The Business Times, 26 August 1998

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    21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 110/12/97 85c s I N G A P o R Xfev Internet: http://business-times.asia! .com.sg/ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26.1998
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    74 1 Dm nLa (-5J9) nsr-n 14 msl (-4.58) nsrowp M 744-86 (-4.20) PI ST MSA U 52L83 (+6.01) P MARKET MOOD; mm Mfand STOCK HAIIET INDICES Toesday Change KLSE OOMP 324.17 +197 NIKKEI 15,***** +84J7 HANOSENO 7JH109 +44JI SET INDEX aaw -2J3 JAKARTA OOMP __*7.14 4.41 MANILA COMP -I2J2
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    FINANCE
    72 1 FOSEX KATES us$ SI USI 1.771 £(USS/SJ per£) 1.639 1904 DM L7I7 OJ0C YEN 144.7 im' KM UH 0.421 HKS 7.744 0V$ BAHT 41.580 0.043 BUPIAH 11,026 0.0 W 'St to 100 Mlttf PUKE KATES SINGAPORE* 7J8 KUALA LUMPUR n. M JAKARTA .28.00 BANGKOK 14.75 MANILA £.90 HONGKONG 10.25
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    Court orders deal blow to KL bond market
    1142 1  -  Bondholders' rights frozen in rulings to protect ailing firms from creditors From\ Meera Tharmaratnam in Kuala Lumpur RECENT court awards granting Malaysian companies protection from creditors under Section 176 of the Companies Act have become so wide ranging in their scope that
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    M'sian tycoon Lee Ming Tee arrested in HK
    310 1  -  From' Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE exhausting and expensive investigations into the affairs of the Hongkong-listed Allied Group may finally be coming to a head as the group's founder and former chairman Lee Ming Tee was arrested by Hongkong police yesterday.
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    Maybank posts shocking 90% fall in earnings
    744 1  -  From, Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S premier banking group Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) signalled a worrying trend in the local banking sector yesterday when it posted a shocking 90 per cent plunge in group net profit on sharply higher loan losses and
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    KL, HK stocks up but pace slows in region's markets
    158 1 [SINGAPORE] The pace slowed down in regional equity markets yesterday even as Malaysia and Hongkong ended higher, possibly from government support. In Singapore, Malaysian stocks on Clob International were the market's favourites. Dealers said brokers and retail punters were churning
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    HK intervention boosts tycoons' stakes by billions
    960 1  -  Three top families' flagship holdings np by HKsl2.Bb From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong IN just eight trading days, the controversial intervention by the Hongkong government in the stock market has boosted the holdings of the top Hongkong tycoons in their flagship companies
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      130 1 maam V* j M vy/1 VmUa i, I ill Ktaue rmnnm Russia's rouble suffered its worst fall in nearly four years yesterday as acting Prime Minsiter Viktor Chernomyrdin scrambled to put together a government, Pg 10 Time for companies to put a game {dim in place, Pf4 BT Sadal Cbb
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      42 1 HKMA poors another HKs4b into stocks, Pg 5 Market reports, Pgs 22-26 Ist mortgage-backed bond Far East Organisation and Citibank signed a $162 million financing deal yesterday which included the first mortgage-backed bond issue in Singapore this year. Full report. Pg 2
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Far East's $162m loan includes Ist mortgage-backed bond here
      493 2  -  Citibank expects to sign more of such property-backed loans this year lhj\ Diana Oon, Clarissa Tan FAR East Organization and Citibank signed a $162 million financing deal yesterday which included the first mortgage-backed bond issue in Singapore this year. The loan
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      No let-up in R&D commitments so far: labs
      508 2  -  Bat researchers fear fands from industry may dwindle s as Asian crisis bites Byl Eugene Low RESEARCH and development (R&D) spending does not seem, so far, to have been hit by the economic slowdown, a poll shows. But there is concern about
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      SingTel to market NEC plasma monitor
      277 2 NEC Singapore has appointed Sing Tel subsidiary Telecom Equipment as the distributor of its new plasma display monitor the Plasma Sync. At a signing ceremony yesterday, NEC managing director Noel Hon said Telecom Equipment would provide "dependable support and a widespread channel network" to
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      StarHub may draw up to 44% of firms
      367 2  -  Companies likely to switch from Sing Tel if savings are large By' Toh Han Shih SINGAPORE Telecom stands to lose up to two out of every five of its business customers here when competitor Star. Hub arrives on the local telecommunications scene
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      Lock icon Philips eyes tie-ups to boost its share of paging market
      495 2  -  By David Boey PHILIPS Consumer Communications, a major producer of telecommunications and electronics products, aims to corner a larger slice of Singapore's radio paging market through tie-ups with local companies. Such partnerships will allow companies to transmit messages to a
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      Corrections and clarifications
      62 2 IN the table accompanying yesterday's report "Strong foundations keep financial sector resilient", we gave the impression that the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation will place out $3.2 billion by April 1999 for external fund managers to manage. The amount is actually in addition to the $2.8 billion
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      Ad spending up 1.2% in 1st half
      381 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Advertising By] Marissa Chew DESPITE the economic gloom, advertising spending grew 1.2 per cent to $586.8 million in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year. But the downturn has taken its toll, as
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      German firms in S'pore undaunted by crisis: poll
      421 2  -  85% plan to maintain or even increase their presence here By< Conrad Raj THE Germans will stay on in Singapore despite being affected by the regional crisis. In fact, 85 per cent of more than 100 German firms surveyed by international management
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      Lock icon PM takes bankruptcy action against JBJ
      211 2 The Straits Times PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong has asked his lawyers to take bankruptcy action against opposition politician J B Jeyaretnam, who owes him $100,000 in defamatory damages. The Prime Minister's Office confirmed yesterday that Mr Jeyaretnam had not paid the money and
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      261 3 In bitter cold, dragging everything he needed behind him, Erling Kagge has trudged r— to both ends of the Earth. And then thrown in climbing without discarding all but the most vital THE BACK OF ERLING KAGGE'S c r equipment. Which is how Erling Kagge s WRISTWATCH IS ENGRAVED WITH
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  • FOCUS: MONEY MATTERS
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      Lock icon Time for companies to set game plan
      1183 4  -  Tough predicting where S$ will be in future but risk is clearly on the downside By Larry Wee /fy Larry W«e [SINGAPORE] Financial markets got even more complicated last week. Russia fired its five-month-old government on Friday, hot on the heels of a
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      Lock icon Are US bonds still a safe haven?
      525 4 The Economist [NEW YORK] As Wall Street's bears and bulls battle, there has been much talk of investors fleeing the stockmarket for the safe haven of bonds. Over the past year, the total returns on long-term bonds have exceeded those on the Dow
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      ANALYSIS
      385 4 What influences G7 policy-makers G7 policy-makers are acutely aware that the remainder of 1998 could be even more turbulent than even the dramatic events of 1997. Four risks are evident from our discussions with them: US$/Japanese yen: A critical bellwether of confidence in Japan, but a potential catalyst for
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      Lock icon THE WEAK AHEAD
      374 4  -  Compiled by Larry Wee Sources: ABN Amro (ABN), Independent Economic Analysis Holdings (IDEA) and MMS International Hongkong Friday: HI 1998 Economic Report, including update to current growth forecast of 3.5 per cent for 1998. Q2 numbers could worsen to as much as minus-4.5 per cent from Ql's
      Sources: ABN Amro (ABN), Independent Economic Analysis Holdings (IDEA) and MMS International  -  374 words
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
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      Lock icon HKMA pours HK$4b more into stocks: traders
      487 5 They say govt bought Wharf, other benchmark counters, sending index np Bloomberg [HONGKONG] The Hongkong government held back a wave of selling in the stock and ftitures markets as some Investors cast new bets against the city's currency and equities. The 33-stock Hang
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      Thailand sets goal of modest recovery next year
      836 5  -  IMF makes Bangkok lower target budget deficit to 3% of GDP, instead of 3J% From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND said yesterday that its economy would stage a modest recovery next year after shrinking by 7 per cent this year, as part
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      Lock icon Jakarta to divest stakes in only 10 state-owned firms by next March
      375 5 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia said yesterday it would divest stakes in only 10 state-owned firms in the fiscal year to the end of next March compared with the 12 originally planned, prompting warnings from analysts that privatisation proceeds could
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      Lock icon Japan's EPA sees boost from September
      181 5 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan's 16.65 trillion yen (*****.8 billion) stimulus package will start boosting the economy from September, said Taichi Sakaiya, director-general of the Economic Planning Agency (EPA), yesterday. The package, the largest ever, includes 4 trillion yen in one-time tax rebates, half of which
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      Lock icon KL ready to pay high rates on loans to revive economy
      307 7 M'sia will toil on its own to get onto recovery path: Dr M Bernama [SHAH ALAMI The government is wUling to pay high interest rates on its foreign loans in efforts to revive the national economy, said Prime Minister
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      Lock icon M'sian GDP seen shrinking 5.7%
      289 7 Survey of analysts suggests country's entered recession Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have contracted by 5.7 per cent in the second quarter of 1998 from the same period a year earlier, according to a Reuters poll of 13 research
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      152 5 Editorial- The HKMA in uncharted waters, Pg 11 I |tt. A ft|li| l» v The BMW 5 Serieslouring, incredible as it sounds, the new BMW 5 Series concea(ab!e load floor, retractable back seats, jrf^, Touring fulfd's both your driving dreams and your practical needs It packs side airbags and integrated
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      172 7 big has been so small. The Mercedes-Benz A-Class may only be 3.6 metres in length, but a closer look reveals an almost unbelievable amount of space inside. This is thanks to the < v.. •> y •> > i•>: V* J V-V ">■ >' •> V i > .*«/<■] A"
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  • REGION
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      Lock icon Indon subsidies, safety nets must eventually go: World Bank
      478 8 JAKARTA Jakarta most also work to prevent outflow of expertise, says bank official AFP INDONESIA'S subsidy and safety net programme is unsustainable in the long run and will have to be revised, a World Bank official warned yesterday. The bank's country
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      Lock icon Opposition protest against election illegal: Phnom Penh
      218 8 PHNOM PENH AFP CAMBODIA'S government yesterday declared an opposition protest against last month's election and strongman Hun Sen illegal as it entered a second day boosted by the presence of deposed copremier Norodom Ranariddh. "As of midnight last night, it is illegal," said
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      Lock icon Students demand Habibie's resignation
      238 8 JAKARTA AFP SOME 150 university students from campuses throughout greater Jakarta took to the streets yesterday to demand price cuts and the resignation of Indonesian President B J Habibie. The students, from the same group that staged nonstop sit-in demonstrations to push for the ouster of
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      Lock icon China takes stock of flood damage, plans rebuilding
      351 8 BEIJING AFP CHINA yesterday began to count the cost of almost four months of devastating floods and draw up plans to help millions back on their feet, as the immediate threat from flooding receded, state media reported. In the northeast, water levels
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      Was Prabowo just a fall guy?
      841 8  -  ASIAN VIEW The ex-gßneral Is shrewdly silent on the abduction of Indon dissidents By Yang Razali Kassim THE curtain finally came down on the once illustrious military career of Lt-Gen Prabowo Subianto, the man in the eye of the current storm. Following a grilling
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      Lock icon Anti-Chinese attacks under probe, says Alatas
      466 8 JAKARTA But inquiries need time, protests abroad won't solve problem, he says AFP INDONESIA is pursuing its inquiries into the violent unrest that targeted the ethnic Chinese minority but it needs time and protests abroad would not help settle the problem, Foreign Minister Ali
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      Lock icon Indon-Belgian venture plans refinery project
      138 8 JAKARTA AFP PT Felima Orient Pacific, an Indonesian-Belgian joint venture, plans to build an oil refinery in central Java with an initial investment of around US$2 billion (553.5 billion), the company said on Monday. Felima chief commissioner Abdul Radja told reporters after meeting President BJ
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      Lock icon Court rejects appeal, jails DAP MP
      230 8 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S highest court yesterday rejected an opposition leader's appeal against a sedition conviction and ordered him sent to jail. The Federal Court upheld a lower court decision to sentence Lim Guan Eng, national chairman of the Democratic Action Party Socialist Youth,
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      Lock icon India raises US$4.1b from bonds to cope with sanctions
      268 9 BOMBAY AFP INDIA has raised some US$4.l billion (557.3 billion) from a crucial bond issue aimed at circumventing USled sanctions by appealing to Indians living abroad, a top bank official said yesterday. "It's a brilliant response. Better than my expectations,' said
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      Lock icon S Korea's jobless rate of 7.5% highest since 1966
      445 9 SEOUL Govt says 1.65 m people oat of work; anions say actual number above 3m AFP Reuters SOUTH Korea's unemployment rate in July hit a new aU-time high of 7.5 per cent, the highest since 1966, with 1.65 million people out
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      Lock icon Risky loans total 2.8t yen, says LTCB
      322 9 TOKYO AFP THE troubled Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan Ltd admitted yesterday it held 2.8 trillion yen (5534.4 billion) in risky loans in March, but analysts warned the true figure could be far higher. The figure, given in a parliamentary committee paper obtained
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      Lock icon Hyundai reopens Ulsan plant after month-long strike
      320 9 SEOUL But no word yet on when operations will resume AFP WORKERS of South Korea's top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co yesterday began cleaning up its factories after the firm reopened its plant, closed for a month, following a deal between the management and
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      Lock icon Terrorists threaten US allies
      155 9 MSYDNEY AFP AUSTRALIA is investigating reports that an Islamic group has threatened revenge attacks against its interests unless it withdraws support for US anti-terrorist strikes, officials said yesterday. The Australian newspaper reported that the Rawalpin-di-based Harkat ul Mujahideen had singled out Britain, Germany and Australia for
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      554 9 P R E IER MEET,HG PLACE for the oil a gas industries (C*y 14THAS IA P A CIFI C PETROLEUM CONFERENCE A* CO* 14-16 SEPTEMBER 1998 RAFFLES CITY CONVENTION CENTRE SINGAPORE The flnanciaiturmoil plaguingthe Asian eoumrtes t ====r^ has had a far reaching impact on the oil and gas MINISTERIAL
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Rouble tumbles as acting PM scrambles to form govt
      544 10 MOSCOW Russian unit drops 10% to 7.88 a US$ in its worst plunge in four years Reuters RUSSIA'S rouble suffered its worst fall in nearly four years yesterday as acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin scrambled to put together a government. President
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      Lock icon IMF, US play down Russian shake-up
      399 10 WASHINGTON Reuters THE International Monetary Fund and the US on Monday put a brave face on Russia's stunning political shake-up, saying the new government's commitment to economic reform was what mattered. The lending agency and its largest shareholder played down President Boris Yeltsin's abrupt
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      Lock icon Shaky economies in Latin America worry metal markets
      303 10 LONDON Fears of Venezuela devaluing, triggering domino effect Reuters THE chance that wobbly Latin American economies could go the way Asia's did in 1997 throws up another worry for depressed global metal markets, threatening to prolong bear-cycles, analysts said yesterday. Concerns arose
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      Dow seen trading in 1,000-point range before heading upwards
      438 10  -  SINGAPORE Credit Suisse unit says bull on Wall St still intact, index to hit 10,000 next year By I Siow Li Sen FOR the next six months, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will swing about 1,000 points before resuming its ascent
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      Lock icon Zorro-ing on the Internet
      57 10 [HANOVER, Germany] Holger Schilp of German online service, Comcity Online Services, testing a computer in front of screen showing the film Zorro via the Internet using the new ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) technology at the Ceßit Home Fair in Hanover yesterday. The multi-media and computer
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      Lock icon Germany shielded from Asia, Russia?
      223 10 BONN Reuters GERMANY should suffer only limited economic impact from the financial crises in Asia and Russia as burgeoning domestic demand supports an accelerating recovery, the economics ministry said yesterday. The ministry said in its August monthly report that growth in the second quarter of
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      Lock icon EU closer to deal on central bank strategy to fight inflation
      297 10 MUNICH Bloomberg EUROPE'S top central bankers are close to agreement on the inflation-fighting strategy of the European Central Bank, says ECB president Wim Duisenberg. The choice of strategy has been narrowed down to a Bundesbank-style money supply target and
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      Lock icon Ex-French premier Juppe caught up in graft probe
      318 10 PARIS Reuters FORMER French prime minister Alain Juppe, a close ally of President Jacques Chirac, has been placed under investigation in a probe into an alleged payroll scam at Paris city hall, a justice source said yesterday. Mr Juppe, prime minister from
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      164 10 I PERKS talks to I I Enterprise HR I I Systems! I I PERKS interfaces to external HR Systems. If you are using 'mht 1"' Enterprise HR Systems, talk to us about how PERKS imports i- the masters and transactions automatically and generates the payroll according to Singapore regulations and
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Will Estrada get chance to complete term?
      735 11  -  THE BOTTOM UXB OPINION By Al Labita The writer is BT's Manila correspondent PHILIPPINES President Joseph Estrada has been less than two months in office, but at the rate things are going, he may not complete his six-year term Some senators want to
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      140 11 'Only every fifth 'Meet the Press' could be dedicated to gossip, innuendo, slander and inaccurate information by people who actually don't know anything.' Newt Gingrich United States House Speaker, who asked the news media, for the good of the country, to reduce coverage of the White House
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      The HKMA in uncharted waters
      638 11 EDITORIAL WE have by now heard both sides of the story on the unprecedented intervention in the Hongkong stock market by the Hongkong Monetary Authority (HKMA). Following the intervention, which first took place on Aug 14 and drove the Hang Seng index up 8 per
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      Lock icon whither Japan's banks?
      1286 11  -  Japan's banking industry faces great change over the next few years, with potentially major global consequences By, Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent AND then there were 18. The reconstruction of Japan's Long-Term Credit Bank (LTCB) and its merger with Sumitomo Trust and Banking will
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      362 11 hwmii WHEN he spoke on the Monica Lewinsky matter last week, President Clinton insisted that his private life should remain private. Unfortunately, what the president did behind closed doors with a former White House intern does directly involve all of us and our wallets. The Lewinsky
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Clubs index sinks to lowest level as job worries loom
      511 12  -  BT SOCIAL CLUB INDEX Innovative schemes, lower membership prices of new clubs find few takers By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The market value of social and recreational clubs in Singapore slipped to their lowest level ever last month, weighed down by
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      Lock icon Cholesterol cutting cookies
      493 12 HEALTH Soon, four cookies a day may help keep cholesterol at bay, thanks to a new fat substitute Reuters US scientists and a commercial baker said on Monday they have developed a fat substitute that will make cookies, cakes and ice cream healthy as well as tasty.
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      Lock icon 103-years-old but this heart's still going strong
      545 12 HEALTH Man whose heart has been nnder study for 50 years tells how he keeps fit NYT [WEST PALM BEACH, Florida] On Sept 27, the city of Framingham, Massachusetts, will honour the 10,000-plus men and women who have taken part in the largest,
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      Lock icon Cancer: 31% use alternative medicine
      170 12 HEALTH Reuters [WASHINGTON] As many as a third of cancer patients in developed countries use alternative medicine in addition to standard treatment, researchers reported last week. Such alternative treatments include meditation, relaxation, hypnotherapy, visualisation, reflexology, diet and food supplements, Chinese medicine, herbs and homeopathy. Edzard
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      782 12 CITIBANKO Citibank. NA. (Incorporated with Limited Liability in the U.S.A.) CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET Citicorp ano subsidiaries CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF flocembei 31 December 31 CITICORP ANO SUBSIDIARIES IN MILLIONS OF U.S. DOLLARS 1997 1996 IN MILLIONS OF U.S. DOLLARS As««t* EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS 1997 1996 Cash and Due from Banks
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      842 14  -  A locally designed smart card reader is making inroads into these and other areas, reports raju cobuam RAJU CHELLAM WHEN Singapore residents sign up to do their banking on the Internet from their homes, they do not get just the connection software and a
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      Lock icon E-commerce set to quadruple by 2002
      438 14  -  Market research firm sees sales at USslobin4years By 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] It's boom time for vendors of electronic commerce technologies and services. The world market for ecommerce vendors will quadruple from US$2.5 billion last year to US$lO billion (5517.7 billion) in 2002,
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        Free Web site for iMac users
        93 14 USERS of the newly-launched Apple iMac (see Apple's site at www.apple.com/imac/index.html) can benefit from a new Web-based community service that provides them a free Web site and e-mail service. Known as My Netopia, the new Web site offers iMac users a free five-page Web
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        Virtual gallery of local artists
        88 14 THE works of some homegrown artists are now being showcased on the Internet through an online art gallery called the Art Forum. Hie site features Singaporean aftists such as Goh Beng K wan and Chua Ek Kay as well as some regional artists, namely Indonesia's
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        Join a club at Yahoo!
        78 14 AS the race among the portals hots up, Yahoo! has introduced its own end-user community builder service called Yahoo! Clubs. The new service allows end users to create their own closed communities equipped with message boards, chat rooms, e-mail, personalisation tools and photo albums. Yahoo's
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        E-commerce to hit US$400b by 2002
        94 14 ACCORDING to a new study by research firm International Data Corporation (wwwJdcresearch.com), e-commerce revenue is expected to reach US$4OO billion (***** billion) by 2002. The jump in e-commerce sales is due to an overall increase in global Web audience from 100 million by end-1996
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        Heart surgery beamed live via Net
        95 14 A MEDICAL team led by Robert Lazzara at the Providence Seattle Medical Center has become the first to perform heart bypass operations live on the Internet Images of open-heart bypaas operations on Seattle residents, 87-year-old Gloria Snoddy and 52-year-old Charles Sheridan, taken by a
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        Online bookstore for college students
        95 14  -  OoepOedfcy! Francis Ang IN a bid to focus on the niche market of US college students. Varsityßooks.com has opened its virtual shop at www.varsitybooks.oom. It is offering textbooks at discounts of 15 to 40 per cent and shipping them within two business days at a
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      UIC, SingLand interim net profits fall more than 25%
      410 15  -  Cost of borrowings np 120% at UIC; SingL&nd's higher rentals offset by lower occupancies By, Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Property and trading group United Industrial Corporation has reported a 27 per cent drop in halftime net profit to $24.09 million. As for
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      Lock icon CJ dismisses Peter Tay's appeal in Amcol cheating case
      349 15 The Straits Times [SINGAPORE] Chief Justice Yong Pung How yesterday threw out the appeal of businessman Peter Tay Huay Hong, who was convicted and sentenced to 20 months' jail last November for conspiracy to cheat Amcol Holdings. He said that after
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      Property: nonintervention is what the market needs
      649 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Wong Wei Kong INVESTORS who sold property stocks after Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong reiterated that the government would not prop up property prices are missing an important point. Non-in-tervention, especially in the face of rising pressure to do so,
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      SingTel's 1st satellite draws robust demand
      600 15  -  From Teh Hooi Ling in Kourou, French Guiana DEMAND for transponders on Singapore Telecom's first satellite ST-1 is healthy despite the Asian economic crisis, Sing Tel said yesterday. The US$24O million (***** million) ST-1, which Sing Tel co-owns with Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecoms, will be
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      Transpac takes $40.8m writedown
      426 15  -  Provisions made for Indonesia, Thailand M'sia investments By. Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] Venture capital fund Transpac Industrial Holdings has taken the knife to its investments in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, and made a charge of $40.85 million to write their value down to virtually zero in its
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      FCC unit lakes US$75m loan to refinance facility
      196 15 [SINGAPORE] A First Capital Corporation subsidiary has signed a US$75 million (*****.8 million) loan with National Australia Bank to refinance an existing facility with Commerzbank. The two-year term loan, pegged at a margin of 150 basis points over the three or six-month
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        734 16  -  HK-listed hotelier's development of three hotel projects in China deferred From Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong LUXURY hotel chain Shan-gri-La Asia's net profit fell 49 per cent to HK$24l million (5555.1 million) in the first six months of this year as the regional economic
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        414 16 Bernama Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Some of the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) have rejected Tenaga Nasional Bhd's bid to renegotiate price and defer payment for the power it buys from them, Tenaga's president and chief executive officer Ahmad Tajuddin Ali, said yesterday. Mr
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        Lock icon 80% profit fall seen for Cheung Kong
        451 16 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Having chewed half the value off the Hang Seng Index, recession is biting into Hongkong's foundations, sapping profits at Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, the flagships of billionaire Li Ka-shing. Property developer Cheung Kong and conglomerate Hutchison are
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        Lock icon Steering clear of US$ loans pays off for Gudang Garam
        165 16 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Gudang Garam, an Indonesian maker of clove cigarettes, said firsthalf profit rose 26 per cent from a year ago as sales rose. Profit rose to 517.13 billion rupiah (5581.7 million), or 269 rupiah a share, from 410.65
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        Proposed commissions apply to Net and non-Net trading
        356 16  -  By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Share trading via the Internet is round the corner but initial demand for it may not be too encouraging, judging by the brokers' commissions that will be charged. In response to BT's queries, the Stock Exchange of
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        Salim said to be selling some key assets
        662 16  -  Indofood, Indocement high on list of firms it may let go: analysts From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta IN a bid to stave off creditors and retain some aspects of its business empire, Indonesia's largest conglomerate, the Salim Group, is in the process
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          Clipsal seals US$40m loan facility
          57 16 [SINGAPORE] Clipsal Industries has entered into a US$4O million (5570.8 million) transferable loan facility with a syndicate of banks and financial institutions. The five-year facility will be used to refinance existing borrowings of US$25 million due for repayment on Sept 14. The balance will be
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          Lock icon Country Heights in talks over Premier
          63 16 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Country Heights Holding Bhd is in the midst of negotiations to acquire a controlling stake in Premier Capital Securities Bhd, the company said. In a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, Country Heights said it is unable to provide further
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          Lock icon U-turn on trading of 3 Indon banks
          125 16 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] The Jakarta Stock Exchange reversed a decision allowing the resumption of the trading in the shares of three banks it nationalised last week, saying they will now be "indefinitely suspended". An exchange spokeswoman said she didn't know why the decision was
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        First Pacific sells San Miguel stake for 3b pesos
        414 17  -  Rumoured buyer Ednardo Cojnangco seen consolidating control of SMC From. Al Labita in Manila HONGKONG-LISTED First Pacific Co yesterday sold its entire 2 per cent equity in San Miguel Corp (SMC) after attempts to gain control of the beer-based giant fizzled
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        510 17 Reuters [SHANGHAI] The interim profits of China's B share companies have matched the market's dismal expectations and more economic pain lurks round the corner, analysts said yesterday. The reporting season for the 52 B share companies in Shanghai and 54
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        227 17 Complaint filed over revocation of Thai rail contract: report AFXAsia [BANGKOK] Hopewell (Thailand) Co Ltd has filed a complaint with the Transport and Communication Ministry over the government's revocation of its elevated railroad contract, the Bangkok Post reported. The Bangkok Post report cited a source
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        Sime Philippines shares jump 49% on buyback plan
        349 17  -  From, Al Labita in Manila SIME Darby Philippines (SDP) shares yesterday shot up 49 per cent on thin trade after its Malaysian parent offered to buy them at a premium in the run-up to its eventual delisting from the Philippines Stock Exchange
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        388 18 Company banking on mainframe server to spur demand for software, services Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp's second-half sales are expected to get a boost from a new version of its old standby the mainframe computer. The world's largest computer
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        288 18 Bloomberg [SCOTTS VALLEY, California] Seagate Technology Inc promoted William Watkins to chief operating officer on Monday and named two other top executives, reorganising its management after the departure of chief executive Alan Shugart. Separately, the No 1 maker of computer disk drives disclosed
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        Lock icon Northrop Grumman to cut 2,100 more jobs by end-2000
        250 18 Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] Northrop Grumman Corp said it will cut an additional 2,100 jobs, or about 3.9 per cent of fts workforce, by the end of 2000 as part of its plan to reduce annual operating costs by US$3OO million (Sss3l
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        Lock icon Microsoft co-founder files to sell 700,000 shares
        164 18 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul G Allen filed to sell 700,000 common shares of the world's largest software maker for an expected U5573.3 million (*****.7 million). Mr Allen, who's still on Microsoft's board though he is no longer a company executive, already
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        Lock icon AMP sues AlliedSignal over conflict of interest
        358 18 Suitor seen as trying to pack board with its own officers Bloomberg [PHILADELPHIA] AMP Inc on Monday sued Allied Signal Inc, the aerospace company attempting to buy it, in federal court to prevent Allied Signal from packing the AMP board with its officers
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        Lock icon CyberGuard suspends CEO, CFO over unreliable accounts
        258 18 Reuters [MIAMI] Internet-security specialist CyberGuard Corp said on Monday its accounts were unreliable and that it was suspending its chief executive and chief financial officer. The boardroom turmoil, along with news that CyberGuard's auditors had quit, sapped the software maker's shares of two-thirds
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        Rubber producers yet to agree on Inro pullout
        419 19  -  Thailand, M'sia, Indonesia have not set common stand on quitting source By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Major rubber producers Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia have failed to arrive at a common stand over quitting the International Natural Rubber Organisation (Inro) despite recent declarations
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        Don't be overly pessimistic, Elizabeth Sam tells investors
        325 19  -  'Opportunity of a lifetime' to invest in Asian stocks By I Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] Banker Elizabeth Sam last night cautioned investors against being "overly pessimistic" and hence missing "the opportunity of a lifetime" to invest in Asian stock markets expected to
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        Lock icon Toyo Trust to tie up with US, UK fund managers
        177 19 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Toyo Trust and Banking Co said it will tie up with foreign fund managers in the US and UK to manage most of its overseas stockholdings. Toyo Trust's decision comes as Japanese trust banks and other investment managers,
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        616 20  -  Loss-making GIO says yesterday's closing price shows offer is inadequate From Russell Baker in Sydney IN another bout of rationalisation in Australia's financial services industry, the country's largest insurer AMP has launched an opportunistic As 3 billion (Ss3.l billion) takeover bid for
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        Lock icon UBS interim profit up 5%, sees 10% growth for FY98
        390 20 Bat 2nd half results to slow due to global uncertainty Reuters [ZURICH] ÜBS AG boosted group net profit 5 per cent to 3.02 billion Swiss francs (553.6 billion) in the first half of 1998 excluding special factors and forecast yesterday
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        308 20 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Merrill Lynch Co Inc agreed to pay a US$2 million (553.5 million) civil penalty to settle allegations that it misled investors when it underwrote Orange County municipal securities, months before the county's disastrous bankruptcy, the Securities Exchange Commission said on Monday.
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        324 20 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Goldman Sachs Group LP, the biggest investment banking partnership, disclosed financial details that show trading and merchant banking were its most profitable businesses in the past three years. New York-based Goldman, in a preliminary filing with the Securities and Exchange
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        Euroyen slips on Miyazawa warning
        212 20 SOBEZReport [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures slipped yesterday as market confidence was shaken by comments from Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa about bank failures in Japan. Mr Miyazawa warned that a "hard-landing scenario" was possible for some Japanese banks. But the finance minister said the government
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        Record high volume of 16,042 contracts
        189 20  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES Charlie Kuo io, service dealer, Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures contract established a record high in its trading volume at 16,042 contracts yesterday. This surpassed the previous volume of 14,693 contracts traded on April 28. The contract
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        272 20 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg [LONDON] Crude oil was little changed ahead of last night's release of a report from the American Petroleum Institute, which could show oil supplies rose last week in the world's largest energy-consuming nation. Analysts said that even if the report
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        249 20 AFP AFX-Asia, London THE- US dollar was slightly firmer against major currencies yesterday, helped by a stronger performance on Wall Street and Latin America equity markets, dealers said. But some warned that sentiment on the emerging markets remains fragile and that Wall Street could still face a period
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1849 21 SI COM rilTUaES Aug 25 RUBBER (futures closing *s it 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS centsAg) Close Volume Open Month Hiqh Low Sett (towns) Interest S«p 98 114.25 300 Oct 98 114.00 114.00 114.50 50 1315 Nov 98 113.75 113.75 115.25 300 1475 Dec 98 116.00 »50 Jan/Mar 99 120.00
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2299 21 LONDON Industrials AegJS_ Ptnct 31 Group 554.000 26.000 AS Ports 297.000 -2.000 Abbey National (115.000 17.000 Allied Domecg 537.400 4.400 Am ec 141.000 unch Asda Group 179.400 3.400 BAT Ind 647.400 20.400 BG Pic 384.400 -1.600 BICC 97.000 -4.000 BOC Group 848.000 -2.000 BR Petroleum 831.000 unch
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      1633 21 AFP < Nikkei 225 +8157 JAPANESE share prices bounced back 0.6 per cent yesterday as investors covered short positions and looked for bargains following gains on Wall Street and major European markets, brokers said. But banks remained mostly depressed while some profit-taking and concerns about ongoing parliament debate over
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      1496 22 Reuters Q Hang Seng +44.61 HONGKONG stocks closed higher yesterday after reversing losses to climb in a late session rally, boosted by government buying, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index added 44.61 points, or 0.57 per cent, to finish at 7,890.09 after hitting a low of 7,714.27. "It is
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      623 22 Reuters QStanhenß Index +L 34 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares made strong gains yesterday as domestic institutions moved in to pick up blue chips that had been battered by recent selling, analysts said. The B Share Index rose 1.34 points, or 2.41 per cent, to close at 56.70 on
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      372 22 AFP QWP Index -41.42 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.7 per cent lower yesterday on follow-through selling amid uncertainties over the island's economic fundamentals, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index dropped 49.42 points to 6,908.33, following a 3.5 per cent plunge in the previous session. "The drop
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      245 22 AFP PWeffingtop -12.08 NEW Zealand shares ended 0.6 per cent lower yesterday, failing to follow through on positive closes on a number of world markets overnight. At the close of trading yesterday, the NZSE-40 Capital Index was down 12.06 points at 1,943.70 on light turnover worth NZ559.24 million. *t-
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      756 22 AFP Q SET Index -193 THAI stocks fell 1.3 per cent yesterday on regional concerns, shrugging off cabinet approval for the country's fifth quarterly agreement with the International Monetary Fund, analysts said. Trading volumes were thin, indicating investors were remaining sidelined on regional concerns and waiting for legislation to
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      413 22 AFP >1 Composite Index +5,08 SOUTH Korean share prices closed yesterday 1.6 per cent higher in a technical rebound led by blue chips as investors' sentiment improved, dealers said. "Gains in blue chips on the back of strong foreign buying amid a firmer yen led the market's rise above
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      587 22 AFP HAn Ordinaries +25-9 AUSTRALIAN share prices gained one per cent yesterday on the back of stronger overseas stock and metal markets, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index finished 25.9 points higher at 2,627.7. The All Industrials Index rose 48 points to 4,644.4 while the All Resources Index climbed
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      738 22 AFP D Composite Index -3.41 INDONESIAN share prices closed 0.9 per cent lower yesterday as the stronger rupiah led to arbitrage selling in dol-lar-sensitive stocks, dealers said. "The firmer rupiah has triggered selling in overseaslisted stocks such as Telkom and Indosat," a dealer with a local brokerage said, referring
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      308 22 AFP n Manila -12iB PHILIPPINE share prices closed one per cent lower yesterday amid persistent regional uncertainty, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Index fell 12.92 points to close at 1,310.19 points. Turnover rose to 906.9 million shares worth 465 million pesos against 220.42 million shares worth 602.50 million
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        7569 23 INDUSTRIALS Cm—f products '998 Last Vol Day Not Cap L— Company Sat* 'OOO Hlgft Low P/t $mll 310 170 Ajinomoto 190 10.5 77.0 148 35.5 Angkasa 40 unch 10 41 40 0.9 59.0 290 123 Apollo Food Hlg 130 4.5 52.0 388 K>8 Berjaya Land 148 unch 50 150 145
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        390 23 AFP Q Composite Index +6.97 MALAYSIA'S key stock index rose 2.2 per cent yesterday in modest trade due to a firm ringgit and in line with major regional bourses. "The ringgit is firm and the stock market performed in line with Tokyo and Hongkong,"
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        214 24  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy WHEN it was listed last year, Asia Food and Properties was the rage of the local market, with its shares rising to more than US$l.4O. Today, the Indonesiancontrolled company's shares reflect the gloomy outlook faced by the country the
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
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      STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE: MAIN BOARD
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        221 26 Stocks VofcMM *M Resources 16,197,000 •North Borneo 13.380,000 DBS Land 6,597,000 •RHBCapBhd 5,552,000 •Renong BM 50c 5,363,000 *MAA 5,202,000 ST Engq 10c 4,908,000 Keppel Corp 4,873,000 W Want US20c 4,600,000 *MBf Capital 4,308,000 »tedu SPH 17,668,860 •North Borneo 12,393,360 SingTel 15c 9,059,150 OCBC Foreign 8,082,400 Keppel Corp 7,724,860 DBS Land
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        HOT STOCK
        66 26  -  by Shiv Taneja WANT Want Holdings closed one US cent lower yesterday at 50 US cents on a volume of 4.6 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 1.3 million shares. While the daily and weekly MACD charts indicate a neutral position, the weekly RSI and
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        Focus falls on Clob amid quiet day on currency front
        672 26  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Property stocks stage modest recovery on renewed hopes of a prime rate cnt in the near fntore By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] A quiet day on the currency front and the lack of any clear signals from Wall
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          Nice spin
          97 26 IN these days when it seems that all news is bad news, putting things in a positive light is a challenge for any newsmaker. Philip Ng, CEO of property developer Far East Organization, showed creativity when he referred to the current slowdown in the property market as the
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          Tough times
          22 26 TIMES are getting tough, as this notice which one of our staffers noticed in a pantry of a company, suggests.
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          Selling in tandem
          89 26 NOTHING unfazes some retailers, not even heavy construction work right in front of their store. Take Yue Hwa Chinese Products Ltd at the corner of Eu Tong Sen and Cross streets. Despite the noisy diggings in front for the new North-East Line of the Mass Rapid Transit
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          Silence is golden
          64 26 INTERNET chat groups in Malaysia have been rather subdued following the recent arrests of four suspects for allegedly spreading unfounded rumours of riots at the Chow Kit area in Kuala Lumpur. Regular forum participant Yap Yok Foo, or more popularly known as Uncle Yap, yesterday noted that
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          All that glitters is gold
          187 26 YOU would have thought that in crisis-ridden Indonesia, gold buying would be the last thing on people's minds. In truth, the attraction of gold as a safe haven at a time of collapsing confidence has never been more clearly demonstrated there. According to the World
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      343 27 Bridge News, Reuters THE rate for a Panamax grain cargo on the US Gulf to Japan rim continues to hold at US$l3.OO, although there is talk that midSeptember tonnage in the US Gulf is prepared to fix at under this level. It emerged that the Global Ace, a
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      689 27  -  It is looking into coal transport and infrastrnctnral and solntion-oriented projects By Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] While IMC Shipping is often associated with bulk shipping, it has also branched out into infrastructural and solution-orient-ed projects. With one major independent power producer (IPP) project
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      664 27  -  STRAIT TALK By I Seafarer WITH some six weeks gone since the introduction of the International Safety Management Code, it is starting to become clearer just how effective the International Maritime Organisation's flagship piece of legislation is going to be
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      261 27  -  By 3 Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Port dues for oil rigs will be brought in line with those of other vessel types from next month to boost Singapore's attractiveness as a shiprepair centre. Beginning Sept 1, port dues for oil rigs jack ups,
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      158 27 [SINGAPORE] One of the world's largest container vessels, the Regina Maersk, made its maiden call at Port Klang on Monday much to the pleasure of Malaysian authorities. Malaysian Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik described the call by the Maersk Line vessel as
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      562 28 NEW ARABIAN PORTS The regional leadership of Dubai is being threatened by newcomers at Oman and Yemen AFP [MUSCAT] A PORT war is brewing in the Arabian peninsula as Oman and Yemen prepare to unveil their new or expanded container ports in direct
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        915 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Lid. ■hgw* price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Price* shown are based on average sued stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bun ker Price Index change and
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        517 44  -  British carrier places its first ever order with Boeing's arch-rival By Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Europe's Airbus Industrie scored a historic coup yesterday, pipping its trans-Atlantic rival to bag a symbolic order from British Airways (BA) worth US$9 billion (5515.9 billion) for up
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        169 44 Reuters [MOSCOW] Russia's Federal Aviation Service (FAS) has granted flight licences to several carriers to operate on new scheduled international routes. State-owned flagship carrier Aeroflot received licences to operate two weekly flights from Moscow to Klagenfurt in Austria, a once weekly Moscow-Dubai-Kara-chi
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        185 44 AFP [TAIPEI] Almost 70 pilots of a Taiwanese domestic airline resigned en masse in protest at pay cuts, a pilot said. Sixty-seven out of 79 pilots of ATR aircraft of TransAsia Airways resigned on Monday after talks with the management on
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        254 44 Bloomberg [LUTON, England] Two Barclays pic units are among a group of British and US investors that agreed to invest £100 million (Ss2B9 million) to upgrade Luton Airport, north of London, the airport said. Barclays Private Equity and Barclays UK Infrastructure Fund will each
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        635 44 Complaints after the first full day of operations AFP [HONGKONG] The main cargo handler at Hongkong's airport yesterday admitted to intrinsic problems with the new location, amid complaints from importers and lorry drivers after the first full day of operations. Hongkong Air Cargo
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      47 42 ETA ETD TROPICAL ROSE 24/08/98 2*oB/98 PHNOM PENH JUN 3 28/08/98 27/08/98 VUNQTAU JUN3 10*0*96 12/o*9B SMANOUKVUE (30 TOM DERRICK AVAILABLE) THE NEW STRAITS SHIPPING CO. (PTE) LTD S1 ANSON ROAD «o#-53 ANSON CENTRE SINGAPORE 0207 TEL: *****07 *****22 TLX RS23IM FAX ***** M CR NO: 11«a07*mHH
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