The Business Times, 8 February 1989

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 45/12/88 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1989 75 CENTS
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  • 136 1 Dow down STOCK prices opened lower on Wall Street early yesterday, with the Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials down 4.28 points to 2,316.79 points. Some 6.4 million shares changed hands in lacklustre trading, with declines slightly edging advances. AFP Footsie up LONDON share prices firmed
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  • 98 1 WHILE the Singapore and Hongkong markets took a Lunar New Year break yesterday, trading in Tokyo reached a new record close. The Nikkei Average rose 51.90 points to 31,880.65. It gained 136.94 points to hit an intra-day high of 31,965.69 in early afternoon trade, but
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  • 33 1 ALL MARKETS in Singapore and Malaysia were closed yesterday; they reopen today. The Singapore and Malaysian tin and rubber markets will reopen tomorrow. The Hongkong stock market will also reopen tomorrow.
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  • 56 1 AFP THE prime ministers of Iraq. Jordan, Egypt and North Yemen will meet next week to examine ways of setting up a quadripartite economic alliance. Iraq's First Deputy Prime Minister, Taha Yassin Ramadan, has confirmed that plans are underway between North Yemen, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq to create
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  • 461 1  -  OVERSUPPLY PROBLEM EXPECTED TO ABATE BY SECOND HALF By LILIAN ANG BARELY THREE MONTHS after Seagate and Miniscribe Peripherals retrenched between them 1,800 workers, major disk drive manufacturers are predicting better times ahead. Many companies seem convinced that "the bottom has been reached".
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  • 553 1  -  By HARISH MEHTA TO BEEF UP internal defences, the Philippine Defence Department will ask for a bigger budget next fiscal year after failing to get it for 1989, according to Defence Secretary Fidel Ramos. In an exclusive interview with BT on Monday,
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  • 203 1 AFP THE PHILIPPINE government has drawn up contingency plans and is prepared for the worst if deposed president Ferdinand Marcos is allowed to return from exile, Defence Secretary Fidel Ramos said yesterday. "There are many scenarios and combinations of scenarios that we are studying
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  • 362 1 Reuter WORLDWIDE flows of foreign direct investment have grown rapidly, nearly tripling from end-1983 through 1987, a Commission of the United Nation's Economic and Social Council said in a report. Developed nations increased their share of both outward and inward direct investment
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  • 243 1 UPI JAPAN is set to jump from the fifth most powerful member of the International Monetary Fund to the second, reflecting Tokyo's growing economic strength vis-a-vis the US. the chairman of the IMF interim committee said on Tuesday. The US is reluctant to increase its
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  • 400 1  -  By SHOEB KAGDA THE LUNAR NEW YEAR remains the most important cultural festival for the Chinese community even though it is not associated with s religious occasion, said Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday. "This year, as compared to the laat three
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  • 111 1 AFP THAILAND'S economy is expected to grow 7.g per cent in 1868, down from 10.8 per cent lest yssr, Bangkok Bsnk Ltd ssid yesterday. A bank official, quoting a report to be released in March, ssid that last year's growth rate had been the
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    • 109 1 Editorial Comment 8 One up for preservation Australia 8 Putting a lid on inflation New Zealand Investing in clean gambling US thrifts Bush restructures controls Focus on Iran 7 Under the Ayatollah's regime Palm oil 7 Malaysia starts campaign in US Foreign troops 9 Music Industry Pullouts leave problems behind
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  • MANAGEMENT
    • 1786 2  -  BUSINESSMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD AND ENTERPRISE AWARD V L WOntDWtO€ EXPRESS Mntly organijed by Businen Times and DHL International (S) Ptc Ltd In conjunction with the Businessman of the Year Award, Business Times and DHL International organised an essay competition on the theme:
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    • 640 2  -  Spotlight ony) Management By PETER LEONG Peter Leong is a consulting manager of Ernst Whinney Consultants Pte Ltd VARYING DEGREES of fear and insecurity are often displayed in a company that is to be acquired. This article focuses on the major issues of mergers and
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    • 724 2  -  By JANICE GIBB Janice Gibb is managing director of Career Guidance (S) PteLtd STRESS at work is one of the most common causes of absenteeism. However, it is difficult to pin down the real causes as well as to determine whether the company or
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    • 586 2 FT FEW WORDS in today s management lexicon are more overworked than "strategic". Its use has become so übiquitous among general managers, marketing specialists and advertising executives that cynics have joked for years that it was just a matter of time before some consultant or
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    • 1807 3  -  A minority shareholder of Great Eastern Hotel recently tried to wind up the company, on the grounds that it could not pay its debts and that its majority shareholders had oppressed the mi- nority. DAVID GABRIEL examines the case to find out when exactly
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    • 740 3 IN DECIDING if a company is unable to pay its debts, the Court must take into account the company's contingent and prospective liabilities. In the Great Eastern Hotel case, the background facts are as follows: In the late *****, the company ran into financial difficulties and
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  • ASIA – PACIFIC
    • 538 4 Coalition summit opens tomorrow AFP THE FIRST Cambodian resistance summit in 18 months opens in Beijing tomorrow with international efforts to find a peaceful settlement intensifying but the warring factions themselves still sharply divided. Resistance backers China and Thailand, along with Vietnam's main ally, the
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    • 325 4 AFP THAI PRIME MINISTER Chatichai Choonhavan has hailed a SinoSoviet joint statement on Cambodia as symbolic of a desire by all parties to see peace in the wartorn nation, a government spokesman said in Bangkok yesterday. "I believe that peace will finally be restored
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    • 122 4 AFP INDONESIA'S easternmost province of Irian Jaya should be split in three in order to cope better with security disturbances there, the Supreme Advisory Council has said. The Angkatan Bersenjata (Armed Forces) daily on Monday quoted Council deputy chairman Makmun Munrod as
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    • 184 4 AFP A 40-MEMBER delegation of Thai government officials, businessmen and Members of Parliament left Bangkok for Vientiane yesterday, a Foreign Ministry official said. The delegation, led by Deputy Foreign Minister Prapass Limpabandhu, will hold talks with Laotian officials during the three-day visit, the official
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    • 210 4 AFP BORDER trade between China and Vietnam is flourishing despite mines, trenches and sporadic outbreaks of fighting between the two countries in the past 10 years, an official Chinese newspaper reported. The Weekend News Digest said that unperturbed Vietnamese often crossed the border to
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    • 461 4 UPI THE LEADER of Japan's fourth largest political party announced yesterday that he will resign due to his involvement in the growing stock-for-favours scandal that has rocked Japanese politics. Saburo Tsukamoto, chairman of the moderate Democratic Socialist Party, submitted his resignation at a
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    • 227 4 AFP JAPANESE companies have offered the Philippines up to US$4OO million for a dilipated two-storey building in the Roppongi nightclub area of Tokyo, Philippine National Bank president Edgardo Eapiritu said on Monday. Mr Eapiritu. the head of a government committee overseeing the sale, said
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    • 110 4 AFP ASAHI GLASS Co. Japan's largest glass maker, said yesterday that it has developed two potential substitutes for the freon gas that is used for cleaning microchips but blamed for depleting the ozone layer. The two possible substitutes for chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-113. known as freon gas, are
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    • 461 4 Reuter THE THREAT of an arms race between India and Pakistan could revive tensions between two countries that only six weeks ago seemed anxious to bury age-old differences. The competition for high-tech weaponry could sour apparently warm relations between Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and
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    • 321 4 AFP FRANCE HAS OFFERED to help India build satellite launch rockets for heavy payloads, but is concerned over the possibility of a sub-continental arms race in space, a French minister said in New Delhi on Monday. Minister for Technology and Research Hubert Curien
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    • 892 4 ARRIVALS Operator g otfvici number Local Hm From MAS OAL SU UAL MAS SIA su MAS KAL MAS MM625 OA471 SQ11 UA805 MH627 SQ4I SQ31 MH640 KE624 MM6SI 0010 0015 0115 0125 0600 0610 0615 0820 0640 0910 KUl ATM LAX/NRT SFO/HKG tax MAA COG/ROM KUl KUl
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    • 176 4 AFP PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino gave her support on Monday to proposals for an international conference on the debt problems of developing nations. "A meeting between the United States and other major creditor countries with debtor countries, including the Philippines, to discuss the debt problem
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
    • 421 5 AFP THE European Commission faces an uphill struggle today when it discusses plans for a minimum savings tax that it hopes will prevent a huge capital flight when the European Community (EC) scraps its internal trade barriers in 1992. Diplomatic sources in
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    • 347 5 Reuter THE European Community (EC) has introduced strict new rules affecting access to EC markets for microchips in a move which diplomats said could intensify US and Japanese charges of protectionism. The EC's Executive Commission said in a statement on Monday that the regulation requires
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    • 131 5 AP THE US is investigating an Israeli charge that Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat reneged on his pledge against terrorism, and Israel has made a formal request that Washington end its dialogue with the PLO. The request was
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    • 281 5 AP PRESIDENT George Bush, presiding at the swearingin ceremony for US Trade Representative Carla Hills, vowed on Monday that his administration would resist protectionism. Mr Bush said he would work forcefully to open more foreign markets to American goods but to bear in mind
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    • 420 5 AFP A POTENTIAL CONFLICT between the Federal Reserve Board and the administration of President George Bush is emerging, according to analysts in Washington, with the Fed preparing to tighten credit further in its fight to stop the economy from overheating. Such a move,
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    • 154 5 Reuter A MORE POSITIVE TURN in relations between Washington and Moscow has produced an unprecedented trend towards disarmament, United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said on Tuesday. In a message to the new session of the Geneva conference on disarmament, he
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    • 280 5 AFP ONLY A WEEK before the end of a Soviet troop withdrawal, prospects for peace in Afghanistan remain bleak with Moscow still striving for a face-saving accord to stop the fighting, analysts said in Islamabad. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's visit to Islamabad, which ended on Monday,
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    • 596 5 G-7 ignoring new global trend, OECD seminar told AFP FAST economic development in the Western Pacific Rim countries could turn this group into "a locomotive for the world economy" in the *****, former Japanese foreign minister Saburo Okita told an international symposium
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    • 299 5 Reuter FORMER president Ronald Reagan, declaring "I may be old, but I'm not stupid," ended a 17day retirement on Monday to blame Congress tirmly for spending too much and (ailing to reach a balanced federal budget. In his first public speech Jsince he left the
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    • 130 5 UPI ARGENTINA'S central bank has devalued the monetary unit the austral, by 2.5 per cent and simultaneously announced a series of changes in monetary policy for exports and imports. Banks were closed to prevent speculation prior to the government announcement on Monday. The central
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 156 5 wstn V//41 HV/Z/y Singapore OUTLOOK: Fair, oxeopt floe ihowtfi ov#f a flaw araaa In tt>a lata aftarnoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Fob 7 ot Ift* alrporti Max lamp. 32.3 Aaaoc humidity 81 Mln lamp 23 2 Hra ci aunaMna.... 10.00 Rainfall In mm nil Rainy daya
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 524 6 Plan to float USssob bonds to protect savings AFP PRESIDENT George Bush on Monday announced restructured controls for US savings and loans institutions and the floating of bonds worth US$5O billion to protect depositors' savings. Mr Bush flatly rejected a plan floated by Treasury Secretary
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    • 274 6 Reuter FINANCE MINISTER Pedro Aspe left for Washington on Monday with a four-point plan for renegotiating Mexico's US$lOO-billion foreign debt A ministry spokeswoman said Mr Aspe was seeking a reduction of net transfers and of debt, renegotiations covering several years and lowering
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    • 302 6 Reuter IN A MOVE that may have been accelerated by the US government's fraud investigation, the Chicago Board of Trade is developing an electronic trading system. The Board of Trade the world s largest futures exchange is working on the project with several major
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    • 186 6 Gold futures on Feb 6, 1989 tOO Hoy ounces, USS par troy ounce Opwi High Low Mte Fab 392.50 394.30 388.80 394.00 090 Mar 395.20 070 394.80 39tOO 389 80 396.90 0.60 Jun 400.40 403.00 395.00 402.00 0.50 Aug 403 20 404.70 403.20 407.40 0.40 Oct 410.00
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    • 161 6 Most IMM currency futures posted a strong finish on Monday after rising to session highs late in the day on the perception that central bank intervention had succeeded in capping the dollar's rally. Major central banks entered the interbank market early to sell dollars for marks. The concerted action
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    • 398 6 FT THE BANK of England will continue to set demanding regulatory standards for banks operating in the UK in spite of complaints that these could drive business out of London to more hospitable centres on the continent of Europe. This message was delivered
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    • 228 6 AFP BANQUE INDOSUEZ and the US investment firm Daniel Breen and Co have signed an agreement in principle to form a joint venture, Banque Indosuez North America has announced. The move will enable both entities to provide financial services on a global
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    • 172 6 Reuter NEW ACCOUNTING standards for Japanese banks may be decided by the end of February, a Federation of Japan Bankers' Associations official said. A federation working group, led by Mitsubishi Bank Ltd, is drafting the standards at the Finance Ministry's request. The
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    • TAKING COVER
      • 701 6  -  by PAUL FRANKLAND Paul Frank I and is the Singapore branch manager of Commercial Union Assurance, one of the Republic's largest insurance companies. He is also a management-committee member of Singapore's General Insurance Association. His views do not necessarily reflect those of Commercial Union
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    • 167 6 UPI JAPAN has pledged to help bolster the faltering West German mark against the US dollar. Finance Minister Tatsuo Murayama on Monday told a news conference Japan would take concerted action with other G-7 members to support the mark if necessary. Mr Murayama returned to
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    • 798 6 SINGAPORE: Closed KUALA LUMPUR: Closed JAKARTA: The US dollar was fixed at 1739/1745 yesterday. HONGKONG: Closed TOKYO: The dollar closed steady after fluctuating without direction in sluggish trade yesterday. Participants saw little incentive to push the dollar either way as activity wound down ahead of President George Bush's
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    • 104 6 AFP BANKAMERICA CORP has announced plans to pay its first dividend in more than two years. The company's board of directors, meeting in Los Angeles instead of at its San Francisco headquarters on Monday, ordered payment of common stock dividend of 15 cents per share. The third
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    • 97 6 Reuter THE HEAD of South Africa's central bank described himself on Monday as thrilled by the performance of the economy which was expanding despite sanctions and disinvestment. Briefing foreign correspondents. Reserve Bank Governor Gerhard de Kock noted that groea domestic product grew by an
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  • FOCUS
    • 643 7 Reuter TEN YEARS of revolution and eight years of war have left Iran with an army and an arms industry capable of making it a dominant power again. Military analysts said as these two children of the revolution grow, the balance of power will tilt
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    • 596 7 AP FRENCH Foreign Minister Roland Dumas left Teheran on Monday after a two-day visit in which an Iranian leader said the two countries agreed to "forgive and forget" their differences in spite of bitter criticism of France in Iran's media. The official Islamic Republic News
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    • 519 7 It is 10 years since the fall of the Shah led to the installation of the Ayatollah Khomeini regime in Iran. These articles examine the state of the country's arms industry, Teheran's relations with Paris and the Iranian government's attempts to bring
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 418 7 AFP IRAN last month shipped an estimated 900,000 barrels ot oil a day to Western Europe in a major sales drive to secure badly needed revenues, the Middle East Economic Survey reported on Monday. The respected oil industry newsletter, published
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    • 94 7 Reuter SAUDI ARABIA said its January oil production was under its Opec-assigned quota, the Saudi Press Agency reported yesterday. The agency said an official at the Petroleum Ministry de- nied a report in Petroleum Intelligence Weekly saying Saudi Arabia was one of the
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    • 173 7 AP A US TRADE GROUP representing steel distributors called for an extension of limits on steel imports provided the five-year-old quota programme is modified to guard against shortages and is eventually ended. The Steel Service Centre Institute said in Washington the so-called Voluntary
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    • 393 7 Bernama THE PALM OIL promotion fund which was recently set up by Malaysia to counter the antipalm oil campaign In the United States, has fired its first salvo. Tunku Mansur bin Tunku Yaacob, a spokesman for the fund, said the first full-page advertisement
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    • 155 7 AFP INDONESIA'S gold production could potentially increase to between 25 tonnes and 50 tonnes annually in the coming years. The official news agency Antara quoted Director General for General Mining Kosim Gandataruna as saying that gold explora- tion activity in Indonesia
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    • 239 7 SOYBEAN FUTURES closed on or near the lows, down 16-1/4 to 12 cents per bushel in moderately light trade on the Chicago Board of Trade on Monday, under pressure from the locally heavy rains reported across Brazilian soybean producing regions over the weekend. March soybeans settled at U557.54-1/4 after
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    • 245 7 WHEAT FUTURES closed lower on the Chicago Board of Trade on Monday in quiet dealings on trade talk that the radio-active contamination that forced evacuation of villages around the Chernobyl power plant will not result in a significant increase in Soviet wheat purchases. SRW wheat futures ended with losses
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    • 202 7 HONGKONG: Closed TOKYO: Yen-denominated gold futures closed little changed with prices ranging from three yen per gram down to one yen up in extremely sluggish trade yesterday. Spot February platinum closed eight yen per gram up at 2,179. Silver closed up 400 yen per kg at 25,800. Gold
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    • 100 7 SINGAPORE: Closed MALAYSIA: Closed TOKYO: Rubber futures closed slightly easier yesterday in currency-related trading. Prices were unchanged to 1.5 yen per kg easier, except for the June contract, which rose 0.3 yen. Opening losses triggered by the dollar's overnight fall against the yen were offset in later sessions by
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    • 226 7 Reuter THE OUTLOOK for the precious metals market can only be described as gloomy, the research department of E D and F Man International said in a report. "The steady increase of available gold, silver and platinum for investment is rapidly becoming a millstone round
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 480 8 A FEW YEARS AGO. China decided that it wanted a new building for its embassy in London. The magnificent pre-Victorian building the embassy was then occupying was deemed inadequate and ancient. It was torn down. Before the dust and debris from that building had settled. Londoners
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    • 1341 8  -  AUSTRALIA Australia's government is struggling to contain the damage being wrecked by the rising rate of inflation. The decline in purchasing power threatens to undermine a six-year-old labour pact designed to spur productivity and a recent compromise in which workers have agreed to accept lower
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    • 551 8  -  NEW ZEALAND By SELWYN PARKER WITH A QIOOY SENSE of adventure, conservative New Zealand is about to permit gambling after dark for the first time. A government committee of enquiry has recommended that the Labour government should help the country "grow up internationally", as
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    • 438 8  -  By Selwyn Parker NEW ZEALAND'S plain-talking Prime Minister has found a simple method of preventing lawbreaking diplomats from claiming immunity. David Lange, who is famous for his undiplomatic comments and correspondence, just sat down and wrote a stiff letter to all the embassies. That was
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    • 742 9 FT AN AVERAGE of more than five candidates have been nominated for each constituency in the Soviet Union's first contested elections, according to figures from the central electoral commission. However, the numbers are very unequally distributed across the country, ranging from 35 names contesting
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    • 659 9  -  By PATRICK WORSNIP Reuter THE RUSSIANS are going, the Cubans are going, the Vietnamese are going. But in Afghanistan, Angola and Kampuchea the countries from which these foreign troops are leaving the problems linger on. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has decided that he
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    • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
      • 268 9 Our wMkty MMMiUHry of wturt rtgloul puMlciHom hiM to say ahewl liwm of liitoi national lnlsmt. CAMBODIA "PRINCE NORODOM SIHANOUK'S latest pique and cancellation of his visit to Bangkok for scheduled talks with members of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea that he once headed, and consultations
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      • 191 9 HONGKONG "STIFLING FAIR COMPETITION in the Hongkong property market would be as popular as the introduction of a prohibitive capital gains tax, or barriers to foreign investment. But the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors is rightly concerned about unfair competition, and it is calling for curbs
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      • 247 9 VIETNAM VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES say that the number of returning Americans, along with Vietnamese refugees coming for a visit, has begun to strain the country's meagre tourism resources. Airlines and hotels are said to be operating at near capacity. New facilities are being built. Hanoi
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      • 614 9 MALAYSIA "A SHARP ECONOMIC UPTURN and an increased inflow of funds caused by rising export proceeds have helped the government to repay ahead of schedule a number of external loans and reduce the external debt figure by M 55.6 billion to around Ms 46 billion
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • LEISURE
    • 485 10 HEALTH Reuter TOURISTS flocking to Rio de Janeiro's carnival this weak are getting a frank warning from Brazil's health authorities beware of Aids. In the most aggressive anti-Aids campaign Brazil has ever seen, television and radio spots, posters and billboards are urging people to use condoms
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    • 831 11 MUSIC INDUSTRY UPI MANY PEOPLE believe performers receive royalties each time one of their songs airs on the radio or is played on the Jukebox. In fact, they receive no such compensation. But Frank Sinatra is out to change all that. He has agreed to spearhead
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    • 849 11  -  MUSIC Combining the classics with jazz may seem like heresy to purists, but three talented American musicians, showing a fine sensitivity to music of all kinds, are mixing the two genres with exciting results, reports JOHN ROCKWELL. JOHN ROCKWELL NYT STYLISTIC CATEGORIES in
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 641 11 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 1 It may bubble forth (5) 6 Stop making a case. note (5) 9 Pear shaped fellow? (7) 10 Said further that dad was mad with Ed (5) 11 A mount that may come to a point (5) 12 One in flight? (5) 13 Cause trouble, yet
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    • 769 12  -  GOLF By WALTON MORAIS AND SO. it was decreed i again that Singapore was not to enjoy the advantage of playing at home and qualifying to play at St Andrews in the Dunhill Cup world qualifying tournaiment which ended at Serapong on Sunday. The only Asian
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    • 478 12 BASKETBALL UPI THE SEQUENCE of events that has helped take the Los Angeles Clippers one defeat away from tying the NBA record for consecutive losses in a single season took another strange turn on Monday. The Clippers suspended leading scorer Quentin Dailey
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    • 376 12 BOXING AP MARK BRELAND impressed his friend Mike Tyson. Marlon Starling won respect from Britain's Lloyd Honeyghan. Now the two new welterweight champions appear headed for a showdown for the third time. Breland won the World Boxing Association title for the second time
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    • 378 12 ATHLETICS Reuter MOROCCO'S Said Aouita showed his talents are not limited to outdoor racing as he charged to the sixth fastest 5,000 m ever run indoors last Sunday at the Fairfax Invitational meet in Fairfax, Virginia. Aouita, the world outdoor record holder at 1,500 m, 2,000
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    • 97 12 SKIING AFP A WEST GERMAN army sergeant scored the biggest surprise in slpine skiing for 15 years when he won the men's world championship downhill in Vail, Colorado, on Monday. Hansjorge Tauscher won his first ever downhill competition by just 19 hundredths of a second. Runner-up was 1987
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    • 516 12 CRICKET Reuter OPENER Gordon Greenidge, in probably his last game in Australia, scored his first Test century in five tours to guide the West Indies to a draw in the fifth and final Test yesterday. At close of play in Adelaide, 30
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    • 90 12 AP NEW ZEALAND romped to an eight-wicket victory over Pakistan with nine balls to spare on Monday in a 48-overs one-day cricket international in Carisbrook, New Zealand. The match was arranged to replace the first Test, which was washed out by three successive days
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    • 838 12 TENNIS UPI THE TENNIS TROUBLES of Pat Cash continued last Sunday, completing a miserable weekend for the Australian Davis Cup team, which was swept 5-0 by unheralded Austria in Vienna. Cash, who has not played consistently well since winning Wimbledon in 1987, was thrashed
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    • 416 12 UPI JIMMY CONNORS, preparing for his 18th year as a professional athlete, is also ready for the end of his tennis career. "Athletes can be very onetrack about life, picking up a newspaper, reading only the sports page and letting the rest
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    • 782 13 New York Reuter US BLUE CHIPS posted their fourth consecutive loss on Monday amid unclear signals about interest rates and inflation. Traders said investors continued to take profits while trying to ascertain the strength of the economy. The producer price report last Friday may offer
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    • 927 13 London Reuter SHARES on the London exchange opened mainly lower yesterday in quiet trading after a 25 point-fall in the FTSE 100 Index in the previous session on profit-taking. Monday's news of an upward revision to December retail sales has proved a setback to any
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    • 143 13 NYT A BIDDING WAR for the Champion Spark Plug Co, owner of one of the world's most familiar brand names, seemed likely on Monday after Cooper Industries said it intended to offer at least US$2l a share, or US$735 million, for the company.
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    • 1375 13 Reuter AMSTERDAM: Dutch shares opened quietly easier yesterday undermined by a weaker dollar and losses on Wall Street but strong interest in newly-listed DSM would add some sparkle to what promised to be an otherwise dull day. DSM opened unchanged at 116.00, firming 0.70 to 116.70 in
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    • 498 13 Australia Reuter THE Australian share market yesterday afternoon consolidated on early losses as heavy trading in options helped halt the slide in share prices. By the close of floor trading, the All Ordinaries Index had fallen 9.8 points to 1492 2 to bring the total drop in
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    • 170 13 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index dropped 1.41 points to 446 level yesterday on a turnover of 9,063,725 shares worth 718.21 million baht. m 97 i IAWT Ao Kham Thai Ayudhya Invaatmant Bangkok Aground.. Bangkok Bank Bam 01 Ayudhya Cha/ooog Thai wire A Catxa 444
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    • 387 13 Tokyo Reuter TOKYO share pricee Armed to a new record cloee yesterday, but they were off an earlier traded high on profit-taking. The Nikkei index firmed 51.90 points, to a new record cloee of 31,880.85. The Nikkei index rose 142.97 points to the previ- ous record closs
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    • 45 13 Reuter SHARE pricea clossd mixed on Manila's two oxchanges yesterday. The Composite index ctoeed at 807.58 points from 800.96. Combined volume climbed to 1.08 billion shares from 824.7 million shares but value dropped to 70.1 million peeoe from 72.2 million. Reuter
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    • 622 15 r l h L x j J Hongkong M DBS Securities THE HONGKONG bourse gained an impressive total of 148 points last week, breaching the 3,000 mark on heavy volume for the first time since the 1967 October crash. The market closed firm
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    • 230 15 jTM M? K.Lumpur £m A MBT THE KUALA LUMPUR stock market forged ahead last week as share prices settled at another poet-crash high level on heavy volume. Attention was focused on a broad spectrum of counters while investors and dabblers were amply rewarded in the
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    • 708 15  -  Week ended February 3 Compiled by JULIANA TAY SCRIP ISSUES Berfoya Corpm Proposed right* issue of one-for-one at $1.00 par per shore. S P Texittet Proposed bonus issue of one-for-three and rights issue of three-for-one at $1.00 par p*r shore. Wilkinson Proposed bonus issue of one-for-three. CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS
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  • 591 16 Predictions are for a better year AP ASIANS ushered in the Chinese New Year with feasts, family reunions and predictions by soothsayers that the Year of the Snake will bring mixed fortunes but be better than last year. The New Year began
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  • 344 16 Reuter AFGHAN GUERILLAS based in Iran have agreed to join a Mujahideen council to decide on a new government in Kabul, the Iranian news agency Irna said yesterday. The agency, quoting the Mujahideen Press Agency, said that the deal had been reached
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  • 290 16 THE SINGAPORE Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) has urged the government to look into local manufacturers' complaints that some foreign countries have been making the Republic a dumping ground. SCCCI president Linn In Hua. speaking at the SCCCI Lunar New
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  • 456 16  -  By HARISH MEHTA THE UNITED STATES should stop meddling in the Philippines' internal political, economic and cultural affairs, said Senator Joseph Estrada in reaction to reports thst US President George Bush was committed to bringing former president Ferdinand
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  • 166 16 Reuter THE ANTI-APARTHEID Movement accused Britain on Monday of providing a lifeline for apartheid by encouraging firms to deal with South Africa at a time when other countries were limiting trade with Pretoria. In a report entitled Selling Out to Apartheid, the
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  • 148 16 ENGLISH could be used as a bond to unite Singapore's ethnic communities, said Mr Zulkifli Mohammed, political secretary of the Ministry of Community Development. Mr Zulkifli was speaking on Monday at the opening ceremony of the Tamils Festival 1989 at the World
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  • 312 16 HANDPHONE USERS will be able to make and receive clearer calls this year as Singapore Telecom will install 17 more base stations. The installation will be carried out in phases. Seven base stations will be set up in May and 10 new
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  • 86 16 Reuter COMEX gold futures hovered at unchanged early yesterday with the market lacking notable selling enthusiasm after falling on Monday to 26-month lows. Sellers were apparently backing away prior to President George Bush's budget presentation tomorrow, which could trigger near-term dollar direction. Gold has been dominated lately by
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  • 207 16 AFP THERE is no place or role tor an opposition press in Indonesia because It would run againat the atate ideology of Pancaaila, Information Miniater Harmoko has said. "What ahould exiat here is a national presa which serves the function of giving true
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  • 280 16 AFP THAI Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan yesterday denied press reports that Thailand's Asean partners had criticised his inviting the Phnom Penh premier to Bangkok last month for talks on Cambodia. Speaking over state radio, Mr Chatichai said that the historic
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  • 125 16 AFP SOUTH KOREA'S electric and electronics industry plans to pour a total of U553.63 billion into facility inveatment thia year, up 44 per cent from last year. tt also plana to use US$B95 million for research and development up 42 per cent from
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  • LATE FILE
    • 36 16 AFP THE integration of the European Community should not only boost the EC economy but should contribute to the continued expansion of the world economy, the Bank of Japan said yesterday. AFP
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    • 51 16 Reuter BURMA'S military rulers yeeterday accused foreign diplomats of meddling in the country's internal affairs and siding with Opposition parties. The official Working People's Daffy said that diplomats were "making approaches to Opposition parties (and) carrying out organisational work for movements who would defy the government".
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    • 43 16 AP THE JAPANESE government will keep pressing for the return of northern islands occupied by the Soviet Union since the end of World War 11, Defence Agency chief Kichiro Tazawa said at an annual rally yesterday. AP
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    • 36 16 AP AT LEAST 10 people, including an army lieutenant, were killed in separate ambushes by suspected communist and Muslim separatist guerillaa in the past 24 hours, the Philippine military said yesterday. AP
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    • 36 16 AP TAIWAN registered a trade surplus of US$B4l million in January, down 21 per cent from a year earlier and 29 per cent leas than in December, the government said yesterday. AP
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    • 42 16 AP THE BRITISH government plans to ban the sale of human organs, Health Minister Roger Freeman said yeelerday in the wake of diactosuree that kidneys had been bought for tranaplant operations at a London hoepitai. AP
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    • 34 16 AFP INDIA will withdraw more troops from Sri Lanka'e Tam-il-populated north and oast today, PreeJdent Ranaaingha Pramadaaa announced in northern Jaffna town, the former stronghold of Tamil guerillas. AFP
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    • 42 16 Reuter FORMER Swedish tennis star Bjorn Borg was released from hospital in Milan yesterday after being treated for an overdose of sleeping pills. Borg was earlier rushed to a hospital by ambulance and had his stomach pumped.
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 471 17  -  CMA starts new service to Bangladesh By LINDA CHEE BANGLADESH seems to be the next best place to be, these days. The French line Compagnie Maritime d'Affretement (CMA) has started a new service there, while established feeder operator Meng Horng is to double its capacity by
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    • 226 17  -  By RICHARD NG A CONTAINER freight station to be operated jointly by a Singapore consortium of companies and a Thai state-owned transport company, Express Transport Organisation, may get certain concessions if a Key official gets his way. The director of ETO, Mr
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    • 150 17 Bernama MISMANAGEMENT in the development of 10 port facilities has cost the Indonesian government more than 26.5 billion rupiah, the national audit body, Bapeka, said. Bapeka, which is headed by former Armed Forces Chief, Gen Mohamad Yusuf, discovered the irregularities in the development
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 120 17 CHINA'S National Machinery Import and Export Corp has signed a contract to build a container vessel for Bangladesh Shipping Corp for US$l6.5 million, the official BSS news agency reported. The vessel, the third order from the state-owned flag carrier, will have a capacity of 12,300 deadweight
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    • 239 18 AFP JAPANESE charterers were active over the past week in the Gulf, but this failed to halt the recent general slide in tanker rates, London brokers E A Gibson said in their latest report. The downward movement was due to the fact that demand was insufficient to absorb
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    • 285 18 Reuter SOUTH KOREA and China will set up a first-ever joint venture shipping company by April, aimed at providing direct container service between the two countries, Korea Maritime and Port Administration's officials said. South Korean Dongnama Shipping Co and China's state-run Sinotrans
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    • 203 18 THE INMARSAT Convention is to be amended to allow Inmarsat to offer worldwide land mobile satellite communications services. The decision to amend the Inmarsat Convention was made at an extraordinary session of the Inmarsat Assembly which met in London at the middle of last month. Inmarsat
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    • 262 18 ANOTHER THREE shipping services have added the port of Tilbury to their sailing schedules. The National Shipping Line of Saudi Arabia is to introduce a new service from Jeddah with a mi* of containerised and pre-unitised cargoes. The first sailing is due at Tilbury
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    • 404 19 Reuter TANKER owners can live with Opec's latest production cuts which have prompted freight rates to dip amid easing demand since the start of the year, said Basil Papachristidis. chairman of the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko). Speaking
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    • 322 19 Reuter DRY CARGO freight futures on the Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange (Biffex) tumbled nearly the 50i-point limits amid weakening rates on the physical market, Biffex traders said. The Baltic Freight Index (BFI), the basis for the futures contract, slumped 31 points to its
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    • 791 19 AFP A FURTHER fall in rates on important grain routee out of the US Gulf in the absence of Soviet charterers overshadowed sentiment on the world freights market over the past week, traders said. The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange (Biffex) index fell back below the 1.600 point
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    • 217 19 AFP COMPLAINING of red tape and loose law enforcement in Taiwan, shipping giant the Evergreen Group said it waa con- sidering moving a proposed air transport affiliate to the United States. The announcement by group president Chang Jung-fa came one week
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    • 1305 24 A LOWER trend was again evident for grain fixing on Monday out of the US Gulf, reflecting dull demand, while other sectors of the freight market also tended easier where changed, shipbrokers said. Qrain from the Qulf to Japan made U5524.35, which caused the Baltic sub-index to move
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