The Business Times, 27 June 1994

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  • 13 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Monday June 27 1994 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 59 1 AFP CAPE TOWN A missing bulk carrier could be responsible for a massive oil spill which is polluting penguin colonies and dumping black slime on tourist beaches here. Officials yesterday said the Hong-kong-registered vessel Apollo Sea, carrying iron ore, left Saldanha Bay, 90km northwest of here, last
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    • 36 1 Reuter KARACHI Shops pulled down shutters, factories halted production lines and coal mines stopped work as business and industry across Pakistan launched a two-day strike yesterday to protest against against new taxes. Reuter
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  • 161 1 Stock market indices Friday W' e e k change STII 2,245.82 -60.41 KLSEComp 1,015.03 -23.01 Nikkei 20,766.75 -3.4pc Hang Seng 8,881.00 -232.96 SET Index 1,292.54 -77.99 Jakarta Comp 468.87 -7.67 CLSA China B ....1,051.31 -6.35 Aust All Ord 2,017.9 -33.3 FTSE 100 2.876.6 -146.3 Dow Jones 3,636.94 -139.84
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  • 643 1  -  Twenty more offerings expected in next six months By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE With two more companies expected to launch their initial public offerings this week, the number of new listings in Singapore in the first half of 1994 is
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  • 400 1  -  By Corinne Kerk SINGAPORE Beveragemaker Super Coffeemix Manufacturing has won in-princi-ple approval to list on Sesdaq in a few weeks' time. The public offer will be lead managed by the United Overseas Bank. The company, which has 20 different beverages and 10 food products sold
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  • 491 1  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO JAPANESE Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata, who resigned along with his two-month-old Cabinet last Saturday, has a strong chance of re-emerging as head of a new government when the Lower House of the Japanese Parliament votes to
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  • 378 1  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON CENTRAL banks will be forced into major interest rate adjustments to avert a dollar crisis and global stock market slump, say London and New York economists, currency and stock market strategists. The US Federal Reserve Board
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  • 357 1  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Thailand's watchdog agency, wants more powers to crack down on stock market irregularities and manipulators. A recently-released report by the parliamentary committee on finance and banking has recommended giving
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    • 17 1 Business IT: Pg 11 Asia's world-class designs US Treasury official forecasts 3pc growth for economy Page 8
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    • 8 1 Foreign investment down sharply in China Page 20
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    • 50 1 Hock Lock Siew: Pg 21 LZj Rough road for Daimler-nXiz Medium-sized companies lead listings this year, Pg 21 York Pacific to launch IPO this week, Pg 21 Trade talks will push ahead, Hata reassures Clinton, Pg 20 ■Jv A report card on China's RfflloEj supremo for the economy, Zhu Rongji
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 318 2  -  By Shiv Taneja DEMAND from private individuals and the housing sector continued to drive loans growth in April, the latest month for which figures were available. Total loans and advances including bills financing by banks for April racked up $80.93 billion, while year-on-year loan growth reached
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    • 310 2  -  b* Paul Leo THE India Business Interaction Group (IBIG) has set up a private sector steering committee to further strengthen business linkages with India. Called the India Business Interaction Group Steering Committee, it is led by Member of Parliament for
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    • 291 2 MARKET-PRICING of public services is needed to ensure that Singapore remain a competitive free-market economy and to maximise public welfare, said MP for Brickworks GRC Chay Wai Chuen. Writing in the May/June issue of Petir, Mr Chay supported Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's
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    • 268 2 Boon Heng: workers' job security at stake if they do not upgrade skills SMALLER companies and workers themselves need to take training more seriously to improve the skills, productivity and competitiveness of Singapore's labour force, said NTUC secretary-general Lim Boon Heng. Mr Lim, who
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    • 280 2 THE Acting Minister for National Development. Lim Hng Kiang. said yesterday that town councils should plan for precincts development in terms of a five-year perspective rather than one year. Speaking at a seminar at the NTUC Pasir Ris Resort on the
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 458 3  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Breaking a two-year jinx, the Indochinese countries and Thailand have achieved a breakthrough in forming a new Mekong Committee, and expect to sign a new pact soon to share the water of the Mekong River. The new committee, comprising
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    • 317 3 Reuter PHNOM PENH Cambodia's long-awaited investment law designed to kick-start the war-battered country's fragile economy is ready for parliamentary approval. A senior government official yesterday said: "It will be presented (to parliament) next week." The final draft is said to contain eight "chapters" including investment incentives,
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    • 42 3 Reuter PHNOM PENH Cambodian runners speeding past the Royal Palace in a three-km run in the Cambodian capital yesterday. More than 1.000 Cambodian Olympic hopefuls competed in the "Olympic Centennial Run' a race sponsored by Coke. Reuter
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    • 160 3 AP BANGKOK An influential politician who has strongly criticised Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai may be elected leader of a party in Mr Chuan's coalition government. Radio Thailand yesterday said Chamlong Srimuang's election to the Palang Dharma Party, which he founded and once
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    • NOTEBOOK
      • 96 3 Reuter MANILA Ihe government's adherence to policy reforms made it possible for the Philippines to secure International Monetary Fund (IMF) approval of a USS6B4 million (551.04 billion) three-year financing package. Approval of the loan, made under the IMF's Extended Fund Facility, was announced in Washington
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      • 51 3 UPI MANILA The Philippines drew a record high of 377,887 tourists in the first quarter of 1994. The Office of the President yesterday said the country drew a record high 1.4 million tourists in 1993. Tourism officials hope to attract 1.7 million tourists annually until 1996.
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      • 68 3 Reuter HANOI I'he number of foreigners visiting Vietnam increased by 18.6 per cent in the first six months of 1994 compared to the same period last year. The official Vietnam News Agency yesterday said about 430.000 foreigners and overseas Vietnamese. 60 per cent of them tourists,
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      • 47 3 AFP HANOI Export and import tax revenues collected by Vietnamese customs have risen to USS3SO million in the first six months of 1994, a 45 per cent increase over initial projections for the period, customs chief Phan Van Dinh said yesterday. AFP
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    • 240 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Next year's national budget will seek to maintain the country's economic growth and reduce the rate of in Hat ion. The Finance Ministry's Parliamentary Secretary. Affifudin Omar, yesterday said that the government would formulate a strategy to maintain the growth
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
      • 87 4 AFP BEIJING The Chinese government, for all its pledges to improve copyright protection, remains impotent to curb widespread violations to ward off looming US sanctions, experts here said. Beijing has until Thursday to take effective action, after the United States in April gave China 60
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      • 81 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan, easing restrictions on economic contacts with the mainland, plans to let overseas branches of Taiwan and Chinese banks do business with each other, the Central Daily News newspaper said yesterday. During a two-day conference next month on China policy, the Finance
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      • 75 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Investigation Bureau has recommended corruption charges against five people in an influence-peddling scandal involving sale of public land at below market priccs, newspapers said. The Taipei district prosecutor will hold hearings to determine whether to indict Chen Pi-chiang, a member of Taipei's city
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      • 56 4 Reuter BEIJING The southern province of Jiangxi has applied to the central government to build China's first inland nuclear power plant costing 30 billion yuan (555.2 billion), the China Daily said. It said the plant would have four to six reactors of between 900,000
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    • 538 4 Reuter BEIJING China's Vice-Pre-mier Zhu Rongji has ended with only limited success his first year in an unenviable job. trying to tame one of the world's wildest economies. Mr Zhu took over as economic boss and central bank chief a year ago.
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    • 50 4 AFP BEIJING People's Liberation Army soldiers practising shooting at a riurbank yesterday. The PLA is the world's largest military force, comprising about three million personnel. China's military budget is 52 billion yuan (Ss9.l billion) this year, a rise of 9.5 billion yuan over last year. AFP
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    • 179 4 AP BLUING China plans to scrap a two-tier pricing system that makes foreign firms pay more than Chinese firms to advertise. an official newspaper reported yesterday. The reform will go into effect when China re-enters the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the
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    • 321 4 Beijing reiterates ban on firms 9 share schemes for workers Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China has reiterated its law against eompanies issuing shares to their employees. saying a spate of such fund-raising has hurt efforts to cool the economy, the official Financial Alews reports. The circular, issued by the State
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    • 543 4 UPI BEIJING In an effort to placate China's increasingly militant farmers and bolster falling cotton and grain yields, Beijing has earmarked 6.5 billion yuan (551.12 billion) in preferential loans for China's rural population, the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday. "Such an
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 427 5 No sign of inflationary pressures, says Treasurer Reuter CANBERRA Australian Treasurer Ralph Willis yesterday rejected financial market calls for an early rise in interest rates, saying there was no need while price pressures remained so low. "It's important for the economy that
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    • 60 5 Reuter TOKYO This is the world's largest plastic model of the world's largest animal: the blue whale. According to Tokyo museum officials, the life-sized model, which measures 30 metres in length, eclipses one which belongs to the American Museum of Natural History in New
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    • 146 5 Reuter SEOUL South Korea, intensifying a crackdown on labour strife that threatens the nation's robust economy, yesterday used thousands of riot police to crush anti-govern-ment protests by strikers and students. The Defence Ministry, meanwhile, ordered hundreds of soldiers to replace train engineers and mechanics
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    • 425 5  -  By Peter Osborne SINGAPORE Aggressive tax benefit schemes and subsidies by South-East Asian countries, including Singapore, could sway multinational companies from investing in Australia, worried Australian chemicals and plastics manufacturers have warned their government. The chief executive of the Plastics and Chemicals
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    • 391 5 Reuter BOMBAY The governor of India's central bank says the country's capital markets should improve its clearing and settlement methods and make transactions transparent to gain investor confidence. "Notwithstanding the massive growth, the Indian capital market continues to display several weaknesses," Chakravarty
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 60 6 Reuter HONOLULU Japan's Empress Michiko chatting with an overwhelmed third-generation Japanese-American youngster a recently-crowned cherry blossom princess who was moved to tears by the royal meeting. Empress Michiko and her husband Emperor Akihito were visiting the Japanese Cultural Centre of Hawaii on Saturday at the
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      • 107 6 Reuter MEXICO CITY Opposition candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas said that the Mexican economy would grow by 6 per cent a year within two years of his assuming office, newspapers said on Saturday. Mr Cardenas, the candidate of the left-leaning Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), said the growth
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      • 86 6 AP DIYARBAKIR, Turkey Clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdish guerillas claimed 34 lives, the Turkish news agency Anatolia News Agency reported. Anatolia said a total of 25 guerillas and fline soldiers died in various clashes on Saturday in the south-eastern provinces of Sirnak, Diyarbakir,
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      • 83 6 AFP LIMA A top leader of the Shining Path guerilla army has been captured in Lima, anti-terrorism police said on Saturday. Jorge Tulich Morales was caught while making plans for attacks in the Peruvian capital, said officials. Tulich Morales is the fifth alleged high-ranking member of
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    • 190 6 Reuter LONDON An unnamed Italian businessman has discovered diaries purporting to have been written by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said. The five volumes covering the years 1935-39 have been missing for nearly 50 years and could be one of the biggest
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    • 638 6 EU's Corfu summit Reuter CORFU German Chancellor Helmut Kohl faces a daunting start to his stewardship of the European Union, searching for a swift solution to a rift that scuppered the EU's Corfu summit. Britain on Saturday blocked the appointment
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    • 332 6 AP CORFU European Union leaders have proposed to pay for the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear plant if the United States and Japan will join them in offering an economic rescue plan for Ukraine that would include funding for
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    • 330 6 KnightRidder CORFU A continued suppression of budget deficits and currency stability in order to consolidate low short-term interest rates has been called for by European Union leaders. "The efforts must be continued in order to consolidate the fall in short-term
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    • 240 6 Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON Prospects for economic growth in Europe have improved substantially, says Robert Rubin, an economic adviser to President Bill Clinton. Sidestepping a question on whether the Clinton administration believed European nations had done enough to lower their interest rates. Mr Rubin yesterday
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    • 301 6 Reuter SKOPJE United Nations appeals for strict enforcement of sanctions against rump Yugoslavia have fallen on deaf ears in Macedonia where trade with Serbia has increased markedly this month. International officials yesterday said truck traffic along the border had increased in
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    • 582 7 AP WASHINGTON President Clinton said on Saturday he hoped to provide all working Americans with the same "great deal" on health insurance that he shares with members of Congress and other federal employees. In his weekly radio address, the President stood
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    • 316 7 NYT BALTIMORE The Agency for International Development (AID), which spent the Cold War fighting Communism with foreign aid and helping poor countries like Bangladesh immunise children, has found a new customer for its services: America's inner cities. Parts of Los Angeles,
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    • 197 7 NYT WASHINGTON The US Defence Department has withdrawn its choice for commander of American forces in the Pacific because misgivings about the nominee's handling of sexual harassment and other issues threatened to hold up Senate confirmation at a time of increasing tensions in the
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    • 693 8 Unwillingness to raise interest rate, no compromise with Japan on trade will make greenback tumble further: analysts Reuter WASHINGTON The Clinton administration has drawn three lines in the sand of economic policy on the US dollar, interest rates and trade with Japan and
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    • 46 8 AFP CAPE TOWN Volunteer workers at a rescue station here helping to round up oil-covered penguins from Robben Island over the weekend. An oil slick of unknown origin is moving down the west coast of South Africa, threatening marine life. AFP
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    • 429 8 AFP AUSTIN, Texas US Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman said 3 per cent economic growth and 3 per cent inflation are forecast for 1994 and 1995. "Three per cent growth and 3 per cent inflation on the CPI (consumer price index), that's
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    • 203 8 KnightRidder WASHINGTON The Senate has unanimously approved the nomination of US economic adviser Alan Blinder to a four-year term as Federal Reserve vice-chairman. He takes the seat left empty by David Mullins, who resigned in February to pursue a private sector career. President Bill
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    • 1297 9 ADVERTISEMENT INDIA AND SINGA P O R E r iiilflSßWM the cii team President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Group Export Manager, Ra)inder Steels Ltd. MR. ABHIJIT BHAUMIK (Standing left to right) Mr. Alan Yeo, Chairman TDB Mr. Syamal Gupta. Vice Chairman Managing At a meeting with the Prime Minister
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  • WORLD FOCUS
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  • Business IT
    • 792 11  -  Creative Technology, with its success in the sound card business, serves as a role model for the company, Joseph Rajendran reports Joseph Rajendran CHARTERED Electronics Industries (CEI) aims to set the standard in the worldwide PCbased video card market the way
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    • 714 11  -  From a cheap place for low-level assembly work 10 years ago, Asia now has world-class designs, TI Asia's new chief tells Claire Leow Claire Leow THE new president of Texas Instruments Asia, Keh-Shew Lu, is placing greater emphasis on original design
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    • 401 11  -  By Joseph Rajendran TOP US PC maker Compaq is organising an international technology forum in Singapore for the first time, with eight leading speakers from the computer industry expected to attend. Scheduled for Sep 13-15, Intech '94 is part of Compaq's strategy to bring
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    • 395 11  -  By David Welcher A MAJOR step forward in the long-predicted marriage of emerging multimedia technologies and the corporate IT buyer will come to pass tomorrow, when the 12th annual PC Expo opens in New York City. Multimedia and wireless communications will each enjoy complete
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    • 209 11 Reuter INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp's chief strategist James Cannavino called a new chip alliance between Hewlett-Packard and Intel Corp a challenging force in the computer industry. "I think it is a tremendously powerful endorsement of the Power architecture (based on IBM's PowerPC chips)," he also
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    • 379 12  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE computer firm Creative Technology plans to eventually develop videoconferencing system based on digital lines as well as the IBM-led PowerPC chip. Creative president K S Chay told Businessll that "it will take two to three years before integrated services
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    • 454 12 NYT JAPAN'S electronics manufacturers are stepping up production of microcontroller chips, or microprocessors used in a control operation to alter a process or operation. Industry officials say demand has been increasing for micro-controllers used in computer peripherals such as CDROM drives, as a
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    • 814 12  -  NET WATCH TRACKING THE NETWORKING WORLD Tommi Chen continues his series on how small businesses can go about setting up Local Area Networks Tommi Chen The writer is managing partner of Net Centre Pie Ltd, which specialises in network services.
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 57 12 SINGAPORE Epson Singapore has announced that it is incorporating Cyrix 486 chips into its Action Desk 4000 series of high-end PCs. Two models, based on the Cyrix 486DX-33 and the 486DX2-50 processors, will be added to its 486-family. Prices for the Action Desk 4000 models start
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      • 63 12 Reuter SINGAPORE Unisys Corporation said it has launched a new line of scalable, symmetric multiprocessor servers for high-volume commercial transactions. The U6OOO/500 line is designed for applications including on-line transaction processing, corporate replicated networks and database management. The new line's three models extend the
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      • 78 12 TOKYO Hitachi Ltd plans to release a new 32-bit laptop computer this autumn, its first serious foray into the PC market in over 15 years. Until now, Hitachi has specialised in larger mainframe systems for business use. "It's a very attractive market. In
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      • 45 12 SINGAPORE Disk drive maker Seagate Technology has appointed Tech Pacific Singapore as the authorised distributor of its flash card memory products. Tech Pacific Singapore distributor network includes 500 dealers. The flash card products range in capacity from 2.5 to 20.9 megabytes.
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      • 61 12 SINGAPORE Software firm WordPerfect Asia has launched a membership scheme called Perfect Connection that is free of charge to registered users throughout Asia. Membership to Perfect Connection will ensure that users of WordPerfect software are informed of new products, upgrades and interim releases when they
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      • 56 12 SINGAPORE Sydney-based Micrografx Australia said that it would assume responsibility for the company's Asia Pacific business. This would cover Hongkong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Korea. The company said that its international sales in fiscal year 1994 grew 12 per cent and in the region,
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      • 43 12 SINGAPORE Thailand's Ministry of Finance has chosen Racal Datacom's PremNet fibre optic system as the backbone for its five building network. RacaTs distributor Worachak International, together with Unisys and Sun Microsystems, ofTer a single solution to the ministry.
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      • 82 12 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO, Oracle Corp last week announced the availability of its latest SQL database software, Oracle 7 Release 7.1, company sources said. Oracle 7.1 pricing will begin at U555,440 (558,323) for an eight-user licence and will be immediately available on a variety of computer
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      • 67 12 Bloomberg Business News NORTH SIOUX CITY, South Dakota Gateway 2000 Inc said it expected to post a "minimal profit" in the second quarter because of lower prices for its computers and higher business costs. In addition, the personal computer maker said it expected to set
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    • 984 13  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Continuing the series on imaging, Douglas Fisher expalins the evolution of the technology and tells a success story Douglas Fisher The writer, associate partner with Andersen Consulting Singapore, has extensive experience in the planning, design and implementation of leading-edge
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    • 1100 14  -  Microsoft's Access version 2 sets a new benchmark for ease of use in database software, Bernard Chew discovers, after putting it through its paces Bernard Chew IT HAS happened at some time or another to all MIS managers. Your boss wants a special "one-off' report
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    • 701 14  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA), a Brooklyn-based management consulting and software development firm, and also writes on IT issues. He contributed this commentary to Business/T. ANEW and interesting chapter has been added this week to
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    • 508 14 Chip market holds promise of fat margins and the giant can participate actively in the components business Bloomberg Business News IN A new threat to Intel Corp's dominance of the microprocessor market. International Business Machines Corp said last week it
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    • 430 14 Bloomberg Business News DELL Computer Corp, recovering from a severe case of growing pains and a botched notebook computer strategy, will resume cautious price cutting to build market share, the company's chairman said last week. Dell chairman Michael Dell said he
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    • 248 14 mM When the best choice for m. employer and employee Is to part on good terms. 311 or g an^sa^on cannot adapt, its future dies. W m If people are retained for reasons of loyalty rather than need, and are then underutilised, their skills die. jm i The responsible organisation
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 979 15  -  Bernard and Julie Sharma Fleet discuss the impact of environmental protection on companies' bottom line Bernard and Julie Sharma Fleet Dr Bernard Fleet is a consultant to IDRC and director of technology at Eutech Cybernetics Pte Ltd. Julie Fleet is a freelance technical writer CONVENTIONAL policies
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    • 378 15 AT&T Asia-Pacific has announced the appointment of John Legere as president and managing director of AT&T Communications Services Group for the Asia-Pacific region. Mr Legere will be responsible for all aspects of AT&Ts communication services throughout 14 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including Singapore. Prior to this appointment,
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  • SPORTS
    • 661 16 Wimbledon Reuter WIMBLEDON People's fa- vourites Martina Navratilova and Andre Agassi can heave a < sigh of relief on surviving the I first week of Wimbledon which < was littered with the debris of I 15 fallen seeds. I Navratilova, at 37 seeking
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    • 363 16 NYT NEW YORK The National Basketball Association's longest season in history is not over just yet. On Wednesday, a maze of general managers and owners will engage in the league's annual ritual of renewal as the NBA holds its rookie draft in
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    • 738 16 World Cup Finals AP BELGIUM and Argentina are in. Ireland's coach and Italy's goalkeeper are out. The World Cup last Saturday swerved like a corner kick caught in the wind. There was great goalkecping from Belgium's Michel Prcud'homme, tantalising midficld play again from Argentina's
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    • 399 16 AP CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand France celebrated centre Philippe Sella's 100 th rugby union international yesterday with an upset 22-8 test match victory over New Zealand at Lancaster Park. France had won only one of its previous 14 test matches against the All
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    • SPORT SHORTS
      • 123 16 AFP TOKYO North Korea will not take part in the Asian Games in Hiroshima in October, a top official of the country's Olympic Committee was reported as saying yesterday. "We'll never go to Hiroshima. We've decided not to take part in individual events as well as team events,"
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        75 16 NKW YORK Major league Saturday American: Cleveland 6 NY 11 (second game postponed due to rain); Toronto I Baltimore 4: Oakland 2 Detroit I: Milwaukee 8 Boston 10 (in 12): Minnesota I Kansas City 4; California 12 Texas 7; Seattle I Chicago 2. National: Chicago 3 Si Louis I;
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        263 16 TOKYO 100-million-yen ($985,000) Mi/uno Open final round Sunday (Japanese unless stated): 280 Brian Watts (US) 68 68 73 71, Yoshinori Kaneko 67 75 70 68. Koichi Suzuki 66 70 74 70, Fduardo I lorrera (Col) 69 70 70 71 (Watts won on a sudden-death playoff) 281 Katsuyoshi fomori 69
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        212 16 AFP AII.AN I A. Georgia A record 11 million tickets will be available for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, ranging in price from US$6OO for top opening and closing ceremony scats to US$6 for preliminary baseball. Organisers announced prices tor Atlanta Games scats here on Saturday, saying only about 900.000
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        201 16 AFP APIA, Western Samoa Wales' World Cup ambitions have been thrown into disarray after their nightmare 34-9 weekend defeat by Western Samoa. Welsh coach Alan Davics. busy rebuilding his side's credibility and confidence after a series of lean years, now faces a major new challenge to keep the revival
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    • 799 17 Golf AP ST-QUENTIN-EN-YVEL-INES, France Gabriel Hjertstedt is poised to restore Swedish golfing pride in Paris after shooting a third round 68 in the French Open at this western suburb last Saturday. The 22-year-old from Helsingborg, who was raised in Australia, is top of a
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    • 885 19  -  Edward Rothstein surveys the new opera house at Glyndebourne Edward Rothstein NYT THERE is nothing subtle about the outside of the new opera house that has risen from the Sussex Downs at Glyndebourne. It is impossible to miss the industrial lead-covered tower into which
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    • 804 19  -  John Follain on the fortunes of the new Bastille Opera house John Follain Reuter DEEP in the bowels of the futuristic Bastille Opera, a bullring begins its ascent towards the stage, powered by the latest in high-technology. Stopping and starting, the scaled-down Spanish
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    • 1397 19 TV RADIO In the Cold of the Night M* 11pm, SBC 5 J<£ /gt A photographer has a recurring M Hp 1 dream in which he strangles a IB ®r||» woman. When he gets the i dtmf dream even while he's awake. he decides to get help in case he
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  • 497 20 Strong competition from other Asian countries for limited investment dollars Reuter BEIJING China yesterday reported a continuing sharp fall in foreign investment and said it had to work harder to attract limited investment dollars against strong competition from other countries in Asia. The China
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  • 236 20 AFP SEOUL Mock talks here yesterday underlined the mood of guarded hope and cynicism ahead of tomorrow's high-level meeting in Panmunjom to prepare for the first-ever summit between the two bitterly divided Koreas. The meticulously planned pre-summit rehearsal saw the South's three
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  • 410 20 AFP BEIJING Prime Minister Li Peng will be looking to reinforce China's economic miracle and win back control of the country's foreign policy when he goes to Europe this week. Mr Li starts the two-week tour when
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  • 133 20 Reuter TOKYO Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata. who quit on Saturday, has assured US President Bill Ginton that Japan would push ahead with trade talks. Kyodo news agency said that in a 10-minute telephone conversation yesterday, Mr Hata briefed Mr Clinton about his
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  • 921 20  -  The Bottom Line TYE KIM KHIAT TYE KIM KHIAT The writer is a BT correspondent THE common Asian view of Australia as a languid nation slow to seize opportunities despite its recent economic travails is slowly but surely giving way to another a country
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  • 215 20 Bloomberg Business News CHICAGO The US consumer electronics industry should grow about 6.2 per cent in factory sales to about US$6O billion (5591.5 billion) in 1995, the Electronics Industry Association said yesterday. Some segments of the industry, which includes products ranging
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 654 21  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE This is the year of the mid-sized companies. At least that's the way it seems since the bulk of the 13 listings this year are by medi-um-sized companies. Despite market volatility, bankers say that almost 20 more IPOs are on
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    • 345 21 SINGAPORE Asia's leading trailer axle and component maker, York Pacific, is expected to launch its Sesdaq initial public offering early this week. Analysts expect the shares to be priced between 50 cents and 70 cents. No placement tranche is expected. York was
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    • 748 21  -  HO« By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE DaimlerBenz, the parent of luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz, is Germany's leading industrial group but investors here have given the blue chip the cold shoulder since its secondary listing on the mainboard. And judging from the low trading volume
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 79 22 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Starlite Holdings Ltd said Time Warner Inc has authorised the Hongkong printer to sell produets in Asia with images of Bugs Bunny and other Warner cartoon characters. Warner Brothers, a unit of Time Warner, awarded Starlite a licence
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        • 94 22 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Chaifa Holdings Ltd. a textile manufacturer that sells products under the Playboy brand name, will begin to market goods with the logo of popular US cartoon character Garfield. The company said it signed a three-year licensing agreement with US-based
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        • 84 22 HONGKONG Franklins, Dairy Farm's subsidiary and Australia's third largest grocery group said on Friday it had bought the five stores of the Giant Supermarkets chain for AS 12 million (5513.4 million). The Eastern Express quoted Ken Macdonald, the managing director of Franklins, as saying
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        • 103 22 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Glaxo Holdings pic, the giant pharmaceutical company, lost an estimated £75 million (SSI 77 million) to 100 million on bond investments when interest rates rose, according to analysts, the Sunday Times of London reported. With £2 billion in cash at
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        • 75 22 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Bernard Arnault, chairman of Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, hinted he may sell his 24 per cent stake in Guinness if he needs to finance a large acquisition. The limes reported. The head of the world's largest luxury goods conglomerate
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      • 401 22 AFP MANILA San Miguel Corp (SMC), the Philippines' largest manufacturing firm, has gained a foothold in southern China's lucrative beer market, grabbing a 40 per cent share despite tough competition. Pryce Securities Inc said San Miguel was expanding its two
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      • 207 22 AFP MANILA Philippine Airlines (PAL) management yesterday said it would begin negotiations with the Labour Department and the ground crew union for the 1.024 billion peso (SS6I million) package it was extending following an illegal strike earlier this month. The talks, to
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      • 539 22 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager*' price* Jun 25 27 UMB Invest Mgt Ltd Singapore Unit Trust \m ,'o" The (ommcrcc 1.63 l.73*d United Gr Fund' I 65 1.72 The Savings Fund 154 1 63 United Asia Eund 163 1.73S'pore Prog Fund 0.70 0.74 s pore see Fund 102 i .08 U0B
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      • 365 22  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR EVEN the most sober investors will throw caution to the wind when they sniff a chance to make a quick buck and indulge in speculative share trading during a bull market, a survey on the
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      • 281 22 AP HANOI Thailand's SAS Trading Ltd has formed a joint venture to build a USSS7 million (SSB7 million) hotel and business complex in downtown Hanoi, the latest project in Vietnam's hotel boom. The Vietnam News Agency said during the weekend that the
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      • 699 22 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's rumour-driven stock market has been in a lather about national elections even though they are not due for more than a year and the outcome is hardly in doubt. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's National Kront
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      • 44 22 Reuter PHNOM PfcNH Cambodian workers sorting through recycled soft drink bottles which are to be reused at the Coca-Cola factory in Phnom Penh. Since the factory opened last year, production has risen from 7,000 to 60,000 cases. Reuter
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      • 142 22 AFP MANILA Philippine monetary officials have given Ayala Land Inc. the tlagship company of the Ayala Corp. its approval to lloat USS 172.5 million (***** million) in US dollar-denominated convertible notes, according to Central Bank documents obtained here yesterday. Obtaining the
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      • 518 22 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Investors can look forward to more exciting things at Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd with the working out of a strategic plan to diversify and revitalise earnings growth in the plantation group. It is just a glimpse of what is
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      • 360 22 NST KUALA LUMPUR Control of Ayer Hitam Tin Dredging Malaysia Bhd will pass to the Lin family under a "reverse takeover" announced to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. When the deal is completed, the Lin family of Taiwan Lin Wen-Chih, Lin Wen Chuan
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      • 356 23 Eastern Express HONGKONG Wilson Lai, the chairman of Frankwell Holdings, has vowed to fight a court order obtained by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to freeze the assets of a subsidiary and four US affiliates. He accused the CFTC
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      • 421 23 AFP SYDNEY Diversified Australian industrial group Hums Philp announced recently it had entered the German yeast market with the purchase of leading yeast company Deutsche Hefewerke. The purchase, for about AS 117 million (SSI3I million), lifted Burns Philp's global share of the yeast
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      • 256 23 AFP AUCKLAND By an accident of geography and time zones New Zealand's tiny financial market will, for a few hours this morning, be the centre of world attention as dealers watch for signs of impending crisis. In the wake of
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      • 217 23 Bloomberg Business News BELIING Restaurateurs are preening China's culinary show-piece, the Peking Duck, to challenge the Big Mac in the world's fast-food arena. Like the hamburger, the duck has a sauce and is eaten with the hands. Now it is also served
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      • 450 23 Reuter BOMBAY India's most modern and ambitious bourse, the fully computerised National Stock Exchange (NSE), is to begin operations at the end of the month, providing nationwide trading for the first time. India has 22 stock markets but their operations are confined to
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      • 573 24 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Kidder Peabody Co's next chairman can manage finances and people, yet he cannot engage in rudimentary Wall Street tasks such as trading stocks or bonds. He is not licensed. That shortcoming of boss-to-be Denis Nayden
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      • 336 24 NYT PARIS Elf Aquitaine, the French oil group privatised earlier this year, last Friday warned that first-half recurring pperating profits would fall by about 20 per cent, compared with the same period in 1993, and that net profits would fall
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      • 268 24 Keuter Kl W \ll I he Kuwait Sti>ck I xcluinue approved last Saturday an application to list a mutual fund that provides foreigners with their first chance to invest in the market, an exchange official said. "The exchange's < management) committee gave
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      • 33 24 Reuter SEATTLE Microsoft chairman Bill (iates untciling his company's new Kxchanye Scner. an electronic mail and messaging product, at a company c»ent here last l ucsday. Reuler
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      • 306 24 Reuter SAN IRANC ISC O After posting a 33 per cent sales gain in fiscal 1994. Oracle Systems Corp is looking for even better profit and revenue gains in its neu year, according to chief financial officer Jeffrey Henley. "We're optimistic we
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      • 227 24 Bloomberg Business News L()NIX>N Clrand Metroi politun pic has named Crown lkx)k> C'orp's C ilen Mem merle president of its Dallas-based unit, I'earle Vision, which is one of the world's biggest eyewear companies with 950 outlets in North America and
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 193 25 Eastern Express HONGKONG Schroders Asia, the merchant bank with stockbroking and fund management operations, revealed on Friday night it had dismissed three of its unit trust and sales divisions staff because of evidence of irregularities. Manager Richard Haw said in a statement the irregularities
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      • 298 25 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Japan's Bank of Tokyo is localising its Malaysian operations from July 1, ahead of a September government deadline for foreign banks in Malaysia to do so. The bank said it obtained the vesting order from the local High Court last week
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      • 368 25 IHT BEIJING China's first banking legislation will go before the National People's Congress this week after 15 years of repeated revisions, said a spokesman for the Congress. The draft law defines the powers of the People's Bank of China, the central bank,
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 107 25 KUALA LUMPUR Bank Negara has announced it will issue MSBOO million (SS47I million) in Bank Negara bills this week, its lirst bill issue since last December, the Malaysian Business Times reported. The issue, which represents the central bank's latest effort to mop up
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        • 95 25 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan will allow foreign nationals and institutions to open local currency passport accounts as part of financial liberalisation, a Central Bank of China statement said yesterday. But a foreign national must seek prior approval from the central bank for amounts exceeding US$lOO,OOO
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        • 74 25 Bloomberg Business News LONDON PosTel, Britain's largest pension fund, said that in future votes it would oppose top directors' rolling contracts lasting more than two years, The Times reported. The £25 billion (5558.2 billion) Post Office and British Telecom staff pension fund took
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      • 231 25 Reuter LONDON Investors are turning to commodity-linked I notes and derivatives for the gains they cannot find in this < year's plummeting bond mar- kets. i Global bond markets have < nosedived since early Febru- 1 ary, when the US Federal
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      • 425 25 Reuter BOMBAY The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon take action to penalise banks involved in a 1992 securities scandal, although collecting detailed information on fraudulent transactions has taken time, the RBI governor said. RBI sources said the central bank
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      • 405 26 UPI Reuter LONDON Opec expects the price of oil to rise by US$2 a barrel before the end of this year as a result of a surge in demand caused by its members' compliance with present production quotas, says
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      • 185 26 IHT TOKYO An advisory panel set up by the Ministry of Finance has unveiled a report recommending a major overhaul of the nation's insurance system amid concerns raised by the United States about access to that market. Meanwhile, the Japanese government
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      • 171 26 Reuter NGONG, Kenya Poor weather and inconsistent agricultural policies cut Kenya's maize output in the last three years and increased dependency on imports, the country's leading cereals academic said. Samuel Mwale of Kenya's Egerton University said while inputs prices were liberalised at
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      • 361 26 Reuter BEIJING China's cotton shortage has pushed down production of cotton cloth and driven up black market prices and there will be little relief from this year's harvest, officials and traders said yesterday. Official figures show output of cotton cloth
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      • 284 26 Bloomberg Business News MILAN The Italian government set a price of 2,400 lire (S$2J) a share for the 51 per cent stake in insurance company Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni SpA (INA) that goes on sale from today. At that price, the
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      • 195 26 THE US dollar tumbled against most of the major currencies in a week of volatile trade which saw the yen and the Dcutchmark rise to record levels. Regional currencies edged up against the US dollar before consolidating in tight ranges ahead of the weekend.
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 683 27  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP B> Meryl Phang MMS International SINGAPORE Last week saw volatile moves in the dollar which fell to new year lows against the mark, yen and Swiss franc. The dollar broke through 100 yen to a new post-War low of 99.87
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      • 793 27 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Gold and other precious metals benefited last week from the weakness of the dollar, which reached a low point on Tuesday, dealers said on Friday. On the London Metals Market (LME), aluminum took the spotlight away
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    • 1302 27 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at S.30pa) IBS 1 C—tract (S ccnts/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest ***** 500 875 Aug 169.75 167.25 170.00 300 3100 Sep 164.50 1 64.50 165.00 200 2200 Oct/Dcc 161.25 160.25 161.25 2400 9525 Jan/Mar 95 161.25
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    • 4390 28 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Kara tPS Date TY LY TY LY Com pan) ana <S«n) (So) (m) (eta) ABR HkJgs May 30 F 1.407 2.851 3.2 7.0 Acma Jun 1} F 41 518 14 268 62.5 23.1 Alex Hides Jun 24 P 12.421 1.479 21.1 2.65 Alliance
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    • 753 28 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 778 29 FT New York THE dollar returned to plague the stock market again last week, less than two months after Wall Street traders thought they had put the US currency's troubles behind them. It was in early May that the dollar last took centrestage, when
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      • 375 29 AFP Tofcyo SHARE prices slumped on the Tokyo Stock Exchange during the week after a fortnight of euphoria as the yen rose to historic highs against the dollar on foreign exchange markets. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended the week at
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      • 365 29 AFP Reuter London UPSETS on the bond and foreign exchange markets last week and fears of returning inflation in Britain drove the London stock market down sharply last week, to a level last seen July last year. The Footsie index shed a hefty
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      • 250 29 AFP Hongkong LOCAL and global uncertainties conspired to push down stock prices in Hongkong last week, with the Hang Seng Index shedding 232.96 points, or 2.56 per cent, on the week to end at 8,881.00. Turnover was thin, averaging HKS2.6 billion (SSSI3 million), compared with HKS4.O3
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 144 29 Australian shares closed the week lower on Friday after a week of interest rate jitters that sent bond prices sharply lower, analysts said, the key All Ordinaries Index closed at 2,017.9 points, 33.3 points or 1.6 per cent below the previous week's finish. "The equity market's tone has continued
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        • 112 29 Philippine share prices declined 3.25 per cent last week as funds remained tied up for two major public offerings next month and on fears of another hike in short-term US interest rates, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index closed at 2,789 on Friday, down 93.69 points, from
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        • 103 29 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index plummeted 77.99 points on the week, a loss of 5.70 per cent, to close Friday at 1,292.54 points. The average close was 1,318.36 points, compared with the previous week's average of 1,370.49 points. The average trading volume of 76.9 million shares was
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        • 84 29 Prices were stagnant at the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) last week and price corrections weighed down the market index despite good financial reports of several listed companies, a broker said. The JSE Index which finished at 476.546 the previous week continued to decline, closing on Friday at 468.872. Daily
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        • 85 29 Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange staged a pull-back last week, dampened by an institutional sell-off and a downswing on foreign bourses, brokers said. Wiping out a 2.75 per cent gain the preceding week, the 374-issue Weighted Price Index lost 220.12 points, or 3.57 per cent, to settle
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        • 99 29 Share prices slided last week on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), India's largest bourse, after three weeks of uptrend fuelled by excellent corporate results. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index lost 69.58 points and closed on Friday at 4,213.01 points. The 100share National Index fell by 15.96 points and finished
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 764 29 •62.15 Blue-chip stocks posted their biggest one-day loss in almost three months on Friday as a failed attempt by central banks to prop up the dollar fuelled worries that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates to help the currency. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off a
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      • 297 29 -74.68 Stocks closed steeply lower as investors rattled by Wall Street woes and soaring rates sold the market across the board, traders said. "There was indiscriminate selling," said Burns Fry equity investment analyst Ben Joyce. "I didn't see much that escaped it," he added. Mr Joyce said that although
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      • 2220 29 London Jim 24 Pence Industrials A. A. Corp Adr 49 370 -880 Vbbes National...... 392 -10 Allied Lsons 555 6/8 -112/8 Amec 105 -3 Ai»« 233 -2 Asda Group 53 -I 4/8 BAT Ind 370 12 Bit C 3S4 -I BOC Group 700 unch BR Petroleum 399 -5 4/8 BTR
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    • 2420 30 C ASH JOc 41 1*5 000 Mulpha Intl 50c 36 657 000 Mm Hyd 50c JVMiOOO Promct 27.461.000 Kcnong Bhd 50c 20.7M.000 Lint Hoc TSR47 17.373.000 kjmurxing 50c 14.802.000 Fiber Group 13.037.000 Muki-Purpasc 10-580.000 kemavan 50c 9 *****0 Landinaits Bhd 8 955 000 B Ka>a TSK97 1773.000 AMDS
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5850 30 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Last week saw bearish overseas sentiment, due to heavy selling pressure on Wall Street, prompting shortterm local players to take quick profits. William Chan of Seagroatt Campbell Sdn Bhd said compounding the situation further was forced selling by stockbroking houses. Nonetheless,
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      • 7539 31 MAIN BOARD Transaction date: Week ended June 24~ Gr Of 1994 Last Vol Week Last Quote Dit Di» YM Met M Cm High Low Com pan) Sale ('000) High Low Bu>rr Seller Or P/fc Smll INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1440 835 lis Anna 1000 +45 1772 1040 925 1000 1020 17.5
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      • 1899 32  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The alarming collapse of the US dollar which has led to an equally worrying slide in US equities and bonds is expected to further depress share prices here this week. Last Friday, the Dow Jones Industrials Average plunged 62.15
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    • 279 33  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Ships calling at the port of Singapore bought more than 4.4 million tonnes of marine fuel, or bunkers, in the first quarter of this year. Figures from the Port of Singapore Authority show bunker sales rose 6 per
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    • 160 33 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong shipping group Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) said it will invest US$5.7 million (SsB.7 million) on an inland container terminal near the Port of Shanghai. In a statement OOCL said it has signed a joint venture agreement
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    • 158 33 Bloomberg Business News LONDON A German steel company has signed a new 15year contract for the Berge Stahl. the world's largest ore carrier, the ship's owners said. Jan Pettersen, director of chartering for Norwegian-based Bergesen, the ship's owner, said last Friday
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    • 476 33 UPI LONDON Cyprus officials last week called unfair the US Coast Guard's frequent detention of ships registered in the Mediterranean island country and urged American authorities to review their policies. "It's unfair to target all our ships because some vessels have
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    • 353 33 Seatrade Week Newsfront LONDON European ports are furious at what they see as legislative interference by the European Union in commercial pricing decisions by the ports. The European Council of Transport Ministers on June 13 endorsed a
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    • 522 34  -  Two major New York issues, including one by an NOL unit, were recently postponed. Does the city have the investor potential or appetite for shipping stocks? Geoff Garfield looks for answers Geoff Garfield Trade Winds NEW YORK'S reputation as a rich source
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    • 15062 42 rhis 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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      • 845 50 FjRMER conditions for panamaxcs were the main feature of the dry cargo market, with Japanese charterers paying an improved U5521.50 for 54!000 tonnes of heavy grain from the US Gulf to Japan, brokers said. The heavy grain shipment to Japan was set for end July basis a combination
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      • 307 52  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE German car maker BMW has opened an office in Beijing, which will be used to support its importers in building a service organisation in China. The performance car maker has also said it is interested in having
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      • 334 52  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Federal Express, which is widely known as "FedEx", has adopted this more popular name as its new corporate identity. From this week, the Mem-phis-based air express giant has changed its logo to incorporate the FedEx name, which it
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        • 90 52 Reuter KINGSTON Jamaican investor Gordon Stewart said he agreed to purchase a 30 per cent stake in newly privatised Air Jamaica for undisclosed terms. Mr Stewart said he will join a consortium of investors including National Commercial Bank, Mutual Life Insurance Co and the Moo-Young
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        • 129 52 Reuter PARIS Airbus Industrie rebutted reported Russian criticism of the safety standards of its A-310 plane published last week in a specialist aviation magazine. Flight International reported a Russian transport official involved in the inquiry of the March crash of an A-310 in Siberia as saying
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        • 100 52 Reuter MUNICH Deutsche British Airways, the German unit of British Airways pic, said it would offer cut-price tickets on domestic German flights for one week beginning last Saturday. A spokeswoman for Deutsche BA said the move was in direct res. onse to German national airline
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      • 273 52 Bloomberg Business News PARIS British Airways pic is pressuring Boeing Co to come up with lower prices as the carrier replaces its all-Boe-ing fleet of aircraft, analysts said. The British airline sent a signal to Boeing by confirming last Friday that its
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      • 417 52 Reuter GENEVA Strong growth in world air cargo business over the past few months may not help struggling airlines climb back into profitability after four years of losses, industry analysts said last Thursday. They said the surge in freight
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    • 1763 37 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 fax: *****17 new guinea pacific line EtailliaaHhMlUliiHlllAllUiAilßiflyiMftUß (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CMGO 0« SAHS agar STRAITS VENTURE WI7E Mini. Lab 27-21 hn 21 lun 2$ Jun FC L. LCL CONTAINER ANO BREAKBULK
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    • 2577 39 This week's arrival/departure (27/06 01/07):- HI ■R-- I VESSEL VOYAGE EXCHANGE RATE (USS) HI H I OUT OUT tK I HAKONE MARU ISW 15W I ''Wpil m CALIFORNIA SATURN 65W 66E 1 5345 1 5300 MM OCEANUS OSAKA 1 5280 1 5300 I I m NEPTUNE ZIRCON 33W 33W 1
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    • 979 41 fPACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD i I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I I CR NO **********06 VESSEL VOY sin BKK SIN I VESSEL VOY SIN JKT Un SRISAMUT (THAI FLAG) SRSOO9 29/6 2/7 6/7 KOTA EAQLE (UTC2) EQLOO7 29/6 2/7 5/7 EQUATOR EMERALD 57N 30/6 3/7
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    • 744 45 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, SPORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 03/7 ROTTERDAM 29/6 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 03/7 HAMBURG/BREMEN 29/6 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 29/6 FELIXSTOWE/UK 29/6 BARCELONA/SPAIN 04/7 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 29/6 GENOA/ITALY 04/7 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 04/7 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 03/7 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 30/6 NEW YORK/EC 03/7 FREMANTLE/ADELAIOE 30/6 VANCOUVER 01/7 BRISBANE 04/7
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