The Business Times, 6 August 1998

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 11(V12^97 is; SINGAPORE Internet- http://business-times.asia! com.sg/ THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1998
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon Wall St bull still intact despite Tuesday's scare: analysts
    1011 1  - Wall St bull still intact despite Tuesda y's scare: analysts Health of economy, mutual fond inflows seen underpinning performance From, Andrew Marks in New York WALL Street's big losses on Tuesday have left many investors wondering whether the bull market is finally over. But few analysts are willing to write
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    Lock icon Dow up 72 pts at 1 pm EDT
    73 1 AFP, Reuters [NEW YORK] Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was volatile early yesterday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average reversing its course several times before stabilising around noon. At 1 pm EDT, the index was up 71.83 points at 8,559.14,
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    Lock icon Cathay shocks with HK$175m loss
    71 1 [HONGKONGJ Cathay Pacific Airways has flown deep into the red, with the company ar^° its first loss since its listing in 1936. StiU, the show mustgo onfor chiefoperating Officer PhUip Chen, chairman Peter Sutch and managing director David Turnbull as they viewed a picture of
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    Lock icon Parkway cuts costs with no-pay leave
    196 1 Employees asked to take 2 days unpaid leave each month Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Parkway Holdings Ltd, Singapore's biggest operator of private hospitals, asked its 2,000 employees to take two days unpaid leave each month for a year to cut costs, eight employees said. The move
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    SM Summit begins suit against anti-piracy raiders
    233 1  -  By Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Compact disc maker SM Summit Holdings' run-in with the anti-piracy watchdog Business Software Alliance (BSA) came full circle yesterday it began legal action for damages against the various parties who raided its premises under three search warrants for evidence
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    Regional markets rattled by Dow's 300-pt plunge
    249 1 [SINGAPORE] Wall Street s 300-point or 3.4 per cent overnight plunge reverberated through regional stock markets yesterday, with losses running as high as 4.2 per cent in Indonesia. In Singapore, the Straits Times Industrials Index hung on to its 1,050 support level, closing
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    Pidemco ups ante in exec condo price war
    480 1  -  By: David Boey [SINGAPORE] Pidemco Land yesterday fired the latest volley in a price war with North Oaks, its next-door rival, announcing an average price of $378 per sq ft for Woodsvale executive condominium, or a potential loss of up to $50,000
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      146 1 ihhuim HTTJC cats price* Singapore's largest supermarket chain NTUC Fairprice cuts prices of 38 items by up to 13% from today, P|2 Thailand's central bank is offering money-back guarantee to foreign investors who have bought major stakes in troubled Thai banks and finance companies, Pgß CAM International Holdings' majority shareholder
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      37 1 Trading halt only if Dow plunges, Pg 15 t Z I -jbt -*>*»• .-3 CHANEL >S f 'fe EXCLUSIVELY AT THE CHANEL BOUTIQUES NfiFF AKIN riTV lot DRTHinn RHIO TCI Tinion icmu arnrre ka rav>u>»n nn>n eikinAnnnr n-.
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      9 1 Pldemeo Load's total debt rises to $2.85b, Pg 2
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      FairPrice takes the lead and cuts prices by up to 13%
      416 2  -  Boon Heng expects others will follow suit to encourage shopping in S'pore By < Carol Eng SINGAPORE'S largest supermarket chain NTUC FairPrice cuts prices of 33 items by up to 13 per cent from today, and National Trades Union
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      All oil firms cut back capacity this month
      369 2  -  Largest refiner, ShelL sluhinf capacity by 25% to lowest level eror By Ronnie Lim WITH the oil market continuing to be soft and refining margins staying negative, all the oil companies here have been forced to cut back capacity this month, with
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      Hewlett-Packard opens e-commerce centre here
      324 2  -  Singapore's aim to be global Net trading hob gets a boost By Kenneth James SINGAPORE'S hopes of playing a key role in global electronic commerce has received an early boost with computer giant Hewlett-Pack-ard's decision to run its AsiaPacific e-commerce operations out of the Republic.
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      Helping SMEs to common standards
      185 2 THE government yesterday launched a scheme to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to adopt common electronic data interchange (EDI) standards and networks. Called the Integrated EDI Programme, or lEP, the scheme is open to all SMEs which plan to use govern-ment-established standards to perform EDI
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      Lock icon R-Adm Teo in Jakarta to hand over aid
      335 2  -  From\ Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta MINISTER for Education and Second Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean yesterday paid a courtesy call on Indonesian Defence Minister and Head of Armed Forces Wiranto at the Ministry of Defence. In Jakarta for a three-day visit
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      Hitachi to move most 256-megabit DRAM production here
      407 2  -  Earlier plan wu to split ontpnt between S'pore, Japan By. Jennifer Lien JAPANESE chip giant Hitachi Ltd plans to make Singapore its volume production centre for next-generation 256-megabit dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, instead of splitting production between Singapore and Japan
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      Lock icon A pointer to healthy GDP
      303 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Outlook By\ Marissa Chew THE prognosis for the Singapore economy may not be all that bad as yet, anyway going by this leading indicator derived from the income approach to gross domestic product (GDP). This is the profit-remuneration ratio which compares
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      Lock icon Some detained for hours in JB for not having entry chop
      376 2 The Straits Times SOME Singaporeans who went to Johor Baru by train over the weekend were detained for up to two hours at JB customs and immigration on their return journey because their passports did not bear the "chop"
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      Pidemco Land's total debt rises to $2.85b
      417 2  -  By\ Lee Han Shih PIDEMCO Land's first annual report released yesterday showed why the whollyowned government company is just as eager to sell its properties at loss-making prices as listed developers are. As at Dec 31 last year, the latest date for which
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      Law Ministry rebuts Amnesty's criticism
      327 2 AMNESTY International made Inaccurate and unsubstantiated assertions of law and facts in its criticism of the Court of Appeal ruling on the defamation case brought by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong against Non-constituen-cy Member of Parliament J B Jeyaretnam, according to the Ministry of Law
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      House Hunt
      719 3 Property transaction for district 9 and 10 (sectors 22 to 23 and 24 to 27) lodged between June 28 and Aug 1, 1998. PROJECT NAME/ PROP CONTRACT TENURE 8ULT-W PRICE PSF street name ry« date uwoarea* (SOFT) (SS'OOO) (S$) District 09 Mfln I nnrinrt Aspen Ht Apt 05/22/98
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      Lock icon New benchmark for apartment prices?
      472 3  -  Distress sales are on the rise, with one Ridgewood unit tagged at $380 psf By. Ang Wan May TSINGAPORF.I A 999-year Ridgewood apartment in the popular Mount Sinai area is going for $380 psf, just a little more than what an HDB flat would fetch.
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      Villa Verde wants early payment for optional aircons
      521 3  -  Buyers who opt for these extras most pay $9,700 by Aug 11 By: Diana Oon [SINGAPORE] Villa Verde buyers have been told they can opt for additional air-con-ditioning in their living and dining areas, but will have to cough up $9,700 for
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      Chinatown sites for sale
      190 3  -  By. Ang Wan May THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) yesterday announced the launch of three conservation buildings and four Chinatown shophouse sites for sale by auction next month. Two of the three parcels of restored conservation buildings for sale 30 Temple Street and 27 28 Mosque
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
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      Lock icon IMF says it's firmly behind Thai economic measures
      324 4 Reuters AFP [BANGKOK] The International Monetary Fund strongly supports measures taken by Thailand to revive its ailing economy, a senior IMF official said yesterday. Speaking to reporters after meeting Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, IMF deputy director for the AsiaPacific, Anoop Singh,
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      Lock icon Funding doubts over KL plan to recapitalise banks
      321 4 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's plan to recapitalise weak banks has set in motion a fast-track operation to heal the ailing financial system but doubts emerged yesterday over the massive funding required. Amid fears of further rises in non-performing loans, the central bank
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      KL to allow 100% foreign equity in manufacturing till end-2000
      384 4  -  Move goes beyond NEAC's proposal and represents suspension of bnmipntra policy From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian government has gone beyond the recommendations of the crisis committee National Economic Action Council (NEAC) and allowed 100 per cent foreign
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      Lock icon Obuchi cabinet acts fast on financial bills
      721 4  -  Speedy pace to stress commitment to banking reform From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo NEWLY-APPOINTED Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's cabinet kept up a frantic pace of activity yesterday in a bid to have legislation ready for him to announce in his first major
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      Lock icon M'sia technically in recession: economists
      714 4 Q2 estimates of GDP growth range from -3-2% to -5% AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is seen to be technically in recession, with estimates of second quarter gross domestic product growth ranging from a negative 3.2 per cent to a negative 5 per cent year-on-year, economists
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      Lock icon Asia's financial crisis far from over, warns Summers
      395 4 Spillover effects have infected others and threaten US economy, he says Washington Post, Reuters [MILWAUKEE] The Asian financial crisis is far from over, warned Deputy US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H Summers. His warning was echoed by Germany's Ifo Institute for Economic Research,
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      Lock icon Japanese think bank deposits aren't safe: poll
      128 4 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Some 88.7 per cent of Japanese polled said deposits at banks are no longer safe and 63.9 pefceent intend to focus on banks' financial standing and earnings when choosing one, a survey by Dai-Tokyo Fire Marine Insurance Co showed. Some 71.7
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      17 4 The Strait* Time* Classiffed/Tangtin Mall Tanglin Mall, every third Saturday of the month, spm 11pm |cata| 11
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  • THE REGION
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      Money-back guarantee for foreigners buying Thai banks
      562 5  -  But foreign bankers dismiss move to lure into financial sector as insufficient From, Harish Mehta in Bangkok IN a desperate bid to lure capital into the financial sector, Thailand's central bank yesterday said it would guarantee that foreign investors who bought major stakes
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      Lock icon Indonesia to delay further privatisation of Telkom
      341 5 JAKARTA Current market conditions not conducive: Tanri AFP INDONESIA will delay the further privatisation of state telephone monopoly PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) due to unfavourable conditions prevailing in the market, a report said yesterday. Minister of State Enterprises Tanri Abeng said the government's
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      Lock icon KL opposition joins attack on S'pore
      530 5 KUALA LUMPUR DAP hits oat at Republic's 'display of arrogance and intimidation' Reuters, AFP IN a rare show of unity, Malaysia's rival political parties are taking aim at a common target Singapore. Since Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad went on the offensive against its neighbour
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      Lock icon Third top M'sian newsman quits
      223 5 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters THE chief of Malaysia's top private television station has resigned, joining two senior newspaper editors who quit recently. Media executives yesterday said Yunus Said, operations director of the private TV3 station, had submitted his resignation letter on Tuesday. "Yunus told us Tuesday
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      Lock icon Philippine inflation slows in July
      183 5 MANILA Bloomberg GROWTH in Philippine consumer prices in July slowed for the first time in six months as an El Nino drought eased and the peso stabilised against the dollar, government figures showed. Consumer prices, based on a 1994 survey of household spending patterns, rose
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      Lock icon Pahang has no plans to supply water to S'pore: MB
      182 5 KUANTAN Bernama PAHANG, which has abundant water resources, has no plans to supply water to Singapore, Menteri Besar Khalil Yaakob said yesterday. "In our planning, there is no provision to send water there," he told reporters after chairing the weekly
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      Lock icon All problems at KLIA resolved: minister
      211 5 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama COMPARED to the first day of operations at Singapore's Changi Airport or Hongkong's Chek Lap Kok, the performance of Malaysia's new international airport was "anytime better", national news agency Bernama quoted a Malaysian deputy minister as telling the upper house of
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      Lock icon Taiwan may curb Indon labour over May riots
      169 5 TAIPEI Reuters TAIWAN said yesterday it would consider restricting the number of Indonesian workers going to Taiwan if Jakarta fails to address reports of atrocities against ethnic Chinese in Indonesia's May riots. "The Council of Labour Affairs hopes Indonesia's government will thoroughly
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      Lock icon Pertamina scraps deals linked to Suharto kin
      204 5 JAKARTA AFP INDONESIA'S state oil and gas company Pertamina has terminated six contracts awarded to family members and cronies of former president Suharto, a report said here yesterday. "We are working to weed out all Pertamina projects obtained through corruption, collusion and nepotism,"
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      8 5 Editorial: Why not look at thefacts? Pg 9
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  • REGION
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      Lock icon Beijing calls for caution in selling of small state firms
      389 6 BEIJING Official organ warns that practice leads to job losses and social instability Reuters CHINA yesterday urged caution over the sell-off of thousands of small state firms, saying the practice has resulted in rising unemployment which threatens social stability. "The
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      Lock icon Aussie DPM steps down, but is re-elected
      225 6 CANBERRA Reuters AUSTRALIAN Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer yesterday stepped down as leader of his National Party in a bid to quell party disunity in the face of the rising political threat from far right MP Pauline Hanson. But Mr Fischer was immediately
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      Lock icon China warns trading films against smuggling
      254 6 BEIJING Penalties include revocation of licences report Reuters CHINA has ordered firms involved in foreign trade to steer clear of smuggling a»~ part of a drive to stamp out illegal trade, the People's Daily said yesterday. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation
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      Lock icon Hongkong activists planning to drive Tung out of office
      398 6 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG activists are planning a campaign to force Chief Executive Tung Cheehwa to step down amid an economic slump, a former legislator said yesterday. Tsang Kin-shing, a former member of the territory's mini-parliament, will lead the "Dump Tung" campaign,
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      Lock icon A storm rider in the economics of deluge
      734 6  -  CHDVA WATCH China's floods could prove a blessing if they help the country stem > glide In prices By Lu Ning IN college economics 101, we learn that a bad crop may bring farmers more revenue than a good harvest. The reason
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      Lock icon Tinkle bells
      66 6 [MELBOURNE] RMIT University industrial design student Georgie O'Connor playing the "Bell Tower an instrument made from diamond-cut bottles and glasses at a pre-Open Day concert on campus yesterday. The "Bell Tower" is played by tapping the suspended glassware which have different tones depending on how they are cut.
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      Lock icon Indian bank plans bond issue to raise up to US$3.5b
      343 6 NEW DELHI Expatriate Indians' patriotism will be focns of marketing FT THE State Bank of India (SBI), one of the country's main commercial banks, is hoping to raise up to USJ3.S billion (Ss6 billion) in a bond issue appealing to
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      Lock icon India cuts interest rates on loans to exporters
      525 6 NEW DELHI 2 percentage point cnt is an attempt to revive export fall Bloomberg INDIA has reduced the interest rate on loans to exporters by 2 percentage points to 9 per cent, from 11 per cent in an attempt to revive falling
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      Lock icon Planned Aussie tax may hit demand
      237 6 mSYDNEY Bloomberg [SYDNEY] An Australian consumption tax would have to be implemented carefully to avoid a hit to economic growth in the lead-up to its introduction, economists said. They warned that the market for goods which are currently taxed at rates higher than an
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      1804 7 ine Business Times, Thursday, August 6,1998 ADVE RTIS EME NT j Pagi Go-ahead on k*> jjfesMßyi co po ,ie ovk Marina Line Snr-aiT benefits Suntec City established 13-km rail link costing $1 .75 he added. located themselves in one billion will serve Singapore's r.S'iS'S; «ff" WEXk&Kr? M CSS&3 premier development
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  • REGION/WORLD
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      Lock icon BOE meets as pressure mounts to hold rates
      505 8 LONDON Business leaders, anions complain tight money has blighted manufacturing AFP THE Bank of England yesterday began a two-day interest rate meeting amid huge pressure from industry against a rate increase as recession looms for the economy. Chief economist at the Canadian
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      Lock icon UK manufacturing could recover in spring '99: think-tank
      286 8 LONDON Bat only if central bank indicates soon that rates have peaked, it says Reuters UK'S manufacturing sector could begin to recover from the spring of next year, if the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) makes it clear soon that
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      Lock icon Let us spray
      95 8 [VATICAN CITY] A worker on Tuesday spraying a gush of water, sand and soap to clean one of the 284 columns which surround St Peter's Square in Vatican City. Preparations are underway to celebrate the start of the third millennium in the year2ooo. Kaercher, a German company
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      Lock icon Russia, IMF under test in new rescue deal
      333 8 WASHINGTON Reuters A NEW rescue package to shore up the rouble and give Russia's government a fighting chance of economic success will be a test, not only for Russia, but also for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, already under fire
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      Acer's Shih steps down to rescue chip unit
      317 8  -  Info products CEO to take over as Acer's group president From Laurence Eyton in Taipei TAIWAN'S Acer Group yesterday announced a sweeping corporate restructuring in which founder Stan Shih handed over the group's presidency to devote himself to rescuing the company's high-ly-troubled
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      Lock icon Economic confidence climbs in euro-11 countries
      193 8 BRUSSELS Bloomberg ECONOMIC confidence in the 11 countries slated for Europe's common currency rose in July, the latest sign of a recovering economy, the European Commission said. The business confidence index for the countries adopting the euro next year rose to 105.7 in July
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      Lock icon US A-G faces threat of contempt action
      151 8 WASHINGTON Reuters A HOUSE committee probing alleged campaign fund-rais-ing abuses threatened US At-torney-General Janet Reno with contempt on Tuesday if she did not turn over confidential memos recommending the appointment of an independent counsel. But Ms Reno, who has refused to seek an
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      541 8 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Lee Siang Huap, Joseph of Blk 101 Ah Hood Road #16-02, Singapore *****1, have applied for a Public House First Class Licence in respect of M/s Kool Klub Management located at 42 Prinsep St Singapore *****0, and that this application will be considered by
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      361 8 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Nan Renzhe of Apt Blk 52, Kent Road #06-21 Singapore *****2, have applied for a Ist Class Public House Licence in respect of M/s B1 Woh Korean Restaurant Pub located at No 9 Duxton Hill Singapore *****0, and that this application will be considered
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Shame of the dress at the top of US agenda
      779 9  -  THE BOTTOM LIME OPINION By Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent. I WENT last week to see Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg's new movie about eight American soldiers who take part in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      120 9 After all, you can't take it with you when you are dead/ R Sathrognam Malaysia's first heart transplant patient, on the importance of organ donations. I don't think GM got anything they couldn't have gotten in June. Maybe GM's cheering section (on Wall Street) is going to
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      Why not look at the facts?
      660 9 EDITORIAL THE Singapore Home Affairs spokesman who this week rebutted Malaysian accusations spoke for many Singaporeans when he pointed out a frequent habit of Malaysian leaders: their provocative statements simply ignore the facts. This is evident in the relentless stream of high-level criticisms from
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      Lock icon Time to start worrying
      1000 9  -  The US is starting to feel the effects of the Asian economic crisis, bnt politicians don't seem prepared for what's coming By* James K Glassman James Glass man writes regularly on financial affairs for The Washington Post LATWP THERE'S an old joke that economists have predicted
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      844 9 Blind ey« Id Kosovo SERIOUS human rights violations are being tolerated in Kosovo in favour of shortterm geopolitical interests in the Balkans. Serbian police and the Yugoslav army have launched their largest offensives to date against the ethnic Albanian insurgency. They appear to have used disproportionate
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Internet threat looms over small UK bookshops
      642 10  -  Besides competition from giants, they have to contend with online bookselling, says JANE JANE MERRIMAN Reuters BRITAIN'S traditional small town bookshop, cramped, dusty and run by genteel, bookish types is under threat. These little stores are already facing cut-throat competition as major bookshops,
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      Lock icon Black film finds its groove at Urbanworld
      563 10 FILM Festival now an impressive showcase for black filmmakers NYT [NEW YORK] Three years ago, as a vice-president for marketing at Miramax and one of the few black executives working in the film industry, Stacy Spikes fielded the same question repeatedly from black
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      132 10 i ft Happy Birthday, fappore! 6 to 11 August 1998 It's a nation-wide party on 9 August 1998 as Singapore celebrates her 33rd Year of Independence. To add more reasons for having a fantastic time over the long National Day weekend, here is an irresistible room package: Accommodation in Superior
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      337 10 BPSIHESS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Chan Poh Eng Eric of Blk 7 Lorong Lew Lian #03-134 Singapore *****7, have applied for a Public House, Second Class Licence in respect of M/s Stablevest Holdings Pte Ltd located at 302 Tiong Bahru Road, #01-18 Tiong Bahru Plaza Singapore *****2, and
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      319 10 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Chan Kwing Yeng of 658 Cairnhill Road Singapore *****2, have applied for a Public House Ist Class Licence in respect of M/s Au Jardin Les Amis located at 1 Cluny Road, Singapore Botanic Garden Singapore *****9, and that this application will be considered by
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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      195 11 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 17 Succeeded in having a private coming (13) 22 Audacious attempt to see if one (7) U U— 27 Arranged the loan to get alco 28 Maybe retired salesman L— 1 111 l should take a risk (9) 29 Bit a man on board (5) 10 Morgan s
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  • MOTORING
    • BUMPER to BUMPER
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        Rolls-Royce's chief quits
        78 12 ROLLS-ROYCE Motor Cars chief executive Graham Morris has resigned. The move apparently has to do with newly-announced plans to carve the company into two entities (Rolls-Royce and Bentley). The Englishman, previously a VW-Audi top executive, was said to have been instrumental in the sale of Rolls-Royce Motor
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        Bids open for SCV car numbers
        61 12 THE tender for SCV car registration numbers is now open. Bids (minimum $1,000) can be made at the Land Transport Authority office at 10 Sin Ming Drive until 12.30 pr», Saturday. Successful bids are not transferable. The last tender exercise, for the SCU series,
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        Seat shows strong interim growth
        99 12 SEAT sped ahead with strong growth in the first half. It registered 76,935 sales in Spain, up 30.5 per cent—double the market average of 15.4 per cent. In June, Seat was the best-selling make in Spain with 16,448 units —up 25.4 per cent and its
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        Bike Aid raises $140,000
        86 12 A 1.086 km leg-powered road trip to Haadyai, Thailand, has raised $140,600 for the Kidney Dialysis Foundation (KDF). Bike Aid, a cycling group, accomplished the long-distance trip—their fifth in six days in June. The group had set out to raisel2oo,ooo. In conjunction with Bike Aid's efforts,
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        BMW sees better growth this year
        110 12 GERMAN carmaker BMW Ag expects group financial performance this year to be better than last year's despite considerable adjustments required at subsidiary Rover Group due to the strong pound. The Munich-based group said in its interim report the slowdown in Asia will be offset
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        Nissan faces hard times
        57 12 JAPANESE carmaker Nissan, on the other hand, continues to face difficulty. In the first half, vehicle production in Japan was down 14.5 per cent to 775,800 units. Overseas output dipped 1.3 per cent to 542,831. Domestic sales fell 14.2 per cent to 492,423 units while exports
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        BMW working on brake force display
        95 12 EVER had a near collision with a vehicle in front because you thought it was slowing down when it was actually coming to a full stop? BMW is working on a brake force display to tackle the ambiguity. Based on the speed the brake
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        Renault launches Twingo II
        48 12 RENAULT of France has launched the Twingo 11, successor to the second best-selling A-segment car in Europe. The new 1.2-litre one-box small car is packed with a higher level of safety (pretensioned belts and variable pressure airbags, and new anti-lock brakes), and better comfort.
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        Caltex issues smart cards
        82 12 CALTEX has introduced a smart card that rewards customers with bonus points for purchases. Motorists will be able to redeem accumulated points for a wide range of gifts. The heat-resistant card can also be used as a cashcard to pay for electronic road-pricing charges as well
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        BMW's system to help drivers
        82 12 JUST when you thought one car is as electronic as the other nowadays, BMW is working on an integrated chassis management (ICM) system. While traction and stability controls prevent wheel slips and resist skidding ICM will make use of all options "to influence the longitudinal
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        Blame traffic jams on comfortable cars
        112 12  -  Compiled by Christopher Tan COMFORTABLE cars are partly to blame for traffic jams, a transport studies expert from Leeds University in England implied. "As cars get more and more comfortable, more and more isolated from the congestion that they're causing, people are always happy
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      Charging up for advent of EVs
      773 12  -  Electric vehicles still have a long way to travel before they hit our roads but govt and commercial bodies are working on it By i Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] THE interest in electric vehicles (EVs) is mounting but the day when battery-powered carriages zip alongside
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      New road map for the street-smart
      313 12  -  By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] A new road map has hit the streets and it could give the long-estab-lished Singapore Street Directory a run for its money. The new Where is marketed as "the street-smart street directory", and is put out by Metropolitan Publishing, the
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      Time to look at vehicle taxes
      635 12  -  COMMENTARY With ERP in place, other checks like excise duties, uplifts could be reviewed By Christopher Tan SAY what you will of Singaporeans. one thing's for sure they know a bargain when they see one. That's why, on the first day of electronic road-pricing
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      Toyota 1st half grey imports rise to 18.2%
      589 12  -  But CAC manages to cot Mercedes-Benz grey share to 7.7% from 13.7% By i Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Toyota distributor Borneo Motors is facing stiffer competition from parallel importers while Mercedes agent Cycle Carriage is enjoying a reprieve, latest statistics show. According to
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      Lock icon Ex-CAM chairman deals blow to minority holders
      521 13  -  Gkew makes surprise appearance at EGM to throw oat fund-raising motion By Annette Pau CAM International Holdings' majority shareholder and former chairman Raymond Chew made a surprise appearance at the company's EGM yesterday to throw out a motion to inject funds into the
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      It's for SES to decide on Clob's closure, NEAC clarifies
      332 13  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S National Economic Action Council (NEAC) yesterday clarified that when it said "now is a good time to consider closing down" Clob International, Singapore's over-the-counter market, it was not saying that its policy was
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      KLSE and Singapore's Clob: It's a win-win situation
      789 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW R Sivanithy AFTER being out of the limelight for some time, Clob International is now very much back in focus. This follows the call earlier this week by Malaysia's National Economic Action Council (NEAC) that the Stock Exchange of
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      Lock icon Nothing firm on any merger or acquisition, says ST Capital
      333 13  -  Rise in share value, trading volume not warranted By: David Boey [SINGAPORE] In response to recent speculative play on its shares, mainboard-listed ST Capital said yesterday that the acquisition and/or merger of new businesses is still under discussion. The finance
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      Creative's Q4 profit seen plunging 57%
      418 13  -  Average EPS of 23.7 US cents, down from 55 US cents poll By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Creative Technology, which launches its much-touted Sound Blaster Live! card today, is expected to report a 57 per cent plunge in fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow morning. The sound-card maker,
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        Lock icon Cathay posts HK$175m loss, its first since '86
        506 14  -  Size of interim loss surprises analysts; chairman warns of more retrenchments FYom Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong CATHAY Pacific Airways has slipped into the red for the first time since it was listed in 1986, losing a shocking HKSI7S million (5538.9 million)
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        Thakral in DVD kit tie-up for China market
        177 14 MAINBOARD-LISTED Thakral Corporation has formed a strategic alliance with Cali-fornia-based LSI Logic Corporation to develop a kit that will allow the manufacture of cheap digital video disk players for the Chinese market. Thakral said the manufacturing kit is the first specifically optimised
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        Asiamatrix reviewing healthcare deal terms
        194 14 [SINGAPORE] Asiamatrix Ltd's thrust into the healthcare sector has hit a snag it has been forced to review the terms of the proposed acquisition of four practices and the terms of a 10-for-10 rights issue for financing the deal. The company said yesterday that following
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        SembGas' West Natuna deal on
        552 14  -  Firm says report of delay refers to another project Reports by Ronnie Lim [SINGAPORE] Singapore consortium Sembawang Gas* US$B billion (5513.8 billion) deal to buy Indonesian natural gas from West Natuna continues on track, senior Sembawang officials said, clarifying that a report last Friday of
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        Sembawang says it's in talks to supply S'pore Power with gas
        410 14 [SINGAPORE] Sembawang, which is building a power station on Jurong Island and which plans to buy into Tuas Power (TP), has been talking to rival Singapore Power (SP) about supplying it with natural gas from West Natuna, Sembawang officials
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        Ayala's interim profit up by mere 2.5%
        306 14  -  Results dragged down by weak sales at Ayala Land Reports from, Al Labita in Manila PROFIT growth of listed Philippine giant Ayala Corp slumped in this year's first half as Asia's currency meltdown weighed down on the conglomerate's property ventures. Group profit rose
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        Globe Telecom in the black for the first time
        256 14 CUSTOMER build up has paid off for the listed Philippine unit of Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel), enabling it to show an interim profit for the first half after five years of frustrating losses. Globe Telecom, SingTel's tie-up with Ayala Corp, booked
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        EnerSave IPO: small investors to get 40%
        242 14 [SINGAPORE] Small investors will receive 40.5 per cent the lion's share of manufacturing and engineering firm EnerSave Holdings' IPO, while investors who gunned for 100 to 499 lots were the next largest successful group, netting about 20.8 per cent of its offering. Investors
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          Lock icon Informatics in Indian joint venture
          93 14 AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] Informatics Holdings Ltd said Krislon System Sciences Pte Ltd and Edutech Holdings (India) Ltd have signed an agreement to form a joint-venture company to operate computer training schools in India. The joint-venture company, to be named Edutech Informatics India Pte Ltd, will have
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          Lock icon Telekom to invest RM3.3m
          40 14 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Telekom Malaysia Bhd will invest 3.3 billion Malaysian ringgit (Ssl.4 billion) ova: the next two-and-a-half years to provide customers multimedia products and services, the Bernama news agency quoted the company as saying. —AFX-Asia
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          Lock icon Sime Darby appoints new chairman
          34 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian multinational Sime Darby Bhd yesterday said former civil savant Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid has been appointed the new chairman of its board of directors. Ratten
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          Lock icon Cygal gets protection from creditors
          34 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian civil engineering contractor and property developer Cygal Bhd said yesterday that it and three subsidiaries had aaked a court J for protection from creditors. —Reuters
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      • Article
        Stanchart's interim profit falls 9.8%; provisions soar
        649 15  -  Bank's results more resilient compared with rivals in Airftj say analysts From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong LONDON-LISTED Standard Chartered pic yesterday unveiled a creditable set of interim results net profit fell 9.8 per cent but the banking giant, like many of its
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        Lock icon AlliedSignal makes US$9.8b bid for AMP
        340 15 Bloomberg [MORRIS TOWNSHIP, New Jersey] Allied Signal Inc made an unsolicited bid to buy AMP Inc for U5544.50 a share, or US$9.B billion (5516.9 billion), after shares in the world's top maker of electronic connectors failed to recover from blows dealt it by Asia's
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        Lock icon Trading halt only if Dow plunges
        669 15 Regulators fear a single big swoop of over 10% drop may be unnerving NYT [NEW YORK] What will happen when investors return for a second act much like Tuesday's huge sellofT? The answer: trading will not be halted, as it was last Oct 27,
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        Lock icon US regulators ease capital reserve rules for banks
        349 16 Move allows banks, thrifts to count the full value of servicing assets as capital Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US banks and thrifts won greater flexibility in using mortgage servicing rights as part of the capital reserve required to guard against unexpected loan losses. New
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        Lock icon Goldman tops merger adviser list
        167 16 Bloomberg [LONDON] Goldman, Sachs Co was the most successful adviser on European mergers and acquisitions in the firsthalf amid a surge in transactions in the banking and financial industry, Acquisitions Monthly magazine said. Goldman advised on 38 transactions worth £37.8 billion (*****.1 billion), topping Morgan
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        Henderson plans one more unit trust by year-end
        418 16  -  It'll probably launch a European equities fond, say sources By\ Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] Fund manager Henderson Investors, best known for its global technology fund which has seen blockbuster returns this year, plans to launch at least one more unit trust before the
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        Lock icon Visa, MasterCard debit cards under probe
        342 16 US states lannch anti-trust probe into restrictions Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] A group of US state attorneys-general have opened an investigation into whether new debit cards being issued by Visa International Inc and MasterCard International Inc will harm competition. Eleven states, including Ohio, California and New
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        Lock icon Hard-to-forge US$20 bill
        229 16 Reuters [WASHINGTON) A new-look US$2O bill (5534.50) designed to thwart high-tech counterfeiters goes into circulation next month, the third in a series of hard-to-copy notes. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said the new bank note would be introduced on Sept 24, although it could take time for it
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        Lock icon US$29m windfall for BankAmerica CEO?
        241 16 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] BankAmerica Corp chief executive David Coulter could collect severance pay of US$29 million (Ssso million) or more after his bank sells to NationsBank Corp, even if he leaves voluntarily, the banks said on Tuesday. Mr Coulter's employment agreement, which takes effect when
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        Lock icon Euroyen off highs but upside seen limited
        200 16 Kim r; a Report Reuters [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures were off their highs yesterday but dealers said prospects for further upside was poor on concerns about a possible liquidity crunch. "I believe the cash rate will be bidding up as September draws closer.
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        Futures fall for ninth day in a row
        184 16  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES Cecilia Loh Cecilia Loh, service dealer, Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures continued its downward momentum, plunging for the ninth day, registering a loss of 4.20 points. The stock index declined 93.41 points, to its lowest
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        Lock icon Oil rises as Iraqi exports are in doubt
        240 16 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg Reuters [NEW YORK] Crude oil rose on speculation that worsening relations between Iraq and United Nations weapons inspectors could lead to a disruption in Iraqi oil exports. Talks between top UN weapons inspector Richard Butler and Iraqi officials collapsed
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        289 16 AFP, Reuters London THE dollar, which earlier fell two pfennigs against the German mark and one yen, remained weak but was off its low point thanks to the firmer Dow. The risk for the dollar from a weak Wall Street is that a sell-off by international investors could
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      COMMODITY PRICES
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2010 17 Ma striata *H» Nect 31 Croup 546.400 -11.600 AB Ports *****0 -6.400 National 1097.000 -28.000 AIM Domecq 558.000 -2.400 Arn 160.000 -5.000 Aid* Group 190.000 unch BAT InO 649.400 20.600 BCP1C 380.000 9.600 BJCC-- 123.000 -2.000 BOC Group 745.000 -21.000 BR Petroleum 786.000 -26.000 BTR 158.200 1200
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      1663 17 Bloomberg Q Nikkei 225 -3L42 SHARES were little changed as losses by exporters on Wall Street's tumble were offset by gains by banks and steelmakers on signs that the government may offer greater-than-expec-ted tax cuts. "It's a tug-of-war between nagging concerns about the US and the government's encouraging steps
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      Lock icon HONGKONG
      1452 18 Reuters Q Hang Seng -***** STOCKS closed lower yesterday after Wall Street's overnight tumble and succumbing to the pull of index heavyweights, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index fell 114.37 points to finish at 7,466.43. Turnover was HK54.95 billion. "Hongkong Bank and China Telecom dragged the market down," said
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      643 18 Reuters QShenzhen Blndex +160 CHINA'S hard currency B shares surged yesterday as the top securities regulator talked up the market and rumours swirled that Beijing would soon unveil policies to boost prices, brokers and analysts said. Shanghai's B Share Index ended up 2.66 points to 31.24 after finishing at
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      Lock icon TAIPEI
      343 18 AFP pwp Index -93.41 TAIWAN stocks slipped yesterday, taking the key market barometer below the psychological 7,500-point level, after the overnight plunge on Wall Street, dealers said. The Weighted Price Index dropped 93.41 points to 7,499.73. "The plunge in US stock market was the key factor dragging down the
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      Lock icon WELLINGTON
      251 18 AFP n Wellington -3174 STOCKS fell 1.8 per cent yesterday after climbing off their lows following Wall Street's biggest plunge so far this year. The NZSE-40 Index was down 36.74 points to 2,044.28 on turnover of NZ$lOO.4 million. Auckland International Airport Ltd was steady at NZS2.IO.—AFP «i» mm ANZ
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      769 18 AFP Q SET Index -3J7 THAI share prices dropped 1.5 per cent yesterday in line with declines in regional markets and following the sharp fall on Wall Street overnight, analysts said. But the Bangkok bourse closed off earlier lows following an announcement by a senior central bank official that
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      Lock icon SEOUL
      409 18 AFP P Composite Index -1037 SOUTH Korean share prices closed yesterday lower on renewed concerns over the region's weak economic fundamentals and a steep fall on Wall Street, dealers said. They said the decline in Hongkong's market also affected local shares, although prices closed off their lows on late
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      588 18 AFP PAilOrdmrks -42J SHARES fell yesterday, but brokers described the drop as a fairly resilient response to Wall Street's dive overnight. The All Ordinaries Index fell 42.1 points to 2,640.2, paring losses after having dropped 2.2 per cent by midsession. The All Industrials shed 81.9 points to 4,644.6 while
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      727 18 AFP Q Composite Index -1&57 SHARES dipped 4.2 per cent yesterday following an overnight plunge on Wall Street and amid weakness in regional markets, dealers said. "As you can see the market was slipping following results on Wall Street," a dealer said. The Composite Index stood 19.57 points lower
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      Lock icon MANILA
      299 18 AFP P Manila *13 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.9 per cent higher yesterday due to a technical rebound after a sharp fall during the previous session, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 13.31 points to 1,524.75 points. Volume rose to 545 million shares worth 738.8 million
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        Lock icon Shares fall on unease over funding plan
        395 19 AFP □Composite Index -6J5 MALAYSIA'S key stock index ended down yesterday in the absence of buying interest amid concerns over funding for the government's recovery plan, dealers said. Financials took heavy falls also on funding concerns for the company set up to recapitalise
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        Teledata wrt: numbers not exciting
        181 20  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy VOLUME in the warrant sector has almost disappeared every day, only a handful of warrants actually see any trades. Teledata's warrant, however, yesterday enjoyed turnover of 160,000 units, suggesting that a modest amount of accumulation is going on. When we
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
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      STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE: MAIN BOARD
      6197 21 Transaction date: 5 Qf Qf M Wt 1998 Last Vol Day Last Quota (Mv Otv YM Nat Cap Avg High Ln StNo Company Sal* (OOO) High Lew Buyer Seller jC'w P/I »m* Mca INDUSTRIALS 43 12.5 a 1020 ACE Dynamics20c... 18.5 *1 58 18.5
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        220 22 Stacks Volume ST Capital 25c 10.434,000 Pai*ac Media 5 6,592,000 MOB Foreign 4,2%,000 OUB Foreign 3,670,000 TAC BttO 200 3,479,000 •M Resources 3,478,000 DBS Foreign 3,415,000 NatSteei 50c 3,149,000 Gokftron 20c 3,055,000 ST Engg 10c 3,011,000 Stidu S DBS Foreign 31.844,247 UOB Foreign 22,934,930 0C8C Foreign 16,494,851 OUB Foreign 12,534.035
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        HOT STOCK
        68 22  -  -by Shiv Taneja TOTAL Access Communications closed four and a half US cents lower yesterday at 90.5 US cents on a volume of 3,480 lots, compared with its 10-day traded average of 4,600 lots. The counter is well below the 25 level but in the near term, it
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        Prices hold up reasonably well to Wall St plunge
        648 22  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Banks continue to get support while property stocks fall farther; SIA biggest index loser By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Wall Street's 300-point or 3.4 per cent plunge overnight took its toll on the local market yesterday, with prices closing
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          Move over, Barton Biggs
          115 22 FANS of Chin Ean Wah (we assume that she assumes there are some) need not fear losing touch with her while she takes time off to, in her own words, "fulfil a personal desire and obligation to participate more directly in the rebuilding of Asia". The
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          The view from down under
          124 22 DESPITE having to report the worst of news, it's refreshing to know that analysts haven't lost their sense of humour. Here's a giggly one based on the excellent results released' from the 1998 MOE survey of public toilets: "We shall be revising their forecast for
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          Stocks and the stars
          168 22 TWO things happened on July 9: there was a full moon, and there was a free-fall In American stocks. And last September, Henry Weingarten, who sees market movements based on astrology, predicted an Asian crisis because of a lunar eclipse over the region. He's not the
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          Hi-tech jails
          65 22 EVEN Singapore prisons are now going high tech. The Prisons Department is investing $9.5 million on a PMS (Prisons Management System) 'to enhance prison operations and improve efficiency in the management of prisoners", according to a National Computer Board newsletter. One has to wonder whether the high-tech prison
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          Telling times for selling
          75 22 IT'S a tough time for everyone in the sales line these days, not just for developers who are throwing in Florida holidays, Mercedes Benzes and condominiums. One young insurance agent has even resorted to being at the car park of a country club past 10 at
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          Wave your card
          71 22 AT CAM International's AGM and EGM yesterday, one shareholder wanted to wave his hand the traditional way when asked to vote but had to settle for yellow (voting) cards. This prompted the remark that it might have well been more appropriate to wave a red card (in
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      1066 22 BUSINESS Xot/CCS To adVl'itisc call (oil-live INOO-741 1883 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Rajalingam V. Amerandar of Blk 104 Jalan Rajah #03-59, Singapore *****4, have applied for a Wholesale Liquor Shop Licence in respect of M/s Vera Partners located at 144-D Mackenzie Road Singapore *****9, and that this application
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      327 23 Bridge News, Reuters A COUPLE of handy-sized grain cargoes have been covered, but generally trading remains at very low levels. TANKEBSc Late trading was sluggish with few cargoes to cover. Aframax rates in the Caribbean are 1 or 2 points higher but remain weak at about the ws
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      571 23  -  SnperSt&r Leo and Mega Star Asia will be based at S'pore Cruise Centre By\ Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Come October, the Singapore Cruise Centre (SCC) will be home to Star Cruises' flagship SuperStar Leo with the cruise line's high-end luxury cruise ship Mega
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      259 23 Bloomberg [MIAMI] Carnival Corp, the world's largest cruise-line operator, said it ordered construction of two ships modelled after its most profitable vessel, the Carnival Destiny, for US$45O million (***** million) each. The two 102,000-ton ships will be the fourth and fifth on order modelled after the Destiny.
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      390 23  -  From Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi PSA Corporation of Singapore is among three international port developers which have expressed interest in upgrading and operating a container terminal at Madras, officials said. PSA, Hutchison Port Holdings of Hongkong and P&O Ports of Australia
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      272 23 [PHILADELPHIA] Kvaerner ASA said it has begun converting the Philadelphia US Naval Shipyard into the company's first US shipbuilding facility, a US$445 million (*****.5 million) project. The London-based shipbuilding and construction company said it began demolishing buildings to make way for a shipyarded cargo.
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        433 38  -  Aussie carrier to sell 25% of seats on S'pore airline's 55 weekly flights By. Felix Chan [SINGAPOREJ Fresh from receiving the green light from Australian anti-trust authorities, Ansett International's first major link-up with alliance partner Singapore Airlines (SIA) would soon see it selling 25
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        201 38 AFP [MANILA] Loss-making Philippine Airlines (PAL) has picked a US consulting firm to act as financial adviser in the carrier's rehabilitation plan, a local business daily reported yesterday. The LEK/Alcar Consulting Group was chosen by PAL to oversee the airline's rehabilitation programme
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        240 38 AFP [LONDON] The US aerospace giant Boeing was to announce yesterday that it is building its first flight training centre outside the United States at one of the London airports, the Financial Times reported. The president of Boeing's flight safety arm,
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      615 27 EASTERN CAR UNER, LTD."Tt l si 7*' Lfcj ta (StHGATOKQ Pit LTD .XSJEL 1 SPECIALIZE IN RORO HEAVY UFT UPTO 122 TONS ECL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD LOADING FOR YANGON/HALDiA COLOMBO/CHITTAGONG MV "TERESA PRESTIGE" V.19 MV "KEISHUN" V.78 ETA SIN 07/06/98 ETA YGN 12/08/98 ETA SIN 09/08/98 ETA CCXOMBO 14/08/98 ETA
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      35 30 LNS EXPRESS (S) PTE LTD Blk 217 Henderson Road, #01-04 Henderson Industrial Park, Singapore *****5. CR NO: **********0/H Air-Sea International Freight Forwarders MANILA I Also accepting Heavy Lift Project Cargo Tel: 65-276 7996 Fax:6s-276 3740
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