40 Reuter HANOI The People's Supreme Court in Ho Chi Minh City jailed the city's former customs chief and two Hongkong residents for life last Saturday after convicting them of bribery and smuggling gold and watches into Vietnam. The case
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          Changi Airport police point moved
          77 40 SINGAPORE The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore bps relocated the police checkpoint and pass office at the Chaapji Airfreight Centre to new premises along the extended Airline Road. CAAS said in a statement last week that the customs checkpoint will follow suit this Friday. The
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          34 40 Reuter KARACHI Pakistani oil trucks staying parked outside a storage yard in Karachi on Saturday. The drivers were observing a strike protest against harsh police action directed at them.
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          Lock icon Hyundai workers return to work
          132 40 Reuter SEOUL Workers at a subsidiary of South Korea's Hyundai Group voted to return to work on Saturday, ending a bitter labour dispute after more than a month. But unions and manage ment at South Korea's largest shipyard, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd scene of
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          Lock icon More Manila banks in PAL float
          66 40 UPI MANILA Eight more banks and investment houses have been named to underwrite US$lOO million (Ssl6o million) worth of Eurobonds floated by Philippine Airlines (PAL) this month, a PAL statement said yesterday. The new underwriters are Salomon Brothers International, Deutsche Bank, Union Bank of
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          Lock icon Seminar on ship design for S Pacific
          62 40 AFP NAURU Japan's Sasakawa Peace Foundation is to fund a; seminar later this year which will consider ways of designing new ships specifically geared for the South Pacific. To be held in November in Suva, the seminar will study the relationship' "between humans
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      184 34 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD EU ll* ll* sron rati kilmk rtmwG Btm i*a i2/i Lookng tot Malr RUVN *JDKJ 7/8 In Port D«sch*png and Loading toe Bombay MUMH ki Port Loading Foi Malt PUKEJt SUPKMI 20/8 Loading lot Malt UMMIDH 8/8 loading lot Male WOGttSS UOIT
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      909 34 THONG SOON UNES PTE. LTD.I 78 SHENTON WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TEL: *****88 FAX NO: *****11 TLX: RS ***** CARRIER. RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO BOOKING LIME: 22vM VESSEL VoT""" S PORE PEST VESSEL Ivor [S PORE IPEST EQUATOR JADE 86/3E 12 AUG KUCHING EQUATOR ROYAL 81/3E 12 AUG SIBU
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      859 35 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY Of BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTMG BKAKBU.K/SOC CAA6OIS TO/FROM KOK. YOKOHAMA, NAGOYA MO I, TOKYO*. MANIA*. o***o*. Penanf* P. Kelanj Singapore E'Msia* KAMALEVERETT VI7E 26/27 A«j{ 28/29 Auf KARABIEVERETT VI3E 10/11 Sep 12/13 Sep IVYEYERETT V6E 23/24 Sep 25/26 Sep ACCEPTMG BREAK BULK FCI SOC CARGOtS TO/FROM CHTTAGON6,
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      326 35 18* GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN VII 10/8 11/8 12/8 22/8 TIMBER TRADER V SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN VII 8/8 15/8 GLORY SELATAN IX 3/8
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      612 35 PGSL -WORLDWIDE PAMAMA -GLOBE STEAMERS UNES REGULAR FCL SERVICE TO THE FOLLOWING WEEKLY SAILING TO HUANG PU SHANTOU Connecting Feeder to Huang PuSUI TUO CONTAINER NO 2 Connecting Feeder to Shantao LIAN BO NO 9 WE HV LEASING CONTRS FOR RENTAL SAILING TO PHNOM PENH' FORTNIGHTLY FCL/LCL SERVICE TO SOUTHERN
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      511 35 iMiiEiiiwg FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH SIN FENG SHUN SHAN V 47/48 19 OB 05/09 08/09 26 09 FENGANSHAN V 124 04/09 20/09 23/09 11/10 ALSO ACCEPTING TO JOHANNESBURG PRETORIA VIA DURBAN BOOKING AGENT FOR COSCO SIN TO MADRAS VESSEL SIN MDS SIN
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      350 35 SIN FAR EAST 17/8 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 14/8 BANGKOK 16/8 MANILA/CEBU 15/8 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 15/8 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 15/8 BUSAN 15/8 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 15/8 HONG KONG SIN CHINA 15/8 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN F UZHOU /XIAMEN /SHANT OU SHEKOU OALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 16/8 LDN/FLX/IVP/SOU 16/8 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSI/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech.
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      712 36 HON6 KONG/CHINA 8/8 15/8 JAKARTA 8/8 15/8 BANGKOK 11/8 14/8 MANILA 9/8 16/8 BUSAN 8/8 15/8 KEELUNG 10/8 17/8 TOKYO/KOBE 8/8 15/8 KAOSHIUN6 14/8 21/8 PORT KELANG/PENAN6 9/8 16/8 YOKOHAMA 15/8 24/8 COLOMBO 12/8 19/8 FELIXSTOWE/HAMBURG 9/8 16/8 CHITTAGON6/MAORAS 9/8 16/8 ROTTEROAM/LE HARVE/ANTWERP 9/8 16/8 BOMBAY/KARACHI 9/8 16/8 BARCELONA. MARSEILLES.
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      617 36 This Week's Sailings r u tsr p u To: ETD II To: ETD ""as^wauw Singapore Singapore ISO 9002 B\ LRQA EVERY EVERY Bangkok SUN Jakarta SUN EVERY EVERY /4j§&\\ LiH Manila SUN Ho Chi Minh FRI fDI 8] EVERY EVERY IiSS"! Colombo TUE Limassol THUR L-=-ll MTERNATKMM. SEA FREIGHT FORNARDMG
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      131 36 NIPPON EXPRESS Arrow International (Worldwide Consolidation System) WEEKLY TO: TOK.YO/YOKOHAMA/NAGOYA/KAOSHIUNG/ HONG KONG/BANGKOK/KEELUNG/KOBE/ LOS ANGELES (LONG BEACHVNEW YORK/ CHICAGO/SYDNEY/MELBOURNE/HAMBURG/ FELIXSTOWE/ROTTERDAM/DUSSELDORF WE ALSO DEAL IN FCL CARGO WORLDWIDE ARROW EXPRESS (SERV ICE TO MALAYSIA) MALAYSIA TRUCK CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore DAILY to K.L. BANGI. SHAH ALAM ARROW EXPRESS BONDED CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore every
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      1208 37 riCONDOR LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND VOY BUENOS MONTEVIDEO DURBAN S-BAPOREI HOMO KONB KAPOSI MBA I YOKOHAMA" VESSELS AMES*** W. KRUPSKAYA EBOI 31/07-07/0B 08/ OB 21/06 04-08/00 11/W 10-20/6i~ 22/09 EBO2 28-31/00 01/09 13/00 21/99 02/10 08-11/10 12/10 DEKABRIST EBO3 18-21/00 22/00 06/10 10/10 24/10 20/10-02/1? 04/11 PRIOZERSK EBO4 23-20/10 30/10
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