The Business Times, 8 July 1996

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/95 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes SINGAPORE MONDAY, JULY 8,1996 85c
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    53 1 8TPCK MAHET1HMCBB Week Change STO .2J288.* -37.25 KLSECOMP —1,133.18 4.13 NIKKEI 22J232.42 -298.33 HANG SENG 11,***** +156.23 SET INDEX 1.257.99 +10.91 JAKARTA COMP 575.05 .-19.21 MANILA COMP 3.374.40 +99.14 TAIPEI WPI 6J89.75 -179.66 SEOUL COMP .850.39 +3196 CLSA CHINA B 793.76 45.40 Al'ST ALL ORD .2.230.8 ,-U J
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    FINANCE
    74 1 EXCHANGE BATES uss s$ US* 1.413 t i.56ft t.m DM 0.6.55 0.927 ¥NI I 0.904 1.278 W 0.401 0.567 HK« 0.129. 0183 BAJFT O.m.. 0.056 BUF1AB NO 0043- 0.060 PUB BATBS SINGAPORE* 6.44 KUALA LUMPUR.. 8.15 JAKARTA 18.00 BANGKOK 11.75 MANILA 1450 HONGKONG 8.75 TAIPH AW SYDNEY 16.75 TOKYO
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    Lock icon Queue system and good ethics don't mix: Yeo
    412 1  -  Minister suggests balloting, with non-transferable ballot numbers By. Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE} The queue system for private residential launches "does not lead to good ethics", said Trade and Industry Minister Yeo Cheow Tong yesterday. He was referring to the long queue at the
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    NTUC may pay less for Simei exec condo land
    176 1 [SINGAPORE] NTUC Choice Homes, which is building executive condominiums in Simei, may get a bigger discount on the land for the project. Choice Homes' acting general manager Lim Geok Hwee said over the weekend that the Land Office was reviewing the
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    Banks cut rates as tussle for exec condo loans hots up
    446 1  -  By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] In the wake of a downturn in housing loans caused by recent government curbs on property speculation, banks and finance companies are being forced to compete aggressively in the newest market for mortgages
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    COE prices seen falling in 2nd half
    450 1  -  Traders say popular categories may dip 10-15% by year-end By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Car traders see COE prices coming off in the current half of this year, with the popular categories losing 10-15 per cent of their values by year-end. This means that
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    Lock icon Semangat 46 booted out of Kelantan's ruling coalition
    354 1 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR) The ruling coalition in Malaysia's sole opposition-led state, Kelantan, was in tatters yesterday, with the fundamentalist Parti Islam (PAS) having kicked out its ally Semangat 46 after six years of stormy ties. Semangat 46 president Razaleigh Hamzah revealed that
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      16 1 Second quarter growth going strong: Yeo, Pg 2 Lower-end oondo prices may fall: dons, Pg 2
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Insurer GA looks to China, India
      662 2  -  COMPANY VISIT General Accident Insurance Britain's General Accident Insurance plans to double business in Asia By I Shiv Taneja BRITAIN'S second largest insurer, General Accident Insurance (GA), has ambitious plans to double its business in Asia, and is banking on the massive markets of
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      Second quarter economic growth going strong: Yeo
      217 2  -  All sectors doing wefl; construction activity likely to be maintained By, Abdul Hadhi MINISTER for Trade and Industry Yeo Cheow Tong said yesterday that Singapore's economic growth remained strong in the second quarter of 1996. He said growth has been encouraging with all
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      Lower-end condo prices may fall: dons
      339 2  -  By. Diana Oon EXECUTIVE condos will have little impact on the housing market in the short term, but prices of lower-end private condominium developments could fall in about three years' time, said academics from the National University of Singapore's School of Building and Estate
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      Lock icon May int'l phone traffic up 15.8%
      301 2  -  EYE ON TOE ECONOMY Industry fty Poo-Cheong Wai Ming INTERNATIONAL telephone traffic grew by a robust 15.8 per cent in May compared to a year ago, according to latest figures from Singapore Telecom. Some 16.9 million calls were made in the month, compared to
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      Lock icon Mitsubishi Electric opens industrial engineering centre
      303 2  -  US$L2m facility is electronics giant's second in Asia By, Annette Pan ELECTRONICS giant Mitsubishi Electric will officially open a training and technical support centre here today to cater to the needs of industrial products customers in Asean. The centre, located at GMIT Building in
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      EXECUTIVE MOVES
      365 2 Gopi Panickar: has been appointed Asean Manager Internet Business Group at Digital Equipment Asia Pacific. Mr Panickar will build upon the existing Digital Internet teams and expertise in the region to drive Digital's Internet business. He will execute a marketing strategy with Digital's portfolio of Internet products, applications
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      All smoke and no fire?
      700 3  -  LEIIUIFEOM JAKARTA Suharto's health and succession will finally be debated openly now By SN Vasuki RESIDENT Suharto at an undis- location in Eu- rope today for what has been described as a "routine" medical check. Though the fi- nancial markets reacted with hysteria to the
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      Lock icon Sihanouk delays return to Cambodia
      215 3 PHNOM PENH 0 AFP AILING Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk is unable to return home from treatment in China because he is suffering from "vertigo", according to a statement relased by the palace yesterday. "It is this new problem which does not permit me to fix
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      Lock icon Better security for schools
      150 3 BANGKOK AFP THE rape and murder of a five-year old girl in a Bangkok state primary school has brought top-level calls for tighter security, Thai newspapers reported yesterday. Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa visited Wat Ruak School in the Bang Phlad district of the city on Saturday,
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      Lock icon Offshore tax haven seen luring HK, Taiwan funds
      382 3 ■LABUAN More than USssb deposits can be expected: bankers Reuter WORRIED investors from Hongkong and Taiwan are expected to pour billions of dollars into Malaysia's offshore financial centre on Labuan island as China's takeover of the British colony draws near, bankers said
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      Lock icon West plotting against Bakun: Anwar
      303 3 KUALA LUMPUR AFP DEPUTY Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has accused the West of ganging up against Malaysia to thwart the building of a massive controversial dam, stiffly opposed by environmentalists. Mr Anwar told Malaysian students at a meeting in London at the weekend that the
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  • CHINA HONGKONG TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Officials' exodus sparks concern
      408 4 HONGKONG Early retirement of top (pins could hit talks on unresolved issues of handover Reuter A SPATE of early retirements by senior officials has raised apprehension in Hongkong that the government could be weakened by a loss of talent before Britain returns the colony to China
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      Lock icon China gears up chemical sector for global battle
      351 4 BEIJING Pl&ns involve turning 55 groups into major conglomerates AFP CHINA'S plans to build 55 chemical industry conglomerates over the next five years will push the sector towards the cutting edge of international competition, according to Chemicals Industry Minister Gu Xiulian. "I
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      Lock icon Govt to retain strict control of foreign exchange
      216 4 BEIJING AFP FOREIGN exchange transactions in China will remain under strict state control in order to avoid the kind of financial crisis that struck Mexico last year, a top financial official was quoted as saying yesterday. China implemented wideranging reforms on July
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      Lock icon Up close and personal
      60 4 [BEIJING] A technician fixing the back of a rubberised dinosaur model at Beijing's Jingshan Park yesterday. The model, powered by an internal 12-volt car battery, can move its head, wag its tail, blink and screech. It is one of several displayed in the park, amongst natural
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      Lock icon Taiwan to buy water from mainland
      206 4 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN plans to buy water from its rival China for two offshore islands where nationalist troops are stationed, a government official said yesterday. Details would be discussed this week on ways to deliver the water to Kinmen, or Quemoy, which is about
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      Lock icon One million guard against floods
      241 4 BEIJING AFP Reuter MORE THAN one million Chinese in one province alone were guarding against some of the worst floods in over a century while officials elsewhere moved to combat food speculators, official media said yesterday. The floods hit the provinces of Hubei, Guizhou, Zhejiang,
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      Lock icon Loss-ridden state firms get pledges of govt help
      242 4 BEIJING Industrial firms' losses np 41% in first quarter AFP THE Chinese government and central bank have pledged urgent measures to support state-owned enterprises after losses surged 41 per cent in the first quarter of this year. Recent circulars issued by the
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      Lock icon Joint ventures account for 41% of Chinese exports
      180 4 BEIJING Reuter SINO-foreign joint ventures accounted for 41 per cent of China's total exports during the first five months of this year, up 9.5 percentage points over all of 1995, the Business Weekly said yesterday. The proportion of exports by joint ventures
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    • SINO Brief
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        Lock icon Taiwan to anotion NT$237b state land
        46 4 Reuter [TAIPEI] Taiwan's finance ministry has decided to auction NT$237 billion (5512.15 billion) worth of state-owned land from September after the cabinet eased rules on selling state land. The land totals 1,752 ha, mostly located in Taiwan's five major cities.—Renter
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        Lock icon Be patient over UN bid: Taiwan minister
        54 4 AFP [TAIPEI] Foreign minister John Chang yesterday asked Taiwanese to be patient in the island's bid to rejoin the United Nations. It would be "impractical" to expect Taiwan to become a UN member in a short time, be said, noting it is recognised
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        Lock icon Chinise media silent on Lake visit
        34 4 AFP [BEIJING] China's official media kept mum yesterday on the ongoing three-day visit by US National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, aimed at soothing recent ruptures in Sino-US relations.—AFP
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        Lock icon Dam project will save millions of lives
        50 4 AFP [BEIJING} Shrugging off environmental protests by the US against China's controversial Three Gorges Dam project, Qin Zhongyi, vice-president of the China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corp, said yesterday the dam would save millions of lives in the flood-prone Yangtze River region.—AFP
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  • FOCUS: VIETNAM
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      Weaning Viets from US dollars
      806 5  -  Hanoi has been trying to bolster the dong and restore faith in the country's hanking system By Michael Steinberger Michael Stein berger is a Hongkong-based contributor to BT TRY using Vietnamese dong to pay the departure tax at Ho Chi Minh City's International Airport and
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      Hanoi's growth target: 9-10%
      382 5 Excerpts from "Joining km%n Countries Toward the 21st Century", speech by VnKhoan, vice-foreign minister of Vietnam "PRESENTLY, Asian countries are vigorously rising up with the highest growth rate in the world Vietnam has, during the last years, consistently pursued the policy of renewal doi moi, the
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  • ASIA
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      Another debt crisis in Japan?
      702 6  -  LETTER FROM TOKYO JMR debts Issue threatens to be even more damaging than the Jusen affair By Anthony Rowley JAPANESE Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has received a grim reminder that his government faces a potential crisis over the debts of the former Japan National Railways
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      Lock icon Price war looms as top S Korean companies expand LCD output
      275 6 TOKYO Japan's dominance of global market under threat: report AFP JAPAN'S dominance of the global market for computer liquid crystal displays (LCD) is under threat by South Korea's top three electronics companies, posing the threat of an international price
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      Lock icon Number of illegal foreign workers on the rise
      176 6 ■SEOUL Reuter THE number of illegal foreign workers is rising in labourstrapped South Korea despite efforts to deport them. Labour Ministry statistics released yesterday showed that more than 100,000 foreigners were found working illegally in South Korea at endMay, accounting for 60
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      Lock icon N Korea seeking rice aid from US, says report
      312 6 TOKYO Reuter NORTH Korea has asked the United States to provide more than 100,000 tonnes of rice and loosen its economic sanctions in a move that could lead to Pyongyang joining proposed four-nation peace talks. Quoting unnamed diplomatic sources in Seoul,
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      Lock icon Early polls threat over Telstra sale
      139 6 ■CANBERRA Bloomberg Business News THE Australian government would be willing to break a Senate deadlock over its planned one-third sale of telecommunication company Telstra Corp by calling an early election, communications minister Richard Alston said yesterday. The government can dissolve both houses of parliament
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon EU to rule on cartel whistle-blowers
      387 7 BRUSSELS Controversial rales to uncover secret price-fixing expected Reuter THE European Commission is expected to adopt controversial new rules on Wednesday that will help it uncover and investigate secret price-fixing and market-sharing cartels. According to commission officials, the draft will give a company which
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      Lock icon Mandela confirms that he will step down in 1999
      307 7 LONDON S African president backs Mbeki to succeed him AFP SOUTH African President Nelson Mandela yesterday confirmed he would step down at the end of his first term in office in 1999, and backed his deputy Thabo Mbeki to succeed him.
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      Lock icon EU begins debate on single currency rules
      310 7 BRUSSELS AFP Reuter EUROPEAN Union finance ministers today start six months of intense work for a single currency likely to be dominated by debate over how the qualifying conditions will be interpreted. Last month's European summit in Florence ordered technical preparations for the
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        Lock icon Wiretapping up under Clinton's term
        51 7 Reuter [WASHINGTON] The Clinton administration has sharply increased use of federal telephone wiretaps and other electronic surveillance in the United States since taking office. "Hie Washington Post yesterday said the expansion was driven in large part by stepped-up use of electronic eavesdropping against narcotics traffickers.
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        Lock icon ANC-IFP merger not true
        78 7 Reuter [JOHANNESBURG] South Africa's ruling African National Congress and the rival Inkatha Freedom Party yesterday poured cold water on a report that their branches in KwaZulu-Natal province were considering a merger. "ANC and IFP leaders in KwaZulu-Natal are backing a merger between their parties in what
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        Lock icon Chirac calls for closer ties with Saudis
        38 7 Reuter [JEDDAH} French President Jacques Chirac yesterday pressed for closer political, economic and cultural ties with Saudi Arabia, after talks with King Fahd focusing on the Middle East peace process. Reuter
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      Lock icon Budget cuts must be fair, says German president
      152 7 BONN Reuter GERMAN President Roman Herzog has entered the political row over planned spending cuts by insisting that the poor should not have to bear the brunt of Bonn's austerity drive. "Savings cannot be accom- plished by making the weaker members of
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      Lock icon Bull run
      50 7 [PAMPLONA, Spain] A runner fell as others sped through the narrow streets of Pamplona on Saturday in the traditional "enciero "bull run during the "San Fermin "festival The fiesta, made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway, is known for the running of bulls each morning during the oneweekfestival AFP
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Aiming for cheap broad bandwidth to every home
      750 8  -  Big networking players Bay Networks, Cisco Systems and 3Com see huge market in this sector By Toh Han Shin [SINGAPORE] Multimedia superhighways are being built throughout Asia, but the little streets to the homes are not yet in place. The big networking
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      Cisco plans to launch super duper router
      350 8 [SINGAPORE] Will the Internet die under its own weight? There is speculation that the exploding demand for massive data transmission may clog up the Internet. Not if Cisco Systems can help it. Cisco Systems South Asia marketing director John Higgs told Business IT
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      Lock icon Motorola to supply Mosel with power transistors
      183 8 AP [HONG KONG) Motorola Inc has agreed to help one of Taiwan's largest semiconductor makers, Mosel Vitelic Inc, supply it with tens of millions of dollars worth of power transistors a year. Under a six-year produc-tion-cooperation pact, Motorola would transfer technology to Mosel's
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    • IT TAKES
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        New desktops from NEC
        107 9  -  Compiled by Bernice Tang [SINGAPORE] Two new ranges of PCs are now available from NEC Singapore. They are the Power Mate Ve (value enhanced) Series for budget users, and the Power Mate V Series, which is aimed at higher-end users. The Ve series comes wfth 120
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        First of CiscoBlue products launched
        64 9 [SINGAPORE] Enterprise network firm Cisco Systems has introduced the first of its new products under its Ciscoßlue program, giving better connectivity for users of SNA environments. The line-up includes software like the TN3270 Server, enhanced APPN (Advanced Peer-to-Peer Network) and SNA DDR (Dial-on Demand Routing)
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        ADC launches telephone service
        74 9 [SINGAPORE] ADC Telecommunications has made its first commercial launch of local telephone service transmitted via its Homeworx hybrid fibre/coax (HFC) telephony system in Australia on June 27. This is part of Australian telecommunication company Optus' newly installed network which provides commercial deployment of broadcast video and
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      Lock icon Net companies find hot market in tracking customer habits
      765 9 Demand for feedback on customer usage comes as companies rely more heavily on advertising Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] A hot new Internet market is evolving for companies that keep advertisers informed about what consumers are viewing on the global computer
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      Lock icon SyQuest cash crunch hits drive production
      253 9 Bloomberg Business News [FREMONT, California] SyQuest Technology Inc's cash shortage is limiting its ability to make its new EZ Flyer removable disk drives, according to a registration statement it filed last week. The Fremont, Californiabased company made the disclosure in the document filed with
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      Team WARE set to release messaging product
      235 9  -  By\ Poo-Cheong Wai Ming [SINGAPORE] Groupware firm TeamWARE is set to release its Internet/Intranet Mail Server v 5.0, hailed by International Data Corporation as "one of the first relatively low-cost complete Internet/Intranet messaging solutions", soon. This product will feature enhanced security, manageability and
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      3Com unveils switching products
      251 10  -  By' Toh han Shin (SINGAPORE] Networking company 3Com has launched a range of switching products to enable customers to scale the performance of their enterprise networks from the data centre to the desktop. They include two classes of switching systems, HighFunction and Boundary Switching, each designed
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      BMC software tie-up with Intel
      214 10  -  Ity Bernice Tang [SINGAPORE) Server products with the Intel i960 RP I/O (Input/Output) processor will carry BMC Software's Patrol application management product suite by the end of next year. The Patrol technology enables users to monitor the activities occurring at the mother board level, a
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      Lock icon Super-slim ThinkPad joins charge of the light brigade
      910 11  -  eemmbth james takes IBM's Dew ultra-portable for a spin KENNETH JAMES NE V E R mind the mobile multimedia monsters that hog the laptop limelight these days. The real excitement in mobile computing is the charge of the light brigade. That's 'light'
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      Why is it hard to ship a large software product?
      819 11  -  By Vimal Goel Vimal Goel (vgoel@iss.nus.sg) is a member, research staff at the Institute of Systems Science. He has led a team which developed a best-selling software product. IT IS a part of high-technology industry folklore that large software products
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      Lock icon Fujitsu, ICL in European venture
      111 11 AFX Asia [LONDON] Fujitsu Ltd has formed a personal computer company in the UK in conjunction with its ICL PLC unit to develop, manufacture and market PCs and server systems for corporate and home users, the Wall Street Journal Europe reported, citing company officials. The
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      441 12 Designer is leaving Christian Dior to devote himself to his own fashion house in Milan AFP ITALIAN designer Gianfranco Ferre, whose announcement that he is leaving Christian Dior took Paris by surprise, on Saturday explained that he needed to devote himself fUll time to his
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      470 12  -  PEOPLE He wis the first star whose career was formed by TV, radio and records Hy i Caryn James NYT [NEW YORK] It's one thing to hear the conventional wisdom: that Elvis Presley once stunned television audiences and brought a wave of youth and
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      391 12  -  FILM By\ Sophie Pons AFP [JOHANNESBURG] South Africans have a better chance of seeing Schwarzenegger's latest adventure than they do the first full-length film by the first black director in South African cinema history. Ramadan Suleman left Johannesburg for London's International Film
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      923 14 WIMBLEDON She overwhelms her Spanish rival, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario,6-37-5 NYT FIRST there is Steffi Graf, and then there are the rest. The No 1-ranked German, while a reluctant participant in the debate about her place in history, proved once again that in this era and at
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      250 14 PEOPLE Diana strongly flijdikftg tho gagging clause, says report Reuter [LONDON] Britain's Princess Diana is studying divorce terms offered by heir to the throne Prince Charles, her spokeswoman said on Saturday. The prince is believed to have offered his estranged wife a divorce settlement worth between
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        51 14 AFP USA-Marie Presley, ex-wife of pop superstar Michael Jackson and daughter of the late king of rock 'n' roll Elvis, attended Saturday's fashion show by top Italian couturier Gianni Versace. She was dressed for the occasion in a Versace creation, a short, plunge-neckline chocolate-coloured lace dress.
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        72 14 Reuter Salman Ru&irfi* who hasliyed in hiding for seven years after Iran imposed a death edict onnim for blasphemy, is to write a love story. Rushdie, announcing details of his seventh novel, said The Ground Beneath Her Feet will be "a tale about love, death
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        45 14 Reuter MORE than 55,000 people were at Wembley Stadium on Saturday to listen to the three tenors Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti and conductor Levine perform a mixture of arias by Verdi and Puccini and songs from stage musicals. Reuter
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        58 14 Reuter MISSION Impossible star Tom Cruise became a real life hero when he saved a seven-year-old London boy from being crushed in a fan crowd. Cruise, arriving for the London premiere of his film on Thursday, rushed to help Laurence Sadler when he saw him being pressed against
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      531 15  -  &ical multimedia players like Creative aad Aztech seem to Win for a torrid time By Kenneth James LOCAL multimedia major Creative Technology stagnated this year from one crisis to mother; the pundits said the problem was mainly Creative, not the market. Now, erstwhile high-flying Aztech
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      455 15  -  MsL2b purchase may help break Telekom's sector dominance From\ Ho Kay Tat in Kuala Lumpur TIME Engineering Bhd has outbid Telekom Malaysia Bhd to acquire 75 per cent of the cellular and payphone businesses of the Sapura group for Msl.2 billion (SI6BO million). Analysts
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      489 15  -  IUBXBT MATTERS Consumers look set to gain from policy «Mng»> By Ho Kay Tat WE said In this column on May 20 that Malaysia's telecoms regulators may have to go back to the drawing board as their plan to force telecom operators to merge
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        416 16 Airline needs to raise Mssl3m in outside funding for new jets over next 5 years Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS) may offer stock to its employees to cover its capital funding requirements over the next five years, chief executive Tajudin Ramli
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        689 16  -  HAMO SENG INSIGHT Established name counts when It comes to China Infrastructure play By Quak Hiang Whai THE dismal debut by Road King Infrastructure last week is a timely reminder that there is no sure winner in the thriving business of China property and infrastructure
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        390 16 Deutsche will help boost group's regional chairman Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] The tie-up by Malaysia's Technology Resources Industries (TRI) with Germany's Deutsche Telekom is aimed at acquiring technology and a global presence, TRI chairman Tajudin Ramly said. The alliance gives TRI
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        Lock icon MCSB blames delay in filing financial report on China unit
        277 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] MCSB Systems (M) Bhd will take measures to submit its financial report for the year ended March 31, 1996, to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange after it was reprimanded for breach of listing requirements. "The KLSE has
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        656 17  -  Analysts believe the Dow will at best move in a volatile sideways range for rest of 1)6 From Neil Behrmann inLondon WORLD stock markets will be nervous in the coming week following a plunge in share and bond prices on Wall Street on
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        292 17 Japan trying to woo fast growing Asian firms AFP [TOKYOJ The Chinese and Japanese governments could agree before August to the listing of Chinese companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), the Asahi Shimbun reported yesterday. An accord would allow
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        250 17 Reuter [SYDNEY] Australian telecommunications and pay television operator Optus Vision yesterday said its launch last week of a local telephone call service through its pay television cable system had unleashed a deluge of inquiries from prospective customers. Optus Vision chief executive Geoff Cousins
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        228 17 FT [LONDON] Fears about Eurotunnel's financial future have prompted a burst of activity in the secondary market for its debt. Traders said on Friday that some banks had been trying to sell part of their debt because of worries that the company would
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        125 17 Reuter (LONDON] Brewing and distilling giant Guinness pic poured cold water yesterday on a report that it was planning a £13.2 biUion (Ss29 billion) bid for food and drinks combine Grand Metropolitan pic. The deal, which would be one of the biggest
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        Institutional holdings in equity hit US$ 8.9 trillion
        726 17  -  Exceptional stock market performance, especially on Wall St, main reason for trend From Neil Behrmann in London INSTITUTIONS based in major North American, European and Far Eastern cities raised their equity holdings to a remarkable US$B.9 trillion (5512.58 trillion) in 1995 from
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        CIC operations in Asia surge 60%
        467 18  -  French bank's key strategies are new ventures and innovative financing By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] French bank Union Europeenne de CIC has seen its Asian operations surge 60 per cent thanks to strategies of venturing into new businesses and innovative financing, says the general
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        219 18 AFP [HONGKONG] American Express' secret weapon in Hongkong never asks for a pay rise, or argues with the boss, but is often a little difficult to get hold of, according to a press report yesterday. Carol Sung puts her name to hundreds
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        411 18  -  From, Neil Behrmann in London DE BEERS' Central Selling Organisation is raising prices of its rough diamonds by an average of 3 per cent. The increase will affect only medium and higher quality gems, said a De Beers spokesman.
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        81 18 [HONGKONG] A demonstrator reading a protest letter while carrying a placard and a banner showing copies of World Warn Japanese military currency bank notes. Members from the "Preparation Association Hongkong"staged a protest on Saturday—a day before the 59th anniversary of the "July 7th Incident" which resulted in the
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        Lock icon Sumitomo losses: Hamanaka not alone to blame
        330 18 Company officials processed documents Credit Lyonnais unit FT ITOKYOI New evidence emerged on Friday that Yasuo Hamanaka was not solely responsible for copper trading at Sumitomo Corporation, which has blamed him for estimated losses of US$l.B billion (552.5 billion). Credit Lyonnais Rouse, the
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        274 18 AFP [MANILA] Bankers warned over the weekend that the Philippines could be reaching an oversupply of foreign banks operating in the country and called on the monetary authorities to impose a lid on new entrants. Gilbert Travers, country manager for the Bank
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        340 18 AFP [BEIJING] Three new Chinese insurance firms will start nationwide operations this month to increase the challenge to the quasi-monopoly of the People's Insurance Co of China (PICC), a report said yesterday. Taikang Life Insurance Co Ltd, Xinhua Life Insurance Co Ltd and Huatai
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        577 20  -  STMTiX Weekly Roundup Japan trade surplus is shrinking and investors are raising their weightings in off-shore markets Callum Henderson By Callum Henderson, MMS International. This report does [SINGAPORE] Sell the yen against everything. That was the theme of last week, and while in the immediate term
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        888 20 COMMODITY Weeklyßmmdup AFP [LONDON) Coffee prices tumbled this week on the London and New York markets as speculators launched a wave of selling after weather forecasts of crop-ravaging frosts in Brazil failed to materialise. Prices crashed to their lowest levels for
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      753 21 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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        Lock icon Steady US interest rates boost Hang Seng index
        261 22 HONGKONG AFP Reuter HONGKONG shares rose 1.6 per cent over the week to Friday, thanks largely to a US decision to leave interest rates untouched, dealers said. The key Hang Seng index gained 156.23 points to close on Friday at 11,177.13. The
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        882 22 n Svdnev -IL3 AUSTRALIAN share prices closed 0.5 per cent down last week, with early gains cancelled out as the market began to waver in lacklustre trade. The All-Ordinaries Index ended the week on Friday at 2,230.8, down 11.3 points on the previous week's finish of 2,242.1.
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        571 22 NEWYORK The question is not what the Fed will do, bat how much does the Fed have to do FT NOBODY likes a party-pooper. This week, Alan Greenspan and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve made sure Americans could enjoy their
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        1833 22 P Paris -2AM FRENCH stocks tumbled 24.91 points last week. The losses came on Friday after a jobs reports in the US suggested interest rates will be raised in the US, causing bond yields to rise in the US and elsewhere. The CAC 40 index of French
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        430 22 TOKYO US$ rise could weigh on stocks by raising import prices Bloomberg Business News JAPAN'S key stock index fell 1.32 per cent last week to a three-week low as the US dollar's strength triggered concern that prices and interest rates in Japan
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        Lock icon Footsie up for week despite fears of US interest rate rise
        308 22 LONDON AFP THE London stock exchange rose last week, despite a plunge in share prices on Friday that followed publication of US employment data which showed a surge in job creation figures, prompting fears of a rise in interest
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        7872 23 analysts. Bloomberg Business News, AFP Q Composite Index -3J3 MALAYSIAN stocks are expected to trade mixed this week with concern that credit may likely be tightened to offset optimism about earnings in the current year, investors said. "That's been the bogeyman over the past
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        Kim Hin wrts still an aberration
        3909 24  -  WARRANT WATCH Hy\ R Sivanithy BACK in November, we highlighted one of the most ridiculously priced warrants in existence those issued by Malaysian firm Kim Hin, which at that time, traded for an astounding 209 per cent conversion premium. We said Kim Hin was
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        1530 25 TURNOVER ('OOO) VALUE COOO) Clot T«t«l Mtn Cf» Ttl k*u»tri«l 180,333 32.937 213.270 669,351 76.080 745.431 P»*K« 26,350 10.863 37.213 199,513 22.457 221,969 Hotttl 3.949 1,778 5,727 ***** 2,976 14,926 Prowtits 23.950 31,003 54,953 121,950 42.384 164.335 PUntatlen 2,061 2.061 5,011 5,011 1.515 1,515 3,873 3,873 5J-* W.674 23.386 40.060
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        4737 25 u L«»t Vol Week Last Quote Dlv Olv YM Net Cop Avg High Low StNo Company Solo COOP) High Low Buy or Sollor C'vr P/t Smll Prko INDUSTRIALS S ASE NTSlO 200 US- 214 165 s Acor 50c US182 Cd -12 487 190 180 183 184 5.ON 7.5
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        49 26  -  Leo IGB Corporation broke above resistance at $1.45 last week to end at $1.51 on Friday. Momentum indicators like Moving Average Convergence-Divergence Indicators and moving averages have turned bullish. But with Relative Strength Indices in overbought territory, there might be a correction before the uptrend resumes. SyPulLao.
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        Lock icon Market faces resilience test after Dow's plunge
        1061 26  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Possibility now of Fed raising interest rates soon maybe even before its next meeting on Aug 20 By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Much has been made in recent years of the "safe haven" reputation of the Singapore stock market that its
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      307 15 NEW CIEAIIIN NEW TASTE NEW SET UNCI MEHIS Roast chicken with blaclcpepper sauce. Chicken with honey mustard sauce, Fish fillet with butter caper sauce. S| Jf \j§gg Pork chop with apple mayonnaise sauce and many more. *7to>UA>, it'll make lunch-out VALUE ADDED and 18th Jul y 1996. you are en^^
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      128 17 n SINGAPORE COLLEGE OF INSURANCE PBOCBAMMES |"Ej DATE 1. The Changing Needs of Insurance Buyers 31 lulv A Detailed Analysis Manufacturing The Changes: I Systems, Employees, Supplier I Manufacturer Relationship I Manufacturers' Increased Risks I Increased Dependence on Supplies, Increased Exposures I >*', I The Impact on Manufacturers' Profits r'
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      75 25 Some Investments Perform Better Than Others A v j tea*, (fcfj SAAB TR4NS EIPOK4RS TE LTD 2.< I t nj- kn Ko;mI. I 5 «>•»«> 5. I, I. ,> h.>n. if.s> 25 I hSSH I;i\. '5 4-: 5- 4. S|.,.»i u \|..n Vil N. »o ,m-s..»o|>m. Suikl.iv -i id-4 pin.
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      472 26 BUSINESS Notices I() Al)\i;K I I S I. (All I(>II- I K I I I S (Ml -7 4 I I<SIS 3 M THE MATTER OF THE COMPAMES ACT, CAP. 50 GLENWCH ENTERPRISE PTE LTD (In Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordbiary General Meeting of tha mambars of QLENRICH ENTERPRISE PTE
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      328 26 M THE MATTER OF THE COMPAMES ACT, CHAPTER 50 SO-SCtCON PTE LTD MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY UQUIOATION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of tha Company deemed to be held on 2 July 1996, the following resolutions were duly passed 1. SPECIAL RESOLUTION WINDING-UP That tha Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to
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      641 26 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER SO AND IN THE MATTER OF FAR EAST EUROPE TRANSACTION PTE LTD (Incorporated la the Republic of Singapore) At an Kxinordinary General Meeting of member* of FAR EAST EUROPE TRANSACTION PTE LTD duly convened and held at No. 25 Lorong I.lew Lian
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      157 26 The Business Times A bold newkxiadafidbfpKwiioicimadvcws. Fafcr wih it news, ad witi tr meaning of te news. Sharper focus on business ad nates. Deeper aalyss of trads, ad more apron ad commertay ■Start my [TheßusinessTimes i Subscription now! I $165.10 (12 months for loaf) (nil itte adds dAey dnp f«Mi
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      533 26 Buy It. Sell It. Find It. Classified. f& CATS. Call Today For Results Tomorrow. **********6 r CHO HUNG BANK (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA) CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS CONSOLDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME December 31,1995 and 1994 Forthe Years ended December 31,1995 «>d 1994 1995 1994 1995 1994 MMonsof Mfcnsof MB—
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      269 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young ALTHOUGH the market continues to be slack there are a couple of handy bulkcarriers sold as well as a number of container vessels, and some good prices being paid for demolition tonnage. For a change no tankers featured last week. However this reflects
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      460 27  -  Two ships already laid op at the yard to help test operating procedures By Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Sembawang Corporation's Karimun shipyard will open its doors in September. SembCorp marine and heavy industries president Tan Mong Seng told Shipping Times that the yard will be
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      230 27 Partners are MISC, Petronas, Kelang Port Management andPSC MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia International Shipping Corp (MISC) will form a joint venture company with three parties to manage and operate the Maritime Academy Malaysia (Alam). The venture company, Malaysian Maritime Academy Sdn
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      559 27  -  UMBR SCENE By David Hughes TRUE to form, the Far Eastern Freight Conference put out its usual statements recently, announcing "rate restorations" or, in plain language, freight rate increases. The increases were justified on the grounds that rates had fallen to "unsustainable levels".
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      112 27 Reuter [SEOUL] At least one worker was killed and five others injured on Saturday in a blast at a shipyard in South Korea's largest port of Pusan, police said. A Pusan police officer said by telephone the death toll could rise. He said the explosion
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      174 27 Business Line [BANGALORE] The Indian government has started a massive effort to set up an electronic data interchange (EDI) network for international sea and air ports across India. It has instructed the National Centre for Trade Information (NCTI) to set up
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      90 27 Reuter [BERLIN] The collapse of shipbuilder Bremer Vulkan did serious damage to the development of former East Germany, the German federal agency responsible for developing the eastern states, BvS, said on Friday. "The Bremer Vulkan disaster did not only damage the efforts of the
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      717 28 JAPANESE CAR MARKET; BUYERS GO FOR STYLE Foreign cars make up only a small part of overall car sales in Japan, but the statistics show that non-Japanese makers —whose cars carry a luxury cachet in status-conscious Japan are gaining some ground Reuter Foreign cars are
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        2350 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCI CARGO Boofclnq/WwK# Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Ptrtod From To From Act Ubc 059* 09/0700 I* 07/1500 07/1659 07/1900 a 07/1700 08/0659 08/0900 21 07/1700 08/0659 08/0900 3 08/0700 08/1159 08/1400 4 08/1200 08/1459 08/1700 AaSWM 230* 09/2300 2* 07/1700 08/0659"
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        102 43 JULY lArgtntina: Independence Day. iMorocco: King's Birthday. tlran: (tentative) Death of Prophet J JULY 17 JSouth Korea: Constitution Day. •JULY 12 Nicaragua: Revolution Day. JULY 20 Colombia. National Independence. IfULY 22 glgium: Belgian National Day. LY 23 iEgypt Revolution Day. JULY 34 Venezuela: Birth of Simon Bolivar. JULY
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        489 43 C»w« ISO tux 994.9 0.9 17.9 0.12 46 O.OJ i IXwItT Wtor twMw Aril kMmUmm Si—it No above £25 3 0 23 6 0 0 380 AM 987.2 02 14.0 0.07 18 0.00 l 380 Mu 993.0 1.0 17.4 0.13 40 0.01 Wiri %in %MI WW
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        297 44 Plant in UK running under capacity, in Spain carmaker had to spend heavily on restructuring FT [TOKYO] Nissan Motor will restructure its European production plants in the UK and Spain in an effort to return to profitability. Yoshikazu Hanawa, who succeeded
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        180 44 AFP [AUCKLAND] Ash eruptions from Mount Ruapehu on New Zealand's North Island caused chaos for thousands of air passengers yesterday, as the country's main airport and seven provincial airports were forced to close. Authorities say the eruptions are not major but the
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        191 44 Reuter [PENSACOLA, Florida] A mother and her 12-year-old son died and at least five other passengers were injured on Saturday when an engine on a Delta Air Lines MD-88 blew apart on the runway, sending shrapnel through the aircraft, officials said. Killed were Anita
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        232 44 Jakarta hopes to reverse trend with replacement of jets Reuter [JAKARTA] The number of Japanese tourists to Indonesia has declined by 15 per cent after a Garuda Indonesia aircraft crash last month, the official Antara news agency reported on Saturday. A
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        263 44 Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO] Spokesmen from United Airlines Inc and Japan Airlines Co say refusal by the US and Japanese governments to approve already scheduled flights will not affect service for a week at least. After US-Japan air talks broke down a
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          44 44 Reuter [TOKYO] Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) will go ahead with its plan to open a new route to Myanmar nr>w« the political situation there worsened. A spokesman said the twice-weekly flights would begin on July 16.—Reuter
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          65 44 Reuter [BIRMINGHAM] British Airways chief executive Robert Ayling said BA's competitiveness would be significantly hit if it was forced to reduce the proportion of flights it is allowed from London's Heathrow airport. "The impact will be a British air transport industry which will not be
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          70 44 Bloomberg Business News [DEARBORN, Michigan] Ford's US vehicle sales dropped 2.4 per cent In June, a worse-than-expected result for the automaker in a month that is usually one of the industry's strongest Analysts had expected Ford to report a 2 per cent increase
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        168 44 Reuter [BEIJING] China has agreed to begin direct air links with Brazil before the end of 1996, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. The new service, which will reduce the duration of flights between Brazil and Beijing from the current 36
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      1791 31 ACCEPTING TO TUNIS, TRIPOLI AND BENGHAZI VU GENOA. CASABUNCA AND ALGIERS VIA MARSEILLES. A I Smf^n. M H KMnt 7MIW» Of Mk II U/ttOOOOM S+t/t-t+f (nliiir 47U541/SU JCHMf OffKl Afmy f>inrti. I (OSTAR SHIPPING PT[ LTD f van* can c, ,>■ <t «»sim cosiu aumoh m sen mo. cm<mm »/l
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      683 32 g RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD TEL: *****33 (12 UNES) FAX: *****19/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) CR NO: **********0E |®S ETHIOPIA* SHIPPING UNES (National Uks of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Vo* Fa Loading for Spore Andinrt 44W8 18/07 Abyot 46W8 26/06 Mombasa, Djibouti Assab. Massawa B
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      703 33 M MYANMA wBHk FIVE STAR LINE vT (Myomar National Una) Loading for Yoifoi (Rangoon) VESSEL VOT SIN KG KM PGII MEIGUI 132W mn MYOMA TWA l&OW IN FT i K MALAYSIA AGENTS: lOUSTIAO SHIPPING AGENCIES XUL TU 02-03-*****00 PIL TH 02-03-*****01 flit Til 02-04-2****** PGO: lEL 02-07-*****21/4 I M BANK
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