The Business Times, 19 August 1994

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    12 1 SINGAPORE BusinessTimes WE KHOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Friday August 19 1994 75«
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow down 4.54 points
      46 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stocks traded lower yesterday. On the NYSE at Ipm EDT, declines led advances 11 to eight on volume of 165 million shares. At 2pm EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 3,771.94 down 4.54 points. Reuter
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      Lock icon Hanson quits as counsel over Whitewater
      51 1 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Jean Hanson resigned yesterday as the US Treasury's general counsel, the second senior Treasury official to leave in as many days over the Whitewater affair. Her resignation follows Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altaian's decision to resign on Wednesday. Bloomberg Business
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    160 1 Stock market indices Thursday Chance STII 2,357.97 +13.57 KLSEComp 1,136.34 +10.20 Nikkei 20,862.77 +38.21 Hang Seng 9,518.89 -19.09 SET Index 1,483.98 +10.50 Jakarta Comp 492.87 +9.28 CLSA China B 1, 160.02 2.66 Aust All Ord 2,066.8 +7.3 FTSE 100 3,182.6 -7.7 Thursday Previous 2pm close Dow Jones 3,771.94
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    Most regional markets remain buoyant
    216 1 SINGAPORE Most regional stock markets yesterday continued to benefit from optimism that US interest rates have peaked, at least in the near term. In Singapore, the Straits Times Industrials Index rose 13.57 points to close at 2,357.97 in heavy trading. Some 382.23 million units worth
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    UOB leads pack with rise in prime rate to 5.75pc
    399 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE United Overseas Bank has raised its prime lending rate by a quar-ter-point to 5.75 per cent. The move was not unexpected in the light of the US Federal Reserve's decision on Tuesday to nudge up
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    Oei Hong Leong in US$888m coal pipeline deal in China
    635 1  -  By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Hongkongbased businessman Oei Hong Leong has clinched another major deal in China this time to transport coal from the energy-rich Shanxi province to the rapidly developing eastern and southern coastal areas. An international consortium, led by
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    Liem Sioe Liong is richest ethnic Chinese in S-E Asia
    499 1 SINGAPORE Indonesian businessman Liem Sioe Liong, 78, has a net worth of US$3 billion (554.5 billion), making him the richest ethnic Chinese in South-east Asia, according to a survey by Asiaweek magazine. The magazine, in a press statement, said that
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    Elec & Eltek makes IPO to raise US$30m in S'pore
    451 1  - Elec Eltek makes IPO to raise US$30m in S'pore By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Hongkonglinked electronics firm Elec Eltek International Co expects to raise about USS3O million (SS4S million) through an initial public offer announced yesterday. The offer, denominated in US dollars, is in two tranches a public portion of 10.3
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      25 1 Hock lx>ck Siew: HLF's double windfall Forget what the Fed says, Pg 14 Corporate results: Cosco Investments, Pg 18; Tsingtao Brewery, Sony Corp, Pg 20
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Bank lending jumps 13pc in June
        330 2  -  By Shiv Taneja BANK loans and advances to non-bank customers grew 13.2 per cent year-on-year to $83 billion in June, the latest month for which figures were available, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said. The main areas of loans growth were for building and
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      Manufacturing expected to post 17pc growth in 4th qtr
      528 2  -  Finance sector growth likely to slow to 2.6 pc Reports by Genevieve Cua THE SURGE in the manufacturing industry is expected to be sustained this year, with growth rising to 17 percent in the fourth quarter, but the finance sector is
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      Wage gap between professionals and blue collar workers widest in Singapore, says survey
      329 2 THE WAGE GAP between a department manager and a blue-collar worker was wider in Singapore than in 10 other major cities, an academic said yesterday, citing a survey. Presenting a paper on the wage gap here, Dr
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      ER Mechatronics plans for Sesdaq listing next year
      562 2  -  Jy Claire Leow INDUSTRIAL automation company ER Mechatronics plans to get a Sesdaq listing within the next 13 months. The firm's planning director, Alexius Oh, said at a plant opening yesterday that an initial public offer would be launched within six months
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      Lock icon Coming up: new-look, upmarket Tanjong Rhu
      372 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi TANJONG RHU will be transformed into an upmarket neighbourhood comprising about 3,600 private apartments, commercial villages and a riverside promenade. The Urban Redevelopment Authority said at a news briefing yesterday that about 1,200 units were already being developed and the first
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      Innovation is theme of technology month
      221 2 THE business community, and entrepreneurs in particular, will stand to gain from many of the activities oonfced for this year's Technology Month, starting Sep 1. The theme for Tech Month '94 is inoovatio%4M||oiany of its events are targeted at encouraging the business sector to
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      Prosecution proceeds with original charge
      227 2  -  Biscuit King trial By Ramesh Divyanathan THE prosecution in the trial of "Biscuit King" Rajan Pillai yesterday decided not to amend a charge despite a suggestion by a district judge that it do so. The charge accuses Pillai of criminal breach of trust for allegedly
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article
      Indon prosecutors to appeal for life jail term for Tansil
      452 3  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA INDONESIAN state prosecutors, dissatisfied with the 17year jail sentence meted out this week against businessman Eddy Tansil in the multi-mil-lion dollar Bapindo scam, plan to appeal against the ruling and press for a life jail
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      Cambodia may turn to MAS for airline launch
      338 3  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR CAMBODIA is still keen on having Singapore Airlines' help in launching its national airline Royal Air Cambodge (RAC) but may turn to Malaysia if SIA was not interested, First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh was
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      Lock icon Jakarta press ban symptom of govt conflict: journalists
      232 3 Reuter HONGKONG Jakarta's recent crackdown on the press is a symptom of conflict at the highest levels of government, Indonesian editors and journalists said at a seminar here yesterday. "We have become the victims of political conflict in the superstructure," said Aristides
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      Lock icon Competition can spur telecom industry, says Mahathir
      164 3 Bernama ALOR SETAR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday healthy competition was vital in the telecommunication industry so that its success would be more meaningful. "Healthy competition does not mean competition without limits. An industry comprising small companies will not promote development required
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    • NOTEBOOK
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        Lock icon S Korean premier on Asian trip
        86 3 Oana-Yonhap SEOUL South Korean Prime Minister Lee Yung Dug will make official visits to Vietnam, Singapore and Bangladesh from Aug 29 to Sep 5. During his trip to the Asian countries, he is scheduled to meet their leaders to exchange views on the situation
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        Lock icon No Apec invite for Taiwan president
        90 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas yesterday denied reports that Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui had been invited to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) leaders' summit in November. Singapore's The Straits Times daily yesterday carried a report saying Chinese President Jiang Zemin would
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        Lock icon Manila fears Canada food rules
        79 3 Reuter MANILA The Philippines has expressed concern over Canada's plans to introduce new health regulations for food imports.* Department of Trade and Industry Undersecretary Thomas Alcantara said in a statement that the Philippines was concerned that the rules could hurt the Philippines' food exports to
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        Lock icon Thai ex-police chief surrenders
        78 3 Reuter BANGKOK Former Thai national police chief Sawasdi Amornviwatana, facing charges in the country's long-running Saudi gems case, surrendered yesterday as a Saudi envoy accused Thai officials of corruption and dishonesty. Sawasdi and seven other senior police officers will be charged with negligence of duty and
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      Lock icon MAS plane in 'near-miss' with Taiwan jet at KL airport
      173 3 AP Bernama KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian jet narrowly missed crashing into another plane on the runway as it landed at Kuala Lumpur airport, officials said yesterday. The pilot of the Boeing 737 reported a "near-miss" on Wednesday because an Eva
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINAWATCH
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        Lock icon Honda forms joint venture in China
        96 4 AFP TOKYO Japan's Honda Motor Co said yesterday it had formed a joint venture in China to produce and sell small gasoline-powered generators for the Chinese market. Honda-Min-dong Generator Co Ltd, capitalised at US$6 million (Ss9 million), is owned 60 per cent by Honda
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        Lock icon No safety gear for the cleaners
        49 4 AFP BEIJING Two Chinese workers cleaning glass windows of a diplomatic apartment yesterday, without any safety gear. Chinese labour ministry officials blame the increase in the number of industrial accidents on managers seeking to optimise production at the expense of worker safety. AFP
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        Lock icon Taiwan TV host to end hunger strike
        98 4 AFP TAIPEI The host of a popular Chinese-affairs show cancelled by a state-funded Taiwan television network said yesterday he would shortly end his six-day-old hunger strike after his health deteriorated. Ling Feng, who also directed the programme "Journey of 8,000 miles," said his
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      Lock icon China's ruling party clamps down on political leaks
      462 4 AFP UPI BEIJING The Chinese Communist Party has sent out a circular imposing a curb on the publication of confidential political information without its permission, the People's Daily reported yesterday. The document, issued by the party's department of propaganda and the Ministry
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      Lock icon Taipei lifts ban on local banks dealing with Beijing
      220 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan yesterday ended a 45-year ban on local banks having dealings with mainland Chinese counterparts. Vice-Finance Minister Lee Chung Ying said five banks had been granted permission to operate on the mainland through overseas subsidiaries. Beginning yesterday, the First
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      Lock icon Beijing close to issuing labour code for foreign firms
      230 4 AFP BEIJING China is close to promulgating a long-awaited regulation aimed at preventing abuses of workers' rights in for-eign-funded firms, a Ministry of Labour official was quoted as saying yesterday. Previous government guidelines on worker protection have failed due to poor
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      Lock icon An eye on the bottom line
      43 4 Reuter TAO YUAN, Taiwan A workman examining tbe cistern of a toilet bowl at a production line of Hocheng Corporation in Tao Yuan on Tuesday. Hocheng is one of the biggest housing facility manufacturers in Taiwan. Renter
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      Lock icon China sets up body to evaluate invisible assets
      173 4 AFP BEIJING China, in its latest move to strengthen intellectual property rights, has set up a national firm to evaluate "invisible" assets such as the market value of patents, trademarks and copyrights. The China Daily yesterday said the Liancheng Assets Investment Firm,
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      Lock icon Red tape and high rents force MNCs to give Beijing a wide berth
      209 4 AFP HONGKONG Multinational firms seeking investment opportunities in China are avoiding Beijing because of the capital's exasperating bureaucracy. A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit yesterday said that while multinational companies often found it hard to avoid
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      Lock icon Taiwan, China discussing direct phone links in bid to thaw ties
      264 4 AP TAIPEI Taiwan and China are discussing setting up direct telephone links in a further effort to thaw their long-frozen ties. The links would go through satellites or cables operated by foreign countries, thus upholdirtg at least on paper
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon India plans to privatise new highways, calls tenders
      507 5 Reuter BOMBAY Maharashtra, India's most industrialised state, said it is inviting global tenders for the construction of a 12-bil-lion-rupee (*****.75 million) expressway to connect Bombay with Pune, the state's second largest city. This will be the first private road project under India's
      Reuter  -  507 words
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      Lock icon Aussie home market has peaked, say analysts
      270 5 AFP SYDNEY Australia's housing market, a driving force behind the country's economic growth, has peaked, analysts said yesterday. Economists said the end of a spiralling housing market had been signalled by monthly data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showing the number
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    • ASIANOTES
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        Lock icon Prices of land in Japan still dropping
        110 5 AFP TOKYO Japan's land prices continued to drop sharply in 1993, reflecting large falls in metropolitan areas in and around Tokyo and Osaka, the National Tax Administration Agency said yesterday. The average price of land lots along major roads across the nation was
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        Lock icon Tokyo to monitor economic conditions
        98 5 Reuter TOKYO The Japanese government will carefully watch economic conditions for a while as both positive and negative factors exist, Vice-Finance Minister Jiro Saito told a news conference yesterday. "There are encouraging signs (in the economy), while there are worries about the high yen," he
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        Lock icon Seoul rejects US suggestions on cars
        101 5 AP SEOUL, South Korea South Korea has rejected US suggestions that it lower tariffs and take other steps to increase foreign car imports, government officials said yesterday. But negotiations on increasing access to the South Korean car market by US cars will continue, with
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        Lock icon India to meet US over flammable skirts
        79 5 AFP NEW DELHI India is sending two officials to Washington to discuss a virtual ban on the import of Indian-made popular rayon skirts that US authorities have declared highly flammable. Spokesman Ajai Shankar yesterday said two officials, from the Apparel Export Promotion Council
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      Lock icon Bigger than the Channel Tunnel
      57 5 Reuter KAWASAKI, Japan Construction workers inspecting the progress of the world's largest shield-tunnelling machine as it made its first cut into Tokyo Bay yesterday. W hen the tunnel, which is part of the Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway, is completed in 1997, its diameter will be 5.54
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      Toshiba plans to stop making TV set chassis in S'pore for N America
      320 5  -  From Koichi Ishiyama in TOKYO TOSHIBA Corp is planning to shift part of its television set chassis production in Singapore to Mexico now that the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) has come into force. The company,
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  • THE WORLD
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      Final draft of Gatt Bill likely to be approved by year-end
      343 7  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON A CONFERENCE of representatives of the Senate and the House of Representatives was expected to start yesterday debating the final version of the Congressional Bill to implement the global trade accord reached under the
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      Lock icon Whitewater claims highest ranking victim as Altman quits
      321 7 AP WASHINGTON Deputy US Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, facing intense criticism from Congress for his role in the Whitewater affair, resigned on Wednesday, becoming the Clinton administration's highest-ranking victim of the scandal. President Bill Clinton accepted Altman's resignation after Democratic leaders on
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      Lock icon Making the Foxtrot a tourist attraction
      60 7 Reuter LONDON A workman checking valves inside a decommissioned Soviet Foxtrot submarine on Wednesday. The Cold War relic will open as a tourist attraction moored on the Thames today. It is hoped the submarine will attract more than 100,000 people a year curious to
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      Lock icon Three lawmakers will switch votes to revive crime Bill
      239 7 AP WASHINGTON New York Rep Charles Rangcl came to President Clinton's rescue on Wednesday, announcing along with Georgia Rep John Lewis and Louisiana Rep Cleo Fields that he would switch his vote and help revive the beleaguered U5533.2 billion (Ssso billion)
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      Lock icon Republicans lead push to trim red tape from health care Bill
      351 7 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Senate Republicans on Wednesday began an attempt to purge the Democratic leaders' health care legislation of what they say is red tape and bureaucracy and discovered to their surprise that Democrats were with them. An
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    • WORLDWATCH
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        Lock icon New Dutch coalition govt formed
        74 8 Reuter THE HAGUE Dutch Labour Party leader and former trade unionist Wim Kok formed a new coalition government in the Netherlands, bringing together three parties from both right and left, government officials said yesterday. The formation of the new ruling coalition an alliance of Labour,
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        Lock icon Israelis protest against peace talks
        65 8 Reuter JERUSALEM Right-wing Israeli women, wearing masks of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, hugging each other as they guarded the gate to the Temple Mount during a street protest yesterday. The women are opposed to the government's peace talks with
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        Lock icon Christopher at Woerner memorial
        69 8 AFP BRUSSELS US Secretary of State Warren Christopher arrived here yesterday to attend the memorial service of Nato Secretary General Manfred Woerner who died on Saturday. No official meetings with foreign ministers of other Nato member states have been scheduled but informal meetings may well take
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    • Article
      Lock icon Jailed MMM head orders offices to reopen on Monday
      131 8 AFP MOSCOW The jailed head of the collapsed pyramid investment company MMM ordered from his prison cell yesterday that all of the company's offices should reopen for trading on Monday. MMM suspended trading on Aug 4 when a criminal investigation was
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      Lock icon German police fear plutonium being smuggled to Pakistan
      399 8 Reuter BONN German police raided flats throughout Berlin on Wednesday on suspicion that contraband plutonium had been or was about to be smuggled to Pakistan, a Berlin state justice ministry spokesman said. Spokesman Frank Thiel said no arrests were made and no
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    • Article
      Kazakh president likely to visit S'pore this year
      239 8  -  By Kevin Sullivan SINGAPORE Kazakhstan President Nursuitan A Nazarbayev is likely to visit Singapore this year, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev said at the end of a two-day official visit here last night. Mr Saudabayev said he expected an agreement to establish
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      Lock icon Foreign investment in Mexico slows despite reforms
      367 8 Bloomberg Business News MEXICO CITY Mexico, where foreign investment is crucial in modernising its businesses. lured US$B.O3 billion (SSI2 billion) in foreign capital in the first seven months of 1994, up 32 per cent from a year ago. But the commerce ministry yesterday
      Bloomberg Business News  -  367 words
    • Article
      Lock icon US insurers to compromise on Superfund reform
      261 8 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Administration officials yesterday said they had brokered a broad consensus among insurers on the best way to pay for Superfund reform. The administration's latest change to the funding mechanism, a tax on insurers, "has the support of a significant
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    • Article
      UK govt set for showdown with railway strikers
      399 8  -  From Neville Stack in LONDON THE British government is set for a showdown as the strike of signalmen, which has been disrupting British Rail services for 10 weeks, shows no sign of settlement. Whitehall sources are talking both anxiously and tough. The
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Remark on disabled takes some shine off Friendly Games
      663 9 Commonwealth Games AP VICTORIA, British Columbia The Commonwealth Games, known as the "Friendly Games", lost some of its warmth on Wednesday when the head of the Australian team said the inclusion of disabled athletes was "an embarrassment". Arthur Tunstall was roundly
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      Lock icon Will it be Victorian swan song for Hongkong athletes?
      288 9 Reuter UPI VICTORIA. British Columbia Hongkong athletes are preparing for their swan song at the Commonwealth Games knowing they face an uncertain future in the world of sport after 1997. Major international sporting bodies have yet to say whether the tiny
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    • SIDELINES
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        Lock icon Grand Prix athletes in fistfight
        67 9 Reuter ZURICH US Olympic 100 metres bronze medallist Dennis Mitchell was involved in a brawl with another leading sprinter in a hotel lobby yesterday which left his opponent requiring stiches over one eye, eyewitnesses said. They said Mitchell and Nigerian Olapadc Adeniken had a stand-up
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        Lock icon New sports for Commonwealth Games
        88 9 Reuter VICTORIA. British Columbia Cricket, rugby union and hockey have been approved in principle as additions to the list of sports at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian Games will be the first Commonwealth event to include team sports. Commonwealth Games Federation
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        Lock icon Chang not counting out Sampras, Courier
        91 9 AP NEW YORK Michael Chang is not counting Pete Sampras or Jim Courier out of the US Open, which begins Aug 29. "I really think under the circumstances Pete will play," Chang said on Wednesday of the world's No 1 player and defending US
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      • Article
        Lock icon Nothstein is cycling sprint champion
        82 9 AFP PALERMO, Italy American Marty Nothstein became cycling's world sprint champion here on Wednesday night with a convincing victory over Australian Darryn Hill in the men's final. The 23-year-old from Allentown. Pennsylvania, set the world track championships alight here with winning times of 10.882 sec
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        Lock icon Tavern has the last laugh
        96 9 Reuter WELLINGTON The Jolly Miller Tavern in Wellington got away lightly with a 'free drinks till the first try" promotion on Wednesday night during the Australia-New Zealand rugby union test in Sydney. It took the Wallabies just 17 seconds to score a try against the
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        Lock icon It's hard on Ivanisevic
        84 9 Reuter INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana Top-seeded Goran Ivanisevic's discomfort on hard courts was evident on Wednesday when the Croatian world No 2 lost a 6-3 3-6 7-5 to Australian Mark Woodforde in the second round of the US$l.O4 million (551.58 million) RCA Championships. "I don't know what to
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        Lock icon Baseball fans get say in disputes
        86 9 AP WASHINGTON Baseball fans would help settle future Major League Baseball disputes under legislation introduced on Wednesday in the US Senate. The bill sponsored by Senator Dennis DeConcini of Arizona would establish a five-member major league baseball commission consisting of three fans selected by
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      Lock icon Zurich rain turns much-vaunted championship into a hard slog
      365 9 NYT ZURICH The athletes considered it a "mini world championship": the best track and field event that 5.7 million Swiss francs could buy in a year devoid of mammoth international diversions like the Summer Olympics. But someone in this city of
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      Lock icon Couples among favourites at International golf event
      598 9 Golf His birdies likely to put him in good stead AP CASTLE ROCK, Colorado Fred Couples, one of the PGA Tour's longest hitters, hits the ball even farther in the International, and therein lies the reason he seldom plays this unique event. Couples,
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      Lock icon All Blacks stand by beleaguered coach despite defeats
      366 9 AP SYDNEY Members of the New Zealand rugby union team fully support coach Laurie Mains despite the team's recent dismal record, captain Sean Fitzpatrick said yesterday. Australia defeated the All Blacks 20-16 to retain the Bledisloe Cup at the Sydney Football Stadium
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        Athletics
        365 9 ZURICH Weltklasse Grand Prix meeting Wednesda) Men's 100 m: 1 Linford Christie (GB) IO.OS 2 John Drummond (US) 10.IS 3 Olapadc Adcniken (Nig) 10.22. 110 m hurdles: I Colin Jackson (GB) 13.19 2 Mark Crcar (US) 13.29 3 Mark McKoy (Aus) 13.40. 200 m: I Michael Johnson (US) 20.33
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        Golf
        123 9 NEW YORK World rankings, computed on a three-year rolling basis weighted toward the current year (through Aug 14): I Nick Price (Zim) 21.11 pts 2 Greg Norman (Aust) 20.74 3 Nick Faldo (Eng) 16.88 4 Bern hard Langer (Ger) 15.76 5 Fred Couples (US) 14.82 6 Jose Maria Olazabal
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        Tennis
        282 9 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana LSSI.O4 million RCA Championships 2nd rd Wednesday Mark Woodforde (Aust) b I-Goran Ivani- sevic (Cro) 6-3 3-6 7-5; 3-Stefan Edberg (Swe) b Brett Steven (NZ) 6-2 3-6 6-2; Greg Rusedski (Can) b 6-Thomas Muster (Aus) 6-4 3-6 6-3; 9-Carlos Costa (Spn) b Brvan Shelton (US) 7-6 (7-3)
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        Saatchi gets STPB, Qantas accounts
        56 10 SINGAPORE Saatchi Saatchi was recently appointed advertising agency for the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) and Qantas. The STPB account is the biggest single new business win for the agency so far this year. Saatchi will also be handling all overseas advertising for Qantas, working
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        Time to dance
        72 10 SINGAPORE Inspired by the movements of dance, Raymond Weil has incorporated the dance form in a $400,000 print campaign announcing the arrival of its new collection of watches. Called Precision Movements, the campaign shows a series of breathtaking black and white photographs of dancers caught in the
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        Aussie tourist campaign targets Asians
        83 10 SINGAPORE The South Australian Tourism Commission (SATC) has launched a three-year strategy to attract Asians to Adelaide. The campaign incorporates advertising in print and electronic media and a direct mail campaign for target market sectors in Singapore, Malaysia and Hongkong. The SATC has also produced
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        Lock icon KFC may review international account
        104 10 NYT NEW YORK The KFC fast-food chain said on Monday that it was considering placing in review its international account, with billings of US$2O million (Ss3o million), after naming Ogilvy Mather London to handle the creative portion of its account in Britain. That account, with
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      Lock icon It's okay to eat curry off china
      966 10  -  Jennifer Lien finds out how Wedgwood adapts to the changing times Jennifer Lien Traditional English ceramic maker Wedgwood is adapting to the winds of change. So pronounces Piers Anthony Weymouth, fourth Lord Wedgwood of Barlaston, and international spokesman for the line of fine
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      Face of fortune makes a comeback
      671 11 Corinne Kerk reports on the tale of two commercials ORIGINAL or copycat? That is the question surrounding the face of a Chinese man some call it "face of fortune" used recently in a television commercial. Batey Ads used the face to advertise United Overseas
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      Omega offers anniversary watches
      191 11 OMEGA is offering more than 2.000 exclusive and limited wristwatches called The Omega "1894" to commemorate the watchmaker's 100 th anniversary. These watches come with 30mm calibre chronometers, a departure from the 35mm diameter of the mechanism found in its normal men's watch. The Omega 30mm
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      Lock icon It's community fun again at Woodstock II
      648 13 UPI Before the music stopped, before the concert-goers left the debris-strewn fields, before the money had all been counted, an army of pundits struggled to paste meaning onto Woodstock 11. Musicians, festival-goers and the upstate New York landscape itself all took part in
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      Liz Taylor sues network
      336 13 CWTTtRBOX ACTRESS Elizabeth Taylor sued the NBC television network on Wednesday to block the broadcast of a mini-series based on a book that contends she was beaten by three of her seven husbands. The still unreleased book by C David Heymann also claims Taylor laboured to
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      Lock icon Paul Getty's £1 million offer for The Three Graces stands: report
      522 13 AFP BILLIONAIRE philanthropist John Paul Getty appears to be standing by his £1 million (552.32 million) offer to keep "The Three Graces" in Britain, a gingerly optimistic British press said yesterday. Despite a threat by Getty to withdraw the
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      73 13 I||MSSVSM ((EM INDONESIAN Ngt JjT RESTAURANT mtutda He Yellow Rice, Avocado Shake BUSINESS HOURS Lunch 12noon to 3pm (last order 2 45pm) Dinner 6pm to 10 30pm (last order 9 45pm) VAI la Coffee Hours 3pm to 6pm ymlfiM SAT-SUN PUBLIC HOLIDAYS: X/| I Lunch 11 30am to 3 30pm
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      1167 13 TV RADIO I Broo^U and spend the rest of the time pursuing it. Gremlins 11pm, SBC 5 V; old demolished and mogwai Gizmo captured for research in Chris- r 5 topher Lee's lab the Splice MMpP^-" of Life Inc. Gizmo is exposed to water and spawns hundreds fljra&ji. of beasties
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    New Lankan PM's daunting task
    489 14 EDITORIAL SRI LANKA has a new and charismatic prime minister, 49-year old Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga. The leader of the victorious People's Alliance, which won 105 seats in the 225 seat-parliament in Tuesday's elections, has a monumental task ahead of her. She must undo the political
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Swifter dispensing of justice
      210 14 ANOTHER innovation is about to be unleashed in the gale-force pace of reform in the administration of justice this time, settling civil suits before the trial stage. What needs guarding against is that the zeal for judicial efficiency does not suppress inadvertently the desire to seek
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      Better ties in the offing
      149 14 CHINA AND TAIWAN are moving towards a more fruitful relationship, judging from their recent meeting, which achieved much more than what was initially anticipated. It seems China is more sanguine about burying its differences with Taiwan. Although both countries are separated because of historical and
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      Breathing space for Pyongyang
      124 14 SOUTH KOREA is obviously not anxious to see a hasty reunification with the North because Seoul cannot shoulder a burden like Bonn did after the reunification of Germany. In fact, by creating a nuclear crisis, Pyongyang has gained more time for its own development and avoid
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      No room for complacency
      192 14 FOREIGN INVESTORS have given Malaysia the thumbs-up for a long time. This has been manifested in the large sums of foreign direct investments that the country has been able to attract over the years. Despite the world economic slowdown and the increasing competition from new and
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      Good for both China and Taiwan
      173 14 AFTER MONTHS of rocky negotiations and verbal jousting, China and Taiwan have finally reached an agreement that, it is hoped, will reverse the deterioration of relations brought on by the deaths of some Taiwanese tourists, as well as difficulties over the reunification issue. If
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      The day of the jackal has come
      190 14 THE CAPTURE of Illich Ramirez Sanchez is a welcome development in the fight against terrorism. Carlos the Jackal, as he is known, has been linked to some of the most bloody outrages of the past two decades. Even if the evidence linking him
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    Forget what the Fed says – you ain't seen nothing yet
    873 14  - Forget what the Fed says you ain't seen nothing yet Kennith Courtis explains why interest rates are set to climb much higher than most people expect, unless the US and Japan get their act together Kennith Courtis The writer is strategist and senior economist for the Deutsche Bank group in
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      348 14 TRAVEL WHEN THEY B GO ON HOLIDAY M AUSTRALIA j|l Take-it-Easy-Holidays Sydney including Blue Mountains 6D/4N 1,388 KM Adelaide SD/3N 1,148 Spectacular VV Brisbane/Gold Coast 6D/4N 1,388 Sydney including Canberra 6D/4N 1,538 Cairns SD/3N S 1,120 Country Life Tour lu9 Darwin 3D/2N 788 Tmß Melbourne 6D/4N 5 1,388 Self Drive
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      74 14 Vtn ON WOUDFV/ IN U)P>NT To GET US£T> JOCS, m*<e *s mocn Novse J TO slewing ON FN PG CP«N... WV4\STLe SHOUT ,r V r BeKH PSND S\NQ RHVTHfrJG... J V DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU CSONK ISPUSHePTOTHe 11 DOIOUFEELUKEH.YIN6 *T(UOOPSIOCK BUMMERTBtfT 1 I FROM THBU6HT TOWERS 7 /mil I |i AFBxxjeeiNdFouomv
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      Forced to operate on a tedious slow track
      1750 15  -  Leon Hadar describes how Bill Clinton's political problems both within his own party and with the Republicans are affecting his trade agenda and leading his administration to toughen its position on China and Japan Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington Correspondent
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      Perth as a new 'Gateway to India'
      1178 15  -  Brian Gomez discusses Australia's new economic focus on India and S Africa Brian Gomez The writer is based in Sydney AFTER a decade of solid export growth in East and South-east Asia, Australia is turning its attention westward towards India and South Africa
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      207 15 A«| Cl\* Yeah, this August at Jack's Am\|l ll «3v Place you'll be able to enjoy a WHOLE NEW selection §of set lunch menu specially created to give you value for money. Main courses include Chicken in Red Wine Sauce, Steak and many more. C'mon down and have a real
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    Lock icon Bundesbank maintains rates despite better M3 figures
    459 16 Reuter FRANKFURT The Bundesbank surprised financial markets yesterday by keeping its whole battery of interest rates on hold for at least the next two weeks despite a clear improvement in troublesome money supply growth. Prior to its first meeting since the summer recess,
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    Lock icon Russian rocket rollers
    44 16 AFP SUROVATIKHA, Russia It may look like rolling good fun but these Russian officers are actually sorting out missile waste parts at a dump of a rocket liquidation base here on Wednesday. To date, 22 SS-18 missiles have been destroyed. AFP
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    Lock icon US trade deficit dips to US$9.37b, its first fall in three months
    269 16 AP WASHINGTON The US trade deficit narrowed slightly to U559.37 billion (SS 14.05 billion) in June for the first decline in three months, the government said yesterday. Still, the annual merchandise trade gap appeared headed towards the second
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    Lock icon Seapower founder seeks investors
    105 16 Reuter HONGKONG Seapower International Holdings Ltd founder Choi Sai Leung is talking to bankers to find investors for Seapower shares he may be forced to buy in order to avoid a general offer. Chairman Francis Yuen, Mr Choi's rival in a bitter boardroom fight, and a
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    Lock icon Worst may be over for European banks hit by bond market fall
    377 16 Reuter LONDON Banks across Europe are recoiling from massive hits on their dealing income as a result of the bond market collapse brought on by tighter US monetary policy. But as the banks pondered the debacle, this week's
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    Sri Lanka's next finance minister plans sweeping reforms
    403 16  -  From Yogi Aggarwal in COLOMBO KINGSLEY Wickramaratne, the man expected to be the next finance minister of Sri Lanka, plans sweeping reform of the country's tax and economic policies. The socialist rhetoric of the past has given way to a new pragmatism
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    American media plays 'gotcha' with Bill
    945 16  -  The Bottom Line YEONG WAI CHEONG YEONG WAI CHEONG The writer is a principal of Kaufman, Diamond Yeong, a US-based economic and investment research firm. He contributed this commentary to BT PRESIDENT Bill Clinton's Whitewater problems seem to be the story of the moment
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    Lock icon Aussie court upholds Timor Gap treaty with Indonesia
    270 16 AFP CANBERRA Australia's High Court yesterday endorsed the government's right to sign a treaty with Indonesia to exploit the rich undersea oil fields between the two countries. In a unanimous decision, the full bench of the High Court rejected submissions that Australia
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      28 16 _}=]-^(]::|-:$)}<%^{&^()=\{^+%} Singapore Kuala Lumpur NGEE ANN OOEON TOWERS MENARA IMC CITY (Opp Raffias !J (Opp Shangri-La Hotel) (Orchard Road) Hotel) B QUALITY INSTANT OFFICES Tel 65-*****43 Fax 65-*****76 MWCINTH
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        MARKET MOOD
        40 17 Mixed Market Mood indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on hrokirs polled at 5-6nm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polhtJ Fraser. GK Cioh, Morgan Grenfell. Nomura. Phillip. Smith Court. Tat I we and Wl Carr.
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        HOT STOCK
        136 17  -  -By Quak Hiang Whai Faber Group Bhd was definitely the hot stock in the last few sessions. But yesterday's drop in both price and volume appeared to be the start of a badly needed consolidation phase before the stock could achieve its medium-term target. A clear divergence has
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      OUB, Tat Lee take up land at Tampines finance park
      322 17  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Overseas Union Bank and Tat Lee Bank have won tenders for Housing Development Board (HDB) land parcels at the proposed Tampines Regional Centre, a finance park. OUB won with a bid of $31.08 million, and
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      One-third of First Engrg IPO for small buyers
      243 17 SINGAPORE Small investors who bid for up to four lots of First Engineering shares in the company's initial public offer will get more than a third of the overall issue. Those who applied for a single lot have a one-in-10 chance, while
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      Lock icon CCL picks bumpy road to regional expansion
      543 17 Bloomber Business News SINGAPORE Cycle and Carriage Ltd isn't scared off by tough car markets. Its home base is Singapore, where car prices are among the highest in the world. And it's expanding into countries in South-east Asia where the average guy would
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      Double windfall will see Hong Leong Finance through in second half
      879 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Alvin Tay SINGAPORE Hong Leong Finance doesn't need a banking licence to make the kind of big bucks that some of the banks do. The republic's biggest finance company generated net group earnings of $35.8
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      Sincere teams up with Scotts Weitnauer
      275 17 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed Sincere Watch Ltd and homegrown Scotts Weitnauer Retailing have teamed up to tap the market for duty-free watches at regional international airports. The watch retailer and du-ty-free specialist will form a 50-50 joint venture company with $2 in paid-up capital. Sincere Watch
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      San Teh posts 4.5pc rise in interim net earnings
      208 17 SINGAPORE San Teh, a rubber component supplier, has reported a 4.5 per cent increase in group net earnings to $5.3 million for the half-year ended June 30. Group turnover rose 19.3 per cent to $27.2 million. Earnings per share was 3.6
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          Ready trading for Omni Mold
          31 18 SINGAPORE Omni Mold announced yesterday that trading in its shares will stop on a "when issued" basis and will start on a "ready basis" on Tuesday.
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          Pan Pacific to subscribe for shares
          80 18 SINGAPORE Pan Pacific Public Company has entered into an agreement to subscribe for 29,000 ordinary shares and 500,000 preference shares in the capital of Magna Media Holdings. The subscription is at an issue price of $8.62 for each ordinary share of $1 each and
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          Hwa Tat Lee to buy rest of Noosag
          75 18 SINGAPORE Hwa Tat Lee Holdings, one of Singapore's largest manufacturers of leather upholstered furniture, will acquire the entire stake in Noosag Industries. Hwa Tat Lee, which previously owned 75 per cent (150,000 shares of $1 each) ot Noosag, has acquired the remaining
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          UIS' net tangible assets
          26 18 SINGAPORE United International Securities has announced that its unaudited consolidated net tangible asset backing per share was $1.64 as at July 31.
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          Lock icon KFC (M)'s interim pre-tax jumps 81pc
          93 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR KFC Holdings (M) Bhd, the country's largest quick service restaurants operator, has reported an 81.2 per cent jump in group pre-tax profit to M$ 19.61 million (S$ 11.53 million) for the half-year ended June 30, 1994. KFC, which is also a
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          Lock icon BIMB Securities is new KLSE member
          38 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR BiMB Securities Sdn Bhd will be recognised by the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange as a member company from today. To date, the KLSE has 59 active member companies. Bernama
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          Lock icon Yamaichi plans regional equity fund
          81 18 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Japanese fund management firm Yamaichi Investment Trust Management plans to raise about US$3OO million to US$4OO million (Ss4so million to Ss6oo million) for a South-east Asian equity fund, a Yamaichi spokesman said. The fund will invest a substantial part of its
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          Corrections and clarifications
          54 18 YESTERDAY'S Hock Lock Siew column, headlined "Local banks' second-half potential may have been underestimated", quoted DBS insiders as saying that in the current half the bank may not be able to do better than the first six months. DBS Bank has clarified that no statement to that
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        Lock icon Maybank profit rise expected to top 30pc target
        311 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank)'s results for the year ended June 30, 1994, to be released at the end of the week, are forecast to exceed the bank's 30 per cent targeted increase from last year's profit. Analysts yesterday said
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        Lock icon Swiss bank gives Thai bourse top Asian rating
        139 18 Reuter BANGKOK The Thai stock market has been allocated the highest weighting in the Asian region for the second half of the year by Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC). "Thailand is our favoured market in the region," SBC says in its July Quarterly
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        Bakrie's giant rights issue wins support of US-based AIG
        464 18  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA PLANS by PT Bakrie Brothers to launch Indonesia's biggest-ever corporate fund-raising exercise received a timely boost yesterday when US-based insurance giant AIG Group unveiled plans to invest US$l25 million (S$ 187.5 million) into the company. In
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        Malaysia's Samling wins Cambodian logging rights ahead of rivals
        426 18  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA'S second largest timber group, Samling Corporation, has stolen a march on its rivals by winning the rights to extract and process logs from two timber concessions totalling nearly 800,000 hectares in Cambodia. Several
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        Lock icon MHS exercises option to buy RZ Equities
        361 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Helicopter Services Bhd yesterday said it had exercised an option to acquire a 100 per cent stake in RZ Equities Sdn Bhd, a company owned by the former's majority shareholder, Tajudin Ramli. The exercise of this option will involve
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        UMG soars in KL debut over rumoured bank purchase
        479 18  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR SHARES of United Merchant Group Bhd (UMG) soared well above market expectations on its first day of listing yesterday, thanks to talk that it would soon acquire a stake in Ban Hin Lee Bank.
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        Lock icon Mycom plans to buy Sabah state land
        165 18 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Gaming firm Mycom Bhd has proposed to buy 12,120 hectares of plantation land in Malaysia's Sabah state for MS33 million (SSI9 million) in shares. The land, which is divided into two parcels, will be purchased from three individuals and six
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        New businesses boost Cosco's half-year earnings
        307 18 SINGAPORL Cosco Investments (Singapore) announced yesterday that its net earnings for the half year to June 30 rose to $1.3 million from 590.000 last year. But it added that the results arc "not strictly comparable" with the same period last year. Cosco Investments, formerly
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        Lock icon Sony blames strong yen for 1st-qtr earnings fall
        581 20 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Sony Corp yesterday blamed the strong yen for a 39 per cent fall in group pretax profit in the three months ended June 30. It continues to expect, however, that profits and sales for the full year ending
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        Lock icon Qantas revamps corporate image ahead of IPO
        360 20 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Qantas Airways, Australia's flagship carrier, is moving to spruce up its image in the lead-up to next year's initial share offering. After considerable debate, Qantas' trademark flying kangaroo logo has been spared the axe in the airline's biggest marketing
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        Lock icon Murdoch grooms son to take over media empire
        233 20 AFP SYDNEY Media magnate Rupert Murdoch yesterday began the process of grooming his 22-year-old son Lachlan Murdoch as successor to his global media empire, analysts said. The News Corp chairman and chief executive's son will take over as general manager of the
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          Lock icon Taiwan gives nod to landmark merger
          98 20 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has approved the landmark merger of two local financial institutions into a larger entity, banking officials said yesterday. The Cabinetlevel FTC gave the greenlight on Wednesday for the Taipei-based United World Chinese Commercial Bank and the Overseas
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          Lock icon Sun Hung Kai in bid to set up China fund
          67 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Sun Hung Kai Securities has applied to China's Securities Regulatory Commission to set up a joint venture fund to invest in shares currently restricted to Chinese investors. The fund plans to tap Hongkong investors for between
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          Lock icon Bids made for Madison Square Garden
          74 20 Reuter NEW YORK ITT Corp and its partner, Cablevision Systems Corp. bid US$l.3 billion (SSI.9 billion) to US$l.4 billion for Viacom Ine's Madison Square Garden, while Tele-Communica-tions Inc bid US$l.O billion to US$l.l billion, CNBC reported on Wednesday. Citing "someone close to the bidding".
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          Lock icon BASF's interim profit up sharply
          97 20 Reuter LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany BASF AG. the first of Germany's three chemical giants to report interim results, yesterday said profits in the first-half of the year rose sharply and orders were much better than last year. Group net profit grew to 425 million marks (SS4I2 million)
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          Lock icon Goodman shares rise on board ousting
          102 20 Reuter SYDNEY Shares in troubled food group Goodman Fielder Ltd rose more than 6 per cent in afternoon trade on reports that the board could be ousted and that big cost savings could be made, brokers said yesterday. At 0555 GMT. Goodman shares were
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          Lock icon Tung Ho to sell US$80m of stock
          81 20 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Tung Ho Steel Ltd. one of Taiwan's largest steel companies, said yesterday it will sell US$BO million (S$ 120 million) worth of stock in New York on Monday. Tung Ho will repay overseas loans and boost working capital with
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        Lock icon Higher output lifts Tsingtao Brewery's interim by 62pc
        273 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China's largest brewer, Tsingtao Brewery, said its after-tax profit rose 62.6 per cent in the half year ended June 30, on the back of a 27 per cent rise in beer production. It reported after-tax profit of 112.1
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        Lock icon Citic Pacific interim net likely to rise 30-40pc
        197 20 Reuter HONGKONG Stock analysts in Hongkong expect Chi-na-controlled Citic Pacific Ltd to announce a 30 to 40 per cent increase in interim profits on Monday. Strong contributions from Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd, in which it holds a 12 per cent stake, and Hongkong
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        Lock icon Reduced provisions cushion CS Holding's interim fall
        339 21 FT ZURICH CS Holding, the international financial services group built around Credit Suisse, has reported a 19 per cent drop in consolidated net income in the first half to 712 million Swiss francs (SsBlo million). The decline is the smallest among the big
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        Lock icon Cost cuts help push up BICC earnings by 26pc
        259 21 AFP LONDON BICC, the British cable and construction company, on Wednesday reported a 26 per cent jump in first-half pre-tax profits to £63 million (SSI4S million) from £50 million for the same period a year earlier. The result, above analysts' expectations,
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        Lock icon American Cyanamid accepts US$9.7b takeover offer
        241 21 Los Angeles Times NEW YORK American Cyanamid ended a two-week hostile takeover bid on Wednesday when it accepted American Home Products Corp's US$9.7 billion (S$ 14.5 billion) acquisition offer. The merger the secondlargest ever in the US drug industry brings together the makers of
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        232 21 Bloomberg Business News WOLFSBURG, Germany Volkswagen AG. Europe's largest carmaker, said it swung to a net profit of 133 million deutschemarks (*****.8 million) in the second quarter from a net loss of 355 million a year before. In a letter to shareholders, VW
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        390 21 Reuter PARIS Euro Disney SCA, the operator of the Euro Disneyland theme park, said yesterday it had completed its financial restructuring by paying ofT part of its mammoth debt with the proceeds of a recent capital increase. The 5.8 billion French franc (551.64 billion) payment,
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        254 21 NYT NEW YORK The federal government gave a small vote of confidence to the struggling supercomputer industry on Wednesday when the National Security Agency awarded Cray Computer Coip a US$4.2 million (556.3 million) contract to help develop what might become
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        Lock icon US futures panel sees mutual offset systems as top priority
        276 22 Reuter CHICAGO Development of mutual offset systems will remain the top priority for the Futures Industry Association this year, said Peter Karpen, chairman of the FIA. "In particular, what we have decided to support is that the FIA will support
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        Australia's gold output jumps to record 236 tonnes
        300 22  -  From Brian Gomez in SYDNEY AUSTRALIAN gold production hit a record 236 tonnes, or 7.6 million ounces, in the year to June compared with the previous record of 235 tonnes in 1990. An analysis of the latest production figures by The Age
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        196 22 AFP Reuter BEIJING Two US oil companies signed a joint contract with China on Wednesday for prospecting and development in the Bohai Sea off the country's northeastern seaboard, Xinhua said. Kerr-McGee Corp and Murphy Oil Corp signed the contract with the China
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        Lock icon US 'Names' to sue Lloyds: report
        277 22 Reuter LONDON Hundreds of Americans who invested in Lloyds of London are planning to sue the British insurance giant in the biggest lawsuit ever brought in a US court. The Daily Telegraph in a report from Washington yesterday. said that the American "Names', people
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        Lock icon Palladium soaks up the summer heat, boosted by Japanese demand
        377 22 Reuter LONDON Palladium, long outshone by other precious metals, is having a record summer as Japanese imports soar, helped by consumers buying machines such as yoghurt makers and portable air-condition-ers to cope with sweltering heat. "Japan is where it's at
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        Lock icon New Aussie mine to produce more copper, gold
        205 22 Reuter SYDNEY The Northparkes copper/gold mine, offieially opened on Wednesday, is destined to become one of Australia's great mines which will produee more than As 2 billion (552.24 billion) in export income over 16 years. North Broken Hill Peko Ltd said. NBH
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        Korean bank to raise US$120m through loan note issue in HK
        180 22 SINGAPORE The Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) will sign an agreement in Hongkong today to raise USSI2O million (SSIBO million) through an issue of floating rate notes in the colony. The Singapore branch of Bayensche Landesbank Girozentrale. one of
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        123 22 THE USS/SS drifted lower yesterday following the slide of the US dollar against the majors late on Wednesday. It closed the day at a low of 1.548/53 in subdued trade. The Malaysian ringgit firmed against the US$ with continued buying interest from offshore centres. Interest
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        212 22 Reuter LONDON The dollar edged down on the mark after the Bundesbank left both the official rates and the repo rate on hold at yesterday's council meeting. The unchanged Lombard and discount rate camc as no surprise but the decision to leave the repo rate fixed at 4.85 per
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        163 22 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Crude oil futures oscillated yesterday after a clampdown on Nigeria's oil workers unions by the ruling military. In an address on Wednesday night. General Sani Abacha said the leaders of the striking unions had been dismissed and Moshood Abiola's
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        90 22 AFP NEW YORK The dollar fell against the major European currencies save the pound sterling here yesterday morning in the absence of an easing in monetary policy by the Bundesbank. Around 1345 GMT, the dollar traded at 1.5420 marks against 1.5512 on Wednesday and at 99.12 yen from
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        1270 23 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen Japanese government bond (JOB) futures ended firmer on the back ot the stronger yen while Eurodollars closed lower. Dealers said Euroyen and JGBs were just following foreign exchange movements. The dollar weakened to close below the 100.00
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        S'pore rubber soars on heavy buying
        676 23 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber Singapore: Rubber futures erased morning losses to end broadly higher on keen buying prompted by sharp Tokyo advances. Japanese. European and US buyers swarmed the market as most Tokyo rubber futures contracts surged by their 6 yen per kg daily limit
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          Spot rubber exchange opens in Hainan
          69 23 HONGKONG China has opened its first spot natural rubber exchange in southern Hainan province in early August, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. The Hainan State Farm Rubber Products Trading Centre is located in the province's capital Haikou and has 340 trading
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          Australia likely to import wheat
          124 23 SYDNEY With continuing drought wiping out hopes for a good northern harvest, Australia is almost certain to import durum wheat later this year, according to traders and industry officials. Grains Council of Australia executive director Mitch Hooke said the industry, including growers, the Australian Wheat
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          Cebu copper mine to reopen
          47 23 SYDNEY Atlas Consolidated Mining of the Philippines, which idled its giant Cebu province copper mine in January, expects to resume output in about four months. The mine was shut in January after being hit by flooding from a typhoon which hit Cebu.
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          Indian cotton hurt by rains, virus
          77 23 NEW DELHI Heavy rain in the past month and a virus attack are likely to cut into India's 1994-95 cotton crop, industry officials said. It is too soon to assess the damage, but output may be below the earlier forecast of more than 13
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1517 23 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) ("lose Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Sep 94 I I 210.50 2450 Oct 196.75 ***** 197.25 675 4325 Nov 188.50 182.00 183.75 500 4500 Dec 188.50 179.00 180.50 225 5450 Jan/Mar
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        Australia
        1076 24 +7.3 OFFSHORE investors entered the stock market yesterday and pushed share prices marginally firmer at the close. The key All Ordinaries Index closed at 2,066.8 points, 7.3 above Wednesday's finish. The All Industrials added 8.6 to 3,019.1 while the All Resources gained 6.6 to 1,352.3. Turnover totalled 153.7 million
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        Manila
        616 24 -25.63 Prices succumbed to profit-tak-ing across the board yesterday after two consecutive advances. The PSE Index closed at 3,004.07 points, down 25.63. Turnover was 6.44 billion shares valued at 1.95 billion pesos. "The market is already overbought. When it reached resistance at 3,054 points, profit taking set in, especially
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        Seoul
        485 24 +3.52 Share prices extended their upswing yesterday on blue-chip rallies, dealers said. The Composite Price Index staged a 3.52-point return to close the trading day at 946.48. Turnover was 30.5 million shares worth 689 billion won. Falls outnumbered rises 668 to 198. While 90 issues climbed to the daily
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        Bombay
        97 24 +27.83 Shares surged to a record closing high as buying by foreign investors and speculators forced local mutual funds to stop their selling and keep to the sidelines. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index closed at a provisional 4,534.33 points, up 27.83. The 100-share National Index closed 10.73 up, to
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        Taipei
        562 24 -59.74 Stocks posted modest losses in heavy trading as a result of prof-it-taking by institutional investors, with banking and insurance shares hit hardest. The Weighted Price Index retreated 59.74 points to settle at 6,586.16. Turnover was 2.213 billion shares valued at NTS 107 billion. The market opened slightly high
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        New Zealand
        306 24 -4.08 Stocks closed a touch lower but off its intra-day lows after a day of lacklustre trading. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed 4.08 points lower at 2.097.38. "The market opened a bit weaker, with the Dow weaker and a little bit of negative sentiment about the Alliance press
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        694 24 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash Bid Offer Mim Cap Depoul *****0 38 6500 Mim Jersey Gill 0 1893 0.1992 Mim Mil Income .0.9100 0 9400 L SS Cask Income Plus Fund *9 4900 ******0 PS t Reieoe Fund 5 2900 5 3000 StrrliM Lenity Euro Pertormance 0 4592 0.4931 Far East
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        London
        672 24 -7.7 STOCKS fell for the first time in four days after a plunge in the dollar against the yen dragged down shares of companies with US assets. The FT-SE 100 Index fell 7.70 points to 3,182.6, pulled lower by BTR, Hanson and BAT Industries. The declines came after the
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        Paris
        134 24 •22.44 French shares ended lower under the influence of the bond market after the Bundesbank left its discount and Lombard rates unchanged and said it would hold its repo rate at 4.85 per cent for the next two weeks. The weaker dollar also depressed sentiment. The CAC-40 Index closed
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        Frankfurt
        177 24 -2.12 GERMAN stocks drifted in light trading after earlier falls on the heels of the Bundesbank's decision to leave its leading interest rates unchanged. Investors now pin their hopes on the next Bundesbank meeting in two weeks' time. After falling about 10 points on the Bundesbank's announcement, the DAX
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        Brussels
        178 24 -11.26 Belgium's main stock index fell as a weak dollar threatened earnings at companies active in the US. That compounded concern sparked earlier by speculation that European interest rates have reached bottom. The Bel-20 Index fell 11.26 points to 1.449.46. The weak dollar, which fell as low as 31.860
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        Johannesburg
        291 24 +5 South African shares ended generally higher and off the day's lows yesterday as the gold price surged to USS379/80 an ounce to offset the dampening effect of a sharply higher financial rand. Mild profit taking was seen near close. The Overall Index was nine points off at 5,814,
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        Toronto
        254 24 -8.100 Stocks edged lower in quiet early trading yesterday with traders expecting a typical sluggish summer session. Losses were seen in most sectors, including metals, financial services and conglomerates. The TSE-300 Composite Index was down 8.10 points to 4197.17 on volume of 11.48 million shares valued at C 5153.50
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        New York
        733 24 -9.39 The Dow Jones Average was down 9.39 points to 3,767.09 at 11am EDT. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index was on 1.02 to 255.38, while Standard Poors 500-stock Index was down 2.31 to 462.86, Declines topped advances 1,103-639 among the 2,513 issues crossing the NYSE tape.
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        Milan
        168 24 153 Italian shares closed the session strongly, shrugging off initial gloom. The Mibtel Index ended up 153 points at 10,388. "First we went down, then moved sideways and finally rallied. Yet the lira and bond markets were weak and there was absolutely no news. I don't understand it," one
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        Amsterdam
        250 24 -3.63 Dutch stocks closed lower after rising for three days after the Bundesbank left its interest rates unchange, reviving concern the cycle of European interest rate cuts may be nearing an end. Traders said the market lacks inspiration to buy because most companies now have reported their earnings for
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        Stockholm
        123 24 +7.49 Swedish stocks rose for the third day after bond yields fell and LM Ericsson, the largest stock in Sweden, jumped 3.5 per cent on its half-year earnings report. The OMX Index closed at 1091.62 points, up 7.49. The rise was led by electronics producer LM Ericsson which rose
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        Zurich
        299 24 -16.6 Swiss stocks fell, more than giving up Wednesday's gain, after the Bundesbank dashed hopes for lower interest rates and investors locked in gains on bank and industrial shares. The SMI Index, which tracks the top 23 stocks, closed down 16.6 points at 2582.7, the SMl's second decline this
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      3133 25 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks ended lower yesterday as investors hesitated to buy aggressively after the market's unusual response to the US rate rise. "The market is confused because, contrary to theory, the market moved up yesterday when interest rates moved up," said a broker. The Hang Seng Index
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      536 25 CLSA BOTH A share markets went up Shanghai 3.34 r;r cent and Shenzhen 58 per cent on rumours of the government's decision to go ahead with legislation covering asset management schemes. Turnover in Shanghai B shares surged to US$9 million, led by heavy buying interest on Material Centre and
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      2527 25 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended mixed after sluggish trade. Index-linked buying just before the close enabled the Nikkei Average to finish in positive territory, but the dollar's fall below 100 yen made many investors reluctant to trade shares actively, brokers said. "The Nikkei ended up, but its narrow movements showed
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      1848 25 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closed higher on a late buying spree focused in particular on the finance sector after a day of fluctuating trade. The SET Index closed up 10.50 points to 1,483.98 on 16.17 billion baht turnover. "Selling pressure picked up in the early afternoon session in the leading
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      1169 25 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices, led by a range of blue chip stocks, closed higher in active trading with firm foreign sentiment and some local bullish interest driving the market, brokers said. "What today shows is that we can safely predict that this market's recent turnaround should continue for some
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2409 26 Promcl 15.023,000 Berjaya L W|99 I2.S07.000 Muki-Pufpoae 8,693.000 Mctropkx 50c 8,493.000 KL Industries 8,202.000 Mctroptcx TSH 7.412,000 ICB Corpn TSR 7.288,000 HLcong Prop 50C- 7.021.000 Asa Pac Ld 6.658.000 kins Hyd 50c 6,371,000 Kamunting 50e 6,141,000 Mulptia Inll 50c 6.042.000 Rcnong Bhd 50c 5.666.000 Promct 28.589.4W Muhi-Purpose 26.2I9.S70
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        Lock icon Shares up for third day on news of strong economy
        5757 26 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks rose for a third day as investors responded to a strong economy at home. Analysts said organised groups of investors got individual investors to bid up a few stocks by spreading stories, then sold
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        Lock icon Blue chips up but broader market falls on profit-taking
        1958 28  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The wave of buying that had been building up over the past month continued yesterday, sending blue chip prices higher but with the broader market succumbing to late profit-taking. Volume on the main board and Clob hit
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      Atlantis wins orders for eight new vessels worth $120m
      392 29  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Local shipyard Atlantis Engineering Construction has clinched eight newbuilding orders worth $120 million. "Our books are filled until the first half of 1996," executive chairman Toh Ho Tay said this week. Half of the orders are from
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      DSR-Senator forecasts US$1b turnover
      193 29  -  By William Chik SINGAPORE Two German shipping companies have merged to form a carrier with a projected worldwide turnover this year of more than US$l billion (Ssl.s billion). After year-long talks which ended on July 28, DSR Rostock and Senator Linie Bremen have formed DSR-Sena- tor,
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      Lock icon Nedlloyd plunges after disappointing profit
      585 29 Bloomberg Business News AMSTERDAM Royal Nedlloyd Group NV plunged 9 per cent on the Dutch bourse after the company reported disappointing second-quarter earnings. On Wednesday Nedlloyd said it swung to a second-quar-ter net profit of 25 million guilders (5521.5 million) from a net loss of
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1104 29 Page Col ABC Containerline 16 4 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahlers Line 13 5 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 I Avant
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      40 29 AFP HAMBURG The Colombian sail training ship SS Gloria enters the harbour of Hamburg with most of the 156-strong crew aboard on Wednesday. The three-masted barque will be anchored in the Hanseatic town until Sunday. AFP
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      Lock icon India lifts suspension of Japanese classifier
      225 29 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK The Indian government has lifted its threeyear suspension of the Japanese ship classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, according to a report to appear in yesterday's editions of the Journal of Commerce. The society has been allowed to perform ship surveys and
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      Lock icon Two vessels collide off S'pore
      159 29 Knight-Ridder LONDON The 164,990-deadweight-tonne ore-oil carrier Eptanissa was involved in a collision with the 61,152 deadweight container carrier Hyundai Duke just within Singapore port limits eariy on Monday, according to Lloyd's Intelligence. The Marshall Islandsflagged ore-oiler did not sustain any serious damage and is still
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      Lock icon Member states set up joint shipping company
      142 29 Knight-Ridder LONDON The member states of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) have set up a joint shipping company, Iranian radio said on Wednesday, according to a report monitored here by the British Broadcasting Corp. Documents establishing the company, which has an initial investment
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      Keppel Distripark points the way to the future
      383 30 The recently opened Keppel Distripark houses some of the warehousing I industry's most sophisticated technology 5 THE DAYS of rustyroofed riverside godowns bursting at the seams with rice and rats belong to the past. The $400-million Keppel Distripark, which opened its doors
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      14708 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Pcnang after
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
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        Daily Freights
        780 46 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,507 on Wednesday from 1,505 on Aug 16. Attention here has been focused on the last remaining August cargoes from the US Gulf to Japan, brokers said. MSK is one of the few remaining charterers with
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        Lock icon Lufthansa urges Manila to improve airport
        456 48 AP MANILA Lufthansa Airlines called on the Philippine government on Wednesday to improve Manila's crowded airport and streamline arrival procedures to attract more tourists in an increasingly competitive travel market. "We expect support in terms of basic infrastructure to effectively serve the development of
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      582 41 RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD UTEL: *****33 (12 Lines) FAX: *****15/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) CR NO.: **********0E AM AIMMM MWM f (N*o*Uo«soU1»») ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Vaaael I Voy tTA Loading Fee I 8»Of Abbay Worn 40WB 23/08 Mombasa. Djibouti AiMb. Miiiiwi Abbay Worn 41WB 20/10
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      192 42 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD ui HI IT* SWK rail KtUNC rtIMNG Bill tMK JO 8 28 8 Loidinj tor kUtt lIUVN HUDHU 29 8 Loading Iw Dubai DOl«« 2/« loading F« Male naci* SWK 1/9 Loading Fof Matf UMCIDH 24/8 Loading For Male MtOGMSS UKRTV »/8
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