The Business Times, 29 October 1993

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    13 1 Business Times MITA (P) 552/12/92 Friday October 29 1993 WE KNOW ASIA 75'
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow Jones up 33 points at midday
      73 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks climbcd into record territory yesterday on the back of upbeat economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 33.26 points to a new high of 3,697.92, at 1 pm EDT, eclipsing Monday's record of 3,673.61. The index
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      Lock icon Citibank gets Moscow licence
      66 1 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Citibank, the largest banking company in the US, said it received a general banking license to open a full-fledged bank in Moscow early next year. Citibank, a unit of Citicorp, said the Central Bank of the Russian Federation granted Cithsorp permission
      Bloomberg Business News  -  66 words
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    109 1 Stock market indices Tharaday Chance STII 2,101.73 -5.68 KLSE Composite 946.72 +12.19 Nikkei 19.479.45 -359.33 Hang Seng 9.010.27 107.07 SET Index 1.239.18 +46 Jakarta Composite 465.11 +0.31 CLSA China B 1,036.2 0.25 Aust All Ord 2,076.3 +8 FTSE 100 3.163.0 +8.7 Thanday Pre*ioas 1pm Hok Do*» Jones 3,697.92
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    Pidemco Land may be floated as early as January
    540 1  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Even as the Singapore Telecom offer is being wrapped up, government holding concern Temasek Holdings is already planning to float another of its companies, Pidemco Land. Sources say the exercise is scheduled for the first half of
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    Lock icon S'pore share turnover hits $1.4b as regional markets gather strength
    283 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Stock market records were set in the region yesterday, with prices in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines soaring to new levels, while the local bourse recorded its highest ever turnover, both in units and value terms.
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    Berjaya Group wins Philippine lottery contract
    363 1  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Malaysia's Berjaya Group Bhd, one of the country's largest gaming operators, has won a hotly contested bid to set up a massive computerised lottery in the gamingcrazy Philippines. An AFP report yesterday said that President Fidel Ramos of the Philippines
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    Lock icon Singapore Telecom offer closes with 3.4 times subscription
    595 1  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom's initial public offer of 1.1 billion shares closed yesterday with applications for 3.75 billion shares received. or a subscription of 3.41 times, according to initial figures as of 6pm last night. Bids as high as $9
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      135 1 1 ml 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 CONTINTS S pore News 2 S pore*sa 9.11.12 Regional News 14.5 Financial 14.15 World News 7.8 FmAmtm Mariwts Analysis 27 CM/lUSE. StS 19.20 Edrtonai 26 Regional 17 Sports 21 World 18 IV/lrteslyle 23 Currencies 15 Regional Focus 6 Suno/Commo ...15.16
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      103 1 Hock Lock Slew: pg 9 DBS seminar a (market mover? The US economy grew 2.Bpc in the third quarter its best quarterly performance this year Back Page See Pages 17-20 Kim Eng makes $28m from Berjaya Toto sale, Pg 9 did not pin down when and whether the 4.6 percent
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon S'pore's terms of trade weaken
        309 2  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE had to pay more for one unit of import from exports in August as the country's terms of trade weakened. The terms of trade index, expressed as a simple ratio of export prices to import prices fell from 88.6 in July
        Source: Dept of Statistics  -  309 words
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      MTI told ISD there was no leak of sectoral data
      585 2  -  The OSA Trial Reports by Ramesh Divyanathan THERE was no leak of the 1992 seeond quarter sectoral flash estimates, an Internal Security Department (ISD) officer said yesterday. Inspector Choo Khing Seong told the court that the ISD. having launched a
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      Writer of BT's flash estimate story told to leave court
      313 2 BT correspondent Anna Teo, who has been dropped from the prosecution's list of witnesses, was yesterday asked to leave the courtroom because she might be called as a defence witness. Ms Teo, who wrote the BT article of June 29
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      Flexible work schemes increase job-hopping, says study
      487 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming FLEXIBLE work schemes do not hurt productivity or lead to workers playing truant, but they do increase job-hopping. This is what employers say in a study headed by Yu-Foo Yec Shoon. assistant secre-tary-general of the National Trades Union Congress.
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      Guangdong seeks to tap S'pore's financial, management resources
      399 2  -  By' Yong Pow Ang THE Chinese province of Guangdong is keen to tap Singapore's financial resources and management expertise to help it modernise, said Guangdong Party Secretary Xie Fei yesterday. Speaking at the end of his five-day visit in Singapore, he said
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      CASE FILE
      130 2 Oh trial' Five men who face II charges of breaching the Official Secrets Act by communicating and/or receiving the government's 4.6 per cent flash estimate of second-quarter 1992 economic growth before it was officially released. The flash estimate was referred to in a BT report on June 29.
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      ISD did not know when conversation between James and Bhaskaran took place
      382 2 INTERNAL Security Department (ISD) investigations did not pin down when and whether the 4.6 per cent flash estimate for 1992 second quarter growth was communicated between a BT journalist and a Crosby Securities economist. In their statements to
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      Nedlloyd sells Ridout property for $13.8m
      187 2  -  By AJ Leow DUTCH shipping and transport group Nedlloyd Lines yesterday sold off a landed parcel off Ridout Road for $13.83 million in a tender sale. The winning bid submitted by two individuals in a joint bid came to about $248 per sq ft
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      209 bids for Little India shophouses
      120 2 A TOTAL of 209 bids have been received for the tender sale of 23 old shophouses in Little India's conservation district. The tender, launched early last month, attracted a total of 86 tenderers, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said yesterday. The highest bids ranged
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  • THE REGION
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      Lock icon Anwar likely to raise sin taxes to fund social, health schemes
      600 3 Brewery, tobacco companies expected to be hit in today's budget Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR When Malaysia's Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim unveils the 1994 budget plan today, it will contain a clutch of corporate and income tax cut proposals
      Bloomberg Business News  -  600 words
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      Lock icon KL signs deal with McDonnell Douglas
      347 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR US aircraft maker McDonnell Douglas entered a partnership with Malaysia yesterday to help manufacture components of military and commercial planes under a US$25O million (***** million) offset programme. Malaysia's Defence Minister Najib Razak said the deal, to be implemented over 10
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      Lock icon New IMF plan for Manila still uncertain
      370 3 AFP MANILA The International Monetary Fund yesterday lauded the Philippines for carrying out economic reforms and easing a power shortage, but said more needed to be done before a new IMF programme could be finalised. IMF resident representative Howard Handy told a news
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      Lock icon US envoys from Asean to woo American businesses to region
      362 3 UPI KUALA LUMPUR US ambassadors from the Association of South-east Asian Nations will tour the US next month to promote business opportunities in the region. Robert Wolf, US ambassador to Malaysia, said yesterday that the Asean envoys would be accompanied
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      Lock icon Vietnam running out of construction supplies
      115 3 AFP HANOI A construction boom has pushed the demand for construction materials far beyond supply in Vietnam, nudging up prices and forcing builders to import huge quantities of cement, iron and glass. The situation is expected to get worse in the next two years,
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon HK's re-exports surge 21pc
        81 3 AFP HONGKONG Hongkong re-exports rose 21 per cent in the first nine months of this year. However, government data yesterday showed that the trade deficit from January to September widened to HK526.49 billion (SSS.3 billion) from HK524.33 billion in the same period last year. The value
        AFP  -  81 words
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        Lock icon Indon team to visit US
        99 3 AFP JAKARTA An Indonesian delegation will visit Washington next week to meet US trade officials to countcr American allegations of poor labour conditions in the populous Asian nation. "Indonesia will inform them that we have been doing a lot of things to improve labour conditions
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        Lock icon M'sian bosses told to hire local staff
        71 3 Bernama MALACCA Employers in Malaysia must hire local workers first before getting foreign labour. Labour director-general Omar Tengku Bot said yesterday that employers should not seek foreign workers when faced with a manpower shortage but take advantage of local labour. To overcome labour
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        Lock icon Thai industry agrees to ban
        79 3 Reuter CHIANGMAI, Thailand The Federation of Thai Industries has agreed to a government plan to ban fuel oil with a sulphur content of over 2 per cent in industrialised Bangkok and suburban Samut Prakan area. An official at the National Energy Policy Office (NEPO) said
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        Lock icon Myanmar-India-Thailand agreement
        56 3 UPI YANGON Myanmar, India and Thailand have reached an initial agreement on the boundaries of the tri-junction point in the Andaman Sea. The state-run daily Ne*' Light of Myanmar said yesterday that the pact, signed in New Delhi on Wednesday, set the boundaries at a point equidistant from
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        Lock icon Kumagai to sell stake in Thai project
        85 3 Reuter BANGKOK A Japanese construction giant building a troubleplagued billion-dollar expressway in traffic-snarled Bangkok wants to sell its entire stake in the project, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Amnuay Viravan said yesterday. Executives of civil engineering firm Kumagai Gumi will meet Mr Amnuay in
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      Lock icon Beijing hopes Clinton-Jiang meeting will bear fruit
      405 4 AFP BEIJING China, citing "great common interests", said yesterday it hoped a Sino-US meeting next month would help improve relations and deepen mutual understanding. It also described as a "good thing" US President Bill Clinton's recent decision to intensify high-level exchanges with Cliina.
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      Lock icon Japan's top business leader to visit Taiwan
      138 4 AFP TOKYO The Japan Federation of Economic Organisations (Keidanren) is to send its chairman to Taiwan next month, the first visit by the head of the powerful business group in 21 years. A spokesman said yesterday that Keidanren chairman Gaishi Hiraiwa had been
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      Lock icon Gatt talks on admitting China in final stages
      249 4 Reuter HONGKONG Talks over China's application to rejoin the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade have reached the final stages but re-entry will not be attained this year. China's chief negotiator, Gu Yongjiang, also the deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign
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      Lock icon State industry falling behind other sectors
      229 4 Reuter BEIJING China's large and medium-size firms, burdened with excess workers, taxes and loans, are falling further and further behind other sectors of the fast-growing economy. The Economic Daily said yesterday that by the year 2000, state firms would account for only 25 per
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      Lock icon Humming to go
      48 4 Reuter WUHAN, China Liang Quankun, the general manager of the Wuhan Securities Exchange Centre, standing among rows of computers on the trading floor. All that is needed is approval from the Chinese authorities and the country 's third stock exchange will be in business. Reuter
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      Lock icon UK pledges to keep talks on HK alive
      500 4 AP, AFP BEIJING With Hongkong's future hanging in the balance, Britain said yesterday it would continue talks with China on expanding democracy in the colony even though IS rounds of negotiations had produced little progress. "I still remain uncertain as to whether
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      Lock icon Ex-mayor admits taking big money from Japanese builders
      446 5 Reuter TOKYO The first trial in Japan's snowballing construction scandal opened yesterday with a former big city mayor admitting to taking 100 million yen (S$ 1.45 million) from four leading contractors. But while doing so, Toru lshii, ex-mayor of Sendai in northern
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      Lock icon Tokyo keeping eye on JR East share movements
      193 5 Reuter TOKYO The Ministry of Finance will continue to monitor movements in East Japan Railway Co (J R East) shares carefully, Vice-Minister Jiro Saito said yesterday. Referring to yesterday's decline in the J R East share price, Mr Saito said: "We need
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      Lock icon Japan may decide not to import rice after all
      252 5 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Lower House of parliament is likely to pass a resolution today against replacing Tokyo's ban on rice imports with tariffs. Kyodo news agency, quoting political sources, said yesterday the government's eight-party ruling coalition will support the resolution, which
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      Lock icon Unemployed could double in India, says central bank
      355 5 Reuter BOMBAY The total unemployed in India could almost double by the turn of the century to 59 million unless the government takes action to stimulate job creation in small industries, the central bank warned yesterday. In a study of the employment
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      Former NZ minister says more reforms needed if economy is to recover
      414 5  -  By Agnes Wee SINGAPORE New Zealand's economic recovery would be given a boost if the government adopts further reform measures, says its former finance minister Roger Douglas, the architect of much of that country's economic reforms of the
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
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      Lock icon TVB's plans to penetrate Chinese market run aground
      718 6 The media in Asia Reuter HONGKONG Plans by Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB) to expand into the satellite game hold great promise but must overcome deep official suspicion in China, its major potential market, analysts say. The Hongkong TV station has a host
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      Keeping the News Corp empire within the family
      849 6  -  From Brian Gomez in SYDNEY IT COMES as no surprise that major Australian institutions are balking at a proposal by News Corp to issue a new class of "super" shares. But Rupert Murdoch has two good reasons for wanting to issue these
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      606 6 f A The Bank of Yokohama, Ltd. (Incorporated in Japan with Limited Liability) Balance Sheets Statements of Income March 31, 1993 and 1992 Years ended March 31, 1993 and 1992 Millions of Yen Millions of Yen 1993 1992 1993 1992 ASSETS: INCOME: Cash and due from banks 1,029,759 1,196,584 Interest
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon US will not renegotiate on Nafta with Canada: Bentsen
      477 7 UPI Bloomberg Business News AP WASHINGTON Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen said yesterday the United States will not reopen negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) with Canada. "We will not renegotiate Nafta." Mr Bentsen said on Cable News Network.
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      Lock icon Tragedy in the air
      67 7 Reuter KUWAIT I hree airmen were killed when these two Kuwaiti Air Force helicopters collided and crashed into the sea off Kuwait City on Thursday. The Puma choppers were in an air show honouring visiting relatives of British servicemen killed in the Gulf War. Top left,
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      Lock icon Budget on hold as Italy's govt calls confidence vote
      425 7 Reuter ROME The Italian government has called a confidence vote on a minimum tax on the self-employed, putting its life on the line and delaying initial voting on a crucial deficit cutting budget. The government called the vote on Wednesday in
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Further German rate fall seen
        73 7 Reuter JOHANNESBURG German interest rates should continue to fall, further narrowing the gap between German and US rates, Michel Francois-Poncet, supervisory board chairman of Banque Paribas, told a conference here. The rate fall was likely to last into 1994, and the direct and indirect effects
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        Lock icon Germany hardens EMU position
        90 7 AFP COPENHAGEN Germany is taking an increasingly hard line in demanding the conditions for economic and monetary union (EMU) be respected to the letter, the governor of the Danish central bank Erik HofTmeyer said yesterday. "Germany has changed its attitude, particularly since the court in Karlsruhe
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        Lock icon No such condition as RSI: Judge
        78 7 Reuter LONDON A British judge, ruling in a landmark case brought by a journalist against his former employers, said on Thursday there was no such condition as Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). Judge John Prosser said RSI was a glibly used label that was "meaningless"
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        Italy's state telephone head arrested
        91 7 NAPLES The managing director of Italy's SIP state telephone company was arrested yesterday as part of the country's huge political corruption scandal, company officials said. They gave no further details about the arrest of Vito Alfonso Gamberale, 49, but judicial sources said he had been
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        Lock icon California town flees fires
        64 7 AFP LOS ANGELES Wind-driven wildfires spreading through southern California have forced the evacuation of an entire seaside town, destroyed 450 homes, injured 15 firefighters and caused Governor Pete Wilson to declare a state of emergency. Police said at least one of the 13 fires was started
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        Lock icon Major's double retreat
        62 7 Reuter LONDON Prime Minister John Major was yesterday preparing to make an embarrassing climbdown on police reforms, just hours after bowing to critics in his Conservative Party over rail privatisation. The double retreat, along with a warning from Conservative rebels against new defence cuts, underscores the difficulty
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      Lock icon EC enlargement talks hit snag over power balance
      445 8 AFP BRUSSELS Difficult negotiations to bring Sweden. Finland. Norway and Austria into the European Union ran into a balance-of-power snag this week ahead of a European Community summit to be held here today. Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehacne. the summit's chairman, said
      AFP  -  445 words
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      Lock icon The charred face of war
      69 8 Reuter BOSNIA A European Community monitor gazing in horror at the body of one of 15 Muslims found dead yesterday in the charred ruins of Stupni Do, a village in central Bosnia. United Nations peacekeepers say the villagers were slaughtered by Croats in a revenge
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      Lock icon Kohl counts on Frankfurt winning Euro bank
      271 8 AFP BONN German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has set his sights on winning the future European central bank for Frankfurt at the special EC summit meeting in Brussels today. Mr Kohl has made clear that if today's European Council meeting allocates the future European
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      German agency Treuhand seeks S'pore partners
      265 8  -  By Agnes Wee SINGAPORE A representative of Treuhand. the German agency to oversee the privatisation of east German state-owned enterprises, was in town during the past week to seek Singapore partners. The representative, Brend Amann, said he held discussions with Singapore companies in the
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      Lock icon Yeltsin cracks down on regions' tax transfers
      135 8 Reuter MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin has ordered that those Russian regions which fail to transfer tax revenues to the central budget will be deprived of export quotas, centralised imports and federal subsidies. A presidential decree, valid from November 1 to January 31, 1994,
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      SES simplifies procedures for selling A and B shares
      428 9  -  Singapore Telecom share offer By Corinne Kerk SINGAPORE The Stock Exchange of Singapore has simplified the procedures for those who want to sell their Group A and B Telecom shares but do not have accounts with stockbroking firms. The exchange said
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      Lock icon Contractor's close call
      65 9 Photo by Chris Loh SINGAPORE It was a close call for renovation contractor Cheow Hao Fai (centre). Fresh off the plane from China, he rushed down to DBS Bank at Shenton Way to place his bid for his piece of Telecom only to find the boxes just
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      Kim Eng makes $28m profit from Berjaya Toto share sale
      262 9  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE One year after Kim Eng Holdings first bought a 6 per cent stake in Berjaya Sports Toto Bhd, the Singapore broking firm has sold almost its entire stake in the Malaysian gaming company and made
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    • Article
      Sunnet Investment cuts stake in Amcol to 8.5pc
      241 9 SINGAPORE Sunnet Investment, a substantial shareholder of property and trading group Amcol Holdings, has reduced its stake in the latter to 8.5 per cent comprising 24.70 million Amcol shares. Amcol, in an announcement yesterday, said Sunnet has sold 7.30 million shares or
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      DBS' latest investment seminar set to be another market-moving experience
      715 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE With the Telecom issue hogging the limelight, it will take some efTort to notice another major event in the securities industry launched yesterday. But it is, nevertheless, equally important. Just as the
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      Cosco (S) to develop shipping fleet for S-E Asia trade
      397 9  -  By Yong Pow Ang SINGAPORE Cosco Holdings (Singapore), which is launching a takeover of the Sun Corporation, will build up its own shipping fleet to tap the opportunities in South-east Asia. This will require "significant financial resources", says the company,
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      Lock icon SUMMARY
      339 9 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Oct 28 Last Sraw 1«4*\ Stork sale Chat factor Mover* (V) Avimo I 940 -0070 1.31 17.50 CAC 7 800 -0.100 SJ7 25.00 Ccrcbos 6 950 0.050 4.70 -12 50 FAN 15 500 0.100 10.47 -25 00 GF Asia 3.100 0.040
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      Wah-Chang pays NZ$14m for fifth hotel acquisition this year
      241 9 SINGAPORE Singaporebased Wah-Chang International has bought another hotel, the Lakeland Hotel, in New Zealand for NZ514.65 million (5512.7 million). The acquisition the fifth hotel project sealed by the diversified group so far this year was made through Tropical Resorts, its vehicle
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    • COMPANIES
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        Lock icon Landmarks to buy Teamwork stake, sell other interests
        410 11 MBT, Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Landmarks Bhd is to acquire a 30 per cent stake in Teamwork Corporation Sdn Bhd for M$ 187,500 (SSI 14.400) and to dispose of its interests in Saujana Resort (M) Bhd, Saujana Hotel Sdn Bhd and Gracom Sdn
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        Lock icon Aokam expected to post surge in earnings: analysts
        396 11 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian timber company Aokam Perdana Bhd, a star performer in a year in which stock prices have run wild, is expected to report a surge in earnings when it releases its 1992/93 results soon, analysts said. A rise in
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      • Article
        CMB Asia explains use of funds from rights issue
        152 11 SINGAPORE Carnaudmetalbox (CMB) Asia has explained how it will use the net proceeds of SS2O4 million to be raised by its two-for-five right cum warrants issue. A total of S$ 124.5 million will go to projects in China, Vietnam and Indonesia.
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        Polysindo chalks up 51b rupiah profit in first half
        365 11  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Indonesia's largest integrated textile producer Polysindo Eka Perkasa managed to chalk up interim earnings of 51.55 billion rupiah (5538.7 million) for the six months ended June 30. This was disclosed by the company when it released its
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          66 11 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Union Paper Holdings Bhd has requested the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange to suspend trading in the company's shares pending an announcement. The request for the suspension followed a KLSE query over the recent sharp increase in the price of Union Paper shares.
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          Lock icon Berjaya Ind buys more shares in unit
          72 11 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Industrial Bhd said it had through its subsidiaries acquired an additional 11.47 million shares in Berjaya Leisure Bhd in the open market for M 542.49 million or at an average M 53.71 per share. Beijaya Leisure is currently trading
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          Polytek Wearnes names advisers
          89 11 SINGAPORE Polytek Wearnes Holdings announced yesterday that it had appointed Dutch merchant bank ABN Amro (Asia) as financial advisers following the general takeover offer of the Sesdaq-listed company by Weame Brothers. Wearnes is making an unconditional offer for 23.94 million Polytek Wearnes shares at 53 cents
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          SES queries Causeway Investment
          53 11 SINGAPORE The Stock Exchange of Singapore has queried Causeway Investment for the sharp rise in the price and turnover of the firm's counter on the local bourse yesterday. Causeway ended at $1.83, up 29 cents, on a volume of 1.089 million shares compared to 597,000 shares
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          Lock icon Insas buys shares in Greycoat
          63 11 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's lnsas Bhd said it has acquired 1.91 million preference shares of £1 each and 1 million ordinary shares of 10 pence each in debt-laden UK property firm Greycoat pic. The shares, bought on the open market, represent 3.8 per cent and
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        Maanshan issue subscribed 68 times in HK
        261 11  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG THE biggest new Hongkong share issue, Maanshan Iron Steel, has been subscribed by almost 70 times, drawing in a cool HK$69 billion (5513.8 billion) in application monies. Wardley Corporate Finance, the issue sponsor and global manager, said in
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          Lock icon Nomura Trust targets HK, S-E Asia
          80 12 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Nomura Investment Trust Management Co has raised US$l.45 billion (552.3 billion) in Japan in the last two months through investment trusts targeted at the Hongkong and South-east Asian equity markets, a Nomura group official said. The trusts, the Japanese equivalent
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          Lock icon Cable & Wireless splits its shares
          71 12 Cable Wireless splits its shares Bloomberg Business News LONDON Cable Wireless pic said it split its stock yesterday because its share price is too high and it wants to make the shares more attractive to investors. Shareholders will be given one extra share for every one 50 pence common share
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          Lock icon ICI's 3rd-qtr profit stays at £93m
          87 12 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Imperial Chemical Industries pic said it earned £93 million (*****.6 million) pre-tax in the third quarter ended Sep 30, unchanged from a year earlier. The UK chemical, paints and explosive giant said in a statement that pre-tax profit before exceptional
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          Lock icon Cadbury takes 26pc stake in Dr Pepper
          88 12 AP DALLAS The fast-growing Texas company which produces a popular US soft drink is the focal point in a cola battle raging all the way to the River Thames. Britain's Cadbury Schweppes pic has lapped up 25.9 per cent of Dr Pepper-Seven-Up Co's
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          Lock icon Wellcome's profit soars 46pc for 1993
          84 12 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Wellcome pic, the UK drug giant, said its fiscal 1993 earnings soared 46 per cent, buoyed by a 30 per cent sales boom for its anti-viral drug, Zovirax. The company said pre-tax profit rose to £667 million (551.56 billion) for
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        450 12 Reuter SYDNEY Australia's Qantas Airways announced a surprise loss yesterday due to abnormal charges and the company's new managing director said the airline may have to cut back routes and consolidate. The flag carrier, 25 per cent-owned by British Airways pic, posted
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        218 12 Reuter DETROIT General Motors Corp, struggling to turn around its money-losing North American automotive operations, yesterday reported a US$ll3 million (*****.6 million) loss for the third quarter. GM chief executive John Smith said that while the automotive giant had "accomplished a lot we
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        286 12 AFP SYDNEY Recently-formed Elders Australia will try to raise A 598.7 million (SSIO3 million) in a public float to fund the purchase of Foster's Brewing Group's farm services business, the companies said yesterday. The sale by Foster's Brewing Group, part of a
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        231 12 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday proposed to remove ceilings on foreign investment in individual stocks, the latest in a series of reforms to attract more foreign capital into the bourse. The measure would aid Taiwan's application to join the
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        Lock icon Recession-hit ANA posts 63pc drop in profit
        440 12 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO All Nippon Airlines Co, Japan's largest airline, said its current profit in the six months ended Sep 30 fell 63 per cent because of a decline in passengers abroad and at home. Current profit fell to 6.5 billion yen
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        472 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS M—»rkw Oct >4 NTUC Income Singapore Unit Trust income Bond Pobcv 3.90 4.05 The Commerce 158 1.66 Prudential The Savings Fund 1 50 1.58 PniLink Mgd Fund 1.33 140 S'pore Pri>g Fund 0.67 O.TOxd n S pore see Fund 0 i .oi MARA-Bumiputra S'pore Invest Fund 1.13
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        320 13 Reuter LONDON The spcctre of a new tax on books, magazines and newspapers has already left many media stock prices trailing a buoyant British market. The reality will hurt them even harder, stock analysts say. If Chancellor Kenneth Clarke slaps a value added
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        162 13 NYT NEW YORK Eastman Kodak Co surprised Wall Street on Wednesday by naming George M C Fisher, the chairman of Motorola Inc, as its chairman, president and chief executive. Mr Fisher, 52, who has headed Motorola since 1990, succeeds Kay R Whitmorc. Mr Whitmore
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        Chinese firm to raise US$70m in S'pore through FRNs
        382 14  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Investors here will soon be able to buy another Chinese debt instrument on the Singapore stock exchange. Shanghai International Trust and Investment Corporation (Sitico), one of China's 10 designated fund-raising "windows", plans to list floating rate
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        Lock icon Japan's big banks likely to post poor results
        198 14 Reuter TOKYO Big Japanese banks will unveil poor profits next month for the half-year to Sep 30, because of slowing growth in loans and active write-offs of bad loans, analysts say. They will also lower their earnings forecasts for 1993-94 because they
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        578 14 Knight-Ridder KUALA LUMPUR Foreign fund managers have emerged this year as key players in the ringgit, Malaysia's currency, as they pour money into Kuala Lumpur's booming stock exchange. Smaller players, including palm oil refiners and Japanese firms with plants in Malaysia, have
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        HK Bank latest to offer free travel to cardholders
        243 14 SINGAPORE The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp yesterday became the latest entrant among banks and credit card companies in Asia's frequent-flyer race. The card-issuing bank teamed up with United Airlines to enable all HongkongBank MasterCard and Visa cardholders to earn points
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        358 14 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg Business News, Reuter NEW YORK Crude oil plunged as traders see rising crude and heating oil stockpiles offsetting any boost from an agreement by members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries to limit their production. The
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        162 14 THE US$/Yen moved a yen lower during Far East morning trade on comments by US economist Bergsten that he preferred the yen at 105 but recovered almost all losses after lunch on huge commercial USS buy orders. The USS/SS saw a hectic and whippy market.
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        187 14 Reuter LONDON The dollar edged higher in Europe yesterday on encouraging figures for economic growth from the United States, reaching its highest levels against the German mark since August before easing back. A rally on Wall Street inspired share markets in London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam to move ahead too,
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        85 14 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was uneven in very active trading early yesterday following release of figures showing US gross domestic product (GDP) rose an annualised 2.8 per cent for the third quarter. At 9:3oam, the dollar was at 1.6870 German marks up from 1.6800 late on Wednesday
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        Lock icon Ailing Globex looks set for a revamp in April
        286 15 FT LONDON Globex, the electronic futures trading system developed by Reuters and the world's two largest futures exchanges, is likely to be radically restructured when the agreement between its backers is renegotiated in April. The chairmen of both the Chicago Board
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        US banks top investment polls
        316 15  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE American banks dominated the Euromoney "poll of polls" on the world's leading investment banks, occupying the first three places and seven of the next 17. Goldman Sachs came out tops followed by Merrill Lynch and J P Morgan. Among the non-US
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        Lock icon For US commodity funds, gold glitters amidst reflation jitters
        505 15  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON MIDDLE Eastern speculators and US commodity funds have pushed the gold price US$3O above the September lows of US$342 an ounce, say Swiss bullion dealers. The commodity funds have "a vested interest in high volumes and
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          Lock icon Australian forex turnover up 20pc
          98 15 Reuter SYDNEY Daily turnover in the Australian foreign exchange market leapt 20 per cent to US$46 billion (5571.6 billion) in 1992/93 from US$37.l billion in 1991/92, a report by the Australian Financial Markets Association says. The report, using Reserve Bank of Australia data and surveys
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          Lock icon Bank Islam top men to retire
          88 15 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd chairman Raja Tun Mohar Raja Badiozaman and managing director Abdul Halim Ismail are retiring after 12 years' service with the bank. Both were instrumental in setting up BIMB, the country's only Islamic bank, and also in developing
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          Lock icon Bank offers interest-free scheme
          84 15 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Public Bank Bhd has become the latest commercial bank to offer interest-free banking services based on Islamic banking principles. The bank will launch two products under a pilot scheme the al-Wadiah savings account and al-Mudharabah general investment account today, the bank's senior general
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          Lock icon Chinese agencies at odds on outlook
          55 15 Platts TOKYO The recently formed China International Engineering Consulting Corp has released a forecast for Chinese crude product and petrochemicals supply and demand for 1995-2000. The group's outlook for crude is inconsistent with recent statements from China National Petroleum Corp that domestic output is
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        Lock icon Head of Visa Int'l dethroned after 10 years
        361 15 FT NEW YORK Charles Russell, head of the Visa International payments organisation for nearly a decade, was dethroned yesterday after a quiet coup by some of the world's biggest card issuers. Mr Russell, 63, helped cement Visa's position as the world's biggest
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        1393 16 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar futures ended weaker yesterday as expectations for more robust US economic data spurred selling throughout the session, dealers said. "A lot depends on the GDP tonight," said one US commission house dealer. "The market is expecting it to
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        KL tin reverses trend to end up
        631 16 COMMODITY REPORTS Tiii TIN trimmed some recent losses and prices moved back to above the MS 12 mark on fresh covering interest and an uptrend on the LME. Traders said tin ended 20 sen up at MS 12.09 a kg, on heavy Japanese
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          Australia aims to supply sugar plants
          91 16 SYDNEY Australia is hoping to become the preferred supplier for two new sugar refineries under construction in the Middle East. Queensland Sugar Corporation chief executive David Rutledge said the combined annual capacity of the two refineries will be up to 1 million tonnes. "I
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          Japan to check on report of oil cartel
          91 16 TOKYO Japan's Fair Trade Commission was considering whether to pursue a newspaper report that six Japanese oil companies are operating a price cartel, an FTC official said yesterday. He declined to say whether the commission would launch a full-fledged investigation of the
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          Australia can meet Japan rice demand
          86 16 SYDNEY The Australian rice industry will be able to meet Japanese rice import demand, although it does not yet have a specific indication of? that demand, according to the head of an industry association. Ricegrowers Association of Australia executive director Michael Hedditch said potential'
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          Dec Oman crude premiums seen steady
          77 16 TOKYO Premiums for December Oman crude are likely to remain steady despite a perceived' oversupply of the medium-weight crude in East Asia, traders said. Asian buyers are seeking between two and four cargoes of Oman, they said, whileabout five to six cargoes are available.
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        1566 16 Rubber Qct28 HAS C»wndHy Exduift (futures closing as at lpa) RAS (physical prim) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) »«T*» Sailers Close Volume (S ccnts/kg) Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest RSS 2 Nov 127.SO 128.SON Nov 93 128.25 128.25 100 200 RSS 3 Nov 93 126 00 I27.00N
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        Australia
        1205 17 +8 BARGAIN HUNTERS and offshore investors lifted Australian stocks to a higher close yesterday, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed at 2.076.3. up 8 points from the previous finish. The All Industrials Index rose 17.3 points to 3,245.5 and the All Resources rose 0.6 to 1,181.4. Turnover totalled
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        Manila
        573 17 +98.15 Philippine shares jumped around 100 points to an all-time high in a powerful rally fuelled by high domestic liquidity and buying by foreign funds. The Manila index climbed 98.15 points to 2.326.60. while Makati soared 105.63 points to 2.394.46. "The market is really very liquid right now. People
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        Seoul
        449 17 -2.03 The stock market ended lower after the sale of large-capitalisa-tion counters won a tug-of-war with the purchase of smaller companies, brokers said. "The market was extremely polarised." said SC Woo of Tongyang Securities. Strong interest focused on shares with low price/earnings ratios. with low price-book-to-ra-tios (PBR) and with
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        New Zealand
        291 17 12.96 The share market closed higher for the fifth consecutive day, pushing the market to new fouryear highs. The market appears to have shrugged off doubts about the result of the Nov 6 election, with a victory for the ruling National Party priced in. The market was led
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        Taipei
        546 17 -37.76 Share prices extended early losses to end lower across the board on profit-taking after recent gains, but brokers said market sentiment remained positive and they did not expect further big losses. The weighted index ended 37.76 points down at 4.065.87, off an intra-day low of 4.057.87. Turnover fell
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        Bombay
        46 17 -8.07 Share prices edged down further in evening kerb deals as investor and institutional interest shifted away from specified to cash shares, brokers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share index closed 8.07 points down at 2,696.52. The 100-share national index fell 3.23 points to 1,293.44.
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        London
        818 17 +8.7 TRADING on the London Stock Exchange recovered after a weak start yesterday inspired by Wall Street where the E>ow Jones hits a new record with a rise of over 40 points. The blue-chip FTSE-100 index, which dropped 11 points, closed at 3,163.0 points, up 8.7 points. The narrower
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        Paris
        142 17 +3.96 The CAC-40 index of blue chip French stocks closed four points higher, boosted by a rise in US stock prices, but traders said the underlying mood is one of gloom over the slow pace of French interest rate cuts. The CAC-40 index closed up 3.96 points at 2.195.98.
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        Frankfurt
        224 17 -4.62 German stocks were higher in light post-bourse activity in the slipstream of a steep rally on the New York stock market, traders said. The screen-based Ibis DAX indicator, which is quoted between 8:30 am and 5 pm, finished at 2,052.22. The DAX index of 30 most-traded German stocks
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        Johannesburg
        327 17 -10 South African gold shares reacted warily to bullion's brief push through USS37O an ounce near the close, lifting the gold index only 16 points to 1.770 after a flat performance through much of the day. Industrials shares tended softer on a lack of interest but the index was
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        Zurich
        263 17 +3.47 Swiss shares recovered earlier losses when the dollar firmed on the back of good US economic data, dealers said. Early trading saw the market consolidating and investors taking profits on recent rises. Banks and insurers were mixed after Swiss National Bank president Lusser warned against too much interest
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        Toronto
        263 17 13.78 Stocks, buoyed by strong third quarter earnings, rose in early trading yesterday as the market continued to gain after Thursday's record close. The TSE 300 composite index gained 13.78 points to 4,211.26 in turnover of 12.6 million shares valued at C 5134.6 million. The TSE surged to a
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        Milan
        128 17 -87 Italian stocks are expected to slip for the fourth day running as a number of fac- tors depress prices, traders said. The Mibtel index, which just tracks blue chips traded on the screen, ended 87 points lower at 10,186. The MIB index of all shares, which including smaller
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        Amsterdam
        251 17 +7.02 Dutch stocks rallied almost 2 per cent as signs of economic recovery in the US sparked renewed buying, traders said. "It was a thin market but much stronger." said a trader with ABN AMRO. The EOE index of 24 leading Dutch stocks gained 7.02 points, or 1.9 per
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        741 17 +33.26 Blue-chip stocks climbed into record territory yesterday on the back of upbeat economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 33.26 points to a new high of 3.697.92, at 1 pm EDT, eclipsing Monday's record of 3.673.61. The index earlier climbed over the 3,700 mark to
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      3034 18 Reuter HONGKONG Share prices ended sharply higher with the main index finishing above the key 9,000 level on a late surge of futures-related buying, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index closed 107.07 points, or 1.20 per cent, higher at 9.010.27 while the broad-er-based All Ordinaries Index was 51.62 higher
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      459 18 THE CLSA Shanghai B Index closed 0.63 point lower at 781.71 on thin volume yesterday. Four counters closed with no trading: First Pencil. Rubber Belt. China TM Refrigerator. In Shenzhen. Southern Glass remained the favourite stock. It rose 0.1 per cent or 10 HK. cents. According to local officials.
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      2468 18 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended sharply lower yesterday, with sales sparked by precipitous falls in newly-listed East Japan Railway (JR East) shares, brokers said. Lower futures on the back of a nervous currency market invited arbitrage unwinding and selling blue chip elect ricals. "Futures were fast to react to negative
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      1770 18 Reuter BANGKOK Thai stocks raced to a new all-time high for the second straight day on huge turnover, mainly foreign investor activity, brokers said. The SET Index gained another 46 points, or 3.86 per cent, to a record 1,239.18 after advancing 34.90 points on Wednesday. Winners outnumbered losers by
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      1088 18 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed mixed in moderate late trading yesterday, with focus fixing on the newcomer Kedaung Indah Can. The official index edged up 0.31 point to 465.11. "Kedaung Indah remained a trading focus while Andayani Megah eased on profit-taking." a foreign brokerage dealer said. Kedaung Indah Can
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      2010 19 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE vofcjrm Idns Hyd 50c 49.051.000 Ind Oxvgen 50c 39.390.000 Promct 32.430.000 Metroptex 50c 28.470.000 Faber Group 24.041.000 Asia Pac Ld 50c 21.066.000 Renong Bhd 50c 17.466.000 Bctjaya Group 15.764.000 Ind Oxyfen W|95 15.009.000 B Raya 13.283.000 IGB C'orpo 50c 12.855.000
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        5623 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices here extended their surge in brisk business yesterday amid bullish sentiment ahead of the national budget. Investors continued to buy on a broad front in anticipation of a pro-business Budget. It is widely expected that Finance Minister Anwar
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        Lock icon Focus shifts to second liners and Clob
        7872 20  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Share prices here closed lower in volatile trading yesterday, as attention focused on second liners and Malaysian spcculatives traded on Clob International. The market got off to an explosive start with strong buying across-the-board sending the Straits Times Industrials
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        69 20 Quak Hiang Whai PUBLIC BANK Local is trading towards its major resistance at $1.66 and has an even chance of breaking that all-time high. There is still some room for a final surge into uncharted territory, given the current neutral indicators. But failure to break that resistance
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      64 17 MISEHS Trends This month's Trends, which appears with tomorrow's Business Times, features the following: Arise, the new Singaporean Maritime surveillance is urgently needed in South-east Asia Taking stock, 20 years after the first oil shock Gazing into Apec's 21 st century future Vietnam in Asean? Membership has its privileges Laws
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      Lock icon Who drank more beer — Norman, Price debate issue
      751 21 Who drank more beer Norman, Price debate issue Golf AP SAN FRANCISCO It was a question not of golf but of beer: How much and who drank it. Greg Norman claimed Nick Price downed it all. making sure Norman's boat returned to dock dry. Price insisted he was just trying
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      Lock icon Ma's army on the move
      37 21 Reuter BEIJING Members of China's world-beating running squad dubbed M Ma' Family Army" out for their early morning exercises, running past an elderly man out walking his caged birds on Wednesday Reuter
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        59 21 Reuter TOKYO I-ark Cup leading first round scores Ihursday (Japanese unless stated): 67 Masahiro Kuramoto 68 Frankie Minoza (Phi) 69 David Ishii (US). Hirofumi Vfiyase. Yoshikazu Yokoshima. Akihito Yokoyama 70 Tsuneyuki N'akajima. Seiki Okuda. Tetsu Nishikawa. Tomohiro Maruyama. Also: 75 Todd Hamilton (US). Samson Gimson (Sin), Brent Franklin (Can).
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        34 21 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Wednesday: Detroit 8 Los Angeles 3; Philadelphia 5 Ottawa 2: Winnipeg 4 Tampa Bay 3; Dallas 5 Hartford 1; Buffalo 5 Calgary 3: Washington 4 Vancouver 2. Reuter
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        85 21 AFP CORDOBA, Argentina South Africa launched their tour of Argentina on Wednesday with a 55-37 victory over local side Cordoba. The hosts led 16-15 at halftime. before a crowd of 8.000 at the Chateau Carreras stadium. But the slim advantage failed to hold up as No 8 Tiaan Strauss
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        263 21 AFP KOSICE, Slovakia European /one World Cup qualifying results on Wednesday Group 2: Turkey 2 Poland 1. Standings: I Norway 9 7 2 0 24 3 16 2 Netherlands 9 5 3 1 26 8 13 3 England 9 4 3 2 19 8 II 4 Poland *****
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        192 21 Reuter Reuter STOCKHOLM Swedish indoor tournament 2nd rd Tuesday: Jim Courier (US) b David Wheaton (US) 7-5 5-7 6-3. Wednesday: Petr Korda (Cze) b Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Rus) 7-6 7-6; Arnaud Boctsch (Fra) b Brett Steven (NZ) 7-5 6-1; Andrei Cherkasov (Rus) b Alexander Volkov (Rus) 3-6 6-4 7-5: Sergi Bruguera
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      Lock icon Bonds proves he's a Giant with baseball honours
      485 21 AP NEW YORK Barry Bonds, a favourite to win his third Most Valuable Player award in four seasons, displaced Ryne Sandbcrg as the best player in baseball, according to the annual rankings released Wednesday by the Elias Sports Bureau. Bonds, who hit
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      Lock icon Saudi Arabia, S Korea qualify for World Cup finals
      234 21 Reuter DOHA. Qatar Saudi Arabia and South Korea qualified from Asia for the 1994 World Cup finals in a dramatic finale yesterday that saw Japan lose a iast-minute goal against Iraq which denied them a place in the United States. Saudi
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      Lock icon South West sound warning to All Blacks
      295 21 AFP REDRUTH. England New Zealand may be fielding their probable Test line-up here tomorrow. but the South West arc confident they can end the All Blacks' 100 per cent record on their British rugby union tour. The English division will be without England
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        Lock icon NZ rescues Indian cricket tour
        125 21 Reuter WELLINGTON An Indian cricket tour of New Zealand next year has been saved after a visit to India by a senior New Zealand cricket official. New Zealand Cricket chairman Peter McDcrmott said yesterday. India will play a single Test and four one-day internationals during
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        Lock icon Congressman tells Heat to cool it
        107 21 AP MIAMI A Virginia congressman urged the Miami Heat on Wednesday to revoke the "hefty and unjust fine" against Manute 801. who missed two exhibition games to attend a conference concerning his native Sudan. The 2.31 m-tall centre was fined U5525,000 (5539.000) after he
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        Lock icon Dwyer plays safe with Test line-up
        76 21 AFP BORDEAUX, France Australian coach Bob Dwyer on Wednesday unveiled a predictable Wallaby line-up for the first rubgy Test against France, although there is still a question mark over full-back Matthew Burke. Dwyer selected the same side, skippered by Michael Lynagh, that beat a
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        Lock icon Crew threatens Whitbread mutiny
        79 21 AFP AUCKLAND Crew on board US Women's Challenge, one of 13 yachts in the Whitbread around-the-world race, are threatening to mutiny against US skipper Nance Frank, Radio New Zealand reported yesterday. The fleet is in Punta del Este, Uruguay, at the end of the first leg
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        Lock icon Dodgers catcher captures rookie title
        63 21 Reuter NEW YORK Catcher Mike Piazza of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday was named unanimous choice as winner of the 1993 National League Rookie of the Year award. Piazza batted .318 with 35 homers and drove in 112 runs in his first full season
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        NFL renews push for place in Europe
        91 21 ROSEMONT. Illinois The National Football League renewed its foray into Europe on Wednesday, voting to sponsor a six-team overseas league beginning in spring 1995. The new league will be based entirely in Europe and will replace the defunct World League, which played in
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      644 22 Nothing Beats A Bud, Iftfflnfl or V— A Feast Scrumptious Sichuan cuisine. Rich piping hot steamboat. Delicate Yangzhou Dianxian. Mon Sat 11 .30 am to 2.30pm Sun 10.30 am to 2.30pm Kings B King'i Hotel Clarion. A Member of CDL Hotels. Havelock Road. Singapore 0316. Tel: 733 0011 I IJKSjjRISv*
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      651 23  -  Mark O'Neill reports on how foreign cosmetics firms are mesmerising Beijing ladies as they Mark O'Neill Reuter IT'S A Saturday afternoon in one of Beijing's middle-class shopping centres and the staff in the cosmetics department arc run off their feet. A video praises a US
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      Lock icon Nude photos of Dewi to be published
      331 23 CHATTERBOX AFP AP AFP UPI FORMER Indonesian first lady Dewi Sukarno will publish a book of mostly nude photographs of herself in Japan today, her publisher said yesterday. Entitled Syuga loosely translated as "superior in elegance" the book will sell for 4,800 yen
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      Christie's Swire art sale nets HK$140m
      231 23 THE Christie's Swire Autumn 1993 Chinese art auction in Hongkong exceeded HKSI4O million (SS2B million), the highest since March 1990 and the second highest result ever for any Christie's Swire auction, the company said. The top purchase at the auction, which finished on Tuesday,
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      1179 23 1 TV RADIO Police Academy VI: City Under UrtWwJ Siege. 10.30pm, SBC 5 JUKL\f f j The lad in ihe Police Academy jJ'JL T series. After surviving previous W movies, the city now threat- I W by hoodlums. The boys blue The are a tethe H Up the Creek, 3pm,
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
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      Lock icon Ad revenue up 12.4pc
      467 24  -  Newspapers continue to take the lion's share of expenditure, reports Corinne Kerk Corinne Kerk TOTAL advertising expenditure for the first three quarters of this year rose 12.4 per cent to 5571.2 million compared to the same period last year. This represents an increase of 1.2 percentage
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      Lock icon Tobacco lobby under fire for anti-smoking ads
      480 24 NYT SINCERITY is a trait rarely ascribed to the tobacco industry, unless it is within the context of United States congressmen from tobacco districts fighting higher taxes on tobacco. But for several years, an organisation called the Family Course Consortium in Washington has
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      Lock icon Lintas loses second big account in a month
      518 24 NYT IN a second big dose of bad news this month, Lintas Worldwide has been dropped by IBM's personal computer division just 16 days after the agency lost the Diet Coke account. IBM named Merkley Newman Harty as its new agency for
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      Lock icon Defiant Benetton says ad ban won't halt campaign strategy
      220 24 Reuter ITALIAN clothing company Benetton says its advertising strategy will not be affected by a ban imposed on one of its ads showing human bodies branded with the words "HIV positive". An Italian regulatory body this week slapped a ban on
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      Ball Partnership hit by 3 top resignations
      810 25  -  Staff quit apparently because of differences with management. Sanjay Monsanto reports Sanjay Monsanto The writer is a freelancer who contributes to Business Times IF bad things come in threes, then The Ball Euro RSCG Partnership seems to have received its full allotment. Within
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      Ball chief rebuts criticisms
      509 25  -  By Corinne Kerk AMIDST the furore over changes at The Ball Euro RSCG Partnership. its chief executive officer and regional chairman Eugene Seow has this to say "Nothing has happened here that is not getting better." The ad agency, which has grown from a $4 million
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        Y&R wins Lycra global stretch
        61 25 SINGAPORE Du Pont has awarded its global advertising account for its Lycra business to Young Rubicam. Y&R's ambit will cover Europe, US, South America and Asia Pacific. The account was formerly managed by BBDO in the US, Saatchi Saatchi in Europe and Asia, and Y&R
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        Exhibition well worth watching
        77 25 SINGAPORE Swiss watch maker IWC International Watch Co is celebrating its 125 th anniversary with an exhibition of antique and limited edition watches. The highlight is the IL Destriero Scafusia watch designed for the anniversary. There arc 125 pieces in the world, priced from 350,000 Swiss
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        Oriental offers home shopping
        55 25 SINGAPORE Oriental Emporium outlets now offer customers the luxury of shopping from home and free delivery service with purchases of at least $80. Customers living within six to 10 km of three outlets at Hong Lim Complex, Peninsula Shopping Plaza and Pasir Ris Drive 4 can
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        Corrections and clarifications
        33 25 SINGAPORE In our Copylines item "DMB&B takes on 3 new creative staff' on Oct 22, the ad agency's name was inadvertently spelt BMB&B Tokyu. We are sorry for the error.
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      186 24 m, J X^traordinary Because more than assuring then to Know always gets control over any extraordinary l This and adjusts for Each is 4/iooths a automatically firms up remains demanding conditions. And througn the self-levelling suspension, yet again unique to Citroen. you'll enjoy constant ride height even when negotiating the
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      510 25 REPUBLIC NEW YORK CORPORATION SAFRA REPUBLIC HOLDINGS S.A. f Consolidated Statements of Condition and Summaries of Results i These statements and summaries represent the consolidated accounts of Republic New York Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries and of Safra Republic Holdings S.A. and its wholly owned subsidiaries. Republic New York
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      331 25 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER SO ANO IN THE MATTER Of JET FLOWER SHOP PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of Jet Flower Shop Pte Lid. duty convened and held at 585 North Bridge Road #08-06 Blanco Court. Singapore
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  • Article
    A stunning reversal in Canada
    497 26 IPfTOMAL THE RESULT of the recent general election in Canada has to be the most dramatic in any democracy at any time. The victory by the Liberal Party led by veteran politician Jean Chretien comes as no surprise. But what is mind-boggling is that a
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      Moving with the times
      217 26 THE EMERGENCE of an activist Commonwealth is confirmed by the decision to send a five-nation ministerial team to key capitals around the world to stress the urgency of a successful conclusion to the Uruguay Round of Gatt negotiations by the Dec 15 deadline. The trade issue
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      Golden opportunity
      168 26 SUZHOU represents a golden opportunity for Singapore to export its know-how. It will spur other companies and entrepreneurs here to go abroad and clinch big projects. China's huge market and potential are not only attracting Singapore, but also other countries in the region, Europe and North America. Though
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      Exporting the Singapore model
      163 26 THE PLAN to build a Singapore-Suzhou Industrial Park has finally became a reality. This transfer of economic and public administration "software" through an Industrial Park, a creative effort between the two sides, marks a significant step in the economic development and cooperation of the two countries.
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      Looking for a new raison d'etre
      171 26 MALAYSIA had not expected too much out of the Cyprus Commonwealth meeting. That is why next month about 200 international parliamentarians from all over the world will converge on Kuala Lumpur to see what can be done about the wretched situation in Bosnia. The
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      A new-look Golkar
      151 26 THE SELECTION of Minister of Information Harmoko as the first civilian to lead the country's ruling political organisation, Golkar, and the composition of Golkar's new executive board demonstrate how the current Indonesian democracy functions. It is also an important indication as to where the country's democracy is
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      Canada's big thumbs-down
      128 26 THE ROUT of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party in Monday's national election is not so much a stunning victory for the Liberal Party as an astounding defeat for the outgoing government. It says more about the unpopularity of that government than about the public's support for the policies
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    Lock icon Outmoded US is no model for new economic order
    813 26 Interview with veteran Chinese economist Zhu Shaowen Nikkei Weekly The so-called "revisionist school of thought in the United States holds that the Japanese form of capitalism is different from models operating in the West and is therefore the cause of trade
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      553 26 mm Malaysia M POWERHOUSE OF THE 90s Cfe Bp A MAJOR NEW CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND HfIH Investment Opportunities in Malaysia Kuala Lumpur November 14-16 1993 B" jra Sl| the International Herald Tribune in association with ES {JR iniji the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority and M l\ tflliPl 'nWH the
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  • ANALYSIS
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      Keeping in step with two dance partners
      1376 27  -  As Taiwan figures more prominently in America's strategic calculations, Leon Hadar finds the Clinton Administration wondering how far it should go in pleasing Taipei and risk annoying Beijing Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington Correspondent CLINTON Administration officials are facing growing problems
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      814 27  -  Michael Richardson discusses Washington's eagerness to use Apec to promote economic ties with East Asia if the Uruguay Round fails Michael Richardson IHT AFTER fretting for months that the Clinton Administration might put the United States on a course of retreat from Asia,
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    Lock icon Pickup in consumer spending lifts US GDP growth to 2.8pc
    582 28 Reuter, AFP WASHINGTON A pickup in spending by American consumers pushed the pace of economic growth strongly higher in the third quarter, the US Commerce Department said yesterday. In its initial look at national output during the three months from
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    Lock icon Washington has no plan to turn Apec into closed trade bloc, says US envoy
    502 28 Reuter, AP JAKARTA The United States, which is hosting a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum next month, says it has no secret plan to turn the group into a closed trade bloc. US
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    Lock icon More than just a piddling accident
    166 28 AP BONN A pilot's urgent need to urinate while flying his F-16C fighter jet caused the aircraft to crash and cost the US Air Force US$lB million (5528.2 million). The waijet went down on Sep 8, 1992, in Turkey. The pilot, Lieutenant-Colonel Don Snelgrove,
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    Lock icon Lee: EC to blame if Gatt talks fail because of France
    290 28 The Straits Times TOKYO Apec leaders meeting in Seattle next month ought to send a strong message to Brussels saying that if global trade talks should fail because of France, the European Community would be to blame, visiting Singapore
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    Lock icon Food, wine and economics
    120 28 Photo by Aziz Hussin of The Straits Times BEIJING Food was not the only thing which struck a common chord between Minister for Trade and Industry S Dhanabalan and the Chinese Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Wu Yi during a dinner here last night.
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    Lock icon China to proceed cautiously with listings abroad: official
    236 28 AFP BEIJING China has decided to allow more of its companies to list shares on overseas markets, including in the United States, Australia and Europe, a senior securities official was quoted as saying yesterday. But the expansion will only come after the
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    Challenge facing new generation of Asia's leaders
    847 28  -  The Bottom Line YANG RAZALI KASSIM YANG RAZALI KASSIM The writer. BT's regional analysis editor, took part in the Asia Young Leaders' Forum THE organisers were worried. A day before he was to deliver the keynote speech at the inaugural Asia Young Leaders'
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    Lock icon Tokyo to review plan to cut rice output, may forbid lifting of import ban
    370 28 UPI TOKYO Japan will review its plan to reduce rice production following the disastrous rice harvest after a cool, wet summer damaged the 1993 crop, government sources said yesterday. But parliament may pass a resolution today
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    Lock icon Japan's vehicle exports plunge 11.7pc in first half
    326 28 AFP, AP, Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japan's vehiele exports in fiscal 1993's first half plunged by the biggest rate 11.7 per cent for any AprilSeptember period since World War 11. The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said yesterday that exports in the period totalled 2.41
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      NYK decentralises operations to cut costs
      423 29  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Japanese liner major Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) is decentralising control of its operations to combat the effects of a rising yen. Besides relinquishing operational and marketing decisions, the Tokyo-based company is also considering shifting other administrative work to its regional
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      Lock icon Arab states losing billions in shipping fees: report
      387 29 AFP ABU DHABI Arab countries are losing billions of dollars annually in shipping fees due to their reliance on foreign fleets, a report published in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said on Wednesday. The 22 members of the Arab League carry out
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      Lock icon M'sian group set up to help combat oil spills
      347 29 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has the most complete national oil spill response plan in the Asean region following the official formation of the Petroleum Industry of Malaysia Mutual Aid Group. The group will facilitate the sharing of oil spill response resources
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      1112 29 Page Col ABC Containerlinc 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Africa Container 16 1 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 Alpha Feeders 18 1/2 Alprimo Freight 16 I ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Appenship 18 3/4 Arabian Express 15 3 ASCL 5 5 ASXCLShpg
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      Lock icon Raised from a watery grave
      49 29 Reuter SEOUL A salvage boat releasing the 110-ton fern Soehae, which sank in the sea off South Korea's west coast 16 days ago killing nearly 300 people, onto a barge on Tuesday. The doomed ferry is to be taken to a nearby port. Reuter
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      Lock icon US shipbuilder waits as Navy delays deal
      264 29 Bloomberg Business News TAMPA, Florida The American Ship Building Co expected to hear the fate of a critical U***** million US Navy contract on Wednesday, but the call from the Pentagon never came. Navy Secretary John Dalton had told US Rep CW Young
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1543 30 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rsits Ship Vey No Etb/Btr Period From To From Vi Dae, 04SA 30/1800 1 28/1500 28 1659 28/1900 2 28/1700 29/0659 29/0900 29/1200 29/1*59 29/1700 An Uly 042B 29/2000 i
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      11485 38 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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      VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
      609 45 Carbon Carbon October 21 Density Water Residue Ash Wumnum Sedvnent Density Water Residue Ash Alumrium Sediment 'MM MM Euon Euon KG M*3 "c V/V "o M M M M PPM method KG/M*3 MM PPM method ISO Chi* Lmts Spec E25 991 10 1?0 (HO 30* 010*
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      330 45 THE BALTIC Freight Index for spol dr\ cargo shipping rates fell to 1.325 on Wednesday from 1.331 on Oct 26. Little activity was evident on the key grain routes for Panama* tonnage. and although brokers did not expect a further sudden drop in rates, there have been few
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      Lock icon Bitter battle brewing in Italian shipping
      1007 46 The shake-up of state lines pits the unions against the government over the reduction of fleet and loss of jobs International Transport Journal THE PLAN for the restructuring of Italy's state lines, which has already been decided in principle. envisages a massive reduction in
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        Proton to set up joint venture to market M'sian car in Europe
        591 48 KUALA LUMPUR A new company, believed to carry the name Proton Cars Europe, will be formed next week to undertake the distribution of Malaysia's Proton cars in European countries outside the UK and Eire. Industry sources said it
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        UPS daily air express volume hits record
        254 48 SINGAPORE United Parcel Service's average daily air express volume soared past a record one million packages and documents, fuelled by its booming international segment and double-digit growth overall. UPS' international air services Worldwide Express and Worldwide Expedited led the company's growth, ballooning 33.3
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        Lock icon India's Tata group posts 49pc rise in profit
        429 48 Reuter BOMBAY India's biggest truck producer, Tata Engineering and Locomotivc Co (Tclco), reported an increase in net profit on Wednesday but analysts said it was looking for joint ventures with foreign ve-hicle-makers to cushion itself in a depressed market. The company, one
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        338 48 FT PARIS Christian Blanc, officially appointed chairman of Air Francc on Wednesday, will meet union leaders at the beginning of next week to try to resolve the industrial dispute which has brought the stateowned airline to a virtual standstill for the
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          109 48 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG China will use a US$l75-million loan from the Japanese government to expand the eastern port of Qingdao, the country's fourth-largest, the official China Daily newspaper said yesterday. The planned expansion, which will begin in January', includes the construction of six deep-water berths and
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          47 48 Reuter ROCHESTER HILLS, Minnesota Mercedes-Benz previewed its new C-Class sports sedan. C2BO. in a briefing of the 1994 product line on Tuesday. Base price on the C-Class. which goes on sale on Nov 18, will be under US$3O,OOO (5547,100) for the 2.2-litre C 220. Reuter
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          101 48 AFP BUENOS AIRES The Argentine government has denied a request from American Airlines to temporarily increase the number of flights linking the US and Argentina. Transportation Minister Edmundo Soria made the announcement on Tuesday, rejecting a plea by US Ambassador James Cheek to
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        275 48 NYT DETROIT With profits in the US at their highest level for the period since 1988, Ford Motor Co on Wednesday posted third-quarter earnings of US$463 million (***** million), in contrast to a loss of US$272 million during the quarter last year. While
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      2027 33 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppol Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 new guinea pacific line CtPg3 (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO DOC SAILS MEIUBt VISC KK. Skin. Tw In ft 30 Oct FCL. LCI. CONTAINER AND MCAKMJLK SERVICE TO PA«M NEW
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      1189 35 I SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKINGS: BALT ORIENT LINE: *****64 FESCO: *****06 ENQUIRIES: *****33 BLASCO ODESSA: *****51/*****31/*****13 INVENTORY: *****45 INWARD: *****81 OUTWARD: *****80 TRANSHIPMENT: *****78 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 JAKARTA: *****57 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 MARINE INSURANCE SERVICE: *****87/ *****87 CR NO:
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      1808 36 AS AGENTS "K" LINE (SINGAPORE) PTC LTD (CH No: Q*****0000M) I V TEL; *****77 TELEX KAWAKI R*****5 FAX *****16/7/8/9 I *1* MALAYSIA "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON RHO I 4 M W*J TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUTINTERNOSA. TEL: JKT *****08
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      1009 37 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I CR NO 100a*****00E ureqci VOY SIN BKK SIN VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SIN *cl™ %!Tuft -T/Ii 9d/in MAJAPAHIT 3541 31/10 3/11 7/11 KOTA SABAS KSB23N 31/10 2/11 24/10 BUNGA TERATAI 3543 2/11 5/11 8/11 MISAMUT (THAI
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      474 41 —^i^— I TICER-UHE BAY OF BENGAL SERVICES VESSEL *0T S* MA* lIGEK BAT 86N M M 10 04-07/11 12-13/11 IGERBftDGf 27W o*o3 11 09 12/11 1* 19 II IKU man vu 00-00 11 12-15/11 21-22/11 MAI MCXMERS 270* 09-10/11 lVll/11 23-M/ll lIGU BAT m 12-13/11 11-21/11 2* 27/11 «CSS€L *OT
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      253 41 ÜBI lOM |m lIH Ull |H 311 LIJILnI Guaranteed Sailings to: Zl BANGKOK LAEM CHABANG JAKARTA PORT KELANG i •HO CHI MINH MANILA CEBU j, •SURABAYA PENANG HONGKONG We also serve other ports: USA, EUROPE, CHINA AND ALL DESTINA TIONS g^^^lcHnEmnßllinSS!ciEMS)P^^ TEL: *****33 (12 Lines) FAX: *****15/*****03 TELEX: RS *****
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      184 42 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD ETA CTA EM STOM fOOT KELMC PfNANG BtUf UK 1/U Lojdmj lot Ma if KUVAI HUOHU 1/U Os(hjr|in( and Loadirt tor Bombay DOimN In Pt Loading For Mal« nONEOt sunt* 10/11 Loadtr( For Male UMCEDH 2/11 lo»*r| For Mate ntOGKSS LBEATY 15/11
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      1058 42 A. THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD I I 78 SHENTON WAY #1001, SINGAPORE 0207 I I \J \V TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I I TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL VOY S'POIE PEST VESSEL VOY S PORE DEST EQUATOR GRACE 103/3E 03
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      792 43 ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTING BtEAABULK SOC CAAGOCS TOfROM KOBE TOKOHAMA NAGOYA. MO* TOKYO*. MAMIA* DAVAO* Penanf* P. Kelanj Sinfapore E'Msia* KAMALEVERETT VISE 18-19 Nov 20-21 No* KARABIVERETT VI4E 01/02 Dec IVYEVERETT V7E 27/28 Dec 29/30 Dec ACCEPTING BftEAKBULK FCI SOC CARGOES TO FROM CHITTAGONG. CALCUTTA ANO MOWGIA*
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      337 43 Bt GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP to, 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 V 30/10 2/11 9/11 TIMBER GLORY 31/10 7/11 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN VII 20/11 23/11 28/11 30/11 "ALSO
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      522 43 jdk PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE "vo^ SW KARACHI HAGHAN 104 HW 9/11 U/ll SARGOOHA 13(HW 26/11 S/12 BOUH 136 H* 7/1? !</>? MAM AM 143 HW U/12 2t/l2 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY "si*™™ os« WAG rw MA*RAN 142 OW 6/11 >0/11 14/11 !</" H/»
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      573 43 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/ P. ELIZABETH VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH SIN FENGANGSHAN V 126 04/ II 20/11 23/11 11/12 HUASHUNHEV4B/49 19/11 5/12 8/12 26/12 ACCEPTS CARGO TO JOHANNESBURG PRETORIA VIA DURBAN BOOKING AGENT FOR COSCO LCL CONSOL SIN TO DURBAN/ P. ELIZABETH SIN TO MADRAS VESSEL
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      261 43 rs— SIN FAR EAST 02/11 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 06/11 BANGKOK 31/10 MANILA CEBU 31/10 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 01/11 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 31/10 BUSAN 31/10 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 31/10 HONG KONG SIN CHINA 31/10 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 01/11 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 01/11 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA 02/11
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      187 45 GINZA ORIENT SHIPPING CO. S.A. (GOSCO LINE) VESSEL VOV SIN YANGON GINZA ORIENT 02/N 25 27 OCT 2-4 MOV GINZA ORIENT 03/N 8 11 NOV 1315 NOV FAR EAST RUSSIA/LATVIA VIA ANTWERP BY CONTAINER DEEPSEA SERVICE VESSEL VOY SIN ANTWERP TBN 01/N 15 20 NOV 5-10 DEC RIGA. ST PETERSBURG
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