The Business Times, 9 November 1993

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  • 13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/42 Tuesday November 9 1993 75'
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 65 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stocks were higher yesterday, lifted by bargain hunting after last week's steep losses, but the market remained jittery prior to key economic numbers. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 8.38 points at 3,651.81 at I pm EST. In the
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    • 71 1 Reuter WASHINGTON US Deputy Secretary of State Clifton Wharton, number two in the department behind Warren Christopher, is expcctcd to resign soon, administration and other sources said yesterday. The resignation has been rumoured for several weeks as Secretary of State Warren Christopher
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  • Article, Illustration
    113 1 Stock market indices Monday Chant* STII 2.068 80 4-008 KLSE Composite 921.52 -23.42 Nikkei 18.625.16 +34 70 Hang Seng 9.177.95 +181.02 SET Index 1.306.91 +21.44 Jakarta Composite ...507.78 +0.56 CLSA China B 1,117.6 +3.96 Ausl All Ord 2.054.2 -25.7 FTSE 100 3,077.6 -8 Monday Previous Ipm dose Dow
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  • 191 1 Reuter TOKYO Tough times in the Japanese economy took their toll yesterday on what was touted to be a historic joint venture between Saudi Arabia, the world's most influential oil producer, and Japan, among its biggest buyers. An oil refinery project announced with much
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  • 460 1  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines is to team up with the Cambodian government to relaunch Royal Air Cambodge, the carrier that was dissolved in 1970 after Prince Norodom Sihanouk was ousted in a coup. The two parties are due to sign
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  • 405 1 Reuter BEIJING China has ordered a temporary halt to overseas buying sprees by its companies in an apparent attempt to stem capital flight. The State Council, China's Cabinet, has demanded "an immediate, temporary stop to domestic companies and Chinese invested companies overseas (including
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  • 349 1 UPI, Reuter WASHINGTON US President Bill Clinton said he would rather not attend a semi-sum-mit meeting of Asian leaders later this month if Congress defeats the North American Free Trade Agreement. Discussing what such a loss would do to his
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  • 250 1 AP LONDON America will blame the European Community if world trade negotiations collapse and will look to making pacts with Latin American and Asian nations. United States Ambassador Raymond Seitz told the Foreign Press Association yesterday that
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  • 404 1  -  By Paul Leo, Leslie Lopez The much-needed correction continued yesterday on the Singapore and Malaysian stock markets, with sharp plunges in the key indices during morning trading. But bargain-hunting of blue chips late in the day saw much of
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  • 308 1 Reuter LONDON Gold was fixed at a three-month high of U*****.90 per ounce yesterday morning and bullion analysts said it could rise further as investors sought an alternative to weaker share and bond markets. Prices turned weaker in the afternoon
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 285 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi ADVERTISEMENTS for resale properties in The Straits Times totalled 49,845 in October, a slight improvement over the previous month. There were, however, fewer Housing Development Board and HUDC flats for sale. Ads for HDB/HUDC units fell to 22,566 from 22,855 in September.
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    • 491 2  -  By Lee Han Shih A COMPANY owned by property heavyweight Ng Teng Fong has been awarded 26 prime residential plots on the East Coast out of 37 offered by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. The URA announced yesterday that six
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    • 390 2  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan THE Singaporean thirst for property Down Under will be tested again when a resortstyle property with villas ranging from A$ 150,000 (S$ 159,000) to A$ 176.000 is launched over the coming weekend. El Caballo Resort, about one hour's drive from Perth, features
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    • 276 2  -  By Rahita Elias THE Singapore government is extending a hand to Hanoi to help it establish a modern land transport system by the year 2000. A team of eight officials flew in from Hanoi over the weekend for an official visit. The
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    • 340 2  -  PM Goh's visit to S Korea From Chuang Peck Ming in SEOUL SINGAPOREAN and South Korean businessmen should join hands to seek out business opportunities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said last night. Speaking at
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    • 630 2  -  By Anna Teo TO LIMIT the supply of doctors in Singapore, the number of recognised overseas medical schools is being slashed from 176 to 28. The number of foreign doctors registered with the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) will also be capped at 15
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    • 249 2 FINANCIAL NEWS A quick look at the markets Call 24 hours a day for mid-day reports of SES KLSE and closing reports of the world markets. Cost: 30 cents per minute SUP AN INVESTMENT SaECTION I I SOVENZ jw" *SB Modern commercial tiding HOUSE jj HOUSE #3 tenant, yield 11%,
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  • THE REGION
    • 492 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Multinational corporations and other foreign firms arc not taking the bait set by the government to lure them to set up operational headquarters (OHQs) in Malaysia. The fiscal incentive of a concessionary tax rate of 10 per cent
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    • 471 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysians are becoming contractors for big firms and are now producing more components themselves. Soon they will be designing their own products and marketing them. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says Malaysia will further develop its heavy industry as a logical
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    • 54 3 Reuter JAKARTA Philippine chief negotiator Manuel Yan (right) shaking hands with the leader of the Mora National Liberation Front at the end of their first formal talks on Sunday. Both sides signed a ceasefire agreement to end their 20-year conflict. They will resume talks on Feb
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    • 137 3 Reuter TAIPEI A Taiwanese company said yesterday it had resumed a US$2OO million (SS3IB million) project to build an industrial park on Indonesia's Batam island after a dispute with the Indonesian government caused it to suspend the plan. Batam International Development suspended the project in
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    • 341 3  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THE Philippines, Asean's economic laggard, is now back in business, says President Fidel Ramos. Addressing a press conference yesterday, Mr Ramos cited foreign investors' favourable subscription of the US$2OO million (SS3IB million) Eurobond offering of the state-owned National Power
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    • 107 3 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's navy plans to buy an unspecified number of AV-8 Harrier jump jets from the US and base them on the aircraft carrier Chakri Narubt. The Bangkok Post yesterday quoted deputy navy commander Admiral Santipap Mooming as saying the vertical takcofT and landing
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 55 3 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan s investment climate is strongly questioned by more than 75 per cent ot industrialists, despite the government's efforts to spur domestic investment. A Gallup opinion poll on Sunday showed that 75.2 per cent of 1,076 industrialists and manufacturers in I aiwan found the
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      • 64 3 AFP HONGKONG The colony's first Chinese-language tabloidsized daily newspaper made its debut yesterday, with a yuppieoriented format and a promise to "dare to speak the truth". Hongkong Today, published by the respected Ming Pao newspaper. said it would offer its readers "brief but poignant reports" and
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      • 65 3 AP HONGKONG The colony's gross domestic product grew by 5.1 per cent in this year's second quarter from April-June last year, the government announced yesterday. A government statement did not give any forecast for the full year, but Financial Secretary Hamish Macleod
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      • 65 3 Reuter TOKYO A Japanese construction expert has criticised longrunning US-Japan construction talks for lacking substance and said he doubted they would do much to open Japan's market to US builders. "I doubt if the negotiations will ease the trade imbalance between Japan and the US." said
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      • 78 3 AFP HONGKONG The head of Britain's Cable and Wireless pic, now visiting Beijing, yesterday dismissed a press report that his conglomerate would suffer if Sino-British talks on Hongkong's future broke down."We're not worried about short-term rumours, discussions or anything of the sort," James Ross told
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      • 60 3 Bernama ALOR STAR About 1.000 Proton Saga cars are expected to be sold in Mauritius by the end of this year. Mauritius ambassador to Malaysia Dwarka Ravindranath said yesterday that the Malaysian national car was drawing great interest in his country after it had proven to
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    • 509 4 Nation must look abroad in push towards First World prosperity: president Reuter SEOUL South Korea yesterday pledged to loosen the bureaucratic stranglehold on foreign investment and unveiled a blueprint for a new era of economic stability and growth fuelled by overseas
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    • 302 4 Reuter BEIJING A delegation of Japan's top carmakers opened talks yesterday with China's State Planning Commission to secure a greater share of what could be one of the next century's biggest markets. The members of the Japanese Automobile Manufacturers Association, led by
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    • 286 4 UPI BEIJING China's leading official newspaper has called for increasing incomes of the nation's peasants, reflecting concern at rural discontent over recent economic reforms that have left much of the country's population behind. "We should put forward a clarion slogan to let
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    • 558 6 AFP, Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON Local investors in New Zealand foreign exchange, bond and equities markets gradually recovered confidence yesterday after a morning sell-off triggered by last Saturday's unexpected election outcome. Brokers said the election left no party with a majority of
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    • 377 6 Reuter, KnightRidder CANBERRA Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating said stronger signs of economic recovery and improving business conditions were being reflected in employment. "There are now stronger signs of economic recovery and of an improvement in business conditions and the economic
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    • 561 6 Reuter TOKYO A blue-ribbon panel yesterday urged the Tokyo government to slash red tape to revitalise Japan's giant economy, but many fear entrenched bureaucratic opposition would foil attempts to implement the proposals. "The contents of the report look good now it's a question
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 1060 9  -  China's trade surplus From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO BECAUSE of its sheer size and persistence, America's trade deficit with Japan continues to make headlines. Yet the surging deficit between China and the US may well become a primary focus of attention before very long. The
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  • THE WORLD
    • 439 10 Run-up to Apec summit Reuter WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton will host an unprecedented summit of AsiaPacific leaders nexf week in what could be the first step towards an eventual alliance of the world's most dynamic economies. "The time has come for
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    • 349 10 AFP, Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japan and South Korea, two of the strongest supporters of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum, view the series of meetings in Seattle next week as a watershed for the group. With only a month to go before the
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    • 81 10 Reuter JERUSALEM A Palestinian youth (left) clashing with right-wing Israeli settlers on Sunday after the latter rampaged an Arab neighbourhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem blocking the road with burning tyres and stoning Arab cars following the killing of a settler near the West Bank town of
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    • 335 10  -  By Kevin Sullivan SINGAPORE Singapore and other countries in the region offer a useful model for economic development in the war-torn Balkans, according to the head of a visiting trade delegation from Croatia. Mladen Vedris, president of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, and a
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    • 379 10 UPI. Reuters, AFP BRUSSELS The European Community yesterday called on the United States to stop dragging its feet in global trade talks, warning that otherwise the negotiations will collapse in the face of their Dec 15 deadline. Following talks
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 113 10 Reuter TAMPA, Florida, Billionaire Ross Perot on Sunday said a group of hired Cuban assassins had been sent to kill him just days before his scheduled debate on Nafta with Vice-President Al Gore. Mr Perot told 3,000 cheering supporters at a rally against the North
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      • 87 10 Knight-Ridder WASFIINGTON US President Bill Clinton's ambitious plan to overhaul the US healthcare system will undergo major changes in Congress, Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole, said. "We're not going to pass the Clinton package," Mr Dole said in an interview on CBS's "Face the
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      • 56 10 UPI BERLIN Germany's chambers of commerce and industry say 30 per cent of western German industry plans to build new factories abroad where wages are lower. A survey of 10.000 companies shows an estimated 250.000 jobs will be created in the next three years, mainly
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      • 86 10 AFP ROME Italy is in danger of being destroyed by the political and financial scandals investigators have been exposing for the past year. So says Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. who last week told a television audience of 22 million people that Italy was under
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      • 105 10 AP MOSCOW Russian President Boris Yeltsin picked up support from his prime minister and the United States in his push to scuttle early presidential elections and serve out the rest of his term. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin said on Sunday that the president's position
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    • 355 12 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News LONDON Managers of leading UK investment funds expect Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke to announce a net tax increase of £3.37 billion (557.9 billion) in his Nov 30 Budget, the latest poll by Smith New Court
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    • 347 12 IHT PARIS Led by a surge in bank lending to levels not seen since the outbreak of the Third World debt crisis a decade ago. total private financial flows to developing countries soared 51 per cent last year, a new study
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    • 478 12 Reuter BONN Germany's Social Democrats (SPD), in opposition since 1982, are embroiled in a bitter feud that could condemn them to another five years in the political wilderness. At issue is a proposal to link wages to productivity in the former
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 457 13  -  By Corinne Kerk SINGAPORE Singapore Press Holdings will raise slightly its advertising rates for The Straits Times, The Sunday Times and Lianhe Zaobao next January. In a circular sent recently to advertising agencies, SPH said this increase was to reflect significant
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    • 384 13  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE A future city with a population of 50,000 smack in the heart of an industrial triangle in Vietnam that's a vision the Vietnamese authorities are counting on three Singapore companies to realise. The Jurong Town Corporation has
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    • 267 13  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Straits Steamship Land will build and manage a 450-room five-star hotel in Yangon, Myanmar, through a subsidiary. The company said yesterday that its wholly owned subsidiary Straits Greenfield Development would sign an agreement with Myanmar's Ministry of Hotels
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    • 183 13 Reuter SINGAPORE Singaporebased Creative Technologies Ltd has formed an alliance with leading American chip maker Intel Corp that will help revolutionise business and personal communications. Creative's president and chief executive officer K S Chay said yesterday that his firm had licensed Intel's Indeo
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    • 799 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE The world-famous Raffles Hotel may be the champion in DBS Land's stable of properties, but the listed property company's hotel and leisure division is a really rather small part of its operations.
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    • 428 13  -  By Yong Pow Ang SINGAPORE Sembawang Engineering has been awarded a SS6O million contract to fabricate an offshore platform for a gasfield in the South China Sea near Hainan. Disclosing this yesterday, the president of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) Wang
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    • Article, Illustration
      308 13 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Nov g Last Sum Ikn Stock sik Ckff factor aovcrs <J) Avimo 1.750 -0 080 1.24 -100 CAC 7.500 -0.050 5.30 -1.00 CWT 2.600 -0.010 I 84-200 00 Cercbos 6 600 -0.100 4.66 -2.00 FAN 15 900 0.800 11.24 16.00 Gen
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    • 224 13 SINGAPORE Broker G K Goh plans to raise $53 million through a private placement with Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia. Under the placement deal, which was signed yesterday, the bank will subscribe or procure subscription for 20 million new G K. Goh
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    • COMPANIES
      • 276 14 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Beijaya Leisure Bhd plans to buy two casino hotel resorts and a 20 per cent stake in a hotel company in the Seychelles for a total of US$3l million (5549.3 million). It will buy the Mahe Beach Hotel for US$l2.4
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      • 252 14  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines has denied a report that it is forming a regional alliance with Thai Airways and Cathay Pacific. According to a report in Thailand's The Nation newspaper, which quotes Thai Airways president Thamnoon Wanglee, the three carriers held
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      • 138 14 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Five overseas financial institutions, including Singapore's OCBC Bank, applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission during the first week of November to invest more than US$25l million (***** million) in Taiwanese stocks, the commission said yesterday. Taiwan
        Bloomberg Business News  -  138 words
      • 191 14  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY A COMPANY reportedly associated with Singapore entrepreneur Ong Beng Seng has acquired a hotel in Melbourne for As2o million (5521.4 million). Mr Ong already owns two other hotels in Australia the Travelodge and the Parkroyal which he
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 88 14 SINGAPORE Pacific Can Investment Holdings Ltd is joining forces with a Hawaiian company to set up a joint venture dealing with the supervision and maintenance of airports and related facilities. The company said yesterday its wholly-owned subsidiary. PacCan PMS Pte Ltd, had signed an agreement with
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        • 77 14 SINGAPORE Hotel Properties Ltd (HPL) announced the creation of a wholly-owned subsidiary in a statement to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. HPL said the new subsidiary, Berkley Investments Pte Ltd, was set up to invest in and acquire overseas properties. The authorised capital of Berkley
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        • 61 14 SINGAPORE Metal Containers Ltd and its subsidiaries have signed a three-year credit agreement for an $88 million syndicated secured loan facility with a consortium of eight banks arranged by United Overseas Bank Ltd. It comprises three tranches a $20 million term loan facility, a $50
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        • 67 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Park May Bhd, with its subsidiary. The Kuala Lumpur, Klang Port Swettenham Omnibus Co Bhd. is working with other bus operators and the authorities on a plan to amalgamate bus services in the city. Chairman Yee Yow said in the
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      • 488 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ftUMfars' pricti <$) Nov 9 NTUC Income Unit Tint Income Bond Pohcy 3.97 4.12 The Commerce 1.57 1.65 Prud6fltl3l The Sitinfs Fund 1.46 I.S3 PruLink Mgd Fund 1.3$ 1.42 S'porc Prog Fund 0.65 0 68 uaaa S pore Sec Fund 0 96 1.01 MAKA BUITOpUTTa Spore Invest
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      • 363 16 Reuter SINGAPORE The Shanghai Securities Exchange is considering opening up trading to all comers in separate classes of shares that are now held either by local or foreign investors. SSE executive vicc-prcsi-dent Liu Bo said. The goal, he said, was to draw more
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      • 253 16 Reuter SYDNEY Food processor Goodman Fielder Ltd said it planned to sell its 29.7 per cent stake in salt and stockfeed group Ridley Corp at the equivalent of A 51.03 per ordinary share and convertible note. At the sale price, the holding is
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      • 531 16 NYT TOKYO With the Japanese stock market having taken another dive in the past two weeks and share prices in the fourth year of a deep overall decline, dissatisfaction with the Tokyo Stock Exchange's policies is growing. At the heart of
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      • 361 19 NYT WASHINGTON AT&T and the state-owned telephone companies of France and Germany may be close to forming a joint venture that will offer one-stop shopping for corporations that want to link offices on both sides of the Atlantic. If it comes to pass,
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      • 273 19 NYT SAN FRANCISCO IBM chairman Louis Gerstner has replaced his chief strategist in a move that signals accelerated change at the world's largest computer company as it struggles to regain profitability. Jim Cannavino, IBM executive vice-president who now heads the personal computer
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      • 347 19 Reuter PHILADELPHIA QVC Network Inc. facing a surprise escalation in the battle for Paramount Communications Inc, held talks over the weekend with Bell South Corp on a possible investment in QVC's quest for the entertainment giant, sources said on Sunday. New money
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      • 457 19 Move will make group world's biggest paintmaker Reuter AMSTERDAM Dutch chemical group Akzo NV said it and Nobel Industries AB of Sweden have agreed on a full merger through a share offer by Akzo which values each Nobel share at 29.6 Swedish kronor.
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    • FINANCE
      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 58 20 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Deposits at Japan's 11 major commercial hanks at the end of October decreased 0.4 per cent from the year before and were up from the end of September, the Federation of Bankers Associations said. Deposits as of Oct 31 totalled 179.901
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        • 91 20 Reuter LONDON Insider dealing in City, the financial centre of London, could damage its reputation, said Andrew Large, chairman of top UK financial watchdog, the Securities and Investments Board (SIB). Mr Large said in a BBC television programme that he wanted the SIB to have
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        • 77 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Ordinary savings deposits at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China increased 74.4 billion yuan (5520.4 billion) from January through October to 505.6 billion yuan, the Beijing-backed China News Service said. The steady increase in savings deposits, which now account
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        • 55 20 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Hongkong Commercial Bank has applied to open a representative office in Taiwan, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday. If approved, the bank would become the third from Hongkong to open in Taiwan, along with the Bank of East Asia and the
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      • 724 20  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON INTERNATIONAL investors are anxiously hoping that the US bond market will rebound in the coming weeks. For on that depend world bond and equity markets. A further decline on Wall Street would precipitate widespread declines
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      • 137 20 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ) said yesterday it will lower its long-term prime rate to 3.8 per cent, effective tomorrow, following the issuance of November's allotment of five-year bank debentures for institutional investors. The long-term prime rate is
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      • 286 20  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Garuda Airlines Indonesia has tapped US$75 million (S$ 119 million) from the Asian dollar market through a five-year term loan. The loan, bearing an interest rate of 1.7 per cent above the London Interbank Offered Rate, was
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      • 131 20 Reuter HONGKONG Standard Chartered pic plans a simultaneous secondary listing of its shares in Hongkong and Singapore possibly within six months. Rory Chan, manager of communications for the bank's Hongkong operations, said yesterday: "Basically all the work has been done, it's just a matter of
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 285 21 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Farm Minister Eijiro Hata urged an advisory panel yesterday to recommend no change in the prices at which the government will sell rice to consumers this year, the Kyodo Nens Service quoted officials. If the panel adopts the suggestion, it
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      • 478 21 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lanka's tea industry faces a major crisis due to high costs, increasing supplies, falling prices and a powerful labour union demanding minimum work or inlieu wages, which estate managers say they cannot afford. Industry officials say Sri
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      • 193 21 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japan's steel industry yesterday called for early implementation of public works projects, income tax cuts and housing starts to help pull it out of an economic slump, the Kyodo news agency reported. Officials said that the chairman of the Japan Iron and
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      • 422 21 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Oil production estimates for October by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries vary on which report is read, but an Opec spokesman said members arc "by and large" adhering to their quotas. The Middle East Economic Survey, an
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      • 122 21 THE US$/majors traded in narrow ranges yesterday in mixed sentiments with no fresh factors to drive markets. The USS/SS saw range trade yesterday with initial purchase of US$ by offshore interest meeting local corporate US$ sell orders above 1.5940. Good two way business was seen
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      • 197 21 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar ended almost half a pfennig lower in Europe as concerns tnat US inflation was accelerating were tempered ahead of this week's October price data. Last week, long-term investors sold US bonds and stocks as they bet the pick-up in US economic activity, expected
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      • 93 21 AFP NEW YORK The dollar fell back in early trading here yesterday but the action was light in the absence of fresh economic indicators. Around 9:30 am (1430 GMT), the dollar traded at 1.6825 German marks against 1.6925 at the end of last week and at 108 yen
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        1639 21 Irade »eifthted index calculated against S'pore's tap 14 trading partners Base year I9S< USS/SS forward rates Noon Nov 8 SS Bid Offer 1-month 1.5901 1.5916 2-month 1 5892 1.5907 3-month 1.5882 1.5897 6-month ***** 1 5888 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at ltan m Not 5: Singapore dollars
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      • 1292 22 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar interest rate futures finished barely changed after trading narrowly within a tight range yesterday ahead of inflation data this week. Market undertones remained bearish, however, after selling pressure hit on firm US non-farm payrolls last Friday. Anticipation that inflation
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      • 597 22 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin TIN closed 12 sen up at MS 12.00 per kg yesterday, reversing last week's trend on fresh demand mainly due to a higher London market, traders said. The rise also reflected a technical correction to the lower trend in recent
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        • 157 22 HONGKONG Sugar output in China's southern Guangdong province, one of the country's most productive, is expected to drop sharply this year because of a reduction in planted acreage, the official China Daily newspaper reported on Sunday. The harvest 01 sugar cane is put at 17
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        • 144 22 NEW DELHI Wholesale edible oil prices are likely to remain bearish over the next few weeks, although an occasional price rise cannot be ruled out, traders say. Last week, oil prices rose marginal- ly for the first time in several weeks, but traders believe
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        • 89 22 TOKYO Japan's April-September orders for stainless steel sheet totalled 634,684 tonnes, down 6.7 per cent from the same period last year, according to figures released yesterday by the Stainles Steel Association. September orders fell to 96,151 tonnes, down 22.2 per cent from a year earlier.
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    • 1567 22 Rubber MS C»wn<lty Excfcaag* (futures ctoslag as at lpa) iSS 1 C—tract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Dec 93 130.25 130.25 130.25 150 2.175 Jan 94 131.50 131.25 131.50 1.900 4.075 Feb 0.00 0.00 132.50 0 5.025 Mar 0.00 0.00 133.50 300
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1250 23 -25.7 THE share market closed near its low for the day as more prof-it-taking in afternoon trade exacerbated a poor morning session yesterday. The All Ordinaries index lost 25.7 points, or 1.24 pei cent, to close at 2,054.2, its firth consecutive fall. The market has now lost 83.7 points
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      • 582 23 -59.86 Share prices closed sharply lower as the market went into a deep correction, triggered by heavy sell-offs after a big drop in Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT) shares in New York, brokers said. The composite index fell by 59.86 points or 2.6 per cent to hit 2,351.46
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      • 313 23 -138.4 Shares suffered one of their largest one-day falls since the October 1987 crash in the wake of Saturday's hung parliament election result. The market fell over 9.5 per cent in the first hour but pared losses so that it ended 6.3 per cent down with the NZSE-40
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      • 544 23 -25.78 Stocks closed lower for the fourth straight day on late selling as profit-taking from the market's recent rally continued, brokers said. The weighted index wavered narrowly for most of the session before ending 25.78 points down at 4,195.82. Turnover was NTS2B.BB billion, still active but well down from
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      • 407 23 +6.1 Stocks closed higher in moderate trading on institutional buying focused on large-capitalisation export-ori-ented counters and low price-to-book-value ratio (PBR) shares, brokers said. The composite index closed 6.10 higher at. 775.47 on a turnover of 908.27 billion won compared with 643.13 billion during Saturday's half-day session. Gainers outpaced losers
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      • 50 23 +54.2 Share prices were steady in thin after trading hours kerb deals in the absence of buying interest among local investors, brokers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share index closed at 2,718.92, up 54.2 points over the weekend's closing. The 100share national index closed 23.68 points higher at 1.305.53.
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      • 763 23 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash Bid Oder M im ap Deposit 3* MOO J* fc *00 Mim Jcnty GHl .0 1893 0 1992 MimMa» Income ****** *1 0*00 LSI Cash Income Plus Fund 10.5700 II 1100 PS I Reseoe Fund 5.2200 5 2300 Sleriiai Ejdt) Euro Performance 0 4592 0.493* Far
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      • 640 23 -8 UK stocks dropped for the sixth session running yesterday amid concern that US interest rates are poised to rise and British taxes may be increased in the budget on Nov. 30. The FTSE 100 index closed down 8 points at 3,077.6, after declining 20.5 points to 3,065.1 at
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      • 116 23 +3.78 French shares staged a slight technical bounce after sliding by 2.57 per cent on Friday but investors remained cautious after last week's sharp correction and prices were not expected to move much this week, dealers said. The CAC-40 index rose 3.78 to 2,084.79. Paris No* 8 Fr \ir
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      • 180 23 -0.15 pc Shares ended the day mixed in line with other European markets after a nervous and jerky day. The Nobel/Akzo merger and confirmation that tax on share dividends will be eased on Jan 1. 1994 were bright spots, but foreigners were concerned about a reversal of falling rates.
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      • 167 23 -1.75 German shares ended slightly weaker after orders failed to emerge to give support to early gains, but 30share DAX managed to hold above key 2,000 points level. The DAX ended 1.75 points lower at 2,010.81. after touching high of 2.031.32 and low of 2.005.36. Frankfurt \o* 8 DM
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      • 183 23 -10.44 Belgian shares closed 0.76 per cent down in line with weakness on other European bourses. Dealers said the dip was a technical correction after a strong rise of the bourse in October. They said the correction was partly inspired by nervousness about rising US interest rates. "But it's
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      • 148 23 +6 Italian stocks ended mixed as political tension eased, although investors remain wary of buying new shares, traders said. Prices will remain under pressure in the next few days as Italy's political parties squabble over election dates and the 1994 budget, they said. The Mibtel index of screen-traded blue
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      • 293 23 -2.24 Dutch shares slid back further from recent peaks, unable to resist falls in London and New York. However trading was not heavy, and dealers say many investors were merelypausing for breath. The EOE index closed at 380.57, down 2.24 points. News that Akzo was to place 1.3 billion
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      • 294 23 11.91 Swiss shares closed firmer, regaining some of the ground they lost during their 3 per cent decline of the previous two trading days. Dealers said investors took low prices as an opportunity to buy. Volumes remained average, with some investors staying cautiously sidelined. But most dealers said the
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      • 291 23 17 South African shares ended mixed as weakness in the financial rand hit sentiment and heightened fears of a reversal of foreign interest in the local market. The gold index ended unchanged at 1.890 after earlier climbing to 1.903. The industrial index was 17 points higher at 4.565 and
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      • 269 23 -6.04 Stocks were mixed with a continued soft bias in active early trade yesterday, but traders said the market is likely to trend lower in the short run. A trader said concerns over the banking sector after Royal Bank of Canada's shock announcement last Friday and jitters in inter-est-sensitive
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      • 744 23 -6.71 The stock market was mixed in early trading yesterday as investors acted cautiously ahead of some key economic data this week. After one hour of trading. the Dow Jones industrial average was down 6.71 points to 3.636.72 at 10.30 am EST. Volume on the floor of the
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      2865 24 Reuter HONGKONG Stocks finished firmer on continued demand from foreign institutions and brokers said the relatively stable overseas markets also gave the local bourse a boost. The blue chip Hang Seng Index rose 181.02 points to finish at the day's high of 9,177.95. It fell around 112 points in
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      447 24 THE Shanghai B market ended a lacklustre day, down 2.23 points against the 95.51 points gain in the A market. Trading was a thin US$2.9 million compared to US$6.5 million on Friday. There were only two gainers against seven losers. Dazhong gained 6.4 per cent to close at U551,192
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      2478 24 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japanese stocks closed the day little changed as early futures-related declines were erased by rallies in steel and shipping issues, which bounced back from declines last week, traders said. The benchmark Nikkei 225 average rose 34.70 points, or 0.19 per cent, to close at 18,625.16.
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      1602 24 Reuter BANGKOK Strong gains among communication stocks helped the stock index sustain ground yesterday, but brokers said most investors were cautious about the opposition's planned no-confidence vote. The SET index gained 21.44 points, or 1.67 per cent, to close at 1,306.91 on moderate turnover of 9.55 billion baht. "The
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      1076 24 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed higher in moderate trading yesterday, with foreign investors focused on banking stocks, especially newcomer Bank Tiara, brokers said. The composite index closed 0.56 point higher at 507.78. Bank Tiara rose 1.000 rupiah in heavy trading to close at 3.400 on its stock debut. Dealers
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    • 2018 25 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info WW l~« Vo. Da, DiV' Di, YM%* MC.p Hi«h Lw. Sale ("000) H.«h Low B»yer Setter CV P/t MALAYSIAN STOCKS l85 50 0 a« isoo im.6 205 102 MSB 50c BO cd J 0 J 6 o g |4| 2 65 g
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      • 4967 25 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices closed sharply lower on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday on forced selling, but were well above their day's lows at the close as investors moved in for bargains, brokers said. The Composite Index closed 23.42 points down to
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      • 8208 26  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE The stock market fell by as much as 2 per cent yesterday but recovered on selected buying of blue chips during the last one-and-a-half hours. The benchmark Straits Times Industrials Index rose in the morning to a high
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      • 70 26  -  Raul Leo GET ready to buy City Developments soon as the corrective move from its all-time high of $7.50 in mid-October to yesterday's low of $6.10 is about to be over. Daily RSI is at 25, indicating that any more selling pressure will push the stock into deeply
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    • 389 22 BUSINESS TIMES TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-000-741-IM3 FAX:74I-1296 ■f THE MATTER 0f THC COMPANIES ACT. CAP. SO ANO m THE MATTER Of ACCENT SPORTS PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary Qanaral MseOng of fie Company held at 27 Cantonment Road Singapore 0206 on 6 November 1803 #>e following
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  • SPORTS
    • 437 27 Volvo Masters Golf AP SOTOGRANDE. Spain Cot. fin Montgomerie won the Volvo Masters on Sunday, shooting a three-under-par 68 to i beat Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland by one stroke. The 30-year-old Scot birdied the second hole to open a two-shot lead and
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    • 665 27 Reuter LONDON They say it could only happen in America. A world heavyweight title fight interrupted by a rogue skydiver? Sounds like just another day in Las Vegas. The rest of the world, though, should not feel inferior. Sport attracts bizarre incidents all over the
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    • SPORT SHORTS
      • 106 27 Reuter WASHINGTON Troy Aikman's marksmanship lifted the Dallas Cowboys to a victory over the New York Giants here on Sunday. but the Cowboys quarterback suffered a pulled hamstring in the process. Aikman completed 10 passes in a row and two touchdown passes before leaving the game, which Dallas
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        31 27 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Sunday: New York 115 Cleveland 107 (OT); Phoenix 132 Sacramento 110; New Jersey 99 San Antonio 73; Denver 99 LA Clippers 97; Houston 106 Portland 92.
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        279 27 Reuter AP AFP DOHA Qatar will stage an international championship in 1996 with prize-money of USSI million (551.59 million), the president of the Qatar Golf Association said on Sunday. Association president Tami al-Hajri said the event would be part of the European PGA tour and would be held on
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        39 27 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Sunday: Honda 3 Quebec I; New Jersey 2 San Jose 1; Boston 4 BufTalo 3; Vancouver 5 Philadelphia 2; Winnipeg 1 Dallas 1 (OT); Chicago 3 Edmonton O, Pittsburgh 5 Anaheim 4. Reuter
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        86 27 Reuter GATESHEAD, England New Zealand remained unbeaten on their British rugby union tour and have not conceded a try in their last four matches after a 26-12 victory over England A on Sunday. The All Blacks stormed into a 134) lead in the first half when Jeff Wilson intercepted
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        88 27 AFP AFP PARIS Goran Ivanisevic continued his tremendous end-of-sea-son run by beating Ukranian teenager Andrei Medvedev to win the Paris Open on Sunday and then apologised for serving too many aces. "I was trying to serve not too strong," he told the 15.000 spectators after thumping down 27 aces
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        64 27 AFP SYDNEY Japan, the team favoured to represent Asia at next year's world championships in Greece, was unbeaten after the first two rounds of a five-nation qualifying tournament here last weekend. Results Round one Saturday. Japan b Australia 15-8 15-6 15-5; Iran b Taiwan 15-10 15-9 15-5. Round two
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    • 835 29  -  Claire Leow shares the trials and tribulations of a Pakistani family living illegally in London as they Claire Leow IT IS a truism that there is no such thing as Asians there are Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese, Japanese, et al. The broad categorisation falls apart,
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    • 354 29 CHATTERBOX^ Reuter AFP AFP AFP DONALD TRUMP is on a real estate buying spree in southern Florida. His realtor expects that before Donald is through, he will have acquired more than US$lO million (S$ 15.9 million) worth of commercial and residential properties in Palm Beach. Trump
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    • 257 30 Mlt was a tall order. Filling 635,000 sq. ft. of new office space, at a time when 19 new buildings in II II 111 I'fl 1M H| I H 111 11 lld 11 M I V.V.I (Via il the vicinity are offering a of 3.1 sq. prove a company. why
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    • 640 31  -  A survey shows condo buying patterns have stayed largely the same in 7 years. Sylvia Wong reports Sylvia Wong CONDOMINIUM buying patterns have not changed much in the past seven years, according to estate agent Knight Frank Cheong Hock Chye and Baillieu.
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    • 160 31 Jones Lang $feWootton Selected transactions in the past week DtaMct ProfM Iff. T stpat PRIVATE 0512 Westpeak Apt 1900 999 878,000 462 0923 Orchard Towers Apt 1969 FH 810,000 411 0923 YongAnPark Apt 1000 FH 662,000 662 1025 Astor Green Apt 1529 99 815,000 533 1026 Duchess Road
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    • 1588 33  -  Growth in intra-Asian travel will help sustain occupancy in new hotels, reports A J Leow A J Leow IT is getting harder to stand out in the hotel industry in Asia, says Jeffrey Gan, Hilton International's vice-president for sales and marketing
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    • 38 33 AN ITEM in last week's Regional Skyline column said the Sun City project in Guangzhou. China, would cost HKSIOO million. This is incorrect. The project will cost HKS2O billion. We are sorry for the error.
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  • 533 34 EDITORIAL IT IS the nature of Malaysian politics that leadership contests often generate so much heat that the larger significance of the event is lost. The past few months have seen the ouster of Mr Ghafar Baba as deputy president of Umno by Mr Anwar Ibrahim. It
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    • 260 34 AFTER MONTHS OF lobbying which saw the resignation of the Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim can now claim legitimacy as the man to watch in Umno, Malaysia's ruling party, and in government. That, actually, had been presumed since the day he joined the party as a
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    • 141 34 THE ELECTION OF Umno's Supreme Council members last Thursday could be seen as a watershed for Malaysia's biggest political party, the dominant partner of the Barisan Nasional government. It confirmed the tide of change taking place in the party, with the new generation of leaders called the
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    • 251 34 THE RESULTS OF the Umno party election fell well within expcctions. The Anwar faction swept almost all the important party posts as predicted. However, this does not mean that there was no surprise element at all. Johor Mentri Besar Muhyiddin capturing the most number of
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    • 218 34 REPORTS OF THE widow of the late President Sukarno, Ratna Sari Dewi, posing nude for a newly published book, Syuga (Superior in Elegance), has stirred considerable controversy. Many have suggested that the government ban the distribution of the book here. Most people consider Dewi's attitude a disgrace to
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    • 181 34 IN THIS SHARED VISION, our leaders should go to every nook and corner, kampung and village in the country, to explained in the simplest of terms what they are trying to do for Malaysia. The leaders must make clear to every Malaysian the part he has
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  • 867 34  -  Electronics giant Matsushita is changing tack in the face of the surging yen and new technology. Steven Brull reports Steven Brull IHT SINCE he took over as president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co in February, Yoichi Morishita has been warning senior executives that the formula that made
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    • 1111 35  -  Washington Correspondent Leon Hadar on the crucial Congressional vote on Nafta and the possible formation of a New Pacific community Leon Hadar AS THE crucial Congressional vote on the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) is getting close the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on
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    • 692 35 CLINTON administration officials have been relentlessly propagating in recent weeks the notion that Washington is about to lead the formation of a "New Pacific Community" (NPC). The US, they say, will work to establish a new economic and strategic alliance, based on principles of
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  • 516 36 AFP ■PARIS A two-year decline in OECD foreign investment flows, coinciding with recession in industrial nations, appeared to be levelling in the first half of 1993. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a report released yesterday that inflows and outflows
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  • 338 36  -  By Nirmal Ghosh SINGAPORE Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday urged African leaders to aim for clean and pragmatic, re-sult-oriented government, population control and education. Mr Lee was speaking at a conference on the relevance of Singapore's experience to
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  • 360 36 AP, Reuter BEIJING One of the top US investment banks, JP Morgan, is negotiating to set up a fund to invest directly in Chinese enterprises. A company official yesterday quoted Shan Weijian, vicepresident of Morgan's corporate finance, as saying the fund would
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  • 308 36 Reuter MOSCOW Russian crude oil output may fall by 12 per cent in 1994, threatening export supplies, say specialists at the main state oil company Rosneft. The Rosneft experts, in a report to the fuel and energy ministry quoted
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  • 674 36  -  The Bottom Line REGINALD DALE REGINALD DALE Reginald Dale is a staff writer at the International Herald Tribune A EUROPEAN Germany, not a German Europe. That mantra, endlessly chanted by German leaders to calm fears over their country's unification, is beginning to wear
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  • 297 36 FT ISTANBUL Turkey and the European Community met yesterday in Brussels to agree on a final negotiating time-table to take Turkey into a customs union with the EC in 1995, marking the biggest change in economic relations between the two sides in 30
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  • 149 36 AFP TOKYO Two Australian telecommunications companies are to join a major project to link 10 Asia-Pacific countries by fibre-optic cable. Japanese telecom firm KDD yesterday said that Telstra and Optus would join nine telecommunications firms which had agreed in June to link Hongkong.
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  • Shipping Times
    • 371 37  -  Conference on P&I, marine hull and cargo insurance in Asia By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Politics is affecting decision-making in the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), resulting in some measures being introduced without proper analysis and justification. Teh Kong Leong, Singapore's Marine Department director, said
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    • 185 37 Knight-Ridder VANCOUVER The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union last Friday voted to strike if it fails to win concessions from the British Columbia Maritime Employer's Association during final negotiations in the yearlong contract dispute. Gordon Westrand, spokes- man for the
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    • 688 37 Firm loses major American Navy contract, has no commercial work Bloomberg Business News TAMPA, Florida American Ship Building Co filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a week after losing an appeal to keep a US$l76 million (*****.8 million) US Navy contract. The filing in the
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    • 854 37 Page Col ABC Containerize 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrenkicl Liner 4 1/2 •APL 5 3-5 Appenship 18 1/2 Alpha Feeders 18 1/2 •ANL 3 1/2 •ASCL 5 5 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 •Bank Line, The 9
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    • 240 37 Seatrade Week COPENHAGEN Danish shipbuilder Burmcistcr Wain has proposed refinancing renewal of the world's ageing tanker fleet by imposing a USSI surcharge on a barrel of oil for transportation costs. Its managing director Cato Sverdrup warned, however, it is no use leaving
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    • 251 37  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE The Port of Singapore Authority is beefing up its eomputer network to support business growth in the next few years. Eric Lui, deputy director for information systems, said yesterday the port had awarded a 5300,000 contract to Andersen
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    • 299 37 Lloyd's List HONGKONG A plan has been drafted for the construction of a major new shiprepair yard in South Korea. The proposal is part of a provisional scheme launched by the Hyundai business conglomerate for the expansion of a range of industrial activities
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      • 614 38 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Juronc Port onuMan on poia *****900 10.11/2300 Batam Baru 6282 12 alongside 0911/1900 DM 1002 10 P03 0911/2100 1011/0900 Batam Mum, 11/02/93 19 alongside 0911/2300 DM 1010 10 P03 0911/0800 0911/2000 Batam Sayang 11/03/93 II
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      • 1578 38 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rsfts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From A Abraham 7131E 09/7130 1 08/1500 08/1659 08/1900 2 08/1700 09/0659 09/0900 to Swan 091A 10/1500 2 08/1700 09 0659 09/0900
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    • 9561 46 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 Pcnang after
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    • 3318 51 A iiBC Containerline NV: Bclsin Shpg Agencics Pte Ltd (SVManne Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Ptc Ltd (SVAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Albatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd
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    • 279 51 Abacus Couriers Td: 545-8011. Fa*: 545-1898. Air Express Travel Td: 533-5771. Fa*: 535-6144. Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fa*: 542-3716. *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Td: 278-0188. Fa*: 273-8283. Supplies Td: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fa*: 742-8975. Cits-link International Td: 344-3377. Fa*. 345-6450. Clusler I .ink Supplies A Services
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    • 1470 51 Abex Express Freight Td. 542-7171. Fa*: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fa*: *****42. Activair Singapore Td: 542-7822. Fa*: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Tel: 545-8033 Fa*: *****05 Aerospeed Td: 542-5911. Fa*: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Td: 542-5454. Fa*: *****06. Air Express International Tel: 542-7666 Fa*: *****74, *****50. Air
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    • 2511 52 ALBANIA Duress: Vessels in port discharging: 1 general cargo, 4 bagged flour, 2 bulk wheat, 1 bagged rice, 1 vessel loading copper, vessels awaiting berth: 1 tubes/flour, 1 bagged cement, 1 chrome ore, 1 bulk wheat. ANGOLA Luanda: City and port operating normally, no congestion, berths available. The
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    • 674 52 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES A NUMBER of modem panamaxes were placed on the market for sale during the course of the week. Interest for such tonnage has been very firm over recent weeks and a number of inspections are said to be taking place. Very few trading deals have been
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    • 553 52 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Flight Type ETA T From Op Flight Type ETD T To TODAY TODAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 I NRT SIA SQ802 B747F 0230 2 SYD/AKL KAL KE697 B747F 0150 I SEL NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 1 BKK/NRT JAL JL6I7 B747F 0345 1 TYO KAL
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    • 562 52 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS An Dep Name of Vessel ETA ETD Ports of Calls Port Agent Telephone No NOVEMBER II II Song of Flower 0700 1800 Malacca-Sin-HK Kawasaki Line (S) 221-8977 11 12 Ocean Pearl 1430 1600 Port Klang-Sin- Inchcape Shpg 222-4411 Scmarang 12 12 Renaissance I 1000 1900
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    • 1329 53 THE BALTIC Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1.311 on Friday from 1,314 on Nov 4. Grain houses continued to take overaged Panamax vessels on the key US Gulf to Japan grain run, distorting underlying optimism for the end Nov-first half December positions, brokers
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    • 892 53 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. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 197 53 COURSES Title: PSA/SFFA Dangerous Goods Course (SDF 70%) Duration: Nov 10 Dec 8 (8 evenings) Organiser: Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Tel: All courses are open to nonmembers. For further details and application forms contact SFFA at tel: 253-7550 or fax: 253-2303. Title: Fuel Farm Fire Management Duration: Nov
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    • 742 54 The group's recent acquisitions of two bulkers confirm its return to this sector. Group director Christopher Cheney explains the reasons behind the move Lloyd's List HONGKONG'S Wallem Group Ltd has returned to shipowning after almost a deeade. In August, the eompany, through a joint
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 441 56  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Air express giant TNT Express Worldwide earned operational headquarters (OHQ) status yesterday, reflecting its growing activity and investment in the region from its Singapore base. Philip Yeo, chairman of the Economic Development Board, presented the OHQ award to GD Express Worldwide,
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      • 272 56 SINGAPORE Singapore Automotive Engineering expects increasing use of automated storage facilities in the material handling business and more demand for automated guided vehicles at container ports. The development, undertaken by subsidiary SAE Industrial Systems, was disclosed by SAE general manager Wu Tzu
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      • 344 56 AFP LONDON Britain rejected last Sunday a proposal by Libya that Switzerland should host the trial of two men accused of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie. Scotland, five years ago. A Foreign Office spokesman said an "identical"
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      • 319 56 IHT MUNICH Audi AG, the luxury car division of Volkswagen AG, last week said it had become the first German automaker to qualify for automatic European Community-wide certification of all its new vehicles, which will result in considerable savings over the
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      • LOG BOOK
        • 53 56 Reuter HONGKONG A Chinese cargo vessel sank west of the colony last Saturday evening, but its entire crew was rescued unharmed. The 150-tonne ship ran into trouble near the outlying Ninepin islands, about 110 km from here. Another Chinese vessel in the area rescued all
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        • 72 56 Reuter DUBAI This attack helicopter from South African drew a large crowd at the 1993 Dubai air show on Sunday. Appearing for the first time outside its country of origin, the Rudivalk was part of an impressive array of military and civilian aircraft and related equipment
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        • 57 56 Reuter DALLAS The union representing 21,000 flight attendants at American Airlines Inc said it would strike before Nov 22 because of a US government decision to approve shorter training periods for replacement workers. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants said it would announce its strike
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        • 101 56 Reuter TOKYO Honda Motor Co Ltd plans to produce its Civic compact cars at a joint venture factory near Istanbul from 1996. The venture, Anadolu Honda Otomobilcilik A/S, capitalised at one billion yen (5514.7 million), is owned 51 per cent by Anadolu Endustri Holding
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      • 223 56 AFP PARIS Air France longhaul flights from the RoissyCharles de Gaulle airport in Paris were disrupted last Sunday after strikers at a catering subsidiary prevented food from being loaded onto planes, the company said. Union leaders said the disruption could carry over
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      • 181 56 Reuter TAIPEI Direct passenger flights between France and Taiwan were launched at the weekend, marking Taipei's latest success in developing air links with European countries despite diplomatic pressure from rival China. A Boeing 747 of Air France Asie, a subsidiary of French flag carrier
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      • 210 56 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Taiwan Aerospace Corp, which last week stepped back from a jet co-production agreement with British Aerospace pic, yesterday disclosed a preliminary plan to cooperate with US aerospace giant Allied Signal Inc in the satellite business. The two companies signed
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