The Business Times, 8 August 1994

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    12 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/1 Monday August 8 1994 75*
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      Lock icon Fugitive trader gets Israeli passport
      56 1 Reuter ZURICH Marc Rich, the fugitive commodities trader now resident in Switzerland, has been granted Israeli citizenship. A Swiss newspaper, Sonntags Zeitung yesterday said Mr Rich's office had confirmed he had become a citizen of Israel. The paper said Israel, much like Switzerland, does not
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      Lock icon Exxon Valdez claims
      32 1 AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska A handful of coastal communities soiled by the Exxon Valdez oil spill have settled cleanup claims against Exxon for less than US$l million (551.51 million). AP
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    151 1 Stack market indices Friday Wc«k chaage STII 2.273.12 66.7 KLSEComp 1.089.15 +61.64 Nikkei 20.521.70 +72.31 Han* Scn» 9,602.21 +119.4 SET Index 1.418.60 +41.72 Jakarta Comp 472.80 +21.72 CLSA China B 1.086.89 50.36 AustAllOrd 2.091.9 29.9 FTSE 100 3.167.5 +84.9 Dow Jones 3.747.02 -17.48 Of •qabaleat tending nt( Singapore* 5.97 Kuala
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    Lock icon Business cost lower in Taiwan, S Korea than HK, S'pore
    552 1  -  By Anna Teo SINGAPORE It's a pity that South Korea and Taiwan are not easier places in which to do business, says The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Relative to Hongkong and Singapore, their operating cost levels are lower on several
    Source: The Economist Inteligence Unit  -  552 words
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    Lock icon Breakthrough for China-Taiwan detente
    398 1 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan and China ended eight days of talks with an agreement yesterday to repatriate hijackers, breaking a deadlock that marred previous meetings, and hailed the accord as a major breakthrough. Leaders of the two teams to the sixth round of talks in the laborious
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    Lock icon Foreign investors commit US$9b to Vietnam projects
    343 1 Reuter HANOI A total of 859 foreign investment projects with capital of US$B.9B billion (S$ 13.55 billion) are underway in Vietnam, with more than a third of the money coming from Taiwan and Hongkong. Statistics from the State Committee for Cooperation and Investment
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    Lock icon Taipei makes bid to be a financial hub with 24-hour forex trading
    214 1 Reuter TAIPEI In a move to compete with the region's established financial centres, Taiwan's central bank yesterday promised all possible help to encourage domestic banks to expand their foreign currency trading into a round-the-clock service. Taiwan's forex market
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    Far East, Wing Tai reject YHS bid for condo stake
    379 1  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE In a surprise move, Ng Teng Fong's Far East group and Wing Tai have jointly rejected a bid by Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd (YHS) to take part in their condominium project on the Tien Wah
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    Lock icon Higher expenses knock 14pc off Creative's 4th quarter EPS
    424 1  -  Active trading expected when S'pore market opens By Claire Leow SINGAPORE Singaporebased Creative Technology has turned in lower-than-ex-pected fourth-quarter earnings as high operating expenses forced its net margins down to 8.7 per cent, against 20.3 per cent for the year-ago period.
    Source: Bloomberg  -  424 words
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      7 1 Business IT: Pg 7 Reshuffle at Microsoft
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      21 1 Hock Lock Siew: pg 17 M jjfick companies on the SE&k Cheaper to run households in NY than Asia, Pg 5
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Vacancies, vacancies, vacancies
        295 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling EMPLOYERS are placing bigger job advertisements to attract prospects, figures from The Straits Times' Classifieds Section showed. July saw a 12 per cent rise in the number of ads placed over the same period last year. But the volume of the ads the
        Source: ST Appointments  -  295 words
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      Singaporean named MD of Seiko Instruments S'pore
      221 2 SINGAPOREAN Ong Lim Sim has been named managing director of watch and clock ►maker Seiko Instruments Singapore (SIS), becoming one of -Jhe few locals to head a Japanese subsidiary here. Mr Ong, director of SIS ?ince August 1987, and general 'manager since July
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      GEC S'pore lands $75m mechanical and engineering contract at China resort
      294 2  -  By Markos Tando GENERAL Electric Company of Singapore has been appointed principal designer and project manager of mechanical and electrical engineering works for a major resort and residential development in Zhejiang Province, China. The appointment, by Hongkong-based conglomerate Wing
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      Price Waterhouse partnership move won't affect S'pore firms
      445 2  -  By Shiv Taneja INTERNATIONAL accounting giant Price Waterhouse's historic move to convert itself into a partnership with limited liability will not have any impact on the firm in Singapore, or any of the other five major accounting firms based here at least
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      8 S'pore companies to take part in Beijing computer expo
      202 2 EIGHT Singapore companies and the National Computer Board will participate in the five-day China International Computer Expo which opens in Beijing tomorrow. The Trade Development Board, which is leading the mission, said the companies would promote Singapore as a source
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      Lock icon HDB to revise flats allocation system
      409 2  -  New method will be announced by the end of month, says Lim Hng Kiang By Lilian Ang ACTING National Development Minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday that a revised system of allocating Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats will be announced by the end
      Photo by Wong Kwai Chow of The Straits Times  -  409 words
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article
      Lock icon Hanoi likely to impose height limits for buildings in capital
      395 3 Move likely to upset developers already unhappy about ever-changing rules AFP HANOI Hanoi authorities are set to impose strict height limits for buildings in the centre of the Vietnamese capital in a move that is expected to anger developers who
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      Lock icon Viet govt to sell insurance to get funds
      256 3 Reuter HANOI Vietnam's government plans to start selling life insurance policies this month to harness money now outside the banking system. State Bank governor Cao Si Kiem said in an interview published in the monthly Vietnam Economic Times yesterday that it hoped
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      Lock icon Malaysian traders plotting to buy rubber at low price: minister
      341 3 Bernama PANTAI REMIS Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik said yesterday he had received reports of Mardec representatives and rubber dealers plotting to buy rubber from smallholders at a low price despite the price increase of the commodity. "I have
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      Lock icon Bapindo gets US$18m loan from Arab Bank
      140 3 AFP JAKARTA The scandaltainted state-run Indonesian Development Bank (Bapindo) has received a U5518.37 million (5527.7 million) loan from the Arab Bank pic, Singapore. Antara news agency yesterday quoted Bapindo official Ahmad Su'ud as saying the loan was the second received by the bank
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      Lock icon Viet rice exports hit 1m tonnes in Jan-July
      241 3 AFP HANOI Vietnam exported 1.08 million tonnes of rice in the first seven months of the year, a 5.7 per cent rise over the same period in 1993, the Vietnam Information Agency said on Saturday. Exports rose by 5.2 per cent in
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      Lock icon Mahathir urges farmers, fishermen to form corporations
      384 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian farmers, livestock rearers and fishermen should form large corporations to meet the nation's need for food as well as for export. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said they need not worry about capital and management as they could mobilise
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      Lock icon Therapy for the shell-shocked?
      82 3 AFP SATTAHIP, Thailand The Thai Nary appears to have an all-encompassing policy on national defence: It is also protecting defenceless turtles in its drive towards general care of sea life. On Saturday, more than 1,000 baby sea turtles were set free from a farm near a
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Brunei, Philippines stress solidarity
        100 3 AFP BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN The leaders of Brunei and ttye Philippines, both claimants to the disputed Spratlys island chaifi, have stressed the need for solidarity to fuel economic growth pi South-east Asia. "If there are no major upsets to the stability arid security of the region,
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        Lock icon M'sian ban on Al Arqam attacked
        72 3 AFP BANGKOK Thai dailies have criticised Kuala Lumpur 01 their editorials for banning the Al Arqam sect, warning that the move could create a regional security threat. The Bangkok Post said yesterday that Malaysia's decision to outlaw the group aril shut down its businesses
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        Lock icon Kidnapped businessman shot dead
        97 3 AFP DAVAO An ethnic Chinese businessman, So Kim Cheng, 6), kidnapped in this southern city last week, was found shot deaid yesterday, amid hints that a failed rescue attempt may have resulted in his execution. Former Muslim separatist guerilla bandits are suspected of being responsible for
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        Lock icon Indon journalists set up rival union
        60 3 AFP SIRNA GALIH, Indonesia A group of Indonesian journalists and academics yesterday formed an independent media union g> rival the government-sponsored press association. The Alliance <)f independent Journalists (AIJ) was formed in this mountain tow#, south of Jakarta, by activists who said they wanted
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        Lock icon Philippines eyes sale of water utilities
        94 3 Reuter MANILA Philippine state planners want to encourage private investments in water utilities to help avert a potential crisis in the water sector, officials said. Finance undersecretary Romeo Bernardo said only 40 to 50 per cent of water produced is delivered to metropolitan Manila's
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      Lock icon Johor approved M$18b worth of manufacturing projects in last 15 years
      237 3 Bernama JOHOR BARU A total of 1,915 manufacturing projects were approved in Johor over the last IS years with a total investment of M 518.7 billion (5510.9 billion), said Johor State Secretary Ishak Yusof. He said foreign equity in
      Bernama  -  237 words
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China links big fall in foreign investment to fewer land deals
      556 4 But analysts cite regional competition, outdated laws Reuter BEIJING China yesterday put a brave face on a sharp drop in contracted foreign investment, saying it has eliminated unwanted property projects. But some economists warn that China faces sharper competition
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      Lock icon Most Cathay pilots agree to 5pc wage rise, longer hours
      295 4 Reuter HONGKONG Cathay Pacific Airways said more than 1,000 of its 1,150 aircrew had accepted the salary package proposed by the airline. More were expected to sign the wage agreement by the Saturday deadline for acceptance, a spokesman said last
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      Lock icon China to raise urban rents 15pc under new housing rules
      210 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Residents of apartments in Chinese cities will see their rents rise to 15 per cent by the year 2000 under sweeping housing reforms planned by the State Council. The official China Business Times yesterday reported that
      Bloomberg Business News  -  210 words
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      Lock icon Beijing pledges no more tax breaks for state enterprises
      359 4 AFP BEIJING China has pledged to clamp down on unauthorised tax breaks to the state sector, with an official placing efforts to boost central revenue above those to bail out "teetering" enterprises, a report said yesterday. State Taxation Administration Vice-Minister Xiang
      AFP  -  359 words
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      Lock icon Chinese police capture 257 ships in smuggling crackdown
      246 4 AFP BEIJING Chinese frontier police cracked 299 smuggling cases between January and June, capturing 257 vessels at sea and seizing goods worth nearly US$7O million (SSIOS million). Xinhua news agency yesterday quoted an official from the Ministry of Public Security's Frontier Defence
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      Lock icon Taiwan to rent Philippine air base
      88 4 AP TAIPEI Taiwan's air force plans to rent an air base in the Philippines to train pilots because the island's air space is overcrowded with civilian flights. Vice-Defence Minister Chao Chih Yuan said last week the military planned to rent air space or air
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      Lock icon Beijing citizens exchange US$7m
      95 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Beijing's foreign exchange market for individual citizens handled US$7 million (SSIO.S million) in trades in its first month of operation, the state-run Beijing Youth News reported. The paper said the market carried out 1,040 transactions since it was set up on July
      Bloomberg Business News  -  95 words
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      Lock icon HK seeks telecom tie-up with Japan
      95 4 Reuter TOKYO Hongkong has asked Japan's telecommunications ministry for cooperation in its plan to introduce a Japandeveloped semi-mobile personal handphone system (PHS), a daily newspaper said. The financial daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun said Hongkong planned to introduce the PHS next summer, when Japan will
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      Lock icon Taipei celebrates US move
      78 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwanese law-makers were yesterday celebrating the US Senate's ground-breaking decision to allow visits by Taiwanese leaders and Tiigh-ranking officials. The law-makers praised the Senate's unanimous decision to amend the Taiwan Relations Act, while Taiwan's media gave the move blanket coverage. "We welcome the move
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      Lock icon Bank of China lifts deposit rate
      97 4 Reuter BEIJING The People's Bank of China set at 4.96 per cent the additional interest rate it will pay in September on deposits of three years and above. The Financial News quoted a bank announcement as saying that the rate will be paid on
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      Lock icon Crackdown on military theft
      61 4 Reuter BEIJING China ordered stern punishment for those who steal army uniforms and other equipment to commit fraud, robbery and piracy at sea. The crackdown followed continuing thefts of military uniforms, documents and car plates, said a joint order from the State Council and central military
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      961 4 BUSINESS T I M L- S I WARNING NOTICE The pubic it HEREBY warned that we the undersigned are in no way connected with any representations made by GOH LEE UNG LILIAN (Singaporean) and LEE KOK HOCH (Malaysian) with respect to a project launch caled "Clear Water Bay" relating to
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon Aussie minister rejects pressure to change media ownership laws
      418 5 AFP SYDNEY The Australian government was not about to water down media ownership rules to accommodate expansion plans by media magnates Kerry Packer or Rupert Murdoch, Communications Minister Michael Lee said yesterday. Canberra, he said, would be open to any recommendations
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      Lock icon Solo success
      55 5 Reuter FUKUSHIMA, Japan Japanese piano instructor Chieko Osako, 43, became the first woman to complete a solo 30 km swim across the Tsugaru Straits in northern Japan on Saturday. She reached the coast near Cape Shirakami, on the southern tip of the northern island of Hokkaido in 12
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      Lock icon Tokyo to link tax cuts with rise in levy on consumption
      334 5 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura has indicated that the government will propose income tax cuts for 1995 and later only as part of a package which includes a consumption tax rise, Kyodo news agency reported.
      Reuter,; Bloomberg Business News  -  334 words
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      Cheaper to run households in New York than Asia
      452 5  -  Survey lists Tokyo as most expensive for food By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Running a household in an Asian capital is in many cases considerably more expensive than in the city of New York, according to The Economist Intelligence L'nit's latest cost
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Asia Pac military chiefs to meet in Japan
        76 5 AFP TOKYO Japan's Defence Agency has decided to host a meeting of Asia Pacific military leaders in December to discuss security issues, a news report said yesterday. Some 10 countries, including China and Russia, are expected to attend the 17-day Tokyo meeting
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        Lock icon N Korea can build 4 atom bombs: report
        100 5 Reuter (SEOUL North Korea may possess enough plutonium, the main ingredient for a nuclear weapon, to build three or four nuclear warheads, a Seoul newspaper said yesterday. The influential Chosun Ilbo quoted an unidentified senior government official as saying the North had
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        Lock icon Pakistan firms may offer TFCs
        64 5 Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistani companies are showing interest in a government decision to let them offer to the public Term Financing Certificates (TFCs), previously available only to institutional investors, an official said yesterday. Corporate Law Authority (CLA) chairman Shamim Ahmed Khan said an amendment to Pakistan's
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        Lock icon India working on info highway
        87 5 AFP NEW DELHI Scientists are working on an information highway aimed at linking 70 cities across the country by next March, the Press Trust of India said yesterday. The highway will be superimposed on an existing satellite-based computer network run by the National Informatics Network
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        Lock icon Pakistan accused of helping blast suspect
        73 5 AFP NEW DELHI A key suspect in last year's Bombay serial blasts, Yakub Abdul Kazak Memon, who was arrested in New Delhi's railway station on Friday, was moved to Bangkok last April by Pakistani agents with his family for 12 days to avoid detection,
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Karadzic puts economy on war footing
        91 6 AFP SARAJEVO The Bosnian Serb authorities put their beleaguered economy onto a war footing last Saturday despite the lifting of a threat of further Nato airstrikes against Serb positions around Sarajevo. Rebel Serb leader Radovan Karadzic ordered the mobilisation of all civilians on Serb-controlled
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        Lock icon She flies an SU-25
        47 6 Reuter MOSCOW Russian Air Force Captain Lyudmila Pukito the only woman in the former Soviet Union who can pilot an SU-25 fighter-bomber posing for the camera as she stood by her plane at Kubinka military airport, 50km south of here, last Friday. Reuter
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        Lock icon Americans against invading Haiti: poll
        137 6 Reuter NEW YORK Americans who are aware of the situation in Haiti are against the idea of a US invasion to remove the military-backed government, according to a poll released yesterday. The poll by Louis Harris and Associates found that 62 per cent of those
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        Lock icon Mubarak against devaluing currency
        101 6 Reuter CAIRO Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in his first intervention in a disagreement between his government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said last Saturday he opposed devaluing the Egyptian pound. The IMF and a team of Egyptian ministers discussed devaluation during 10 days of talks
        Reuter  -  101 words
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        Lock icon Kuwaiti budget deficit rises
        97 6 Reuter KUWAIT Kuwait's parliament last Saturday approved a 1994-95 budget that entailed a hefty rise of around 20 per cent in the deficit but provided for higher public service charges on industry. Welfare state entitlements for Kuwaitis such as free health and education and a host
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        Lock icon Queen Mother sets up trust fund
        128 6 Reuter LONDON Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother has set up a trust fund estimated at up to £19 million (Ss44 million) for her great-grandchildren, a British newspaper said yesterday. The Observer, quoting sources close to Buckingham Palace, said the sons of Prince Charles and
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      Lock icon Economic surge cuts Canadian jobless rate to three-year low
      453 6 Reuter OTTAWA Canada's unemployment rate fell to 10.2 per cent in July, its lowest level in three years, as strong economic growth prompted employers to hire more workers, the government said on Friday. An increase of 61,000 jobs brought the number
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      Lock icon Probe into gifts for Espy widens to US farm policy
      349 6 NYT WASHINGTON Federal investigators examining whether Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy improperly accepted gifts from the nation's biggest poultry company have expanded their inquiries into a broader review of possible ethical violations by Mr Espy and two of his top aides.
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      Lock icon Abiola's lawyer dismisses bail move as ruse
      385 6 Reuter, AFP LAGOS Presidential claimant Moshood Abiola's lawyer said on Saturday he had not requested bail for his client, and an offer to free him was a "bizarre" manoeuvre by Nigeria's military rulers. Mr Abiola's detention on treason charges has sparked crippling pro-democracy
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      Lock icon EU clash looms over ratification of Gatt trade agreement
      190 6 FT BRUSSELS The European Union's smaller member states look set for a clash with the bigger ones over the basis on which the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade's Uruguay Round trade liberalisation accord is ratified. The row centres on whether
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      Lock icon Aiming for life
      62 6 Reuter KIGALI US Airforce Staff-Sergeant Jeff Sanna of the 436 th Airlift Control Squad makes buddies with a young Rwandan boy by showing him how to play basketball during a visit over the weekend at the J A Orphanage here. Sergeant Sanna is part of an American
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      Lock icon Colombian President vows to tackle Cali drug cartel
      445 6 Reverses earlier stance, but US doubts remain over Samper's links with the main traffickers NYT BOGOTA, Colombia With Washington worried about Colombia's commitment to keep battling the export of cocaine. President-elect Ernesto Samper vowed on Saturday to "pressure the cartel leaders until
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      Lock icon Bid winners told to pay up for US airwaves licences
      395 6 AP WASHINGTON Federal regulators moved on Friday to crush an organised effort by some winners of last week's auctions of communications licences to delay making good on their bids. The Federal Communications Commission sent a strongly worded "alert" to tell
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      Lock icon Saudi Arabia tried to buy nuclear research reactors from China, US, says defector
      600 6 NYT UNITED NATIONS A former Saudi diplomat seeking political asylum in the US asserts that Saudi Arabia tried to buy nuclear research reactors from China and from a US company in 1989 as part of a secret
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  • Business IT
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      Novell tightens its regional operations
      810 7  -  New acquisition WordPerfect is likely to bear the brunt, reports Joseph Rajendran Joseph Rajendran SOFTWARE giant Novell Inc, following its recent acquisition of the personal computer world's wordprocessing leader WordPerfect, will trim its Asian operations by about 10 per cent in the next three months.
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      Lock icon TI, Hitachi in joint venture to make 16- and 64M8 chips
      296 7 TI, Hitachi in joint venture to make 16and 64M8 chips Reuter A US$5OO million (***** million) semiconductor plant in Texas, to be built by Hitachi Ltd and Texas Instruments Inc, will make 16and 64-megabit dynamic random-access memory chips (DRAMs). Hitachi and TI, two of the biggest players in the global
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      Reshuffle at Microsoft S'pore
      580 7  -  Ironically, two key resignations follow the unit's best-ever showing, Joseph Rajendran learns Joseph Rajendran MICROSOFT Singapore's general manager Peter Wong has resigned. The surprise move comes in the wake of an unpublicised management-level reorganisation of the software giant's local operations. The reshuffle follows the departure, also
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      Lock icon Fujitsu to double chip output in Malaysia
      110 7 AFP JAPAN'S largest computer maker Fujitsu Ltd plans to double its monthly production of semiconductors in Malaysia to 14 million pieces by 1996. A new Fujitsu manufacturing plant will start assembling seven million dynamic random access memory (DRAM) semiconductors with capacities of one
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      Lock icon Reed to stage multimedia, CD-ROM show next year
      380 8  -  The firm is cashing in on Asia's multimedia wave. Claire Leow reports Claire Leow REED Exhibition Companies will introduce a new multimedia and CD-ROM show next May, bringing 200 multimedia vendors to the fastgrowing regional market. Some 8,000 trade visitors are expected.
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      Launched: a Doc to cure your paper imaging problems
      446 8  -  By David Mok A DOCUMENT imaging system called PC-DM better known as PCDoc in its native Europe was showcased last week at a launch cum seminar attended by about 100 businessmen and IT professionals. Document imaging is a technology that allows
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      Oracle pins Asia-Pac hopes on new sales strategy
      877 8  -  Jennifer Lien gets the details at an Oracle business conference in Chiangmai Jennifer Lien US DATABASE software giant Oracle Corporation is looking to the Asia-Pacific region as an important linchpin for its new sales strategy: an emphasis on third-party sales. The Asia-Pacific
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      Teleview offer brings in 60pc more subscribers
      298 8  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE Telecom's $99 mode m-and-Tele view-soft-ware offer, which ended on Sunday, attracted 9,000 new subscribers. Teleview is a personal computer-based system which provides on-line video-text information. It was also previously available on dedicated terminals. In all, more than 13,000 kits
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      Software that summarises text
      229 8 A NEW TEXT management software might mean the end of wading through mountains of text by government officials, lawyers, academics and other users who have to deal regularly with huge amounts of documentation. Launched last month at the Database Expo by Oracle, ConText is the first
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    • TECH TAKES
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        TradeNet begins operation in Mauritius
        100 8 SINGAPORE An electronic data interchange network set up through a Singapore joint venture has begun operating on the Indian ocean island of Mauritius. Through the Mauritius TradeNet System, traders can submit documents electronically for clearance. The result is faster cargo clearance the time time taken
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        Cost-effective way to print video
        89 8 SINGAPORE Aurora Systems has designed an interface that works between its Freedom Series of Paint and Animation software and Hewlett-Packard's VidJet Pro video print manager to allow plain-paper video hard copy. Using HP LaserJet and DeskJet printers, resolution of up to 600 dpi is obtainable.
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        Photo library on CD-ROM
        80 8 SINGAPORE R lan Lloyd Productions, a Singapore-based stock library and publishing house, has released its Questock Image Search System. The image search and retrieval package consists of a CD-ROM disk containing 4,500 high quality professional photographs and the search software. The search system accepts keywords such
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        Informatics appointed as OS/2 centre
        39 8 SINGAPORE Informatics Computer School announced last week that it has been appointed as the first authorised education centre for IBM's OS/2 operating system for PCs. OS/2 is a 32-bit true preemptive multi-tasking operating system.
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        Informix, Nextware link M'sia operations
        45 8 SINGAPORE Informix Asia Pacific and Nextware Sdn Bhd have combined their operations in Malaysia. Informix will absorb staff and specified assets from Nextware. Informix is a supplier of database software while Nextware is a distributor of relational databases in Malaysia.
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        Distributor for protection devices
        86 8 SINGAPORE Rainbow Technologies, a major developer and supplier of software protection devices for the IBM PC, LAN, Apple and Unix/open systems markets, has appointed Systems Design as its South-east Asia distributor for its Sentinel Family of software protection devices. The Sentinel hardware "key" attaches to the
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        Unisys names new Asia South Group GM
        57 8 SINGAPORE Unisys has appointed lan Miller (right) as the general manager of its Asia South Group. Prior to this appointment, Mr Miller was the director of marketing for the Asia Pacific Group. He will be responsible for defining strategies, marketing plans and ensuring
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        Tandem appoints Network Consultant
        67 8 SINGAPORE Chang Mun Kein has been appointed Network Consultant for Tandem Computer's South Asia customers. Before joining Tandem, Mr Chang was project manager with Netband Technology (Singapore) and a network engineer with HewlettPackard. He brings to Tandem his experience in Unix networking and managing a team
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        Advice on Tetra 2000 system
        60 8 SINGAPORE A series of free seminars on the Tetra 2000 Accounting System is being organised by Advanced Database Technology. Tetra 2000 is an accounting and distribution software. The seminar is for companies that plan to computerise. The dates for the event are on Aug 11
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        Seminar on software development tool
        116 8  -  Compiled by David Mok SINGAPORE Mentor Graphics Associates is holding a launch-cum-seminar for a new product called Software through Pictures (STP) from Interactive Development Environments. STP is an object-oriented software development tool. The event will be held on Aug 26 at the Concorde Hotel from
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      Where are the billion-dollar industries for Singapore?
      599 9  -  rnr i THE NEXT WAV1 Juzar Motiwalla identifies key areas of growth, some already recognised by the market, others just emerging but highly promising Juzar Motiwalla The writer is director of the Institute of Systems Science and president of the Singapore Computer Society
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      Making back-ups in the LAN system
      893 9  -  NCT WATCH > «trackin@Wßll WORLD: Tommi Chen winds up this series on choosing a LAN for a small firm Tommi Chen The writer is managing partner of Net Centre Pte Ltd, which specialises in network services. He managed one of the largest enterprise networks
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      Lock icon Stochastic screens — panacea for poor print quality?
      1342 10  - Stochastic screens panacea for poor print quality? Publishing designers frustrated by poor-quality output of prevailing technology can finally say "Moire, RIP"! Seamus Phan explains the new technology and showcases a local firm using it Seamus Phan The writer has been a design and publishing technologist since the mid-SOs and is
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      Wherefore art thou EO?
      884 10  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads a Brooklyn-based manage-" ment consulting and software development firm, and also writes on IT issues. He contributed this commentary to BusinessfT. f S OLD MOANIXEG". IP |p M Don't be confused. That's Apple NewtoV ncse for "Good Morning".
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      Lock icon Apple Computer lines up system developers
      266 10 Reuter APPLE Computer Inc said it is preparing to launch its Macintosh System 7.5 later this summer and has more than 200 software applications slated to use the system's features. The strong developer support follows the largest distribution of beta software in Apple's history
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      Lock icon Optical disks to be made to single standard
      321 10 NYT LEADING electronics companies in the US, Europe and Japan have agreed to adopt a single standard for next generation magnet o-optical disks which are used to record sound and video information. The move could significantly boost the market for the disks,
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      179 9 TO WHAT "CUSTOMERS COME FIRST" I MEANS, VISIT IBM. tS^^awrrr' r 'i^ v B safli k. Mfl^^ F m *WBM ietSPH^^^^DDkP Customers visiting IBM get VIR The'Reception'process is only one Through Process Management, IBM is H treatment. Upon arrival, customers are of the 100 or so processes at IBM. which
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      Lock icon Will US golfers be shut out of the majors?
      583 11 Countdown to PGA Championship NYT TULSA, Oklahoma Unprecedented occurrences always attract bated-breath attention in golf, and we're on the verge of one right now as the PGA Championship looms this week at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa. Here is something
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      Lock icon Pavin takes commanding 4-shot lead in Buick Open
      572 11 Golf AP GRAND BLANC, Michigan Corey Pavin, closing in on his second victory this season, shot a seven-under-par 65 at the Buick Open on Saturday, giving him a 13-under 131 and a four-shot lead over firstround leader Fred Funk. Still, for the
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      Badminton
      56 11 HO CHI MINH CITY World Cap finals yesterday Men's singles: Heryanto Arbi (Indo) b Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen (Den) (Stuer-Lauridsen withdrew injured with Arbi leading 9-7 in the first game). Women's sinks: Susi Susanti (Indo) b Bang Soo-hyun (SK) 12-9 11-6. Mixed (foibles: Thomas Lund (Den)/Catrine Bengtsson (Swe) b Chen Xing
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      Basketball
      26 11 TORONTO World Championships on Saturday Group B: Cuba 92 South Korea 79; Croatia 83 Australia 69. C: Argentina 67 Angola 59; Russia 73 Canada 66.
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      Baseball
      62 11 NEW YORK Major League on Saturday National: Chicago 7 San Diego I; Cincinnati I Atlanta 2; Pittsburgh 3 St Louis 6; Philadelphia 3 Montreal 4 (11 innings); Houston 8 SF 7; NY 3 Florida 4. American: Ist-Boston 8 Cleveland 4; 2nd-Boston 0 Cleveland 7; Minnesota 10 NY 4; Kansas
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      Lock icon Commonwealth Games
      135 11 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Concerted efforts are being made to equip Malaysian broadcast organisations with the latest expertise and equipment in preparation for the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games. The move is also aimed at quashing scepticism over Malaysia's capability to fulfill the needs of international broadcast organisations during
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      Lock icon Cricket
      177 11 AFP LEEDS, England A fighting maiden Test century by Peter Kirsten saw South Africa back into the second Test here on Saturday. The 39-year-old former Derbyshire batsman shared stands of 94 with Jonty Rhodes and 115 with Brian McMillan. The visitors finished the third day of the second Test
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      244 11 AP TOTTORL Japan South Korean Lee Young Mee shot a one-un-der-par 71 yesterday for an eight-undcr-par total of 208 to win the 50 million yen (*****,900) Asahi Kokusai Ladies Tournament by one stroke. It was Lee's first victory in two years and the third in her eight-year pro career
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      Tennis
      64 11 SAN DIEGO US$4OO,OOO women's tournament semi-finals oa Saturday: Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (Spn x 2) b Conchita Martinez (Spn x 3) 6-4 6-1; Steffi Graf (Ger xl) b Tami Whitlinger-Jones (US) 6-4 6-4. LOS ANGELES U*****,750 men's tournameat semi-finals oa Saturday: Mark Woodforde (Aust) b Richard Krajicek (Neth x 5) 6-3
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      Lock icon Splash dance
      62 11 AFP AMERSFOORT, NetherUnd Michael Freund of Germany in action with his horses Mary, Power, Filou and Oborot during the four-in-hand driving marathon at the World Equestrian Games on Saturday. Freund finished in fourth place but leads in the overall standings. Britain s George Bowman is second and Ijsbrand
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      Lock icon Croatia delays showdown with Dream Team II
      478 11 AFP TORONTO Croatia delayed a much-anticipated meeting with Dream Team 11, but Australia will face the National Basketball Association stars all too soon. Dino Radja and Arijan Komazec each scored 25 points here on Saturday, sparking Croatia past Australia 83-69 at the World
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      Lock icon Dreaming of the way it used to be
      725 11  -  World Basketball Championship Harvey Araton reminisces about the real Dream Team Harvey Araton NYT TORONTO Lambaste me for being mired in the past, for refusing to remove my scratchy mono Beatles LPs from the turntable with the dust all over its plastic
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      Lock icon Kirwan pays price for All Black confidence crisis
      514 11 AFP AUCKLAND John Kirwan has been dropped from the All Black squad to take on Australia, making him an early victim of the confidence crisis further exposed by the just-finished visit by South Africa. Selectors left the veteran winger out of the
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Method in musicians' madness?
      1622 13  -  The passion and emotion found in Romantic music may have been the products of bouts of insanity, Jamie James suggests Jamie James NYT T44E IMAGE of the Romantics most of us formed when we were young, transmitted by sugary Hollywood biopics and the neighbourhood ladies who
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      134 13 I ■*****H i !4D Ho Chi Minh Summer Special j lnhnaHnil Mold f 718 I OMNI Mfw Mil fi> 918 I I Mgra MmHr| Rot*l A >989 !4DErUSiX. a.1128 •Ihm+rApt/W/Apt irmiMim Irtui I 1 Airfare Plus Visa SQQ I Stamping Fns ftS 900 j I Hotoi Accommodations 1 n/lfiO I
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      10 13 HOW TIME FLIES: AIR-INDIA CELEBRATES 40 GREAT YEARS IN SINGAPORE
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      220 13 1.&W* WEATHER Singapore: Slightly hazy with showers over a few areas in the late mommgand early afternoon. (Temperature range: 25-33) Aste-facMc M/IV CMd Emft */U* Cm* Buenos A«es 12,03 Gear Auckland 17/10 Ham Amsterdam 29/19 Clear Chicago 31/21 Ram Bx-frok 33/25 Ran Athens 35/24 Clear Honolulu 33/27 Clear BeyrM 38/22
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      1111 13 TV RADIO Reversal Of Fortune, Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for his role as icy Claus Von Bu- A low. who was charged with the B attempted murder of his wife Sunny (Glenn Close). Ron Silver is excellent as the Harvard prot' who defends him in this Don't TeMter It
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      From academic to travel book trail-blazer
      910 14  -  Anna Teo finds out more about Eric Oey and the publishing company he started, Periplus Anna Teo RIC Oey was delv- j ing deep into ancient Jawi manuI t scripts as a student I at UC Berkeley j when he was inspired to do
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      Combining the best of both worlds
      909 14 wnr HE maps in the I First editions of our A guides they were very embarrassing," Eric Oey recalls. As with many travel guidebooks, the maps were almost an afterthought. He says, "I felt that was the weakest part so I went into maps
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      Cookbooks for travellers
      403 14 PERIPLUS' world cookbooks shouldn't be placed in only the cookery section in the bookstores. Because, chances are, you'd pick one up even if you had no intention of hovering over the oven whipping up some dish. It could be a case of judging a book by its
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      260 14 IN-DEPTH BUSINESS fiM NEWS Wm FROM A (9 SINGAPORE 3TI or over two decades Singapore ULi llif L I" I Business has covered the local and Flm I I vv T regional business scenes with more depth H mum M and breadth from a perspective which is more relevant to
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      1127 15 CREATIVE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) The directors wish to announce the following: 1 UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 1994 GROUP COMPANY 1994 1993 ♦<•) 1994 1993 +<•) SS'OOO SS'OOO SS'OOO SS'OOO TURNOVER 1,003,722 472,486 112 870,979 343,772 153 X Operating income 167,846
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    Lock icon Global conference on economic aspects of Mideast peace in Oct
    522 16 AFP, Reuter JERUSALEM An unprecedented international conference on the economic aspects of the Middle East peace process is to open in Morocco in October, says Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Mr Peres announced the summit on the Middle East and
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    Lock icon And the fight goes on
    531 16 Bloomberg Business News YOKOHAMA The Tenth International Conference on Aids kicked off yesterday with grim warnings that the number of HIV infections worldwide may hit 40 million by the turn of the century and that the deadly virus was spreading quickly in Asia. "The cumulative
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    Lock icon Seoul prosecutors query business head over suspected bribes
    389 16 Reuter SEOUL Prosecutors have questioned the chairman of one of South Korea's largest business conglomerates about suspicions that he gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to a former trade minister. State radio and the Yonhap news agency yesterday reported that
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    Lock icon India's private airlines hurt by ban on imports of large planes
    313 16 Reuter NEW DELHI India's decision to freeze imports of large aircraft by newly-allowed private airlines is forcing them to reconsider projects and stalling entry of new carriers. Civil Aviation Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told Parliament last Friday the government
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    Lock icon Strike forces Nigeria's biggest refinery to close
    168 16 AFP LAGOS A strike by oil workers demanding the release of detained opposition leader Moshood Abiola has forced the closure of Nigeria's biggest and newest oil refinery. The Port Harcourt installation in Nigeria, which has a capacity of 150,000 barrels a day, was
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    About time EU politicians stopped posturing
    843 16  -  The Bottom Line MICHAEL HINDLEY MICHAEL HINDLEY The writer, a Briton, is a member of the European Parliament THE very first session of a new European Parliament (EP) is a curious affair. The Euro-elections are set to take place in early June every five
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      Hong Leong Finance interim net earnings up 56pc to $35m
      570 17  -  Listed unit S'pore Finance profit up 49pc to $9m By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE The republic's largest finance company, Hong Leong Finance Ltd, and its listed subsidiary Singapore Finance Ltd, reported strong interim net earnings growth of 56.7 per cent and
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      Lock icon PWE confident of bright outlook
      301 17 MBT KUALA LUMPUR PWE Industries Bhd is confident that it will achieve satisfactory growth in the financial year ending March 31 1995, given the buoyant economic scenario as well as the coming onstream of huge infrastructure projects like the Sepang International Airport and the Kuala
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      Rising oil price offers earnings gains for some slick service providers in S'pore
      813 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By William Chia SINGAPORE Investors looking for investment ideas might want to assess the impact of rising oil prices on stocks. The price of benchmark Brent crude has been climbing fast in the past
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      RDC takes major stake in Vietnam asphalt venture
      228 17 SINGAPORE Resources Development Corporation (RDC) has taken a 70 per cent stake in a local company which runs an asphalt operation in Vietnam. The move, which will cost the group $700,000, is part of RDCs larger plan to expand its asphalt premix
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      DBS Land, Orchard Parade in US$250m Shanghai deal
      360 17  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE Propertybased DBS Land and the Far East group's listed vehicle. Orchard Parade Holdings Ltd (OPHL), have teamed up for a proposed US$25O million (***** million) commercial development in Shanghai. This is the first time the two groups have
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      Lock icon M'sia's Angkasa sees earnings lift from China ventures
      314 17 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Angkasa Marketing Bhd's proposed joint ventures in manufacturing tyres and motorcycles in China in the medium and long term are expected to contribute positively to the earnings of the Angkasa Group. In a circular released here last Friday, Angkasa
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    • COMPANIES
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        Shinawatra Computer interim profit expected to top 1b baht
        429 18  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK SHINAWATRA Computer and Communications' firsthalf net profit is expected easily to top the one billion baht mark (Ss6o million), following its 712 million baht earnings in the Jan-March period. But its first-quarter earnings this year
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        359 18 Reuter, AFP BEIJING The central government has approved the biggest South Korean joint venture in China, involving total investment of 30 billion yuan (555.2 billion) to make car parts for the Daewoo Group, China News Service said. It said the partners in the venture
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        Lock icon Analysts recommend a buy on PLDT as Philippine telecom giant poised for rebound
        829 18 MARKET WATCH Bloomberg Business News MANILA So far, it's been a rough year for Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT), which is expected to announce its second-quarter results today. Yet analysts say the telecom giant's earnings are
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        Lock icon Petrochem giant to build Taiwan's first private power plant
        270 18 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's petrochemical giant, the Formosa Plastic Group (FPG), has announced a plan to build the island's first private power plant, to generate 2.4 million kilowatts of electricity, FPG officials said yesterday. The FPG's thermal power plant, estimated to cost
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        Lock icon Bumb Hldg reports 249pc rise in pre-tax earnings
        152 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bumb Holding Bhd, the investment holding company of the Bank Utama group, has reported a pre-tax profit of M 551.3 million (Ss3o million) for the year ended Dec 31. 1993. A Bumb statement here on Friday said the result
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        Lock icon China firms' Aussie funds-raiser
        138 18 Reuter MELBOURNE Investment group Just Australia China Holdings Ltd said it has signed a memorandum of cooperation with representatives of two Chinese state-owned industrial companies to raise capital for projects in China. The two firms are China North Industries Corp (Norinco), China's sixth largest enterprise, and
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        UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
        535 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS MaMfart' prtCM Aug 8 Mcndaki Gr Fund 1.19 I 22® Singapore Unit Trust SGr Fund 100 104 ■""Hr* 1 Itun i a y-4 11J The Commerce 165 l.'J UmO IUVtSt Mgl HO The Savings Fund 1.57 1.66 Unifund 1.50 1.56 S pore Prog Fund 0.70 0.74 I
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        Pacific Dunlop takes 60pc stake in China battery deal
        309 18  -  By Peter Osborne SINGAPORE Diversified Australian manufacturer Pacific Dunlop will take a 60 per cent stake in an AS24 million (5526.4 million) joint venture to produce lead-acid industrial batteries in China. The stake will be held through Pacific Dunlop's GNB Industrial
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        Asean Strategic Capital buys Thai brokerage stake
        408 18  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK THE Asean Strategic Capital Fund, a Singapore-based investment company, has bought a 6.S per cent stake in a Thai broking firm previously owned by Australia's Westpac Banking Corporation. It joined a Securities One consortium which shelled out
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        Lock icon Guangzhou Shipyard's interim profit up 87pc on forex gains
        414 18 Eastern Express HONGKONG Guangzhou Shipyard International Holdings (GSI) yesterday reported a much-higher-than-expected increase of 87 per cent in its unaudited net profit for the six months ended June 30 on the strength of foreign-exchange gains. GSI, the first Hongkong listed Chinese
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        Lock icon Nextel makes US$2.4b deals with Motorola, Dial Page
        527 19 Plan to become sole supplier of integrated voice and data services in US Reuter RUTHERFORD, New Jersey Nextel Communications Inc last Friday announced deals worth US$2.4 billion (553.6 j billion) with Motorola Inc and Dial Page Inc in what it said ,f
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        Lock icon Sumitomo in US$100m polypropylene tie-up with Phillips
        305 19 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Sumitomo Chemical Co Ltd will spend roughly US$lOO million (S$ 151 million) to form a polypropylene partnership with Phillips Petroleum Co, according to construction industry estimates. John S Hubby, general manager of Philips Sumikas Polypropylene Co, said
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          Lock icon Glaxo to sue 2 Japanese companies
          86 19 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Glaxo Holdings pic, the holding company for several pharmaceutical manufacturers, and its Japanese subsidiary, Nippon Glaxo Ltd, will sue two Japanese drug companies for alleged patent infringement, Nippon Glaxo said, according to Jiji Press. Glaxo will seek an injunction from
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          Lock icon 6 Indian Arms allowed Euro issues
          90 19 Knight Ridder NEW DELHI Efforts by Indian companies to raise funds overseas received a boost on Thursday when the government allowed six companies to raise U*****.50 million (SSl.l billion) through Euro issues, the Economic Times newspaper said last Friday. Approval has been given to
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          Lock icon TI pays back US govt for overcharging
          53 19 Knight Ridder WASHINGTON Defence contractor Texas Instruments Inc paid the government US$5 million (557.5 million) last Friday to settle a federal probe, the Justice Department said. The department said one of TPs divisions overcharged the government on contracts for guided missiles to the
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          Lock icon Nynex to take charges on pension deal
          72 19 Reuter BOSTON Nynex Corp said it expects to take added charges of about USSI.3 billion (SSI.9 billion) over the next three to four years as employees retire under a deal with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Nynex said the company and the
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        Lock icon Samsung to file countersuit in fax war with Ricoh
        375 19 FT SEOUL Samsung Electronics said on Friday it plans to file a countersuit soon against Vs Ricoh, the Japanese office lV equipment maker, in an esca- lating legal battle over patent v rights on facsimile machines that could affect the compavi.
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        Lock icon Latest merger wave propelled by need to compete globally
        488 19 Reuter NEW YORK The biggest merger wave in years has taken hold, but unlike the raider-led deals of the 1980s these mergers are being propelled by a sense that only giants will thrive in the global economy. Headlines are filled with
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        Lock icon Bank of England chief refuses to rule out rate rise in short-term
        392 20 Reuter BRUSSELS Bank of England governor Eddie George said the British economy was performing exceptionally well but that inflationary pressures meant that a rate increase could not be ruled out in the coming three months, according to a
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        Lock icon This year already second-costliest ever in US for insurers
        208 20 Bloomberg Business News RAHWAY, New Jersey It's only August, but this year already is the second-costliest in US history for insurance companies, according to a new industry estimate. The American Insurance Services Group Inc boosted its estimate of the insured damage
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        276 20 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China International Trust and Investment Corp (Citic), one of China's biggest business groups, plans to issue new bonds on international markets to provide capital for projects at home, the official China Daily reported. Citic has examined markets in the
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        147 20 MOST regional currencies opened higher against the US$ last week amid pessimism over the outcome of the US-Japa-nese trade talks. The SS traded in a narrow range throughout most of the week but eased slightly by the weekend on short covering. The Malaysian ringgit firm- Ed in active trade during
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        678 21  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Meryl Phang, MMS International SINGAPORE For the most part of last week, choppy market conditions left many traders confused over the dollar's direction. After the failed weekend USJapan trade procurement talks, the dollar moved downwards in early New Zealand hours. At
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        799 21 AFP LONDON The price of Brent North Sea oil shot up to its highest level in IS months last week thanks to a two-day general strike in Nigeria in support of a five-week-old political strike by oil field workers. The
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      1365 21 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S ccnts/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Sep 94 190.00 190.00 200 00 U 50 2700 Oct 182.00 178.00 185.30 175 4475 Nov 180 00 176.00 179.75 225 4550 Dec 178.00 174.00
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      4556 22 CORPORATE RESULTS Nrt Earn EPS Dale TV LY TV LY Company aaa (Sm) (Sm) (rts) (cts) ABK Hldgs May 30 F 1.407 2.851 3.2 7.0 Acma Jun 1$ F 41.518 14.268 62 5 23.1 Alcorn* Aug I I 9.373 7.905 7.44 6.40 Ale* Hldgs Jun 24
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      753 22 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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        716 23 NYT New York THE PREVIOUS week it was inventories, last week it was jobs. The previous week it was good news, which translated into lower bond yields and higher share prices. Last week it was bad news, which translated into higher
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          94 23 Share rallied during the week to close on Friday at a nine-week high despite volatile gold prices and overseas bourses, brokers said. The key All Ordinaries Index closed at 2,091.9 points, up 29.9 points or 1.45 per cent on the previous week's finish. The bourse fell marginally on Wednesday
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          97 23 Share prices closed 2.9 per cent higher last week on the crest of impressive first semester corporate earnings, as analysts on Saturday forecast a consolidation next week. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index settled at 2,883.39 on Friday, up 80.18 points from the previous week. It pierced the 2,900-point
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          68 23 The Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) index rose 4.8 per cent over the week as local investors followed foreign buying leads to push the market up, analysts said. The index finished the week's trading on Friday at 472.801 compared to the previous week's close at 451.084. Average daily trade increased
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          168 23 Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange chalked up another four-year high during the week, propelled by increasing shareholdings by foreign institutions and domestic individual investors, brokers said. Extending a 3.9-per cent jump the preceding week, the 376-issue weighted price index put on another 252.8 points, or 2.52 per
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          95 23 Share prices closed higher on Saturday on the Korea Stock Exchange, but trading was thin amid continued worries about the central bank's tight-money policies. The Composite Price Index finished Saturday's halfday session at 932.17, up 4.2 points from the previous week's close of 927.97. Average daily turnover was 17
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          104 23 Share prices maintained an uptrend for the second straight week on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) following buying support from Indian investors and local Financial institutions. The 30-share BSE Sensitivity Index gained 110.27 points and closed the week on Friday at 2,035.14 points, over the previous week's close of
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        454 23 AFP Tokyo SHARE prices rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week, with moderate recovery in export-oriented issues following the yen's retreat against the dollar. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues in the first section rose 72.31 points or 0.4 per cent
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        440 23 AFP London THE London Stock Market enjoyed a respite from fears of a rise in British interest rate last week, shooting up briefly before profit-taking and rising US unemployment figures dampened the surge on Friday. Brokers had breathed a sigh of relief on Monday
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        224 23 AFP Hongkong STOCK prices surged 1.26 percent on strong overseas buying during the week with the key Hang Seng Index gaining 119.40 points to close at 9,602.21 on Friday. Average daily turnover totalled HK54.493 billion, up from HK53.99 billion the previous week. The market
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        726 23 -18.77 Blue-chip stocks slid on Friday after a stronger-than-expected report on July job growth rekindled speculation that the Federal Reserve, the US central bank, may lean toward ratcheting up interest rates for a fifth time this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 18.77 points at 3,747.02.
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        311 23 •33.55 Stocks closed lower after rate fears sparked by stronger-than-expected US jobless data sent players scurrying into full retreat. "The big feature was the employment numbers out of the US," said Wood Gundy market strategist Subodh Kumar. "I really see more of the same range-trading in the stock market.
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      2369 24 EBEflHIKS Idris Hyd 50c 41.648,000 Tan Chong 50c 33.782.000 Mulpha Intl 50c 2V.664.000 Promt! 29.346.000 Mctropfcx 50c 26.455.000 Asia Pac Ld 21.754.000 Fabcr Group 21.248.000 B Kaya TSK97 20.379.000 Kcnong Bhd 50c 20,266.000 Kamunling 50c 20.205.000 Mull >-Purpose 18.580.000 Innovcst Bhd 16,961,000 MBf Capital 15.096,000 Idru Hyd SOc
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        6188 24 Bernama CONTINUED buying support from institutional and retail investors led share prices on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange to close higher last week. Reflecting this trend, the Emas Index of the all Main Board shares added 19.30 points to 310.63 while the Composite Index added
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        1777 26  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE The key question for investors this week would be: Can optimism surrounding the domestic economic and corporate performance overcome renewed global interest rate fears? The market started last week on a positive note after the release of the US
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      327 27 Bloomberg Business news SEOUL The South Korean shipbuilding industry says the US government's decision to provide support for its troubled shipbuilders runs counter to the worldwide move to promote free competition in the industry. The Clinton administration decided last week to guarantee US$l billion
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      459 27 Reuter LONDON The British Navy took control of a trawler involved in a European "tuna war" on Saturday after its captain refused to sail to a naval base. Inspectors from the gunboat HMS Anglesey were escorting the British tuna trawler Charisma from
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      1095 27 Page Col ABC Containerize 16 4 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 ANL 3 1/2 Antaco Mgmt 17 4/5 APL 5 3-5 Appenship 8 4/5 Arabian Express 15 5 •ASCL 5 5 Assist Marine 6 1 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait
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      277 27 AFP JERUSALEM Israel has suggested that Jordan build a dock and a port in the Araba valley to be linked to the Red Sea by a 30-km channel, according to an Israeli television report. An international free zone would also be set
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      341 27 Reuter OSLO Norway ordered its coast guards to fire blank shells at an Icelandic trawler before boarding it as a dispute over fishing in Arctic waters flared up on Friday. "We tried all peaceful measures before making the attack. The trawler has
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      195 27 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK Global Ocean Carriers Ltd has announced it is considering taking advantage of Title XI financing to purchase at least four and possibly more container feeder vessels from US yards. Under Title XI financing, the US Maritime Administration will guarantee
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      932 28  -  Japan's Kansai International Airport, which opens on Sep 4, still faces a few unresolved issues, reports Juliette Walker Juliette Walker WORKERS are hustling to put the finishing touches on the new Kansai International Airport which opens on Sep 4. They are shuffling in socks or
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      12297 36 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. lifiO® PN: ship calls at Penang after
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        1378 44 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rstts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ta unlet 0378 09/0700 1A 07/1500 07/1659 07/1900 ta IB 07/1500 07/1659 07/1900 28 07/1700 08/0659 08/0900 3 08/0700 08/1159 08/1400
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        753 44 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,467 on Thursday From 1.462 on August 3. Firmer rates were seen for Panama* tonnage in the Atlantic and brokers were still expecting further increases in the short term. Halla Maritime is said to have paid
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        452 46 Bloomberg Business News ARLINGTON, Virginia USAir Group Inc blasted a pilot proposal for employees of the struggling airline to swap wage concessions for a minority stake, calling the plan "unacceptable". The company's Air Line Pilots Association employees earlier this week
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        257 46 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON USAir's traffic levels in revenue passenger miles rose 14.1 per cent in July compared with the same month a year ago, the unit of USAir Group lnc said last week. The nation's sixth-largest airline has been
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        46 46 AFP OSAKA BAY, Japan View of the passenger terminal of Osaka's Kansai International Airport, which was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, who also planned the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Kansai Airport is scheduled to open on Sep 4. AFP
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        298 46 AP ACME, Michigan The environmental and energy effects of car industry growth in developing countries may be car makers' greatest future challenge. according to Honda Motor Co's top executive. Honda president Nobuhiko Kawamoto last week said he expects modest growth in mature markets, such as
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        164 46 BernamaKyodo TOKYO Three major Japanese car makers said they have agreed to mutually supply commercial vehicles for sale on the domestic market. The agreement was announced on Friday by Isuzu Motors Ltd, in which the world's top car maker General Motors Corp
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          113 46 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG A US company has signed an agreement to build a US$l5O-million (*****.5 million) expressway in Beijing on a build, operate and transfer (BOT) basis, the official China Daily reported last Friday. In a BOT agreement, an investor builds a project and
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          55 46 AFP LONDON A model shows how the end of the famous Mini has been turned into a pice of household furniture on Friday. The idea of garage mementoes has been turned into a thriving business. A London-based company EMR Reincarnation will recycle old Minis into an array of
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          61 46 KnightRidder LONDON Port workers at Karachi returned to work on the night shift on Aug 3, according to Lloyd's Intelligence. The port workers went on strike earlier the same day after some port staff were arrested. The strikers requested the management give them an
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          85 46 Reuter BEIJING China's Xiamen Aviation Company Ltd plans to buy at least five large and medium-sized planes before the year 2000, Xinhua news agency said. The new planes will enable the company to add more routes from Fuzhou, capital of south-east-ern Fujian province, to
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        416 46 Reuter MOSCOW Russian flag carrier Aeroflot, which sold a 49 per cent stake to its employees at a closed auction in June, has no plans to open up to the public or sell blocks of shares to foreign investors, a senior official said.
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        242 46 Reuter NEW DELHI India's stateowned domestic carrier is taking legal action against four pilots who have switched to private airlines which can pay more, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said on Saturday. PTI said the move by Indian
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      1143 33 A MULTILINE SHIPPING PTE LTD mm (a member of SINSOV Group) CR NO: **********0 C ENQUIRIES: *****33 BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31, *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****97 OUTWARD *****10 T/S *****10 A BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****28 T/S *****46 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****06 DOC *****07 MARINE INSURANCE: *****87 INVENTORY: *****59 AGENTS: KL: 03-*****75/697
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      1426 34 AS AGENTS: *V UNI (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CR NO: **********0M/GST REG NO: M 2 *****99-6) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 itx MALAYSIA "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD I m m TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUTINTERNOSA. TEL: JKT
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      709 34 ®APPENSHIP /cpy HAMBURG CONVENTIONAL INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FAR EAST VESSELS LOADING PORTS DISCHARGE/10ADMG FOR ANANQEL PEACE RTM 06/07 SPORE 06/08 SEAKITTIE HAM 01/07 SPORE 18/08 ELENA V ANTW 05/07 SPORE 06/08 /ITA ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF [ACCEPTING CARGO TO GULF PORTS '"1 \\l/l IRAN SHIPPING
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      579 34 GOLDEN LINE IL/ggSS guan SHR>pmG ESs<\ (PTE) LTD 23. ItM Apr Stmt SMGAPOK 0104 Ttl 534JM1 (II URCS) Fu 5343M4 (CI Ho 1012MSMMM) ITRAITI/HIUIAW CULT SEBTICB S pore P Keiang Penasg GOtOtN STAR Karachi Dubai, Kuwait 1/10 Aug GOIDCN KM Karachi Dubai Kuwait 29/30 Aug CHINA SKBTICK OCR MNG Shanghai
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      962 35 f PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD J I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I I CR NO: **********06 VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN SK. 6UAMA (BMT/LCH) BNAO3I 9/9 12/8 18/8 KOTA INOAH IDHOII 11/» 14/« 51 3 BMMANCE (THAI FLAG) SRMO2I 9/9 12/8 16/8 I BUNQA TERATAI
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      933 35 vtssas wr im u mm hanhok thws nottemmm mmcup WUI 01 IW Yo4* 10/00 31/00 02/00 03/09 04/08 Ot/W WLlt Ot «CA GO4W 15/04 04/05 OQ/QQ 03/05 10/01 12/00 Will Dt WJ> VO4W 23/01 14/00 lt/05 17/00 U/00 20/00 WLLE 01 TITNM* TOSW 21/00 23/00 24/00 25/09 27/00 'ALSO ACCtPTMG
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      758 35 MYANMA iBBk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yanfon (Rangoon) S'pore P.Kit Pen P.Wj A*A Vl29* 12/14 Au| hi Pt SAGANG *36* 15/27 Auf PAGAN V2I2W 11/20 Ati| 21/22 Aof HPA-AM *204* 24/26 Auf MYOMA YWA 24/30 Au| MALAYSIA AGENTS 80USTEAD 9VPMG AGENOES Kll: TEL 13-*****06 PKL: TEL
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      55 37 VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD Q JBbbJ Established Since 1984 OCEANIA PORTS REGULAR GROUP AGE lcl consolidation AUCKLAHD SYDNEY IMPORT Br EXPORT HELBOURME FIBIAIfIIC SERVICES yy FOR BOOKING 9t SAILING SCHEDULE. CALL THE TOTAL TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE. VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD VISA LCL CONSOL PTE LTD TOLL-FREE TEL: 1800 *****66
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      2101 38 1 v s M DIRIdvpXID DATKriI SBV AFRHP--I south america |,"J •T* s *M*r«'i 6mnti( Agvirts; COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD TW fGeiter*/): *****00 Sties Booking: Agency Dept: f •*<**£& £££&f S Container: *****41/844 Container Svc WL *****02 Operation Container: *****15 V—<* OSS Bids Tower 2 lfi Jnnnn ac Conventional: *****50
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      1320 38 FOR BOOKING 1800-*****00 (TOLL-FREE) OUTBOUNO| Si I PEN JOH SM HKG MO TAI KEE YOU TKY I NAG KOB OSK MO) BUS WAN MAI 206/N037 02/08 05/08 OS/00 0808/08 12/00 13/01 15/08 16/ OS 22/011 23/08 1 24/01 WAN HAI 211/NO2O OS/08 08/08 loToS 11 12/08 16/08 17/08 19/08 21/08
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      806 39 (O, FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES s —10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 Z. HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) i T GOTHENBURG/SCAN 14/8 ROTTERDAM 13/8 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 14/8 HAMBURG/BREMEN 14/8 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 09/8 FELIXSTOWE/UK 15/8 BARCELONA/SPAIN 15/8 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 10/8 GENOA/ITALY 15/8 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 15/8 I 4 i i LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 13/8 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE
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      1798 39 Mil PIYA BHUM' 333N Tw 9/9 Fri ~12/» 1 ISRA BHUM »4S Fri 19/9 ~Tw~ 23/1 peja BHUM 4431 IT t i^M RATHA BHUM UN Thu 11/» Sun 14/> j BHATRA BHUM 438 Sat 20/9 Tw 23/9 i i Ml WANT A BHUM 206W Sal 13/9 Tw 19/9 5 WANA
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      1707 40 ILAIMH £6NTAINER LINES, INC 'iKKi/VvlAgents: MAC-NKLB BPORC: *****22 (24 LINEB) > *c/R >to laooenoooQE SIBU (064) *****9 KUCHING (082) *****3 C PiNANCk (04) «***** BANGKOK (662) *****67 MANILA (632) *****61 Q P.KEUANQ: (06) *****77 JAKARTA; (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 ASIA HKG/TWN/BKKI GENOfI/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK
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      93 40 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD WE JOIN ALL SINGAPOREANS IN CELEBRATING OUR NATIONAL DAY HILL COWTAimH StRVICf VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SERAYA JAYA 168SR IN PORT 08/08 SENTOSA JAYA 236S 11/08 A.M 13/08 SENANQ JAYA 206SN 07/08 10/08 ALL VESSELS BERTH AT "Wl" IN JAKARTA ALSO ACCEPT
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      1172 40 JL THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD 1 I 78 SHENTON #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 I I \y TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I I TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I a r*o*o moo*i c■ SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK SINGAPORE TOWUULAND VESSEL VOT S'PORE PEST VESSEL VOT S'POIE BANGKOK EQUATOR
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      640 41 rf mi, o tuuvo) ivivuuMj nu|uai u ivvi WSV C EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPT* BREAABUJt/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM KOBE. YOKOHAMA. NAGOYA, HOI, TOKYO*. UAMLA*. OAVAO*. Penanf* P. KeUnj Smjapore E Msia* KARABEVERETT VISE 11/12 Auf KAMAIEVERETT V22E 05/06 Sept IVYEVERETT VIOE 22/23 Sep 24/25 Sept ACCEPTING KAKMK/FCI/SOC
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      247 41 181, 6LORY NAVIGATION CROUP REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ft ASEAN SINGAPORE TO KOMPONG SOM •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN X 29/7 1/8 7/8 16/8 GLORY SELATAN IX 6/8 8/8 SP KOMPONG SOM GLORY SELATAN VIII 8/8 11/8 LINER SERVICE USA, VANCOUVER,
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      535 41 PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK CONTAINER SERVICE "vessel""* TarTcm"*"" ISLAMABAD 124-HN 27/08 05/0» BOLAN Ijgjjg 31/01 09/09 HYPERABAP 133-MW 13/09 23/09 MAKRAN ISI-HW 22/99 02/10 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY vtsstL vor law Ihkg'bsn Ipsa hag yok HYDERABAD 132 ON IVOI 19/01 23/01 2VOI 27/01 29/0« SARGOOHA 146 0W
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      667 41 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/P. ELIZABETH CAPETOWN/LAGOS VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH CPT LOS SHUNHE/105 11/08 25/ OB 26/ OB 02/09 15/09 TAO HE/87 26/ OB 09/09 10/09 15/09 30/09 JIAN HE/87 11/09 25/09 26/09 02/10 15/ tO HUIHE/108 26/09 09/lO 10/10 15/10 30/10 ACCEPTS CARGO TO JOHANNESBURG
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      261 41 SIN FAR EAST 16/08 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 14/08 BANGKOK 14/08 MANILA/CEBU 14/08 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 14/08 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 14/08 BUSAN 14/08 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 14/08 HONG KONG S|N CHINA (+B 14/08 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo S|N EUROPE/UK 15/08 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 15/08 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA 14/08 LOS
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      845 42 PHI LI Olil(NT LINGS PTC LTD Y 108 Robinson Road #07-00 GMG Building Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22/*****69/*****00 Telex: RS ***** Fax: *****76/*****38 P. Kelang: 03-*****98 Penang: 04-*****6 (CR CODE: **********0HJL Qi A MEMBER OF THE SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION 12 AUG SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, FREMANTLE 12 AUG AUCKLAND. WELLINGTON, LYTTLETON,
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      530 42 Contemn CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 11 AUGUST (Accepting to all Naw Zealand porta) PENANG 12 AU6 JAKARTA 14 AUG PORT KLANG 11 AU6 BANGKOK 14 AU6 MELBOURNE 12 AUG SYDNEY 12 AUG BKISBANE 22 AUG FREMANTLE 14 AUG ADELAIDE 12 AUG I 'ACCEPTING TO ALL SCANDINAVIA PORTS BOMBAY
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      413 42 This Week's Sailings Singapore I |i KIRSI FORWARDER IN lo: EID I o: KID asia awarded Singapore Singapore ,so 9002 BY l-RQA EVERY EVERY Bangkok SUN Jakarta SUN EVERY EVERY Manila SUN Ho Chi Minh FRI (Pj JF EVERY EVERY Colombo rUE Limassol IHUR I INTERNATIONAL SEA FREIGHT FORNAMNNG Tel:
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      1393 43 ■SEAMA^RGENTINMJN^^^n CONTAINERISED "HUB" SERVICE I I DIRECT TO ARGENTINA/BRAZIL URUGUAY V I VOY Ml r.UXHM WHUAIA M I WVIMO I «OT I Ml FRANCISCA SCHULTE 02E 18/08 19/09 21/09 28/09 T 27/09 I 30/09 I 24/10 ALSXANOCR SCHULTE 03E 02/09 07/10 09/10 14/10 I 18/10 18/10 I 13/11 CAMOPUS 03E
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      469 43 CEYLON SHIPPING CORPN Rslpn Nalionol Line of Sri Lanka CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO UK AND NORTH CONTINENTAL PORTS WWR IWTII 1 WO I til WBI I>lt BW j "I HMim* MMMITIM M3l 1 10/ M IS/M I MMW MM Mm 23/01 I MOKkUA tmu 1433-3 H/M Ttm I jgg> ggBM MM
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      520 43 VZC ONDOR LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND SCHEDULE N0.48 I VESSEL N. KRUPSKAYA PRIMORSK PAVLOORAO PCTROOVORETS PRtOZERSK DEKABRIST PORTS EBI4 EBIS ESI6 EBI7 ESI6 ESI6 BUENOS AIRES' Sal tad Sallad 22 27/07 0306/08 24 27/06 06-OS/06 MONTEVIDEO SaMad Sallad 28 29/07 08 07/08 28/08 OS-10/06 RIO ORAM DO SU Sallad 13
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      373 44 79 ANSON ROAD. #21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TELE: *****92 FAX: *****57 CR **********0N STRAITS SHUTTLE SERVICE SINGAPORE/PORT KLANG/SINGAPORE I SINGAPORE/PENANG/SINGAPORE VESSEL VOYAGE SIM PKL 1 VESSEL VOYAGE SIN PEN XOUMAYA ~~*****H *****~(TUE) 11/08 (THU) MCC CONVEYOR 9433 10/MjWEDI. 12/08 (FRI) MCC CONVEYOR 9433 10/06 (WED) 12/08 (FRO M XOUR JAYA *****N
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      290 44 TODAY'S TIDES (heiflt in metres) HOIK 0000 0100 0200 0300 MOO 0500 0600 0700 OSOO 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1(00 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 22M 2300 A 3.1 2.1 22 1.5 0.9 O.S 04 0.4 OS 1.1 1.8 2.3 2.5 2.5 2.2 1.7 12 0.1 0.7
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      951 45 [▲HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTDWESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 PNA* PKE* PSD* VESSELS VOY I SW RIM I AWT* LEH* I HAM BRE| FETI 03/01 05/08 06/08 NOR FRBOURG 312W 08/08 26/08 28/08 29/08 28/08 28/08 30/08 10/08 12/08 13/08 H. CHALLENGER 311W 15/08 02/09 04/09 05/09 04/09 04/09
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      479 45 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS INBOUND VESSELS KSSU «OT V PK KUC KK MM «T CHMTKM TlM** 40 10/1 11/1 CRANK MOON S4 11/1 (BU 11/1) KIBMJN 31 IS/I 11/ l 12/1 »/I SAAB UUM4 U/l HQJCM 21 l/l l/l COSMC LiIUM 44 14/t lf/l OUTBOUND
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      961 45 JEDDAH/UK/CONTNENT IS-POM lED STON HSURC I'D AM UN Ahc Cjrp im KMMKUM 35/131 19/1 27/1 31/1 1/9 Scuta*** IiAH fettouta. Matt mi OuMn ELK 23/331 13/1 22/1 31/S 3/9 5/9 7/9 totltrtan :It M Anfwwp Vmttfdan (Mi. H*M THAAES 24/132 17/1 3/9 1/9 1/9 Southampton :to afl UK Anlknta. Mast
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      48 46 I CONSTRUCTION I Dark clouds over Kansai Airport, page 2 §g|iA«l«»ll!TAßlA W jfiSOOA Beach Road, #08-30 W2|» The Accepting Heavylift Breakbulk SOC to from MANILA SUBIC BAY Direct Enquiries Bookings S pore Tel: 294 5022 Ext 227 Fax 297 1930 K.L. Tel: (03) 731 6842/3/4 Fax (03) 731-6860
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      7 46 W\olSl\l lW CONSTRUCTION Tomorrow in Business Times
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