The Business Times, 29 April 1996

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/95 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes S INGAPORE MONDAY, APRIL 29,1996 85c
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  • 463 1  -  Mnlti-agency committee working to put together a proposal within the next month or so By, Agnes Wee, Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] The government's plan for a permanent large exhibition centre to ease the chronic shortage of space in Singapore's $800 million-a-year
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  • 409 1 of heart attack Reuter, AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia was plunged into national mourning yesterday after the wife of long-ruling President Suharto died suddenly of a heart attack. Analysts said the death of Siti Hartinah Suflarto, 72, known widely as Tien Suharto, will hit the President hard and
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  • 159 1 [SINGAPORE] President Ong Teng Cheong and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong have sent their condolences to Indonesia's President Suharto on the death of his wife. In his message to Mr Suharto, Mr Ong said he and his wife "learnt with shock and much sadness the news that
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  • 409 1  -  By, Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] Peak-season travellers to popular destinations such as Phuket, Sydney, London and Los Angeles will have to pay as much as 40 per cent more this year due to strong outbound demand. Prompting the fare
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  • 384 1  -  Hospital to close lrat health education department will stay open By i Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Adventist-run Youngberg Hospital, which sits on land to be acquired for the MRT North-east Line, has decided to hang up its stethoscopes after talks broke down with
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    • 10 1 Tien Suharto's death may be body-blow to husband, Pg 2
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  • REGION
    • 487 2  -  MANILA Republic is firm about no soft loan fond contributions By < Catherine Ong SINGAPORE is standing firm against pressure to contribute to the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) soft loan fund but will instead substantially expand its role in the
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    • 190 2 MANILA Reuter THE Asian Development Bank plans to invite institutional investors in Japan, Europe and the US to join co-financing schemes aimed at funnelling billions of dollars into Asian infrastructure projects. "What we would like to do now is to explore opportunities to get institutional
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    • 260 2 BEIJING AFP A SENIOR Chinese foreign trade official has called for extensive state intervention to arrest an export plunge that is threatening to derail the country's economic progress, a report said yesterday. Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC) official Hu Zhaoqing
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    • 313 2 JAKARTA Some observers wonder if President will stay in politics AFP THE death yesterday of Tien Suharto, Indonesia's First Lady, is likely to deal a bodyblow to her 74-year-old husband, raising questions over his willingness to pursue politics. Under the Javanese tradition
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    • 116 2 U TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN has fallen into economic recession due mainly to a series of war games staged by China to intimidate the island, the cabinet-level Council for Economic Planning and Development said yesterday. The council gave the economy a "blue light" rating in March,
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    • Article, Illustration
      48 2 [BEIJING] A group of city street sweepers packing up their tools ctfler completing their morning tasks in the Chinese capital yesterday. With salaries and the cost of replacing tools rising, these sweepers will soon be replaced by a fleet of five modern street-cleaning vehicles. AFP
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    • 209 2 BEIJING AFP TWO senior US economists have issued a stern warning against the withdrawal of China's most favoured nation (MFN) trading status, arguing that the move would damage US business interests. In an interview with the official Xinhua news agency published yesterday, Richard Cooper,
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    • 290 2 PHNOM PENH AFP CAMBODIA'S King Norodom Sihanouk yesterday forcefully denied he or any members of the royal family were planning to violate the country's Constitution or form a group opposed to co-Premier Hun Sen and his Cambodian people's Party (CPP). "We are not
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    • SINGAPORE ßoundup
      • 68 2 THE United Overseas Bank opens a $50-million building in Xiamen today. The bank said over the weekend that the building is located in the town's business centre. Called the UOBBuUding.it comprises shops, offices and service apartments. UOB Xiamen branch, which opened for business In
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      • 90 2 THE labour movement— which has expanded the range of social and recreational amenities it offers should build on the initiatives it has introduced to attract new generations of workers, Labour Minister Lee Boon Yang said in his May Day message. "This is the best way
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      • 69 2 THE number of patients hospitalised for spinal injuries jumped by one-third to 254 cases in 1984 from 191 in 1990, with an average 0f220 cases over this five-year period, Senior Minister of State for Health, Aline Wong, said yesterday at a public forum on
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      • 94 2 IN OUR report on Saturday, "SM DPM Lee to give HPL discounts to govt", we omitted inadvertently the word 'unilateral" In a quote from the statement by the Senior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. The quote should have read; "To remove any doubt that the Prime Minister would have
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  • THE REGION/WORLD
    • 547 3 GENEVA However, key issues and at least one major new problem remain unresolved Reuter TRADE negotiators representing 53 countries appeared yesterday to be edging towards a pact that would bring down the worldwide cost of telecommunications and inject the vast savings back into
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    • 239 3 PARIS AFP RUSSIAN officials and Western creditor nations were continuing marathon talks at the French foreign ministry yesterday on re-scheduling billions of dollars of Russia debt, sources said. The latest round of closed-door meetings had started on Thursday. It was due to end
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    • 246 3 BONN AFP MORE than 40,000 people took to the streets of Bonn yesterday in a protest which escalated into a demonstration against the government's austerity plan announced last week. Campaigners were initially rallying to denounce a draft law adopted by the government in December to extend
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    • 268 3 HOBART Reuter AT LEAST 33 people died in Australia's worst shooting massacre yesterday when a young gunman who went on a rampage at a historic convict site in the island state of Tasmania was holding several hostages. Police and eyewitnesses said the gunman
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    • 122 3 TOKYO AFP AN ESTIMATED 217 Japanese companies will post record pre-tax profits in the year to March on the back of their restructuring efforts. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun yesterday said this compared with 92 companies reporting record profits in the previous year. The
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • IT WORLD
      • 68 4 Reuter [SAN JOSE] The worldwide semiconductor market is forecast to grow only 7.6 per cent this year, down sharply from the 37 per cent growth last year and well below previous expectations for 1996, according to Dataquest The market research firm attributed the decline
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      • 80 4 Reuter [SAN JOSE] The worldwide market for semiconductor contract manufacturing will likely triple in the five years from 1996 from US$6.2 billion (SsB.7 billion) to US$lB.5 billion, says Dataquest Semiconductor contract manufacturers Include foundries which manufacture chips designed by others and companies that manufacture custom-designed
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      • 64 4 Bloomberg [SAN JOSE] VeriSign Inc will start distributing today Internet security technology that verifies the identity of computer users sending information over the Internet. Verisign's digital ID technology is designed to add another leva) of security to information v such as e-mail and credit card numbers,
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      • 108 4 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Hewlett-Packard Co said its share of China's personal computer market had risen to 9.5 per cent from 45 per cent in the past two years. HP's investments in China over the past decade had totalled some US$lOO million (Ssl4o million) in
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      • 105 4 Reuter [TOKYO] NEC Corp will begin selling next month portable e-mail computers for business use. The Mobile Gear keyboard modal, which measures 246 mm x 120 mm* 24.5 mm and weighs only 550 g, will sell for 78,000 yen (551,027) and the smaller pocket siae pen
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    • 677 4  -  New products and an aggressive Singapore strategy were unveiled last week By] Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] The red ink has hardly dried on Apple Computer's latest quarterly report card but the troubled computer maker's regional managers are already leading a feisty fightback. Apple Asia managing director Robin
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    • 773 4  -  Plans include logistics support and development centres and 10 new offices in the next 18 months By Yeo Ai Hoon [SINGAPORE] Videoconferencing leader PictureTel Corporation is poised to expand aggressively in the Asia-Pacific region over the next couple of years. Peter Woo, PictureTel's
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    • 272 4  -  By 1 Toh Han Shih SOFTWARE producer Xsoft, a division of Fuji Xerox, has set up offices in Singapore and Malaysia, with hopes of making its InConcert software the market leader in Asia. Workflow software InConcert models, tracks and modifies
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    • 549 4 Promoters say the turnout is sufficient to make it an annual event Reuter [PALO ALTO, California] More than 50,000 computer users dropped in on the world's first virtual trade show on the Internet, a turnout which the promoters say is sufficient to
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    • 531 5  -  The family of products offers np to 10 times higher performance than competing systems By. Kenneth James, Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Sun Microsystems has introduced a new class of business servers that raises the bar several notches in the lucrative and fast-grow-ing server
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    • IT TAKES
      • 79 5  -  Compiled by Toh Han Shih (NASHVILLE, Tennessee) IBM has launched the OS/2 Warp "Merlin", its latest version of the OS/2 operating system, which has built-in speech recognition. Built-in speech navigation and dictation capabilities in Merlin will allow OS/2 users to tell their computers what they normally
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      • 80 5 [SINGAPORE] Epson Singapore has announced a new printer promotion with a major price reduction and software bundling for the Epson Stylus II colour InkJet printer, as well as software bundling for the Epson Stylus Qs and Epson Stylus 820. The Epson Stylus Color n is priced
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      • 58 5 [SINGAPOKBI Network Asia 96 will return for jits third showing from June 4 to 7 at Suntec City. The annual event will take place alongside CommunicAsia96 and MobileCommAsia96.BroadcastAsia96, Professional Audio fechnology9B and CableSat9B will also be held concurrently, but at the World Trade Centre. About
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      • 45 5 (SINGAPORE] Ready Software, a Singapore company specialising in office automation software, has created its site, the user can find commercial and general information related to Human Resources issues, including pointers to the Ministry of Labour. Ready Software can also be
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      • 63 5 [SINGAPORE] Tech-Men Communications, a local provider of communications and presentation t 0018, will be organising a forum on "Helping You to Communicate" on May 7 at the Pan-Pacific Ballroom. Hie oper address, entitled "Emerging Technologies In Information And Presentation", will be delivered by the US-based vice-president to*
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      • 74 5 [SINGAPORE] Microsoft has introduced its newest edition of its 10-year-old Bookshelf product, the Bookshelf 1996-97 Edition. It has the Bookshelf Internet Directory 98, which is a guide to nearly 5,000 Internet sites, and contains overviews and visuals of resources such as World Wide Web, Gopher and
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    • 115 5 [SINGAPORE] An art museum on the Internet, the brainchild of local artist Lin Hsin Hsin, has become the first such site in Asia to go threedimensional. The Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum (http://www.lhham.com.sg) uses the latest technologies such as Netscape 2.01, Java and Shockwave to create
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    • 562 5 Can most portable computers go the distance with your work video to life with a 128-bit video chip needs? Compare Dell's brand-new Latitude*" set. Add these to their existing list of impresXPi PI33ST and XPiPIOOSD with other notebooks sive features and it's no wonder that they are conand you'll see
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 464 6  -  BOOK REVIEW Primary Colors By Anonymous Chatto A Windua 300 pages, $25.70 By] Kevin Sullivan PRIMAR Y Colors is the beneficiary of a spectacularly successful marketing ploy no one knows who wrote it. Not since Sir Walter Scott anonymously published the Waverly novels has fiction
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    • 1106 8  -  Summer is a-coming and cinema audiences will be deluged with more films than ever, bbrmabd wexmraub reports on the anxiety in Hollywood BERNARD WEINRAUB NYT IT'S THE spring of Hollywood's discontent. And the summer doesn't look any happier. Flops have come from Walt Disney
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    • 600 8 PERSONALITY Eric Roberts talks about his career and life under sister Julia's shadow Reuter [LOS ANGELES] When he was in his 20s and churning out more than a film a year, Eric Roberts seemed to be living the life most young actors only dream
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    • 473 8  -  PERSONALITY By, Alan Riding NYT {PARIS] To be absolutely frank, it takes a few minutes to get over the fact that it really is Catherine Deneuve who is sitting just a metre away. Once pronounced the world's most beautiful woman, Deneuve at 52 looks like,
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    • 503 8 COLLECTING Source says the USs24mringisfor ex-rngby star's wife Reuter [NEW YORK] Tony O'Reilly, the Irish rugby star who became one of America's most successful businessmen, was the mystery man who spent US$2.6 million (553.6 million) to buy Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' 40-carat diamond ring, a source
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 701 7 TVVRADIO 7.00 Good Morning Singapore. ILM Takbir. MO Aladdin and The Wonder- 12.00 NN News at 12. AM Shining Time Station ful Lamp. 1218 PM RTM's SOth AnniverSpecials. 10.00 Awards Presentation Chi- sary. I®" 00 ar s Movie. nese to 20. 114S Business Today. IL3O The World of Jim Henson.
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    • 180 7 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 9 Questioner is obstinate J(_ whisky, perhaps (7) MP I^ 12 Rome is such an unchanging 21 Ordains violent incursion (7) cape heading for a city like flfel If H H| Ml 25 Work clothes for supremo? jm (7) 26 Two short of fourth score, but it was
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 247 8 THE WEATMIiK fltngaporet Cloudy with showers over a few areas, clearing in the evening. Temperature (24-27) HVLo* Oai Barnp* HVU* Oai laata HVLn* OM& Auckland 11/14 Shown Itrrtw 1449 Sonny Atlanta tVlt dandy J*] Ctanfr A*n» H/14 Showers Buna* Am tint Omc> *2 J*** 17*7 Snnny Cheap (W iva Shawm
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 402 9  -  Potential Sing Tel competitor expects to capture sizeable share of handphone market by next century By < Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Mobile phone operator MobiieOne which starts up next year in competition with Singapore Telecom's handphone and paging services will invest
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    • 735 9  -  Snacks maker credits reputation to production standards and quality control COMPANY VISIT Want WantHoldinas By\ Diana Oon [TAIPEI] Tsai Eng Meng started out in the food manufacturing business 20 years ago, taking over a loss-making canning factory from his father with no formal business training.
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    • 365 9  -  By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Technologies group has formed a new company to promote the growth of electronic commerce in Singapore. The company, CyberMart Pte Ltd a member of ST's telemedia business group—will launch its "virtual mall", with a comprehensive listing
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    • 671 9  -  MAUBT MATTERS This is Khoo Kay Peng's most visible corporate move at home for a longtime and he must come out tops By Ho Kay Tat MALAYAN United Industries (MUI) executives insist they have not mounted a hostile takeover of Pengkalen Holdings (PHB).
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 548 10  -  Bid to install allies on board of Bangkok Bank of Commerce foiled by an oversight From Loh Hui Yin in Bangkok AN ATTEMPT by Thailand's central bank to wrest control of the board at the troubled Bangkok Bank of Commerce, whose
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      • 856 10  -  HAMO SEM a ZXSIOHT By Quak Hiang Whai THE Stock Exchange of Singapore can now take satisfaction in its decision to reject the application of Sum Cheong International for a listing in 1994. While the SES never disclosed the reasons for
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      • 204 10 Reuter [MANlLA] Philippine condominium developer Primetown Property Group Inc said it set aside 3.4 billion pesos (*****.9 million) for its 1996 capital expenditure to beef up landbanks and to finance overseas investments. "We are programming capital expenditures of 3.4 billion pesos in 1996. This
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      • 199 10 Reuter [LOS ANGELES] Phelps Dodge Corp declined to comment on Friday on rumours that British conglomerate RTZ Corp pic is looking into acquiring the US copper company. "We're not speculating on this rumour. We are attributing our strong stock performance to good
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      • 485 10 Upmarket retailer's stock rises 66p above 270p flotation price Reuter [LONDON] Upmarket British fashion retailer Harvey Nichols, which counts Princess Diana among its customers, received an enthusiastic reception from the stock market on Friday when its shares made their debut. Chief executive Joseph Wan expressed
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      • 406 10  -  Fro mi Conrad Raj in Paris THE Hong Leong Group is on the prowl and its prey is said to be a famous landmark, The Chic Plaza Athenee which is near the world-renowned Champs Elysees. Hong Leong group investment manager Wong Hong Ren will be
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      • 252 10 Reuter [BOSTON] Fidelity Investments, the largest US mutual fund company, predicted on Friday that net investments in its domestic stock funds had slowed for the third consecutive month in April. Net cash inflows into equity funds are expected to total slightly more than
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      • 314 10 Issue of more shares for bank acquisition diluted his holdings Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON] Billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Wells Fargo Co terminated an agreement that restricted Mr Buffett's stock ownership in the wake of his reduced ownership stake. Wells Fargo's
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      • 159 10 Bloomberg Business News [CALIFORNIA] Pixar Inc's shares rose 13 per cent on Friday after the computer-anima-tion company said revenue from the film Toy Story led to better-than-expected earnings in the first quarter. The Richmond, Californiabased company, which won an Academy Award for using computers
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 388 11 Legislation would have forced banks to pay USsl2b over two decades NYT [WASHINGTON] After months of manoeuvring, the big US commercial banks succeeded last week in blocking legislation supported by both the Clinton administration and the Republican leadership that would have forced
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      • 561 11 Russia and two of its oil firms will control largest stake in deal LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] Eight oil companies and three governments signed a preliminary agreement on Saturday to build a US$l.2 billion (Ssl.7 billion) pipeline that would unlock some
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      • 224 11 Reuter {BANGKOK] Deposit rates for non resident baht accounts in Thailand could soften further after Thursday's rate cut by the nation's top bank, Bangkok Bank pic, financial analysts said on Friday. But the key lending rate, the Minimum Lending Rate (MLR), is likely to
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      • 228 11 Reuter [PARIS] French bank Banque Indosuez was thrust into the spotlight on Friday after a press report said its parent company, the banking giant Groupe Suez, could sell 51 per cent of the bank to Credit Agricole bank soon. Suez, Indosuez and
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      • 132 11 AFP [MANILA] A Filipino bank has sought government approval to establish a development capital fund here with the London-based merchant bank, Rothschild Ventures Asia Ltd, a document obtained at the weekend showed. East-West Bank Corp, the banking arm of Filinvest Capital Inc, said
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      • 366 11 Bat more developing nations keen to set np commodity exchanges Reuter [NEW DELHI] Interest among developing countries in establishing commodity futures exchanges is increasing, but their track record remains mixed, World Bank officials and academics said on Friday. At least nine emerging countries have developed
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      • Article, Illustration
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 568 12  -  mnig Weeklyßoundup The market is focusing on relative interest rates and their direction rather than their timing By Callum Henderson, [SINGAPORE! Japanese interest rate fears continue to grip the market. There were more signs last week, both in department store sales and CPI, that the
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      • 911 12 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] The threat of frost in the Brazilian plantations hangs heavy over the coffee market each year at the same time, like a black spectre, and prices for arabica and robusta begin to climb
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    • 752 13 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory it ranges between zero and 100. In practice, however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: *****0/[(up average/down average)
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 507 14 NEW YORK Mutual fond investors have pot USs7l.4b into equity foods in tlie first quarter of this year FT JACKIE O fever has been raging in America. The four-day sale of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's possessions has astounded spectators. According to the catalogue estimates, the whole sale
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      • 267 14 LONDON AFP THE London stock exchange suffered a poor week that toppled the market from its peaks of the previous seven days. The FTSE-100 Index nonetheless managed to hold its head above the 3,800-mark and closed the week at 3,832.8 points, a
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      • 885 14 f% Sydney *€0120 AUSTRALIAN share prices surged 2.6 per cent during a week fuelled by strong official data but finished on Friday almost 15 points short of the record set in 1994 of 2,340.6 that brokers had thought attainable. Better-than-expected inflation and wages data calmed fears of
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      • 426 14 TOKYO Stocks may change little this week as investors wait for more indicators Bloomberg Business News AFP JAPANESE stocks surged 2 per cent last week on continued optimism that low interest rates and a strong dollar will boost earnings here. This week, stocks will
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      • 298 14 ■HONGKONG Reuter AFP HONGKONG stocks slid to a six-week low last week and are likely to stay at that level this week amid signs interests rates will stay high. Share prices fell 0.8 per cent on slim volumes over the week,
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      • 1454 14 QParu HfiJl FRENCH stocks are expected to extend last week's 23-month high as investors bet interest rates have farther to fall and Friday's bid talk lingers on. The benchmark CAC 40 Index rose 22.01 points on Friday and gained 45.91 points, or 2.19 per cent, on the
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 7391 15 KOALA LUMP U R Reports AFP, Reuter, Bloomberg Business News QOonpoflteUn ♦L 23 MALAYSIAN share prices closed the week 0.1 per cent higher on late bargain hunting by investors after several days of falls. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-stock Composite Index rose 1.23 points
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    • WARRANTS & OPTIONS
      • 3729 16  -  WARRANT WATCH By\ R Sivanithy IN many previous columns, we've highlighted in-the-money warrants, or those in which the strike price is below the underlying share price. In such cases, we've noted that the conversion premiums should be low, mainly because of the market's perception
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    • 2029 16 MALAYSIAN STOCKS Or Or UN Uft Vat Waak LaatOwata M> DO W M M Cap Wp U» Itna twgg Ml (*000) Ht|> L— l»T> lliir Cvr M till us m mm aimsOc im 15 «ao <t* m m u ii oj tu 4«j n m sow ammsoc «4
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
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    • 251 19 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THERE are reports that Hundyai Marine has placed a fresh VLCC newbuilding order for a two million barrell double/double unit A number of rumours surround the sale of the handymax bulker Bulk Galaxy (42,000/85). At this time it is believed SJE is committed
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    • 169 19 Reuter [PANAMA CITY] Taiwan's shipping giant Evergreen Marine Corp has begun construction of a US$l2O million (Ssl69 million) container port facility on Panama's Atlantic coast. A company spokeswoman said the 20-hectare facility, called Port Coco Solo, is expected to be completed by July next year.
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    • 755 19  - A familiar refrain returns do not justify investment LINER SCENE By David Hughes IT WAS Hapag Lloyd's turn to reveal its 1995 results last week. Following some severe cost cutting over the past year or so, including the flag-ging-out of some vessels to Singapore, better figures than 1994's 15 million
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    • 327 19 Taiwan liner sees greater revenue from increased intra-Asia shipping AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp is gearing up for the resumption of direct Taiwan-China shipping links, with plans to start services between Kaohsiung and Shanghai, and a holding company in
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    • 216 19 MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] Ikea, a Swedish furniture and home furnishing retailing giant, has stopped using Singapore's port services in favour of Port Klang following the setting up of its warehouse near the local port. General manager Mikael Franzen said with the Malaysian government's
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    • 157 19 AFP [SHANGHAI] Two shipping companies will list their shares on China's stock market this week, a newspaper reported on Saturday. The Shanghai Securities News daUy said that Tientsin Marine Shipping would list 90 miUion "B" shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
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    • 233 19 Bloomberg Business News [COPENHAGEN] A 10-month struggle to save Danish shipbuilder Burmeister Wain will end in vain today when the board of directors declares the company bankrupt. "We have given up the reconstruction plan," Joergen Cadovius, one of the lawyers involved in the
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      • 105 19 [LONDON] The London P&I Club bad warned its members that increasing numbers of Far Eastern seamen— particularly Filipinos and Koreans—are seeking to bring ii personal injury actions against shipowners in the US. The club, in its quarterly Stop Loss Bulletin, says a Pakistani seaman
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      • 71 19 Bloomberg Business News [TAIPEI] Sales at Evergreen Marine Corp flail 11.7 per cent in March from a year earlier, the company said in a statement Sales declined to NT$2.5l billion (Ssl3o million) from N[Tt2-86 billion a year earlier, Evergreen said. Saks during the first
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      • 68 19 Bloomberg Business News [MANILA) Philippine shipping company Negroe Navigation Co said its profit dropped 40.2 per cent last year as a rash of typhoons led to cancelled voyages. Negros Navigation, known as Nenaco, said its net Income Ml to 76.9 million peeoe(SKl3 million), compared with
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      • 332 38 Order may be changed or scrapped to open bidding to other airplane makers report Bloomberg Business News [JOHANNESBURG] Boeing Co's order from South African Airways for six airplanes valued at as much as US$l.3 billion (Ssl.B billion) is under review by the
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      • 315 38 Reuter [ZURICH] Swissair's Switzer-land-Far East cargo routes, excluding Japan, achieved the biggest growth in traffic, and it expects continued growth in this sector. This region which includes destinations such as Bangkok, Singapore, Hongkong, Beijing, Shangai, Seoul and Manila, as well as points in
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      • 223 38 FT [LONDON] Daimler-Benz Aerospace of Germany is negotiating to sell a controlling stake in its Dornier regional aircraft subsidiary to Fairchild Aircraft of the US, Dasa said on Friday. The sale would mark Dasa's exit from the regional aircraft market
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      • 326 38 Its first qtr sales of 91,342ju5t marginally below Taurus' 91,828 Bloomberg Business News [DETROIT] When General Motors and Ford Motor argued recently over whether the Lumina or Taurus was the country's best-selling car, they forgot to mention something: that Honda Motor's
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      • 296 38 Poor performance by contractor cited as reason for cancellation Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON] The Federal Aviation Administration cancelled a US$475 million (***** million) contract awarded less than a year ago to a team led by Wilcox Electric Inc, a unit of French electronics
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      • 300 38 Reuter [HONGKONG] China has given the go-ahead for a second runway at Hongkong's new international airport—a project forecast to become overcrowded as soon as it opens in April 1998. The move was backed by Lu Ping, China's senior official presiding
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      • 141 38 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] A group led by Daimler-Benz AG has secured a Ml 115.8 million (Ss6s million) contract to install the lighting system for Malaysia's new international airport, officials said yesterday. The consortium is made up of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, (Consortium
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        • 98 38 Bloomberg Business News [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines Ltd's cargo load factor, a measure of how efficiently it uses its cargo capacity, improved slightly in March, said a senior official at the national carrier. The improvement probably won't continue, however, said Michael Tan, deputy managing Jf
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        • 83 38 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's national carrier airline Garuda Indonesia will open a new flight route connecting Nagoya in Japan and Manado in northern Sulawesi, preee reports said on Friday. The official Antara news agency quoted Garuda's Japan and South Korea regional director, Robert Waloni, as saying
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        • 92 38 Reuter [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International pic has decided to scrap the sale of two Boeing 737-200 planes to Shaheen Air International Ltd of Pakistan. The airline said in a filing to the Stock Exchange of Thailand It cancelled the sale because the conditions
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        • 151 38 Reuter [NEW YORK] The US government has recovered more than US$4B million under a settlement In the bankruptcy proceeding of Pan Am Corp, parent of the commercial airline that went out of business in December 1981. Mary Jo White, US Attorney for the
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      • 319 38 NYT [TOKYO] The US manufacturing subsidiary of Mitsubishi Motors Corp, already the target of a potentially huge federal sexual harassment lawsuit, is also facing serious financial problems that will force a reorganisation and a huge capital infusion. The parent company said last week
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