The Business Times, 28 July 1997

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    12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023^12/96 SINGAPORE Internet' http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes MONDAY, JULY 28,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon Sharp falls in HDB resale deals in May and June
    469 1  -  Market watchers say Info-Tools' data indicate npgraders have been deterred by new govt rules By. Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Resale transactions for most types of HDB flats have been hard hit by the government moves in April and May to tighten
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    Lock icon Business as usual
    46 1 [SHANGHAI] It was business as usual at the Yaohan department store here on Saturday as Japan's Yaohan group gets set to hand over control of the Shanghai store to its Chinese partner by selling down its stake. Full report on Pg 21 AFP
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    Forex fears cut deep into Japan's foreign securities purchases
    467 1  -  From Neil Behrmann in London JAPANESE purchases of US and European bonds and equities have slowed down considerably in the past month because of worries about currency losses, say dealers and analysts. Pension funds and institutions were major buyers of securities,
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    Lock icon Simon Cheong's cool $15m fee
    647 1  -  Real estate broker gets fat commission for $359 m sale ofTheForam By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Real estate broker Simon Cheong will receive a cool $15 million in commission for the $359 million sale of The Forum, or four times more than the standard one per
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      128 1 Wk—m W¥ tlflfci nthfT Ttenple Street, a baaar of musicians, seers, hawkars and prostitutes, helped to inspire a symphony marking the trwMftr at the former British colony to Chfawee S47b Singapore's export of services hit $47 billion last jw,nn lulWhile confident of the future, Microsoft executives talk down tot-growth prospects
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      26 1 On the currency a Bank Nagara shift* focus to interest rates a Malaysia gets repaid in own coin, say analysts Soros: financier with a killer combination
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Singapore services exports hit $47b
      496 2  -  1996 figure accounts for 54 per cent of non-oil tenestic exports Tan Su Yen SINGAPORE'S export of services hits 47 billion last year to account for 54 per cent of nonoil domestic exports. Figures from the Trade Development Board show that Singapore's services exports grew
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      Lock icon Steady flow of S'pore students to Australia
      428 2  -  Pantine Hanson's views seem not to have pot off students By] Louis Beckerling DATA on student visas released to BT by the Australian High Commission show that 4,468 visas were issued to Singapore students to study in Australia over the 12-month period ended
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      Lock icon Progress payment growth slows
      310 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Construction By] Diana Oon AFTER a surge in March, progress payments in the construction industry slowed in April and May, according to preliminary figures from the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB). A total of $1.32 billion and $1.28 billion in progress payments
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      Sing Tel cuts rates for firms' networks
      163 2 SINGAPORE Telecom has slashed its rates for companies' private voice, fax and data communications networks to 16 countries. The cuts apply to SingTel's Corporate Switched Telecommunication Network and World Source Virtual Network Service. Both services allow companies to have international private networks for
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      EXECUTIVE MOVES
      316 2 Paul Heng: has been appointed managing director of Q3 Associates (S) Pte Ltd. Mr Heng will be responsible for new business development as well as the management of existing businesses and local operations. In addition, he will also be providing support to clients in the region. Mr Heng
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      116 2 J Enjoy 6ne Cantonese cuisine in the most elegant surroundings Only at the Hua Yuen Chinese Restaurant At Hua Yuen Chinese Restaurant, you'll enjoy a full range of fine Cantonese food, at mouth-watering prices. Set menus start at $29* per person, lust choose one of our exclusive dining rooms with
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  • REGIONAL CURRENCY TURMOIL
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      Lock icon Bank Negara shifts focus from currency to interest rates
      599 3 KUALA LUMPUR Analysts say this will ensure growth, woo investors to projects and the stockmarket Reuter AFTER a brief but intense effort to shore up the ringgit, Malaysia is now focusing on keeping domestic interest rates stable to achieve its primary
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      Lock icon M'sia gets repaid in own coin: analysts
      445 3 KUALALUMPUR Reuter PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad blames "rogue speculators" for the recent attack on South-east Asian currencies, exactly the words some in the West had used to describe Bank Negara, Malaysia's central bank, not so long ago. Dr Mahathir, in a speech to
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      Lock icon George Soros: financier with a killer combination
      457 3 PARIS Self-styled defender of democracy has huge financial clout AFP GEORGE Soros has two qualities which make him a nightmare for certain governments: he has pretensions of being a one-man defender of democracy and has the financial clout of a small country. That
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      Lock icon Coup no answer to Thai woes: military
      248 3 BANGKOK Reuter THAILAND'S top military officials yesterday dismissed speculation about a possible coup and repeated pledges the military would not resort to force to resolve political and economic problems. Rumours have spread during the past few weeks that the military was unhappy with
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon ARF endorses Asean move to mediate in Cambodia crisis
      783 4  -  ASHAX REGIONAL FORUM Australia, US, EU and China among those vokang support for groupings initiative Reports byl Ronnie Lim in Kuala Lumpur THE Asean Regional Forum (ARF), which includes the major powers like the US, EU and China, has thrown its
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      Lock icon Megawati supporters march on anniversary of office raid
      299 4 JAKARTA Reuter FOLLOWERS of ousted Indonesian minority party leader Megawati Sukarnoputri marched through the capital Jakarta yesterday, defying a ban on marking the first anniversary of a police-backed raid on their offices. In the morning, about 500 supporters of Ms Megawati congregated
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      Myanmar's slow political reforms attacked at ARF
      466 4 But meeting feels Asean's constructive engagement may help MYANMAR's snail's-pace political reforms came under hot attack at the Asean Regional Forum here, although the meeting recognised that Asean's "constructive engagement" policy can be used to help bring change in the new Asean member
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      S'pore proposes ARF consider holding heads of state summit
      307 4 SINGAPORE proposed at the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) meeting here that the grouping consider holding a summit of heads of state, ARF chairman and Malaysian Foreign Minister Abdullah Badawi said yesterday. Confirming that Singapore's Foreign Minister S Jayakumar had made the
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      Lock icon Australia, Malaysia to upgrade ties
      181 4 KUALA LUMPUR AFP AUSTRALIAN Foreign Minister Alexander Downer announced yesterday four joint initiatives with Malaysia to upgrade ties which have been periodically marred by bilateral disputes. Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of regional security talks, Mr Downer said he and Malaysian Foreign
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  • HONGKONG-CHINA
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      Xinhua set for more purchases abroad
      428 5  -  HONGKONG mrffifim acquisition of stake in OCT Telecom marks news agency's first foray into HK bourse By' Quak Hiang Whai XINHUA News Agency, for years China's mouthpiece in Hongkong, is now scouting for more business opportunities to expand its commercial profile outside mainland China.
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      Lock icon 40b yuan hydro power plant for Sichuan
      156 5 BEIJING Reuter CHINA will start work next year on a 40 billion yuan (S|7 billion) hydro-electric power plant in the south-western province of Sichuan, the Xinhua news agency said. The Xiluodu project on the upper reaches of the Jinsha River would have an
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Yuan safe from currency crisis
      427 6 BEIJING But China's exports may be at risk as S-B Asian countries reduce demand for itsprodncts Reuter SOUTH-EAST Asia's currency crisis will have little effect on China's yuan but is seen hitting Chinese exports, an official newspaper said yesterday. China's huge foreign exchange reserves, which
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      Lock icon Bejjing may resume talks with Taiwan next year: study
      220 6 TAIPEI ItprwUctsMftor policy after Bering leafarscmsolidate AFP CHINA may return to the negotiation table with arch-rival Taiwan early next year, according to a Taiwanese government funded study based on interviews with Chinese officials. "The two sides are likely to resume dialogues
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      Lock icon A cooler ride
      40 6 [BEIJING] A Chinese man goes topless riding a bus in the heat of midday traffic in Beijing during the weekend. The worst heatwave in 50 years continues in the Chinese capital with temperatures reaching 40 degC. AFP
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      Lock icon Western firms to gain from China's military modernisation
      241 6 BEIJING Reuter CHINA'S drive to modernise its air force and navy will create huge opportunities for Western machine tool makers as the military seeks advanced technology from abroad, an official newspaper said yesterday. Big projects to produce advanced fighter aircraft and modem
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        Lock icon HK firms invest US$587m in Suzhou zone
        86 6 Reuter [SHANGHAI] Some 96 Hongkong companies have invested US$5B7 million (S9BS7 million) in the Suzhou New Area, a high-tech development zone in Jiangsu province, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. About 38 per cent of the overseas enterprises and 29 per cent
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        Lock icon Taxmen to auction Japanese golf course
        62 6 AFP [BEIJING] A Japanese-owned golf course in the Shenzhen economic zone is to be auctioned off to cover unpaid taxes in the "most serious" government action against a foreign company, Xinhua said on Saturday. Japan's Honichi Golf Entertainment Co flailed to pay back taxes
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        Lock icon Beijing to buy grains at guaranteed price
        71 6 AFP [BEIJING] The Chinese government will purchase any surplus cereal grains from farmers at a guaranteed price as part of efforts to encourage growth in the sector, reports said yesterday. As part of efforts to break the "undesirable circle" of plunging prices after
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      Lock icon China economists urge state sector reform
      251 6 BEIJING Reuter SENIOR Chinese economists have urged the government to end the dominance of the state-owned sector in favour of efficiency and profits. Economists and analysts say that finding the courage to push ahead with reforms of the state sector will almost certainly be
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      285 6 i:i FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS I ARAB-MALAYSIAN CORPORATION BERHAD I (Company No. 1166-T) I Year Ended 31 March 1997 Unaudited Consolidated Results I I 1997 1996 I In Million In Million Change fl RM US$ RM US$ I Profit Before Taxation 503 201 322 129 +56.2 I Profit After Taxation and I
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      135 6 ■Exhibition Opens o morrow! iference geared to Singapore's high-tech manufacturing industry! Combined exhibition space of 1200 sq. meters 110 exhibiting companies A conference program designed to meet the educational needs of South-East Asia's contamination control and disk drive industries. Top industry Representation in Exhibit Hall: Over 1200 square meters of
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon S Korean govt won't intervene in business failures, says minister
      422 7 SEOUL Rating out imminent financial crisis, he says WTO roles ban aid to private firms AFP SOUTH Korea's Economy Minister Kang Kyong Shik yesterday reaffirmed a hands-off policy over business failures, despite fears of a financial crisis after the near
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      Lock icon Profitability of Japanese manufacturers up: survey
      160 7 TOKYO AFP EARNING positions of major Japanese manufacturers improved significantly in the year to March 1997, aided by streamlining efforts, the NU hon Keizai Shim bun said in a survey published yesterday. The combined ratio of pretax profit to sales, a key indicator for
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      Politics and crime: the line blurs again
      589 7  -  LHTTEKraOM iMHtoag xmtomm&A titanwm loads a political parly By Yogi Aggarwal THE dividing line between politics and crime has never been very sharp in Bombay even at the best of times. Now it is increasingly becoming blurred. Nothing illustrates this better than the
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      Lock icon Aboriginal Art comes to Sydney
      71 7 [SYDNEY] Aboriginal artist Djambu Barra Barra (right) talking to fellow artist Munduwalawala (also known as Ginger Riley) about one cfhis paintings at a Sydney gallery on Friday. Both artists are from Australia's Cape York in the Northern Territory, and have never before exhibited in Sydney.
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      1134 8 SlidwestLß I Slidwestdeutsche Landesbank I I (Incorporated in Germany) I I CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET As of 31 December 1996 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME For the Period January December 1996 I 06C.31.1995 I DM DM DM DM thousand '99S I Amu DM DM DM DM thousand I 21.696.524.01 22.128 martce. transacbons
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon Tension in China-Japan economic ties
      1017 9  -  Apart from highly publicised political strain, Hashimoto's visit to China in August will come amid falling Japanese direct investment Anthony Rowley [TOKYO] JAPANESE Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto will make an official visit to China early next month, at a time when diplomatic relations between the
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon White House and GOP hit impasse over taxes
      510 10 WASHINGTON Bit bath aides feel final compromise within reach in balanced budget deal LAT-WP WHITE HOUSE and GOP leaders inched towards a final balanced budget agreement over the weekend under tight security at the Capitol, but the two sides remained stymied by
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      Lock icon Flood trouble worsens in Germany
      270 10 FRANKFURT AN DER ODER Village fbtM as dike bursts; waters recede in parts of Poland Reuter A THIRD dike reinforcing the Oder river between Germany and Poland burst early yesterday, flooding a German village and forcing the evacuation of 67 people, local officials said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Union and business leaders want UK to talk down the pound
      275 10 ■LONDON British exporters face major problems as sterling soars Reuter TRADE union and business leaders urged Finance Minister Gordon Brown yesterday to "talk down the pound" by voicing support for Britain Joining a European single currency. British holidaymakers abroad
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      Lock icon Waigel wants to reduce Bonn's EU contribution
      235 10 BONN AFP GERMAN Finance Minister Theo Waigel warned yesterday that Bonn's contribution to the European Union must be cut, or it would block new arrangements for structural funding of the EU. Quoted in the mass circulation BUd, Mr Waigel said reducing Germany's contribution
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Lock icon Microsoft previews new software
      734 11  -  Company execs talk down fast-growth prospects for the ceming year Prom Kenneth James in Seattle WHERE do you want to go today? Put the question, now well-known as Microsoft Corp's premier marketing slogan, to the software giant itself and the answer is surprising, coming from one
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      ITS sees greatest growth in Asia
      382 11  -  By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Asia is the region that will generate the most revenue for Europebased network integration firm ITS this year, its president Jean-Yves Charlier told BusinesslT. "Asia is becoming for us our largest region by revenue by the end of this
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      IBM to spend US$25m on R&D in India
      244 11  -  Big Bine will also extend USslom in university grants By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] IBM will invest USS2S million (5536.7 million) in India to set up a Solutions Research Centre (SRC) and spend another US$lO million ($l4 million) in grants to support independent
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      Lock icon Iomega faces lawsuit over disk-drive claims
      258 11 Bloomberg [WILMINGTON, Delaware) lomega Corp is facing a consum-er-fraud lawsuit over the performance of some of its computer disk drives and a lack of technical support for the products. The suit contends that lomega's Zip, Jaz and Ditto drives are difficult to install in
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      Lock icon Reuter to unveil information database
      527 12  -  Called RBB, it premiaeatobe the answer to information overload Bi Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] Are your executives snowed under by those magazines, wire reports, and the assorted must-read stories about your competitors that keep overflowing out of the intrays at the office? Fear not, say the
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      Net search using Asian language developed
      343 12  -  By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] The Republic's Information Technology Institute (ITI) and US IT firm Digital have jointly developed Asian language search engines. Thanks to technology from research institute ITI, Digital's Internet search engine Alta Vista will have Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages, ITI
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    • IT TAKES
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      Singapore-UK tie-up to sell music on the Net
      226 12  -  By i Chee Jann Perng [SINGAPORE] Home-grown Audio Music Group has tied up with British on-line music retailer Cerberus to offer customers an option to buy songs and music on Singapore ONE and on the Internet. Buyers can log on and download
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      Lock icon The rising role of the CIO
      1651 13  -  Biggest challenge facing chief information officers here is the manpower shortage By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] A RE chief information officers (CIOs), now a standard feature in most large enterprises, required to do more than manage the IT function in their companies? What role does
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      Get off the PC upgrade chipmunk wheel
      507 13  -  By Muthu Nedumaran The author is the technical marketing manager, SunSoft Asia South MANY companies feel that they cannot keep proliferating desktop PCs while keeping costs down. Nor do many of them believe that the upgrade roller-coaster makes their organisations more productive. The
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      New IBM dictation software
      276 14  -  6ne product will retail at $200 while the ether, at $390 Vy- Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] IBM last week announced two dictation software products that enable users to talk to their personal computers and have the PC read text back to them. Scheduled to hit retail Shelves
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      MCSB launches HR software
      224 14  -  By Divya Seshamani [SINGAPORE] Software development firm MCSB Singapore last week unveiled a revised version of its human resource management systems package designed for the Asia-Pacific region. This new version of its Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) is aimed at medium to large organisations. The application
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      Ethernet, switching tech on the rise
      412 14  -  Their gain is ATM's and rooters'loss US research firm By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Ethernet is doing well at the expense of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and FDDI, and switching technology is gaining at the expense of routers. These were among the major trends
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    • ON THE SHELF
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        Aussie firm to offer forwarding software
        73 14 ANEW, integrated operational sotattnn for the ibr warding industry will be launched early next month by Australia-based Eagte Developments International. CaHed Deliverance, it is targeted at the air and sea freight industry and can track orders, bookings, exports, imports, transhipments and accounts, and is
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        ALR's Optima2 workstation hits market
        47 14 ALR International has announced a high-end workstation. Optimal running on Pentium II and targeted at corporate 4 uaerswltta graphics-intensive applications. ALR said til* systems are manufactured in Singapore and would retrf ftom $3,106 and would be available here from ALR*sftv» local distributors.
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        Inchape's DentalAid available now
        62 14 INCHCAPE Healthcare's dental division said Dental Aids, a new dental practice managanent solution, is now available in Singapore. The package is developed by US-based Strategic Informatics Resources Corp and wiß J retail in two versions. Inchcape said it will coot with intra-oral camera and X-Rayimsgs storage
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        IBM launches wide-screen ThinkPad
        52 14  -  -Ou—flirt w Raju Chellam IBM has announced the immediate availability of to new TFT wideecreen notebook, ThinkPad *W6D. Running on an MMX-enalried IMMHs Pentium, with 83MB RAM, 3GB hard disk, 8-speed CD-ROM, TheatreSoimd media proceeeor and three-year warranty, the system will retail at around tMW, IBM
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      Lock icon Apple launches Mac OS 8 to boost sales
      243 15 Bloomberg [CUPERTINO, California] Apple Computer Inc has launched the latest version of its Macintosh operating system, which it is counting on to help keep its current customers loyal and boost revenue while it finishes developing an all-new operating system that's due out
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      Portable projector boom soon
      371 15  -  WerMwide sales expected to hit US$Z2b this year By] Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Sales of portable projectors, almost dormant two years ago, are set to boom this year, according to market indications. There are now a handful of companies, mainly Japanese, offering a variety of models for
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      Talking on the Net, literally
      148 15 [SINGAPORE] Singaporeans will be able to browse a Web site on the Internet and speak to an agent of that site's company simultaneously on a single phone line next year. This will be thanks to an Internet call centre which Lucent Technologies will introduce to
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      Lock icon Dell to launch maiden line of desktops today
      452 15 Mmpftsftagrinst market leaders Compaq, HP and Sim Bloomberg [ROUND ROCK, Texas] Dell Computer Corp is scheduled to unveil its first line of desktop workstations today, pushing further into markets dominated by Compaq Computer Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc. The personal
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Where HK souls gather
      459 16  -  But some fear Temple Street will fall victim to modernisation, says jambs plammbet JAMES FLANNERY Reuter AS CHINESE opera singers wail in high-pitched falsetto, the fortune-tellers of Hongkong's Temple Street night market whisper prophecies to clients: "Don't be too tense. Wait for a while, see how
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      515 16 52 years after it was burnt down, the Adlon re-welcomes the rich and famous Reuter [BERLIN] Albert Einstein looks down from the first floor landing of the Hotel Adlon while guests sip tea and coffee around a fountain in the lobby below. The
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      Malaysia's first E5O list a showcase of diversity
      364 18  -  Top SMEs adopt latest technology, venture abroad, have bold leaders, writes taxsuyzzm TA SU YEN PROM car parts supplier Autokorsia Sdn Bhd to direct selling lingerie company Caelygirl Malaysia's inaugural Enterprise 50 list showcased the diversity of the Malaysian economy. E5O Malaysia
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      90% of Takaso's revenue from exports
      284 18  -  By' Tan Su Yen TAKASO Rubber Products, ranked No 8 in Malaysia's Enterprise 50 list, may be based in Muar, Johor, but the average working day sees Takaso managing director Francis Tee cutting deals anywhere from Moscow to Buenos Aires. Takaso manufactures baby products,
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      Autokorsia chief has big plans for his firm
      829 18  -  Abdnl Razak eyes the Indian nr ft* first step of his firm's regional strategy By' Tan Su Yen ABDUL Razak Harun, managing director of Autokorsia Sdn Bhd, the No 1 company on Malaysia's Enterprise 50 list, is a classic example of a
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      Allgreen IPO looks set to make impact
      436 19  -  With $2.4b assets, it will be biggest SingS listing in recent years By: Diana Oon [SINGAPORE] Allgreen Properties' impending listing looks set to be the biggest local-dol-lar debut on the market in the last few years in terms of asset base. Its latest
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      Kuok reveals his success formula
      277 19 [SINGAPORE] Robert Kuok, hailed by Forbes magazine as the world's shrewdest businessman, is always looking for people smarter than himself to go into joint ventures. "If there are smarter people stronger, better horses running then why aren't you putting some of your money on them
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      Will minority Ekran holders give Ting the nod?
      700 19  -  ■anRHATIBU Latest fund-raising bid hinges on outcome of talks with By Eddie Toh POOR Ting Pek Khiing. the developer of the M 515.5 billion (SsB.6 billion) Bakun dam in Sarawak. The executive chairman of Ekran Bhd, project manager of the national project,
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        Lock icon Ekran to buy stakes in PWE, Granite from Ting
        434 20 The move is meant to consolidate its role as Bakon project's leading company Bloomberg Reuter Bernama {KUALA LUMPUR] Ekran Bhd said it's buying stakes in PWE Industries and Granite Industries from Ekran's executive chairman Ting Pek Khiing to consolidate its role
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        Uniphoenix: Soh Chee Wen makes offer
        131 20 [KUALA LUMPUR] Soh Chee Wen is making a general offer at M 15.02 a share to buy the shares he does not already own in Uniphoenix Corporation Bhd (UCB), the Star said on Saturday. The offer is mandatory under the Malaysian Code on Takeovers
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        Lock icon Pacific Bank, Great Eastern talks off
        60 20 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The Pacific Bank Bhd said on Friday that it had discontinued negotiations to buy an equity stake in the Malaysian operations of Singapore-based Great Eastern Life Assurance Co Ltd. Pacific Bank said in practical terms, its activities and performance would not
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        Lock icon Featherweight?
        31 21 [TOKYO] An employee of Japan's NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc showing a newly-released cellular phone last Friday. The company claims the telephone, weighing 83 g, is the world's lightest. AFP
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        Lock icon San Miguel hits back at rival after bottle raid
        295 21 Asia Brewery turned down offer to retnrn bottles San Miguel Bloomberg [MANILA] San Miguel Corp said rival Asia Brewery Inc rejected its offer to return some bottles and crates the country's largest food and drinks company collected by mistake. The two
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        Lock icon HK's 'Wild West' stock market
        114 21 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Hongkong's chief regulator Anthony Neoh said the territory's stock market is in danger of becoming the "Wild West of the East" because of recent speculative trading in red chips. Trading in these Chinese investment companies has ballooned since the beginning of the year,
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        Lock icon Yaohan to sell 15% stake in Shanghai store
        202 21 AFP [TOKYO] The Yaohan group, a Shanghai-based Japanese retailer, will hand over the control of a Shanghai department store to its Chinese partner by selling a partial stake, a daily reported on Saturday. The Yaohan group is negotiating to sell 15 per
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        Lock icon Taiwan telecom firm seeks 20% stake swap with foreign operators
        368 21 Report says firm contacted Sing Tel, HE Telecom over proposed deal AFP AFX-Asia Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwan's state-fund-ed Chunghwa Telecom Co plans to swap up to 20 per cent of its stake with foreign telecommunications firms as part of government privatisation
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        Lock icon Meralco Q2 net up 5.1% to 1.43b pesos
        224 21 Bloomberg [MANILA] Manila Electric Co (Meralco)said second-quarter profit rose 5.1 per cent as a wage hike and the decision by more factories to generate their own power eroded earnings. The Philippines' largest power distributor said its net income climbed to 1.43 billion
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        Lock icon Philips to cut stake in Taiwan firm: papers
        141 21 Reuter [AMSTERDAM] Philips Electronics NV is selling off a small portion of its 34 per cent stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Dutch newspapers reported on Saturday. Philips informed the Taiwanese government on Friday of its intention to sell some 100
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        Lock icon Intel to cut chip prices by up to 52%
        486 22 Price cut to cement its position as the dominant chipmaker Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] Intel Corporation will cut prices on some of its older Pentium microprocessors as much as 52 per cent and almost 50 per cent on some of its
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        456 22 Companies complain rale limits movement to another bonne Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The Securities and Exchange Commis- sion pressured the New York Stock Exchange to review a rule that makes it almost impossible for a company listed on the Big Board to move
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        Lock icon LVMH seeks £lb payment in drinks merger deal
        276 22 FT [LONDON] Bernard Arnault, chairman of the French drinks group LVMH, sought a £1 billion (552.4 billion) "indemnification" payment from Guinness and Grand Metropolitan, the UK drinks groups planning a £24 billion merger, in connection with an alternative proposal he put to
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        Lock icon Speculation depressing tin price: KL industry official
        441 23 Metal's price also hit by speculative selling of ringgit against US dollar in recent days Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The price of tin, given its fundamentals, should be above MslB per kg but this is not the case as the metal has come under
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        Lock icon Greenback seen on a rising curve
        597 23 Traders cite robust US economy, fears of weak euro and slow recovery in Japan Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The US dollar is poised to continue its rise against the deutschemark and yen, as reports show economic strength in the US and that Japan's economy isn't
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        Lock icon Credit Lyonnais sells stake in Italian bank
        226 23 Bloomberg [PARIS] Credit Lyonnais SA, the French state-controUed bank, said it signed an agreement to sell its majority stake in Credito Bergamasco SpA, an Italian bank, to Banca Popolare di Verona SpA, another bank in Italy, for 1.24 trillion lire (***** million). The
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        521 23 Reuter [FRANKFURT] Twenty banks controlling the lion's share of global foreign exchange transactions plan to set up a clearing bank before the end of the decade in a bid to eliminate settlement risks, Deutsche Bank said. The so-called "Group of Twenty", or G-20,
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        Lock icon Bundesbank rate rise unlikely
        507 24  -  mi—m Weeklyßoundup Bank needs to consider moving to variable rate repo or intervening in forex market instead Callum Henderson MMS International [SINGAPORE] In terms of monetary poUcy, the Bundesbank has done aU it possibly could have done to boost the economy without raising the inflation threat
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        890 24 I7ftliflf ftnprv Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Cocoa and coffee were off the menu for speculators, who gorged themselves on sweet white crystal, driving up the price of sugar cane and sugar beet to a ninemonth high in a buying frenzy which
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        EXPLANATION OF TERMS
        260 25  -  Source: Analysed by Johan Tellvik a director of Bridge Intl Broking E-malL JtellvikQbridge.com RSI measures the rate at which prices move. As a rule, an RSI above 80 indicates an overbought condition while RSI below 20 indicates an oversold market. RSI is more effective in detecting divergences
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        Market outlook
        225 25 SES Market activity should remain slow this week with few corporate results expected and most investors remaining on the sidelines. The Singapore market rallied as a result of the stronger-than-expected June non-oil domestic export numbers. As noted before, overall the market needs a strong liquidity boost to reverse
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        137 25 Ruv on weakness Thakral offers an interesting story as one of the premier retail distributors in China benefiting from a surging economy. Earlier in the year, the company surprised the market with an 18 per cent growth in net profit to $67.15 million for FY97. There may be further
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        Lock icon Creative Tech
        127 25 Accumulate Creative Technology has outperformed the STH by 140 per cent since the beginning of the year. Creative Technology's corporate mission is to reacquire market share in the sound chip arena. As noted earlier in this column. Creative is one of the premier high tech companies in Singapore.
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
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        Lock icon Another week of records as Dow breaches 8,000
        501 26 NEW YORK New highs helped by Greenspan's comments, good corporate results AFP WALL Street hit new highs last week after Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said the Fed was in no hurry to hike its leading interest rates and that inflation was
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        Lock icon Jolts ahead for Hongkong market, say analysts
        382 26 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG may be tame compared with the whiteknuckle rides elsewhere in the region, but local stocks were relatively unsettled last week and analysts predict there could be one or two jolts in the coming fortnight. The Hang Seng Index ended the
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        ASIAN MARKETS Roundup
        879 26 Q Sydney +7J THE Australian bourse will be left to twiddle its thumbs over the coming week, brokers said on Friday, as investors awaited a central bank meeting widely expected to produce an interest rate cut. The Australian Stock Exchange's benchmark All Ordinaries Index finished at 2,681.2
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        WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        1398 26 f|Pirii *&2% FRENCH stocks are poised to extend records as the US dollar's strength raises prospects for improved earnings at French multi-nationals. Oil companies Elf Aquitaine SA and Total SA could be among the big gainers. On Friday, France's benchmark CAC-40 Index rose 52.41 points, or 1.8
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        Lock icon Footsie down on rate hike fears, pound rise
        477 26 LONDON AFP LONDON shares cast off their traditional links with Wall Street last week and were swathed in concern surrounding an imminent hike in British interest rates and the strength of the pound, which has hit key exporting companies. The FTSE-100 Index
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        Lock icon Nikkei seen drifting sideways in tight range
        247 26 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE share prices are likely to move narrowly in the coming week after blue chips here tracked steady gains on Wall Street throughout a holi-day-shortened week, brokers said. 'To push up the whole market, we may need fresh incentives such as
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        Lock icon Malaysian market set to consolidate
        389 27 AFP *31.71 THE Malaysian stock market is likely to continue to be affected by profit-taking in the early part of the week but is generally expected to consolidate Later, analysts said. "Profit-taking will spill over to this week. But It will consolidate and remain mixed
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        Worth keeping eye on Acma wrt
        218 28  -  WARRANT WATCH By\ R Sivanithy ONE "electronic" counter that hasn't been played at all in the rally last week is Acma, which strictly speaking, is more a telecommunications firm than a pure electronics play. Still, it does derive part of its revenue from the
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        73 30  -  -fcf Shiv Taneja SESDAQ-LISTED Serial System closed last Friday at its year's high of 88 cents, up nine cents on a volume of 6.14 million shares, compared with its 10day traded average of just under one million shares. Daily and weekly RSI and stochastics are well past 75,
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        419 30 Source: Deutsche Morgan Grentell Research Stocks VotaM Asia FoodiProp 65,948,000 Tianjin Zhoog 56,430.000 Aztech 5c 29,491.000 Popular 10c 27,019,000 *MBf Capital 24.811.000 •Westmont Land 22,992,000 Asiamatrix 50c 22,632,000 Keppei Corp 22.517,000 •Renong Btvd 50c 19,878,000 fail Tech 20c 17,764,000 Stacks Keppei Corp 146,787,304 OCBC Foreign 132,282,881 DBS Foreign 126.992,105 UOB
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        Momentum is the name of the game this week
        675 30  -  the week ahead Stock momentum suggests a continued rally but forex speculators threaten to pull the market in the opposite direction By R Sivanithy IT'S tempting to forecast, like most brokers did at the end of last week, that the recent
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      197 31 Simpson Spence Young there are some $lgns of slower momentum the sale and purchase jnarket, there are still a gmmber of sales to report— in particular, the dry bulk market, where strong Competition has achieved firmer than expffcted prices, in spite of the market showing a traditional summer
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      595 31  -  Bigger and faster vessels to be delivered in 2000 and 2001 will cost over USs7oom From' Yong Mei Fong in Papenburg, Germany ASIA'S largest cruise operator Star Cruises will be placing a multi-million dollar order for two new mega-sized luxury liners of at
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      681 31  -  XiZMER SCENE By David Hughes SO MAJOR South Korean carrier Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has effectively joined the Global Alliance. True HMM formally kept some distance between itself and the consortium but, operationally in the transpacific and Asia-Europe
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      47 31 [ISTANBUL] Tugboats towing a large floating dock as they head towards the Turkish harbour of Istanbul here. The dock, built of reinforced cement, 350 metres long, 80 metres wide and weighs 100,000 tonnes. The dock was bought by a Turkish shipping magnate. AFP
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      317 31 Journal of Commerce [WASHINGTON] Federal officials are receiving sharply divided outside advice on the benefits of clearing Singaporebased Neptune Orient Lines' US$B25 million (Ssl.2 billion) acquisition of US-flag carrier APL Ltd. Senior California lawmakers have urged the Transportation Department's Maritime Administration
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      IMO warns owners to get ISM accreditation on time
      503 31  -  Mo provisions for deferment of Code, which comes into force next July 1 Fmn Jerzy Farynski in Sydney SHIPOWNERS who have not gone through the auditing process required and have failed to gain International Safety Management (ISM) accreditation could find themselves
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      Sea Empress case: UK files charges
      189 31 (SINGAPORE] The British government has begun criminal prosecutions following last year's grounding of the Sea Empress oil tanker off South Waka>' Its Environment Agency has served summonses on Milford Haven Port Authority and Mark Andrews, harbour master of Milfbrd Haven Port. 1 The agency,
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      224 31 Reuter [BRUSSELS] The European Commission is unlikely to rule before September on the planned merger between British ferry giant Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co pic and Stena Line, European Union sources said. Talks are continuing between the parties but one
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      1027 32 ■QUI Mii-Tfl ff pQMMTiT.T. MERGER: GREEN LIGHT FROM EU Boeing bows to demands of European antitrust regulators to win approval of merger The New York Times Boeing may rule the skies as the world's dominant commercial aircraft manufacturer, but it humbly gave in to the demands
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        720 47 THIS report. compiled by Cockett Marine CHI Lid, show* prtcs rsngsi In US dollars Instead of prion fcr a more conipt ihwislve deecrlptkm of the market Prlcee ahown are baaed on averageslaed Mam. Market movements are indicated. The Codutt Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        393 48 BatprtfMMdtaz will hit smaller airtinu and discount carriers hard Bloomberg W ASHINGTON] The seven largest US airlines are the big winners in the latest version of the tax bill emerging from Congress, while short-haul carriers like Southwest Airlines Co don't fare
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        217 48 Reuter [TOKYO] Japan Airlines (JAL) aaki that it prefers separate alliances for different regions rather than participating in global alliances like the Star Alliance. "Having separate networks with suitable partners in each region of the world is enough to serve our customers' needs,"
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        191 48 AFP [JOHANNESBURG] Officials win reopen a probe into a mystery 1967 South African Airways (SAA) crash that killed all 159 passengers and crew on bound, a report said. A South African prosecution team has obtained new information regarding the Nov 18, 1967. SAA
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        188 48 AFP [BEIJING] The southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou has received central government approval to build a 20-billion-yuan (553.5-billion) new international airport, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The new airport, which obtained a final green light from the State Council, will eventually be able
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        68 48 [TOKYO] Passengers on a Japanese bullet train sleeping in the carriage at Tokyo railway station in the early hours yesterday, after losing their last connecting trains heading for their hometown, due to Typhoon Rosie. The typhoon, killing four people and injuring more than three dozens
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        Lock icon Mitsubishi hopes to team up with P&W on engine project
        265 48 Reuter [TOKYO] Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd said it would like to Join a project at Pratt Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp, to develop small aircraft engines. A spokesman for Mitsubishi Heavy said, however, that it was not yet
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          68 48 AFP [TOKYO] Japanese car maker Mitsubishi Motors Corp plans to supply Its engines to Hyundai Motor Co Ltd of South Korea for use in its new model planned for launch in 1999, the Nihon Keizai Shimun said. Under the plan, Mitsubishi Is to provide
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          Lock icon China Southern gets exceptional gain
          72 48 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] China Southern Airlines, China's largest carrier, will book a 125.6 million yuan (5522.1 million) exceptional gain from insurance payments following a crash of one of Its Boeing 737 aircraft in Shenzhen that killed 35 people, the South China Morning Post reported. The People's
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          Lock icon KLM increases cooperation with Garuda
          48 48 AFX-Asia [AMSTELVEEN, Netherlands] KLM Royal Dutch Airlines NV is to strengthen its existing cooperation agreement with PT Garuda Indonesia. A KLM spokesmen said increased cooperation will Include code-sharing on domestic flights and the joint development of products and services such as catering. —AFX-Asia
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        Lock icon Crash at air show kills 8, injures 37
        360 48 AFP [OSTENDE, Belgium] A Jordanian light aircraft crashed in a ball of flame during a stunt manoeuvre at a Belgian air show on Saturday, killing eight and injuring 37, 10 of them seriously, Belgian authorities said. The single-engined plane failed to pull
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        Lock icon PAL files suit against aviation official
        344 48 He factored STpere carriers by revising air accord: airline Reuter [MANILA] Philippine Airlines (PAL) said it had filed suit against a government official, saying he favoured Singapore carriers by amending an air agreement. PAL said it had lost US$4.5 million (556.5 million) in revenues
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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      1312 34 (r DSRSEMATOR nl Round the World Container Services TO UK/CONTINENT FROM UK/CONTIINKNT vfssh Imy Ism urn I «mt lam nam Ihx luw ll*«a |wt|uw|fu I mtm Imw I ham f^l LOMWIBMTOW WFTM MM UW SM SW MM 17* MM CHOYAMHM EE7» M 07 07 MO? 10 07 1107 MM M7M
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      549 34 NORASIA WEEKLY SAILING TO RUSSIA, ESTONIA, LATVIA, LITHUNIA vu RIGA PLS CALL US FOR MORE DETAILS CONTACT: PATRICIA/ CALVIN/ WILSON mmMM NSA SHIPPING PTE LTD ALSO ACCEPTWG LCL TO: WiOIIIII HUI4THMD CN NO. 144S0SS0000C VEfSCE/nUESTE/ANCONVM-EXANDMA/PORT •mnn rrr wiwfoouomiiß-MUM sad/*waeuS/*ulta/barcg.ona Valencia HDOmu FT HALUAM OEUTOkN MJ9AMTARA TBj 21-*****82 (JAK) TH_: 31-528*288
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