The Business Times, 23 July 1988

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1 18 The Business Times
  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 Weekend Edition, July 23-24 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 252 1 AP Dow Jones lower NEW YORK stock prices fell early yesterday in a continuation of the selling that has weighed down the market for most of the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 4.44 points to 2,082.15 in the first hour of trading. Losers outnumbered gainers
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  • 443 1  -  MEN WOMEN By GENEVIEVE CUA PERSONALITIES reigned and after much laughter and verbal sparring, no one was the wiser on the questions of the evening: Are male graduates chauvinistic, dull and old-fashioned? Are female graduates getting less feminine? In a forum at the Kent Ridge Guild
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  • 215 1 A WEAKER Tokyo market and an overnight 24-point drop on Wall Street provided investors with a good excuse to sell their shares on the Singapore stock market yesterday. The Straits Times index fell 9.7 points to 1,142.80. The decline would have been steeper
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  • 579 1  -  Stake will be short of 25pc trigger point By LISA LEE AFTER MORE than a month of negotiations, Brunei-backed QAF Ltd and cash-rich United Industrial Corporation have arrived at a deal which will see the latter injecting fresh capital and management
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  • 331 1  -  By ELAINE KOH ONE OF Singapore's largest coffee traders, Teck Hock Co, met its end yesterday in the High Court when it was ordered to be wound up by a trade creditor. Tardivat International SA, owed about £1.4 million, was supported by nine
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  • 158 1 THE US DOLLAR fell at the opening of the foreign exchange market in New York yesterday, continuing its retreat in London and Tokyo. The dollar traded at 130.90 Japanese yen and 1.8265 West German marks compared with 131.08 yen and 1.8275 marks
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  • 90 1 AFP TRADING was brisk on opening day at the Shenyang stock exchange in north-east China, as farmers and scholars rubbed shoulders to buy scrip in local companies, the Economic Daily reported yesterday. The bourse opened on July 15 with 1,000 people
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 560 2 PRODUCTIVITY growth in the Singapore economy is expected to slow down from 4.5 per cent last year to 3.5 per cent this year. An anticipated pick-up by the manufacturing sector could have a beneficial impact on overall performance. The National
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    • 169 2 CLOSE TIES between the armed forces of Asean countries are important as additional avenues of communication between the six-member countries, said Dr Yeo Ning Hong, the Second Minister for Defence (Policy). The ties could provide links between key people who help shape defence
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    • 437 2  -  By JEFFREY TSANG JAPANESE company Yokogawa is combining two of its three subsidiaries in Singapore to form a regional headquarters taking charge of South-east Asia. The move is part of a corporate decision to divide its global operations into four geographical areas. It
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    • 303 2 THE PUBLIC sector's advertising bill has risen by some 20 per cent since it was decided last year that all contracts should be put on open tender. In the first half of the year, government departments and statutory bodies spent $673,000 on tender
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    • 288 2  -  By PAUL KHOO THE LEE KUAN YEW Distinguished Visitor, Professor James van Horne, yesterday expressed reservations about the current trend of corporate restructuring in the United States. In a luncheon speech at the Stanford Club of Singapore yesterday, Professor van Home, who is a professor
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    • 409 2  -  By BOEY KIT YIN SINGAPORE'S newly achieved reputation as a leading hard disk drive exporter has lured US component manufacturer National Micronetics back to Singapore with an initial investment of $12 million. The investments in National Micronetics Singapore (NMS) will be made
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    • 1395 2 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Central Visayos J8 alongside 23.07/2300 Evpo Ageos J5/6 olongside 23.07/1500 VnnI Barth Arrival Departure Glory Seroya/B J2/3 alongside 2307/1500 KEPPEL WHARVES longso J4/5 alongside 2307/1200 Putri Mo war J4 alongside 2307/2359 Al$ Endeavour K30 alongside 23 07/1700 Selmar En'pnse 17 alongside 2307/1500 Borboros Okt
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    • 201 2 M A O A Z I H I A Bi-Monthly Publication Now Available in Singapore^ Indonesia Magazine Founder Yayasan Harapan Kita Publisher P.T. Prosindo Nuaantara Pressotama Advisor IbuSiti Hartinah Suharto Chairman G. Dwipayana Managing Director M. Boedilestari Chief Editor Santyo Budi Managing Edrtor Hartoyo Pratiknyo Contributing Experts Prof. Wijoyo Nitisastro
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 349 3 Agencies VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST party chief Nguyen Van Linh told Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow on Wednesday all Vietnamese troops would be out of Cambodia by the end of next year or early 1990 at the latest, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said. The
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    • 230 3 THE SOVIET UNION and China have agreed to hold a meeting in Beijing next month to work out a peace settlement for Vietnam-ese-occupied Cambodia, a US official said on Thursday. If successful, the talks could remove the remaining obstacle to a summit between the world's two
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    • 262 3 AFP CHARGES of widespread vote-buying by politicians in tomorrow's general elections show democracy in Thailand is a goal rather than a reality, political observers say. Political scientist Asdang Panikabutr said he believed 3.5 billion baht would be handed out by election candidates to voters
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    • 80 3 AFP JAPAN'S economy will continue to grow at the current brisk pace in fiscal 1988 to register a 4.4 per cent growth rate. The Federation of Economic Organisations (Keidanren) polled its 171 member firms in June and July. The survey showed a growing number
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    • 293 3 Agencies IRAQ said on Thursday that Iran's refusal to hold direct peace talks with Baghdad was a rejection of the UN Security Council Resolution 598 calling for an immediate ceasefire. In a report from Nicosia, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the
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    • 243 3 AFP PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino of the Philippines on Thursday ruled out government intervention and price-fixing in the vital sugar industry but pledged to maintain credit support to producers. Mrs Aquino appealed to reluctant Philippine sugar planters to accept an agrarian reform programme that
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    • 98 3 UPI PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was awarded on Thursday the 1988 Africa Prize for Leadership for his energetic fight against poverty and hunger Mr Mugabe was praised for his tireless role in promoting racial harmony in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, following independence from Britain
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    • 967 3 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time CAl CI333 0405 TPE SIA SQ40t 0555 CMB SIA SQ41 0610 MAA MAU MK/ 0730 MRU SQ746 SIA SQ23 0755 AMS/BOM MAS MH640 0820 KUL SVA SV398 0835 JED/RUH KAL KE624 0840 KUL SIA SQ417 0845 DXB/KHI MAS MH651 0910
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    • 170 3 AP FORMER US president Jimmy Carter said on Thursday that communism would have died in Nicaragua long ago had it not been for the failed policies of the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Restoring peace and human rights to that country "can still be
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    • 535 3 Poll shows him ahead of Bush Agencies MICHAEL DUKAKIS, accepting the Democratic presidential nomination. issued a Kennedy-style pledge to get America moving again. He proclaimed that "the Reagan era is over and a new era is about to begin". "We're going
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    • 265 3 AP TOP WHITE HOUSE aides met in Santa Barbara, California, on Thursday to map out what chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein said would be an "energetic, active last six months" for President Ronald Reagan's administration. As Mr Reagan vacationed at his
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    • 127 3 Jazz up your brunch corner Come for a sumptuous spread of an EastWest Brunch Buffet and be entertained by the talented group JAZZMEN. Having performed on TV recently on the "JAZZCLUB" programme, Steven Rufus with his saxophone. Eddie Jansen with his bass guitar and Tony Zee with his drums team
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 54 3 Doonesbury GOVERNOR, AMY CHANCE OF A LAST-MJNUTB CRBPBNVAIB CHALLENGE FROM 7 W JACKSON fVRC&* zT '/WHATEVER PO YOU MEAN, ROLAND? 2\T£ a a /A IS ll P. I BY GARRY TRUDEAU I THINK YOU KNOW, GOVERNOR.' QUAUFYTHESUPERP&LEGATES, YOU COULD P&NYTHE PUG A FIRST- BALWTNOMINAWN, RJ6Hr *f YOU'RB SMOKING, NOUJ, ROLAND'
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 435 4 EURODOLLAR futures yesterday opened lower on Simex from the previous close following the weaker dollar, higher Fed funds and rising oil prices. Fears of the Fed tightening interest policy put a cap to any upside movement. The Sept contract opened six ticks lower from previous close at 91.59 and
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    • 215 4 IMM currency futures on Thursday closed sharply higher and near the highs of the session set late in the day in some contracts. Sentiment that the dollar was overbought after recent gains and due for a correction sparked initial buying in currency futures. Follow-through commercial and commission house buying
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    • 173 4 Gold futures on July 21 100 troy ounces; USS per troy ounce Opon High Low S*W« Jul 447.00 447.00 447.00 441.80 -2.90 Aug 445.20 448.80 442.00 442.70 -3.00 S.P 445-50 -3.00 Oct 431.50 455.00 448.00 448.60 -3.00 DK 457.50 460.90 453.50 454.50 -3.00 F«b 463.70 463.90 460.50
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    • 1657 4 OCBC Reuter SINGAPORE: The US dollar yesterday closed easier against most major currencies. Against the Singapore dollar, the US dollar closed easier at 2.0370/80 in volatile trading. It traded within a range of 2.0325 and 2.0393. It opened initially at 2.0370/80. The dollar fell to a late 131.10/20
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    • 60 4 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore money market fell 2-3/4 points to close at 2 per cent yesterday. One month and two months fell 1/16 point, while three months fell 1/8. n% nterbank rates at the close yesterday: cm* mo 2 13/4 1-month 4 5/8 1/2 2-monlh 4
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    • 115 4 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity BID OFFER HIGH LOW 3 months BQ*****N 20.10.88 3-87 3.82 3.91 3.88 6 months BY*****H 22.09.88 3.96 3.91 3.96 3.94 1 year BY*****S 20.07.89 4.25 4.20 4.24 4.22 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing
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    • 202 4 Indicates the average of the prime lending rates of 12 major banks in S'pore Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on July 22 us$ DM SWFC Yen 7 dayt 8 7 7/8 10 1/8 10 4 5/8 l/J J 7/8 3/8 5 4 7/8 1 rMh 8 1/16 7
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    • 358 4 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed steady yesterday at slightly firmer opening levels, but trading turned quiet in the afternoon after a thin morning session. Most operators were awaiting yesterday s US June consumer price index due at 1230 GMT. The market was also looking forward to next
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    • 1274 4 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Friday, July 22, 1988 DEUTSCHE MARK (SIMEX) A«« M can* Hlfpi LM IM 53 54 55 511 50 51 5* 178 21 57 51—7 58 3 59 CA1 tap 88 caMs High Lew M 53 54 55 904 94 5* 57 58 13* 16 59 7
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 271 5 Reuter A DRAMATIC SHIFT in the investment behaviour of private and institutional domestic investors is boosting West Germany's money supply, the Bundesbank said in its monthly report for ly"The low readiness (of investors at home) to invest long-term in the domestic bond market has strengthened
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    • 351 5 FT BANKERS TRUST, the big New York bank which attracted worldwide attention earlier this year for the enormous profits it made in the foreign exchange markets in the wake of last October's stock market crash, has revealed it had made US$BO million
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    • 139 5 Reuter BANKAMERICA Corp, the West Coast bank that suffered big losses in recent years, continued its comeback on Thursday with a strong second-quarter profit of US$l62 million that surpassed most expectations. It was Bank America's fourth consecutive profitable quarter, fresh evidence that the banking giant is truly
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    • 157 5 Reuter BRAZIL RECOGNISES that in future it will not be able to meet its borrowing requirements through syndicated loans and aims instead to raise money on the world bond markets. Finance Minister Mailson Nobrega said. "In 1989. we may start touching the
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    • 333 5 Reuter AFP BRITAIN'S Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson on Thursday defended the adjustment of interest rates as a means of controlling inflation, hours after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed full support for his policies. "Short-term interest rates are, of course, the market route
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    • 604 5 Reuter SIX successive interest rate rises aimed at tightening the UK authorities monetary stance have scared off companies seeking to fix borrowing costs and left the swap market struggling, dealers say. "Swap activity, which has fallen to a low ebb, will revive only
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 162 5 SINGAPORE August RSS One buyers price was quoted at 268.00 cents/kg yesterday. No Inro activity was reported. On the TSR-20 market, prices also rose. August buyers price ended at 239.50 cents/kg. MALAYSIA August Int One RSS buyer rose to 350.50 cents a kg yesterday. August SMR 20 buyer ended
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    • 297 5 R AS prices In S c*nt*/kg, FOB In bah M NOON CLOSE Buy on S*4l*rs Buyort Selleri Int 1 RSS Prompt 263.00 265.00N 268.00 270.00N Int 1 RSS Aug 88 I 263.00 264.00N 268.00 269.00N Int 1 RSS Sop 264.50 265.50N 269.50 270-5ON Int 2 RSS OP
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    • 80 5 (cann/kg) AUGUST 1988 SEPTEMBER 1988 (current month) (forward month) RAS NOON NOON luytn Sallari Bvyan Saltan SSR 20 231.00 232.00N 231.00 232.00N SSJf 50 229.00 230.00N 229.00 230.00N MRELB Buyan Salleri Buy an Sailer. SMR CV 484.00 486.00N 486.00 488.00N SMR L 484.00 486.00N 486.00 488.00N SMR
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    • 144 5 SCATTERED BUYING demand from European and local Interests ahead of the weekend yesterday lifted the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market two Malaysian cents higher at MslB.Bl a kg In brisk trading. Yeeterday's turnover was 91 tonnes against 64 on Thursday. Despite sterling's strsngth against ringgit, the KLTM price remained
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    • 430 5 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices yesterday closed lower. July central region traded lower at M 51.090 per tonne while Aug south was down to Msl,loo. Aug/Sep delivery of RBO palm olein noted sellers at US$447 50 per tonne and Oct/Nov/Dec at US$455. Aug RBO palm oil quoted at
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    • 93 5 The rally continues, but most doubt it will last very long. Bearish fundamentals are expected to dominate the market again next week. Closing prices for crude (FOB origin) US$/borr*i Chang* Topis (Aug) 14.85 +0.10 Minos (Aug) 15.25 undt Dubai (Aug) 13.75 NA WM Texas WTI (Aug)* 16.50
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    • 237 5 Chinese Produce Exchange Seller*' noon doling priest on July 22 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil But FOB 130.00 OkJ drum FOB 140.00 New drum FOB 144.00 Copra Mixed (Ioom) 73 Pepper Muntok whit* FOB NIW 952.50 Sorowak FOB foq NIW 937.50 Sorowak ipKMl black FOB NIW 567.50 Sarawak Aita
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    • 292 5 London Commodity Exchange Buyer/Seller doting prices onJuly 21 (£/tonne unless specified). Previous closing prices in parenthesis. Coffee Bosis in-store London, sellers option CIF London Jul 1055/1056 (1052/1058) High/Low 1057/1050 Sep 1076/1077 (1075/1078) High/Low 1081/1073 Soles 1772) Cocoa Jul 950/958 (952/968) High/Low 965/960 Sep 973/974 (978/980) High/Low 986/970 Soles
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    • 148 5 SOFT red winter wheat futures closed with gains of six to four cents per bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade on Thursday in diminished trade, with September settling at US$3.B6-1/2 after posting a 6-1/2 cent range. No confirmed sales have been reported as yet. but the market was
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    • 344 5 HONGKONG: Gold closed higher in quiet trading yesterday due to a lack of fresh news and factors. A rally, mainly in response to the US dollar's weak tone, stalled following late Japanese profit-taking. Bullion ended at U*****.30/80 an ounce, against an initial 443.50/80 and New York's 441.80/442.30 close.
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    • 99 5 SOYBEAN futures closed mostly higher on the Chicago Board of Trade on Thursday, ranging from down 14 cents per bushel in old crop August to settle at US$B.42-1/2 to up 25 in distant September in fast trade. The three consecutive 45 cent daily limit declines this week turned the
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 531 6 MEN ARE DYING in the United States from fear of becoming women. This is not the latest fad in a country which has never been found wanting in creating new ways of doing things. According to an article in Psychology Today, American women outlive men by
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    • 1007 6  -  Vienna and Budapest, capitals until 1918 of the dual Hapsburg monarchy and now of a capitalist and communist country respectively, hope to link up to hold the world's first 'expo' ever split between two cities and the first
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    • 265 6  -  Letters to the Editor Lane Khoo (Mrs) Pontiac Hotel Private Limited Lena Khoo (Mrs) Company secretary Dear Sir We regret to state that the report in Business Times on July 13, 1988, on the Pavilion Inter-Continental carried several factual and circumstantial inaccuracies, and that
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    • 70 6  -  Doctor Deer Sir The new Residential telephone directories omit the numbers of doctors and dental surgeons and their names and addresses, yet include residential numbers for other professionals such as architects, accountants and lawyers. Where is the logic of this? Why the omissions? It is surely
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    • 59 6  -  D W Distant Dear Sir it is practice in Singapore for companies making "rights" issues to shareholders to make available "excess' rights for those interested. However, the forms used by banks operating the CPF investments scheme do not give the option to apply for "excess" shares. Could a
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    • 177 6  -  Phil Chua Manager, General freight forwarding division. Exhibition forwarding division. KC Dat Dear Sir I refer to your article on July 13. headlined "Shipper cannot hold forwarder liable for delayed consignment, says court". As a practising forwarder for more than 10 years,
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    • 171 6 Deer Sir Since the new SES trading system started two weeks ago, the scenario has been one of brokers and remisiers busily keying in orders on their computer keyboards and not having time to pick up their ringing phones except when the computer breaks down; which
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    • 89 6  -  Jeffrey Leong Assistant manager, Raffles City Dear Sir We refer to the article "Raffles City breaks even within 18 months" on July 18. We appreciate your favourable comments. However, we are concerned that some readers may not fully understand the phrase 'depreciation notwithstanding' in the article.
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    • 109 6  -  Investor Dear Sir Last week, City Developments announced a revised conversion rate for their TSRs from $5.16 to $4.75 due to the issue of 1 for 5 rights issue at $1.50 each. According to my calculations, this new rate is putting holders of the TSRs in a worse
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    • 115 6  -  Ron Graham General manager Pearl and Dean Dear Sir In response to your article titled Poster advertising overtakes bus backs' which appeared on July 6, we would like to say that research information on MRT poster ads will soon be available. The MRTC, to supplement
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • 311 7 MOTORISTS driving along Patterson Road on certain evenings this week towards Lido cinema may have been obstructed by vehicles parking where they are not supposed to. On Wednesday, it was a small lorry parked on the double yellow line. On Thursday, it was a car parked
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    • Article, Illustration
      1372 7  -  By BOEY KIT YIN THE WOMAN in the box winks and then blows a kiss as we enter the shop. Inside, another beckoning female strips sensuously, leaving little to the imagination. In a display box, hologram bookmarks and brooches glint. A key chain sits on a shelf,
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    • 679 7  -  PATRICIA M SCMEHSCHEL THE OTHER DAY, after struggling out of the sack in the darkness of 6 am, searching for my riding clothes and squeezing into a pair of girdle-like britches and a pair of leather boots, I paused to reflect on how much horses
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment, the Arts & Pursuits
      • 826 9  -  VISITS By HARISH MEHTA IF ONE happens to be standing on the runway of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, the resemblance to a floating highway becomes pretty obvious, tempting one to drive a Porsche around its take-off area, with a fine
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      • 1016 9  - Cancer is it something to be left to chance? HEALTH By RICHARD SEAH THE QUESTION raised recently about the possibility of microwavecooked food causing cancer was just one of many constantly being asked. Can this cause cancer? Can that cause cancer? Ever so often, reports say some substance has been
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & Pursuits
      • 710 8  -  FAIRS By SANGEETA MULCHAND PERHAPS a case of the mountain going to Muhammad if he won't go to it? In this case, Egyptians going to the Japanese department store Isetan in Singapore. Seductive belly dancing music, sumptuous black carpets strewn with gold dust and shimmering
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      • 589 10  -  CINEMA By ROGER LOH UNFORTUNATELY, the moviegoing masses don't care much for what film reviewers have to say anymore. Trends dictate box-office receipts nowadays. Rambo can't lose. Neither can Crocodile Dundee, or anything Eddie Murphy does. Which brings us to Fatal Beauty,
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      • 516 10 TRENDS NYT A JAPANESE company is finding the US an even more promising market for its versatile family computer home video game machine than Japan, where one out of every three households owns one Nintendo Co is succeeding with its family computer where Atari
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment, the Arts & Pursuits
      • 797 11  -  Roger Loh COMEDIAN Rodney Dangerfield put it in a nutshell: "If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life." If that be the case, at least half of today's lesser known "new" musical artistes would need a wad of green
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      • 364 11  -  HANG-OUTS By JEFFREY TSANG FIRST, the cars had their driveins. Now, motorcycle owners can claim their own meeting place. They're calling it Cafe Times. It is situated on the ground floor of the Far East Shopping Centre, opposite Liat Towers, a favourite haunt for "bikers". Ironically,
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      • 485 11  -  EXHIBITIONS By CHARLES SAVAGE IT'S NOT too often that 60-year-olds start off on something new. And although art imitates life, Teh Siew Joo, at 58, is optimistic that art. if not life, begins at 60. After a varied working career that included stints as an
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      • 525 11 FOOD IF YOU really want to taste the food, use your hands. Sri Lankan fare is a spicy, salty blend of Indian, Moorish, Malay, Portugese, Dutch and British culinary styles. Spices form the third biggest item in the average Sri Lankan's household budget.
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      • 761 11  -  BOOKS Joel Leow T S ELIOT by Peter Ackroyd Cardinal, Sphere Books Ltd, 1988 Paperback, 396 pages. $28.75 EVERYBODY seems to have heard of T S Eliot but few knew about him. His fame among his readers may be attributed to
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      • 798 11  -  Compiled by Sakina Dhila-wala CINEMA: Retribution starring Dennis Lipscome, Leslie Wing and Hoyt Axton. Showing at Cathay: 11; 1.30; 4; 6.30; 9.15. Fatal Attraction starring Michael Douglas. Glenn Close and Anne Archer. Showing at Jade 2: 11; 1.30; 4; 6.30; 9. Broadcaat Newt starring William Hurt, Albert Brooks and
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Sports
      • 483 12 CYCLING AP JOHNNY WELTZ of Denmark won Thursday's 19th stage in the Tour de France cycling classic while Pedro Delgado of Spain finished third and increased his overall lead. Showing no effects of a drug controversy in which he was cleared late on Thursday, Delgado moved
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      • 370 12 RACING Reuter BRAZILIAN Ayrton Senna, with three wins in his last four races, will be hoping for a repeat of the form, fortune and weather which swept him to victory in Britain earlier this month when he drives in Sunday's West German Grand
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      • 764 12  -  Oh TRdCk With JEROME FANDOR THE NEWLY-FORMED Bukit Turf Club will play host to its second race meeting starting today for Class 1 and 3 horses. The Pesta Sukan Cup meeting features a selection of sponsored races and the Pesta Sukan Cup itself, to be
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      • 407 12 BOXING AP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION Mike Tyson and manager Bill Cayton moved closer to resolving their differences on Thursday and reached an interim agreement on dividing the purse from the Michael Spinks fight. Tyson received a cheque for US$lO million. Cayton was paid
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      • 171 12 CRICKET AFP NEW-LOOK England failed to halt the rampant West Indians on Thursday when play eventually restarted on the first day of the fourth test in Leeds. After 39 overs had been lost because of sodden bowlers' run-ups. England slumped to 58 for three
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      • 450 12 TENNIS AP TOP SEED Jimmy Connors boat Jimmy Brown 6-2. 6-3 and No 4 seed Aaron Krickstein overpowered qualifier Bret Garnett 6-0. 6-2 in a rain-soaked second round of the U*****,050 DC Tennis Classic on Wednesday. Andres Gomez, the third seed, had to wait more
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      • 187 12 AFP MATS WILANDER launched holders Sweden's bid to reach a sixth successive Davis Cup final in Bastad yesterday. Thursday's draw pitted the reigning Australian and French Open champion against French number one Yannick Noah in the first singles of their world group semi-final. Noah
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      • 540 12 ATHLETICS NYT AS GOOD a runner as she is, Delorez Florence Griffith Joyner has been better known through the years for her sense of fashion, starting with her fingernails. At the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, when they were four inches long, she painted three of
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      • 175 12 BASEBALL UPI ELEVEN VICTORIES in 12 games has the Pittsburgh Pirates smelling a pannant or at least talking about it. Junior Ortiz stroked a tiebreaking, two-run double and Bob Walk won his sixth straight decision on Wednesday night, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to their
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Personal Investment
      • 1123 13  -  STOCK WATCH By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI Special Correspondent SEVERAL readers have written to ask this columnist to reappraise the prospects of stock warrants. Apparently, some investors have been dabbling with warrants without knowing what they're really about. All warrants in Singapore begin life
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      • 314 13  -  -by RC WHILE the resilience continues, yesterday's modest fall in the ST Industrial Index took the edge off what otherwise would have been another respectable week for the Singapore stock market. Since the current upmove began in late-May, when the ST Index broke through the 960
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      • 1018 13  -  EQUITIES By LONG SHIH ROME FOREIGN INVESTORS who bailed out of the Thai stock market during the October crash are returning in droves in search of under-valued secondary stocks. Volume during the first quarter of 1988 was a hefty US$2 billion, which was
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      • 119 13 COMPETITIONS NOTHING very much has happened in the Great Investment Race this week, except that securities house Paul Morgan Associates is still the leader of the pack. The stockbrokers improved their performance to a gain of 37.8 per cent since the games started from
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      • 696 13 STRATEGIES NYT A STRATEGY based on an expectation of a decline in the Tokyo stock market has backfired for some aggressive New York money managers. A number of these so-called hedge fund managers are said to have sold short the American
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    • 1665 10 Comedies, Elvis and Classicals MOVIES Chevy Chase is Daddy Griswold who plans what he hopes will be a memorable vacation for the rest of the Griswold clan. But from the word "go", the vacation turns out to be one best forgotten in the ludicrous comedy National Lampoon's Vacation. (Today. 12.40
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    • 117 13 BT welcomes Investment ideas and viewpoints from brokers, bankers and other readers. Address all correspondence to: The Editor, Personal Investment, Business Times, 390 Kim Seng Road, S pore 0923. y BAUSCH LOMB f -V SEECHB2SM y. He's a man without compromise. And he loves the feel of leather Even around
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 24 14 Company BONUS ISSUE S P P One-for-two Ex-dote, NYA Tuon Sing Books Close: Aug 1 One-for-lO E»-dat®: NYA Books dose: Aug 1
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    • 271 14 Company RIGHTS ISSUE AMDS One-for-four $0 50 per share C 1 Holdings 27 million loon stocks in the ratio of S3 loan stock for every five ordinary shares held C K Tang One-for-two $2.25 per share Eoch rights comes with two detachable TSRs The exercise price for the
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    • 262 14 MOUNT PLEASURE HOLDINGS Berhad: 27th AGM at Banquet Hall, Ferringhi Beach Hotel, 12.5km Batu Ferringhi Road. ***** Batu Ferringhi, Penang on Thursday. July 28, at 11am. BUKIT Sembawang Estates Limited: 22nd AGM at 19th Floor, OCBC Centre, Chulia Street, Singapore 0104 on Friday, July 29. at noon. GENERAL
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    • 278 14 Managers' prices for July 23 and 25 Jopon Gr fund Shenton Thrift fund 1 48 087 1 53 087 Singapore Unit Trust UOB Management The Commerce 103 1 10 Umfund 097 097 The Saxngs fund 091 097 Umbond 101 1 005 S'pore Prog Fund 043 047 S pore
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    • 727 14  -  By LONG SHIH ROME AMID LACKLUSTRE overseas sentiment, share prices faced steady selling pressure yesterday but late bargain-hunting helped the market to close above the day's lows in moderate trading. Dealers said the pull-back was also due to investors who wished to
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    • 5344 14 Gr's Gr's 1 1988 Tel Last Dlv Dlv Y'ld Net Vol Dav Last Quote Hlg h Low Cod* Company Sale or- C'vr PIE ('000) High Low Buyer Seller SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL A COMMERCIAL ADEF A 1005 1005 ADEF B 1005 m 139 95 t e 1000 Acma
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 41 15 Group pre-tax profit of M 56.9 million (M 58.95 million) on turnover of M 589.78 million (M 591.35 million) for the six months ended May 31. 1988. First interim dividend of two cents is payable on Sep 12.
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      • 34 15 Bhd: Group pre-tax loss of MS2.29 million (profit of MS914.000) on turnover of MS29.56 million (MJ41.24 million) for the six months ended April 30, 1988. No interim dividend is proposed.
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      • 25 15 Bhd: Group net loss of M$63.39 million (MS99.81 million) on turnover of M$17,000 (MS1.67 million) for the year ended June 30, 1988.
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    • 361 15  -  By ELAINE KOH WILLIAM HUNT Holdings, which bought an Australian hotel chain from fugitive tycoon Khoo Teck Puat, has announced details of its massive cash call of HK$l.lB billion to finance the deal. The Hongkong-based hotel group will issue 2.25 billion new shares
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    • 418 15  -  By LISA LEE UNITED INDUSTRIAL Corporation (UIC) has lost out to a Japanese construction group in its attempt to buy The Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Market sources say Kajima Corporation has offered to pay up to Ms9o million for the
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    • 325 15 PROMET Bhd directors have recommended that shareholders vote for the issue of 126.14 million new shares, which will reduce the group s interest-bear-ing debts and improve the debtequity ratio. The marine engineering, property and oil exploration group is seeking shareholders' approval to issue the
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    • 229 15 INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS of Tonhow Industries and its financial adviser have recommended that minority shareholders reject Bonvests Holdings's unconditional cash offer because it undervalues the company under current market conditions. Bonvests, through its subsidiary BHL Investments Re Ltd, is offering $1.18 cash each for the
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    • 230 15 Bernama MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) is considering a listing in foreign markets to meet its financial requirements for its five-year expansion programme beginning this year. Managing director Datuk Haji Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman said to fund the expansion, expected to cost Ms 3
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    • 340 15 Reuter SINGAPORE'S blue-chip companies and major banks are likely to achieve an average 20 per cent growth in profits in 1988, brokers Merrill Lynch said. The US brokerage house's figures, based on earnings per share, showed that strong growth will be maintained
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    • 340 15 MBT MYCOM BHD has found itself a new buy. The company said yesterday it has acquired 10 million shares or 24.4 per cent of Panglobal Equities for MslB million cash or MSI.BO a share. The shares represent over 90 per cent of the total off-market transactions
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    • 230 15 Bernama THE NOVATION agreement between the Malaysian government. United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd and its subsidiary, Projek Lebuh Raya Utara Selatan Bhd (Plus), is to enable UEM to carry out concessions in accordance with the terms imposed by the government. Under the agreement signed on July
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    • 507 15 II Ei date Books dot* DM peyebie Total tor the year Total last f to M Alex Hldgi 6%«W Aug 30 Sep 9 Sep 26 6% 6% Ayar Molefc 10% (W Jun 29 Jul 13 Aug 5 20% 207c B Sambowong 35% to) Jul 19 Jul 30 Aug
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    • 161 15 Reuter CHEUNG KONG (Holdings) Ltd chairman Li Kashing placed 41.5 million shares in the company at HKS7.3O each to both local and European institutions after the market closed yesterday, brokers said. They said the placement was well accepted with over-subscription.
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    • 321 15 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER SO ASPACO PTE. LTD. MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION lAt an Extraordinary General Meeting of the i Company convened and held on Friday, 22 July 1968 at 11.00 a.m., at Bangunan Mcoba Jalan Syed Putra ***** Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia, the following speI clal
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 487 16 Another plunge unlikely, say analysts Reuter SHARE PRICES on the Tokyo Stock Exchange are likely to fluctuate moderately in nervous trade until the clouds on the international horizon clear, brokers and analysts said last Thursday, following the market's biggest drop this year. The 225-issue Nikkei
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    • 241 16 AP CORPORATE RAIDER Ronald A Brierley has ended his hostile takeover attempt on Calmat Co and has agreed to sell his 19 per cent stake in the company to Japan s largest cement maker, company officials said. Mr Brierley, of New
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    • 86 16 Reuter DAIWA SECURITIES Co Ltd will set up separate corporate brokerage and corporate underwriting units in early August, a company official has said. The Finance Ministry has asked securities houses to adopt internal policing regulations to prevent insider trading. Nomura Securities Co Ltd, Japan's biggest securities house,
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    • 3340 16 SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market were broadly lower yesterday in lacklustre trading with business volume dipping below 30 million units. One analyst said most operators were cautious ahead of the long weekend. The exchange will be closed on Monday for Hari Raya
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    • 165 16 Reuter RUPERT MURDOCH'S Aus-tralia-based media empire. News Corp. is to seek a listing on the Hongkong stock exchange, a Hongkong newspaper owned by the company reported yesterday. News Corp. the shares of which are already traded in Australia. New Zealand. New York. London,
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    • 1407 16 Hongkong HONGKONG SHARE prices yesterday closed lower on a quiet day enlivened only by an af-ter-hours placement of shares In major property Cheung Kong, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index fell 25.60 points to 2,661.77 and the Hong Kong Index 17.86 to 1,750.96. Turnover was a low
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    • 133 16 JULY 22 WON +<• Oail Sugar Daalim Ind Daewoo Corp Oaawoo Heavy Oaiahin Sacuritiaa Dong Ah Pfiar ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** 15S00 -200 1000 1000 -800 1000 unch Dong Suh Stock DongtHj Staal Gold Star Hand Bank HarMI Cement ***** ***** 1300 300 ***** ***** ***** 800 800
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    • 489 16 Reuter TOKYO SHARE prices closed sharply lower yesterday with all sectors down as many investors, still uncertain about where to place their money, decided to take profits and wait, brokers said. "We saw the move into electricals falter, therefore the shift from steels to electricals ran out of steam
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    • 475 16 Reuter STRONG DEMAND for leading stocks yesterday helped the Australian share market weather sharp falls on overseas bourses and close slightly firmer, brokers said. They commented that the market had performed much better than expected after Wall Street's Dow Jones industrial index fell 24 points on Thursday and the
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    • 155 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index rose 2.51 points to 457.50 yesterday on a turnover of 3,232,487 shares worth 491.54 million baht. JULY 22 ■Am Ao Kham Thai 464 2 Ayudhya Invaatmai Tt 474 16 Bangkok Agro-lnd 130 uncti 325 366 unch 2 CabJa 589 -2 Ghana Stam
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    • 284 16 JULY 22 WT S 1All Sincara Indus 585 ■015 Asia Om«nt 85 00 -1 Cathay Con* 103 50 -2 Chang Hwa Bank 620 00 18 Chang Loong 45 10 -07 Chia Hain Camant 71 00 -1 Chin Hain Flour 27 90 -04 China Cham 55 00 1.5 China Dav
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 1041 17 New York Reuter WALL STREET stocks closed sharply lower on Thursday, with blue chips ending a mostly depressed session below a key psychological level for the third time in two weeks. Traders said a number of factors, including softness in technology stocks and a weak
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    • 1014 17 London Reuter FALLS OVERNIGHT on Wall Street and in Tokyo had the market makers pushing down prices in London yesterday in moderate early business. The FTSE 100-Share Index opened 9.3 points lower at 1,855.1. On Thursday, the FTSE 100 was 2.8 points at 1,864.4 while
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    • 1128 17 Selected indices HONGKONG Hongkong Index Friday 1.759 98 Thursday 1,***** Week ogo 1.811.61 Hang Seng Index Friday 2.661.77 Thursday 2.687.37 WnI ogo 2.***** All Industrials Friday 2.5919 Thursday 2.5886 Week ogo 6 NEW YORK Dow Jones Thursday 2.***** Wednesday 2.***** Week ogo 2.113.62 TOKYO Nikkei Average Friday 27.***** Thursday 27,*****
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    • 131 17 Reuter PLESSEY CO PLC is making a recommended cash offer of 410p for every ordinary share of computer services group Hoskyns Group PLC. The offer values Hoskyns at £164 million. Plessey said it had already received irrevocable undertakings from Martin Marietta Corp of the
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    • 134 17 AP THE PUBLISHER of Business Week is investigating unusual movements in stocks mentioned in its Wall Street column before issues of the magazine hit the streets, a spokeswoman confirmed on Thursday. Mary McGeachy said McGraw-Hill Inc's legal counsel began
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    • 287 17 UK publisher offers US$BO a share Reuter BRITISH PUBLISHING tycoon Robert Maxwell, frustrated in numerous attempts to buy a major US book house, has proposed an US$BO-a-share bid for MacMillan Inc. MacMillan said on Thursday. Mr Maxwell has long been rumoured to have an interest
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    • 361 17 Reuter BRITISH TOBACCO, finance and insurance group BAT Industries PLC needs a pretext to sweeten its USS63-a-share bid and break the stalemate in its quest to acquire US Insurer Farmers Group Inc, analysts said. BAT met analysts in London on Thursday morning. The firm
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    • 546 17 Head Office Croeselaan 18. 3521 CB Utrecht The Netherlands Singapore Branch 50 Raffles Place 30-01 Shell Tower. Singapore 0104 Consolidated Balance Sheet As of December 31 (after profit appropriation) Consolidated Statement of Income For the year ended December 31 Report of Independent Accountants We have examined the consolidated balance sheets
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  • 468 18 Parliament likely to amend Constitution this year: Rajaratnam Reuter PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew may be elected to the new post of executive president within this year, a Singapore Cabinet minister said in an interview with Reuters yesterday. Parliament will probably amend the
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  • 304 18 SINGAPORE'S former solicitorgeneral Francis Seow has confirmed that he would contest in the coming general elections, widely expected this year. Mr Seow, who was arrested in May under the Internal Security Act, told Reuters in a report from Kuala Lumpur that "his
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  • 88 18 AP THE WORLD'S largsst car, ths custom-mad* Cadillac, "Hollywood Droam", was introduced to ths Japanosa public at a health contra In Osaka, wostern Japan, on Thursday. Ths owner of the health centre bought the 21 -metre, 22-wheel Cadillac with a bedroom, lounge and swimming pool, when
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  • 402 18 Reuter LEADERS OF the main parties in South Korea's National Assembly agreed in principle yesterday to accept a North Korean proposal for political talks aimed at reducing tension on the peninsula. A parliamentary spokesman told reporters the decision was taken at a
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  • 371 18 AP US CONSUMER PRICES climbed a modest 0.3 per cent in June, with declines in petrol and clothing costs nearly offsetting a sharp increase in food prices, the government said yesterday. The overall June increase, which matched the rise for May, would
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  • 74 18 AFP THE US has signed an agreement pledging US$lO million for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of war-ravaged northern and eastern Sri Lanka, officials said in Colombo yesterday. Thursday's agreement followed another award of US$lO million by the US to Sri Lanka at
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  • 123 18 Reuter THE Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ) said it plans to change its rules to allow it to issue share capital denominated in currencies other than the Australian dollar. ANZ managing director Will Bailey said in Melbourne yesterday shareholders
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  • 194 18 AFP THE PHILIPPINE Senate will reject any treaty extending the lease of US military bases in the country beyond 1991 when the current lease expires, two ruling coalition senators said in Manila yesterday. The forecast came after US Secretary of State George Shultz
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  • 364 18 Agencies THE MALAYSIAN Supreme Court yesterday removed the last legal obstacles blocking a royal tribunal from submitting its report to the King on whether the head of the country's judiciary should be sacked for misconduct. In a unanimous decision, the five-bench
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  • 499 18 By BOEY KIT YIN LESS THAN four months after Shell began construction of its $480 million propylene complex, the multinational oil company has put into motion another ambitious $84 million petrochemical plant to make iso-propyl alcohol (IPA), a chemical solvent. The chairman and
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  • 104 18 Reuter COMEX SILVER futures fell on profit-taking yesterday morning, with the market giving a bearish verdict to the Peruvian government's decision to buy silver from state-produced mines at prices above market levels. September silver sank by 15 US cents at U557.66 an ounce, adding to Thursday's correction from
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  • LATE FILE
    • 67 18 AFP MAJOR French commercial banks yesterday cut their base lending rates for the first time in more than two years, by an average of 0.35 per cent, following reductions in the Bank of France s leading rates. Banque Nationale de Paris, Credit Commercial de France,
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    • 35 18 AFP STOCK prices in Seoul soared yesterday with the news that South Korea had decided to accept a North Korean proposal for parliamentary talks to discuss peace on the Korean Peninsula. AFP
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    • 59 18 Oana-TNA FORMER Thai army com-mander-in-chief General Arthit Kamlang-Ek has emerged as the favourite to become premier after tomorrow's general election. Results of two separate opinion polls yesterday show that General Arthit who is a leader of the Puang Chon Chao Thai Party, is the most
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    • 59 18 AFP THERE have been fresh disturbances in the northern Burmese town of Prome ahead of a special ruling party congress. The state news agency said yesterday that Burmese leader Ne Win was scheduled to chair a meeting late yesterday of his Burma Socialist Programme Party central
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    • 46 18 Reuter SHARES of salvage firm Smit Internationale NV roee sharply on the Amsterdam bourse yesterday on investor expectations of large amount of work in the Gulf if there were a ceasefire in the war between Iran and Iraq, brokers said. Reuter
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