The Business Times, 25 November 1994

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    13 1 SINGAPORE Business Times MITA(P) 010/12/93 Friday November 25 1994 WE KHOW ASIA 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Belgium, Luxembourg deny currency split
      38 1 Reuter BRUSSELS Belgian Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt and his Luxembourg counterpart Jean-Claude Juncker yesterday "firmly denied" a newspaper report that suggested the two countries' currencies were set to decouple on Jan 1. Reuter
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      Lock icon OECD joblessness a big waste: study
      43 1 AFP PARIS An OECD employment study released yesterday hits at the "enormous waste" represented by unemployment, which it puts at a "present high level" of about 8.5 per cent of the workforce in the OECD area. AFP
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    164 1 MOCK nirKel InfVICftS Thursday Change STII 2,236.40 +18.59 KLSEComp 1,007.54 +5.74 Nikkei 18,701.24 -261.75 Hans Seng 8,647.86 +71.83 SET Index 1,357.29 +24.44 Jakarta Comp 488.50 +6.49 CLSA China B ....1,032.18 +4.31 Aust All Ord 1,885.7 +28.6 FTSE 100 3,036.6 +9.1 Thursday Previous 1pm EST dose Dow Jones closed
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    Lock icon Asian markets take breather but outlook stays uncertain
    468 1  -  By R Sivanithy SiNGAPORE Respite. That was what the region's stock markets got yesterday following a slightly steadier performance on Wall Street overnight. The immediate outlook remained uncertain, dealers said yesterday, as events in the US were expected to continue dictating the
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    Lock icon European stocks rebound following Wall Street recovery
    367 1 Bloomberg Business News Reuter LONDON European stocks rallied yesterday after a recovery in US stocks eased concern that investors are abandoning shares for higher-yielding bonds. Trading, however, was subdued by the closure of the US markets due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Bourses were
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    Keppel probes case of missing remisier
    210 1 SINGAPORE Keppel Securities is investigating complaints by clients about one of its remisiers, who has been missing since Monday. The broking house said yesterday it would do "all it can to assist" Ham id Nather's clients. The company has also alerted the Stock Exchange
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    No hard and fast rule on paying retrenched workers: Appeal Court
    440 1  -  Bethlehem Singapore's appeal By William Chia THE COURT of Appeal made a landmark ruling on companies' obligation to pay retrenchment benefits when it allowed an appeal by Bethlehem Singapore (Bethsing) yesterday. Bethsing's liquidators appealed after Justice Warren Khoo ruled
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    ST Teleport wins first licence for satellite broadcast services
    310 1  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE ST Teleport. an arm of Singapore Technologies Ventures, has won the first licence to operate satellite transmission and reception services for broadcasting. The Telecommunication Authority of Singapore announced the award yesterday three months after it said it
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    Sembawang Industrial to lead big resort project on Bintan
    445 1  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Sembawang Industrial will play the lead role in a major resort project on the Indonesian island of Bintan, the first phase of which will cost $150 million. It is the group's first move into resort development. With
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      36 1 Ad Marketing: p* to Scent of a hotel Murata Manufacturing to invest USsl2om in Singapore, Pg 2 Klang Valley properties: Options available to S'pore investors, Pg 17 Japanese company president shot in business-related attack, Pg 18
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      38 1 Hock Lock Stew: pjjj& nu Global stocks bear hug/ Full reports, Pgs 26-30 //ocA Lock Siew: Global stocks caught in a bear hug, Pg 19 Investors switching to money funds, Pg 20 John Major's 'suicide pact', Pg 9
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      14 1 The Originator of Cultured Pearls Turning one and toddling into the region, Pg 21
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Lean time may be over for eateries
        305 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan AFI ER falling for three consecutive months, people's appetite for eating out seems to have returned somewhat, judging by the Catering Trade Index for September. At constant prices a measure of the volume ot activity the September index crept up
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      Corrections & clarifications
      45 2 Corrections clarifications IN OUR REPORT yesterday headlined "Room for Chinese chamber to play regional business broker", we stated wrongly that Kwek Lcng Beog is president of Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The president is Kwek Leng Joo. We are sorry for the error.
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      Murata to invest US$120m in S'pore to double output
      405 2  -  By Juliette Walker JAPAN'S Murata Manufacturing Co plans to spend US$l2O million (SslBo million) between 19% and 2000 to more than double its Singapore production capacity for ceramic capacitors. Making the announcement in Kyoto yesterday, Murata Manufacturing president Yasutaka Murata said
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      Kajima bags contract to build Seagate facility
      273 2  -  Three existing plants will be housed at the Ang Mo Kio site By Claire Leow KAJIMA Overseas Asia Pte Ltd has won the contract to build the $200 million Seagate Technology facility in Ang Mo Kio. Work will start in February, Seagate announced
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      PM outlines Asian economic mission for S'pore, NZ
      389 2  -  PM Goh's official visit to NZ From Alvin Tay in WELLINGTON SINGAPORE and New Zealand should go all out to help Asian countries develop and speed up their integration with the global economy, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said last night. Addressing
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      Auction properties passed in as buyers sit tight
      347 2  -  By Markos Tando ONLY two properties out of nine were sold at auction this week by Knight Frank, Cheong Hock Chye and Baillieu. A 13,842 sq ft freehold plot of land in Newton Road went for $8.3 million, or $600 psf. And
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      Wah-Chang chief to head environment council
      160 2 THE PRESIDENT of WahChang International Corp, Ho Kwon Ping, will become chairman of the National Council on the Environment on Dec I. He replaces another businessman, Robert Kwan, who is managing director of McDonald's. The Wah-Chang group has won international acclaim for its Laguna
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      Eight local companies to join Tokyo furniture fair next month
      189 2 EIGHT local firms, led by the Trade Development Board, will take part in this year's International Furniture Fair Tokyo from Dec 2 to 5. The Trade Development Board said yesterday this was the eighth time Singapore was taking part in
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Bank of Thailand confident inflation will fall within 5%
      378 3 AFP BANGKOK The Bank of Thailand remained confident 1994 inflation would fall within 5 per cent, even though the October consumer price index was up 5.8 per cent from October 1993, an official said yesterday. The October CPI figure was announced
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      Lock icon KL property market to stay buoyant
      229 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's property market will continue its bullish run and register positive growth next year given the country's strong economic growth, a property valuation company official said yesterday. C H Williams Talhar Wong research director Goh Tian Sui said the large infrastructural
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      Lock icon Former Bapindo director gets eight years
      264 3 AFP JAKARTA A district court here handed down an eightyear jail term yesterday to a former state bank director for his involvement in a US$43O million (Ss63o million) banking scam. Presiding Judge Sujatman said the defendant, Towil Heryoto, 55, former president director of the
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        Lock icon Thai provincial officials stage protest
        102 3 Reuter BANGKOK More than 2.000 local officials from Thai provinces waved banners and shouted slogans at a rally near parliament yesterday, protesting against proposed constitutional changes that would strip them of power. The kamnans (sub-dis-trict heads), village headmen and their assistants arrived by bus to
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        Lock icon Philippine state firm to spin off assets
        72 3 AFP MANILA The Philippines' second largest firm, the state-run National Power Corp (NPC), will spin ofT aviation and engineering assets in the run-up to privatisation. The two new firms are NPC Aviation Inc and Engineering Technologies Services Corp, said FY Roxas, chairman of
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        Lock icon Cambodia draws foreign investment
        59 3 Reuter BANGKOK Cambodia has attracted business worth US$5OO million (***** million) since passing a law in August guaranteeing foreign investment and pledging generous tax treatment, Cambodia's ambassador to Thailand, Roland Eng, said. "By the end of December Cambodia will reach about US$l.O billion" of new investment,
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        Lock icon 9.4% inflation rate for Philippines
        51 3 AFP MANILA The Philippines' inflation rate averaged 9.4 per cent in the 10 months to October, the economic planning office said on Wednesday. The National Economic and Development Authority said the inflation rate in October dropped to 7.8 per cent, the lowest in 13 months.
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      Lock icon Manila airport will be extended before new one is built: Ramos
      320 3 Bloomberg Business News MANILA President Fidel Ramos, seeking to silence criticism of the plan to develop two international airports simultaneously, said a proposal to build a new facility north of Manila has been put on hold. Mr Ramos said
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      Lock icon Gunning for fakes
      46 3 Reuter DANAO, Philippines A Filipino gunsmith showing an imitation 9mm Ingram machine pistol beside other imitation firearms on display at a factory here on Wednesday. This central Philippine city is famous for its gunsmiths who can manufacture imitations of any known firearm. Keuter
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      Lock icon Asean sets pace for world petrochemicals growth
      263 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The hydrocarbon resources and downstream petrochemicals growth in the Asean countries are rapidly establishing a competitive advantage that most of North Asia could not imitate, a chemical company official said in London recently. Amoco Corporation's executive vice-president for chemicals, James
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      7 3 Capital gains in the Valley, Pg 17
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon ICI to invest NT$8b in Taiwan
        53 4 AFP TAIPLI British-based chemicals giant Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) is planning an NT$B billion (***** million) project in Taiwan, the biggest foreign investment here, press reports said yesterday. The Commercial limes said ICI wants to build a second pure terephthalic acid plant here, pending
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        Lock icon Heading for home
        69 4 AFP BEIJING Chinese doctors and nurses from Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital here preparing Winston Chang, the gravely ill grandson of the late Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek, in an ambulance for his journey home to Taiwan yesterday. The special flight organised to transport Mr Chang was forced to stop
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        Lock icon China's retail sales up 37.4%
        61 4 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG China's retail sales rose steadily in October to 144.4 billion yuan (5524.7 billion), an increase of 37.4 per cent compared with the same month last year, the Xinhua News Agency reported quoting the State Statistical Bureau. Analysts attributed the rise to an increase
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        Lock icon Ex-employee causes loss of millions
        91 4 AFP BEIJING A Chinese pharmaceutical company has lost some 190 million yuan after a former employee launched a campaign disparaging one of its top products. The En'wei Group Corp was ordered to stop production of its Jie'eryin solution used in the treatment of vaginal infections
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        Lock icon Beijing's rich-poor divide widens
        86 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING A Chinese government survey has shown market reforms have widened the income gap between the rich and poor by nearly a third in Beijing so far this year, the official China News Service reports. According to a survey by the Beijing Statistical
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      Lock icon Raw material prices in China dip 3% in nine months
      459 4 Bloomberg Business News Reuter BtIJING While inflation in China continues to worsen, prices of raw materials and equipment fell 3 per cent during the first nine months of this year against the year earlier period, the China Daily reported. During
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      Lock icon Beijing relaxes import controls on gas oil
      418 4 Reuter SINGAPORE After nearly nine months of strict oil import controls, China is temporarily relaxing its rein and has released licences allowing for the import of at least 100,000 tonnes of gas oil, according to industry sources. China-based sources said yesterday about 400,000
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      Lock icon Beijing in five-year drive to clean up environment
      255 4 AFP BEIJING China is to remove high energy-consuming equipment and polluting products from 3.000 key enterprises within five years as part of a programme to clean up the national environment, Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The country's ecological management system will also
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      Lock icon China pledges not to interfere with Hongkong film industry
      231 4 AFP HONGKONG A senior Chinese official has promised Hongkong film-makers they will be allowed to remain "creatively free" to produce films even adult movies if they wish after 1997. Lu Ping, head of the Hongkong and Macau Affairs Department of the
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Passing of reform bills paves way for Japanese polls after Christmas
      718 6  -  Murayama has promised no early elections, but LDP raring to go From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO THE PASSAGE of a package of electoral and political reform bills this week by the Upper House of the Diet opens the way
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      Lock icon Murayama makes a deal with advocates of new party
      324 6 Knight-Ridder TOKYO A compromise deal has surfaced to save Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's Social Democratic Party from a crisis triggered by some members seeking to set up a new party, Kyodo news service quoted party officials as saying yesterday. Four junior
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      Lock icon More than 120 killed in Indian stampede
      91 6 Reuter NAG PUR, INDIA I hree-year-old haya (centre) ga/ing at a policeman after both her parents died in a stampede that killed more than 120 people and injured 500 here yesterday. Most of the dead were women and children who were crushed when
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      Lock icon South Korea's economy grew 7.5% in third quarter
      369 6 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL South Korea's economy grew at an annual rate of 7.5 per cent in the third quarter, up from 6.8 per cent in the year-ago period but down from 7.8 per cent in the previous quarter, the Bank of
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Foreign investment in Sri Lanka up
        65 6 Reuter COLOMBO Foreign investment has picked up in Sri Lanka in recent months, but analysts say the trend may not last unless the government backs up its pledge to open up the economy. Foreign investors were holding back in the last few months because
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        Lock icon Moments of suspense in Nepal politics
        62 6 Reuter KATHMANDU Nepal's communist party leader yesterday waited anxiously to be named prune minister as the rival Congress party, badly mauled in general elections, seemed reluctant to concede ii had lost government. Final figures gave the Communist Unified Marxist-Leninist party 88 seats and the
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        Lock icon Warning on surging India salaries
        93 6 AFP NEW DLLHI Surging corporate salaries ushered in by liberalisation could atfect growth. Indian Finance Minister Manmohan Singh has said. He told senior industrialists the rising salaries in the private sector could set of! a chain reaction in the government and stunt grow th, Ihe
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      793 6 WMGTAI WING TAI HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) TO: ALL HOLDERS OF WARRANTS 1994 OF 24 November 1994 WING TAI HOLDINGS LIMITED Dear Sir/Madam EXPIRY OF WARRANTS 1994 Holders of Wing Tai Holdings Limited Warrants 1994 ("Warrants"), which were issued in 1989 in conjunction with the Company's
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      573 6 WINGTAI WING TAI HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) To: All Bondholders of Wing Tai Holdings Limited Re: *****,000,000 5 per cent. Unsecured Bonds due 1994 (the "Bonds") 1. Redemption of Bonds Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Deed dated 8 December 1989 constituting the
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
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      Lock icon Bangladesh presses on with reforms to draw investors
      1391 8  -  Ban»ladesh may surprise everyone as the next 'come from nowhere' success, according to Anne O Krueger. former head of research at the World Bank. The country's finance minister Saifur Rahman, who recently visited Singapore, talks to Vikram Khanna about why Bangladesh is
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  • THE WORLD
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      Major's 'suicide pact' over EU budget puts rebels on the spot
      451 9  -  From Neville Stack in LONDON THE British Conservative Party is indulging in a strange form of Russian roulette, in which the duellists do not know whether their own guns are loaded. On the face of it, the cause of
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      Lock icon Slovak arms makers back on world market
      385 9 Reuter BRATISLAVA Slovakia's arms manufacturers, virtually forced to halt production after the fall of communism, are once again looking for customers, with several Asian countries expressing interest. Historically among the Warsaw Pact's chief armourers, they suffered from a ban on arms exports imposed
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      Lock icon Making an ass of the law
      52 9 AFP AVIGNON A French farmer wearing a mask of Prime Minister Kdouard Balladur riding s donkey through the streets of the south-eastern town of Avignon on Wednesday. The FDSEA France's main farmer's union, held a demonstration before parliament's debate to modernist the country's agricultural
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      Lock icon Mexican prosecutor resigns, alleges govt interference in murder probe
      396 9 AFP MEXICO CITY The dramatic resignation on Wednesday of Deputy Prosecutor Mario Ruiz Massieu, who alleged political interference in the probe of his influential brother's murder, rocked Mexico's long-time ruling party. Mr Massieu's brother Jose Francisco was the No 2 man
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    • Article
      Lock icon Report on computer hacker backfires on journalist
      277 9 Reuter AFP LONDON Some of Britain's most sensitive intelligence networks have been breached by a computer hacker into British Telecom's (BT) main data base. The Independent reported yesterday. But BT, which launched an emergency investigation after the newspaper report, denied that a hacker
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      Lock icon UK budget deficit expected to shrink to EU standard
      431 9 Reuter LONDON Britain's chronic budget deficit will shrink to the stringent levels required by European Union directives in fiscal 1995/6 and government finances could be in balance two years later, economists said yesterday. Robust growth has allowed government finances to improve
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      Lock icon US biotech sector hit by growth crisis as funds run short
      512 9 AFP WASHING lON The biotechnology sector, never a big attraction for investors, is facing its first growth crisis, forced to consolidate in a bid to raise enough funds to finance its expensive research. Monday's announcement that Swiss giant Ciba-Geigy
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      Lock icon Russian minister heads for Tokyo eyeing trade, aid
      292 9 Reuter TOKYO Top Russian trade and business officials are visiting Japan this weekend hoping for stepped-up aid which is likely to depend on no backsliding in a territorial dispute between the two countries. The visit, the biggest ever to Tokyo by a
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Bundesbank maintains interest rates
        100 9 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT I he Bundesbank left its entire slate of interest rates unchanged at yesterday's meeting of its policy-setting council. The discount rate, which represents the cheapest form of hank borrowing in Germany, remains at 4.5 per cent. The Lombard rate, for emergency loans
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        Lock icon Women in power
        50 9 Reuter LONODN British Education Minister Gillian Shephard (left) holding the trophy awarded to her after she was named "Minister to Watch" at the Parliamentarian of the Year Award on Wednesday. Behind her is former junior minister Edwina Currie who won the "Campaigner of the Year" award. Reuter
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        Lock icon Phone against fraud
        117 9 AFP BRUSSELS A computer programmed to take confidential phone calls is the latest weapon deployed here at the austere headquarters of the European Commission in its campaign to quash budget fraud in the European Union. According to the very lowest estimates, malpractice is costing 700 million ECUs
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      • Article
        Lock icon WWF calls for pollution tax
        74 9 Reuter BRUSSELS Taxes on pollution should replace taxes on jobs, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said yesterday. "At the moment, every economy taxes jobs. At the same time we do not tax. or tax at very low levels, environmental eosts. If this burden
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        Lock icon Israel adopts capital gains tax
        89 9 UPI JERUSALEM The Israeli Knesset passed a 10 per cent capital gains tax on Wednesday, beating baek strong opposition from the business community and sending the stock market reeling. The measure, which goes into effect Jan 1. passed 45-30 with five abstentions. "As in every
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
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        Her World a sellout
        40 10 I I\l L:S Periodicals' Her World sold a record 76.260 copies in September an all-time high for the company's flagship women's magazine. Circulation grew more than 17 per cent over last year between January and September.
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        BMW plans another blitz
        35 10 NOT content with its first advertising blitz this year. BMW is launching another major print campaign throughout Asia, centring on the new BMW 7 series as "the new symbol of success".
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        X'mas tall order
        55 10 NO ORDER is too tall for Singapore Post it seems. It is putting out two mail order services Post-A-Tree and Imaginative Toys. Take your pick from four four-feet and two six-feet tall trees ranging from $240 to $725. All trees come with trimmings, lights and tired postman.
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        New name for Gibson
        44 10 GIBSON Public Relations, a member of the British Shandwick group, will bear its parent's name from now on. and is called Shandwick Pte Ltd. The name change is in conjunction with the opening of Shandwick's Kuala Lumpur office this week.
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      Lock icon Raffles' guests can leave with more than a whiff of memory
      652 10  -  The grand old hotel commissions a fragrance that is redolent of the days when Somerset Maugham was its regular guest, reports Michelle Low Michelle Low SCENT of a woman we've heard of, but scent of a hotel? Etienne Aigner's
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      Constraints won't hold back Ferragamo plans for region
      312 11  -  Raw material shortage and production slowdown hit Italian fashion house, but the work will not he licensed out to other countries By Michelle Low DESPITE shortages in raw materials and a production slowdown, Italian fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo remains committed to its
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      474 11  -  Elite's setting up in HK points to new forces sweeping through international modelling. Michelle Low discovers Michelle Low WITH t heworld's largest modelling agency Elite setting up shop in Hongkong, changes are brewing in the international modelling business that may alter the face
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      784 13 Once the haunt of Shanghai gangsters, the venue now offers good clean fun for the masses Reuter AS GLITZY nightclubs charging USSSO (SS73) an hour spring up across Shanghai, a yesteryear haunt of gangsters and prostitutes is proving there is still profit in culture for the
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      456 13 CHATTERBOX Reuter UPI FILM star Jean Claude Van Damme is being sued for divorce by his fourth wife just nine months after they married. Darcy V an Verenberg, in divorce papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, claimed irreconcilable differences and asked the court
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      Lock icon US team bags top prize in world culinary contest
      468 13 Reuter AMERICA was awarded the Culinary World Cup on Wednesday at the seventh international gastronomy fair in Luxembourg where more than 700 chefs from five continents slaved in hot kitchens for the coveted prize. The US team took the trophy for
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      1131 13 TV RADIO the kid is part of an alliancc to install satanic rule in this 1992 U hcn shc 5 ba shtf "TO ve y J ad n madc-for-TV horror do. ha%OC ,n men lV: The A ak n *> 11 P m Ch 5 ChflrwwTio 8.00 World of Cartoons.
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    • SCORE CARD
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        56 14 AP NEW YORK NBA on Wednesday: Boston 98, Charlotte 91; Orlando 117. Houston 94; Miami 100. Cleveland 87; Detroit 113, Milwaukee 108; Atlanta 89, Minnesota 77; San Antonio 110, Portland 105; Denver 113, Chicago 111; Utah 113. Seattle 103; Phoenix 140, LA Clippers 109; LA Lakers 118, Dallas 106;
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        Lock icon Golf
        167 14 AFP SYDNEY Leading scores after first round of U*****,000 (*****,700) Australian Open championship yesterday: 68 Matthew King (Aust) 69 Brett Ogle (Aust), David Bransdon (Aust) 70 Brad Faxon (US). Peter Baker (Brit), Jean Van de Velde (Fra). Wayne Grady (Aust), Robert Allcnby (Aust), Jeff Woodland (Aust). Craig Parry (Aust),
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        Tennis
        68 14 JAKARTA Results in first round of US$l J million ATP World Doubles championship on Wednesday White Group: David Adams-An-drei Olhovsky (Aust/Rus) b Jonathan Stark-Bvron Black (US/Zim 5-7. 6-3, 7-6 (7-5); Todd Woodbridgc/Mark Woodfordc (Aust) b Tom Nijsscn/Cyril Suk (Neth/Cze) 6-2. 6-4. Red Group: Paul Haarhuis/Jacco Eltingh (Neth) b Sergio
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      Lock icon Marsh takes one-shot lead after first round
      329 14 Goir AP KAIMONCHO, Japan Australian veteran Graham Marsh shot a 6-under-par 66 yeslerday and took a one-shot first round lead in the 150 million yen (552.24 million) Casio World Open golf tournament. The 50-year-old Marsh, winner of 25 tournaments in Japan but winless
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      Lock icon Magic outshoots sluggish Houston Rockets
      507 14 Reuter ORLANDO, Florida Shaquille O'Neal scored 30 points and Anfernee Hardaway had 29 as the Orlando Magic used a 25-8 first quarter to notch a 117-94 victory over a sluggish Houston Rockets on Wednesday. "You don't expect to blow out the world champs," said Hardaway,
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        Lock icon Cassell sees plans to discredit him
        99 14 Reuter RALEIGH, North Carolina US athletics chief Ollan Cassell, who for months has quietly sought votes for a 1995 campaign to unseat IAAF president Primo Nebiolo, said on Wednesday he believes "forces outside the United States, maybe within the lAAP' are seeking to discredit
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        Lock icon Foreman denies plans to visit N Korea
        90 14 UPI HOUSTON Heavyweight champion George Foreman denied reports he will be attending a sports festival in North Korea in April. Pyongyang radio had announced Foreman would be the big draw at the festival. Foreman said he would not be participating in a match
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        Lock icon Holyfield cleared to fight again
        74 14 AP ROCHESTER. Minnesota Evander Holyfield is healthy enough to fight again, just as he claimed. The 32-year-old heavyweight, diagnosed as having a heart condition after his loss of the WBA and IBF titles to Michael Moorer last April, received medical clearance on Wednesday from the
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        Lock icon McRae victory marred by sabotage
        115 14 AFP CHESTER, England Colin Mcßae's joy at becoming the first British driver to win the RAC Rally for 18 years was tempered by the news that an act of sabotage cost his Subaru team mate, Carlos Sainz of Spain, the chance to snatch the World
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      Lock icon Man-hunting becomes increasingly popular as a sport in Britain
      460 15 AP HOWE GREEN, England The hounds were haying in the distance. They had latched onto our scents. Within seconds, they would be upon us. And we were lost. "I don't know which way to bloody go." said my companion. Richard Eishendon.
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      Lock icon Dutch trounces Belgians 8-1 in World Cup hockey
      203 15 AP SYDNEY Veteran striker Taco van den Honert scored a record five goals yesterday as The Netherlands opened the defence of its World Cup field hockey title with an 8-1 victory over Belgium at the State Sports Centre. India. England and Australia
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      Lock icon The race for US$4 million
      42 15 Reuter TOKYO US horse Paradise Creek with assistant trainer lorn my Albertrani galloping on the Tokyo Race Course turf during a training session yesterday. The US$4 million (SSS.B million) Japan Cup race begins on Nov 27. Reuter
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      Lock icon I'm innocent, says China swimmer of drug offence
      167 15 AFP BLIJING China's world champion swimmer Yang Aihua insists she is innocent of a drug offence that led to a twoyear ban. a Chinese sports official said yesterday. But despite her protests. Yuan Jiawei. deputy director of the Chinese Swimming Federation. said
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    S'pore economy needs a breather
    540 16 EDITORIAL AFTER five quarters of sizzling economic growth, the Singapore economy could do with a breather. A number of factors are already conspiring to make this happen next year: a strong Singapore dollar (estimated to appreciate to about $1.45 to the US dollar by next
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Clinton must save Gatt
      379 16 EVEN after 124 trading nations signed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) in Marrakesh in April, it was no guarantee that the projected US$5OO billion (***** billion) annual bonanza for signatories would come naturally. Ratification could prove problematic in some countries. Their commercial interests
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      Put an end to Palestinian strife
      154 16 IT IS a very sad fact that Palestinians are now divided into three factions the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), Hamas and the Islamic Jihad and are doing battle against each other. This will not help to convince donors or investors about the future of
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      Support for S'poreans abroad
      159 16 IN VIEW of the move to go regional and international, we should also think of ways to ensure that Singaporeans return home eventually. Employees posted abroad should not lose out in material benefits, such as in promotion opportunities, to colleagues who are not posted overseas. Companies
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      Borrowers beware
      108 16 The news that a Hongkong property developer is offering up to 100 per cent home loans for nine of its residential developments sounds too good to be true. Soaring property prices, combined with a governmentinitiated 70 per cent ceiling on most mortgage loans by banks, have combined to
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      High cost of equal opportunity
      147 16 SINGLE-SESSION schools make possible the ideal of equal opportunity because the extended hours mean the universal provision of all manner of character- and intellectual-building activities. As the school curriculum expands, interests like music and theatre, for instance, need no longer be the privilege of only
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      Legal fees: a subject for farce?
      120 16 THE fees claimed by lawyers have been a subject for public disquiet since the time ot Charles Dickens. He found limitless material for his novels in the customs and practices of the legal profession. Sometimes he turned it to humorous account, sometimes to drama
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    Prising open the skies of Western Europe
    1010 16  -  Attempts to liberalise the European aviation industry have had limited results in making the region's earners more eompetitive, says Salil Sarkar Salil Sarkar The writer, a Paris-based journalist, contributed this article to BT PARIS to London is just under an hour's flight. Paris
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      Capital gains in the Valley
      1603 17  -  Tan Su Yen reports on the growing demand for residential property in Malaysia's fast-expanding Klang Valley and considers the options available to Singapore investors Tan Su Yen THE bulldozers are working overtime in Malaysia's Klang Valley, home to 2.9 million people with the highest per
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      Where and what to buy
      479 17 A WAVE of investment buying is sweeping across the Klang Valley. And as with any boom, some of that interest is speculative. Says an analyst from a listed Singapore broking house: "Like the last peak in the mid-80s, a speculative element is creeping into the
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      Population rising by the day
      324 17 DESPITE growing foreign interest in condominiums and in luxury homes that cost over M 5500,000 (*****,600), demand for housing in the Klang Valley remains largely local. According to the 1991 population census, 2.9 million people, or 17 per cent of Malaysia's population of 17 million,
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    Dole to urge Republicans to pass Gatt bill
    386 18  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON REPUBLICAN Senator Robert Dole, appearing with President Bill Clinton in the White House Rose Garden yesterday, announced he was calling on his Republican colleagues in both Congressional houses to work for the passage of the Gatt Bill
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    Lock icon Japan executive shot in business-related attack
    166 18 Reuter TOKYO A Japanese company president was shot and seriously injured in another suspected business-related attack, police said yesterday. Hiroshi Nagabuchi, 47, was shot in the chest yesterday morning inside the Osaka office building of his small pre- cious metals import firm. The gunman
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    Lock icon Future of Italian coalition govt uncertain
    311 18 AP AFP ROME Coalition members were divided yesterday over the prospects for Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government as a showdown neared. Justice Minister Alfredo Biondi told reporters after a Cabinet meeting for routine matters that the ministers would meet again on Tuesday for a "general
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    Dole walks tight rope between protectionists and free-traders
    849 18  -  The Bottom Line LEON HADAR LEON HADAR The writer is BT's Washington correspondent AN interesting finding of a recent study on Congress demonstrates why Gatt has confronted so many problems on Capitol Hill and why it was so difficult for Republican Senator
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    Lock icon Vietnam may ask US Navy to return
    527 18 NYT BEIJING Fearing China, Vietnam has begun to signal an interest in inviting American naval forces back to Cam Ranh Bay. the large port installation built by the US during the Vietnam War. The US Navy seems interested in returning to its old
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    Lock icon Beijing nod for limited airing of Star channel
    220 18 Reuter BEIJING Media baron Rupert Murdoch's Star satellite network bolstered its tenuous foothold in China when officials yesterday approved limited distribution of its movie channel in Beijing. Broadcast authorities confirmed a report in the official Beijing Daily that new rules had been
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        MARKET MOOD
        47 19 Mixed Market Mooti indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based an brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday Overnight events may alter sentiment Brokers /foiled Alliance. Harmg. Daiua. Fraser. G K Goh. Kay than. Morgan (irenjell. Nomura. Phillip. Smith Me* Court. H Carr and S(j M arburg.
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        HOT STOCK
        112 19  -  Quak Hiang Whai MULPHA appears to have traded to the base of a triangle on the weekly chart. The next few sessions could prove to be critical as the stock could break out either way. But going by the weekly Relative Strength Index, MACD and stochastics, the chances
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      Lock icon Granite plans to sell gaming business after reverse takeover
      313 19 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Granite Industries Bhd, a company that depends largely on overseas gaming ventures, yesterday said it was in discussions with a third party to sell its entire gaming business. In a statement to the stock exchange. Granite said
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      Metroplex leases building for casino
      322 19  -  From Al Labita in MANILA MALAYSIA'S Metroplex Bhd yesterday leased a new building at the former US military facility in Subic Bay to expand its casino-resort complex. The lease was one of the 18 contracts the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) signed with local and
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      Powermatic's first-half earnings dive 78pc
      320 19  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Sesdaqlisted computer group Powermat ic Data has reported a 77.9 per cent plunge in firsthalf net earnings to $754,000. Results for the six months to Aug 31, released yesterday, show group operating profit slid 64.5 per cent to $1.45 million, while
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      Global stocks are caught in a bear hug
      764 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW v r f vW ™V *f? By Neil Behrmann LONDON Profits are growing rapidly, bond and currency markets are stabilising, so why are world share markets sliding? The simple reason is cost of capital. The international bond market slump
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      Telecom to lower mobile phone charges from next month
      270 19 SINGAPORE Telecom will cut monthly subscription rates and air-time usage charges for mobile phones from Dec 1. Tlie group, which will announce its interim results today, said yesterday the changes would save customers 524 million a year. The monthly subscription rate
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      Korean bank note issue raises US$100m
      198 19 SINGAPORE Korea s Citizens National Bank has raised US$lOO million (Ssl47 million) in Dragon Floating Rate Notes in the offshore market. DBS Bank, one of the lead managers and arrangers of the issue, said yesterday the notes were for a maximum period of five
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    • COMPANIES
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        Lock icon MBM Resources to offer 15.7 million shares at M$2 each
        556 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR MBM Resources Bhd, the first Mara company to seek a listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, is making a public issue offer of 15.771 million shares of MS 1.00 (550.57) each at M 52.00 per share.
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        Lock icon Zalik hopes to benefit from futures market
        269 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Zalik Bhd expects the launching of the Kuala Lumpur Options and Futures Market next year to add depth to the equity market and to enhance the attractiveness of Malaysian stocks to institutional investors. "This augurs well for the securities industry
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          Tuan Sing rights issue oversubscribed
          54 20 SINGAPORE Tuan Sing's one-for-one rights issue of 567,54 million new shares at 48 cents each was oversubscribed by about 6.3 per cent at the close of offer on Tuesday. The property developer said yesterday that acceptances and excess applications for a total of 603.36 million
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          Econ Int'l gets nod for warrants issue
          53 20 SINGAPORE Construction company Econ International has received in-principle approval from the Stock Exchange of Singapore for its warrants issue. It plans to issue 39.3 million warrants to subscribe for new ordinary shares of 20 cents each to raise U5523.5 million (5534.4 million) for
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          Lock icon Rashid Hussain to form London unit
          56 20 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian brokerage Rashid Hussain Berhad yesterday said it will have a securities trading unit in London next year. In a statement to the stock exchange, Rashid Hussain said the company has bought a shelf company incorporated in London through its wholly-owned
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          Lock icon Diethelm IPO oversubscribed 29 times
          40 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Diethelm Holdings (M) Bhd's public issue of 8.22 million shares has been oversubscribed 29.77 times, with 154,121 applications for 254.36 million shares being received, Malaysian Issuing House Sdn Bhd said yesterday. Bernama.
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          Lock icon Phileo Allied gets nod for takeover
          49 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Phileo Allied Bhd has obtained Bank Negara's approval to negotiate further with Petra Finance Bhd over a takeover of the latter. Petra Finance is a licensed finance company with an issued share capital of Ms 6 million (553.4 million). Bernama
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        Lock icon Kwong Yik Bank to invest M$6m in five new branches
        311 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kwong Yik Bank Bhd (KYBB), a 98.2 per cent subsidiary of Malayan Banking Bhd, will invest Ms 6 million (553.4 million) to set up five new branches by December 1995. The branches will be located in KJuang
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        Lock icon Ekran's group profit up 13% to M$78m
        246 20 Bernama Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Lkran Bhd has announced a group pre-tax profit of M 578.04 million (5544.7 million) for the year ended June 30. up 13 per cent from M 569.14 million in the previous financial year. Group turnover rose 17 per cent
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        Lock icon Asian investors seen switching to money funds in the last few days
        287 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Jardine Fleming Unit Trusts, the largest unit trust company in Hongkong, said yesterday investors had been switching from Asian equity funds into money market funds in the last few days. The switching followed a
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        Lock icon Amanah Saham investors to get 14% in dividend and bonus
        341 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Amanah Saham Bumiputera (ASB) investors will received dividends and bonuses totalling 14 per cent this year compared with 13.5 per cent in 1993. ASB. which is managed by Amanah Saham Nasional Bhd. will pay a 9.5 per
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        Lock icon Lingui says timber will turn in 80% of group profit
        208 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Lingui Developments Bhd's timber-re-lated activities, recently acquired from Sarawak's Samling Corp Sdn Bhd. will contribute about 80 per cent to the group's profit in the current financial year. As fairly good prices can be obtained for round
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        Lock icon Renong's group pre-tax profit up 88% in 3rd qtr
        108 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Renong Bhd has recorded an 88 per cent increase in group pretax profit to M 576.74 million (5543.97 million) for the three months ended Sep 30, 1994. from M 540.79 million previously. Releasing its unaudited result yesterday, it
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        UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
        489 20 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' prices Nov 25 Mcndaki Gr Fund 1.10 I IJ US Gr Fund 0 93 097xd« Singapore Unit Trust M0R Met Ltd The Commerce I 63 1.72 UOB ASSet Wgl LW Fhc Savings Fund 1.58 1.67 Umfund M6 S pore Prog Fund 0.61 0.65 Un,bond 1035 1065
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        Lock icon Japan's top banks move into securities business
        367 22 Reuter TOKYO Securities subsidiaries of Japan's top six commercial banks began operating yesterday in a fresh sign that walls between banks and brokerages are crumbling. But analysts said continued limits on what sort of business the newcomers can do clouds their prospects. "They
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        Operating profits of Japan's 11 biggest city banks fall 40%
        343 22  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO JAPAN'S 11 major commercial (city) banks yesterday reported a sharp drop averaging around 40 per cent in recurring profits for the six months to Sep 30 and forecast a similar fall for the full financial
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        Lock icon J R Tokai's floating duck-billed locomotive
        73 22 Reuter KOMAKI, Japan J R Tokai of Japan unveiling the front of an experimental train in this town near Nagoya yesterday. The project could be the first step towards friction-free travel through electromagnetic levitation. Construction of the duck-billed train will cost about 1.5 billion
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        Lock icon Poor response prompts HK firm to cut US share offer price
        175 22 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China-back-ed Concordia Paper (Holdings) Ltd has cut the asking price for its US share listing, due to a cool reception from investors, a local fund manager said. The Hongkong-based cardboard manufacturer filed to sell 3.5
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        Lock icon Indian tobacco giant to expand into food, power businesses
        538 22 Reuter CALCUTTA India's largest tobacco firm ITC Ltd said it planned a major diversification into food and power sectors to grow faster and achieve a group turnover of US$6 billion (SsB.B billion) by the turn of the century. "Our strong finances
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          Lock icon Sharp's mid-term gain nearly doubles
          90 22 Reuter TOKYO Strong demand for liquid crystal displays powered a steep jump in mid-term group profit yesterday at Sharp Corp the world's biggest maker of the lucrative electronic components. The company reported pre-tax profit in the six months to Sep 30 was 36.16 billion yen
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          Lock icon ING's earnings higher than expected
          78 22 Bloomberg Business News AMSTERDAM Internationale Nederlanden Groep NV (ING) said yesterday third-quarter net profit rose 18.4 per cent to a higher than expected 580 million, guilders (*****.9 million) as earnings from both its banking and insurance operations continued to increase. Analysts were expecting third-quarter earnings
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          Lock icon HP workers get profit-sharing bonus
          93 22 Bloomberg Business News PALO ALTO. California Hewlett-Packard Co employees got an especially sweet Thanksgiving: US$lB3 million in profitsharing distributed on Wednesday. The electronics giant said 95.000 workers in more than 100 countries from the janitors to chairman, president and chief executive Lewis Piatt got a
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          Lock icon Japan Telecom's profit plunges
          80 22 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japan Telecom yesterday reported a recurring profit of 6.158 billion yen for April-September, down 42.1 per cent from a year earlier. A Japan Telecom official tied the fall mainly to 5.5 billion yen in commission payments to brokerages for the firm's new public share
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          Lock icon Johnson Matthey's pre-tax up 28%
          81 22 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Johnson Matthey pic said yesterday pre-tax profit rose 28 per cent in the six months ended Sep 30, as the company enjoyed a record first-half. The 177-year-old materials and metals company, best known for its precious metals refining and manufacturing division,
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        Lock icon Court freezes stock account with alleged illegal profits
        246 22 NYT NEW YORK In a swift response to an accusation of illegal trading that occurred only 10 days ago, a US district judge froze on Wednesday a British businessman's assets held in a New York brokerage account. The account of Jeffrey C
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        Sembawang unit turns one — and toddles into the region
        874 21  - Sembawang unit turns one and toddles into the region Sembawang Industrial works out where it wants to go and how to get there By Rahita Elias SEMBAWANG Industrial is one year old, and has taken its first steps into the region. The division was born last November out of the
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        Lock icon Beijing futures exchange to accept foreigners in 3 years
        333 23 Reuter BEIJING China's principal futures market, the Beijing Commodity Exchange (BCE), could be open to full foreign participation in three years' time, BCE vice-president Chen Gongyan said on Wednesday. Until then, foreign companies could take part in China's thriving futures markets
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        Stanchart merchant bank chief quits
        209 23  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE The chairman of Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia, Andrew Smith, has resigned. The staff learned about the development from Mr Smith himself yesterday. When contacted by BT, Mr Smith, 45, said he had built up a successful merchant bank over five
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        Lock icon HK govt focuses on interbank rates to make currency stable
        246 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong's banking regulator has switched tactics in its money market operations to better manage the flow of money into the territory's banking system. The Hongkong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the territory's de facto central bank, said in
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          Lock icon New Thai bank licences to be granted
          79 23 Reuter BANGKOK Thai banks will he able to apply for new banking licences in the third quarter of 1995, with the licences likely to be granted no later than early 1996. Thai Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda said yesterday the new licences were part
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          Lock icon Stanchart to sell mortgage bonds
          60 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Standard Chartered Bank's Hongkong branch is about ready to sell HK$l billion (*****.4 million) of mortgagebacked bonds. With underwriters Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered Asia Ltd, the bank is in final stages of structuring the transaction which would be the fourth
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          Lock icon Hongkong Land loan facility raised
          45 23 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong Land Property Co Ltd, a unit of Hongkong Land Holdings, said yesterday its 10-year exchangeable loan facility had been increased to HKS2.S billion (*****.5 million) from the HKSI.S billion originally mandated to Societe Generale Asia Ltd. Reuter
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          40 23 Reuter YANGON The Central Bank of Myanmar issued licences to Arab Bangladesh Bank Limited, Bangladesh, and Thailand's Krung Thai Bank pic to open representative offices in Yangon, the Myanmar News agency reported yesterday. Reuter
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        353 24 Reuter GOLD COAST, Australia Australia's resource industry will lose out to overseas rivals unless federal and state governments work together to create a climate conducive to development, according to an industry official. General manager of the Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd's
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        321 24 Reuter WASHINGTON US soft drink makers said they were talking with other aluminium users on possible cooperation against rising aluminium prices. The National Soft Drink Association (NSDA) blamed an international output-cutting Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for an 80 per cent rise
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        252 24 Reuter WASHINGTON The World Bank said on Wednesday its index of 33 non-fuel primary commodity prices rose 17 per cent from June to September due to a broad-based climb in prices. Only two of the nine commodity groups, cereals and timber,
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        65 24 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Research assistants from Malaysia's Palm Oil Research Institute showing off a printing press which uses palm oil-based ink. Porim members were taking part in an exhibition in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Malaysia is looking into more ways of utilising palm oil as prices
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        422 24 Knight-Ridder Reuter SINGAPORE Indonesia's coffee exports have already reached 293.271 tonnes this year, surpassing the original forecast of 280,000 tonnes for the whole of 1994, according to Noer Madjid, executive secretary of the Association of Indonesian Coffee Exporters. "We have about 7,000 tonnes more coffee
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        186 24 Reuter PHNOM PENH Ten foreign firms have lodged bids with the Cambodian government for the right to explore for oil and gas in the Gulf of Thailand, Mines and Energy Minister Pou Sothirak said yesterday. Mr Sothirak said the bids were
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        Lock icon Asean denies common oils contract is a cartel
        393 24 Reuter MANILA A common South-east Asian contract in palm and coconut oil trading will not lead to a cartel and is aimed at providing alternatives for buyers, senior Asean Vegetable Oil Club (AVOC) officials said. "This is not a cartel," AVOC's Filipino
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        Crude oil falls amid ample supply
        300 24 Bloomberg ENERGY RETORT LONDON Brent crude oil futures fell after a five-day rise amid light trade because of the closure of the New York Mercantile Exchange for the Thanksgiving holiday. Futures were also undermined by a perception of ample supplies from the North Sea
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        294 24 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar was little changed in Europe against other major currencies amid lighter-than-usual trading as a result of the US Thanksgiving holiday. Meantime, the British pound tumbled to a two-month low against the dollar and a one-month low against the deutsche mark amid
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        1564 24 /ii*/«* tinyhii J index cahulaled wfunisi S'porr lop 14 liadinq partnen Box year I9SS US$/S$ forward rates Noon Nov 24 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.4623 1.4638 2-month ***** ***** 3-monih ***** 1.4613 6-month 1 4558 1 4578 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9am on Nov 24 Singapore
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        Euroyen eases in absence of US traders
        1330 25 SIMEX REPORT SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures closed easier yesterday. Dealers said activity was thin for Eurodollars with US traders absent due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Sentiment continues to be mixed with market participants looking to Wall Street stocks for direction in the short
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        Rubber prices up on overseas demand
        679 25 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber KUALA LUMPUR: Rubber prices ended higher yesterday, extending overnight gains on short-covering, overseas demand for SMR rubber and firmer Tokyo values, dealers said. "There is demand for SMR rubber from the US. Europe and local dealers today," a trader said. Some
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          Demand for US beef to rise
          112 25 HONGKONG Consumption of US beef may increase following the chemical residue crisis in the Australian beef industry. Demand strengthened for US beef on the back of the problems facing the Australian industry, with prices forecast to rise over the next week. One trader said
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          Japan copper wire orders up 1.8%
          96 25 TOKYO Japan's orders for copper electric wires and cables totalled a preliminary 87.600 tonnes in October, up 1.8 per cent from a year earlier, according to an industry report released yesterday. That is up 1.4 per cent from September's actual 86,367 tonnes, said the
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          M'sia sells more crude palm oil
          131 25 KUALA LUMPUR Data from the Malaysian Oil Palm Growers' Council showed that its members sold 7,250 tonnes of crude palm oil on Wednesday, plantation sources said. The volume was up from Tuesday's 1,050 tonnes, and was within the usual daily volume of about 7,000
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1460 25 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Dec 94 202.00 194.75 201.25 450 350 Jan 95 199.00 199.00 199.25 100 1300 Feb 197.00 192.75 196.25 200 3750 Mar 196.00 195.00 194.75 250
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        Australia
        1108 26 28.6 STOCKS surged yesterday as bargain hunters took advantage of savage price cuts incurred in recent davs. Brokers said investors were spurred on by Wall Street's closing only 3.36 points lower at 3.674.63. The key All Ordinaries Index rose 28.6 points to 1.885.7. The All Industrials Index rallied 41.9
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        Manila
        459 26 +4.81 Stocks rose after share prices steadied on Wall Street, calming fears that the recent US interest rate increase would suck money out of equity markets around the world. The PSE Composite Index gained 4.81 points to 2,730.47. Turnover was valued at 2.2 billion pesos. The gain, the first
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        New Zealand
        330 26 4-33.84 Shares by yesterday's close had recouped much of Wednesday's losses. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended 1.73 per cent higher, or 33.84 points, at 1,986.17. after plunging 2.9 per cent the previous day. Brokers said the market is likely to be directionless and quiet today with the US
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        Seoul
        465 26 -10.81 Share prices plunged for the sixth straight trading day yesterday on anticipation of a government monetary squeeze to dispel inflationary concerns. The Composite Price Index staged a 10.81-point setback to close at 1,085.16 points after prices moved erratically. Trading volume was thin with 43.3 million shares valued at
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        Bombay
        102 26 +64.00 Share prices rose sharply towards the close on heavy buying by local mutual funds and on short-covering by operators on the last day of the current account period, brokers said. The 30-share BSE Index closed 64 points higher at 4,086.67. The 100-share National Index ended 5.18 up to
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        Taipei
        561 26 -31.46 Stocks dropped across the board as bargain hunters took profit, with all eight major categories of shares suffering losses. The 394-issue Weighted Price Index declined 31.46 points to settle at 6,340.02. Turnover was 1.253 billion shares worth NT547.05 billion. Falls outpaced rises 173 to 106. with 115 issues
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        London
        701 26 +9.1 STOCKS closed mixed as utility stocks plummeted and concerns grew that US shares may see further declines when the market reopens today after the Thanksgiving holiday. "I just don't think we've seen the bottom yet," said one trader. Declines in utility stocks dragged the market lower, after the
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        Paris
        230 26 +41.59 French stocks recouped their losses of the past two days, with the leading index gaining 2.2 per cent as investors decided shares •looked cheap. Wednesday's recovery on Wall Street and yesterday's closure of US markets for the Thanksgiving holiday helped boost confidence. "After the last couple of days
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        Brussels
        151 26 +8.91 Belgian shares closed higher after a day of slow trading during which business was affected by Wall Street's close for Thanksgiving holiday. Traders said they were regaining confidence that the 1,400 level on the Bel--20 Index of leading shares may be attacked soon. "Trading may still be a
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        Milan
        198 26 +62 Italian stocks rebounded from a slump as investors decided there would be no additional bad news about Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to overshadow good corporate earnings. "When there's one of these explosive bits of bad news in Italy the reaction is first shock, then hold, and then a
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        Amsterdam
        260 26 +4.81 Dutch shares ended higher across the board, recovering all of Wednesday's losses as investor confidence returned to the bourse. "Almost the only difference between today and yesterday is the fact that Thanksgiving is keeping the Americans away." said one dealer. "Without New York, which dragged us down for
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        Stockholm
        134 26 19.03 Swedish stocks rose for the first time in three days, led by paper and forestry firms, as MoDo reported a strong return to profit for the first nine months of the year. "MoDo was extremely good and it moved the forest and paper industry." said a dealer. "And
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        Zurich
        228 26 +25.2 Swiss shares ended firmer, supported by stronger bond prices, dealers said. Technical factors, firmer dollar also supportive after recent The SMI Index of leading shares up 25.5 points at 2,571.6. The All-share SPI Index closed up 14.04 at 1,693.40. Zurich No* 24 Knines Musuinsc BI 6 50 M
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        Johannesburg
        350 26 +83 South African shares ended broadly firmer yesterday as they bounced following losses on Wednesday after Wall Street's slide. Dealers said trade was cautious as New York was closed for Thanksgiving, and clear direction was expected only on Monday. An earlier softer finrand, steady gold price and London share
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        Toronto
        263 26 13.86 Stocks opened higher, buoyed by strong earnings results from Canadian corporates and on followthrough buying in quiet dealings, traders said. "There is buying pressure coming from yesterday," one trader said. The TSE-300 index was up 13.86 points to 4,062.46 in volume of 3.8 million for a value of
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      3022 27 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks yesterday recovered some of the big losses they have suffered this week with utility stocks leading the way, but brokers said the rally was anaemic and unconvincing. Jardine Fleming Unit Trusts, the largest unit trust company here, said investors have been switching from Asian
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      528 27 CLSA H SHARES regained Wednesday's losses ending the session up 2.4 per cent yesterday, although investors remained cautious with turnover at a low HKSI44 million. Qingling Motors, which took a beating in recent days, ended up 6 per cent on Japanese buying. The Shanghai B market finally managed to
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      2529 27 Reuter TOKYO Stocks closed sharply lower yesterday, hurt by plunges on Wall Street earlier this week. Arbitrage unwinding and long liquidation by foreign investors along with loss-cut selling by individuals pushed down share prices, and the risks of a further fall are growing. The 225-share Nikkei Average fell to
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      1855 27 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks yesterday closed at the day's high as bargain hunting accelerated in the aflernoon. The SET Index closed up 24.44 points to 1,357.29 on turnover of 6.53 billion baht. Brokers warned that the rebound yesterday might not last due to negative sentiment over the likelihood of further
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      1115 27 Reuter JAKARTA Bargain hunting on oversold counters yesterday helped stocks to stage a comeback though a weaker afternoon eroded some early gains. "Stocks drifted lower in late session after they staged a modest recovery at the open." one broker said. "The market was still nervous about the sharp decline
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2320 28 f MOST ACTIVE votunr MBf Capital 7.766.000 IJris H>d .MV 1.337 000 KL Industries :.«w:.000 Kcnong Bhd MV l.«l,000 j MBt Hk)g> MV 1.577.000 FM'BMK- I W OW) Landmarks Bhd 1.355.000 Multi-Puiposc 1.3-W.OOO Hcrjasa L WtW I.I 14.000 (iolden Plus H 1.10*000 Pcgi Msia 1.071.000 Nlulpha Intl 50c
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        Lock icon Prices rebound after a steady day on Wall Street
        5848 28 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks rose yesterday after six days of declines as a steady day on Wall Street reassured investors that a global market crash can be averted. "We are basically going to react to what W4| Street's going
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        8381 29 fnwo*» T^.K.^NO.^1 G, Gf M wi I'm U»l Vol l>«> Last y»u<' Oi' Oh VU Net < »P High Low lomp»>. Sale fOOO) High Low Buver Seller C »r S P/E Smil Price INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 720* 417 5* ml s V.ma 50c 470 *10 101 4*4 470 470 476
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        Lock icon Buyers make a cautious return as Wall St stabilises
        1975 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Some measure of stability returned to the local stock market yesterday, following encouraging overnight strength in US equities and bonds. But although the bounce led to gains that were modest and fairly widespread, most observers said the
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      360 19 NEWS VALUE Markets take a breather but outlook remains uncertain (pg With New York on Thanksgiving holiday last night, local market is expected to be indecisive today. Keppel probes case of missing remisier (pg I) Bad. The kind of news that frightens the small investor who is already feeling vulnerable.
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      S'pore ranked world's leading port for access infrastructure
      343 31  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Singapore has been ranked the leading port in the world in terms of access infrastructure in the World Competitiveness Report for 1994. The report, produced by the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development and the World Economic Forum,
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      Lock icon Salvage operation planned for sunken treasure in Malacca Strait
      355 31 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR A salvage operation is being planned for a wreckage, believed to contain treasure, at the bottom of the Straits of Malacca. A senior government official has confirmed that a committee comprising government officials and experts was formed on
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      Lock icon Iraq claims US$450m shipping loss over sanctions
      135 31 AP ls! ICOSI A, Cyprus Iraq's shipping industry has lost nearly US$45O million (***** million) because of the four-year-old UN trade sanctions, the official Iraqi News Agency reported on Wednesday. The agency, monitored in Nicosia, quoted the unidentified general manager of the state-run
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1051 31 Page Col ABC Containerize 16 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahlers Line 13 5 Ahrcnkicl Liner 4 1/2 ANL 3 1/2 Antaco Mgmt 17 3 APL 5 4/5 Appenship 4 4/5 Arabian Express 15 5 ASCL 5 5 Astro Shpg 8 2 Avant
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      Lock icon In protest against foreign trawlers
      37 31 Reuter BOMBAY Fishermen in Bombay staging a mid-sea protest on Wednesday to protest against foreign trawlers Fishing in Indian waters. They claim that mechanised trawlers would squeeze them out of business. Reuter
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      S'pore companies invited to use Rotterdam as entry to Europe
      197 31 SINGAPORE Rotterdam officials have invited Singapore companies and shipping lines to use the port as their entry point to Europe. "From the Port of Rotterdam, it is possible to serve practically the whole European market of 320 million consumers because
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1861 32 T* THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,884 on Wednesday from 1,876 on Nov 22. Trading was active for the Capesize area of the market, but details of concluded business were difficult to obtain, brokers said. Cobelfret was said to have booked
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      17026 40 This is a list of ships loading at Hj B< Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, Fres j the name of the ship, the shipping Cntr. line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from NZ the Port of Singapore. LEGEND
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        503 48 Vtsui Voy No BtfMi jnjwl Departure Vmm) Voy No Bwth hrWal Otpyhjt IWM Part Sfi Nam Hu2 18/94 P02 2411/2300 8»t*n Man N162 0 2511/2330 l|01» «M alonpde Batan Mvn 11/08/94 «/9 awtsd. S«»i (>«« 0 1 P03 atop* M 230# II, 08/94 II akws* 2411/0300 TltanaM
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1243 48 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING Of EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND LCt CARGO Record Bookint/Balance Rsits Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Vi Q». 059* 26/1500 IB 24/1500 24/1659 24/1900 28 24/1700 25/0659 25/0900 4 25/1200 25/1459 25/1700 rrrrr 5*003* 26/1230 24/1700 ivoisi
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      Lock icon Boelwerf pulls out of 8.4b franc shuttle tanker contract
      527 49 Lloyd's List BELGIUM'S major ship builder Boelwerf Vlaanderen has pulled out of a 8.4 billion Belgian franc (SS3B6 million) contract for two shuttle tankers. Both the yard and the UK-backed contractual owners claim that agreements and promises have not been honoured.
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        SIA ground crew and stations win service awards
        158 50 SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines has honoured six ground crew and two stations for outstanding service. The annual Managing Director's Awards for individuals went to: Dory Smets and Pascale Van Roy of Brussels, John Miller and Aamir Chishty of Los Angeles, Simon Wiersma of
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        Lock icon Lauda Air resumes S'pore service after 4-year absence
        389 50  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Austria's Lauda Air, founded by former world champion Formula One grand prix driver Niki Lauda, is back in Singapore after a four-year absence. The airline resumed its service here yesterday with the first flight piloted by Mr Lauda
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        Lock icon Lufthansa, SAS to sign co-operation deal soon: report
        382 50 Bloomberg Business News COPENHAGEN Lufthansa AG and Scandinavia Airlines System will soon sign an agreement to co-operate in a number of their operations, Danish Channel One television news reported on Wednesday. The German and the Scandinavian flag carriers will work together on
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      407 48 (A WHOLLY-OWHD SUMMARY OF ML) MAM LINE: 222 0255 AIRFREIGHT: 545 4255 WEEKLY LCL CONSOLIDATION INDIAN SUB CONTINENT ETD ETD USA/EUROPE/AUST/NZ ETD ETD COLOMBO 29/111 6/12 USA (AU INLANO POINT) 128/111 5/12 CMTTAQONQ 28/11 2/12 EUROPE (ALL BASE PORTS) 28/11 5/12 CALCUTTA 28/11 30/11 NEW ZEALAND (ALL PORTS) 8/11 18/12
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      417 49 A HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 [pm PRE pep KESSaS DOT HTM MT LEH HAM I BRfct PEL MTH 25/11 WIT H. RNOVATOR 312* I 21/11 16/12 11/12 17/12 11/12 11/12 20/12 30/11 02/11 03/11 H. EXPLORER 314* I 05/12 23/12 25/12 24/12 25/12 25/12
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      55 50 ]$$]:[@>%^$>=$&%%"$^:^;$'<&']@\ M.V. "JUPITER ACE" V0Y.47 Arrived 18th November 1994 Consignee* of all damaged cargoes ex the captioned vessels are hereby notified that a general survey will be held on the 28th November 1994 0900-1200 hours at PTB No further survey will be entertained thereafter to tonb T Lisa Kiafcai AB
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