The Business Times, 26 September 1989

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 45/12/88 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1989 75 CENTS
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  • 244 1 Dow Jones down WALL STREET stock# declined broadly yesterday morning as the dollar fell and interest rates rose. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 9.50 to 2,672.11 in the first hour of trading. AP Footsie down LONDON share prices were lower in light trading at
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  • 389 1 THE US DOLLAR yesterday plunged on world currency markets following concerted central bank intervention and a weekend statement by leading industrial nations that it was too high for the world's economic health. At the close of trading in Tokyo yesterday, the US dollar
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  • 186 1 REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS I ended on a mixed note with the Tokyo bourse closing higher on the back of a yen rally following the statement by the G-7 that a further rise in the greenback would not be tolerated. The Nikkei Stock Average ended 188.92 higher
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  • 416 1  -  By LEE HAN SHIH DOMESTIC EXPORTS to the United States, which fell drastically in July, staged a strong rebound in August. Shipment of made-in-Singa-pore goods to the US hit $1.55 billion in that month, an increase of 23.8 per cent over the
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  • 406 1 CAMBODIAN GUERILLA leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk has absolutely rejected any bilateral negotiations with Hun Sen, premier of the Vietnamese-installed government in Phnom Penh. He said a report that he had agreed to meet Mr Hun Sen for bilateral talks "does not
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  • 106 1 AP PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore will visit Indonesia on Oct 6-7 for talks with President Suharto and other officials, presidential spokesman Moerdiono said on Monday. Moerdiono said the planned visit is part of periodic consultations among members of the Association
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  • 665 1  -  BUILDING TO BE SOLD FOR $110 m By ANDREA BORCH EMERGING property player Paul Sun is expected to sign papers today to buy the Sanford Building from Straits Steamship Land and British-American Tobacco Co (S) for $110 million, informed sources have told BT.
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    • 219 1 Sudden tall of US* surprises Shearson analyst, PAGE 2 FuH report, PAGE 16 Regional mkts, PAGE 18 The Cambodian tragedy, PAGE 8 |4 IY COMPANY SERVICES 15 JjJ J 151J J 5 MEWB 15 ZT*%ZT.:z^ Editorial Comment: B Chlneee •f or J omte t P° RDC tie-up loses commodities 11
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    • 200 1 Nikon The World s Finest PnotGg r acn c Public Prosecutor v Allan Ng TWO WEEKS AGO, the trial of the year ended abruptly when Allan Ng stunned the business community by dropping his defence and pleading guilty to a charge that he had illegally traded in a company's shares
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 448 2  -  BUSINESS TRAVELLER VOTES CHANGI TOPS FOR SECOND YEAR RUNNING By SUZANNE SOH CHANGI AIRPORT has won yet another "best in the world" award. Readers of Business Traveller have, for the second consecutive year, voted Changi the top airport in the magazine s 1989 survey. The
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    • 130 2 ABOUT 250 senior civil servants will get an update on the future trend of integrating computer systems across the civil service and extending them to businesses and homes. The annual Civil Service Computerisation Programme Seminar will focus on this development in the one-day
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    • 359 2 THE PUSH by timber producing countries to establish more downstream wood processing industries may pose some competition to Singapore's woodworking industry, said Mr Michael Ginnings, consultant editor of Asian Timber Magazine. But Singapore, which last year exported more
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    • 282 2  -  By TAN KEE WEE THE US DOLLAR'S fall yesterday was no surprise, but the speed of the drop was, said Mr Gerald Holtham, chief economist of international security house Shearson Lehman Hutton Securities. At a public lecture yesterday, Mr Holtham explained that
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    • 423 2  -  By TAN KEE WEE THE TREND emerging among Japanese non-financial companies (NJNFC) setting up operations in Singapore and in other Asian NIEs is that they are in sales and services, rather than in manufacturing. This is obvious between 1967 and 1968
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    • 351 2  -  -By DAVID CHEW BOTH SINGAPORE and Switzerland owe their affluence to the open nature of their economies, a high-ranking Swiss official told BT in an interview last Saturday. The delegate of the Swiss Government for Trade, Mr David de Pury, said
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    • 140 2 THE FIRST big challenge that the present Muis council members will face in their tenure of office will be the development of five new mosques under Phase 111 of the Mosque Building Programme, said the Minister in charge of Muslim Affairs. Or Ahmad
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    • 268 2  -  By JAYARAM MENON LOCAL food and beverage manufacturer Yeo Hiap Seng is investing $1.2 million in s computer integrsted manufacturing system to help it maintain its leadership in the food and beverage industry. "In s highly competitive msrket like Singapore we
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    • 179 2 SOME 200 NTUC Comfort taxis will carry passengers and more when they sport rooftop advertising later this year. Another 800 taxis installed with illuminated, rooftop-mounted advertisement display units will hit the road next year. "Taxi rooftop advertising will provide taxi drivers
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 198 2 weather^.% .Global temperatures and weather forecast refljffillj-* M tor Sep 26 City Max/ Note OUTLOOK: Shaver* UMAf la* |p|f\ wwww eefeiw mwwmm in ro Ktpori for 24 hours prior Aberdeen 18/10 Breezy to 7.30pm on Sep 25 ot Amsterdam 21/10 Sunny otrp«ort» Athens 30/21 Sunny Mai temp SI.1; 1 Auckland
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  • TECHNOLOGY
    • 662 3  -  Compiled by WALTON MORAIS AP US VICE-PRESIDENT Dan Quayle and Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu yesterday agreed on a new plan for cooperation in space science, US officials said. During official talks. Mr Quayle and Mr Kaifu witnessed the exchange of
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    • 437 3 Reuter A SQUAT, grey box will be the workhorse of a 15-year, US$3 billion project to unravel the entire genetic makeup of human beings a task described as biology's equivalent of landing a man on the moon. It's called a gene machine.
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    • 333 3 Reuter NeXT INC founder Steve Jobs criticised a new agreement between Apple Computer Inc and Microsoft Corp as an alliance that offered nothing new to the desktop publishing industry. Apple and Microsoft said last Tuesday they were swapping technologies on outline fonts and page description languages,
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    • 253 3 NYT THE SUCCESS of computer designers in cramming increasingly powerful chips into ever smaller spaces for the next generation of supercomputers is creating a difficult problem: overheating. Already, the central processors of some supercomputers made by Cray Research Inc get so hot that the company
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    • 485 3  -  By SUZANNE SOH INTERNATIONAL COMPUTERS LTD (ICL) has set out to give IBM and NCR s run for their money in the electronic retail systems market in Asis. Having estsblished itself in the retail in-etore systems market in the US and Europe, ICL now
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 353 4 IMF-WORLD BANK ANNUAL MEETING Reuter PROSPECTS for sustained economic growth are good as long as policy remains firm to resist inflation, the Group of 10 industrial countries said. In a communique, the G-10 expressed concern over "the continuing strength of inflationary pressures in some of
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    • 75 4 Reuter FRENCH Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy said on Sunday he was ready to give tax breaks to French commercial banks that write off Third World debt. Mr Beregovoy, in Washington for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund, told the radio
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    • 153 4 Reuter BRITISH Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson said the Group of Seven countries continued to enjoy considerable credibility in their policy coordination, adding that the markets do not regard it as "a busted flush". Mr Lawson, talking to journalists during a break
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    • 147 4 Reuter US TREASURY Secretary Nicholas Brady said debtor countries and banks should guard against unrealistic expectations in talks on new financing packages as this delays agreements. In remarks before the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Interim Committee. Mr Brady said on Sunday rising
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    • 166 4 AFP HONGKONG will monitor reaction to a petition filed in the United States accusing the territory's manufacturers of dumping knitwear, a government official said in Hongkong. The US Knitwear and Sportswear Manufacturers' Associstion alleged last Friday that imports of synthetic-fibre sweaters
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    • 354 4 NYT ORDERS for US-made machine tools rebounded in August, advancing by 18.8 per cent over the July level as orders from the automotive industry increased significantly, a trade group said in a monthly report released yesterday. The group, the Association
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    • 1037 4 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Operator Sorvlc* Local From Operator Sorvtoo For numbf tinw numbor Hnto MAS MH640 0620 KUL UAL UA606 0725 HKG/SFO SVA SV3V8 0635 JCO/tUH SU SQ102 0730 KUL SU S0417 0905 0X6/KHI SU SQ092 0600 PEK MAS MH653 0910 PEN GU GA961 0615 CGK MAS MH630
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    • 410 5 Reuter THE HEAD of the industrial world's senior economic thinktank, the Paris-based OECD. said on Sunday that a new agency should be set up to channel Western financial help to reforming countries in Eastern Europe. In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters
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    • 161 5 Reuter THE CHAIRMAN of the Federal Reserve Board and a top State Department official will travel to the Soviet Union next month for discussions on President Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reform programme, a senior US official said on Sunday. The extraordinary talks follow two
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    • 332 5 NYT THE US has asked the Soviet Union to consider a proposal under which the two sides would make deep cuts in their arsenals of chemical weapons before a global treaty is reached on banning poison gas. The unexpected American proposal, scheduled to
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    • 305 5 AFP TELEPHONE subscribers in Japan, ranging from large corporations to individuals, will finally discover this week what the deregulation of the country's telecommunications market really means. From October 1, two consortiums set up in 1987 will start offering international telephone calls
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    • 517 5 NYT THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the Communist Party of China will meet next month to ratify a detailed policy of economic retrenchment that will last through 1991. Chinese officials and foreign diplomats say. The meeting will also deal with the case of
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    • 266 5 Reuter SANCTIONS imposed by the West over Beijing's suppression of pro-democracy protests will not slow Chins's modernisation but will hurt the countries imposing them, a government minister said. Foreign aid is only s supplement to the Chineee economy, Minister for Foreign Economic Relations and Trade
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 1248 6 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed sharply lower from New York's Friday level on nervous trading yesterday. It fell to 142.45/55 yen from New York's 145.90/ 146.00 yen and to 1.8990/9000 marks against 1.9510/20 marks. Dealers said the dollar tumbled in active early trading after the G-7 said it
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    • 202 6 ASIAN dollar deposit rates closed at their opening levels after thin trading yesterday. US$ OFFER MO 7 day* 9 1/8 9 1 month 9 1/14 15/16 2 months 9 1/16 8 15/16 3 mmitttt 9 8 7/8 6 months 9 8 7/8 9 months 8 15/16 8
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    • 221 6 IMM currency futures closed mixed and near session lows on Friday, weighed down by a consulting firm's report that the G-7 was unlikely to agree on curren-cy-exchange rates at its weekend meeting. Traders, still shell-shocked from the unexpected currency rally a week ago. squared positions ahead of the meeting.
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    • 485 6 EURODOLLAR futures closed lower on Simex yesterday on profit-taking and liquidation prompted by weakness in the US dollar and government bond prices. "Prices fell further due to concerted dollar selling by the Federal Reserve and some other central banks in the Asian time zone," a local broker said. Operators
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    • 54 6 THE overnight rate on the Singapore money fell 1/16 point to 5-5/16 per cent yesterday. Term rates were all unchanged. S$ Interbank rates at the dose yesterday: ora mo irigto 5 5/16 S 3/16 1-MMk 3 1/4 3 2-mon* 3 1/4 5 l/t 3-martt. 3 1/4 3 1/S
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    • 98 6 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's dosing Day code Maturity NO OfFER HK»H LOW 3 months 6Q*****E 21.12.89 4.33 4.28 4.32 4.32 6 months BS*****V 18.01.90 4.26 4.21 1 year BY*****F 24.05.90 4.34 4.29 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's dosing Day's code rate WD
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    • 176 6 ttw prim* of 12 mmfrr banks In S'por* Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Sep 25 US$ DM SWFC Y«n 7 4my IJIJ/M-U ll/U 7 1/4 7 1/1 7 1/J-7J/I (1/l-t I ♦_«7/» I1I5/U-1) ll/U 71/4 7 1/1 7 5/1-7 1/1 5 11/14 3 f/U 1 f-17/l 13
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    • 1096 6 INTEREST RATE OPTIONS Monday, Saptambar 25, 1989 EUROOOU-AR (8IMEX) Dm M eaNi DmHNi High Low WM Mgti Lw Ml 8850 I 9000 130A 129 9050 M* 9075 10« 11 9100 46A 45 171 10 9125 31A 30 271 21 9150 H 10 H 9175 10 10 10 9200 6
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 335 7  -  By DEXTER LEE THE UNITED Overseas Bank group has launched a personal computer-based information system to bolster its efforts in shortening counter queues and giving faster customer service. From today, customers can find out all about the banking group's products and
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    • 565 7 NYT HURRICANE HUGO is shaping up to be the most costly storm in terms of property damage that ever blew into the United States, according to early reports from insurers, who have dispatched a small army of claims adjusters in the south-east. "Hugo
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    • 232 7 A HIGH-POWERED gathering of financial and government leaders from the Asia-Pacific region will meet at the Jakarta Hilton on Oct 13 to discuss the Political and Economic Transformation of the Region in the 1990s The one-day seminar, to be opened by the Indonesian
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    • 214 7 NYT A US FEDERAL judge last week dismissed a lawsuit filed by 19 state attorneys general that had charged numerous insurance companies with engaging in anti-competitive behaviour that made liability insurance expensive or impossible to get. Judge William Schwarzer of the US District Court in San
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    • 229 7 Reuter SOCIETE GENERALE, France's largest private sector banking group, and Merrill Lynch and Co Inc, a leading underwriter of global debt and equity securities, have reached agreement to collaborate in developing France's emerging asset-backed securities market, the groups said. The agreement provides for
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    • 94 7 Reuter THE VALUE of Britain's around 1,300 unit trusts (mutual funds) increased £1.5 billion in August to a record £56.1 billion, reflecting stockmarket strength and continued inflow of new money, a Unit Trust Association (UTA) statement said last week. The August figures included the launch
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    • 398 7  -  513 INDIVIDUAL, 43 CORPORATE NEW ACCOUNTS IN FIVE MONTHS By SOH TIANG KENG Financial Correspondent THE MEDIA BLITZ launched by 10 financial institutions at the end of March to promote the sale of Singapore government bonds and treasury bills in the retail
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    • 552 7 Reuter THE Federal Reserve looks set to keep a steady grip on credit at least through the early October meeting of its policy arm, the Federal Open Market Committee, economists said. The latest weekly banking data show the central bank
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    • 157 7 Reuter THE BANK of Italy has written to Italian banks calling on them to tighten supervision of their foreign branches, the Bank said in a statement in Rome. The warning follows revelations concerning US$3 billion of unauthorised credits issued to Iraq by the Atlanta
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 489 8 THE SUGGESTION by a Swiss official that Asean and the European Free Trade Association explore greater cooperation is a welcome one. What relates these two economic entities is the fact that they are outside the trading blocs which are coming to define the international economic
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    • 1418 8  -  For well over a century, Cambodia's destiny was influenced by external forces. Today, Vietnam completes what it has said will be a final troop withdrawal from that hapless country, but there is little hope that Cambodians will be masters of their own destiny in the near future.
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    • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
      • 296 8 Our weekly summery of what regional publications 'have to say about lesues of International Interest VIETNAM AS Vietnamese communists educated by President Ho Chi Minh end thoroughly imbued with proletarian internationalism, we have followed with deep concern the recent situation in Poland. We are extremely indignant
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      • 235 8 VIETNAM "BY MIDNIGHT of next Sunday, if Hsnoi were to keep its pledge, the Isst 26,000 men of the 200,000-strong fores thst marched into Cambodis 10 years sgo would have returned home. "There will be no effective internationsl supsrvision snd confirmstion of the tsil-end of Vietnam's
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      • 179 8 UK-CHINA TIES THE RESUMPTION of British weapons technology transfer to Chins has predictably raised political protests in the UK, where the Labour Psrty Foreign Affairs spokesman, Mr Gerald Kaufman, his accused the government of the "ultimate hypocrisy". Before morsl outrage gets the betlsr of sober reslity, a
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  • FOCUS
    • 3079 9  -  Allan Ng made his name in Singapore business circles as a banker, rising to the post of executive deputy chairman at United Overseas Bank. After 18 years in the banking profession, he decided to strike out on his own and build a business empire for
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    • 818 9 After a meteoric rise in banking, Allan Ng Poh Meng struck out to create his own business empire. After a rapid series of bold transactions, he established a reputation as a major deal maker. The company he built, which was eventually named First Capital
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 368 11 HONGKONG: Gold closed higher on the current weakness of the US dollar but off peaks after profit-taking emerged in late-afternoon yesterday. Bullion closed at U*****.20/70 an ounce against an initial 367.60/368.10 and New York's 364.25/75 close. Local gold closed HK$27 higher at HK53.419 per tael. Coins closed higher
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    • 367 11 MALAYSIAN CRUDE PALM (ML FUTURES finished lower in moderate trading on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange yesterday. Dealers said the market opened lower from Friday's close on the lower Chicago Board of Trade. As a result of seasonal factors, buyers were lacking which encouraged some speculative longpositions to
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    • 211 11 PRESSURED by a higher disposal due to accumulation ovar the weekend, the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) aaaad 29 cents at the close to M 521.50 a kg yesterday, brokers said. The fall on LME on Friday prompted a higher offering of 164 tonnes against bids of 57
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    • 198 11 Chinese Produce Exchange Sailors' noon closing prices on Soplombor 25 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bulk FOB 94.00 CM drum FOB 104.00 Now drum FOB 108.00 Copra Mixod (loon) 52.00 softors Pepper —«-L .hk. /TWTOi WfWTW FOB NtW 490.00 Sarawak whtto FOB fag NLW 480 00 Sarawak spodal black
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    • 292 11 SINGAPORE: Rubber prices closed steady with October 1 RSS buyer quoted at 170.00 cents a kg yesterday. Prices fell back in quiet afternoon trade on profittaking and some selling for overseas accounts, after having gained one cent during the morning session on short-covering and speculative buying. Trading on the
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    • 608 11 SHARP DIFFERENCES OVER QUOTAS AFP OPEC oil ministers were to start new bilateral talks in Geneva yesterday after failing to reach agreement on a production ceiling for the final quarter of this year. A second session of ministerial talks ended on Sunday in sharp
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    • 103 11 Reuter COMMODITY PRICES are likely to weaken in the second half of 1969 and in 1990 because of slower world economic growth, the expected return to normal weather in North America and increased supplies of commodities, the International Monetary Fund said. "The decline is expected
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    • 302 11 Bernama THE Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) expects the outlook for next year to be better, especially with the introduction of new contracts and increased participation of locals on the trading floor. KLCE chairman Tan Sri Dr Lee Boon Chim said in the exchange's
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    • 156 11 Telerate Notional indications for CST-180 cargoes were lower yesterday following weaker crude prices and the downtrend in the fuel oil futures market. The latter traded more than US$2 per tonne lower for October. Sellers were on hold with offers heard at US$9l-US$92 per tonne fob Sing.
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    • 266 11 RAS prices In S c*nts/*g, fob In balM NOON CLOSE Buy*rs S*lt*r* Buyers S*N*rs Int 1 RSS Prompt 170J0 171.50N 169J0 170J0 bit 1 RSS Oct 171.00 172.00 170.00 171.00 Int 1 RSS Nov 174.00 175.00 173.00 174.00 Int 2 RSS OP 168.00 170.00N 167.50 169JON Int
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    • 74 11 (canft/kg) OCTOBER 1909 NOVEM&E* 1989 (currant month) (forward morrth) NOON NOON RAS ftuyan %uyt S^Wri SS« 20 159.00 161.00N 160.00 162.00N SSI 30 157.00 159.00N 158.00 160.00N MRELB Buyers S»*»n %uy* n S«U*r» SMI CV 226.00 228.00N 228.00 230.00N SMI I 226.50 228.50N 228.50 230.50N SMI 5
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    • 117 11 Reuter THE Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) said it has asked the World Bank to send experts to help it chart its future growth. "We have approached the World Bank to see what our deficiencies are, how we can increase liquidity and to study
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    • 355 11 Bernama THE Malaysian palm oil industry should continue to fight the cholesterol issue in the US market though not neceaaarity through a high-profile campaign, a public relations consultant said last week. Palm oil has been accused by the American Soybean Asaociation (ASA)
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    • 110 11 Bernama MALAYSIA'S production of tin-in-concentrates rose 11 per cent to 2,881 tonnes In July compared with June, the Statistics Department has reported. Production for the first seven months of this year increased by 12 per cent or 1,921 tonnes to 18,414 tonnes compared with
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    • 213 11 AFP AFTER two exceptional years for nickel in 1988 and 1989. there are signs that the bull trend should come to an end towards the end of 1989. and average prices in 1990 should be 30 per cent lower than this year. These are
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    • 196 11 5 Business-packed days for building professionals II I M 9 :|l MALBEX '89 27 Sept —1 Oct 1989 W Putra World Trade Centre, Level 3 jg Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Open from 1100 —1900 hrs daily 1100 —1930 hrs (28 Sept only) Open to Trade Professionals only by Registration If you
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 693 12  -  THE SEXES By ALAN COWELL NYT WHEN the newspapers in Egypt began chronicling a series of women's killings of their husbands, the stories seized the headlines and stirred some debate about the future of a land wfiere no transition seems easy. As the newspapers had
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    • 911 13  -  CITIES By WILLIAM C HIDLAY AP VANESSA CAMPBELL senses the quality of life in the city deteriorating around her every day. She sees it in the legions of beggars working the subways and train stations for spare change. She hears it in the
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    • 479 13  -  FESTIVALS By SALAH NASRAWI AP THE ANCIENT CITY of Babylon, partially rebuilt by President Saddam Hussein, is echoing again to the sound of music and drama in a cultural festival that symbolises both the golden age of Iraq's history and the country's post-war
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    • 168 12 BUFFET Treat yourself to a fantasy of tempting, traditional Indonesian cuisine. A selection of carefully chosen dishes awaits you at only $16.90' per person. Welcome to Coffee Pot. A mine court hotel 1 Tanglin Road Singapore 1024 Tel: *****33 Cafe- Tempura Smum) 'Buffet Luncft Come and enjoy a value-for-money buffet
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    • 222 12 im DIANXIN TEMPTATION! Treat yourself to a Delectable Dian Xin lunch. All-you-can-eat for only $13.50 per person. Lunch Hours: 11.30 am 2.30pm t\a 10> scvice croroe 4J\ gcvefnfwtf to> I I I HWT REGOCYOSNGAPORE 10-12 Scam Rood. S*>gcxx*e 0922 let 7331 '88 HAVE FUN ALL WEEK! Everything goes for a
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    • 249 12 healthiest buffet in town Vegetarian Buffet 16-30 September Adult: $15.50++ Child (below 12 years): $10.00++ Lunch or dinner. Cafe Plaza Plaza Hotel SINGAPORE. WA««»COLOU*FUt*INW»TIMC Beach Road. Singapore 0719 Tel: *****11 Sept 22 to 30 lj| n y M Adult $13.50- Child: $9.00- Sg| SSfi A delicious spread of authentic PerFffl
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    • 694 13 SiICiJSSKSJGXiJII) —■———9 amm EASY PUZZLE 25 Holy sister (3) CRYPTIC PUZZLE Aroncc 27 Artists stand (5) ACROSS M ■TO n K 28 Part 01 a c hurch (5) 3 One jointly culled? (5) Q U-U j 2ST 'Sin 8 Splendid purse-maker ■111 10 Aauatic animal (5) e rea 1 (5)
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    • 1376 13 TV and RADIO A baby's blues i OUR CHOICE THOSE SHE LEFT BEHIND, 10.35pm. SBC 5 Gary Cole turns off his microphone Jul and goes off the air to play a businessman who has a seemingly-perfect atmllL life Until it comes crumbling down |81. around him when his wife dies
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  • SPORTS
    • 616 14 WIN COMES AFTER 14-14 DEADLOCK WITH UNITED STATES Reuter EUROPE retained the Ryder Cup after tattling the United States to a 14-14 deadlock at The Belfry on* Sunday, only the second tie in the history of the competition. Four Americans lost matches at the final hole,
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    • 263 14 AP THE HEAD of the World Golf Association will meet today with the International Olympic Committee president to discuss the possible inclusion of the sport in the 1992 Summer Games. Claude Cartier, the association's president, said on Sunday at a news
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    • 545 14 MOTOR-RACING Reuter AYRTON SENNA s hopes of retaining his world drivers' championship virtually disappeared on Sunday when he crashed out of the Portuguese Grand Prix after a collision with Briton Nigel Mansell. Senna, lying second after 47 laps of an incident-packed race, was only four
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    • 271 14 TENNIS Reuter AARON KRICKSTEIN. the comeback king, escaped defeat again on Sunday to upset top seed Michael Chang in three sets to win the U*****,000 Los Angeles Grand Prix tennis tournament. Krickstein, seeded fifth, came back from 6-2, 4-1 and two breaks down to
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    • 186 14 Reuter TOP-SEEDED Martina Navratilova saved two set points in the first set and went on to beat Yugoslav teenager Monica Seles 7-8 (7-2) 8-3 on Sunday to win an unprecedented ninth Dallas women's championship title. Navratilova, a winner of 145 titles, won her first
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    • 145 14 SOCCER Reuter COLOMBIA won the South American Group Two soccer qualifiers for the World Cup to be held in Italy next year after Ecuador beat Paraguay 3-1 on Sunday. With Colombia holding a one-point lead in the group, Paraguay had all to gain as a
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  • Companies Editor: ALAN LEE
    • 587 15 HIU3 SiiQ&U HOCK LOCK SIEW THE SOERYADJAYA family's bid for Sim Lim Investment is in all likelihood inspired by another Indonesian family's successful foray into a locallylisted company. It is not surprising therefore that 13.5 million of the 17.02 million
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    • 523 15 TWO REPRESENTATIVES from the Jack Chia-MPH group will sit on the board of diversified trading group Bousteadco Singapore Ltd in two months' time. This development comes as a result of two Jack Chia-related companies, Jack Chia-MPH and HTP Holdings Ltd, acquiring a
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    • 353 15  -  By HERMAN PHUA ROTHMANS INDUSTRIES Ltd has dented a market rumour that it is planning a de-listing from the Stock Exchange of Singapore. Neither is it selling its factory premises. In a statement to the SES yesterday. Rothmans Industries said it had noted
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    • 527 15  -  By MAGDALENE NG DISPUTES between Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC) and a consortium including Resources Development Corporation (RDC) have led to the loss of a $14.4 million contract for a beach development project on Sentosa. The partners RDC, Dutch contractor Van Oord International BV and local
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    • 405 15  -  By ROSIE TAN FIRST Capital Corporation, which recently bought a 60 per cent stake in Heshe Holdings for $14.2 million, intends to spend another $19 million to buy several properties which are currently leased to the garment manufacturer. The properties,
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    • 350 15 CONSTRUCTION GROUP Lee Kim Tah has managed a turnaround after registering losses for three consecutive years. The group reported after-tax profits of $361,000 for the six months ending June 30, 1989 compared with a loss of $923,000 for the same period last
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    • 537 15 MBT SPORTS Toto Malaysia is thinking of setting up a local manufacturing arm to produce new technological goods. Chairman Tan Sri Thong Yaw Hong said such a development is possible if new technology available through its stake in a Delaware company, University Patents
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    • SES
      • 1156 16  -  -by KEVIN GWEE SHARE PRICES on the Singapore stock market fell from the outset on profit-taking, while doubledigit losses by a few indexbased issues pushed the Straits Timee Industrials Index closer to its 1,380-point support level yesterday. "At present, it seems
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      • 312 16 Monogers' prices Royal Trust Asset Mgt UOB Management 125 Oomo Japan Fund Sep 241 *9.141 Thai frtae Fund Sep IS US$1449 for Sop 26 1 RT S pore Gr Fund 088 093 Unifund 1 25 IT Askj-Poc Gr Fund 1 135 1 195 Unibond 105 1075 Funds (US$)
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      • 48 16 BERJUNTAS TIN DREDGING BERHAD: 48th AGM at PNB Theatrette, 2nd Floor, Menara PNB, 201 A, Jalan Tun Razak, ***** Kuala Lumpur, today at 10am. SELANGOR DREDGING BERHAD: 28th AGM at Wisma Selangor Dredging. Tingkat 18, West Block, 142-C Jalan Ampang. ***** Kuala Lumpur, today at 11am.
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      • 5372 16 i Gr's Qr't 1989 T#l Last Vol Day Last Quota Dlv Dlv rid Nat M Cap Hlfh Low Coda Company Sala or- ('000) High Low Buyar Seller C'vr P/E $*nll SEP 25 I SESDAQ 9 275 120 t 4000 Amtek Eng 20* 268 -5 16 272 268
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    • KLSE
      • 3559 17 MBT AN ENCOURAGING START turned sour for want of fol-low-through support and share prices fell back to close easier on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. The performance of the market was reflected by the New Straits Times industrial ordinary share index which shed 10.58
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    • REGIONAL MARKETS
      • 421 18 Reuter HONGKONG'S underperforming stock market seems to have shrugged off the crisis of confidence that has dogged it since China's June crackdown on dissent and is poised to recover, analysts said. "It is early days yet but the market is beginning to
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      • 310 18 Reuter TEXAS OILMAN T Boone Pickens is now seeking four seats on the board of Japanese car parts maker Koito Manufacturing Co Ltd. He said Koito may be on the verge of being de-listed from the Tokyo Stock Exchange when he finishes raising his stake
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      • 320 18 Reuter THE SPECTACULAR interim net profits posted by Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd units are unlikely to be repeated in the aftershock of the June violence in China, chairman Henry Keswick believes. "The significant increase in profits in the first six months
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      • 578 18 Tokyo Reuter INVESTORS applauded the yen's climb by boosting Tokyo bourse prices to a higher close in thin trade yesterday. "No question the environment is good, with the yen and the bond market both strengthening." said Fujio Kstsysms. vicepresident of equities for CS First Boston (Jspan).
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      • Article, Illustration
        500 18 Sydney Reuter AUSTRALIA'S share market yesterday closed sharply weaker under pressure from a higher Australian dollar and a sell-off in the futures market. The All Ordinaries Index closed 20.0 points down at 1686.7, after falling through the 1700 psychological barrier in morning trade. "A lack of overseas buying
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      • 1290 18 Hongkong STRONG institutional buying of blue chips helped to push the Hang Seng Index up 32.34 points to 2.738.70 at the close yesterday, brokers said. "The main stimulation csme from the Jardine group, whose interim results were in line, or better than most analysts'
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      • 416 18 Reuter TAIWAN share prices finished broadly higher yesterdsy after a day of active trading that saw the index fight off several bouts of profit-taking, dealers said. The Weighted Index gained 97.68 points, or 0.91 per cent, to end at 10.773.11 against last Saturday's 10,675.43 finish. Turnover rose
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      • 242 18 Reuter MOST Thai stocks finished lower yesterday on a selling wave late in the session in spite of an official denial of market rumours that the government might impose a capital gains tax, brokers said. The SET Index fell 6.53 points to 700.73, with losers leading winners
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      • 102 18 Reuter SEOUL STOCKS fell for the eighth seeslon running yeeterday in spite of substantial gains made in the financial sector, brokers said. The Composite Index shed 0.88 points to close at 928.22. with turnover a low 187.4 billion won against 132.9 billion won in
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      • 192 18 Reuter BOMBAY share prices finished broadly lower yesterday in a shortened trading session after sentiment was undermined by s strike st truck-maker Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company Ltd (Telco). Brokers said they feared the strike might threaten industrisl peace. Telco signsd a wage agreement last week with
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      • 203 18 Reuter NEW ZEALAND'S share market fell sharply in afternoon trading yesterday following a weak opening to the Australian market. Brokers expect the Kiwi bourse to remain at the mercy of movements in foreign markets in coming days. The Barclays Index fell 19.57 points to 2,243.80. "We
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      • 188 18 Reuter SHARE PRICES in Manila opened on a strong note yesterday and finished sharply higher as investors shed caution following last Friday s fall in Treasury bill rates. "ft was a technical reaction triggered by the drop in interest rates." said analyst Ramon Kabigting of First Pacific Securities
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
      • 662 19 NYT RJR NABISCO Inc is in final negotiations to sell the canned food and processing unit of its Del Monte subsidiary for US$l.47 billion to an investment partnership led by Merrill Lynch Co, Wall Street sources sav. Under the terms being
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      • 690 19 US car company reaps US$3l Om profit NYT THE CHRYSLER CORP. taking a US$3lO million profit on a longstanding investment, has reduced its stake in Mitsubishi Motors Corp to 12.1 per cent from 21.8 per cent. Lee A lacocca, the chairman and chief executive of
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      • 313 19 NYT WANG LABORATORIES Inc. the struggling minicomputer maker, has reached an agreement with a unit of the Manufacturers Hanover Corp to borrow up to US$l75 million, which the company needs to revamp its ODerations. Wang, based in Lowell, Massachusetts, said that it does not
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      • 516 19 Reuter LEVERAGE BUYOUT PIONEER Henry Kravis believes the shakiness of the junk bond market triggered by Campeau Corporation's debt woes is likely to be short-lived and that money is available for a new wave of buyouts. "I believe it's a market aberration
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      • 477 19 NYT FOR A PRICE of US$l4 million, what some authors get for a twobook contract, Pearson pic is about to become the third international publishing conglomerate in the last year to enter the field of bargain books. In an agreement reached
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      • 667 19 Reuter AP LONDON: Share prices were lower in light trading at midday yesterday, as sidelined investors watched developments in the currency markets and awaited the Tuesday release of British trade figures for August. Traders said most of the morning's deals were between market makers. Investors were waiting
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      • 117 19 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Monday Friday .J»6S Week ago 1.723 OS Hang Song Index Mo dov 2 706 36 Friday 2.706-36 Week ago 2.648 21 TOKYO Nikkei Average Monday Friday 34,77' 79 Week ogo 34.472 54 TOPIX Monday 2.643 20 Friday 2.***** Wee* ogo 2.622 23 SYDNEY All Ordinaries
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    • 931 18 NOTICES SINGAMOULD PRIVATE LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic o> Singapore) (In Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 ol the Companies Act Cap 50 the Final Meeting ol Members ol the Company wilt be held on Thursday 26th October 1909 at 1100
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    • 424 18 IN THE MATTER OP THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 80 and ABAC TIMBER PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed company duly convened and held at 80 Jin. Sultan #21-04 Jalan Sultan Centre, Singapore 0719 on 20th day of September 1986 the following Special
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    • 356 18 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER SO AND IN THE MATTER OF MONSOON WAREHOUSE PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDINGUP) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 306 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 that the Final General Meeting of the Members of the
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    • 687 19 NOTICES QEOTECHNOLOGY AND SUBSTRUCTURES PTE LTD NOTICE OF MEETING OF CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Meeting of the Creditors of the Company will be held at 11 Col Iyer Quay #09-03. The Arcade. Singapore 0104 on the 9th day of October 1989 at 3.30 p.m. 1. The Company
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    • 691 19 ■W& &ctfman4 of dbtljKall f jfCt/ayAia )&e*Aad ,',fl (Incorporated in Malaysia) fl NOTICE OF MEETING I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twenty-eighth I Annual General Meeting of Rothmans of Pall MaM (Malaysia) Berhad Wfl If will be held at the PetaJing Jaya Hilton Hotel, 2 Jalan Barat, ***** 1
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  • LATE FILE
    • 42 20 AP PRESIDENT George Bush was to offer a reduction of more than 50 per cent in US chemical weapons stockpiles in a speech yesterday at the opening of the UN General Assembly, government sources said. AP
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    • 50 20 AP .SOUTH KOREA S trade with communist countries in thefjirst half of this year increased by 38 per cent from Jhe same period last year to US$2.OB billion, with China as tts biggest communist trading partner, the Trade and Industry Ministry reported yesterday. AP
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    • 32 20 AP ;SJORTH KOREA said yesterday that Japan would be interfering "impertinently" in Korean affairs if it backed Couth Korean efforts to gain Jnembership in the United Rations. AP
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    • 43 20 AFP HONGKONG'S inflation •tayed near double digits in August, with prices 9.9 per *£ent more than in the same fnontti last year, official statistics released yesterday fchowed. The increase was largely due to higher foodstuff costs and restaurant AFP
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    • 36 20 Reuter HONGKONG millionaire Ho Ying-cit, chairman of Hongkong Tobacco Co, has pledged US$lO million to buy a new plane for the international flying eye-doctor organisation, Project ORBIS, the charity announced yesterday. Reuter
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    • 39 20 Reuter CHINA yesterday opened Tiananmen Square to carefully vetted civilians in the buildup to the 40th anniversary of the People's Republic, as troops practised riot control nearby in a reminder Of the tension in the city.
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    • 39 20 AP CHINA lodged a "strong protest" with the French government Monday for allowing pro-democracy Chinese dis- 1 sidents to meet in Paris, saying France was guilty of a "brutal trample" of the principles of mutual respect.
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    • 38 20 AP to unseat Gandhi HUNDREDS of thousands of people gathered in New Delhi yesterday for a rally called by the country's major opposition parties to launch their campaign to unseat Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's government. AP
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  • 428 20  -  By FOO CHOY PENG COMPANIES seeking a listing on the Hongkong stock exchange will have to contend with more stringent requirements under a new set of listing rules released yesterday. The new rules, to come into effect in December, are designed to
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  • 311 20 AFP AUSTRALIA'S proposal for an Asia-Pacific trade forum is likely to take hold, with South-east Asia and South Korea offering to host talks in coming years, officials said in Canberra yesterday. A foreign ministry spokesman said the initiative received an encouraging boost at a recent
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  • 102 20 THE SENTOSA Development Corporation's new general manager from next month will be Mr Tang Siu Shing. Previously deputy secretary of the Labour ministry, Mr Tang replaces Mr Pek Hock Thiam who is soon to assume the post of executive director in the Singapore Tourist Promotion
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  • 100 20 Reuter COMEX gold futures were higher early yesterday on commission house buying and dealer shortcovering tied to the US dollar's fall. October gold rose to an early high of U*****.50 before easing to U*****.20, up US$2.5O an ounce. December was US$3.OO higher at U*****.70 an ounce.
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  • 279 20 Reuter CHINA'S top leader Deng Xiaoping has ordered the closure of some rural factories because they use resources that should go to state firms, the official Chinese Economic Information newspaper said on Monday. It said that in recent years, because of the "mistakes"
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  • 580 20  -  PM LEE'S LIBEL SUIT AGAINST FEER By MARTIN SOONG THE LONG HISTORY of animosity between former Far Eastern Economic Review editor Derek Oavies and Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew was the motivation behind the Hongkong weekly news magazine's decision to print an
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  • 258 20 AP PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev (old the Soviet legislature yesterday that the government will take firm stepe to settle a feud between Armenia and Azerbaijan if the two republics cannot settle their differences quickly. Mr Gorbachev addressed the ethnic issue involving Nagorno-Karabakh as the Supreme Soviet began
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  • 170 20 Bernama MALAYSIA recorded a trade surplus of M 54.364 billion in the first half of 1989, 31.1 per cent lower than the M 56.334 billion chalked up in the first half of last year because imports had grown almost twice as fast as exports. In
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  • 77 20 Reuter JAPAN'S Showa Shell Sekiyu has started refining residue for Shell Singapore (Pte) Ltd in a processing deal agreed earlier this month, a Showa Shell spokesman said in Tokyo yesterday. Showa Shell will process 10,000 kilolitres of Shell Singapore residue in September at its Yokkaichi
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  • 395 20 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES could immediately implement alternative uses for US military bases in the country. President Corazon Aquino said in Manila yesterday. Mrs Aquino said on the eve of a three-day visit by US Vice-President Dan Quayle that her advisers were discussing proposals
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORT SIDES
      • 88 21 AP A DANISH PASSENGER LINER in the North Sea reported a serious fire aboard yesterday, Swedish radio said. Rescue ships and helicopters converged on the scene. The liner Tor Scandanavia, which carries an estimated 540 passengers, was on its way from Goteborg, on Sweden's west
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      • 51 21 Reuter INDICATIONS are that South Korea's Feeder's Association (KFA) purchased 100,000 tonnes of US corn in two positions of 50,000 tonnes apiece, export sources in Chicago said last Friday. The shipments will be from the Pacific Northwest, C and F, from Oct 10 to 29.
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      • 153 21 Reuter MORE THAN 130 YEARS after a British troopship sank off the Cape of Good Hope, Britain and South Africa agreed last Friday to share proceeds from its reputed cargo of 240,000 gold sovereigns. In 1852, HMS Birkenhead was carrying 476 troops plus about 20 women
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      • 145 21 AP A SHIP reported to be seeking to dump a cargo of 2,000 tons of toxic industrial waste has triggered a state of alert among Gulf nations, officials in the United Arab Emirates said last Sunday. The officials, members of the Regional Organization for
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    • 142 21 NYT IN THE LATEST TWIST to a long and often bitter takeover battle, Temple Holdings Ltd has announced that it plans a proxy fight for control of the board of directors of Sea Containers Ltd. Temple has offered to acquire Sea Containers for US$63 a
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    • 898 21 ABC Containerline XI 5 Accord Shpg VIII 3/4 Arrow lines XI 5 ANl III 1/2 AFC line VII 5 API V 3-5 ASCI V 1 Austasio Una VII I Bolt-Canodo line IX 4/5 Bait-Orient line IX 4/5 Baltic Orient Shpg XI 4 Bank line VII 5 BBS
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    • 286 21  -  By JEAN FOONG TAIWANESE state-owned carrier Yang Ming Line has begun accepting cargoes from Belawan to Europe and the US for its weekly integrated service. "There is potential growth in container traffic moving from Belawan to these countries," said a source close to
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    • 328 21  -  MOVE TO DETERMINE STANDARD OF SERVICES By G DURAIRAJ CONSULTANTS from the Stanford Research Institute (USA) have started an extensive study of Peninsular Malaysia's haulage industry with an eye to improving services. The study, commissioned by the Ministry of Transport, will look into
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    • 343 21  -  by Al O Labita Jr MARUBENI CORP is bidding for the 1.2-bi 11 ion-peso (about US$6O million) reconstruction of Manila's North and South harbours, the state-run Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has announced. The bid by the Japanese multinational was made recently after
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    • 148 21 FROM THE MIDOLE of next month. "K" Line will offer an expanded "Touchdown" service to include westbound shipments of less than container load size from the US to the Far East. The service will provide through transport of export freight from the US shipper's door
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    • 277 21 Reuter THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION is drawing up controversial plans to shake up government-owned railways by allowing private operators to offer their own rail services, say European Community officials in Brussels. The measures would mean, for instance, that an Italian company could operate freight services
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    • 1109 22 PURCHASE AND SUPPLY MOVE AHEAD WITH THE TIMES Lloyd's Shipmanager THE 1989 CONFERENCE of the International Marine Purchasing Association (IMPA) marked the 10th anniversary of the association, which started with a meeting in Rotterdam in July 1979. This year's conference designed as a two-centre event, making
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    • 452 22 Reuter THE US will enter the open market for oil to fill its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) at the expected rate of 50,000 to 75,000 barrels a day after its current contract with Mexican state oil company Pemex expires at
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    • 237 22 AFP INCREASING DEMAND throughout the past week 'for large vessels in the Gulf states and supporting enquiry for such tonnage from other areas was encouraging from the tanker owner's point of view, said London shipbroker E A Gibson last Friday. They said demand for large crude carriers had
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    • 158 22 I ME MAJOR SHIPPING CONSORIA operating between the Far East/European, Far East/Persian ulf, Straits ports/Australia, E aits/Japan and the member »s: ACE (Far East/Europe): *!K" Line Neptune Orient Lines Orient Overseas Container Line ANRO (Straits/Australia): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line Djakarta Lloyd Npdlloyd Lines fleptune Orient Lines fIAM
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    • 225 22 Reuter GREEK SHIPPING, on its way to recovery after a long crisis, is having a good year in 1989, says the president of the Union of Greek Shipowners. "We are once again at the top of world shipping. The crisis taught us some good lessons,"
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    • 278 22 Reuter OIL TANKER TONNAGE and combination carriers in lay-up, idle or under repair, including vessels inactive at port for two months or more, fell to 4.68 million dwt in the month to Sep 15 from a revised 4.96 million at Aug 15. The number of
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    • 368 22 AP ATTEMPTS by the federal government to impose US safety standards on foreign-flag cruise ships could damage the health of the booming industry, an industry official says. "One of the concerns of the industry is fighting off overregillation," says Nicholas Blenkey, editor of
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    • 2084 22 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Ship Voy Arrival Tranetainer Schedules Blk Op Gdn Data/Time Time From Tlma To Booking Gate Ac* Concord 01/032 *****9 2200 26/1090 ft/IIS NA 2 Q3 00 90S Al Wotbo 47A 28 09 89 0700 38/1300 38/1300 Tta/ta. 2
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    • 226 23  -  toy John Spiers CONTSHIP AND DEUTSCHE AFRIKA-LINIEN (DAL) are expanding their interests in services to Australia. DAL has taken a controlling interest in Bridge Ocean Lines (BOL), which operates a Southern Hemisphere round-the-world service between Brazil, Southern Africa and Australia with three 100TEU
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    • 736 23 COAL CARGO fixing provided one of the few features of the dry cargo freight market which was quieter on Friday, and as usual little new enquiry was circulating, brokers said. Taiwanese operators were in the spotlight, covering a large coal requirement three cargoes from the US east coast
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    • 1858 30 AAHMUO Kofrtgan. ScanOutcHt. Sap 29 Evtr Qutai. EoargrMn. Sap 17 Prompt. Trtot, Sap 77(MQ. Otu Ha, China Ocaan Shpfl. Sap 20 Ragtna Maank. Maarak Una. Sap 30 Noraala Al-Mumuatv Noraala Una. Sap 2* Ming Paaca Yang Mng Una. Sap 3d Nad OaM. ScanOuKftt. Oct 2.
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      259 33 T_ -•'Wfrfmm HE MARKETPLACE of ideas for the planned the pages which follow JH^ are all about. They #l\^p B are more than just an HIB introduction to the state-of-the-art m Jmjj^ all-important human element takes M J fields, the articles are must reading for the office worker to know
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    • 1163 34  -  Today's PC trends set to become tomorrow's standards By JULIAN WONC Sales/Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard Singapore (Sales) Pte Ud TRYING to predict where the PC industry will be in 10 or even five years is like trying to pick the winner of a marathon a year before
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    • 934 34  -  By KACE ONG Software Engineer, Institute of Systems Science SOON AFTER books were invented, they quickly became more popular than scrolls. Where books offered the reader quick and easy access to information, scrolls required clumsy fiddling with spools. Little wonder then that the book
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    • 1070 36  -  Computer incompatibility no longer unconquerable By ANDREW JORDAN General Manager, Asia-Pacific Region, Intermedia International IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT a world where nearly everybody owns a cassette recorder. In this world, all the different cassette recorders look similar and all records are played back from plastic
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    • 856 36  -  By SRI SIVANATHAN By SRI SIVANATHAN, Imaging Product Manager, Wang Computers (Pte) ltd TECHNOLOGICAL innovations have been the driving force behind improvements in the life and working styles of man. Nonetheless, the improvements themselves came not from the innovations, but from their application. In
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    • 660 37  -  By LOW HAI HENG By LOW HAJ HENG, Manager, CIMEG Systems Division, NCR Singapore Pte Ltd THE LEGAL PROFESSION is documentintensive and would benefit from the developments that are taking place in the field of office automation. It is thus not surprising that the legal office
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    • 648 37  -  By BENNY LIM By BENNY UM, Senior Banking Consultant, Andersen Consulting, Arthur Anderson Co THE RACE for competitive advantage among financial institutions worldwide is accelerating as the 1990s approach. Much of the action centres on the retail banking sector which has the greatest
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    • 634 37  -  CHUA CHER CHOON, General Manager, South-east Asia, Telerate Data Services (S) Pte Ltd, discusses the hi-tech ways of sharpening a company's competitive edge. CHUA CHER CHOON IN TODAY'S volatile financial markets, millions are made and lost in seconds. Gone are the days when a trader
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    • 993 38  -  By ROBIN TAN Managing Director, Nixdorf Computer Singapore THE INTEGRATED Services Digital Network or ISDN is a very formidable sounding term. And it is not self-explanato ry either. All this spells difficulty in gaining acceptance since people. usually shirk things they don't understand. But while the
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    • 1123 38  -  Local Area Networks (LANs) By BENJAMIN CHIA Sales Manager, Ashton-Tate Singapore Pte Ltd PERSONAL COMPUTERS have proven to be great productivity tools and occupy the place of honour in virtually every organisation the executive's desktop. However, the lone PC sitting in front of the
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    • 583 39  -  Ry TANG KIN MENG Senior Trainer, NEC Singapore Pte Ltd TEN WORKERS in a department with 10 personal computers are likely to be very productive. But if the 10 PCs are linked in a network to form an integrated office system (IOS) which
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    • 738 39  -  More effective solutions available for records management More often than not, records management does not rank high among an executive's list of priorities. YVONNE LOI, Divisional Manager of Corporate Archives Management Systems, shows why this is a mistake. YVONNE LOI CALL IT ANYTHING
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      1550 40  -  By YEO GUAN KAI By YEO GUAM KAI, Organising Member, interest Group for Office Automation, Singapore Computer Society "H you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." SUN TZU is very much alive today. The modern military is
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    • 991 42  -  To stay in vogue with the hi-tech environment that characterises offices today, equipment manufacturers must continually innovate and improve their products. The humble typewriter evolves into the secretarial workstation, the state-of-the-art office copier widens its application areas and desk top publishing brings printing into the
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    • 483 42  -  By WENDY AW Marketing Services Manager, Data Dynamics Pte Ud EVEN THE MOST casual observer of the modern office today cannot fail to notice the bigger role played by photocopiers. The photocopier has become an indispensable "office colleague" in helping to enhance efficiency. With modern technological
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    • 320 42  -  By RICKY CHEONG By RICKY CHEONG, General Manager, Olivetti (Singapore) Pte Ltd SPECIALISED workstations have found their way into many areas today. It should, therefore, be no surprise that some intrepid computer makers have developed a workstation for the secretary.
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    • 694 43 WHEN THOMAS TAN goes to Hongkong, his office practically goes along with him. He's got his laptop computer, radio memo pager and handphone, and he's ready to do business. When Singapore Telecom arranged with Hongkong Hutchison Telephone Co for its handphones to be used in
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    • 575 43 Executives who are bone-tired of hopping on and off planes to meet associates 23 hours, six bad meals and two re-run movies away will be glad to have access to a whole new range of technological marvels that make global meetings really a
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    • 246 44 OFFICE buildings in the age of mass communications and globalisation have become increasingly intelligent. A building's function is no longer just to shelter and accommodate a work force. Sophisti- cated technology is being applied to every area of office design and buildings. Such
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    • 153 44 JETSETTING businessmen need not worry if their indispensable handphone will not work beyond the limits of their home town. There are companies, like Intercomm Office and Business Services, which are able to provide a global cellular phone network. This service works along the lines of a
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    • 30 44 THE GAKKEN automatic printing system is also an office copier. The system, known as APX-8080, is an alternative to both conventional copying and offset printing.
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    • 251 44 ORGANISATIONS facing staff shortages in the office are turning increasingly to companies that specialise in providing temporary workers. This has made the temporary staffing industry, which is still in its growth phase, a significant feature of the local business community. Ms Lita Nithiyanandan, managing
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    • 177 44 OFFICES in Singapore can now be equipped with sophisticated workstations that are economically designed for the individual computer operator. The Interstat office system, comprising a range of partitions and workstations, offers numerous possibilities in office planning. This system was developed by Schiavello Commercial Interiors Pte
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    • 1519 45  -  By PAIJL ELLARD Partner of an International Firm of Accountants CAREFUL ATTENTION to tax planning can reduce overall business costs and help you get more for your money. Most of the expenditure incurred on office renovation and upgrading qualify for tax relief but
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    • 791 46  -  Properly cycle in favour of owners now During the recession, landlords desperately in need of tenants used to offer as much as three-month waivers as incentives. Today, businessmen seeking office space will be more than lucky to get one month free rent. What's in store
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    • 135 46 WITH WORSENING scarcity of prime office areas and rising rentals, many companies are expanding by creating more space within their present offices. Mr Michael Soh, an interior designer with Tema Colleciones Design Consultants, said that companies could get more space from their existing
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    • 743 46  -  By JOHN TAN U John Tan is a BT reporter A GENERAL BELIEF of fengshui is "wealth comes through the door". Yes, there are still strong believers out there. And it's not something to be scoffed at or dismissed with a cynical laugh.
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