The Business Times, 20 June 1995

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  • 12 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASL MITA(P) 194/12/94 Tuesday June 20 1995 85'
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 57 1 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Bank stocks led a rally in US shares yesterday after First Union Corp said it would buy First Fidelity Bancorp. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose as much as 27.32 points to a record 4,542.61 at around Ipm EDT with rises
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    • 37 1 Reuter LONDON British Prime Minister John Major's prospects of retaining his grip on power appeared to improve yesterday as fellow Conservatives contemplated the damage the party would face if there was a leadership challenge.
      Reuter  -  37 words
  • 168 1 Stock market indices Monday Change STII 2,128.1 -5.21 KJLSE Comp 1,052.59 -12.0 Nikkei 14,700.06 -3.11 Hang Seng closed SET Index 1,383.16 +0.20 Jakarta Comp 485.40 -0.64 Manila Comp 2,783.75 -6.56 Taipei WPI 5,249.88 -91.32 Seoul Comp 886.31 +5.64 Bombay BSE30 ..3,371.55 +22.08 CLSA China B unav Aust All
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  • 584 1  -  By Jenny Lam SINGAPORE Parkway Holdings is negotiating to buy two medical practice groups, a move that would complement its chain of hospitals and consolidate its position in the healthcare industry. Sources told Business Times that Parkway, a property company which
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  • 434 1  -  Dispute over the Tenet deal By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Parkway Holdings has hit back at Sukamto Sia's allegations of the group's proposed takeover of US-based Tenet Healthcare Corp's hospitals in Asia, saying the Indonesian tycoon's statements "give shareholders the wrong impression". In the latest
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  • 572 1  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA INDONESIA yesterday awarded four out of five regional telecommunications monopolies worth billions of dollars, ending months of protracted negotiations. The fifth award sought by Singapore Telecom and its Indonesian partner has been delayed pending further
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  • 397 1  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Non-oil domestic exports rebounded with a respectable growth of 15.2 per cent last month, indicating that the statistical distortion which caused an abruptly slower growth in April has been evened out. April's non-oil domestic export growth dipped
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  • 367 1 SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom's joint venture with a Chinese telecommunications operator to install 500,000 lines in Shanghai will cost US$3OO million (Ss4l7 million) over three years, says a report in The South China Morning Post. Sources in Hongkong were also reported to have said
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 330 2  -  By Jenny Lam AFTER a pick-up in business in March, retail sales in April fell by 10.6 per cent over the previous month. Excluding motor vehicles, the index declined by 8.7 per cent. According to latest figures released by the Department of Statistics
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    • 394 2  -  By David Mok A CONSORTIUM comprising Sembawang Media, ST Computer Systems and Singapore International Media (SIM) will be Singapore's second Internet public access provider, having bought gov-ernment-funded Technet for $2.5 million. Technet was set up in 1991 by the National Science and Technology Board
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    • 411 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan EMPLOYERS and business groups have welcomed the government's move to moderate civil service pay rises this year, saying it will help the private sector contain wage increases. "As the government is the biggest employer, private sector bosses will take the
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    • 243 2  -  By Lee Wai Leong SINGAPORE Most subscribers to Technet the service that provides subsidised Internet access to the local educational and research and development community will continue to enjoy a subsidy after Technet is privatised. Disclosing this yesterday, the National Science and
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    • 331 2  -  By Agnes Wee REFLECTING the growing importance of the travel industry in the Asia-Pacific region and Singapore as a regional tourism hub, an Asian Travel Market (ATM) will be held here for the first time. Response has been encouraging,
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    • 228 2 SINGAPORE AXA Life has introduced an insurance policy that provides cover against major illnesses. AXA, part of the international French insurance giant AXA Group, said yesterday its new Platinum 5 plan covered heart attack, cancer, stroke, paralysis, motor neurone disease and other
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    • 140 2 MONASH MT ELIZA BUSINESS SCHOOL, MONASH UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ASIAN STRATEGY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE PROUDLY PRESENTS The First ASEAN ADVANCED MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Designed for the top level executives In recognition of the advanced standing managing in the ASEAN region, this of the program and the management leadership, strategic
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 435 3  -  It's home to a third of the nation's people but contributes only 11% of GDP From Loh Hui Yin in KHON KAEN, Thailand THAILAND'S poor north-east region must be turned into a "production and income" centre rather than a passageway for rapidly developing Indochina,
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    • 369 3  -  Reports Claire Leow in KUALA LUMPUR THE electronics industry may be cyclical but ofTers good opportunities, said Arif Nun, deputy director-general of the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronics, yesterday. "They (investors) don't understand times have changed. They don't understand that this boom-bust cycle
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    • 263 3 CHINA is learning from the experience of Singapore and Malaysia to build up its own electronics industry, said a Chinese official yesterday. Li Baosheng, executive vice-chairman of an electronics sub-committee under the Ministry of Electronics Industry, said Beijing was embracing foreign technology and seeking
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    • 259 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia said yesterday it would manage its economy with extra caution and emphasised that it had no intention of rescheduling its mounting foreign debt which the World Bank said had reached US$lOO billion (S$ 139 billion). The World Bank said
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    • 104 3 Reuter DAVAO, Philippines The leader of the country's Muslim separatist rebellion yesterday warned of renewed war in the southern Philippines if peace talks with the government ended in failure. But government officials in Manila said they were hopeful a separatist conflict which had killed
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    • 99 3 Reuter JAKARTA A survey by Japan's External Trade Organisation has cited Indonesia's bureaucracy and customs tariffs as among the most important factors blocking Japanese investment, the official Antara news agency said yesterday. The survey covered 2,100 Japanese-affiliated companies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Singapore, and
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    • 95 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Ministry of International Trade and Industry approved three projects with Irish participation amounting to U*****.6 million (Ss4ol million) between 1990 and April 1995. Its minister, Rafidah Aziz, yesterday said these projects were for p re-cast concrete products; liquified petroleum gas (LPG), diesel
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    • 37 3 Bernama MANILA The Philippine government will impose more environmental and pollution taxes over the medium to long-term to support efforts toward sustainable development. This was disclosed by Socio-economic Planning Secretary Cielito Habito yesterday. Bernama
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    • 96 3 Reuter JAKARTA The World Bank has urged the Indonesian government to set guidelines to enforce awareness of the need to protect the environment. "Pressures on the environment are growing rapidly in Indonesia. There is a role for government in managing these pressures," the bank
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    • 61 3 AFP JAKARTA Legislation covering small business will be passed this year. Small-scale Business Minister Subijakto Tjakrawerdaja was yesterday reported as saying that the new laws would be passed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Indonesia's independence. "The draft bill is being discussed and will
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 399 4 Reuter, AFP SHANGHAI Corrupt Chinese officials in Shanghai are laundering their kickback money on the Shanghai stock market and stashing some of their wealth offshore, the Liberation Daily said yesterday. "Criminal elements are using their huge piles of dirty money to speculate
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    • 171 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's govern-ment-owned Directorate General of Telecommunications (DGT) and Singapore Telecom will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in July for a satellite project, DGT officials said yesterday. The two sides will sign the MOU for the launch of a communications satellite by
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    • 388 4 Reuter TAIPEI Political relations may be deteriorating between Taipei and Beijing, but Taiwan businessmen said yesterday that their long-term economic interests in China would not be affected. "Yes, the relations between the two sides are a bit tense at the moment, but we
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    • 47 4 AFP CHINESE hotel cooks gnll piglets on a 100-metre long barbecue stove the world's longest in Beijing to promote the sales of the American beer Budweiser. Six tonnes of meat, vegetables and seafood were served with beer for about 2,000 guests. AFP
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    • 206 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's central bank said yesterday it has abolished with immediate effect a rule that requires foreign equity funds to invest 75 per cent of the amount remitted here within three months of the funds' entry into the island. The
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    • 148 4 Reuter TAIPEI Spurred by Taiwan's approval of an offshore transshipment centre plan, foreign investment in the island's transport trade soared about 21 times in the first five months of 1995, a government agency said yesterday. Foreign transport investment totalled US$l4O million (S$ 194.6
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    • CHINA WATCH
      • 116 4 Reuter BEIJING China will crack down on tax evasion by foreigners and foreign-invested companies, the China News Service reported on yesterday. China had signed agreements with more than 30 countries and would exchange information to catch tax evaders, a tax official was quoted as saying. A campaign
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      • 124 4 Reuter BEIJING Illegal mining is threatening safety and normal production at a major Chinese antimony mine in the western province of Gansu, according to a letter from a mine official in the People's Daily. The mine in Xihe county was established in 1986 and has reserves
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      • 92 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan has signed a secret letter of intent to cooperate with Russia in disposing of the islands nuclear waste, the Independence Evening Post said yesterday. The staterun Taiwan Power Company signed the accord with the National Russia Institute of Science on May 20, whereby it
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      • 75 4 UPI BEIJING China's former culture minister has defended the emergence of popular novels, films and other forms of artistic expression, maintaining they pose no threat to traditional Chinese culture. Wang Meng, among China's highest-ranking leaders to be purged in the aftermath of the 1989 pro-democracy movement,
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    • 219 4 AP BEIJING Urban residents will be paying up to nearly four times as much for housing by the end of the decade as China reduces hefty rental subsidies, an official report said yesterday. Low-rent housing provided by employers used to be part
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    • 453 4 Trip by Bill Gates underlines island's progress in fighting software piracy New York Times TAIPEI The expected arrival yesterday of Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates on the first leg of a visit to Asia underscores the island's success in the past few years at slowing software
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  • ASIA
    • 460 5 Reuter BOMBAY The strobe lights cut through the thick smoke in the swanky Bombay disco, picking out young people gyrating to the sounds of computersynthesised metallic music with little discernible rhythm. A "rave" is in progress. The young achievers of India's urban
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    • 279 5 Reforms in India Reuter NEW DELHI Financial and institutional weaknesses in India's state governments were a major hurdle in providing infrastructure and social services in the country, says the World Bank in a report yesterday. India's state governments account for 56 per
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    • 293 5 AFP NEW DELHI Tens of thousands of Indian telecommunications workers went on an indefinite strike yesterday to protest against privatisation of the sector, trade union leaders said. Workers in the state-run telecoms industry refused to operate manual telephone exchanges or attend to emergency repairs
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    • 397 6 AFP, Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said he would meet core cabinet ministers today to discuss measures to prop up the nation's flagging economy, Japanese news reports said. Speaking to a group of reporters accompanying him in
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    • 375 6 Reuter SYDNEY A larger than expected fall in April housing finance is further evidence of the decline of Australia's housing sector, economists said yesterday. The weakness is expected to continue for six to nine months, although the economists said the
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    • 455 6 New York Times NEW DELHI Five years after withdrawing 100,000 troops from Sri Lanka, the Indian government has answered Sri Lankan government calls for help against the Tamil Tiger guerillas by establishing a naval quarantine around the guerilla stronghold at Jaffna on
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    • 254 6 AFP DHAKA Security was beefed up here yesterday as Bangladesh's national parliament resumed its budget session amid suspense about the fate of 147 opposition lawmakers who passed a 90-day limit of continued absence from the house. A police ban on rallies and carrying of lethal
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    • 86 6 Reuter KATHMANDU Shops and schools across the Kathmandu valley remained shut and private vehicles stayed off the roads yesterday in response to a strike by student groups against midterm elections, eyewitnesses and officials said yesterday. Representatives of the Nepal Students Union, who organised the stnce,
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    • 93 6 AFP TOKYO North Korea has placed 13 cargo ships, totalling some 120,000 tonnes, on standby to cany possible rice aid from Japan, the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun reported day. The paper said a Japanese government decision was expected as soon as North
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    • 75 6 Bernama NEW DELHI An international trade centre is being set up in Kochi City by the southern Indian state of Kerala. The objective of the centre, being built by the Kerala Industries Department, is to provide a common platform for industrialists to exhibit their
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    • 35 6 AFP SYDNEY Australia and other Pacific nations will consider retaliatory action against France over its decision to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific, Prime Minister Paul Keating warned yesterday. AFP
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    • 2140 6 Notice of Adjourned Annual General Meeting Notk» is hereby given that the Adjourned Annual General Meeting of SJngamas Container Holdings Limited (the "Company") will be held at Basement Function Room I, Luk Kwok Hotel, 72 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on Wednesday, sth July, 1995 at 10:30 a.m. for the
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  • FOCUS
    • 750 7  -  From Alan Boyd in BANGKOK THAILAND is set to join the regional satellite club with a modest research programme that will draw heavily on expertise from three Asian neighbours, including China. Amid warnings that their country was slipping behind Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
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    • 1079 7 Satellite communications IF the Singapore office of a company needs to communicate with one of its factories located 100 km outside Bombay, how is the connection made and by whom? The typical method: the company's electronic communication is sent to the Singapore international
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 872 8 Q KLS Investments 20 June 1995 Pte Ltd To Parkway's shareholders Dear Fellow Shareholders, Your Vote is Important! Please Attend the Annual General Meeting of Parkway Holdings Limited On 16 June 1995, KLS Investments Pte Ltd ("KLS Investments") published an Can Parkway justify the cost of the Tenet Acquisition? According
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
    • 1250 9 Company V-P discusses how Thai property developer Land and Houses keeps funding costs down Business Day LAND and Houses claims to have the lowest funding costs of any Thai property developer and that, says executive vice-presi-dent Adisorn Thananun-Nara-pool, has helped it stay ahead in an increasingly
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    • 720 9  -  mmmm THE PROPERTY COLUMN By Lee Han Shih IT HAS been almost 10 years since Singapore experienced its first post-Indepen-dence recession. Some people look back at it with fond memories because the recession offered good bargains for properties. Those were
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    • 396 10  -  By Abdul Hadhi WITH industrial property fast becoming the flavour of the month, another prime industrial site is up for sale by tender. The freehold site along Genting Lane in the MacPherson district has an approximate land area of
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    • 243 10 Selected transactions In the past week jjggto, 1 0W*| 1 Typ. 1 Jgaff, 1 1 PBWAT1 Jun 12 2678' I BuHionPaik Condo 807 FH 635.000 787 Jun 12 2366 HiWviewHts Condo 980 FH 665,000 679 Jun 13 1646 East Coast Vilte Condo 1033 FH 663.000 642 Jun 14
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    • 984 10 Bloomberg Business News SOUTH Korea's construction companies, hindered throughout the 1990s by a government policy to limit property development and by a string of deadly accidents that have tarnished their reputation, are primed for a rebound. In the late 1980s the South Korean
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  • SPORTS
    • 825 11 US Open NYT SOUTHAMPTON, New York It was by far the biggest shot of the little man's life, 191 metres of carry over hill and heather and heartbreak to the front of the green, to win the US Open.
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    • 653 11  -  By Dave Anderson NYT SOUTHAMPTON, New York He eould hear the cheers behind him, but he knew they weren't for him. Greg Norman was waiting to putt on the 16th green when the cheers rolled across the Shinnecock Hills shadows for Corey Pavin's 4-wood
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    • 666 11 Reuter LONDON A year ago Pete Sampras went to Wimbledon with seven titles already under his belt in 1994 and a solid grip on the world number one ranking. Though he lost his last warm-up tournament, going down in the final on the London grass-court
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    • Article, Illustration
      607 11 AFP SOUTHAMPTON, New York American Neal Lancaster set a nine-hole US Open record by firing a six-under par 29 over the back nine at Shinnecock Hills Golf Course here Sunday. His 18-hole total of five-under par 65 matched the course record, set by Chip Beck, Lanny Wadkins and Mark
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      134 11 Reuter BIRMINGHAM, Eaglaad American Zina Garrison-Jackson warmed up for her last Wimbledon challenge by recapturing the Birmingham Classic title on Sunday, ending her former Texan neighbour Lori McNeil's dominance of the event. McNeil had won the trophy when the pair met in the two previous finals. But there was
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    • 677 11 Rugby World Cup Reuter CAPE TOWN It is usually the losers of World Cup semifinals who attract sympathy, but normal rugby logic has been temporarily suspended as South Africa looks ahead to Saturday's final against New Zealand at Ellis Park. For Springbok supporters, watching their
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    • Article, Illustration
      116 11 Reuter SACRAMENTO Michael Johnson completed a rare sprint double at the US championships here on Sunday, setting up a chance for a 200-400 double at the World Championships in August. Johnson followed up his 400 m victory with a win in the 200 m in a wind-assisted 19.83 seconds,
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      77 11 AP STOCKHOLM Hege Riise and Marianne Pettersen scored firsthalf goals three minutes apart and Norway held off European champion Germany 2-0 on Sunday to win the second women's World Cup. The victory came four years after Norway lost to the USA 2-1 in the final of the inaugural women's
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    • 120 11 PROPERTY" INFORMATION ONLINE 14 July 1995 Marriott Hotel Singapore T AN EXCITING ONE-DAY SEMINAR FOR All IN THE PROPERTY INDUSTRY Detailed coverage on: Why and how property information is moving from print to electronic form Competitive consideration Categories of information and types of information providers Property information on Internet and
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 436 13 Love and fashion are the two elements Japanese film-goers expect from a good French movie AFP WHILE Japanese critics appreciate cutting-edge French art films, the film-going public prefers other things the French are famous for fashion and love, a film distributor said here during
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    • 285 13 AP AP UPI FLASHY businessman and politician Bernard Tapie, celebrity of scandal and legal troubles, will taste a new kind of stardom as the lead character in Claude Le touch's next movie, if he can avoid a prison term he is appealing. Tapie will
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    • 244 13 AFP SOUTH Korea's first international piano competition takes place this week, born of a watch maker's memory of a small terrified Korean boy flying alone to a music school in Paris. Top names, including Germany's Vladimir Krainev, Israel's Pnina Salzman and Russia's Mikhail Voskresensky,
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  • 513 14 EDITORIAL RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin's singular enthusiasm to attend may be the truest measure of the G-7 summit's relative importance in world affairs. Canadian protocol chiefs had to make Mr Yeltsin promise not to turn up in Halifax till the end of the second day, giving the
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 369 14 THE third Singapore-Indonesia Youth Forum, which was held here last week, explored the possibility of joint projects involving training courses, exchange programmes for undergraduates, the participation of Indonesian companies in the Singapore International Foundation's Work Asia scheme, and collaboration in vocational training programmes, technology
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    • 120 14 SINGAPOREANS have yet to realise the importance of recycling, notably paper products. In a year, Singaporeans discard about 250,000 tonnes of paper, most of which could be recycled. Paper makes up almost a fifth, or 19.73 per cent, of garbage from homes. These figures are
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    • 110 14 THE GOVERNMENT has announced that pay rises for civil servants will be 5.5 per cent this year, slightly lower than the 6 per cent last year. The significance of this decision is in reminding us wage increases should be carefully controlled, especially at a time when
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    • 118 14 PRESIDENT Lee Teng-hui has successfully concluded his unofficial visit to the US. The trip was a major breakthrough in overcoming barriers to promoting Taiwan's international profile through pragmatic diplomacy. President Lee indicated to reporters covering his visit at Cornell that he will work harder to realise
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    • 120 14 SUSTAINING strong purchasing power, which translated means a high living standard, is the primary objective of the zero-inflation policy. Keeping retail prices low seems the obvious step to take hence the monthly Zero Inflation Day sales campaign. Participating traders, according to the relevant ministry's stipulation, must
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    • 179 14 A PLEA to impose a comprehensive ban on the production, import and usage of undesirable chemical pesticides such as DDT and BHC has been pending for some time now. But apparently, the clout of the pesticide lobby seems to be stronger than imagined. Admittedly, DDT
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  • 1029 14  -  Mikhail Gorbachev calls for true democrats to unite against Yeltsin Mikhail Gorbachev INSTABILITY. This is the leitmotiv these days in Russia and the rest of the former republics that used to comprise the former Soviet Union. And nobody seems to know what to
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1518 15  -  Overhaul of US telecommunications law would mean chaos initially but also lower prices and more services in the long run, reports Edmund Andrews Edmund Andrews NYT FIRST tangible efI feet of the United States I Senate's sweeping overI haul of telecommunications law, experts say, will
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  • 487 16 Reuter TOKYO US Federal Reserve vice-chairman Alan Blinder says the strength of the US dollar is "not at the top" of his list of factors to consider in deciding whether to ease interest rates, according to an interview in
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  • 161 16 Reuter HANOI Vietnam disclosed yesterday that head of state Le Due Anh will visit the United States in October, becoming the most senior Hanoi official to set foot on US soil since the Vietnam War. President Anh, who ranks second
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    47 16 Reuter BERLIN Workers of Christo's team wrapping up the German Reichstag behind the Quadriga statue on top of the Brandenburg Gate yesterday. The artist's project to swath the historical building is continuing after bad weather on Saturday forced him to take a break. Reuter
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  • 388 16 Reuter WASHINGTON New government figures suggest the recent productivity "miracle" touted by some economists is exaggerated, a blow to the theory that recent growth in worker productivity has surged to levels last seen in the early *****. The Labour Department last week quietly issued
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  • 780 16  -  The Bottom Line HARISH MEHTA HARISH MEHTA The writer is BT's Vietnam correspondent IT WOULD be a pity if the Clinton administration were to miss the opportunity to normalise relations with Vietnam, and shelve the matter until after the 1996 presidential elections in
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  • 142 16 AP NEW YORK IBM will start selling personal computers based on its PowerPC chip next month, deviating for the first time from the PC design it created in 1980 and which became an industry standard. But the company does not expect to sell
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  • 187 16 Reuter PRAGUE Taiwanese Prime Minister Lien Chan met his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus here yesterday for the highest-level talks of a groundbreaking European tour which has been shrouded in secrecy. Mr Klaus' spokesman Vadim Petrov confirmed that the two prime ministers had held an
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  • 83 16 AFP LUXEMBOURG Germany will seek a fundamental rewrite of the European Commission's blueprint for the transition to a single currency, Finance Minister Theo Waigel indicated yesterday. He was speaking at a meeting of European Union (EU) finance ministers which discussed the commission's green paper, setting out how
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  • 70 16 Reuter SARAJEVO The United Nations yesterday said it could build a new relationship with Bosnian Serbs after they freed the last of more than 370 peacekeepers they had blockaded or held hostage. "It gives us an opportunity to re-establish a new relationship with the Bosnian
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  • 92 16 Reuter BAGHDAD Iraq said it might reconsider its relations with a UN commission disarming Baghdad under the 1991 Gulf War ceasefire terms if its report, due yesterday, was negative. "Anyway, the 19th of this month will be a decisive day in the history of Iraq's relations
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  • 107 16 Reuter LONDON A British company linked to a serving cabinet minister broke an arms embargo against warring Iran and Iraq by supplying weapons to both sides and training them in their use. The Times yesterday quoted Gerald James, former chairman of BMARC, a company of which
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  • 72 16 Reuter PARIS The extreme-right National Front won control of three French towns for the first time, while President Jacques Chirac's conservatives lost their monopoly on power in Paris, his fief for the past 18 years. Jean-Marie Le Pen's anti-immi-grant movement captured the Riviera naval port of Toulon, the
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  • 76 16 Reuter PALO ALTO, California Defence Secretary William Perry says the United States is considering resuming underground testing of nuclcar bombs and the Pentagon expects to decide soon on which course of action to take. "The Defence Department has not taken a final decision on which
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  • 140 16 Reuter LONDON But for politicians' relentless ambition, it is hard to see why anyone would wish to succeed John Major as leader of Britain's ruling Conservatives. The party, in power for the past 16 years, is racked by infighting and deeply unpopular with the public. But as Mr
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  • 61 16 AFP CAIRO Israeli and PLO negotiators are to meet today for talks on the transfer of civilian powers to Palestinians in the West Bank ahead of a July 1 target date for agreement, the Israeli embassy said yesterday. The PLO had earlier announced that the two sides would
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  • 55 16 Reuter SAO PAULO Chile expects to complete negotiations to join the Nafta and Mercosur free trade agreements in a year. Foreign Relations Minister Jose Miguel Insulza yesterday said: "In a year's time, I hope that Chile will have completed its negotiations with Mercosur and Nafta to take
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        52 17 Mixed 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance. Barings. Credit Lyonnais Securities. Daiwa, Fraser. G K Goh. Kay Hian. Morgan Grenfell. Ong Co. Nomura. Phillip, Smith New Court. W Carr and S
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        93 17  -  By Quak Hiang Whai AMCOL Holdings was the most active counter yesterday. It is also one of the most overbought stocks in the market with daily and weekly RSIs and stochastics having almost reached maximum levels. The stock should meet some resistance which could bring it back to
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    • 472 17  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Van Dcr Horst the marine engineering group which is more of a power plant specialist nowadays has posted a 22 per cent rise in interim net earnings to $24.53 million. The profit hike is significant because turnover in
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    • 263 17 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's national carmaker Perusahaan Otomobil National Bhd (Proton) yesterday said it would be forced to raise car prices in August because of the rising costs of its yen-denomi-nated parts. Proton managing director Nadzmi Mohd Salleh, describing the move as
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    • 485 17 It grabs top slot off Barings in Euromoney poll SINGAPORE Jardine Fleming has ousted Baring Securities as the top economic research house in Asia, according to a survey of broking houses by the British magazine Euromoney. The magazine says Barings' fall from
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    • 621 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORJE Captain Wei Jia Fu has staged another coup for Cosco Investments (Singapore) (CIS). The man who successfully steered the Chinese-controlled shipping and property group in his first year at the helm has convinced his Beijing bosses to
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    • 365 17  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Vietnam's Ministry of Defence has refused flour miller Prima permission to build a mill near Danang port, delivering another blow to the firm's threeyear bid to enter the country. A Vietnamese official in Hanoi told Business Times: "The Ministry
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    • 96 17 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Westmont Land (Asia) Bhd, which is in the process of acquiring Light Industrial Estate (Johor), plans to be a major property developer in Johor Bahru, said its chairman Datuk Mohamed Sulaiman. When the acquisition is completed, it would
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    • COMPANIES
      • 64 19 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed Sincere Watch Ltd has taken a 33.33 per cent stake in Unisky Ltd, a dormant Hongkong company, to apply for a licence to import watches and other products into China. Sincere Watch also said yesterday that it had raised the paid-up capital
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      • 53 19 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed Inter-Roller Engineering has received shareholders' approval for its rights cum warrants issue. The one-for-four rights, which will raise $2.24 million for the company, will be priced at 35 cents apiece. The exercise price of the warrant, which also comes with every four shares held,
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      • 30 19 SINGAPORE Centrepoint Properties has incorporated a whol-ly-owned subsidiary named AlkafT Complex Pte Ltd, which has an authorised capital of $100,000 and a paid-up capital of $2.
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      • 34 19 SINGAPORE Temasek Holdings has reduced its stake in Sesdaq-listed Teledata to 13.19 per cent from 13.34 per cent. Its subsidiary, Singtel Investments, sold 119,000 Teledata shares on June 16.
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      • 68 19 SINGAPORE Low Keng Huat (S) Ltd has raised its take in Australian subsidiary Kendall to 75 per cent from 51 per cent previously. The company also said recently that Kendall subsidiary Amuret Pty Ltd had bought a 15-storey office complex in Perth for AsB
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      • 70 19 SINGAPORE Hotel Plaza Ltd has obtained approval at its 26th annual general meeting and extraordinary meeting on May 18 to pay a first and final gross dividend of 4 per cent for financial year ended Dec 31, 1994. The company has also re-ap-pointed Ernest
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      • 51 19 SINGAPORE Econ International has bought Evergreen Sawmill Pte Ltd, an inactive company whose principal asset is 21,167 square metres of property in Sungei Kadut Street 2. The property, with a 30-year leasehold, was purchased from the Jurong Town Corporation on Dec 31, 1994, for $4.5
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      • 138 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Pan Malaysia Cement Works Bhd (PMCW) has reported a group pre-tax profit of M 550.2 million (5528.6 million) for the year ended March 31, up 59.6 per cent from the previous corresponding period. Announcing its unaudited results yesterday, the company said group gross
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      • 1921 19 M—in' prtoM Jun 20 Stagapere Unit Trwt The Commerce 1.58 167xd The Savings Fund I.S3 1.62 S'pore Prog Fund 0.62 0.66 S'pore Sec Fund 0.98 1.04 S'pore Invest Fund 1.08 I.Mxd S'pore Equity Fund 0.74 0.79 Asia Unit Trust Mai Invest Fund 2.30 2.64 Mai Pros Fund 0.90 0.% Amanah
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      • 333 19  -  From Al Labita in MANILA A GOVERNMENT agency yesterday defended the terms of the sale of a 240-hectare Fort Bonifacio redevelopment project in Makati city to a consortium led by listed Metro Pacific Corp (MPC). "Everything was legal and in accordance
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      • 545 19 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Foreign fund managers hope upcoming measures to open Malaysia's capital markets will address the many investment barriers here. For a market its size the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange is first in South-east Asia and third in Asia
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      • 629 19 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Shinawatra International Co has some ambitious overseas expansion plans, and expansion does not come cheaply. So, to fund its telephone projects in neighbouring countries, the company is preparing to make an initial share sale to the public this
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      • 203 19 Bernama PETALING JAYA The Pacific Bank Bhd will launch its first mutual fund in early August this year, said chairman Lin See Yan yesterday. The unit trust company, Pacific Mutual Fund Bhd, was incorporated on March 15, with an authorised capital of
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      • 341 19  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE The Kuok Group is seeing brisk sale of its Palisades condominium units in Vancouver and enjoying high occupancy for the adjacent Pacific Palisades Hotel. The Palisades' twin-tower residential condominium under construction in downtown Vancouver has seen 67
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      • 344 20  -  By ShivTaneja SINGAPORE Pharmaceutical and food giant Sandoz is spinning off its speciality chemicals division Clariant Ltd in what could be Switzerland's largest initial public offering. Roadshows for the global offering are currently underway in Asia and, according to the issue's bankers,
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      • 83 20 Bloomberg Busines News CANBERRA Konica Corp, a Japanese producer of photo-sen-sitive chemicals, cameras and copiers, said it will locate part of its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Sydney. The information-imaging group yesterday signed a four-year agreement that will result in more than As 37
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      • 103 20 AFP TOKYO Japan's securities watchdog plans to file criminal charges against a former company president for allegedly manipulating stock prices by spreading false rumours, a newspaper reported yesterday. The report said the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission will file the charges with the Tokyo
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      • 53 20 Reuter WELLINGTON Lion Nathan Ltd has warned that the strong New Zealand dollar and an increasing provision for tax will adversely affect future profits. Future profits may be affected by further changes in the Australian-New Zealand exchange rate, the brewer says in its
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      • 48 20 Reuter LONDON Food retailer J Sainsbury pic said on Sunday it plans to extend its Savercard discount scheme to more of its 350-plus stores, but it denied press reports that the step is a reaction to a rival scheme by Tesco pic. Reuter
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      • 306 20 SCMP HONGKONG It is the colony's most expensive commercial investigation, with legal costs on all sides exceeding HKSIOO million (S$ 18 million). Yet more than seven years after the initial transactions took place, investigations into the Allied Group and its flamboyant founder, Malaysian tycoon Lee
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      • 459 20 Money managers see resistance to high-risk industry Bloomberg Business News CANBERRA Qantas Airways Ltd's public share sale is being cleared for takeoff this week, yet many international investors are far from sure if they will be on board. The airplanes with the flying
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      • 286 20 Reuter BIRMINGHAM, Alabama An Alabama judge was to be asked to decide yesterday whether a rural county populated largely by poor blacks should be the site of a US$7 billion (559.7 billion) classaction lawsuit against Shell Oil Co and Hoechst
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 324 21  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Indonesian conglomerate Bakrie Group will restructure its financial services business by first injecting five related companies into listed Bakrie Finance Corp. The group also plans to boost the finance arm by buying life insurance and
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      • 217 21 SINGAPORE Korea International Merchant Bank yesterday raised US$7O million (5597.7 million) from the offshore market. The deal was arranged and lead managed by the Singapore branches of Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale and NORD/LB Nordeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, Cho Hung Finance, DBS Bank, and KDB International
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      • 425 21 Reuter BANGKOK Gold is seen shining more brightly than ever before in several fast-growing Asian nations as rising incomes stimulate greater demand for it, analysts said. South-east Asian countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as the three Indochinese countries and
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      • 393 21 Reuter JAKARTA Some Indonesian industries are run like cartels with government support and rules that prevent internal competition, the World Bank said in a report. The bank said cartels existed in the cement and pulp and paper industries, while other restrictions were
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      • 512 21 Several give much higher yields and are less volatile than diversified stock mutual funds Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Many investors hear the words corporate high-yield bonds and shriek "junk!" before running for the safety of some other investment. Such a reaction could
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      • 536 21 Interest likely to be limited to foreign institutions, say analysts SCMP HONGKONG Despite the high earnings potential of Manhattan Card, Chase Manhattan Bank's campaign to sell its 54 per cent stake in the card company has attracted more
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      • 65 21 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Malayan Banking Bhd, Malaysia's biggest bank, has raised its base annual lending rate to 7.1 per cent from 7.05 per cent. This is Maybank's first revision to its base lending rate since May 18 and its fifth this
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      • 75 21 Reuter JAKARTA Asians typically invest in a broad range of currencies but, in general, most prefer instruments denominated in their own national currencies, stock brokerage firm Lehman Brothers said in a survey. The survey, covering 2,000 institutions with well over US$2 trillion (552.78 trillion) in
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      • 108 21 AFP TAIPEI Three Taiwanese banks and Indonesia's Lippo Group will jointly establish a bank with a capital of US$5O million (5569.5 million) in the South-east Asian country, the Economic Daily News said yesterday. The three Taiwanese banks the International Commercial Bank of China,
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      • 80 21 Reuter LONDON The life insurance operation of Hill Samuel, a part of TSB Group pic, is the subject of takeover interest from an unidentified foreign insurance company, the Guardian newspaper said on Sunday. The prospective buyer had retained mergers and acquisitions specialist BW Corporate
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      • 70 21 AFP MANILA Philippines-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday said it has launched a 40 billion-yen (Ss66o million) public bond issue outside Japan and the US to support its ordinary operations. The 10-year yen bonds had a 3.125 per cent per annum coupon and were offered
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      • 429 21 HONGKONG First Investments, the fund management company that launched the controversial FIL Leveraged Bond Fund, has issued a HKS43B million (5578.8 million) claim for damages against its former adviser, Trust Company of the West (TCW), the Sunday Morning Post reported over
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      • 471 22 Reuter MANILA The Philippine government must pay a high premium on its five-year fixed rate Treasury notes, said traders and economists yesterday. The government is scheduled to issue three billion pesos (S$ 162.8 million) worth of five-year T-notes today at an auction. It
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      • 238 22 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's State Development Bank denied that it has suspended all new overseas fund-raising plans because of the rising cost of floating bonds on the international market. "We have never released such information," said a bank director. "We
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      • 416 22 NYT VIENNA Major oil exporters are meeting target production quotas, according to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries' ministerial monitoring committee. Opec is not expected to change quota levels anytime soon, said Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources Dan Etete. "I don't think
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      • 452 22 UN study points to high inventories, falling demand Bloomberg Business News GENEVA Falling demand for tin in key Western markets from increased use of alternative metals and continuing high inventory levels point to a bleak long-term outlook for tin prices, says a United
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      • 306 22 UPI MANILA Philippine energy officials said yesterday that they plan to sign a long-term agreement to import Indonesian coal to try and secure a stable supply of the fuel. The pact, expected to be inked this month, comes amid booming demand
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      • 257 22 tNtMY RtPORT AFP VIENNA Ministers of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) said yesterday that non-Opec producers would be to blame if oil prices fell later this year. Chairing the opening session of Opec's regular mid-year meeting, Indonesia's Mining and
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      • 178 22 Reuter LONDON The dollar began the European session steady at weaker levels, as post-G7 disappointment pulled against the fear that central banks might act to shore up the US unit. "The market's wary of the possibility of central bank intervention as a follow-through from the G7 summit, which the
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      • 89 22 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was stable against other major currencies here Monday in calm trading. At around 1420 GMT, the dollar was trading at 1.4013 marks against 1.4003 marks late Friday, and at 84.67 yen (84.70). In London, the greenback was worth 1.3975 marks and 84.40 yen
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        1309 22 Trade-wetghled index cakvkued against S'porr's top 14 trading partners Base year IMS US$/S$ forward rates Noon /Jun 19 s$ Bid Olfcr 1-month 1.3897 1.3912 2-month 1.3843 1.3858 3-month 1.3794 1 3809 6-month ***** 1.3680 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9m m Jm 19 Singapore dollars to one
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      • 1278 23 Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollars ended higher in quiet trade while Euroyen futures were easier. Dealers said some US funds were seen buying in the morning, triggering stops at around 94.38 for the lead December contract. Except for the morning activity, trading was quiet and
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      • 655 23 COMMODITY REPORTS Palm Oil CRUDE palm oil futures on the KLCE ended sharply higher yesterday supported by short-cover-ing activities, dealers said. "Speculators short-covered as they still expressed their concern on shortage of CPO for the time being," a dealer said. On the foreign front, there
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      • 60 23 SYDNEY Friday's USDA announcement of a 500,000-tonne US corn sale to China has put upward pressure on freight rates and will likely keep sales to most of Asia quiet. The only exceptions are Japan, which is showing a strong interest to cover fourth-quarter needs, and
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      • 64 23 LONDON Western European coffee consumption fell by between 2 and 6 per cent in 1994 from 1993, according to the European Coffee Roasters Association. "Consumption in eastern Europe appears to be more seriously affected," Euca added. It did not provide data. Euca also noted a
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      • 105 23 JOHANNESBURG South Africa's gold output in May fell to 40.32 tonnes from 44.25 tonnes the month before, according to Chamber of Mines figures. Analysts said the industry was hit by the public holidays during the month and by the general malaise amongst workers.
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      • 82 23 NEW DELHI India's government is unlikely to allow more raw cotton exports for the rest of the 1994-95 (Sep-Aug) season, forestalling chances of more Indian origins reaching the world market. This month, the government approved the export of 68,000 bales of raw cotton. But
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    • 1344 23 SICOM Futures S2m dsatag as at 5.30pn) RSS 1 Caatract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jul 217.50 350 450 Aug 213.00 350 4750 Sep 210.50 2500 Oct/Dec 206.50 204.50 205.00 225 6075 Jan/Mar 204.00 3975 Apr/Jun 96 205.00 1530 HSS3C—tract (US cents/kg)
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1065 24 -0.6 SHARES eased slightly in flimsy trade yesterday. The All Ordinaries Index fell 0.6 of a point at 1,973.8. The All Industrials lost 12.8 at 2,962.0. The All Resources was 9.7 higher at 1,226.9. Turnover was 149 million shares valued at As34B million. A broker said that with the
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      • 617 24 Share prices fell as foreign investors stayed away in the absence of good news. A broker said there was "no drastic fall so far. It's moving sideways. There's no good news to lift the market". The PSE Composite Index fell 6.56 points to 2,783.75. Turnover was 1.44 billion shares
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      • 548 24 •91.32 Share prices closed 1.7 per cent amid pessimistic sentiment among investors, with all eight major categories of shares suffering losses. "Investors remained concerned about strained ties across the Taiwan Strait and financial difficulties in the local construction industry," said an analyst. The 321-issue Weighted Price Index fell 91.32
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      • 449 24 +5.64 Share prices closed higher, buoyed by reports of new mar-ket-boosting measures before local elections slated for June 27. "Buying sentiment was boosted by prospects that the Stock Market Stabilisation Fund would buy more shares before the local polls," said a dealer. The Composite Price Index posted a 5.64-point
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      • 324 24 -7.71 Share prices, not firing on all cylinders last week, again failed to spark to life yesterday. The NZSE-40 Capital Index fell 7.71 points to 2,046.65 on volume of just NZ$24 million. "It was an exceedingly light day," said a dealer. "It's a market with a complete lack
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      • 89 24 +22.08 Shares finished up but slightly off the session's highs. The BSE 300-share Index closed at 3,371.55 up by 22.08 points. The National index gained 11.92 to 1,599.05. Volumes in most pivotals including Reliance and Tisco were lower than usual and some brokers said this was because the on-line
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 236 24 +27.6 Swiss shares extended gains in afternoon trading. Dealers said a recovery in the dollar and Firmer bond futures supported shares. The SMI Index of leading shares closed up 27.6 Eoints to 2,803.0. The roader SPI Index ended up 15.51 to 1,848.09. Dealers said further gains were possible if
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      • 677 24 +15.2 STOCKS rose to a 15month high, led by British Steel, against a background of rising government bonds and surging US stocks. The FT-SE 100 Index rose 15.2 points to 3,381.3, its highest level since it reached 3,425.3 on Feb 17. "We were a bit jaded at the open,
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      • 192 24 +28.66 Extended September futures contract pins and firming of the dollar help boost DAX in late trade. The index has moved out of forecast range, but traders remain cautious about predicting an upward trend, saying profit-taking could erase gains in the next session. The DAX ended up 28.66 points
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      • 186 24 12.63 Belgian stocks rose 0.9 per cent, with a steady dollar alleviating concern about the earnings of Belgian companies, such as Bekaert NV, which have large dollar-de-nominated sales. Traders said stocks were also boosted by news that Belgium's main political parties agreed to form a four-party coalition government headed
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      • 806 24 +23.86 Stock prices turned solidly higher in active trading as buy programs boosted early gains fuelled by bonds' initial rebound following a three-day slide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which climbed 14.52 points to a new record high 4,510.79 on Friday, was ahead 23.86 to 4,534.65 at 11am
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      • 230 24 +7.0 Stocks moved higher early along with Firmer North American debt markets and buoyant gold-mining shares. The TSE-300 Composite index climbed 7.0 points to 4,532.20 on volume of 9.0 million shares valued at C 5119.00 million. Advancing stocks outpaced declines 198 to 120, with 222 issues unchanged. "We'll end
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      • 270 24 +2.73 Dutch shares closed just short of the day's highs after picking themselves up from a mixed start and gradually extending their gains through the afternoon. The AEX Index closed 2.73 points higher at 433.44. Dollar weakness kept prices in check at the opening but as the day wore
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      • 136 24 +13.48 French shares moved higher, buoyed by a rise on Wall Street and Firm bond prices, dealers said. "It got a major Fillip from Wall Street," one trader said. Activity was thin, as many investors are waiting on the sidelines ahead of the new government's budget on Thursday. The
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      • 148 24 +17.19 Ericsson and Volvo leapt ahead in quiet trading, keeping the local bourse in line with rising markets worldwide. The OMX Index rose 17.19 points to 1,590.92. Ericsson touched an in-tra-day record at 145.5 crowns during the morning but closed 50 ore lower at 145. Brokers said Nokia's more-than-doubled
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      • 320 24 +24.9 South African shares ended broadly firmer as a strong gold price buoyed sentiment in mostly slow trade, with Arm world markets providing steady support. Traders said the market showed little reaction to a planned half-day countrywide strike yesterday. The Overall Index closed 34.2 points up at 5,469.4, the
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      • 651 24 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash Bid Offer Mini Cap Deposit 38 6400 M 6500 Mim Jenty G* .0.1893 0.1992 Mini Mu income *0.9100 *0 9)00 USC CM Income PWt Fund 104*00 II 0200 PS S Rcwrvt Fund 5 5000 5 3100 ISR5JSS ***** ***** Far hm Fund •***** ****** Man Portfolio
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      • 151 24 +52 Italian shares showed a late flicker, with almost half the day's 320 billion lire of cash business coming in the last one-and-a-half hours, but the mood remains cautious. Buying came mainly from domestic investors, with foreign investors showing no interest in Italian stocks apart from the odd second-liner.
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      2525 25 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks were little changed as traders and investors awaited further details of a government plan to spur the Japanese economy. The ruling coalition on Friday proposed easing regulations on stock sales as the first in a series of measures to support Japan's increasingly fragile economic
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      1527 25 Reuter BANGKOK Shares closed little changed after a day of sluggish trade during which retail investors disappeared while they awaited a clearer domestic political scene. The SET Index closed 0.20 point higher at 1,383.16. A total of 44.2 million shares worth*3.l billion baht changing hands. Decliners led advancers 155
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      1169 25 Reuter JAKARTA —r Shares ended lower with light selling of some bluechips. Brokers also said investors were sidelined as the Hongkong market was closed today. The Composite Index closed 0.64 point lower at 485.40 after touching the day's low of 483.25. "Light selling was noted in some blue chips,
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    • 517 29 Knight-Ridder, Reuter GRAIN trading from the US Gulf to the Far East was in the spotlight again in the dry cargo freight, sending the Baltic Freight Index (BF1) up seven to 1,997. Following reports of Cargill's fixture of Cemtex Frontier for 53,000 heavy grain US Gulf/Japan for July
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    • 312 29  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Concord Express, one of Singapore's leading freight forwarding companies, is building a $14 million warehouse in Changi. To be named the Concorde Express Commerce Park, the facility will have a storage capacity of 6,000 square metres within an
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    • 198 29 SINGAPORE Members of the Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement (TSA) have agreed to impose a congestion surcharge on shipments to Jakarta because of delays and added costs due to congestion problems at the port. Effective July 15, the members of the TSA will charge US$lOO (SSI4O) per
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    • 395 29  -  By Thomas Wee SINGAPORE The Asia Pacific Seatransport Conference comes to Singapore this year. Organised by the Singapore National Shipping Association, Apsco '95 promises to be the largest so far, with more than 300 international delegates expected. Speakers from around the world will
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    • 322 29 SES 000 Jun 19 S$ Vol CWT Distnbution 1.59 unch 13 CWT Distnbution A 1.51 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.14 unch 18 Cosco Investment 1.75 +0.04 25 Cosco Investment A 1.71 +0.03 21 Far East Levingston 6.40 -0.25 210 GB Holdings Ltd 0.795 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.805 -0.005
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    • 495 29  -  This is a fortnightly column that highlights important shipping court cases By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE A shipowner's claim that a lawsuit against it should take place in the Ukraine was rejected by the High Court because the facts of the case
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    • 124 29 AFP MANILA A sunken World War II Japanese ship in Philippine waters, believed to have a treasure worth US$5OO million (***** million), is the subject of a race between two rival salvage firms, a group reported here yesterday. The Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism
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    • 656 30  -  Overbooking in carriers has made life difficult for low-priority shippers. Robert Mottley reports Robert Mottley American Shipper HIPPERS of low-val-ue commodities, such as hay and X waste paper, are finding it difficult to obtain space on container Jhips. It is a sharp turnaround from a
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      • 1006 41 THIS report, compiled by Cockctt Marine Oil Lid, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 383 42  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Emirates, the international airline of the United Arab Emirates, became the first Boeing 777 customer to select an engine for operation at 90,000 pound thrust. The Rolls-Royce Trent 890 engine on the Emirates 777-200, scheduled for delivery in
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      • 404 42 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Buoyed by strong performance in the industrial sector, air cargo throughput at Malaysian airports registered an average growth of 21.5 per cent last year to 379,133 tonnes from 312,045 tonnes in 1993. Total air cargo handled in the Peninsular shot up
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      • 203 42 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Domestic air travel within Peninsular Malaysia, especially to airports in the west coast, nosedived last year following the completion of the North-South Expressway. Statistic released by Malaysia Airports Bhd showed that all west coast airports of Penang,
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      • 178 42 AFP, Kyodo TOKYO Japan Airlines (JAL) yesterday reached a broad agreement with 15 other airline companies from Europe, the United States and Asia to standardise global cargo operations to cut costs. The airlines, including Air France, Alitalia, British Airways, Cathay Pacific
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      • 212 42 AFP LUXEMBOURG The shadow of US pressure to create "open skies" for its carriers in Europe hangs over a meeting of European transport ministers taking place here today. The United States has signed bilateral agreements with several European countries to give their
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      • 122 42 Reuter DUBAI Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it would buy 61 new aircraft from US manufacturers Boeing and McDonnell Douglas and would sign the long-awaited contract "within a few days". e remarks were made on Sunday night by Defence Minister mnce Sultan, who
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      • 129 42 AFP TOKYO Japan's biggest car maker, Toyota Motor Corp, is din a new us car P lant with a capacity of iuu,OOl>-2(X),CXX) units a year to combat the yen's rise against the dollar, a Japanese news agency said yesterday. However, the decision will
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      • 116 42 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR At least 15 international and local flights from Malaysia were delayed due to a power failure at the main international airport at Subang early yesterday, said a spokeswoman with Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS). The power failure, between 2.00 am and
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      • 102 42 AFP TOKYO North Korea said that General Motors Corp had expressed "strong willingness" in building an automotive parts plant in the country's free economic and trade zone around the ports of Rajin and Sonbong Charles Randolph, vice-president of General Motors Asian and Pacific
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      • 178 42 AFP HONGKONG Chinas newest airport at Zhuhai, bordering the Portuguese enclave of Macau, has started handling scheduled commercial flights with a single flight daily. The airport started the flight operations on Sunday with a single fully-booked me-dium-sized aircraft flight to Beijing, after it was officially
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