The Business Times, 2 April 1996

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 04<V12/"95 Internet* http:// www.asial.com.sg/biztimes SINGAPORE TUESDAY, APRIL 2,1996 85c
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Aussie food giants prepare for Asian siege
    645 1  -  DeDuun's more on Brierley sharks talk it may herald thrust into Anssie corporate heartland From'. Peter Lynch in Sydney AUSTRALIA'S food and retailing giants are preparing for a siege. Ever since Delham Investments a consortium of Singapore, Malaysian and Indonesian conglomerates swooped on
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    Singapore shares bear earnings brunt
    251 1  -  By] R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Poor earnings continued to dog Singapore stocks yesterday. Brokers said their clients were rerating the stocks downward, especially after the lacklustre earnings an- <■ nouncements at the weekend. Sembawang Corp, for example, which posted a 50 per cent profit plunge, saw
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    Lock icon Nikkei hits four-year high, but yen slides against dollar
    456 1  -  Institution* stocking op on equities after earlier sell-off for fiscal year-end From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TOKYO stock prices rose to their highest levels in four years yesterday but the yen sank to a 26-month low against a strong US dollar.
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    CD-ROM drive makers face overstock crisis
    492 1  -  Unexpectedly slow Christmas PC sales leave local players vulnerable to dnmpinfe price cnts tr* v. Bu, Jennifer Lien {SINGAPORE] Slower than expected Christmas PC sales have claimed their latest victims in CD-ROM drive makers, judging by the mass dumping and gepp price falls of
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Civil servants keep tabs on key economic data
      413 2  -  Outcomoitf^ By. Anna Teo CIVIL serwß have a special reason for faking more than a passing interest in forecasts of the Singapore economy, and the actual outcomes. They stand to gato QBtra cash. If gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year turns
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      One office for Chase, Chemical
      354 2  -  Decision follows parents' global merger By\ Soh Tiang Keng THE operations and staff of Chase Manhattan Bank and Chemical Bank in Singapore will be brought under one roof by the end of this year. This follows the global merger of their two parent companies Chase
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      SM Lee recovering well
      130 2 SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew is recovering well one week after an operation for a blocked heart artery, said the Prime Minister's Office yesterday. Mr Lee can gradually resume work but has a light schedule for the next few weeks, it said. Hp was examined on
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      Woodlands factories on sale
      186 2 LEND Lease Asia a subsidiary of Australia-listed Lend Lease Corp—has started marketing its 60-year leasehold flatted factory units for sale by strata title in Woodlands. Lend Lease said yesterday the last such development on Urban Redevelopment Authority 60-year leasehold sites was about 13 years ago. The
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      Fasts between festive feasts?
      301 2  -  BYE OH THE ECONOMY Commerce By Jeany Lam IT WAS probably a hiatus between the Christmas and Lunar New Year feasting. The catering trade index, which reflects the performance of restaurants, fast-food outlets and other eating places, started 1996 A A i J1 with a 0.4
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      Card, IT leaders make shopping on the Net safer
      195 2  -  Common set of procedures wiD boost cyberspace trade By\ Chan Siew Ling THE tie-up of IT heavyweights and payment systems giants to make shopping in cyberspace safer has borne fruit. The parties Microsoft, IBM, Netscape, Visa and MasterCard have agreed on
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      Sanitised Playboy: we come clean
      236 2 READERS who were on the lookout yesterday for our annual effort to have a laugh at their expense quickly realised the April Fool's joke was In our page 2 report headlined Singapore may get sanitised Playboy, Penthouse online. The story was that an American company,
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      271 2 The RF^T AVAILABLE 1 SERVICE OFFICE S_ next to SINGAPORE jJSjgT INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTRE Tramp Business Place offers comprehensive business facilities packages for entrepreneurs and enterprising businessmen always on the Besides stamping a prestigious address on your calling card, professional secretaries will take care of your administration needs while you
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      375 3 AtfMTC-r "Once you understand the basic swing, it's just a matter of adapting it to different situations." DAVID LEADBETTER. Whether it is the proper routing of the to see that person play. Everything Ido works full swing, or escaping a deep green-side toward that." bunker, David Leadbetter has always had
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
    • Article, Illustration
      Should HPL include insiders?
      569 4  -  napmoraßTT OOUUKM This Is the real Issue when arguing about priority rights to buy Its eondos By Lee Han Shih COLUMN in this paper last week argued the right of Hotel Properties Ltd (HPL) to sell units in its two upmarket condominiums to its directors, their
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      Springside draws buyers
      231 4  -  By Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] The preference for freehold landed properties appears to be undiminished in contrast to the poor sentiment affecting some 99-year landed projects. This was borne out by the good response to phases 4 and 5 of The Springside in Sembawang, which were officially launched
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      S'porean-led group buys Aussie resort
      266 4  -  AsBm price compares with As2om offered seven years ago From\ Surinder Singh in Sydney A GROUP led by Singapore investor Gertrude Guok has purchased the Greenmount Resort near Tweed Heads in Queensland, Australia, for about AsB million (SsB.B million). The resort has been on the
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      343 4 industrial site Site 15,117 sqm (approximately 162,720 sqft) Tenure 30 years +30 years Built-up Area 7,110 sqm (approximately 76,530 sqft) Located in a mature industrial estate Existing three-storey building on site allows for quick start-up Excellent access to the BKE, PIE and AYE Close proximity to Lakeside and Chinese Garden
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      196 4 15 LEEDON PARK v //—I f Single storey bungalow with inground swimming pool in a GOOD CLASS BUNGALOW zone Tenure: Freehold Land: approx. 2,9792 sq. metres (32,068 sq. ft) 3 main bedrooms and 3 accessory rooms and a garage Rich and mature garden Quiet environment amidst lush greenery Legal description:
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      87 4 100,000 sq. ft. Enbloc Office Building For Sale by Private Treaty Suitable for owner-occupiers and investors Location The property is prominently located at the corner of Cecil Street Boon Tat Street Strata Area Approx. 102,149 sq.ft. Strata Titles 18 separate titles Carparking :71 Lots Land Area Approx. 14,5605q.ft. Plot ratio
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Indonesia-Asean trade volume totals US$9b
      381 5 JAKARTA Indwwmu record* surpluses with all Asean members except Thailand AFP Reuter TRADE volume between Indonesia and its six fellow Asean members totalled US$9.3 billion (Ssl3 billion) during the first 11 months of 1995, a minister said yesterday. Industry and Trade Minister Tunky Ariwibowo told
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      Lock icon Minister leaves to apply for Asean membership
      203 5 PHNOMPENH AFP CAMBODIAN Foreign Minister Ung Huot is to leave Phnom Penh for Jakarta today to deliver his country's formal application for full Asean membership, foreign ministry officials said yesterday. Mr Ung Huot will present the application to Indonesian Foreign Minister All Alatas,
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      Lock icon Indonesia to introduce new tobacco excise duty
      115 5 JAKARTA Reuter INDONESIA will introduce a new excise duty on some tobacco products from May 1, the Finance Ministry said. Under the new scheme, domestic firms producing more than Ave billion machinemade kretek clove cigarettes a year will pay 36 per cent of
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    • NOTEBook
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        Lock icon M'sia to keep Internal Security Act
        47 5 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR J The government has no plans to abolish the Internal Security Act 1960 as it Is still needed to safeguard the stability and security of the country'B multi-racial population, Deputy Home Minister Megat Junid Megat Ayob said yesterday.—Bernama
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        Lock icon Vietnam has 20,000 handphones
        37 5 Reuter [HANOI] Vietnam, one of the world's poorset countries* yesterday. A Vietnam Mobile^vioOT^S2cdiata»da Vietnam News Agency report which said private Vietnamese enterprises accounted for 14,0(#taiita, with a further 2,800 phones registered to foreigners.—Neuter
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        Lock icon Two-year visa for expatriates
        42 5 AFP (MANILA] The Philippine government will extend two-year multi-entry visas to foreigners working in companies registered with the Board of Investments (BOD, the 801 said yesterday. The two-year visa scheme is expected to be implemented within three weeks.—AFP
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        Lock icon Ford in two Thai ventures
        47 5 Reuter [BANGKOK] Ford Motor Co said yesterday it is forming two joint ventures in Thailand with total investment of US$53 million (Ss7s million) to produce car parts primarily for a pickup truck factory It is building here with Japan's Maxda Motor Corp.—Reuter
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      Lock icon Perwaja culprits: Anwar vows to act
      239 5 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama DEPUTY Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim vowed that the government would take action against those responsible for the losses incurred by stateowned Perwaja Steel. He told parliament that the government was unable at this time to confirm or deny an opposition member's
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      Lock icon Medium-sized US businesses explore Vietnam
      213 5 HANOI Trade between the two countries has net yet reached potential AFP THE United States is exploring the possibilities of introducing small and mediumsized American businesses to Vietnam. An American business delegation led by Acting Commerce Undersecretary of International Trade Timothy Hauser began meetings yesterday
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Beijing cuts import tariffs
      386 6 BEIJING Aljjrat 5,000 items are on the list which has foreign firms' cavtious welcome Reuter CHINA implemented sweeping tariff cuts on imports of nearly 5,000 items yesterday, winning a cautious welcome from the foreign business community which lost its tax exemptions on imported raw materials. Analysts
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      Lock icon Beijing warns against supporting Taiwan
      150 6 TOKYO AFP CHINA'S Foreign Minister Qian Qichen yesterday warned Japan and the United States not to support Taiwanese independence, a Japanese government official said. The Chinese minister gave the warning during a meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto in Tokyo on his first visit
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      Lock icon Concerns over value of special British passport
      255 6 HONGKONG AFP WARNINGS were given yesterday after the last-minute rush to apply for a special British passport that it would have little value after the territory returns to Chinese control in 1997. Widespread concerns were expressed in Hongkong's Chinese press about the future
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      Lock icon Confidence rises despite handover
      154 6 ■U HONGKONG AFP CONFIDENCE among Hongkong residents in the territory's future has risen, despite the looming handover to Chinese sovereignty next year, according to a government survey released yesterday. According to the poll conducted by the home affairs department, 60 per cent of respondents expressed optimism
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      Lock icon Foreign firms may exchange yuan more freely
      266 6 BEIJING Bloomberg Business News CHINA yesterday introduced changes to its foreign exchange system, allowing companies to freely exchange some of their Chinese yuan for hard currency, in a move towards full convertibility of the currency. "The main change is that foreign companies will
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  • ASIA
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      High-profile visit by Taiwan team to test Rao's diplomacy
      474 7  -  NEW DELHI Team of 50 leading Taiwan businessmen one of biggest to ever arrive in Mew Delhi By] K P Nayar AT THE height of the Chinese military exercise off the Taiwan coast just before the island's presidential elections, India's finance
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      Lock icon Owner requests court return his plot on Okinawa base
      253 7 TOKYO AFP THE owner of a small plot of land housing a US military facility in Okinawa filed a request with an Okinawa court yesterday for the immediate return of his land as the lease with the government expired at midnight
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      491 7 "OVU J5O my MDs ami GMs ALREADY IN THE PROGRAMME!" The University of Hull England 1927 ■MBA "ONE OF THE MOST ESTABLISHED IN SINGAPORE!" FIRST to offer TQM and a Systems Approach to Creative Problem Solving FIRST to offer Entrepreneurship and Project Management as core modules Completion in 21 months
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon OECD chief to fight 'social clause' in trade
      307 8 G-7 BPBCIAL JOBS SUMMIT No tiak between growth and labour abuse, says Paye AFP OECD head Jean-Claude Paye said yesterday he would oppose a "social clause" in world trade regulations forcing countries to obey certain employment standards. The head of the Organisation
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      Two senior Barings executives take action to dear their names
      158 8  -  LONDON By Neil Behrmann THE responsibility of key board directors in the Barings collapse will again be under scrutiny now that two senior executives are taking action to clear their names. Ron Baker, former London based head of derivatives at
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      Lock icon Farm bill likely to be passed
      218 8 WASHINGTON Reuter THE historic "Freedom to Farm" bill, awaiting President Bill Clinton's reluctant signature, will prove impervious to attacks by disgruntled Democrats, analysts said over the weekend. In the most sweeping change in US farm policy in 60 years, the bill would sever the
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      Lock icon Call to balance jobs, welfare cuts
      192 8 LILLE, France Reuter RICH nations seeking a cure for unemployment risk unleashing resentment among their voters if they roll back welfare provisions too for simply to create jobs, a senior labour official warned yesterday. The head of the International Labour Organisation in remarks echoing
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      Lock icon Beef crisis: no full bail-out?
      157 8 LUXEMBOURG A AFP FRENCH Agriculture Minister Philippe Vasseur yesterday bluntly ruled out a complete EU bail-out of Britain's crisis-struck beef industry, as farm ministers gathered for an emergency meeting on the "mad cow" health scare. Estimating the cost of restoring consumer confidence in the industry
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      2072 8 FREIGHT UNKS EXPRESS HOLDINGS UMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) I NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders will be held at 62 Toh I Guan Road *05-00, Freight Links Express Distripark, Singapore *****1 on 18 April 19% at
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      335 8 Ulllt Rg] Jardine Strategic Payment of final dividend for the year ended 31st December 1995 Dividends A final dividend of US$9.9O per ordinary share will be payable on 19th June 1996, subject to approval at the Company's Annual General Meeting to be held on 13th June 1996, to ordinary Shareholders
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      228 9 rage LI H lidnH ■Ui < m Better design, BETTER LOCATION, BETTER ACT NOW. Alexandra Technopark is due for completion in September 1996. It is destined to be Singapore's premier technopark with the benefit of a prime location supported by a superb infrastructure. So don't MV let this opportunity pass
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Soft approach in Irian Jaya a good start
      731 10  -  THB BOTTOM LOT OPINION By S N Vasuki The writer is a BT senior correspondent AS violent riols broke out around Jayapura, the provincial capital of remote Irian Jaya recently, the Indonesian government was faced with a stark choice: quell the violence
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      130 10 'Mv shareholders pay me HK$5,OOO (Ss9lo) a year to be carefuL Don't ask me when I will buy or sell my shares.' -UKa-flUng Cheung Kong chairman at the announcement of Its 1995 results. 'It's not a termination of a pregnancy, it's an extermination. You wouldn't treat a
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      Bank Negara's challenge
      656 10 EDITORIAL THE latest balance of payments figures revealed last week in Bank Negara's annual report for 1995 suggest that Malaysia's payments problems will continue to dog the country's economic policymakers for some time yet No, the current account deficit (that is, the deficit on trade and services)
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      Banks see light at the end of bad-debt tunnel
      1207 10  -  Writing off huge bad loans pots the worst behind Japan's banks. They may even emerge stronger By, Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo, correspondent A REPORT published last week by the British-based Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI)
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      389 10 ANALYSTS and media editors seemed to read deeply into President Suharto's latest reassurances that his government would continue economic deregulation and bureaucratic reforms. There was nothing new in the remarks, but the tone and the urgency of the message were seen as significant, particularly so since
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • CHATTERBox
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        Lock icon Stone planning Mexico film: report
        86 11 AFP [MEXICO CITY} Controversial US film maker Oliver Stone tojplimnlng > film rmtittoxl Mexico linking p politick U Saaassination with warring drug factions, the daily El n&hanckro reported on Sunday, The paper said that John tfteone, who wrote Stone's film JFK has developed a script
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        Lock icon Spielberg Capshaw adopt another baby
        63 11 AFP «#fGS ANGELES] Movie Steven Spielberg and huswife, actress Kate waebomcmisSaa, -bringing the brood to Each has a child from a previous marriage, two were borne from their own maion and ooe other child was adopted. "We are thrilled to welcome Mikaela "into our lives—the
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        Lock icon Madonna goes shoping and sight-seeing
        99 11 AFP Saturday at a Jewellery and antique shop here, where she is on location to film the movie Bvita, newspapers said here on Sunday. According to the Kurtr daily, Madonna asked for the shop to be completely closed during her visit. Flanked by several bodyguards,
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      Lock icon Journeying to infinity and beyond
      562 11 ■-Film A Belgian festival promotes European fantasy tnH science fiction films Reuter [BRUSSELS] Imagination and reality merged at an international fantasy film festival where weird silvery-green near-naked creatures from the body-painting contest mingled casually with the cinema public in the foyer. "lliey're a cultured audience,
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      Lock icon Just another Sydney-sider?
      620 11  -  Australia claims Mel Gibson as its own only just Belinda goldsmith traces his ties Down Under BELINDA GOLDSMITH Reuter AUSTRALIA tentatively staked its claim to Mel Gibson on Thursday as the Hollywood hero basked in international glory after the 1996 Oscars. Australia's film industry has recently pushed
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      Lock icon Elle breaks into China market
      543 12 MAGAZINES Paris-baud fashion magazine's China edition flourishes with 250,000-copy drcnlation Reuter [SHANGHAI] Despite strict controls on the media, the Chinese offspring of one of the world's top fashion magazines is flourishing as Chinese women become increasingly fashion-conscious. Paris-based Elle magazine broke new ground when it
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      Lock icon Oldest club gives in to marketing
      382 12 BOOKS Best sellers and brand-name anthers bring in profits NYT {NEW YORKI In the seven decades that the Book-of-the-Month Club Inc has flourished, its corporate rituals have become as obsolete as parchment paper and leatherbound books. Gone are the days when prominent club judges
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      404 11 Singapore's First Ever IT Hospitality Conference At Asia 96* Come 17 to 19 April 1996, the World Trade Centre Singapore will once again play host to the Food&HotelAsia96 International Conference. r»w-"i Prepare for the challenges and opportunities ahead in the hospitality industry as academicians from leading universities, consultants, major hoteliers
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • THE GOLF PAGE
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      A grand old dame beckons players
      792 14  -  NZ's second oldest club proves a test of stamina for enthusiasts, says mickl&us d'cruz NICKLAUS D'CRUZ The writer is editor of The Asian Golf Review CHRISTCHURCH Golf Club is described as one of the best courses, at least ill the South Island of New
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      Great closing in front of clubhouse
      565 14 MWttHD KDfE THE 12th hole has a wide fairway to receive your drive but narrows from 200 metres down as it turns right. The fairway also has many dips and rises as it eventually makes its way slightly uphill to the green. For those
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      When looks can be deceiving
      788 14 FIRST MIME THE first two holes are short par 4's and leads you into the false assumption that the course might be a little of a pushover. These, however, are the only two short holes on the course as it plays on to become tougher
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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      80 14 DOONESBURYZft/ Gary Trudeau 'I jf MIKE-\ I GOTA PROBLEM. I"A1 rr TU/tT j THANKS FOR NO PROS- STARTING TO READ THAT RAM- I PONT KNOW T'l COMING lEM BERN. PANTJOB INSECURITY TSA MEP/A WUR fI E WHAT TO CALL -it UP, MIKE. MHAPSUP? CREATION, THAT TENURE ISACTII- PWB- Hi UHATL'M
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Transmarco ups telecom stake
      492 15  -  |jSnhridl»ry Tntnaaaa Equipment maker t By Conrad Raj V [SINGAPORE] Retail-based I "Transmarco Ltd is increasing Jtsinvolvement in telecommut ideations by agreeing to buy a 20 Por cent stake in listed f"1?ofl0tong telecoms equipTfient manufacturer HB Inter- Holdings Ltd for V SZLW million. company, which aims
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      HK Land moves into Philippine property sector
      402 15  -  Group set to commit overUSs4oomin the Philippines By 1 Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] Hongkong Land, Jardine Matheson's property arm, is set to commit over US$4OO million (***** million) in property investments in the Philippines. The company said yesterday that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hongkong
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      Why should SCMP rush in where Shaw fears to tread?
      605 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Catherine Ong MINORITY shareholders of South China Morning Post (SCMP) should take a cue from film magnate Run Run Shaw about the true worth of TVE Holdings before they vote for SCMP to make a revised offer
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      Kay Hian JC group net profit falls 30%
      192 15 (SINGAPORE) Broker Kay Hian James Capel has reported a 29.8 per cent drop in group net earnings to $42.6 million for the year ended Dec 31,1995. Turnover fell 28.9 per cent to $115.9 million from $163 million in 1994. Operating margins slipped
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      Chemical Industries on share surge
      75 15 [SINGAPORE! The normally thinly traded Chemical Industries (Far East) yesterday said it has been unable to determine the cause of the unusual trading activity in its shares last week. However, it clarified it was recently approached by a third party on possible equity participation and
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      Four new directors named to board of DBS Bank
      241 15 [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank has appointed four new directors to its board, two of whom replace directors who retired at the end of last month. The appointments took effect yesterday. Alan Chan Heng Loon, the principal private secretary to Senior Minister Lee
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      Acma loses Hayes deal partner
      259 15  -  Nortel mi to have equal stake in ailing US modem maker By\ R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Diversified engineering group Acma Ltd's equal partner in the purchase of a 49 per cent stake in US modem maker Hayes Microcomputer has pulled out of the deal barely three
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        Straco in US$125m investments in China
        316 16  -  Group will IraiM 3 tourism-related projects By Lu Ning [SINGAPORE] A SingaporeChina investment partnership led by Straco Investment Pte Ltd has embarked on three tourism-related projects worth about US$l25 million (Ssl76 million) in China. Straco's partners are Straco International Investments and Management Pte Ltd,
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        Sumurwang's stake in venture capital firm
        151 16  -  By' William Chia [SINGAPORE] Malaysian property and financial services group Sumurwang has taken a 67 per cent stake in a Msso million (Ss2B million) venture capital company to invest in Malaysia. Sumurwang said the remaining 33 per cent will be shared between London Life
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        OCBC rights: lukewarm response
        277 16  -  By] Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] Oversea-Chi-nese Banking Corporation's one-for-10 rights issue has drawn a lukewarm reaction from analysts. J M Sassoon banking analyst David Lum said that "the deeply discounted rights issue is almost like a bonus issue", while Fraser Securities research manager Violet Soh said that
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        OK for Li Ka-shing's Beijing project
        423 17  -  Mm could signal revival off foreign property activities in Bering From< Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong LI Ka-shing's much-delayed shopping centre development in Beijing has been given inprinciple approval to go ahead, a move which could signal the revival of foreign property activities in
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        Lock icon HKBank seen unlikely to return to Shanghai
        101 17 Reuter [HONGKONG] The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp Ltd (HSBC) is unlikely to return to its former headquarters in Shanghai, dealing a blow to the city's hopes of turning its famous waterfront Bund into Asia's WaU Street a Hongkong newspaper reported yesterday. The
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        Lock icon Wharf raises HK$5.2b in financing
        209 17 Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] Wharf (Holdings) Ltd, a Hongkong conglomerate, said a new fiveyear financing package gives it access to HK$5.2 billion (***** million) in either Hongkong dollars or US dollars. Wharf has interests including property, infrastructure, telecommunications, and investments. In either currency, the interest
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        Lock icon SHE group awaiting China nod
        194 17 Reuter [HONGKONG] The Sun Hung Kai Properties-led group which won the tender for the Hongkong Station Development in Central has said it is awaiting approval of the grant for the site by China. The group said in statement published yesterday that the Mass Transit RaUway
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        Siam Cement and Astra in US$350m Indon venture
        343 17  -  From] Loh Hui Yin in Bangkok THAI conglomerates are increasingly entering into crossborder investments in a big way, teaming up with equally powerful partners from other South-east Asian countries. The latest is Siam Cement's US$35O million (*****.5 million) 50-50 joint venture with
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        Lock icon Scania float raises US$2.7b for Investor AB
        430 18 Sale is put of broader reorganisation of Wallenbergs' fiwmritl Ampirfl Bloomberg Business News [STOCKHOLM] Investor AB, the main financial vehicle of the Wallenberg family, said yesterday it would raise about 18 billion kronor (US$2.7 billion or 513.8 billion) through the sale of half
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        180 18 FT [SAN FRANCISCO] Microsoft chairman BUI Gates was expected to unveil yesterday an initiative to transform the personal computer into the central element of future home entertainment systems. Microsoft is drawing up specifications for what it a "simple interactive personal computer" (SIPC) which it
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        Lock icon Dresdner posts strong gains for 1995
        147 18 Bloomberg Business News [FRANKFURT] Dresdner Bank AG confirmed yesterday strong gains in operating and net profit as a recovery in trading income and a sharp cut in risk provisions lifted earnings in 1995. "Dresdner Bank presumes that it will be able to record further
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        US probes NY branch of Japan bank
        427 18  -  dealer ffnH to have violated in-hoiue trading roles From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo US AUTHORITIES are investigating records of the New York branch office of the Long Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) and one of its subsidiaries after learning that a dealer
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        356 18 Proposed move will help boort shareholders' return on equity Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO] Toyota Motor Corp's board of directors has announced plans to repurchase up to 100 billion yen (Stl.3 billion) of outstanding common stock to boost shareholders' return on
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        Lock icon US mega bank mergers reflect efficiency drive
        345 19 Chemical, Chase in tie-up; alse Wells Fargo and First Interstate Bancorp Reuter [NEW YORK] A drive for efficiency in a slow growth business and the desire to be in the best position to invest in new technology have spurred hundreds of US bank
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        Chief of UK shares watchdog calls for global cooperation
        200 19  -  By\ Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] Chief regulator of UK securities Andrew Large yesterday called for increased international cooperation in regulating international securities firms and markets. Mr Large, who is chairman of the UK Securities and Investments Board, told a British Business Association
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        Lock icon BNP first foreign bank to have Suzhou office
        127 19 AFP [SUZHOU, Jiangsu] France's Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) yesterday became the first foreign bank to set foot in this ancient city when it opened a representative office through its Shanghai-based joint venture bank. The Suzhou representative office marked the start of
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        World Bank to issue A$200m Eurobonds
        160 19 [SINGAPORE] The World Bank is raising As2oo million (Ss22o million) through an Eurobond issue to be lead managed by Kankaku (Singapore). The three-year note, which carries a fixed annual coupon rate of 7.6 per cent, will be sold to Japanese private individuals, said a
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        Lock icon Cheaper paper products likely as pulp prices dip
        497 20 Price reversal is one of the sharpest ever, some N American prices are down 40% NYT [TORONTO] The prices of North American wood pulp have fallen 40 per cent since last autumn. This is one of the sharpest price reversals in the
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        Lock icon Import law's end signals start of Japan's oil globalisation
        216 20 Reuter [TOKYO] The expiry of a law limiting oil product imports to refiners from yesterday has signalled the globalisation of Japan's oil industry, Yuji Idemitsu, chairman of the Petroleum Association of Japan (PAJ), said. "Until now, the domestic gasoline, kerosene and
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        168 20 Reuter [ABU DHABI] A United Arab Emirates appeal court on Sunday adjourned until April 7 after hearing renewed demands by tiie Abu Dhabi majority shareholders of the collapsed BCCI bank for civil damages of about US$9 billion (5512.7 billion), lawyers said. Thirteen former officials of
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        142 20 AFP [HANOI] Stocks of cement in Vietnam reached a worrying one million tonnes at the end of March, due to high imports and a fall In demand, the daily paper Nhan Dan reported yesterday. Vietnam has imported 280,000 tonnes of cement since January, mostly from China,
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        65 20 [TOKYOJ As the world's largest bank. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. came into being in Japan yesterday, about 50 people, wearing black masks with a rose similar to the new logo of the merged bank, took the opportunity to stage a protest outside its headquarters, demanding compensation for
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        264 20 Programme for new management targets being worked out Reuter AFP [TOKYO] The Bank of TokyoMitsubishi Ltd will streamline its operations gradually, the bank's new president, Tasuku Takagaki, said yesterday. The bank was created yesterday as a result of a merger of the Bank of Tokyo
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          74 20 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Public Bank Bhd has raised its base lending rate to 8 J per cent from 8.6 per cent from Monday. A bank statement yesterday said the increase reflected the current overan cost offends in line with the prevailing interest rates in
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          45 20 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian French Bank Bhd will officially change its name to Multi-Purpoee Bank Bhd, from today, Bernama news agency said yesterday. The name switch is to reflect the cloee links the 27-branch bank has with Multi-Purpoee Holdings Bhd.—Reuter
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          Lock icon HK to buy De La Rue note printing plant
          71 20 AFP [HONGKONG] The Hongkong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said agreement has been reached with De La Rue pic for the government to buy its bank note printing plant in the territory. The HKMA said it would buy the plant for HK$255 million
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          62 20 AFP [JAKARTA] Bank Indonesia, the central bank, is seeking a US$5OO million (Ss7oo million) standby loan from a syndicate of international banks, a press report said yesterday. The Bisnis Indonesia daily quoted unidentified sources as saying Daichi Kangyo Bank, Banque Natlonale de Paris, Chase Manhattan
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          45 20 Reuter [HANOI] State-owned Vletcombank made a profit of 394 billion dong (5150.4 million) last year, up 13.4 per coat from 1994, the official daily Ha Noi Moi said yWterday. Officials at Vletcombank, Vietnam's largest commercial bank, declined to confirm the figures.—Reuter
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        234 20 Bloomberg Business News [MELBOURNE] Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service said it will rate more than 150 Asian banks outside Japan by the end of this year. The increase, from about 80 now, comes amid strong investor interest demand for bank ratings in Asia, Lynn
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        226 20 SUMElMeport Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures closed little changed despite a sharp rise in Nikkei cash and futures markets and upward pressure on cash money market rates. September Euroyen ended at 99.14 against its CME settlement at 99.15. In Tokyo, the 225-share Nikkei Average finished up
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        161 20 Reuter AFP THE dollar remained on a basic uptrend, benefiting from doubts about the soundness of the Japanese banking system and from the start of the new financial year in Japan. At 1455 GMT, the dollar was trading at 1.4816 marks against 1.4762 on Friday. It stood at
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        297 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON] Oil prices were a shade firmer yesterday but the modest rally was seen as little more man a pause before further significant losses. Benchmark North Sea Brent crude futures here was nine cents firmer at U5519.50 a
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      1489 21 Reuter nektons ♦IS3j>4 SHARE prices closed higher, but well ofT highs, as investors greeted the start of the new financial year amid broad optimism over further share price gains in the year ahead. The Nikkei 225 Average closed up 153.54 points at 21,560.39, a 21-month high, but well clear
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      1577 22 AFX-Asia P Hang Seng -3(136 SHARE prices closed lower in thin trading ahead of the Easter holidays. The Hang Seng Index closed down 30.36 points at 10.926.84. Turnover was HK$3.B3 billion. A dealer said: "The market is quiet with light profit-tak-ing as investors are reluctant to take new positions
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      588 22 Reuter Q Shanghai B Shire Indei *&27 THE Shanghai B market closed up on selective buying, brokers said. The B Index gained 0.27 point to close at 50.64 on volume of 3.9 million shares worth US$l.9 million. Xinhua news agency said on Sunday banks would stop paying an interest
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      367 22 AFP qWPMg +16J4 SHARE prices finished higher, thanks to active purchases of cheap stocks. "After last week's consolidation around the 5,000 level, bargain hunters returned to pick up cheap shares," said a trader. The Weighted Price Index rallied 95.14 points to 5,127.49. Turnover was 1.09 billion shares worth NT530.86
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      713 22 AFP u» SHARE prices closed higher yesterday in modest trade as market players awaited key US economic data. "We are still waiting for economic figures from the (United) States. On Friday, the unemployment numbers come out The Dow will react to that and a lot of people are just
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      794 22 AFP PSETMg 4110 SHARES firmed in subdued trading as the market awaited March inflation figures. Investors were waiting for the March Consumer Price Index figures, released late during the afternoon session, which showed 7.3 per cent year-on-year inflation, said an analyst, who described the rate as "high". The Composite
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      348 22 AFP Q Manila +1&33 STOCKS rose on selective buying by foreign fund managers. The PSE Composite Index rose 18.33 points to close at 2,919.08. Turnover was 4.8 billion shares valued at 1.9 billion pesos. Ayala Corp's A and B shares rose 50 centavos each to close at 26 and
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      394 22 AFP POnpeßtihitt +431 FOREIGN buyers cashing in on the expanded 18 per cent ceiling on foreign investment in listed companies sent share prices up in hectic trading. The Composite Index rose 4.31 points to 878.47. Turnover was 73.6 million shares worth 1.5 trillion won. Risers beat falls 507 to
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      589 22 AFP QUMwto_4U THE negative influence of Wall Street's Friday performance combined with uninspiring balance of payments data here sent shares falling. The All Ordinaries Index closed 14.9 points lower at 2,210.7. Turnover was 185.6 million shares worth A 1452.6 million. Among blue chips, BHP rose six cents to A
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      269 22 Reuter PWflDmgtoo -2108 The share market recoiled at the start of a new quarter to close sharply lower yesterday on thin volume. The NZSE-40 Capital Index fell 29.06 points to 2,133.59. All leading stocks recorded losses.—Reuter «EJ rm> AM2 Banking 7 joo -O.Ol ***** Advantages HWgs 1.62 *001 *****
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        6281 23 KOALA UIMSfMVLReports Bloomberg Business News yjOwßDOßtahii +131 STOCKS rose, as Hap Seng Consolidated surged to a 17-month high and Petronas Gas rose on expectations for strong profit gains. "Petronas Gas continues to attract a lot of attention because of its high quality
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        3425 24  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy ONE noticeable consequence of the recent sharp rise in Malaysian stocks is that many of the warrants which were offered to shareholders last year are now very deep-in-the-money. They were priced at a time when the market was weak (hence the
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        919 26  -  STOCK MASXBT COMMENTARY ELSE Second Board shares, meanwhile, surge to what brokers say are ridiculous levels By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] The weak corporate earnings reported by local companies continued to be a drag on sentiment yesterday, depressing the Straits Times Industrials Index by
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        67 26  -  E\y Paul Leo STIC will continue to range between $3.04 and $3.42, a trading patttm that was established since the beginning of the year. Yesterdays two-cent decline to $326 on a volume of 1.39 million units-55 per cent more than the lOday average of 897,600 shares-has brought the
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          105 26 TWO-THIRDS of the US currency may be circulating outside the United States but try laying your hands on the new US dollar bill A colleague went to one of the biggest local banks in Singapore and found the bank didn't have any.
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          No poker, please, we're dealers
          55 26 FOLLOWING a recent report in this column about dealers resorting to poker to kill time, several broking houses have apparently been cautioned by the authorities that the dealing room is not to be used for any such activity. The sanctity of the trading room is
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          The rats did better
          103 26 THE rat-traders were having a good time but Jardine Fleming Holdings didn't do too well last year. Hie Hongkong-based in vestment banking group reported a 42 pa* cent slump in net profit for the year ended Dec 31,1995, to U*****.9 million (Ssl72 million), down from US$2ll
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          81 26 THE Estimates Directory has become a bible of sorts for financial reporters looking for the market's call on specific stocks, and the market's consensus on profits. One broker, exasperated with the market's distinct immobility yesterday, luirxinted that there seems to be lees to say to clients with the
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          70 26 WE KNOW the markets are not doing too well these days and cost-cutting hat become critical to brokers' bottomline. But SanftiU Securities, a Hongkong broker, may well have gone too far. In an announcement yesterday, the Hongkong Securities and Futures Commission said it has reprimanded Sanftill and
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      394 26 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF SOPHIA DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. (In Members' Voluntary Winding Up) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in pursuant to Section 308(1) of the Companies Act Cap. 50. that the Final Meeting of Members of the above-named Company will be
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      342 26 Singapore Closing Share Prices 01/04/1996 CLOSE PREV .LOW HIGH tllfll* uss uss uss uss AliiWW JardiM Matheson 7.80 7.80 7.65 7.80 FIBBIH Jardine Strategic 3.12 3.18 3.10 3.20 LXSSSf A Dalry Farm 0.036 0.045 0.00 0.04 Hongkong Land 2.32 2.40 2.30 2.41 ■RBRBfll Mandarin Oriontal 1.10 1.28 1.10 1.28 KByJiihaa
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      321 27 Knight-Ridder Reuter SHIPBROKERS found it difficult to generalise about the state of the freight market on Friday due to a lack of any consistent pattern. Caper owners remained on the defensive more or less worldwide, but conditions for Panamaxes were still improving in the north and south Atlantic
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      360 27  -  Singapore Freight Forwarders Association to amend membership criteria By Yang Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Freight Forwarders Association (SFFA) plans to open its membership to logistics service providers, like warehouse operators, and logistics equipment suppliers. SFFA honorary secretary Stanley Ong told Shipping Times
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      286 27 Lloyd's List [LONDON] London's pre-emi-nence as a world maritime centre is weakening, says a survey commissioned by the UK Chamber of Shipping. The report says total mari-time-related earnings reached an estimated £986 million (Ss2.l billion) in 1994 against £1.29 billion
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        76 27 [SINGAPORE) For the third year running, Singapore carrier Neptune Orient Lines has won the Star Performers award, given by the Lloyd's of London Press and the Port of London Authority. This award is given for schedule reliability and fast transit times. NOL got the honours
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        91 27 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia will simplify the management of four major sea ports in Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi, Transportation Minister Haryanto Dhanutirto said yesterday. Speaking after meeting President Suharto, Mr Haryanto said the president had approved his request to apply a port authority system being
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        Philippines' cabotage row
        70 27 [LONDON] The Domestic Shipowners Association (DSA) ofthe Philippines is questioning the government's moves to open up cabotage. The DSA has told the Marine Industry Authority and the Customs Bureau that the government has "no clear legal basis" for allowing foreign vessels to tranship cargoes within the Philippines.
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        63 27 [LONDON] Joseph Cornelison, deputy commission administrate tor the Panama Canal, has confirmed that the Panama Canal Commission has approved a plan to increase the canal's capital budget by 53 per cent over the next five years, and that the Republic of Panama has agreed
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        Surbaya to expand container terminal
        47 27 [LONDON] Indonesia's TanJung Perak port Surabaya, is to spend US$l6.4 million (5523.1 million) on expanding its container terminal. Indonesia Port Corporation 111 which runs Surabaya port will also spend US$lB.B million on upgrading several other ports including Semarang, Trisakti, Sampit and Benoa.
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        74 27 Reuter [HONGKONG] Orient Overseas (International) Ltd (OOEL) said it would sell three container ships to independent investors Sea Pearl Maritime Ltd, Top Victory Shipping Ltd and Well Sheen Ltd for a total US$lO2 million (*****.8 million). The sale of the vessels will result in
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      198 27 Reuter [SINGAPORE] Indonesia's vegetable oils trade plans to ask the government to consider building a dedicated shipping port for palm oil in Sumatra to help smooth exports, an industry official said yesterday. The port should be sited close to producing areas in Sumatra,
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      243 27 Reuter [WARSAW] Poland's left-wing government is seeking a buyer for the ailing Gdansk shipyard, even as former president Lech Walesa returns to work at the enterprise where his Solidarity union was born. "On Monday we will announce that the Treasury wants
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      139 27 Reuter [COPENHAGEN] Danish shipbuilder and shipping line J Lauritzen A/S, posting 1995 losses 10 times greater than in the previous year, said it set its sights on achieving balance in its 1996 result. "After amassing losses of over one billion crowns (***** million)
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      440 27  -  SaleofCTlO, CTII sites win take place in a month or two By] Lu Ning [SINGAPORE] THE sale of sites for two new container terminals costing HK$lO billion (5518.2 billion) each at the world's busiest container port, Hongkong, is set to take place
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      925 28  -  TROUBLED GDANSK: BAD MANAGEMENT PUTS SHIPBUILDING IN JEOPARDY Once the centre of defiance to bring down the communists, the shipyard at Gdansk is on the verge of bankruptcy, due to outdated socialist management practices that have clashed for too long with economic reality By, Jane Perlez
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        1037 41 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesised stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        506 41 MAS 01 Taiwan: Youth Day. ■AS 01 Iran: (tentative) Birthday of Eighth Imam/Islamic Republic Day. APSI Iran: Thirteenth Day of New Year Holiday. APS 0 /rod' Passover. Sri Lanka: Market and Public holiday Taiwan: Women's and Children's day. APS4 Colombia: Easter (To April 5). Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Finland:
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        443 42 China firm's joint venture* step farther into HK aviation market [HONGKONG] State-owned China National Aviation Corp (CNAC) is moving further into the Hongkong aviation market through a joint venture with AWT World Transport Holdings to conduct freight forwarding in Hongkong and China.
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        205 42 Bernama-Xinhua [SHANGHAI] The Shanghai authorities have selected three better designs for its new international airport in the Pudong new area, from six entries submitted by international designers. The designs were submitted by Naco-Foster, a DutchBritish company, ADP of France and Greiner of the US,
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        265 42 Commission's decision oat tomorrow Bloomberg Business News [WELLINGTON] Air New Zealand Ltd will buy into airline operator Ansett Australia Holdings Ltd, regardless of the antitrust regulator's decision on a purchase proposal it is considering, fund managers and analysts say. The Commerce
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        183 42 AFP [LONDON] Railtrack, which owns the infrastructure on which British Rail trains run, was under fire yesterday for telling its staff not to take the train for business travel because it costs too much. In a weekend announcement, the state
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        53 42 [MANCHESTER, England] Freddie Laker watching progress with an airline clerk as the first passengers for his new airline check in at Manchester Airport last week. The aircraft Mr Laker has ordered are still undergoing trials so passengers on thefirst trip had to travel on a chartered
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        182 42 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Isuzu Motors Ltd said yesterday it had no plans at present to raise output in Thailand, but would do so if demand warranted such a move. A spokesman for the truck and commercial vehicle maker, which operates under the wing of
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        268 42 Mjyor breakthrough for fledgling aerospace industry Reuter [TAIPEIJThe Czech Republic will buy engines from Taiwan's Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF), marking a major breakthrough in the island's fledgling aerospace industry, the China Times newspaper reported on Sunday. The mass-circulation paper quoted unidentified military sources
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        Lock icon Call to cut European car prices by 20%
        232 42 NYT [LONDON] European car prices need to be cut by 20 per cent or more if Europe's car makers are to avert a consumer rebellion, according to a team of franch ised UK dealers which recently visited the US. The team, from
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          73 42 Reuter (SEOUL) Daewoo Heavy Industries Co Ltd, a unit of South Korea's Daewoo Group, said yesterday it has agreed to produce helicopters in a technical tie-up with a Polish company from 1997. A Daewoo spokesman said the two companies would sign the contract on
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          Lock icon Top antique car
          44 42 Reuter [HAVANA] Roberto Brian posing next to his 1952 Buick after he won an antique car contest here on Sunday. About 50 cars participated in the contest. Judging wn« the condition of the interior, engine and exterior of the par. fffy/fey
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          Lock icon Qantas introduces new domestic services
          89 42 Bloomberg Business News [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd said it haa introduced new services and schedules, which will increase domestic capacity more than 16 per cent. Included in the changes are 18 new services between Sydney and Melbourne in [wait periods, 20 new flights between Brisbane
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          Lock icon Japan's domestic vehicle sales dip
          141 42 Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO] Japan's domestic sales ofaew cars, trucks and buaes fell 2.1 per cent in March from a year earlier to 738,046 vehicles, the Japan Automobile Dealers Aaaociation said yesterday. That's the first decline in 22 months. Passenger cars sales in March fell
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          105 42 Reuter [GOTHENBURG, Sweden] Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) said it launched a new air cargo services to Asia and the US on Sunday using a Boeing747-200SF. Some 50 per cent of the aircraft's 100-tonne capacity will be taken by Swedish exports, where demand is growing fester
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      663 39 f «NO IXPRISS SHIPPING (PTI) LTD. V M M J 11 COLLYER QUAY *00-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. >. TEL: *****00 (4 LINES) FAX: *****08 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX »»NOTRAWB SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKQ/SHAI S'PORE HKO BHAI VBMKL VOY ETA ETP ETA ETP ETA ETP MQI/MQg 2HB 2HB 2fl/03 2fldQ3 02/04
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      420 39 Aqshlss MAC-NELS SPORE: 228X022 (24 LMKSI twin omjj ss^yss, *KaM«km*mrr ANDWQ: (23) *****98 20TH ANNIVERSARY OFFER:-(Lowest-LowMt Rates) PEH/PK SIM HMB/FXT/R'DAM 3/4 8/4 mv "HANJIN ROTTERDAM V.033W GENOA/BCN/MARSEILLES 16/4 17/4 mv "DAINTY RIVER" V.0035W SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 5/4 6/4 i mv "OOCL ACCORD" V.lOl AUCKLAND 13/4 14/4 mv "NZOL CAMPAIGNER" V.OBS/96 CALL S'PORE:
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      85 39 EXPRESS (S) PTE LTD WEEKLY CONSOU TO MUARA MANILA HONGKONG "AT COMPETITIVE RATES" PLEASE CALL: 276 7996 \TM LINER SHIPPING PTE LTD Wr.X;. .10 ANSON ROAD. #17-01 Y|£JMHL INTERN ATIONAI. PLAZA. SINGAPORF. 0207 TEL: *****33(20 UNES) TELEX: RS 232)2 LSSIIIP BAX: *****13^^^^ ETA SIN N— ETA DUBAI DUBAI 04/04 p
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      332 40 j TEAMWORK is when everyone I "ffl takes responsibility and diligently ———————Iwork towards achieving the main 9 oal, A ci uci, 'ty which has been The Tota[ Transportation Peop/e and join the winners' circle. 1" —i mamumm mce mm VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PIE LID 10AnsonRd#2009IrrtwnatlondPlazaSngapore*****3 KnCA en l^L Tel: 65-*****66
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