The Business Times, 14 April 1992

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  • 19 1 Business Times MITA (P) 35/12/91 Tuesday, April 14, 1992. THE Hi'SINESS H i PER EOR S-E ASIA 75 4
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 75 1 TEHERAN Iranian voters have handed moderate backers of President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani a big win in parliamentary polls, turning away from career politicians in favour of new faces. Final results of last Friday's vote, declared everywhere but in Teheran and a couple of
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    • 34 1 BONN The strongest earthquake in more than 200 years shook heavily-populated western Germany and the Benelux states before dawn yesterday. The earthquake registered 5.6 on the open-ended Richter scale.
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    • 25 1 SINGAPORE banks accounted for about 20 per cent ot all loans arranged in Asia last year, says UK-based Euromonev Loanware Ps*B e 2
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    • 32 1 THE new chairman of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce has called for work on the second link with Malaysia to start as soon as possible Page 3
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    • 29 1 SINGAPORE contractors can expect overseas jobs worth S$ 1 billion this year, up from SS9SI million in 1991, says the Construction Industry Development Board Page 4
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    • 40 1 SOUTH KOREA. Hongkong and Taiwan have been rapidly losing their market share in the US to China, says a report published in Seoul, mainly because Chinese products have underpriced those Irom the three newly-industrialising economies Page 14
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    • 27 1 PERUVIAN President Alberto Fujimori faces a monumental task in bringing his country back to constitutional rule, say diplomats and political analysts Page 1
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    • 27 1 EXXON Chemical Singapore Pte Ltd is all set to spearhead research that may reap greater revenue for oil producers in this region Page 17
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    • 34 1 SEMBAWANG Maritime Ltd has clinched its first job in Taiwan a S2O million deal to install an oil pipeline near the Taoyuan Refinery in Shalung. Shipping l imes Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 31 1 WALL STREET stocks opened nearly unchanged yesterday. with the Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials rising 1.11 points (0.03 per cent) to 3.256.48 five minutes after trading began.
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    • 45 1 LONDON SHARES were higher at midday yesterday on hopes for economic recovery and speculation of an early cut in Britain's 10.5 per cent base lending rate. At 1115 GMT, the FTSE 100-Share Index was up 19.4 points, or 0.75 per cent, at 2.592.0.
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    • 40 1 CYCLE and Carriage Ltd's conditional takeover of property firm Malayan Credit Ltd, should it succeed, will alter CCL's earnings base and also result in CCL emerging as a major property player in Singapore and Malaysia. Page 5
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    • 21 1 SYARIKAT Telekom Malaysia's placement of 60 million shares to foreign investors was successfully carried out last Friday Page 5
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    • 26 1 ALAN BOND will stand trial in Perth next month on a charge related to the collapse of the Rothwells merchant Page 6
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    • 25 1 THERE IS growing optimism in India that international risk rating agencies will soon remove the credit watch on the country Page 7
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  • 547 1  -  Public offer of 60.6 m shares to follow stock split By William Chia SINGAPORE Gold Coin Ltd, which will make history as the first main board counter to be relisted on Sesdaq, intends to split its shares on a 5-for-l basis. Following
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  • 449 1  -  Developers aim to attract those with Singapore PR From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG TWENTY Singapore property companies launched a two-day roadshow here yesterday, aimed at the 35,000 Hongkongers who have been approved for permanent residency in the Republic. A spokesman for the organiser, the Real
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  • 270 1 SINGAPORE It was another volatile day on the stock markets as wild gyrations in Tokyo's Nikkei Average dampened sentiment across the region and effectively reversed Friday's bullishness. In Tokyo, stocks continued to tumble in nervous trading and the Nikkei Average lost half
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  • 380 1 MOSCOW The Russian government formally offered its resignation to President Boris Yeltsin yesterday, bringing to a head a political crisis over its economic "shock therapy" reforms. But Mr Yeltsin quickly stepped in and instructed Cabinet ministers to stay on the job. Deputy Prime
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  • 496 1  -  By Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE DBS Bank last year bought a 3.4 per cent stake in Thai Danu Bank for $7 million as part of its plan to forge strategic alliances in the region. The DBS Bank group has been fast expanding
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  • 83 1 THE Growth Triangle is alive and well as investments continue to pour into the Riau islands and Johor. The concept is even beginning to take root elsewhere in Asia. In a special supplement tomorrow, BT takes a fresh look at the Triangle, the strides that have been
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
    • 570 2  -  HK retained top position with 56.8 pc last year: survey Reports by Dawn Tan SINGAPORE Banks in Singapore arranged nearly a fifth of all loans made in Asia last year, according to the latest figures from UKbased Euromoney Loanware. This compares
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    • 399 2 SINGAPORE Buoyed by the rising demand for loans from the commerce and building and construction sectors, total bank lending in Singapore increased by 10.3 per cent ($6 billion) to $64.68 billion in January from 12 months earlier. According to the Monetary Authority
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    • 255 2  -  By Helen Chang SINGAPORE Representatives of seven US institutional investors are in Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan to look at the investment potential of the region. The investors Travelers Insurance, New York Life Insurance Co, Northwest Mutual Life Insurance Co, FMC Corp, Boston University,
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    • 406 2 Reuter BEIJING Japanese businessmen and bankers are keeping their eyes focused on the China market, and nothing not even a stock crash at home will make them blink, analysts said. When Japanese businessmen look at their giant neighbour, they see
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    • 438 3  -  Congestion at existing Causeway impedes growth in trade By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE In the light of strong trade growth with Malaysia, the new chairman of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC), David Murray, has called for work on the second link with Malaysia
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    • 392 3 SINGAPORE Malaysia's powerhouse economy is likely to slow down this year as the government is forced to tighten monetary policy to combat inflationary pressure, says the investment firm Merrill Lynch in its latest Asian Economic Commentary. The firm predicts Malaysia's
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    • 215 3 SINGAPORE One of Asia's largest market research organisations, the Survey Research Group (SRG), has bought its sister company AGB Research Asia-Pacific Ltd from AGB Research pic. Both companies arc part of the Pcrgamon AGB Group, which was part of the late British
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    • 340 3 SINGAPORE Seize the opportunities that come with the end of the Cold War, Foreign Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng told businessmen yesterday. Speaking at the annual general meeting luncheon of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC), Mr Wong said Singapore's foreign policy in
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 77 4 SENIOR MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew will attend a three-day meeting entitled Financing Global Environment and De\elopment in Tokyo from tomorrow. Former Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita will host the event. Issues to be discussed will include how to finance the various programmes of action
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      • 82 4 WITH effect from May 1, new HDB apartment owners who open a Public Utilities Board (PUB) account within three days after collecting their apartment keys will have electricity and water supplies immediately available in their new homes. Under the new system, the owner can simply turn on the
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      • 121 4 CONSTRUCTION of a 150-metre pedestrian mall in the Kampong Glam conservation area will begin this month. The mall, to be completed in about nine months, will stretch from Bussorah Street to Muscat Street. It will provide a traffic-free zone for residents and tourists visiting the Sultan
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      • 78 4 MAJOR players in the film industry and industry experts have been invited to attend the Euro-Asian Film Co-Produc-tion Forum on April 27 and 28. The two-day forum is organised by the Economic Development Board in conjunction with the sth Singapore International Film. The theme for the forum is
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    • 304 4 CUSTOMERS of international leased circuits can look forward to savings of $16.6 million a year with the latest round of rate cuts by Singapore Telecom. This was announced by Wong Hung Khim, president and chief executive officer of Singapore Telecom, yesterday. The
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    • 299 4 OPPOSITION leader Chiam See Tong yesterday deplored as unprincipled, unconstitutional and undemocratic the regressive and dangerous line the Prime Minister had begun taking, brow-beating Singaporeans into voting for the People's Action Party. Responding to Mr Goh Chok Tong's message to the electorate on
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    • 346 4  -  Colin Tan reports on prospects in the construction industry Colin Tan SINGAPORE contractors can expect overseas jobs worth SI billion this year, compared with $951 million in 1991, says the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB). The CIDB's director for business development. Tan
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    • 256 4 ONLY one of Singapore's five biggest overseas contractors in 1990, the L&M Group, improved its position in 1991. L&M, which had the sec-ond-biggest volume of overseas work in 1990, topped the 1991 list, released yesterday by the Construction Industry Development Board. Second to L&M was newcomer Huge
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    • 330 4  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Airlines hived off its engineering division to make the latter sharpen its focus on productivity, efficiency, quality, turnaround time, and pricing, said SIA group chairman J Y Pillay. "All of these should translate into enhanced customer satisfaction and higher
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    • 252 4  -  By Tan Hua Joo SINGAPORE Airlines has once again been voted one of the world's top airlines in a survey conducted among travel agents. The 1990-91 Intramar (International Travel Market Research) World Airline Monitor survey has rated SIA tops in three
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    • 251 4 m Who Says Singaporeans are Risk-Averse? Many Are Taking Their Chances In Cambodia's Former Killing Fields §'Ng Hi u <J i A This Month Only in Singapore Business Will Their Gamble Pay Off Banking, garment manufacturing, hotels Singaporeans are fearlessly plunging into the Cambodian economy and taking part in its
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    • 281 4 LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT H P "nninG S »»*™IBUHON Q TKANbI'OKI MASTER OF BUSINESS BY COURSEWORK IN SINGAPORE FROM RMIT AUSTRALIA Supported by the Singapore institute of Purchasing and Materials Management and the Chartered Institute of Transport (Singapore) The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMm is well .hrwiMninJ Transport and Logistics Management
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • 462 5  -  Property would contribute up to 25pc of pre-tax earnings: analysts By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE The earnings base of Cycle and Carriage Ltd (C&C) is likely to change drastically if its conditional takeover of property firm Malayan Credit Ltd (M Credit) succeeds. Property,
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    • 509 5 MBT KUALA LUMPUR MBf Finance Bhd will venture into new areas of business this year, says its president and chief executive officer Datuk Loy Hean Heong. This year should also see the conclusion of MBf Finance's restructuring exercise. The
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    • 341 5  -  By Salil Tripathi SINGAPORE Even as foreign investors are scrambling to buy stock in markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen, investors need to assess the markets carefully, Jardine Fleming's Hongkong and China specialist, Douglas Eu, said in a newsletter released yesterday.
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    • 365 5 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Syarikat Telekom Malaysia successfully concluded its placement of 60 million shares to foreign investors on overseas markets last Friday. This reduces the government's stake in the company to 75 per cent. It is believed the government will not divest its holdings
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 70 5 KUALA LUMPUR Malayawata Steel Bhd plans to acquire 60 per cent of Sibu-based logging operator Empresa Sdn Bhd. Empresa owns a 5,936-hectarc plot of land in Bakong near Miri, Sarawak. This acquisition would enable Malayawata to diversify rapidly into the plantation sector. It
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      • 96 5 KUALA LUMPUR Edaran Otomobil Nasional Bhd's acquisition of an approximately 20 per cent stake in Cycle Carriage Ltd and a 46.85 per cent stake in Kong Ming Bank is part of the company's plan to diversify in a bid to increase its profitability, said chairman
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      • 50 5 KUALA LUMPUR Federal Cables, Wires Metal Manufacturing Bhd (FCW) has been served a notice of voluntary takeover offer from Leader Universal Holdings Bhd. The FCW board of directors received the notice on March 27 from Asian International Merchant Bankers Bhd, acting on behalf of Leader.
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      • 36 5 SINGAPORE Khong Guan Flour Milling Ltd yesterday said it subscribed for 105,000 shares or 52.5 per cent of Beow Guan Enterprises Pte Ltd at the par value of $1 apiece.
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      • 41 5 KUALA LUMPUR Bedford Leisure Ventures Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bedford Bhd, has acquired BLV Enterprises Sdn Bhd. BLV Enterprises has an initial paid-up capital of Ms 2 but this was subsequently increased to M 525,000.
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      • 31 5 SINGAPORE An additional 25,000 ordinary shares of $1 each of Neptune Orient Lines Ltd will be granted listing and quotation with effect from 10am on Thursday.
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 92 6 HONGKONG Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd plans to place firm orders tor II Boeing 777 airliners worth US$l.7 billion (Ss2.B billion). The orders, which are subject to contracts being agreed and signed, are for delivery in 1996 and 1998. Ihe airliners are made by
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      • 68 6 SEOUL Rumours that South Korea's Hyundai Group and the government are seeking to reconcile differences pushed up all 17 Hyundai shares on the local stock market. "Hyundai shares were strong throughout and at the end ot ihe day most of the shares managed to reach their
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      • 79 6 LONDON The value of cross-border merger and acquisitions in the first quarter of 1992 rose to US$l3.3 billion (5521.9 billion), 45 per cent higher than a year earlier, signalling the start of a turnaround, accountancy firm KPMG Peat Marwick said. While the figures end
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      • 92 6 [.OS ANGELES Sega Enterprises Ltd said it will appeal against last Friday's jury decision ordering it to pay US$33 million (5554.4 million) in damages in a patent infringement suit involving a colour imaging system invented by C'oyle and Robert Stevens. Sega said in a statement
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    • 367 6 Charge related to fall of Aussie merchant bank Agencies PERTH Australia's former high-flying businessman Alan Bond will stand trial here next month on a charge related to the collapse of the Western Australian-based Rothwells merchant bank. Mr Bond, 53, is accused of urging
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    • 529 6 Domestic factors more relevant in long run: brokers MARKET Reuter TOKYO Asian share markets are nervously watching events in Tokyo after last week's dramatic declines in Japanese share prices, but brokers in some bourses say domestic factors arc ot greater relevance to their
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    • 338 6 Olympia York bankers meeting to sort out financial mess NYT TORONTO Representatives of more than 100 of the world's largest banks were scheduled to gather in Toronto yesterday to review for the first time a staggeringly complex financial mess: the troubled Olympia York Developments Ltd. And Olympia York came to
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    • 289 6 Reuter AUCKLAND Telecom Corp of New Zealand l-td s 1991/92 net profit would tall to NZ$37O million from its NZ$4Ol million prediction it' it were not tor a lower tax bill and double billing on the Auckland Yellow Pages, a
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 512 7  -  From Rajendra Bajpai in BOMBAY INTERNATIONAL risk rating agencies are taking a fresh look at India and there is growing optimism in official circles that they will soon remove the credit watch on the country. India has not been able to borrow commercially from the
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    • 411 7 Highest bidder was Krisda Mahanakorn Co BANGKOK After four years of consideration, the Fund for Financial Institute Rehabilitation and Development (the Fund) has decided to sell 41 per cent of its International Trust and Finance Co (ITF) stocks to the highest bidder,
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    • 376 7 Reuter HO CHI MINH CITY Communist Vietnam's state bank has in recent months been using Western banking techniques to push down inflation and boost the value of its currency. In an unprecedented move to tighten money supply, the State Bank of Vietnam late
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 98 7 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will allow offshore banks and insurance firms planning to operate from its tax haven on Labuan island (located oft' the East Malaysian state of Sabah) to set up management offices in Kuala Lumpur until the end of 1993,
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      • 89 7 TOKYO Japan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) will hold a regular meeting on securities issues here tomorrow, an MOF spokesman said. The two parties have held such meetings annually, alternately in Tokyo and Washington, and the agenda at
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      • 66 7 PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island The former president of a Rhode Island savings institution whose alleged embezzlement of US$l3.5 million precipitated a takeover of 45 banks and credit unions turned himself in after 17 months as a fugitive, officials said. Joseph Mollicone surrendered to law enforcement officers at
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      • 67 7 LONDON The bid terms of Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation's expected 400p-plus bid for Britain's Midland Bank pie are expected to be announced tomorrow, the Sunday Times newspaper reported. The report said the Hongkong bank hopes the full announcement of bid terms will stifle
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      • 32 7 LONDON Shares in Barclays Bank slipped as investors bailed out following Friday's general market rally, analysts said. The share price was down 8p at 319p by 1210 GMT.
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    • 225 7 Reuter SEOUL The state-run Korean Development Bank (KDB), responsible for channelling government policy loans and subsidies to approved businesses, will cut off further credits to the Hyundai Group, newspapers said on Sunday. If fulfilled, this would deal another body blow to South Korea's second
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  • THE REGION 1
    • 638 8 Philippine presidential elections AP MANILA President Corazon Aquino's estranged cousin appears to be gaining in his bid for the presidency, setting the stage for a showdown next month between supporters of the Marcos administration and forces that toppled it. Mrs Aquino claims victory by Eduardo
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    • 652 8 IHT MANILA One of the most remarkable comebacks on the Philippine corporate scene is about to be brought off by Eduardo Cojuangco, the coconut tycoon. Mr Cojuangco is in the final stages of retaking control of the United Coconut Planters Bank, which he
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    • 694 8  -  Evangeline Gamboa holds an imaginary conversation with three columnists to shed some light on the May 11 polls Evangeline Gamboa THINGS were coming i to a boil in the Philip- i pines. Fidel Ramos' I campaign floundered after his unexplained trip to
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 78 10 HANOI I orcign investment in Vietnam worth US$273 million (Ss4so million) was approved by a state committee during the first quarter ol the official Shun Pun newspaper said >esterday. Ihe State Commission for Investments and I orcign Economic C ooperation approved the investment in 41)
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      • 51 10 PENANCi The Democratic Action Party (DAP) will take court action to challenge any imposition of hudud laws, such as amputation, whipping and stoning, on non-Muslims in Kclantan. its sccietary-general Lim Kit Siang said yesterday. lie said the party was against the creation of an Islamic
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      • 41 10 MANILA Moie than two million Filipinos are expected to be out of work this week as 1.500 tirms voluntarily shut down their factories to allow the government to repair broken power plants, business leaders said yesterday.
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      • 58 10 BANGKOK Customs officials from Asean will meet here at the end of this month to discuss their new role under the Asean lice liade Area (Alta) scheme, which starts next year. The meeting, to be held from April 27 to 29, will be hosted by
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      • 45 10 JAKARTA United States Defenee Seeretary Diek Cheney will visit Indonesia at the beginning of May as part of a tour of Asia that includes Australia and Singapore, informed sources said here yesterday. The exact dates of the trip are not known.
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    • 335 10 Chinese exports of low and middle-tech goods up AFP SEOUL South Korea. Hongkong and Taiwan have been rapidly losing their market share in the United States to China, according to a report published here yesterday. Exports of products with low and
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    • 398 10 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand boasts the world's lowest inflation rate and data due for release tomorrow is expected by analysts to show the rate falling even lower. Prime Minister Jim Bolger last week trumpeted that among his Conservative government's achievements were "the
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    • 414 10 AP BEIJING Chinese and South Koreans are setting aside longtime political differences as their countries edge closer to diplomatic relations and companies like Daewoo of South Korea make plans to invest in China. The official newspaper China Daily said on Sunday
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    • 695 10 New plants coming on-stream, existing ones upgraded The Nikkei Weekly TOKYO Singapore and Malaysia will begin final assembly and packaging of Fujitsu Ltd's four-megabyte dynamic random access memory (Dram) chips this year, which will then be shipped to Europe. Nothing remarkable about that.
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    • 165 8 SIC LAW Plft'tiM/Fll'tiM Department of Legal Studies SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF COMMERCE 250 Middle Road (dia. opp. Peace Centre) TEL: 337 8000 cir jy 5 the legal training centre others talk about. /j "The largest private law centre in Singapore is the Singapore Institute of Commerce, which occupies the former skin
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  • THE WORLD
    • 598 11 Conservative win should spur spending, investment FONDON I'he C ity of Fondon's financial markets have delivered a spontaneous verdict on Prime Minister John Major's surprise election victory with the biggest buving spree for four-and-a-half years. But in the cold light of day,
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    • 530 11 Reuter. UPI LIMA Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who has assumed near-dictatorial powers, faces an uphill battle to bring his country back to constitutional rule, diplomats and political analysts say. Mr Fujimori, who boasts that his distaste for traditional politics is
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    • 596 11 Reuter WASHINGTON Facing mixed signals trom the US economy, the Bush administration is looking tor ways to keep a fledgling recovery and its own re-election prospects alive, with some help from the Federal Reserve Board. But economic slowdowns overseas are clouding an already
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  • 494 12 EDITORIAL LECTION poised on knife edge", screamed a headline in the Fimui--1 J cial Times last Thursday as Britain went to the polls. But now, with Prime Minister John Major comfortably ensconced in 10, Downing Street, it is obvious that the election has produced two losers. The
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 289 12 THE recent Straits Times survey on tuition has focused attention on the extent of what has been called the "shadow education system". While there could no doubt be various interpretations of the findings, what is clear is that so far as parents are concerned, the formal education system
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    • 117 12 IT seems that more and more local young writers and playwrights are craving for the freedom to express their artistic talents. Should they be allowed total freedom? Singapore is still a conservative society which is not comfortable with public and explicit discussion of sexuality and what it
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    • 105 12 WE agree that schools run by religious organisations cannot be completely detached from certain religious characteristics. Parents who send their children to these schools have to understand this point and be prepared. On the other hand, such schools should not view all religious activities carried out within
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 169 12 TENAGA's debut on the KLSE will further boost Malaysia's privatisation programme. The government has obviously worked out the right strategy. In most instances, especially where the "heavyweight" ventures are concerned, the government retains a controlling stake or the right of final say. Which means that there
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    • 147 12 SOME Palestinians view the present PI.O leadership as a one-man business, requiring replacement by a collective one. They believe that Wednesday's disaster demonstrated the necessity to prepare a successor for Arafat. But with Arafat, at least, one thing is true. No Palestinian is now tit enough to
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    • 177 12 THE West seems to believe that its obsession with the ban on logging as an answer to the global environmental crisis exempts it from its responsibilities in finding solutions. Tackling the crisis involves the West in reducing commercial energy consumption and giving environmentally-sound development programmes to the
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  • 1097 12  -  As 1997 approaches and many Hongkongers worry about the Chinese takeover of the colony, there are a few optimists who enthuse about the economic opportunities in store. Sheryl WuDunn reports Sheryl WuDunn NYT THE WIRE fence between Hongkong and China is as
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 956 13  -  Japan's hope of achieving a level of influence commensurate with its economic power still remains beyond its reach, writes Steven R Weisman Steven R Weisman NYT IN EAST Asia no less than anywhere else, the eollapse of the Soviet Union and communism was supposed to
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    • 1536 13  -  A survey by two academics recommends that Australia targets younger Singapore students so they can progress to Australian universities. Ilsa Sharp reports from Perth Ilsa Sharp The writer is a freelance journalist w ho contributes to B l IN THEIR next bid to con- F solidate and
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  • FOCUS
    • 1091 14 Industrial economies do not seem to be responding to interest-rate cuts as speedily as in the past. Is this evidence of a credit crunch? The Economist INTEREST rates have been cut by three to four percentage points in America. Japan and Britain since the end of
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    • 727 15 US Masters NYT AUGUSTA. Georgia Making clutch shots and key putts and being fortunate when he hail to be, I red Couples put the official stamp of a major championship on his standing as the Ix-st player in the world by winning the 56th Masteis at Augusta
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    • 540 15 AP LAS VEGAS George Foreman may fight on, but the next fighter he picks on will most likely be his own age. After having his face mashed into odd shapes on Saturday night by a much younger Alex Stewart, Foreman put
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    • 428 15 America's Cup AP SAN DIEGO Bill Koch's America? won its tilth straight race to advance to the America's up defender final series alter Kan/a bailed out of Sunday's lace because of structural problems. America3 moved into a three-way tie with its Ainerica3 Foundation stablemate
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      • 109 15 AMELIA ISLAND. Florida Gabriella Sabatini of Argentina continued her blistering form on the women s circuit b\ beating Germany's Steffi Graf in the final of the U*****,000 Bausch Sl Lomb Championships on Sunday. The number two seed, who beat Graf in the same tournament
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      • 75 15 LONDON Jansher Khan is further convinced that this will at last be his year to win the British Open squash championship with a thrilling victory over Australia's Rodney Martin on Sunday. The Pakistani, who has spent much of the past! four vears at the top of
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      • 56 15 PORT-OF-SPAIN. Trinidad Philip Simmons hit his third century in four matches to power the West Indies to victory bv seven wickets over South Africa on Sunday. In the third and final one-day international. South Africa was 189 for six off 50 overs, the West Indies 190
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY 1
    • 1137 16 Michael Dell, an irrepressible entrepreneur who has helped to reshape the PC industry, says he is having a great time FT Ten years AGO, probably few people outside his home town of Houston, Texas, had heard of a teenaged marketing and technical whiz kid called
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    • 623 17  -  Exxon Chemical Singapore Pte Ltd is doing research on wax crystal modifiers. Clarissa Tan finds out how it may benefit oil producers in the region Clarissa Tan Exxon chemical Singapore Pte Ltd. a subsidiary of oil giant Exxon, will spearhead research that may reap
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    • 928 17  -  IT MATTERS At last, portable PCs that don't make you feel underprivileged. Compaq's latest offerings still aren't perfect; but they come pretty close, says Kenneth James Kenneth James No-compromise portable computing? 1 forget it, there's no such animal. But thanks to some stunning
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 76 17 SINGAPORE Seagate will now offer pre-installed software services to Microsoft's licensed original equipment manufacturers. Seagate will load Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS software onto its hard disk drives during its manufacturing process. This is the first time a software company and a disk drive manufacturer have agreed
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      • 99 17 SINGAPORE The Information Communication Institute of Singapore (ICIS) will be conducting a three-day course on the history, evolution and future of ISDN for those in the telecommunications and communications fields. The course, to be held from April 28 to 30, is called "ISDN Technologies Services" and
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      • 77 17 SINGAPORE Unisys has appointed Dynamar Computer Products Pte Ltd as its local value added reseller (VAR) for the imaging product the Unisys Infoimage Folder System. The new partners have targeted large commercial and financial organisations and government ministries as their key sectors of business. They expect
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    • 727 18 TELEVISION AND RADIO nowfii 'i 1 mow,, i r ii' -c -•rfiriifr Lunches with wolves OUR CHOICE The Terminators, 8.35pm, SBC 12 The aardwolf (also known as the African werewolf") is a cousin ot the hyena but it has an unusual diet it feeds exclusively on termites. This programme takes
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 1078 19  -  Harrison Salisbury on the 40-strong Mongolian circus troupe currently touring the US Harrison Salisbury NYT NEVER before have so many Mongolians come to the US. But this is not a band of naifs from the remote aimaks, or counties, moving in one great leap from life in
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    • 622 19  -  Lars Foyen on Astrid Lindgrerfs hope of preserving her girlhood home Lars Foyen Router ASTRID LINDGREN, creator of the worldfamous Pippi Longstocking character, fears the idyllic rural world described in many of her books will disappear if Sweden joins the European Community. But the
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    • 695 19 CHATTERBOX AL CAPONE's eggshell- c white French Empire furni- ture. gold-banded glassware c and a sailfish he caught 63 c years ago will be sold at j auction tomorrow. i They are among dozens of items from the gangster's tileroofed stucco mansion
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 838 21  -  By Kooi Cho Teng TOKYO'S sharp fall yesterday dampened sentiment in the region and Singapore was again no exception. The Straits Times Industrials Index succumbed to a wave of pessimism late in the session, closing 7.06 points down at 1,373.86, despite its morning
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    • Article, Illustration
      75 21  -  By Chew Eng Han Comment THE STOCK is likely to rise to $2.30-$2.33 over the next few weeks, with corrective dips limited to about eight to 10 cents. From the first target, a retracement back to 52.15-52.22 is expected. Provided $2.15 holds, another rise to $2.40 is likely.
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  • 178 22 rpr|un M shares quoted have a par value of J1 and traded in lots of 1.000 shares each P/E ratio Reflect last annual consolidated results Foreign shares pEs are adiusted for currency LtutNU unless otherwise specified differences ABN shares quoted in dollars Gf Y'ld Foreign
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  • 94 23 I rrrir\ Al sham quoted have a par value of II and traded lob of 1000 shares each P/E rate Reflect last annual consolidated results Foreign shares P/Es are adjusted for currency sF**<«— Information on Nasdaq stocks, other than that given above, was not available
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    • 249 23 BANKING, FINANCE AND INSURANCE SUPPLEMENT 1998 A special Business Times Survey May 4) 1992 The theme for this year's supplement is "Managing the Tiger" which focuses on the tremendous growth achieved in recent years by Asia's banking and finance industry and the constraints faced by the region's regulators*to encourage growth
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
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    • 574 24 Company Date Year Group pre-tax Not earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) (000) per share (cents) dividend lurong Eng Apr 8 Dec 91 $6,289 ($4,424) 225(158) 15(15) Sing Inv Fin Apr 8 Dec 91 $4,677($5,115) 14 2(16 7) 5(8) Material H Apr 3 Dec 91 $297L($549) —(49) NYA(7TE)
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    • 130 24 Figures in brackets are tor the previous corresponding period L Loss. TE: !a« Eiempted N. Net NY*: Not Yet Available, (i): Adiusted for scrip issues (b): In million Dutch florins, (c): Profit after tax. (d): In million HK$. (t): Company's profit, (0* to million y*n (l) Pr °M
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    • 135 24 M shares quoted have a par value of $1 unless otherwise specified NYA Not Yet Available Int Interest I Interim. N Net TE Ta« Eiempt S Special divrtend. (a) Adiusted for scrip tssue (b) First and final (c) Includes 41 special divrtend (d) Includes 6% special dividend (e)
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    • 154 24 Keppel Shipyard Ltd will help to set up a manpower development project in the Philippines for the improvement of skilled labour. Apr 3 Gotd Coin Ltd has managed to get a re listing onto the SES. but on Sesdaq; after being previously suspended. Building materials group, Posim Bhd
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    • 57 24 Umphone Telecommunication Bhd: EGM at the Company's Registered Office. 10 Jin Tandang. ***** Petaling Jaya, Selangor Oarul Ehsan, on Wednesday. April 15. at 3.30pm Kinta Kelas Investments Public Limited Company: 65th AGM at the Kedah room. Basement 2, ShangriLa Hotel, 11 Jin Sultan Ismail, ***** Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
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    • 54 24 nbmifiprtc tremh w th. major ££*£5 lm Caottal Intarnational Panpactiva. Genua Indteaa mtrkea wiw basa ol 100 at ttw bagtnnmf 19M. Tka other nnMcm ara tahaa from a ba*a ol 100 a tha of 1970 Tha percentage change It «»ce T*» r nd Copyright© 1991
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  • 593 24 Relative Strength Index: This indicator measures the rate at which prices move up or down, and theoretically ranges between zero and 100. In practice, it normally fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period. say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 453 25 Bernama. Reuter SHAKE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange fell back yesterday after initial gains to close lower on lack of follow-through support and renewed selling, fuelled by sharp losses on the Tokyo bourse, brokers said. "The renewed fall in Tokyo saw nervous
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 245 27 Reuter TOKYO STOC KS yesterday resumed their decline and the 225-share Nikkei average closed down 614.01 points or 3.44 per cent at 17.236.65. Index-linked selling ravaged prices as most investors, dismayed by the market's failure to strike bottom, kept to the sidelines, brokers said. Turnover
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 338 27 Reuter HONGKONG share prices finished lower yesterday on lack of buying interest and a 614-point drop by Japan's Nikkei index, brokers said. "The market was just boring." said Herbert Chung, an analyst at James Capel. "There was no news to tell players
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  • AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 250 28 Reuter AUSTRALIAN SHARES, after opening slightly firmer, were unable to hold on to their gains and headed downwards yesterday as soon as Tokyo resumed its decline. Yesterday, the market went through a fairly healthy correction, led by BHP, but overall it was a
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Seoul stocks finish firmer on technical rebound
      • 162 28 SEOUL STOCKS ended slightly higher yesterday due mainly to a technical rebound helped by rumours that the government and the Hyundai Group were looking to reach some sort of compromise and bury their feud, brokers said. "A technical rebound from last week's losses and several Hyundai shares reaching their
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      • 203 28 MANILA share prices ended marginally higher in listless trading yesterday as investors took an early Easter holiday since they could not get any work done because of a severe power shortage in Manila, brokers said. "The regular trading was sparse and volume was meagre. The market is on vacation.
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      • 134 28 TAIWAN share prices yesterday extended early declines to finish lower on weak financials and brokers said more losses might be seen in the near term. The weighted index finished 82.18 points or 1.8 per cent lower at 4,405.44 compared with last Saturday's 4,487.62 close. Turnover rose to NTS 18.96
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      • 115 28 Reuter ENTHUSIASM from last week's rebound spilled over into bullish morning trade on the New Zealand share market yesterday, but doubts crept in as the day wore on and the market closed only slightly up. "People were willing it to get better and later selling exposed that fact,"
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      • 54 28 INDICES TURNOVER Close Apr 13 Previous NEW ZEALAND N7SE-40 Capital 1.392.29 1.387.26 *5.03 MANILA Composite Index Turnover (million pesos) 1.136.09 96.2 1.134.83 224.6 1 26 -128.4 TAIPEI Weighted Price Index Turnover (NTS billion! 4.405 44 18.96 4.487 62 13.2 -82.18 5.76 SEOUL Composite Stock Index Turnover (billion won) 578.19 2005
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 643 29 NYT NEW YORK The Federal Reserve Board has lowered short-term interest rates by six full percentage points over the last 34 months, but •a substantial number of credit market analysts say the Fed has not yet finished easing monetary policy. Last week's cut
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    • 336 29 Reuter TOKYO Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata says he wants a higher yen against the dollar than current levels, adding that the yen is moving in a favourable direction. He told a news conference last Friday that good signs were emerging for
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    • 10 29 Source: UOB Source: Astley Pearce Source: OCBC
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    • 40 29 Rates quoted by Astley Pearce Rates quoted by NatWest Note Based on latest issues Source: The Monetary Authority of Singapore C entral hank discount rates Average of 12 hanks. float Source: National Westminster Bank Source: National Westminster Bank
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    • 450 29 REPORTS Tokyo: Yen sales against the dollar and the mark emerged before the close yesterday after Tokyo stocks closed sharply lower, resulting in a firmer close for the dollar, dealers said. The dollar ended in Tokyo (0630 GMT) at 133.30 yen and 1.6412 marks against
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    • 30 29 I Note: Open interest and actual volume are for previous day trading. Source: Singapore International Monetary Exchange Nole: Open interest and actual volume are for previous day trading.
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 397 30 Reuter JAKARTA Low prices and natural disasters have forced many Indonesian rubber producers out of business and industry officials expect output to fall by about a quarter in the first six months of this year. "Unfair pricing in the world market and
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    • 302 30 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Community (EC) is split on bananas. Plans at EC headquarters in Brussels to favour expensive Community brands and handpieked African and Caribbean bananas in the EC single market opening in 1993 have run into trouble. World trade negotiators
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    • 835 30 REPORTS THE PRICE of tin on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market rose seven sen to MS 14.66 per kg on some short-cover-ing activities yesterday. Dealers said there was good demand on the KLTM following the uptrend on the London Metal Exchange which was
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  • 154 30 Source: UOB Source: Telerate London Commodity Exchange Apr 10 COCOA t/tonne SUGAR USS/tonne Close Previous High/Low Raw Close Prev ious High/Low \la> 92 606 615 624/604 Mav 92 212.60 217.60 216.60/212.60 Jul 634 642 652/630 Aug 206.40 209.00 208.00/206.00 Sep 663 667 678/656 Oct 199.00 198.00 200 00/198.00 Dec
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    • 610 30 BUSINESS TIMES Toll free Tel No 737 0043 -Fox No: 734 3698 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF TROISCENT MARKETING PTE LTD (Members Voluntary Winding-Up) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 101 A Upper
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
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    • 49 31 Who shall be the First XI? w. Iff. W Singapore soccer coach Milous Kvacek is having a hard time naming his First XI for the Asian Cup qualifier which kicks off on Sunday. In today's build-up to the competition, we suggest the 11 names to Kvacek. Today At lunchtime
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 304 31 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Good time blondes have? (3,2,3,4) 9 Involves mending the net before one sets sail (7) 10 Yellow marsh animals are all about (7) 11 It's used in casting the film (4) 12 A gong for dinner when the day is through (5) 13 The pudding will
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    • 43 31 WEATHER Singapore Outlook: Showers over a few areas in the afternoon. Report: Maximum temperature Assoc humidity Minimum temperature. Assoc humidity Hours of sunshine Rainfall in mm Rainfall this month Rainy days this month.. World forecast 33.7 55% 26.1 83% 8.50 Nil 126.4 7
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  • 530 32 First increase seen in four years AFP, AP TOKYO Japan's trade surplus swelled 62.7 per cent to US$BB.4 billion (Ssl46 billion) in the last fiscal year, led by a surge in exports to Asia, lower oil prices and reduced imports of European
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  • 485 32 Japanese PM points to renewed growth in domestic demand Reuter, AP, AFP TOKYO Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said yesterday that the worst is over for Japan's slowing economy. "They say it gets darkest just before dawn," he told a news conference. "The economy has
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  • 346 32 Reuter JAKARTA A controversy over an almost bankrupt Indonesian clove trading monopoly headed by Hutomo Mandala Putra deepened during the weekend when he lashed out at the ruling party for suggesting his organisation be closed down. He said the monopoly would reduce the 12.770
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  • 848 32  -  The Bottom Line LEONARD SILK LEONARD SILK The writer is a columnist with The New York Times, where this comment first appeared THE American economic recovery is being threatened by a global recession. In all the major countries, the recessions of the 1990s
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  • 441 32 AFP. AP TRIPOLI Libya vowed to cut itself off from the world for 24 hours yesterday as it braced for UN sanctions due to take effect today over its alleged links to airline bombings. International communications were to
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  • 335 32 Reuter BUDAPEST The latest political crisis over economic reforms in Russia puts a question mark over a US$24 billion (5539.36 billion) international aid package for the country, said John Hemming. chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Meanwhile, a
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  • 209 32 Reuter LONDON Neil Kinnock yesterday resigned as leader of the British labour Party after he failed for a second time last week to unseat the Conservative government in a 1 general election, the Press Association news agency said. Mr kinnock said he would leave
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  • Shipping Times
    • 323 33  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Sembawang Maritime Ltd (SML) has elinched its first job in Taiwan a $20-million contract to install an oil pipeline near the Taoyuan Refinery in Shalung. The listed associate of the Sembawang Group won the turnkey contract from Taiwan's national
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    • 423 33  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE TNT Express Worldwide (TNT) will become the first international express courier to pry open the doors to North Korea's market to document, parcel and freight deliveries. In May, the Amsterdambased courier will launch full services into and
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    • 305 33  -  -By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Drawn by growing cargo traffic between South-east Asia and Vancouver, Neptune Orient Lines Ltd has extended its Singa-pore-California Express (SCX) service to the Canadian gateway. The extended service took off last week with the sailing of the California Jupiter
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    • 630 33 Govt discussing 2 options: facelift/overhaul of present port or new port SCMP HONGKONG Shanghai, the biggest port in China, faces a dilemma as to whether to build a new deepwater port on the east coast of the city or to expand its existing facilities
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    • 280 33 Reuter LONDON The Baltic Exchange. which was severely damaged when a terrorist bomb explosion shook central London last Friday, will operate from temporary offices at the Lloyd's insurance market, its head said. The Baltic Exchange is the world's leading shipping market. Chairman Peter
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    • NEWS SUMMARY
      • 33 33 SIMON Holberton explains why estimates for the British colony's multi-billion-dollar project have jumped 14 per cent and where the HKSII4 billion will come from. Page 2
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      • 42 33 TRANS World Airlines defiantly counterattacked its larger competitors last Sunday, reducing fares below the range of louer fares they announced last Thursday to remain 35 to 40 per cent cheaper than its rivals Back Page
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      • 45 33 THAILAND will soon have Asia's biggest Airbus maintenance centre following Thai Airways International's plan to establish an aircraft maintenance centre in Khon Kaen province, France-based Aerospatiale chairman Henri Marte said in a recent interview with Bangkok Post Back Page
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      • 39 33 SEVERAL foreign airlines linking Libya with Europe said last Sunday their flights from Tripoli were fully booked, mainly by families of expatriates, ahead of tomorrow's planned United Nations air embargo Back Page
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 138 34 LONDON Powell DufYryn pic said it sold 60 per cent of its Stephenson C larke Shipping l.td unit to clients of Hambros Bank in a deal valuing the fleet at £19 million. A Powell Duffryn statement said it will receive a total ot
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      • 102 34 rO\IF. The Italian government called on Libya on Sunday to release 15 Italians detained by the Libyan coast guard on Friday after a storm drove their three trawlers into Libyan territorial waters. The boats and their crews. Irom the small port of Riposto near Catania
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      • 67 34 San Francisco A United Airlines flight carrying some 400 people bound for Japan aborted takeofl on Sunday when the captain spotted smoke in the cabin, authorities said. About a half-dozen people were hurt while plummeting down chutes while evacuating the plane. Most of the
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      • 97 34 JEBBA. Nigeria A traffic jam caused by a collision between a gas tanker and a lorry halted more than 7.000 motor vehicles on a main highway in central Nigeria at the weekend. The snarl-up started at 1500 GMT on Friday and was finallv cleared on
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      • 91 34 BUENOS AIRES An Argentine navy ship intercepted a Taiwanese fishing boat operating inside Argentina's territorial waters, officials announced on Sunday. The Taiwanese boat was captured after a lengthy chase some 180 nautical miles south-east of the town of San Julian, the navy press office said, adding
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      • 58 34 AMSTERDAM The Vung Tau Cargo, a load of 300-year-old Chinese porcelain recovered from a sunken junk, fetched 13.3 million guilders (SSI 1.98 million) in Vietnam's first-ever Western auction sale. The Christie s auction house had predicted the two-day sale of the 28,000-pieec cargo here would
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    • 908 34  -  Simon Holberton explains why estimates for the British colony's multi-billion-dollar project have jumped 14pc and where the HKsll4b will come from Simon Holberton FT THE Hongkong government published updated cost estimates last week for its plan to bequeath a modern airport to the
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    • 11300 42 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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    • 3559 47 A XjLB( t ontainerline NX Bclsin Shpg Agencies Pie I Id (SVMarine Handling Sdn Bhd (Pk PNi Xctord Group: Xccord Shpg Pie Ltd (SV Vcocd Contr Line (Pk/PNi. Vdkris Business I orporalion Philippine i alsource Shpg A Trdg l*te lid (SI Xhrenkiel Liner Sen ice Kim Shpg I
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    • 1544 47 Xbex Fxpress Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. T Xctinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7822. Fax: *****20. »j Xerolink Freight International <; Tel: 545-8033TFax: *****05. Xerospeed 1 Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18 Air Cargo Novo F.xpress I Tel: 542-5454 Fax *****06 Xir Fxpress International Tel: 542-7666
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    • 2983 48 ARGENTINA Labour working normally. Buenos Aires: Port working normallv; berths regularly available; no waiting time. San I orenzo: Port busy; 7 vessels in port of w hich 4 loading grain, 2 loading bv-products. I discharging chemical products; 4 vessels anchored in roads awaiting berth of which 2 to
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    • 1321 48 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES The information was contributed by Simpson Spence Young VESSELS ON OFFER Bulk Carriers F.l Dclantero: 131,260 dwt and built Jan 1974 Nippon Kokan, definite seller* Emma D P Seconda: 54.562 dwt and built 1973 Tirreno Riuniti. ideas US$4 million (US$2.5 million declined) as brokers try US$3
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    • 557 48 ARRIVALS Op Flight l>pe ETA T From TODAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 1 NRT KAL KE697 B747F 0150 1 SEL JAL JL6I7 B747F 0345 I TYO SIN SQ835 B747F 1125 2 BSL/DXB RJA RJ024 B707F 1900 1 AMM/DXB CLX CV796 B747F 2115 1 LUX/AUH/KUL TOMORROW AZA AZ997
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    • 629 48 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Dep Name of Vessel ETA I.1D Ports of Calls Port Agent APRIL 15 15 Asean World 0900 1800 Sin-Jakarta Sembawang Johnson 15 15 Royal Pacific 1000 1800 Sin-Jakarta Ocean Trade Chartering 15 16 Cora Princess 1000 1800 Sin-Jakarta Harpers Shipping 18 18 Rotterdam 0700
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    • 946 50 Apr 16 (3.15pm-5.00pm): TeaTalk. on "Shipping with Vietnam" by Mr Le Kha, Ist VicePresident of Transport. Communications Post. Vietnam, at the Amara Hotel, organised by Singapore National Shipping Association. For registration and more details, please contact SNSA at tel: 278-3464 or fax: 274-5079. May 8 (1 day): Implementing
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    • 805 50 INCREASED South American Panamax demand helped to offset weak Japanese markets and stop the fall in freight rates, brokers said on Friday. The Baltic Freight Index was left unchanged at 1.143. the first pause in an 80 point fall in the past three weeks. "But it may just
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    • 238 52 Reuter TRIPOLI Several foreign airlines linking Libya with Europe said last Sunday their flights from Tripoli were fully booked, mainly by families of expatriates, ahead of tomorrow's planned United Nations air embargo. Dutch airline KLM and Bulgarian airlines have laid on extra flights
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    • 355 52 NYT ANKARA. Turkey Pursuing an ambitious programme to swing the six Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union behind its modern brand of Islam, Turkey is planning to blanket the area with satellite television broadcasts. While the Iranians comb
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    • 513 52 Facility will be the biggest in Asia BANGKOK Thailand will soon have Asia's biggest Airbus maintenance centre following Thai Airways International's plan to establish an aircraft maintenance centre in Khon Kaen province. France-based Aerospatiale chairman Henri Marte said in a recent interview with Bangkok
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    • 409 52 BANGKOK Thailand's Master Mind Consultant Co last week opened a transition service centre for the use of air crew and passengers in transit or whose flights have been delayed. It is the first time such a service is being offered in Thailand. According
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    • 1478 37 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 15 Hoe Chiang Road #09-01 Sanford Building Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fa#: *****17 SERVICE TO SABAH SARAWAK BRUNEI SIRMIS SIAR STRAITS VINIUfit NAIAH BROOKt SIRMiS HOPt STRAUS VINIUHL RAIAH BROOK! STRAITS STAR VOSI Skin, law Vo9f Mi,a.a lab. KK VI)Si Miiai a lab. HK VObt Muaia.
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    • 1692 39 •<- NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL: *****77 NEPTUNELINK TEL TERMINAL OFFICE IMPORT CFS MB2 EXPORT CFS MB2: (CR NO: **********0E) *****00 (TOLL-FREE) *****22 *****69/*****96 *****53/*****50 BOOKINGS: (TOLL FREE) USA SERVICE *****82 FAR EAST SERVICE *****31 UK/EUROPE SERVICE *****89 AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE *****32 K L^03)^***** Keilmg *****8''Venang (04) *****0, J Bahru-<O7)
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    • 1578 40 K 44 K LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD AS AGENTS KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD ICR No: **********0 M) TEL- *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****07/8/9 MALAYSIA: "K" UNE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD TEL: SA *****00 PK *****01/5 PENANG *****0 JB *****1 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUTINTERNUSA TEL: JKT *****76, *****77. *****08
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    • 1425 41 PIL PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 REGIONAL CONTAINER SERVICES l BANGKOK VESSEL KOTA SURIA ESTEBRUGGE KOTA BINTANG G. KOZINTSEV SRISAMUT (THAI FLAG) KOTA MAWAR KOTA SURIA KOTA BINTANG SRISAMUT (THAI FLAG) TAIWAN VESSEL BUNGA MELOR BUNGA RAYA VOY 184 194
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    • 2225 44 c o s c o HIM (HEW SHIPI'IXG COM PAS Y A Conventional Semi-Contalner Liner Services General Agents: Yick Fung Shipping Enterprise Co Ltd 62 Ctxil Slrcct TP! Biiililinij *02 00 Singapore 0104 Fc! *****66 (12 lines) Fax *****15/*****8/ Fix YIFUSIN HS ***** YIFUS YIFUSIN HS 2'U)45 YIFtJS Booking Agents:
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    • 370 45 (it FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GUARANTEED 3 TIMES SAILING WEEKLY LCL SERVICES FROM KOBE OSAKA TO SINGAPORE ONLY 7 DAYS TRANSIT TIME. FOR COMPETITIVE RATES PLEASE ENQUIRE TO OUR HOTLINE: *****33 (24 lines) SAMUEL CHEW MARKETING MANAGER i
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    • 494 46 M AC-NELS S'PORE PENANG (04) *****6 SIBU: (084) *****9 KK: (088) *****0 TAWAU: (089) *****9 P KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****32 KUCHING: (082) *****3 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 EXPORT: *****22 IMPORT: *****11 TAWAU: (089) *****9 Tel: 2251 I,ARDERS PTE LTD (1* Lines) ■MMHinI WEEKLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE JAKARTA: McCallum Street, Singapore
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