The Business Times, 27 August 1998

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 110/12/97 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asia! .com.sg/ THURSDAY, AUGUST 27,1998
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    FINANCE
    69 1 1MIII1U USS 81 is» L77J S(US$/S$per£) LOt IMS HI L7J8 MM YEN 144.7 US* RM 4 333 MM HK$ 7.741 .9339 BAHT *1.680 M43 HJHAH 1UM Mil* St U ICC units PsnBuns SINGAPORE* 7 £8 KUALA LUMPUR— 1150 JAJtARTA «an BANGKOK.. 14.75 MANILA 2199 HONGKONG 19.25 TAIPH gJ6 SYDNEY
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    Corporate bond yields hit 70% as prices plummet
    623 1  -  Bnt payment risks are deterring investors despite soaring returns By I Clarissa Tan [SINGAPORE] Yields for some listed corporate bonds have shot past 70 per cent but there's no queue to snap them up despite the high rate of return. Brokers and
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    S'pore still winning new investors and new jobs
    715 1  -  Tri-p&rtite panel stresses need for supply-demand fit By\ Ronnie Lim [SINGAPORE] Despite the current difficult times, Singapore still remains competitive, attracting investors who will set up projects creating some 15,000 new manufacturing jobs and 5,000 jobs in the exportable services sector this
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    Lock icon Lee Ming Tee faces HK$700m fraud charges
    630 1  -  From l Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong FORMER Allied Group chairman Lee Ming Tee was finally brought to court yesterday for alleged commercial crimes involving HK$7OO million (Ssl6o million), five years after the government released a special investigator's report alleging improprieties in the
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      143 1 dtszde StiD popular Despite the slump in the housing market 4-room HDB flats remain one of the feat-setting in the resale market, P|4 OObticrutt COE premiums could be in for a crash next year if the economy does not improve, say motor traders, Matarftafc F|M ':i m/m Anil In Dum's
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      9 1 Key EDB aim: investments to create jobs, Pg 2
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      148 1 BL3b bond payments falling due in 2yrs, Pg 15 j Invented for you Type XX Aeronavale chronograph has a doubly prestigious heritage. It is true to the inventive spirit of Abraham-Louis Breguet, greatest watchmaker ever known. It is skies through aircTufi such as the Breguet "Point <t interrogationimbued aISO With
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Key EDB aim: investments to create enough jobs
      487 2  -  Target is $7Jb far this year and next to sustain economy till regien recovers B» 1 Ronnie Lim THE Economic Development Board's key aim in the next two years is to attract enough manufacturing investments here to create new jobs and help
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      Lock icon Electronics dependence a weakness
      291 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Outlook By, Audrey Tan SINGAPORE'S dependence on the electronics sector and intra-regional trade has now become key weaknesses, says Consensus Economics. The London-based agency notes that the external sector has failed to provide any re- al support to Singapore's overall growth. "The
      Source: Economic  -  291 words
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      Beat credit crunch with countertrade: TDB chief
      297 2  -  By i Carol Eng TO overcome the regional credit crunch, businessmen could turn to countertrade, which is a growing international practice that is worth US$5OO billion (*****.1 billion) a year, or 10-15 per cent of world trade. Speaking at a forum on countertrade
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      SNS, Netscape sign major e-commerce deal
      439 2  -  They plan to jointly sell e-commerce solutions in region By Toh Han Shih IN one of the biggest electronic commerce ventures to date, local network services operator Singapore Network Services and US Internet major Netscape yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly market
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      Melrose Park subsidy draws only 2
      345 3  -  DBS Land has no plans for other marketing schemes By\ Diana Oon DBS Land's month-long offer of a loan subsidy of up to $60,000 for units in Melrose Park drew only two buyers when the offer ended on Sunday. A visit to the showflat
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      SingTel satellite launched successfully
      389 3  -  From Teh Hooi Ling in Kourou, French Guiana UNDER the clear Kourou night sky, ST-1, the first satellite to be owned and operated by a Singapore company, was successfully launched at 2307 GMT, or 7.07 am Singapore time yesterday. More than 120 participants, including officials from
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      Lock icon S'porean heads Asian ops of new Deutsche division
      333 3  -  Bank reports best HI Asia-Pacific results in 25 years By\ Larry Wee DEUTSCHE Bank has appointed Singaporean Linus Koh to co-ordinate a sharper focus on serving its client needs better. Mr Koh was recently appointed chief operating officer, Asia Pacific, for the
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      Corporate failures set to rise in S'pore, M'sia
      502 3  -  Arthur Andersen partner says next 6 to 9 months crucial By 1 Toh Han Shih SINGAPORE and Malaysia will see a lot more corporate failures in the next six to nine months, says an accounting firm partner who deals with companies with
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      Lanvin's S'pore unit calls it quits
      227 3  -  By] Marisa Chew LANVIN (Singapore) Pte Ltd, the local distributor of the French luxury fashion label, has thrown in the towel. The company, which is a subsidiary of Lanvin, has been winding up its business here for the past month, said its lawyer Chandra
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      536 2 JIIIIIL ANA HOTELS lllllm SINGAPORE LTD. (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) The Directors announce the unaudited results of the Company for the six months ended June 30,1998. 1998 1997 Jan-Jun Jan-Jun ±t (Ss) (SS) la. TURNOVER 13,722,600 17,533,500 21.7b. INTEREST INCOME 6,800 12,200 44.32a. OPERATING PROFIT before income tax,
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      8 2 S*pore hanfcn need more countertrade expertise, Pg 18
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      35 3 -?Zm; I^SsSBS^r 5 m- K O Performance Mc*ors Limited East Coast Centre, 280 Kampong Arang Road Tel 346 7227 Mon-Sat 9am-6pm Sun 10am 6pm A member of the 0 Sime Singapore Group Uttimato Riding MaChiVM
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Lock icon 4-room flats still going fast
      866 4  -  Buyers are drawn by variety of flat types and affordability as resale prices have dipped to average $250,000 By\ David Boey [SINGAPORE] EVEN with the housing market in a slump, four-room Housing and Development Board flats remain one of the fastest-selling in the resale market,
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      House Hunt
      1171 4 HDB transactions from July 11 to August 26, 1998. TW POSTAL CONTRACT BULT-M PWCE PSF LOCATION DISTWCT DATE (SOFT) (ST000) (SS) Bishan St 13 *****6 21-Jul-98 1130 345 305 Bishan St 24 *****5 21-Ju!-98 1152 325 282 Bt Batok Ctrl *****6 10-Aug-98 1108 247 223 Bt Batok St
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      276 4 For Sale By Tender Industrial Site at No. 15 Pereira Road Opt" 0 to buy: C>TrC existin B s le 'as is where is'; OR A Subject with P ro P° se d 7-storey ind'l bldg (GFA 43,100 sq ft) \l\ on completed basis />/ area: 17,265 sq ft /jt/
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon Daim dissects the economic crisis
      2114 5 Malaysia's Minister for Special Functions and new economic czar, Daim Zainuddin, responds to written questions from BTs Regional Economics Editor Vikram Khanna about Malaysia's new National Economic Recovery Han and what it means for the economy Q: How is Malaysia's National Economic Recovery Plan different
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      255 5 These two exquisite watches, in the shape of peaches, are called <<For China>>. The craftsmen of Geneva were renowned for their mastery of enamel and v( these watches are a triumph of jjj their art. By their efforts the subtle gradations of colour found in the w skin have been
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
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      IMF approves US$1b payout to Indonesia
      625 6  -  From Shoeb Kagda m Jakarta ENCOURAGED by recent moves by the Indonesian government to clean up the debtridden banking sector and the setting up of a new bankruptcy court both key elements of a US$43 billion (Ss76 billion) bailout package the International Monetary Fund
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      Lock icon Krugman urges Japan to create inflation, tolerate weaker yen
      685 6  -  The Asia Business Forecast conference He also reiterates call to Asia to adopt exchange controls Reports by Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] Japan should adopt a deliberately inflationary monetary policy as well as create inflationary expectations and tolerate a weaker yen as a
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      Indonesia risks further meltdown, social unrest: don
      426 6 The gravest economic danger is hyperinflation [SINGAPORE] Indonesia faces the risk of a further economic meltdown, including hyperinflation, as well as mounting social unrest, an Indonesian academic said yesterday. Speaking at the Asia Business Forecast conference, Mr Sjahrir, president director of the Institute
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      Korean team in S'pore to woo investors
      485 6  -  Economy to retnrn to 5-6% growth by 2001: minister By: Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] Sweeping financial sector reform and a return to economic growth rates of 5-6 per cent by 2001 have put South Korea back on the world's investment map. This was the
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      Lock icon South Korean economy shrinks 5% in 1st half
      262 6 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's economy shrank an estimated 5 per cent in the first half of 1998, its lowest ebb since the Korean War, as living standards plunged to an eightyear low, officials said yesterday. The country will likely suffer another sharp
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      Lock icon Jiang says 8% growth may not be possible
      310 6 AFP [HONGKONG] China may not reach its much-touted goal of 8 per cent growth for this year, President Jiang Zemin warned in China's official press yesterday. Mr Jiang, quoted in the Hongkong edition of the official China Daily, said China was still
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      Thai banks not lending to troubled firms
      476 6  -  Banks prefer to extend loans to MNCs, say analysts From Hariah Mehta in Bangkok WHILE Thailand's central bank has eased monetary policy and boosted liquidity, the country's commercial banks have not responded by resuming loans to cashstrapped companies, preferring the safer route of
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      Regional markets subdued as Nikkei drops
      293 6  -  S'pore rises from 10-year low; other markets dose lower R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE) Regional stocks ended mainly lower yesterday in quiet trading, led by a 206.9 points or 1.37 per cent loss for Japan's Nikkei 225 average that was felt throughout the region. The Singapore
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  • REGION
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      Social unrest will get worse, warn Thai unions
      651 7  -  Govt measures to alleviate impact of job losses slammed as inadequate, elitist From, Alan Boyd in Bangkok LABOUR leaders have warned of worsening social unrest as Thailand enters its bleakest period of economic recession in the final months of the year. Public
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      BOT charges finance firm's top execs with embezzlement
      413 7  -  Move marks widening crackdown on errant firms From. Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE Bank of Thailand yesterday charged four top executives of Sitca Investment Securities with embezzling the assets of their own firm, in a widening crackdown on errant finance firms. The
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      Lock icon Myanmar military refuses to talk to Suu Kyi
      478 7 BANGKOK Reuters MYANMAR'S military government has told foreign military attaches it will neither allow the opposition to form a parliament nor talk to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Yangon-based diplomat said yesterday. In a meeting with 15 military attaches on
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      Lock icon JB defers rule on use of Second Link
      190 7 ■JOHORBARU Bernama r•'•*« V f r THE Johor state government has decided to defer to the end of the year the ruling requiring lorries carrying construction materials to Singapore to use the Second Link. Mentri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman said the State
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      Lock icon HK developers seen pricing key projects below cost soon
      514 7 HONGKONG South China Morning Post DEVELOPERS of several key residential projects in Hongkong coming on sale in the next few months face losses in a market swamped with negative sentiment. Analysts said at least four projects would have no choice but
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      Lock icon KL police puzzled by killing, war rumours on Internet
      278 7 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama THE Malaysian police yesterday described as incomprehensible rumours circulating on the Internet that a Muslim scholar had predicted the assassination of a politician and that the country would go to war with a neighbour. Asked to comment on
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      Lock icon Suharto kin faces US$3b notes probe
      305 7 JAKARTA v! AFP INDONESIAN authorities will investigate a brother-in-law of former president Suharto who issued about US$3 billion (555.3 billion) of promissory notes that have now begun to fall due, attorneygeneral Andi Muhammad Ghalib said yesterday. "I have been asked to report on efforts
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      Lock icon Prabowo could face military court action
      322 7 JAKARTA He may have to answer charges over abdnctions: minister Reuters INDONESIAN Justice Minister Muladi said yesterday that former president Suharto's son-in-law, dismissed from the army this week, could face a military court over abductions of political dissidents. "This case is not finished yet,"
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      Lock icon Cambodian protesters set for showdown with police
      149 7 PHNOM PENH AFP CAMBODIAN opposition protesters dug in at their demonstration site in a park near parliament yesterday setting the stage for a possible confrontation with authorities who have ordered them to move. Meanwhile, King Norodom Sihanouk, viewed as one of the few
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      Lock icon Vietnam industrial output up 12.4% in first 8 months
      154 7 HANOI AFP VIETNAM yesterday reported a 12.4 per cent increase in industrial output for the first eight months of the year compared with year-ago period. Total industrial output during the period reached 97.2 triUion dong (5512.3 billion according to preliminary data
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      Lock icon Face-off between opposition, LDP over bank reform
      299 8 TOKYO Confrontation threatens govt plans for soft-landing for failed banks Reuters JAPAN'S political opposition faced off against the government yesterday, threatening the authorities' plans for a "soft-landing" approach to winding up failed banks and clearing their mountains of bad loans. The ruling Liberal
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      Lock icon Unions, churches condemn Hanson's party
      250 8 SYDNEY AFP AUSTRALIAN unions, churches and industry groups combined yesterday in their strongest condemnation so far of Pauline Hanson's anti-Asian One Nation party, describing it as a threat to the country's future. With Australia poised for its last election of the century and with its
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      Lock icon A$ hits new 12-yr low for third day
      411 8 SYDNEY Commodity-related currencies trampled by global rash for safer havens Reuters THE Australian dollar suffered a new 12-year low for its third session in a row yesterday as investors worldwide trampled commodity-related currencies in the rush for supposedly safer destinations. Traders said
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      Lock icon NZ economy expected to have contracted 0.1% in Q2
      325 8 WELLINGTON Businesses lower fall-year growth forecast to L3%e poll Bloomberg NEW Zealand businesses say the economy probably contracted 0.1 per cent in the second quarter although it will grow again in the third quarter by 0.3 per cent, according to a
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      Lock icon China punishes 756 prosecutors for graft
      238 8 BEIJING Reuters CHINA has punished 756 prosecutors for corruption and mishandling cases in a war on graft that has already targeted courts, the police and the powerful army, state media said yesterday. The China Daily quoted China's top prosecutor as ordering procuratorial bodies which
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      41 8 Editorial: Japan reforms its banks, Pg 11 MOTOR ULTIMA W T. O*,, w. SH,,.po re T.I: M ,K44 F»: W Shc-on, dgkl: S|N HQCK L£E CA>S ENTC>pR|s6 p y R<aJ Lead. The Audi A 6. Aud» onnn Advancement through Technology y
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  • REGION/WORLD
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      Lock icon Rouble crashes 40% against German mark
      566 10 MOSCOW Central bank voids dollar trade; says it can't afford to support currency Bloomberg RUSSIA'S rouble plunged more than 40 per cent against the German mark yesterday and the bewildered central bank declared it could no longer afford to continue mayor intervention to support
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      Lock icon Debt plan shocks foreign investors
      413 10 LONDON Moscow scheme seems to leave them with no way oat, say economists AFP FOREIGN investors in Russia are in a state of shock after a debt restructuring plan that appears to leave them with no exit from the country's economic collapse, international economists said
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      Lock icon HK govt hints at 4% shrinkage in Q2 GDP, says TV report
      156 10 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG government sources are hinting the territory's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted 4 per cent in the second quarter, local television station Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB) said yesterday. "Government sources are hinting the second quarter GDP
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      Lock icon US July durable goods orders up 2.4% Biggest pickup was
      378 10 for electronic and electrical equipment WASHINGTON Reuters NEW orders for costly manufactured goods jumped unexpectedly in July at the fastest rate in eight months, the Commerce Department said yesterday, paced by strong demand for electronic and electrical equipment. Total new
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      Lock icon UK trade gap narrows by £500m; exports to EU resilient
      327 10 LONDON Reuters BRITAIN'S trade deficit with the rest of the world narrowed by some £500 million (551.45 billion) in June, official figures showed yesterday, but the shortfall remained a hefty drag on the economy. However, with the Bank of England's
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      Lock icon Don't overplay Brazil's economic woes, Argentina told
      377 10 BUENOS AIRES Reuters BRAZILIAN Finance Minister Pedro Malan warned Argentines not to overstate the impact of world market turmoil on Brazil or it would put its own economy at risk. In an interview with Argentine correspondents in Brasilia, Mr Malan took pains to
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      Lock icon Muslim group says it planted Planet Hollywood bomb
      161 10 CAPETOWN AFP A TINY, radical group calling itself Muslims Against Global Oppression late Tuesday claimed responsibility for a bomb blast at the Plant Hollywood restaurant here which killed a woman and wounded 24 other people. A member of the organisation telephoned a
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      No conflict in 'Commerce vs Power'debate
      758 11  -  THE BOTTOM LDVE OPINION By Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent THE recent American military strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan in retaliation for the bombing of the US embassies in East Africa, and the perception that America needs to devise an effective
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      125 11 My health has improved so much since then.' -DnNarita of Nagoya, Japan, who recently celebrated her 106 th Birthday, on why life gets better after 100. 4 What are they going to show the tourists? Bulldozers?' -Gtamgllan-Kiien who lives in Tung Chung, a new town near Hongkong's
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      Japan reforms its banks
      643 11 EDITORIAL THERE seems to be more to the reconstruction of Japan's Long-Term Credit Bank (LTCB) than meets the eye. The move may signal that Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's government is likely to soft-pedal its politically controversial new "bridge bank" plan for state-sponsored takeovers of failed institutions.
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      Lock icon Lots of cool and hot money on Wall Street
      1140 11  -  Hopes for a US soft landing may not be as bright as expected and relying on the market alone may not be enough By] Paul A Samuelson The writer is an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This commentary first
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      910 11 Baal or perceived threats? ONE of the latest buzzwords in Indonesian politics is "disintegration". Senior government and military officials have been raising the alarm lately about the possibility of Indonesia breaking apart the same way that the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia collapsed. They base their argument
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Wanted: A name for next millennium's 1st decade
      867 12  -  Some suggestions include the Oh-Ohs and the Zeros, reports martin hhi.i.bd MARTIN MILLER LATWP IT'S 2003. After three cataclysmic years of pestilence, earthquakes, fires, tsunamis and plagues of locusts, the planet is a horrible eyesore. But every dark cloud has its silver
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      Lock icon Hillary Clinton's 'deal with the Devil'
      446 12  -  PERSONALITY By* Anne Morris NYT (AUSTIN, Texas] Twenty-five years after Fear of Flying, feminist poet Erica Jong revisits the war between the sexes in a new book. What Do Women Want* due out next month from HarperCollins. It's subtitled: "Bread. Roses. Sex. Power." In
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      Lock icon British professor's chip thrill
      152 12 PERSONALITY AFP [LONDON] A British professor has had a microchip implanted in his body to open doors for him, turn on lights as he enters the room, and run a bath and chill his wine as he arrives home, it was reported yesterday. Kevin Warwick, of
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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      224 13 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD turns to examine data (7) ""TBI 5 Moderate parties offer parity to respect what 16 Detailed to appear court J^JL--22 Boycott by postal service may —ij—— ■■"■Ml 24 Article impounded by rebel recruit (5) j j 25 Anger caused by odour of ■■P"jTßi 1®!" sanctity (7) 26 Dilapidated
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  • MOTORING
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      Lock icon COE premiums could crash next year: motor traders
      463 14  -  But they are divided about impact of plunge, with some expecting review of vehicle quota system By i Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] COE premiums could be in for a crash next year if the economy does not improve, industry sources pointed out, citing
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    • BUMPER to BUMPER
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        Tibs to start express bus service
        100 14 TRANSPORT operator Tibs will start an' 'express" service from Woodlands to Shenton Way and back on Aug 31. Called Rapidßus, service 700 will stop at fewer than half the 60 or so bus-stops on the route. The fleet of 13 plying the route will
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        Opel rolls out bigger, better cars for 1999
        100 14 OPEL, the General Motors-owned German brand, will offer better equipped cars and a wider range erf products for the 1999 model year. The Corsa will be fitted with side air bags, and have a 1.2-litre 16-valve engine that produces 65 horsepower, replacing
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        Taking liberties with scooters
        117 14 HERE'S another scooter with bike features. The Liberty 125 from Piaggio of Italy is the first big-wheeled scooter to debut here. Equipped with wheels about twice the diameter of traditional scooter wheels and long-travel shocks, the Liberty promises better handling and motorcycle-like ride dynamics. The air-cooled
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        BMW warns of impact of weak yen
        117 14 GERMAN carmaker BMW AG foresees "negative consequences" for the European car industry if the Calling Japanese yen does not recover "in the short term". In its interim report, BMW said demand and production "in most industrialised countries" had not yet been affected by
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        Saab worldwide interim sales up 14%
        95 14 SAAB of Sweden, another GM marque, saw a 14 per cent rise in worldwide sales for the first half to 58,077 units. Europe led the climb, with Spain up 72 per cent, France 65 per cent and Germany 55 per cent. Swedish sales rose
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        CityCab drivers to be trained by PSB
        65 14 IN a first scheme of its kind, City Cab taxi-drivers will be trained by the Singapore Productivity and Standards Board to improve commuter service. The transport operator has entered into a <600,000 deal with the board to provide customised service training to its
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        More Comfort cabs to get satellite link
        98 14  -  Compiled by Christopher Tan TRANSPORT operator Comfort expects to equip 8,000 of its taxis with the Cablink satellite-despatch system by next March, up from 7,000. Comfort-owned Yellow-Top Cab taxis will also feature Cablink. Comfort said phone-bookings have soared from 200,000 per month in
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      OUB poised to enter local car loan market
      301 14  -  It will be third of Big Four to enter vehicle loan segment -Bjri Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Another bank is expected to enter the local car loan business, traditionally the purview of finance companies. BT understands Overseas Union Bank (OUB) is preparing to
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      Lock icon Several car agents angling for VW franchise
      488 14  -  By l Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Achtung! Several motor companies are said to be vying for the Volkswagen franchise, raising the possibility that the distributorship, currently held by Auto GTI, could change hands. Market sources said the German carmaker had invited companies to make
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      Lock icon More C&C service centres for Mitsubishi customers
      296 14  -  -By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Listed motor group Cycle Carriage expects to set up five more satellite service centres for its Mitsubishi customers, bringing the number of stations to seven eventually. Managing director Cheah Kim Teck did not specify a time frame, saying decisions
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      The OMV guide
      1532 14 Average OMV of cars registered in July mooeumm* a Attowvffi ALFA ROME*****.6 1.596 17,826 AUOI A31.6 A 1,586 21.388 AUOIA41.6 A 1,596 24,577 AUOI A41.8 A 1,781 34,984 AUOI A6 2.4 A 2.383 49.666 AUOI A8 2.8 A 2.598 41.680 BMW 318I/40R 1.886 34.778 BMW Z3 AUTO
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      Lock icon NatSteel interim dives 69%, hit by Southern Steel's loss
      561 15  -  Group pats new investments on hold, vows to bring down its $968 m debt By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Steep losses at its Malaysian associate hammered Nat Steel's interim earnings, which plummeted 69 per cent to $11.59 million. At a
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      $1.3b due to bond holders within 2 yrs
      271 15  -  Byi Clarissa Tan [SINGAPORE] Companies which have issued bonds in Singapore will need to cough up some $1.3 billion in total for bonds due to expire within the next two years, according to estimates by IFR Securities Data. Currently, there are some
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      The new Straits Times Index set to make a welcome debut
      770 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) announced last week that come Aug 31, it will replace the Straits Times Industrials Index, one of the mainstays of the stock market for the past three decades, with a
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      Mid-Con's fair price is 59 cts: SES
      363 15  -  HOT STOCKS Bnt trading remains suspended Dy< Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] The Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) has fixed the fair settlement price (FSP) of Mid-Continent Equipment Group shares at 59 cents for outstanding market trades. The SES settlement committee, under SES chairman Chua
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      Lock icon ST Capital share price soars on market rumours
      356 15  -  Talk of company acquiring a broking or banking licence By\ David Boey [SINGAPORE] The ST Capital stock price rose as much as 10.5 cents, or 20.4 per cent, yesterday as rumours that the company would soon acquire a stockbroking or perhaps a
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        ST Telemedia sells 35% stake in NZ telco for NZ$262.5m
        312 16  -  STporefirmto concentrate on new undertakings like its St&rHnb venture By] David Boey [SINGAPORE] Singapore's second-largest telecommunications company, Singapore Technologies Telemedia, has hived off its stake in BellSouth New Zealand to concentrate its resources on new undertakings such as its Star-
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        SPH board supports capital reduction plan
        278 16 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Press Holdings directors are unanimous in their support of the company's plans to reduce its capital and distribute money back to its shareholders. "They consider the exercise to be in the interests of shareholders and that the terms of the exercise are
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          Superior Metal
          92 16 [SINGAPORE] Superior Metal Printing yesterday reported a half-year net profit of $1.39 million on revenues of $38.5 million. Net earnings for the six months ended June 30 were 82 per cent higher than in the corresponding period last year and revalues were up 13.8 per cent. On current
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          SMB United
          86 16 [SINGAPORE] SMB United saw net earnings retreat by 22.8 per cent to $3.87 million for the six months ended June 30, on revenues which were up 30.4 per cent to $36.13 million. Heavier interest and depreciation charges and a foreign exchange loss of $362,000 combined with lower profit
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          Omni Mold
          92 16 [SINGAPORE] Omni Mold lifted revenues 11 per cent to $6 million at the halfway mark, but an operating profit of $893,000 was almost extinguished by depreciation charges, leaving a net profit of $27,000. In the same period last year, the company made a loss of $1.43 million. The
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          Tianjin Zbong Xin
          67 16 [SINGAPORE] Turnover for the six months to June 30 for Tianjin Zhong Xin Pharmaceutical Group was up 20 per cent to 147.2 million renminbi (5531.3 million), but bottom line earnings were only 8 per cent «h»a<l at 87.2 million renminbi due partly to lower contributions from associated
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        UOL profit plunges 47% to $17.2m
        342 16  -  It sees weak second half; Hotel Plaza net np 4% to $4Jm By David Boey UNITED Overseas Land (UOL) yesterday reported that earnings for its half-year ended June 30 had dived 47 per cent to $17.17 million, and said income from investments, local property
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        Lock icon Maybank 90% profit fall sparks only small loss in bank stocks
        646 16  -  Market aided by its conservative provisioning, say analysts From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur SOME Malaysian banking stocks dipped marginally yesterday against a firm overall market following Malayan Banking Bhd's (Maybank) profit plunge. The KL Finance Index fell 2.3
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        AMMB expects to post weak results for current year
        263 16  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur AMMB Holdings Bhd the listed financial arm of debtladen Arab-Malaysian Corporation Bhd yesterday signalled weak results in its current financial year ending March 1999. "We are keeping our fingers crossed. We hope to be profitable,"
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        Public Bank interim profit dives 86.6%
        408 16  -  Plnngp In earnings doe to higher loan losses and provisions From. Roth Wong in Kuala Lumpur PUBLIC Bank has posted a sharp 86.6 per cent fall in net profit to 33.61 million Malaysian ringgit (5514.1 million) or 1.5 sen earnings per share for the
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        Move to a system based on disclosure, CFC told
        419 16  -  Market should decide transactions' merits: feedback By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The regulatory environment here should move away from a meritbased system towards a dis-closure-based system, according to most of the respondents who provided feedback to the Corporate Finance Committee (CFC). The
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        Flextech 1st-half earnings soar 73% to $4.1m
        273 16  -  By* Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Sesdaq-listed Flextech Holdings yesterday posted a 73 per cent surge in earnings to $4.13 million for the six months to June 1998, almost meeting the half-way mark of analysts' full-year projections. Net profit growth was due to contributions from
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          Lock icon Petronas offers US$465m for Engen
          139 16 Bloomberg [CAPE TOWN] Petroliam Nasional Berhad, Malaysia's state-owned oil company, has offered to buy the shares In Engen Ltd it does not already own for as much as 23 rand a share, or about US$465 million (SsB24 million). The offer represents a maximum of a
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          Jurong Cement's new non-exec dorector
          97 16 [SINGAPORE] Jurong Cement Ltd has appointed Shang Ying as a non-executive director with effect from yesterday. Mr Whang was a partner in law Arm Drew Napier before Joining the Lam Soon Group in 1994. Currently he is a director in several companies in the Lam
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          Kim Eng gets nod from SES
          73 16 [SINGAPORE] Kim Eng Holdings has received in-principle approval from the stock exchange to raise its foreign shareholding limit from the current 49 per cent to 70 per cent TTie approval is subject to the requirement that any person or persons acting in concert with
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          Correction and clarifications
          54 16 IN our Aug 22 report, "Want Want's interim earnings jump 31 to $45m", we reported that the group saw a 15 per cent decline in net profit for 1967. This Is incorrect The group posted a 2.6 per cent growth in net profit for 1997. We are
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        Lock icon Telstra net profit hits A$3b, an Aussie record high
        464 17  -  85% jump due largely to previous year's inclusion of Asl.6b restructuring charge From. Russel Baker in Sydney TELECOMMUNICATIONS group Telstra has unveiled full-year net earnings of As 3 billion (Ss3.l billion), a record high in Australia. The results for the year
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        TVB interim net falls 12% to HK$180m amid slump
        445 17  -  Results poorer than expected as adspend slips, economy slows Fromi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong HIT by the slowing economy, tightening advertising budgets and regional currency problems, Hongkong's Television Broadcasts (TVB) yesterday reported a 12.2 per cent decline in interim earnings
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        Lock icon S'pore banks need more countertrade expertise
        443 18 Regional crisis calls for new approach to trade financing Indon barter player Reuters [SINGAPOREJ Singapore banks need to upgrade their expertise in countertrade financing if they want to stay in the trade financing business, a leading player in modern barter said yesterday. Asghar Mehdi,
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        Lock icon More cotton than wool
        37 18 [SYDNEY] Cotton classer Michael Summers with different grades of cotton at the Auscott Classing Facility yesterday. The 1997/98 Australian cotton crop has made history by outstripping wool production for thefirst time ever. REUTERS
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        Lock icon Allianz, Axa to work with Jewish groups, US on WWII claims
        231 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Allianz AG and Axa SA, Europe's biggest insurers, agreed to work with US regulators and Jewish groups to pay the insurance policies of World War II Holocaust victims. The arrangement, which also includes Swiss insurers Zurich
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        Lock icon Bank, insurance lobbyists near deal on US bank bill
        283 18 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Bank and insurance lobbyists in the US are close to agreement on an important section of the bank overhaul bill now before Congress, representatives of both sides say. "I think we have clearly identified the issues on which we
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        Lock icon Marsh & McLennan to buy Sedgwick for £1.25b
        321 18 Marsh McLennan to buy Sedgwick for £1.25b Move aims at expansion in Europe, US, Asia Bloomberg [LONDON] Marsh McLennan Cos, the world's largest insurance broker, agreed to buy Sedgwick Group pic, the No 3 broker, for £1.25 billion (553.6 billion) to expand in Europe, the US and Asia. Marsh McLennan
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        Lock icon UBS sets aside funds to cover loans at risk from crisis: analysts
        269 18 Bloomberg [ZURICH] ÜBS AG, the world's second-largest bank, has little exposure to potential loan losses in Russia and South-east Asia and has set aside funds to cover most of the loans at risk from the financial turmoil in
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        Lock icon JGBs rise to record high as Nikkei dips
        225 18 STMTfIf Report Reuters [SINGAPORE] Simex Japanese government bond (JGB) futures rose to a record close yesterday as the Nikkei Stock Average fell below the 15,000 mark. Dealers said flight to quality buying was triggered by worries about a worsening of Japan's banking
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        Futures fall below key level
        176 18  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES Cecilia Loh, Cecilia Loh, service dealer, Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures plummeted 6.80 points and established a new low at 253.0 after breaking through the psychological support level at 256.0 level. The Taiex continued to dip for the
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        Lock icon Oil falls after producers cancel meeting
        274 18 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Crude oil fell 3 per cent after three of the world's largest oil exporters cancelled a meeting to discuss tumbling prices, reducing expectations for further production cuts. Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Mexico were to meet tomorrow in Mexico City.
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        282 18 AFX-Asia AFP THE US dollar was slightly softer against the mark yesterday after failing to build further gains on the back of growing problems in Russia, dealers said. They said the dollar tried to break the 1.81 mark unsuccessfully in the afternoon session, despite a raft of negative
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      COMMODITY PRICES
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2105 19 Mutilate m» nk. 31 Group 545.000 -9.000 AS Ports 286.400 -10.600 Abkey National 1099.740 -15.260 AMedOomecg 527.400 10.000 Amec 141.000 undi Asda Group 175.000 -4.400 BAT ind 630.000 -17.400 BG We 385.000 0.600 8ICC 97.400 0.400 BOC Group 821.000 -27.000 8R Petroleum 812.400 -18.600 8TR 149.200 -L400
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      1563 19 AFP QNikkei 225 -20UQ JAPANESE share prices closed 1.4 per cent lower yesterday as selling of bank shares accelerated amid concerns about the progress in the debate on key financial bills in Parliament, brokers said. Banking issues extended their declines in the afternoon because of a large gap between
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      1557 20 Reuters Q Hang Seng jjSJI HONGKONG stocks closed moderately lower yesterday after giving in to profit-tak-ing, with less active buying by the government than in previous days, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index lost 55.69 points, or 0.71 per cent, to finish at 7,834.40. Turnover stayed high. "It looks
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      614 20 Reuters D Shenzhen Bladei -0.42 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B Share Index ended slightly lower yesterday in sluggish trade due to weakness on the neighbouring Hongkong stock market, analysts said. The B index dipped 0.42 point, or 0.73 per cent, to 56.28 on turnover of HK$lO million compared with Tuesday's
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      Lock icon TAIPEI
      361 20 AFP niWP Index -10 TAIWAN share prices fell for the third straight day, dropping 1.4 per cent yesterday as investors took to the sidelines amid concern over the direction of overseas markets, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index dropped 94.0 points to 6,814.33, following a 0.7
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      726 20 AFP n Composite Index -&21 INDONESIAN shares fell 1.7 per cent yesterday amid prof-it-taking on the back of a stable rupiah and concerns over high interest rates on central bank certificates (SBI), dealers said. "I would say there was a combination of factors dragging down the index," a dealer
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      771 20 AFP n SET Index -172 THAI share prices dropped 1.2 per cent yesterday in quiet trading on concern over the domestic economic outlook and regional fears including the impact of Russia's economic crisis, analysts said. "Both foreign and domestic factors are affecting the market today including the Russian financial
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      Lock icon MANILA
      308 20 AFP DlfauriU -23J7 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 1.8 per cent lower yesterday on a lack of positive leads on both domestic and regional fronts, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 23.17 points to close at 1,287.02. Volume plunged to 138 million shares worth 603 million pesos
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      Lock icon SEOUL
      408 20 AFP Composite Intel »7«33 SOUTH Korean shares closed yesterday 2.4 per cent higher as foreign investors bought blue chips amid sharply lower short-term money rates and a stable yen, dealers said. They said short-term mon-ey-market rates dropped to a record low of 7 per cent following a report that
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      591 20 AFP QAD Ordinaries -19.7 AUSTRALIAN share prices slipped 0.7 per cent yesterday, weakened by the spectre of an economic meltdown in Russia, as well as uncertainty over the Australian dollar. The All Ordinaries Index, fell 19.7 points to 2,608.0. The All Industrials Index slid 31.3 points to 4,613.1 and
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      Lock icon WELLINGTON
      250 20 AFP n Wellington -M 5 NEW Zealand stocks closed flat yesterday as investors maintained caution about prospects for the local market and international bourses. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed at 1,943.05, down just 0.65 of a point, having been up 12 points at one stage, on light turnover of
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        Lock icon Mixed close on concerns over Q2 data
        375 21 AFP Fl Composite Index +0*32 WmmM MALAYSIA'S stock market closed mixed yesterday in thin trade amid growing concerns over the imminent release of second-quarter economic growth figures. "Investors took to the sidelines prior to the second-quarter growth figures expected to be released late
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        GP Batteries warrant not a buy
        184 22  -  WARRANT WATCH By] R Sivanithy ONE warrant which has not been featured in this column before is that issued by electrical firm GP Batteries. There appears to be some confusion surrounding this instrument largely because of its exercise price. According to Bloomberg, the exercise
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
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      STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE: MAIN BOARD
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      SESDAQ
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        220 24 Stacks Vokme SingTel 15c 11,466,000 ST Capital 25c 9,307,000 ST Engg 10c 8,632,000 KeppeiCorp 8.011,000 •M Resources 5,812,000 D8S Land 4,811,000 •North Borneo 4,686,000 TAC BtIO 200 3,861,000 W Want US20C 3,494,000 Keppel Land50c 3,228,000 Stocks I SPH 34,444,837 SingTel 15c 30,288,005 0C8C Foreign 12,960,370 Keppel Corp 12,893,351 ST Engg
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        HOT STOCK
        73 24  -  -by Shiv Taneja SIA Foreign tranche closed 35 cents higher yesterday at $7.15 on a volume of 1.31 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 2.5 million shares. The daily and weekly RSI and Stochastics indicate that the stock is still oversold, and this is supported
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        STII lifts itself off 10-yr low as focus shifts to local stocks
        646 24  -  STOCK MARKBT COaHEBXTAKT SPH alone accounts for half of key index's 14.5-point rise; quality bine chips is the theme now, says a dealer By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Boosted by recoveries in a handful of index components, the Straits
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          Busy buying stocks
          108 24 THIS paper's Hongkong correspondent was checking if the Hongkong Monetary Authority could contribute an article to an upcoming Business Times' supplement on the Euro. A spokesman for the HKMA said: "I don't dare to disturb the people who are managing the foreign reserves. They are very busy
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          No shark's fin? Prawns will do
          56 24 THE economic crisis in Malaysia has forced many companies to adjust to lower consumer spending. The latest company to go downmarket is upmarket restaurant Lee Ho Fook Shark's Fin Restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. It is now offering fried noodle with fresh water prawns for
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          Virus warring
          83 24 THERE'S a deadly computer virus that could have struck some Windows users yesterday—and on the 26th of any month. Called the CIH virus, the Taiwan-originated malaise was first detected in June, and can potentially wipe out all executable files on your hard and make your computer un-useable. That
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          True rummours
          88 24 A PARTNER of consulting firm Arthur Andersen said market hearsay is one of the ways to pick up warning signals that a company is in trouble. Speaking at a recent seminar on "Minimising Risk and Maximising Returns in Uncertain Times", he said: "You'd be surprised at what you
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          HongkongBank the managing editor
          64 24 IT is not uncommon for a company to take on a "personality" of its own, but for a bank to become a managing editor of an inhouse publication is certainly a first for us. The latest issue of Select, Hongkongßank's personal finance magazine, lists "Hongkongßank" as
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          Develeper's desperate measure
          62 24 THINGS irniat be really bad in the property market. A major developer apparently told some of its sub-contractors that they have to bring in one customer each to* its projects to improve their chances of being considered for future contracts. Clearly, slick TV commercials and full-page ads
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          Net hard to
          130 24 SOME mega mergers may reeult in massive lay-offs, but not so the one between Citicorp and Travelers, says Citibank Singapore's recently-appointed CEO Sunil Sreenivasan. "In Asia, they (Salomon Smith Barney, a unit of Travelers) bring fixed income, mergers and equities, which is all the things we don't
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      345 25 Bridge News Reuters THERE was talk in late trade of a lower rate being agreed on the US Gulf to Japan Panamax grain run for Sep-Oct shipment The rate was said to be at least 30 cents down on recent business. TANXER& There was little to report other
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      MARITIME STOCKS
      254 25 sp '9MMM >mi* it w CWT Distribution 0_2t5 -0.005 41 ChuanMup 0.375 *0.005 223 Cosco investment _(X41 -0.025 25 FrMaMLM* 0.125 -0.005 216 GBHoMnga 020 Hal Sun Hup 0.345 -0.035 730 HNacNZoMD 0.545 unch 12 IMCHoMIn* HK 5.6 Jeya HOIdtogs 0.39 Jurone Shipyard 7.60 -0.1 13 KeppelCorp i«3
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      469 25  -  Govt aims to have open, int'l market-oriented sector by mid-21st century By] Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] The Chinese shipping market will undergo a three-phase modernisation programme with the aim of an open, international and market-oriented shipping industry by the mid-21st century, a senior official of China's
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      74 25 [ISTANBUL] A Turkish tug boat sails past the Greek-flagged tanker Crude gulf loaded with crude oil which ran aground in Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait on Tuesday. The 81,000 tonne tanker was aground offshore from the Ottoman Topkapi Palace, en route from Russia to Italy via the
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      787 25  -  NEWBUILDS By: David Hughes THE Sale Purchase brokers have had little to report on the sec-ond-hand vessel scene in recent weeks and the activity in the newbuilding market has also been subdued. The driving forces behind the two markets are not identical but the
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      398 25 [SINGAPORE] Marine construction specialist Keppel Fels has completed another major jack-up rig building project for Santa Fe International Corp (Santa Fe). The Universe-class rig was towed out of Keppel's Pioneer yard yesterday headed for Halifax Harbour in Canada where it will begin
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      362 25 [SINGAPORE] The demand for transport services in Malaysia, including port services, has declined somewhat dramatically in relation to the contraction of the economy in the first half of this year. With the exception of Westport, one of the three terminal operators in
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      148 25 AFX Asia AFP [SEOUL] Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd said it has won shipbuilding orders totalling US$4lO million (*****.7 million) from European companies. They include an order to build three container ships for US$2OO million from Nordcapital of Germany and one shuttle tanker for US$B5
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      823 26  -  CHINA-TAIWAN LINKS More than a year after a historic trip by a Chinese ship into Taiwan, both sides still await direct transport links By\ George Hsu Reuters [TAIPEI] N an early M spring night in M 1997 a ship from B B mainland China H
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        412 40 New plane will be derived from the A 319, the smallest in product range Reuters [TOULOUSE, France] European aircraft consortium Airbus Industrie is studying the launch of a 100-seat passenger jet based on its current A 319 plane, but without the involvement
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        637 40 State-owned carrier planning to hire more staff: transport minister Bloomberg (PARIS) Air France is planning to spend around 30 billion francs (558.82 billion) on new planes in the next five years as it attempts to meet growing worldwide
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        434 40 Reuters [TOULOUSE, France] A landmark order by British Airways for Airbus Industrie's small airliners helps the European consortium's plans to launch a giant 550-seat jet, Airbus senior vice-president John Leahy said on Tuesday. "We've got in the door with British Airways,"
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        171 40 AFX-Asia [NEW DELHI] Indian Airlines employees said they will launch a "protracted struggle" if the government approved plans by the Tata Group to set up a private domestic airline. The Air Corporation Employees Union said a "sustained industrial action, including direct strikes" will be
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        217 40 Bloomberg [Toronto] Air Canada's pilots will go on strike at midnight Sept 1 unless the country's largest airline agrees to a new contract before then, the union said. The deadline was set shortly after Canada's Labour Minister Lawrence MacAuley released
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        138 40 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Hongkong's biggest airline, may cut salaries for its pilots, a spokesman said. Cathay could cut pilots' salaries by 20 per cent, the Hongkong Economic Times newspaper reported, citing unnamed sources. "We will not rule out the possibility, in such
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        206 40 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's parliament has approved a move to raise domestic airfares and the rates will double by the end of the year, newspapers reported yesterday. The Jakarta Post quoted Benny Rungkat, the secre-tary-general of the Indonesian National Air Carriers Association, as saying
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        308 40 Reuters [HONGKONG] Hongkong's all-cargo airline Air Hongkong said yesterday it planned to increase its flights to Europe with the onset of the cargo market's annual peak season in September. "To Europe we are still planning to mount additional flights to existing destinations,"
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