The Business Times, 3 July 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/12/96 854 SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes THURSDAY, JULY 3,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon Shock float of baht sends its value plunging 18%
    681 1  -  Move may bring about stability but will hort Thai firms laden with foreign currency debts economists From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND bit the bullet yesterday and in effect devalued its embattled currency by allowing it to float. The decision to
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    Lock icon Fed leaves rates unchanged
    166 1 Reuter, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON) The US Federal Reserve decided to hold interest rates steady yesterday amid signs economic growth has slowed from a sizzling first quarter pace. The announcement, which came at the end of a two-day meeting of the central bank's policy-making committee, had been widely
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    Lock icon Clinton wants global accord on Internet free trade zone
    362 1 AFP, Reuter [WASHINGTON] US President Bill Clinton has recommended that the Internet be declared a "free-trade zone" without taxation, and called for a global agreement on the matter within 12 months. During a White House ceremony on Tuesday, Mr Clinton and
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    The fog lifts at last
    548 1 BOT gets full marks for timing and execution, writes Lury Vm THE biggest obstacle to muchneeded inflows of foreign capital into Thailand was removed yesterday in a welltimed and slickly-executed move for which Thai authorities deserve kudos. Prior to yesterday's move, which caught market off-guard,
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      117 1 Private housing prices should improve in second half 1986 if die economy i remains stable, says Knight Frank, P|2 p.labeort budget The London stock market reacted enthusiastically to the Labour government's flrSTbudget which promises a'new welfare state', P|r» c-V r .v i- BWHIHBt Bishan B*B $1,000 psf prices are significant
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      57 1 Market reaotkxia/rom S'pore and the region, Pg 5 m m GC iw I*4 J f I 150 YEARS OF HISTORY AND ROMANCE Cartier boubque/ Singapore Millenia Walk. #01-22/23. 9 Raffles Boulevard. Tel: 339 0183 Ngee Ann City, Tower B, *01-11. 391 Orchard Road. Tel: 734 2427 Hilton International, #01-04, The
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Private property prices to fall 5-8% over next 6 months: Knight Frank
      480 2  -  pgnag gpi«n»B Bevelopers'bids in land traders not yecessarily a sign If strong demand Reports by] Diana Oon IRIVATE residential properj prices, which have come off y about 10 per cent since the nti-speculation curbs were ltroduced in May
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      Wing Tai explains its record bid for Draycott
      376 2 Draycott, Newton were best URA sites which have ever been sold, it says PROPERTY developer Wing Tai Land's aggressive bids for 99-year cortdo sites in Draycott Park and Newton were to ensure that the company won the "best URA sites which have
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      S'pore, Chile bank associations sign 3-year agreement
      270 2  -  Wy Clarissa Tan ff HE bank associations of Chiand Singapore have agreed ftp exchange market informanon on the two countries' economic development and on gheir laws abating to foreign p-ade and A The Asociacion de Bancos P Instituciones Financieras of Khile and the
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      DBS, UOB put growth at 6-7%
      296 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY GDP By Audrey Tan TWO local banks expect this year's economic growth to be on the high end of the official forecast of 5-7 per cent, according to their latest reports. DBS Bank sees gross domestic product growing between 6.5
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      Tainan Warna owners set for $85m deal
      297 2  -  9 houses off Holland Village in largest en bloc bungalow sale By, Abdul Hadhi NINE bungalow owners at Taman Warna, off Holland Road, have grouped together for what will be the largest en bloc bungalow sale. The previous largest number of bungalows sold
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      Consumer feedback to help design Changi T3
      379 2  -  By* Ang Wan May CHANGI Airport's third terminal (T3) will incorporate ideas for new facilities and services from Singaporeans and travellers. Through the ideas that flow from a T3 Ideas Contest, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) hopes to build a terminal
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      New gateway for phone calls on the Net
      330 2  -  Micom offers to bring of-net calls to companies in Asia By 1 Toh Han Shih MICOM Communications Corp, a subsidiary of Canadian giant Nortel, is offering in Asia a product for phone-to-phone calls over the Net. Phone-to-phone Internet calls also known as
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      7 2 Singapore Business Giving you the winning edge
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Lock icon For $1,000 psf, what would you buy?
      471 4  -  Prime leasehold, even old freehold apartments, can be had at Bishan 8 prices By 1 Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] FAR East Organisation's Bishan 8 made the headlines when its 99-year-leasehold units were launched at a record SI,IOO per sq ft (psf) last month.
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      House Hunt
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  • FOCUS: BUT DEVALUATION
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      Lock icon Debt fallout seen from baht float
      532 5  -  Devaluation could bump Thai firms' offshore debt np to unsustainable levels Fromi Alan Boyd te Bangkok THE business community here is bracing for a painful debt fallout from yesterday's baht float, amid warnings that many medium-sized companies could fail. Manufacturers with a high reliance
      Source: Banks of Thailand  -  532 words
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      Decision to float prompted by BOT's US$4b loss
      518 5  -  Imminent disclosnre of finance firms' debts another factor From. Alan Boyd in Bangkok THE decision to float the baht came after a bruising war of attrition between the central bank and currency speculators that threatened to decimate the country's dwindling foreign reserves.
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      What they said
      182 5 'Of all the policy options they could have taken, this was the best one. The BOT has now all the tools of monetary policy both interest rates and exchange rates at their disposal.' Deutsche Morgan GrenfeU Asia Economics 'The Philippine peso is probably not in any real
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      Lock icon Central banks to Manila, KL move to defend currencies
      288 5  -  FOREIGN MARKET REACTION By Al Labita THE Philippine central bank (CB) raised the overnight borrowing rate twice to shore up the peso after the Thai baht devaluation rocked the currency market and sent equity markets into a tailspin. The central bank
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      KUALA LUMPUR
      211 5  -  By] Eddie Toh BANK Negara officially defended the ringgit for the first time in recent years after the Thai baht was effectively devalued yesterday. Dealers said the Malaysian central bank used its own name instead of going through a proxy when it sold the dollar to support the
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      JAKARTA
      227 5  -  By S N Vasuki THE Indonesian ruplah stumbled but ultimately held steady against the greenback after news of the baht devaluation yesterday. The Indonesian unit plunged to a low of 2445 against the US dollar in a knee-jerk reaction to the baht devaluation against 2432 on Tuesday. However, the
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      TOKYO
      204 5  -  By- Anthony Rowley THE Bank of Thailand's de facto devaluation of the baht has raised fears in Japan that pressure on other South-east Asian currencies could send investors rushing into yen, jeopardising Japan's exportled economic recovery. There are also concerns in Tokyo that Thailand could have trouble repaying its
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      S'pore banks seen riding out bant waves unscathed
      545 5  -  They have low loan exposures to Thai borrowers: analysts By] Louis Beckerling {SINGAPORE] The loan portfolios of local banks are expected to ride out unscathed the after-shocks of events in Thailand yesterday That would seem to be the view of investors who
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      No immediate effect on chip and rice trade with S'pore
      468 5  -  By] Ronnie Lim [SINGAPORE] The effects of yesterday's baht float/devaluation will not bite immediately into the trade in electronic chips and fragrant rice, which are among the mainstays between Singapore and Thai companies. But there may be longer-term implications. In
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      142 5 I The Third Floor's new menu beckons Even with Chef Alan McLennan s woridty with uncommon good taste. sensations (July 7 -11), great value remains In true Global Cuisine style, bites of a constant ingredient. inspiration from the world's finest culinary Our Global Cuisine comes from all over aits blend
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      M'sian loan growth rebounds after March measures
      363 6  -  KUALA LUMPUR Property loans form 50% of total new loans in Kay; slower growth in April seen as knee-jerk By\ Meera Tharmaratnam TWO months after Bank Negara's measures to slow down lending to property and stocks, loan figures have rebounded to their previous
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      Lock icon Philippine govt posts 541m pesos Q1 surplus
      189 6 MANILA Bloomberg THE Philippine government said it posted a consolidated surplus of 541 million pesos (5529.3 million) in the first three months of 1997 as falling interest rates cut debt payments. The government had expected a first-quarter deficit of 5.71 billion pesos in
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      Lock icon Asean to set up regional energy centre
      399 6 MANILA It will coordinate projects including planned USSllb natural gas pipeline AFP SOUTH-east Asian nations are to set up a centre to coordinate regional energy projects including a planned US$ll billion (5515.7 billion) natural gas pipeline, an official said yesterday. The plans for
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      Lock icon A hero to save Indonesia's film industry?
      75 6 [JAKARTA] The leading actor in Indonesia's most expensive movie "FatahiUah" riding on a horse during a ceremony at Jakarta's City Hall ahead of the premiere. The hero, FatahiUah, crushed a Portuguese attempt to establish a trading post on Java. Indonesia hopes the movie
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      Lock icon Cambodian military spending too high: UN
      132 6 MPHNOM PENH Reuter THE United Nations warned Cambodia yesterday it is spending too much money on its security forces and failing to meet tax revenue collection targets. It also said that international donors could not continue pouring aid into the country, a warning that
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      Lock icon Indon inflation slows to 5.1%, trade surplus doubles
      381 6 JAKARTA Figures set to give further boost to record-high stocks Bloomberg INDONESIAN inflation slowed to a better than-expec-ted 5.1 per cent in June, and its merchandise trade surplus more than doubled in April, the government said. Both are good news for Indonesia's
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      Lock icon Viet farmers forced to sell land to survive: report
      179 6 HANOI AFP VIETNAMESE farmers are being forced to sell or mortgage their land to survive, an official report said yesterday. As many as 10 per cent of farmers in some provinces in Vietnam's southern rice bowl in the Mekong Delta have
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      New HK govt will spend huge sum to meet housing targets
      420 7  -  HONGKONG Measures to resolve boosing problems will be drawn up within three months: Tung By] Loh Hui Yin A HUGE sum of money will be spent by the new Hongkong government to meet its ambitious housing targets, but its
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      Lock icon Laying China's foundation
      58 7 [BEIJING] A performer holding a mock-up brick during a dance on Tuesday at a mass rally to celebrate the return of Hongkong to China in Beijing's Workers' Stadium. Nearly 80,000 people packed into the stadium for the extravaganza celebrating both the return of Hongkong and the 76th
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      Bad start for Taiwan's first credit rating agency
      298 7  -  U TAIPEI Financial firms npset ever leaked report; gpvt orders probe By Bruce Cheesman TAIWAN'S first credit rating agency has got off to a disastrous start with banks up in arms over a leaked report slamming many of the island's top financial
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      It's the HK people who will rule HK
      564 7  -  CHDIA WATCH China mnst ensure no power centre will emerge to rival SAR govt By Lu Ning HOW should China rule Hongkong, now that it has finally regained its sovereignty over the territory ruled by Britain for the past 156 years? This
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      HK reacts cautiously to Tung's housing pledge
      415 7  -  HONGKONG Market response mixed as many await flf parkflgo By i Quak Hiang Whai WITH the details not fleshed out yet, Hongkong has reacted cautiously to Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's pledge on Tuesday to increase the supply of flats and fight speculators. Response
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      Lock icon Euphoria over, B shares fall
      276 7 SHANGHAI Bloomberg CHINA B shares fell to near eight-week lows yesterday on concern that euphoria about Hongkong's historic return to China will fade and the government will renew a crackdown on stock speculation. Share prices climbed to three-year highs in May, partly on hopes that
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      Lock icon Jiang Zemin on track to becoming China's new supreme leader
      413 7 BEIJING AFP PRESIDENT Jiang Zemin, who savoured a moment of triumph as the world watched the return of Hongkong, is now on course to officially become China's new supreme leader at the next Communist Party Congress. "Hongkong was the first
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  • ASIA
    • Article
      Lock icon Top chaebol must sell 2.4t won in shares by April
      264 8 SEOUL Bloomberg SOUTH Korea's top 30 conglomerates, or chaebol, will have to sell off 2.4 trillion won (553.86 billion) worth of equities by April next year to meet government rules on company shareholdings. The equity sales will have a limited
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      Lock icon No accord reached on Indian import curbs
      399 8 GENEVA llqjor trading powers want shorter phasing out period, issue may go before WTO for dispute settlement Reuter MAJOR trading powers and India on Tuesday failed to agree on ending balance-of-payment (BOP) import curbs operated by Delhi, opening the prospect that it might
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      Lock icon Indian PM says govt not about to fall
      139 8 NEW DELHI AFP BELEAGUERED Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral denied in remarks published yesterday that his minority coalition government could fall as his faction-ridden party headed towards a split. ■Mr Gujral said growing rifts in his Janata Dal would not undermine
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      Lock icon Nomura's eurobond rank plunges
      227 8 TOKYO FT NOMURA's global ranking in the eurobond league tables has fallen sharply since a corporate scandal at the group in March. Nomura International, its London-based affiliate, fell to 15th place in the eurobond market between April and June, after ranking as the fifth largest underwriter
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      Lock icon NZ economy rebounding
      151 8 WELLINGTON AFP NEW Zealand's economy was rebounding in the June quarter following a contraction in the March quarter, Reserve Bank governor Don Brash told parliament's finance and expenditure select committee yesterday. He was responding to questions regarding the bank's failure to forecast the contraction in the economy
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      Lock icon Going fishing, Dhaka-style
      42 8 [BANGLADESH] Bangladeshi fishermen using a push-cart to move their boat through Dhaka on Tuesday as bus passengers look on. With the onset of monsoon rains the fishing season begins with the rwers and canals swelling throughout the country. REUTER
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      A dash of subterfuge
      688 8  -  Gttfral sidesteps Ibrahim to open op India's skies 11 By] K P Nayar [NEW DELHI] NEW Delhi has a new pastime. Ever since Prime Minister I K Gujral said last month that he favoured opening up Indian skies, the media, the business community and even political
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      Lock icon Aussie retail sales up 2.9%, building approvals up 2.2%
      391 8 SYDNEY Bettertfcan-eaqiected figures reduce need for interest rate cats Bloomberg BETTER-than-expected Australian retail sales and building approval results for May indicate an improving economy, lessening the need for the central bank to cut interest rates to prod growth. Speculation abounds that
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      206 8 v Special Set Menus to celebrate K« c'l the Singapore Food Festival I;* Top Seafood Combination Deep-fried Scallop Deep-fried Lobster Wrapped m Suwri Braised Shark's Pin with Bird's Nest and Shredded Chicken Braised Whole Yoahfiwna Dried Abalone with Sturgeon Cartilage Deep-fried Silver Cod with Crispy Bean Paste Sauteed Fresh lily
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Credit Lyounais consortium's losses
        84 9 AFP [PARIS] Cumulative lorn* of the Credit Lyonnais Consortium d* Realisation (CDR) to date are estimated at 100.2 billion francs (5124.3 billion), excluding carrying costs, the French Economics and Finance Ministry announced on Tueeday. The CDR holds doubtful assets of the big government-owned bank with a
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        Lock icon Asia still capital magnet:BIS
        65 9 Reuter [ZURICH] Asia is still the main magnet for capital from industrialised countries, but new tending to Latin America and Eastern Europe accelerated sharply in the second half 0f1906, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in I its latest semi-annual report European banks also strengthened
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        Lock icon Yeltsin sacks justice minister
        53 9 Reuter [MOSCOW] President Boris Yeltsin sacked Justice Minister Valentin Kovalyov yesterday in an apparent effort to end a scandal over a video film allegedly showing the minister in a gangland sauna with naked women. The Kremlin said Mr Yeltsin replaced Mr Kovalyov with former security service
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      Lock icon Room for talks on capital gains tax cut: White House
      334 9 WASHINGTON Bloomberg PRESIDENT Bill Clinton's top economist said on Tuesday that the details of a capital gains tax cut are "up for discussion", though she said the administration wouldn't accept a plan that included indexing capital gains for inflation. "Indexing
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      UK markets give Labour budget the thumbs up
      406 9  -  LONDON Surprise two-point corporate tax cut to 31%, the lowest rate since the war By 1 Neil Behrmann THE London stock market responded enthusiastically to the Labour government's first UK budget which slashed corporation taxes, boosted investment allowances, but still raised net
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      Lock icon UK body turns up heat on underwriters
      238 9 LONDON Reuter BRITAIN'S Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday turned up the heat on underwriters of rights issues, with a threat to refer them to competition watchdog Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC). John Bridgeman, the direc-tor-general of fair trading, said he was not
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      Lock icon US factory orders dropped 0.7% in May
      308 9 WASHINGTON Drop suggests manufacturing sector is cooling Bloomberg ORDERS placed with US factories in May fell more than expected, a sign the manufacturing economy is cooling after a strong start to the year. The 0.7 per cent drop in factory orders, to a
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Asia does not regret end of colonial rule
      731 10  -  OPINION THE BOTTOM UXB By S N Vasuki The writer is BT's Jakarta correspondent HONGKONG'S return to Chinese sovereignty has, ironically, led to a spate of articles in the western media celebrating the "beneficial" aspects of colonialism. Hiis is a disingenuous exercise
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      108 10 'Let them do it The quality is so lousy, it makes me happy.' general manager ofWuxi Buhler Machinery Manufacturing on the advantages of transferring western technology to China. His company holds about 70 per cent of the Chinese market for food processors. 4 I have even been
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      Not yet out of the woods
      563 10 EDITORIAL THE recent forecast by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) that the economy will grow at 5-7 per cent this year is reassuring. But the nuance that should not be missed is that the recovery has not yetiaken hold, and how strong it
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      Lock icon Why experts did not foresee stock boom
      897 10  -  Most of them underestimated huge flows of liquidity into US pension and mutual funds By] Neil Behrmann The writer is BTs London correspondent THE question that should be asked about Wall Street and the global stock market boom is not "how much higher?"
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      850 10 FROM Japan to Indonesia, Asia is roaring economically. The American withdrawal from Vietnam and the defeat of the US-backed Saigon regime in 1975 marked a turning point in US militarism in the region. The demise of the Soviet Union a decade-and-a-half later ended the threat of
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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      182 11 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 Troublesome furniture-remov-gets politer after treatment 7 H| HP 10 To affect drastically at univer--11 Scrooge fell approaching |HL_ JHL_ 12 Contract drawn up. wearing HH false smile (9) 23 one following whisky in a 23"^ 28 Nervy, as rain breaks out for the celebration (11) DOWN 9
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Standing out from the crowd
      670 12  -  The business of customising luxury cars to suit buyers is a lucrative one, says Christopher tan Meera Tharmaratnam INCREASINGLY, luxury car buyers want more than just a luxury car. They want their carriages to be different from the ready-made stock in the showroom. While they
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    • BUMPER to BUMPER
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        It's worse from the side
        107 12 RESEARCH has shown that side-collisions account for about 21 per cent of all accidents but are responsible for 36 per cent of all cases of bodily injury. In other words, the risk of severe or even fatal injuries is far greater than from a frontal
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        So many cars, so few buyers
        49 12 OVERCAPACITY will continue to be endemic. The world's automotive industry has the capacity to make 68 million vehicles a year, but has sales of only 48 million, says the Economist Intelligence Unit. Planned investments in emerging markets will worsen the situation, it adds.
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        Get on your Harley and party
        151 12  -  Compiled hf Christopher Tan JULY 13 will mark the biggest Harley-Davidson event in Singapore. Get down to Takashimaya Civic Plaza between 10 am and 8 pm for The Harley-Davidson Carnival, proceeds of which will go to the Children's Cancer i Foundation. Check out the
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      Lock icon Marie – a star in her own right
      702 12  - Marie a star in her own right PERSONALITY She has also made her mark in doD business and in raising fands for charity By\ Ben Munroe FACE to face with Marie Osmond, immaculate in her canary yellow two-piece suit and perching comfortably on the sofa, you forget the cliches about
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      Playing on the familiar in The Sound of Music
      589 12  -  MUSICAL Marie Osmond takes over role immortalised by Jube Andrews and makes it aMer own By Ben Munroe "I'VE been given permission to sing," chirps Sister Maria Rainer, in the big budget alpine drama The Sound of Music currently dazzling families
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      Lock icon Tough guy Robert Mitchum dies
      639 12 PERSONALITY His unique baritone voice added depth to his roles, whether as a hero or villain Reuter ACTOR Robert Mitchum, the sleepy-eyed, barrel-chested star of more than 125 films that spanned six decades, died early on Tuesday. He was 79. Mitchum died in his sleep
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      144 12 Born Aug 6,1917, in Bridgaport, Connecticut Married Dorothy Spence, 1940 GUUrtn James, Christopher, Petrine jfllOCtodWtM Cry Havoc, 1943 Gung Ho!, 1943 Johnny Doesnt Live Here Anymore, 1944 The Story of GI Joe, 1945 (Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor) Out of the Past, 1947 Rachel and the Strangers, 1948
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      HMI Balestier Hospital plans to list by 2000
      525 13  -  FnimeMtir expansion, as HMI aims to become key regional player Rmports by. Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] HMI Balestier Hospital (HMI), which yesterday entered into a healthcare alliance with the US' renowned Massachusetts General Hospital, plans to list on the local bourse in 1999
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      Lock icon HMI ties up with Boston hospital
      333 13 [SINGAPORE] HMI Balestier Hospital yesterday signed two memoranda with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to participate jointly in healthcare projects here and in the rest of Asia. MGH is one of Boston's biggest hospitals with 1,000 beds and is renowned for its research and
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      Mainboard stocks: upmarket listing, downmarket pricing?
      606 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Conrad Raj IHH ENRY Tay, the chairman of upmarket watch deal- er The Hour Glass, has lamented that his compa- ny is being treated badly i by the stock market. While having a drink at the lounge of the historical Manila
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      JEL bags contracts worth over $40m
      290 13  -  New contracts for work in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Jurong Engineering Ltd (JEL) has landed new contracts in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia worth more than $40 million. According to a statement yesterday, Equator Engineering Sdn Bhd, an associate in Malaysia, has
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      Chemical Ind buys London properties
      364 13  -  Outer of freehold buildings in inner dty bought for £41m By' Tan Su Yen (SINGAPOREJ Chemical Industries (Far East) Ltd is pushing ahead with its diversification into the London property market The company yesterday announced the purchase of a cluster of freehold London properties for
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        Lock icon Arab-M'sian Merchant Bank gets BBB rating
        210 14 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Standard and Poor's yesterday assigned a 888 rating and A-3 shortterm counterparty ratings to the Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank, Malaysia's largest merchant bank. The international rating agency said the rating reflected AMMB's leading franchise in merchant banking services, strong profitability, adequate risk
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        Lock icon Hong Leong Bank chief sees slower loans growth
        451 14 Hawk conscious decision to slow growth; 35% rise seen next year Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Hong Leong Bank Bhd is likely to see slower loans growth for its financial year ending June 30, 1998, said James Lim, senior group managing director. Mr Lim
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        Lock icon Gold Bridge makes cash call, forms property joint venture
        214 14 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Gold Bridge Engineering Construction Bhd yesterday proposed a 1-for-l bonus issue and a 2-for-l rights issue, and said it was tying up with a proper-ty-based company. The bonus issue will involve 18 million shares of Msl each and
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        Lock icon TI-Acer plans NT$100b wafer fab in Taiwan
        207 14 Reuter [TAIPEI] TI-Acer, a joint venture of Taiwan's Acer and Texas Instruments (TI) of the US, said yesterday it would invest NTIIOO billion (5*5.13 billion) to buUd an eight-inch wafer fabrication plant in Taiwan by 2000. The facility would be one of the
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        Lock icon Metrojaya ups RTA sale offer to CIMB
        180 14 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Metroplex Bhd has revised its offer for sale of the rights to allotment (RTA) of up to 120.116 million new RDC Consolidated Bhd shares to CIMB Securities Sdn Bhd from 118.911 million shares previously on a one-for-nine basis at M
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        Lock icon Promet, Ipco in joint venture with Saudi firm
        262 14 Project to tap Middle East infrastructure business Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR) Promet Bhd and its 75 per cent-owned Singapore subsidiary, Ipco International Ltd, have forged a strategic alliance with the Dabbagh Group of Saudi Arabia to form International Project Developers (IPD) Ltd. Promet
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        Lock icon Dull days seen for M'sian stocks in second half
        555 14 Shares seen as pricey on belief earnings growth will slow Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian stocks are unlikely to shine in the second half of 1997 after being battered by credit curbs and a slowdown in corporate earnings, analysts and fund managers
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        Lock icon China tightens rules for interim reports
        178 14 AFX-Asia [SHANGHAI] A listed company which posts losses for two consecutive years must have its first half 1997 results audited, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said. Firms planning a rights issue or are considering interim profit distribution and pension fund bonus issues in
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          Intraco buys out Sintra-Ning
          52 14 [SINGAPORE] Intraco Trading, a subsidiary of Intraoo Limited, has bought 245,000 shares of Sintra-Nlng from China Metallurgical Import and Export Corporation for $124,750. With this purchase, Intraoo Trading has raised its capital stake in Sintra-Ning from 51 per cent to 100 per cent, making it a
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          Trading of new FLEH shares, warrants
          40 14 [SINGAPORE] The rights Issue 0f901.76 million new shares of Freight Links Express Holdings (FLEH) at 20 cents apiece and 37.2 million warrants will be listed and quoted on the Stock Exchange of Singapore tomorrow.
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          Scotts names new directors
          37 14 [SINGAPORE] Scotts Holdings has appointed Yin Kum Choy and Kim Seah Teck Kim as directors. Mr Kim is a lawyer while Mr Yin has served as senior manager in sn international accounting firm.
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          Lock icon Ayer Hitam to sell 20ha of land
          70 14 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Ayer Hitam Tin Dredging Malaysia Bhd plans to sell two pieces of land totalling 20ha for MJ60.5 million (Ss34 million). The land will be sokl to its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pembinaan AHT Sdn Bhd, which in turn will be sold to
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          New STIC directors appointed
          56 14 [SINGAPORE] Bertie Cheng and Boon Swan FOo have been appointed directors of Singapore Technologies Industrial Corporation. The company announced also that Goh Kim Leong has resigned as director. With his resignation, Mr Goh has also stepped doWn as chairman of the audit committee, a poet to
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          Auric Pac to sell TBC shares
          51 14 [SINGAPORE] The Auric Pacific Group has agreed to sell offooo,ooo shares, repreeenting 30 per cent of the equity stake of The Beverage Company of Asia (TBC), to Beacon Investments f0r160,000. TBC is a locally incorporated company engaged in beverage manufacturing and distribution activities in
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        Lock icon C&W to double Optus stake
        492 15 UKtaiecMicMap&iiy payiagßeOSMtk AsLoBbftrits24J>% stake in 2ni-largest Aussie ptaie firm Bloomberg [LONDON] Cable Wireless pic said it will buy Bell South Corp's 24.5 per cent holding in Australia's second-largest phone company, doubling the UK company's stake in a transaction worth about Asl.oB billion (5*1.16 billion). Cable
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        Lock icon No timetable yet
        58 15 [SYDNEY] No timetable has been setfor theflotation cf Optus Communications PtyLtcl, newly appointed chitf executive Peter Howell-Davies (above) said yesterday. Mr Howell-Davies, former executive of Britain's Cable and Wireless, Ufhkh plans to raise its stake t052-53per cent qfter the plannedflotation, said Optus was in talks with other
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        Lock icon Motorola to pull out of DRAM market
        407 15 Reuter, Bloomberg [AUSTIN, Texas] Motorola Inc said on Tuesday it will take a US$l7O million (***** million) pre-tax charge against second quarter earnings to phase out its limited participation in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market The charges relate to the write-down
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        Lock icon Nike's profit growth slows to 17% in Q4
        275 15 Reuter [SEATTLE] Nike said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter profits rose 17 per cent, reflecting a slowdown in growth that the sports footwear and apparel giant had announced in May to the disappointment of Wall Street Nike earned U*****.8 million (*****.6 million), or
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        Lock icon Sony planning direct sale of PCs to US consumers
        223 15 Bloomberg [SAN JOSE] Sony Corp plans to begin direct sale of personal computers in competition with PC makers such as Dell Computer Corp and Gateway 2000 Inc. a spokesman said. One year after it introduced its first PCs into the US,
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        Lock icon US regulators approve Boeing-McDonnell merger
        438 15 exclusive cf if uUi with other airlines a potential ceocern FT, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US regulators on Tuesday approved the US$l3.3 billion (Ssl9 billion) merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) nodded through the 10th largest US merger without conditions after concluding
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        Lock icon Seagate to buy firm for up to US$325m
        191 15 Bloomberg rSCOTTS VALLEY, California] Seagate Technology Inc has agreed to buy Quinta Corp, a developer of technology that boosts the performance of high-end computer disk drives, for as much as US$325 million (*****.8 mil Uon). The company said it would pay US$23O
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        Lock icon Apple shares hit 11-year low
        334 15 Bloomberg [CUPERTINO, California] Apple Computer Inc shares fell to their lowest in more than 11 years on Monday after the leading maker of Macintosh computer clones said it plans machines that use rival Microsoft software and Intel chips. Shares of Apple fell 1 1/16 to
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        Lock icon US banks' Q1 derivatives trading revenue up 28%
        378 16 Number of banks holding such contracts rises for first time in over a year Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Derivatives trading revenue at US banks climbed 28 per cent in the first quarter this year, as the number of commercial banks holding derivatives increased for
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        Lock icon ABN Amro to scale down tending to some firms
        312 16 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] ABN Amro Bank plans to cut back lending to North American customers who don't use the bank for a broad array of products and services part of an effort to ensure its corporate business remains profitable. The Netherlands' largest
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        Lock icon Indian state banks have over US$11b bad debts
        372 16 Central bank urging them to recover bad debts and increase their competitiveness AFP [NEW DELHI] India's 50-odd state-run banks have accumulated more than US$ll bUlion (5515.7 billion) in bad debts, the country's central bank said on Tuesday. The Reserve Bank of India
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        Lock icon Drumming out the grains of life
        39 16 [DHAKA] Bangladeshi women hitting bundles of paddy against a drum to separate grains at Savor, north of the capital Dhaka, yesterday. Bangladesh has produced an estimated2o.2s million tonnes of rice this year. REUTER
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        570 16 A prototype US bank branch abounds in innovative design, technology, service Bloomberg [STAMFORD, Connecticut] Want a car loan fast? Step into the Merlin Bank. Here you don't even have to meet a personal loan officer. You talk to one via television. Best
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        Lock icon JGB, Euroyen firm on steady rates
        248 16 SIMBX Report Reuter [SINGAPORE] The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) accommodative money operations lifted Simex Euroyen and Japanese government bond (JGB) futures yesterday as lingering fears of rate hikes faded. Dealers said BOJ's injection of about 100 billion yen (531.25 billion) in the morning which
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        Volume falls as Hongkongers stay away
        152 16  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES By Perry Gilbert Perry Gilbert, vice-president, Refco Singapore Pte Ltd [SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan Index futures saw subdued trading yesterday as the number of Hongkong traders was lower than normal. The discount to cash in July ranged between -9.5 and
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        Lock icon HK smuggling checks irk oil traders
        197 16 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [SINGAPORE] Oil traders said yesterday they feared heightened customs checks by the new authorities in Hongkong to prevent diesel smuggling into China could hamper their legitimate business. They said the freer flow of information on imports and exports between China and
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        281 16 Reuter LOM4I THE US dollar remained on an .uptrend against European currencies and stabilised against the yen. Dealers were waiting for the decisions by the Federal Reserve's monetary committee due to be announced late yesterday. The overwhelming majority of them expect steady US rates. They will be watching
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      COMMODITY PRICES
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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      1441 17 AFX-Asia □muss «am JAPANESE share prices rose on moderate bargain hunting to close 0.1 per cent higher yesterday after the key market index slipped below the psychologically important level of 20,000 points at one stage. The 225-share Nikkei Average finished 20.90 points higher at 20,196.42 while the Topix Index
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      695 18 AFP POwpritohlg -L4I SHARE prices eased yesterday as investors took profit and amid caution after the Thai baht was floated and immediately plunged. A dealer said the market appeared over-bought at the opening, causing some profittaking. There was caution about events in Thailand, but the consensus seemed to be
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      845 18 AFP n SET Mm +4L51 SHARE prices soared 7.9 per cent yesterday on foreign buying after the central bank abandoned a rigid dollarweighted exchange rate and allowed the baht currency to float. Analysts said the Bank of Thailand's move was a great relief to sentiment as it removed a
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      308 18 AFP £2 Manila -5M6 STOCKS fell yesterday as Thailand floated the baht and on underlying concerns over corporate earnings. "There have been expectations of lower second quarter earnings but the linchpin was the sudden devaluation of the Thai baht," said a trader. The Composite Index fell 50.65 points to
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      Lock icon SEOUL
      397 18 AFP nOwpwiteliiß *1121 SHARE prices soared 2.5 per cent yesterday with sentiment boosted by hopes of stronger exports. Dealers said institutions and foreigners bought blue chips and other large-cap stocks expected to benefit from recovering exports. The Composite Index rose 19.26 points at 777.29. Turnover was 52.2 million shares.
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      582 18 AFP HAnOrtoriM jjU STOCKS soared to a record close yesterday, surprising brokers by riding high on a combination of heavy buying and positive economic news. "No one expected it to be up by 25 points. There's speculation that when the market reopens in Hongkong there will be some overseas
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      Lock icon WELLINGTON
      241 18 Bloomberg U Wellington *130 STOCK prices rose yesterday, led by Fletcher Challenge's energy shares. The NZSE Top 40share Index rose 2.30 points to close at 2,493.16. Trading was valued at NZ$B2.B million. 1 *b rmm AMZMUitl 10.90 0.15 ***** AdvtnUQM HMfS LOT unch 21*00 A»NowZeM«rt(A) 3.15 »a01 *****8 Air
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      354 18 AFP □WPMei -33JM SHARE prices eased yesterday as investors reduced shareholdings of integrated circuit (IC) issues, brokers said. "Retailers followed institutional investors to dump overvalued IC plays, with most semiconductor shares slumping by the daily permitted limit of 7 per cent," said a trader. The Weighted Price Index fell
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        Lock icon Shares rise on continued local support
        451 19 AFX-Asia HCnpwttllfa +5J6 SHARE prices closed higher yesterday on continual interest in select blue chips and second liners by local funds and retail investors, with the baht's move into a managed float having no lasting impact. Dealers said investors largely discounted the effects of
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        Tongkah warrants looking better
        208 20  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan A WAVE of speculative activity on the Clob-traded front raised the prices and volumes of many Malaysian-listed warrants yesterday. But one warrant worth watching closely is that issued by Tongkah Holdings, a company controlled by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's son, Mokhzani.
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
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        HOT STOCK
        62 22  -  Ven Sreenivasan INSAS BHD, which had been sliding in the last jour months, edged up two ants to m certts jwi to. However, the technicals indicate that the stock will have a tough One trying to break above the $1M leoei. Although the deUfy RSltstn oversold territory, the
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        Clob counters dominate otherwise quiet market
        632 22  -  STOCK MAUHT OOWmMTABT start of trading proved to be short-lived as the market is hit bj jitters ever the floating of the Thai bah t By I Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Clob-traded Malaysian stocks dominated trade in what would otherwise have been another lacklustre session
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      235 23 Reuter Bridge News. LEVELS remained strong in the Atlantic and the east, but brokers are now questioning how long this (an be sustained with plenty of tonnage still available for the end of fuiy. Despite July opening S points up, the feeling in the Panamax market Is that
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      484 23  -  Five oil majors to form Hongkong Response Ltd by year-end By] Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Five major oil companies will be setting up an oil spill cooperative in Hongkong which will be operational by the end of the year. Hongkong Response Ltd
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      178 23 [SINGAPORE] Sembawang Maritime Limited (SML) has taken delivery of the sixth tug under its order for eight, and will exercise the option under the contract for three additional newbuildings. The latest tug, christened Sea Tiger, was built at a cost of $5 million at
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      Pause in box ship orders while tankers are back in demand
      722 23  -  MEWBUILDS By David Hughes SOMETHING of a pattern is beginning to emerge from recent newbuilding contracts. While there are still the occasional container ship orders, these are very few and far between; quite different from the situation of, say,
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      390 23  -  Aid package includes 5-year, 30% subsidy for domestic and export orders From Vivek Raghuvanshi in New Delhi [NEW DELHI] The Indian government has announced major concessions to boost the country's ailing shipbuilding industry. The aid package includes a five-year, 30 per cent subsidy to
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      478 23 Vessel estimated to be leaking 13,400 tonnes of erode oil Reuter [YOKOHAMA] A supertanker was ripped open by a shallow reef in Tokyo Bay yesterday leaking an estimated 13,400 tonnes of crude oil, a coastguard spokesman said, causing Japan's worst ever oil spill. "There
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      306 23 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Halim Mazmin Bhd expects two recently acquired container vessels to add more than Ms 34 million (5119.2 million) per year to its revenue over the next seven years. The two second-hand container ships are scheduled to be delivered this
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      Parties join forces to clean up
      1060 24  -  Oil. POLLUTION AT SEA: FIGHT GOES ON Response centres have been set up around the world with equipment and expertise to help in handling oil spills By\ Felix Chan ON March 24, 1989, a modern three-year-old tanker outward bound from the oil terminal at
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        198 37 Jbl3 Belarus: Republic Day. N4 Iran (tentative) death of Prophet Mohammad. United States: Independence Day. Zambia: Heroes Day. MS Czech Republic: St Cyril and Methodius Day. Slovakia St Cyril and Methodius Day. Venezuela: Independence Day. Zambia: Unity Day. Jal« Czech Republic: Jan Hus Day. Lithuania Crowning of Mindaugas.
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        829 37 THIS report, complied by Cockett Marine OU Ltd. shows price ranges In US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Price* shown are baaed on average sized stem. Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        420 38 New US air travellers group rates safety of 260 airlines Reuter [WASHINGTON] A new organisation representing air travellers has begun compiling safety ratings for airlines around the world and has failed 29 of them, its founder said on Tuesday. The Air Travelers Association issued
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        42 38 {MEXICO CITY] Passengers are stranded in Mexico City's international airport after all theflights were cancelled because of the clouds of ash spewingfrom the towering Popocatepetl volcano. Popocatepetl has spewed out ash and steam many times this year. REUTER
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        Ekran completes Langkawi airport runway extension
        293 38 (KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian construction giant Ekran Bhd has completed a Ms3ls million (126 million) extension project on the Langkawi International Airport's runway, officials said. "The runway extension project to enable Boeing 747-400 aircraft to land will be handed over to the government on Saturday,"
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        Lock icon Saab's US car sales up 15% in June
        89 38 Bloomberg [STOCKHOLM] Saab Automobile AB, an unprofitable Swedish carmaker jointly owned by General Motors Corp and Investor AB of Sweden, said it sold 3,761 cars in the US in June, 15 per cent more than a year earlier. In the first six
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        Lock icon 70,000 Indians died in road accidents last year
        206 38 AFP (NEW DELHI] More than 70,000 Indians have died in the "anarchy" of the country's roads in the past year, the highest road death toll in the world, a research institute announced. About two-thirds of the victims were pedestrians, cyclists and "non-motorised
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        Lock icon UK Trades Union Congress holding talks with BA unions
        295 38 Reuter [LONDON] The UK Trades Union Congress (TUC) said its general secretary, John Monks, had invited representatives of British Airways pic unions to meet him to discuss the current disputes with the airline and consider support for them. BA faces strike
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        Lock icon Garuda slashes 4,000 jobs; prepares for public listing
        242 38 Another Indon carrier, Merpati, cancels 80 routes AFP (JAKARTA! Indonesian national airline Garuda Indonesia plans to slash its workforce by 4,000 workers in preparation for a public listing, newspapers reported yesterday. State-owned Merpati Nusantara Airlines, meanwhile, has cancelled 80 of its routes
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        Lloyd's forms separate entity for aviation business
        213 38  -  By' Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] Giant insurance corporation Lloyd's of London has set up a dedicated business unit for its aviation business. The organisation announced that it has decided to make its aviation arm, Lloyd's Aviation, a separate entity within the corporation from
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          Lock icon Qantas wins Queensland govt deal
          51 38 Reuter (SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd said it had won a two-year contract valued at A$l(L5 million (5117.6 million) for air 1 travel and related business from the state government of Queensland. The airline said the contract would begin in September and involved four state departments.
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          Lock icon China cuts airfares for foreigners
          91 38 AFX-Asia [SHANGHAI] China reduced domestic airfares for ||j foreigners effective on Tuesday in a bid to unify its existing two-tier domestic airfare structure, an official of the Civil Aviatkm Administration of China said. At present, foreigners flying within China are charged a ';g higher fare
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          Lock icon Canberra picks 3 bidders for aircraft deal
          80 38 Bloomberg (CANBERRA] Australia's Defence Department said yesterday it has chosen three companies to submit bids to supply new light transport aircraft The bidders are the M government-owned Indonesian manufacturer IPTN, Casa of Spain, and Lockheed Martin Corp. "The new aircraft will maintain the
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