The Business Times, 7 October 1989

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 45/12/88 Weekend Edition, October 7-8 1989 75 CENTS
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  • 430 1  -  ROBUST TOURIST SECTOR A PLUS FACTOR By MARTIN SOONG GOOD TIMES are ahead for the play and party industry in Singapore, according to a DBS Bank research report. The report, released yesterday, is bullish about prospects for the leisure and entertainment industry here
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  • 291 1 THE GOVERNMENT intends to introduce a bill to ensure there is no "mixing of religion and politics", the Minister for Home Affairs told Parliament yesterday. Prof S Jayakumar said the bill, which should be ready when Parliament next sits, will also
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  • 100 1 A BILL to change the Constitution, allowing the appointment of nominated MPs to Parliament, was tabled in the House yesterday. First Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Goh Chok Tong, submitted the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (Amendment No 2) Bill for its
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  • 497 1  -  By MAGDALENE NG THE HONG LEONG group's plan to list a new hotel-owning unit in Hongkong and Amsterdam is nearer to fruition with the proposed placement of shares in the unit on a worldwide basis. Sources said yesterday the group's financial adviser for the
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  • 131 1  -  -by Yang Razali Kassim SINGAPORE plans to buy water from Indonesia. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said in Jakarta yesterday after talks with President Suharto. Mr Lee said a feasibility study was being carried out on a plan to pipe water from parts of
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  • 102 1 AFP Reuter UNEMPLOYMENT in the US rose to 5.3 per cent last month, up 0.1 per cent from August, the Labour Department said yesterday. The number of new jobs last month rose to 210,000, compared to 110,000 in August. The September figure would have been 135,000
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  • 375 1 MBT BANK BUMIPUTRA Malaysia, the second largest bank in terms of total assets, is expected to report a loss of about Msl billion for the year ended March 31, 1989 and undergo a capital restructuring exercise to eliminate accumulated losses from its books.
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  • 44 1 Reuter WALL STREET blue chips yesterday levelled off moderately higher after early gains on soft US jobs data. Bond prices jumped a point on the news. The Dow was ahead 11 at 2784.95 and gainers led declining issues by seven to five.
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  • 45 1 AP LONDON share prices were lower at midday yesterday, but above early morning lows, as a round of institutional bargainhunting supported a generally subdued market. At about 1115 GMT, the FTSE 100-share index was off 14.6 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 2,267.0. AP
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  • 238 1 DESPITE a sharp fall in Tokyo share prices, the Singapore stock market surged to a poetCrash high, fuelled by a wave of renewed buying by institutional and retail bargain hunters. The Straits Times Industrials Index roee 8.22 points to 1420.55 while the
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  • 163 1 Stock Indie** Friday ST Musfriais Max 1420.55 8.22 BT CorapotM* Index 1265.31 6.16) NST Industrial Mox 2583.69 (-5.32 HK Hang Sang Max 2826.21 (-I- 23.04) Tokyo NUtl Avarago *****.35 (-313.64) Sydney Ail-Ordlnortos 1773.3 (-0.1 Thursday Now York (Daw Jonot) 2773J5 ("f 2.46 London (FT 30 Max) 1866.2
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 596 2 Il@3SB0Mr m KaMm'Jir. THE TEACHING of Religious Knowledge as a compulsory subject at the upper secondary level will be phased out, and taking its place will be an expanded version of the present Civics/Moral Education programme currently taught in
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    • 282 2 PARLIAMENT yesterday passed an amendment making it even more difficult for tobacco manufacturers to advertise and promote their products. With the amendment to the Smoking (Prohibition on advertisements) Act passed, the new, more stringent controls will come into force as soon as they have
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    • 790 2 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Operator Service Local From Operator Service Local For number time number time THA TG407 1225 BKK/HDY MAS MH606 0945 KUL SIA SQ001 1250 SFO/HNL/HKG SiA SQ056 0945 TPE MAS MH641 1300 KCH MAS MH630 1000 BKI SiA SQ107 1305 KUL SIA SQ106 1045 KUL SIA
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    • 147 2 PARLIAMENT has approved a budget of $177.72 million for the reclamation of 38 ha of land at Marina Bay and Telok Ayer Basin. Commencement of the reclamation work, which is being undertaken by the Housing and Development Board, is due to begin
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    • IN BRIEF...
      • 105 2 FOUR conditions have been laid down to ensure that permanent residents do not buy resale HDB flats for speculative purposes. These flats must be owner-occupied and each family nucleus is only allowed to own one flat. Also, the owners must live in the flats for
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      • 192 2 THE DRUG laws are to be tightened, with the death penalty introduced for the trafficking, manufacturing, importing and exporting of four more drugs. Currently, the death penalty applies only to those guilty of possessing more than 15 gm of heroin or 30 gm of morphine. Amendments to
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      • 114 2 BEGINNING next year, any of the five minority Indian languages can be studied as a second language and offered as a subject in the Cambridge 'O' level examinations. This was announced yesterday by Dr Tony Tan. Minister for Education, in reply to a question by Mr Davinder
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      • 236 2 IT COST the government £19.364 to place two advertisements in The Guardian and The Financial Times to reply to points made by British columnist Bernard Levin in the June 19 edition of the London Times. The same advertisement was also placed in The Straits
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      • 114 2  -  Reports by J JEFFREY TSANG TAN KEE WEE ALTHOUGH Case has a useful function in society, the government will only support it as long as the consumers' watchdog receives support from its members This stand was stated yesterday by the Trade and Industry Minister, BG (Reservist)
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    • 541 2  -  By SUZANNE SOH JAPANESE RETAILERS are not a threat here. Singapore's retail stores told BT in response to a recent report that anti-Japanese sentiments have been experienced in some Asian countries. The report in a Japanese journal added that a retailers' confederation
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    • 224 2 THE start-up of a Shell plant which manufactures water-proofing materials means that the oil company no longer needs to import them from the parent company in the UK. With an annual output of 5,000 tonnes annually of Shellkote. the industrial bitumen emulsion plant
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    • 112 2 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board will promote Singapore, using traditional Asian arts, to 11 cities in the US and Canada Six experts in fields that are distinctly Singaporean will give the North American media an insight into something of the Republic's true character the exotic
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    • 186 2 SESDAQ-LISTED Trans-island Bus Services (Tibs) is to go into the taxi business, with its fleet of 200 taxis due to hit the road sometime in the second quarter of next year. Tibs, announcing yesterday that it had won approval for a taxi operation,
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    • 390 2  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA EXHIBITORS both buyers and sellers at the International Procurement exhibition which ended yesterday gave mixed views about the results of the show this year. Most of the international procurement offices (IPOs) reported a sizeable volume of offers from suppliers of parts,
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    • 88 2 COMSERTRAC School of Computer Training yesterday signed an agreement with IPACS Computer Services and IBM Singapore to buy computer systems worth about half a million dollars. IBM Application System/400 845, which includes hardware and software, has been installed in the school. The IBM AS/400 is a
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    • 85 2 THE Port of Singapore Authority has awarded a $3.1 million contract to the Canadian Commercial Corporation for the purchase of an information system. The Integrated Surveying and Hydrographic Information System will help to "increase productivity and save manpower by 20 per cent in hydrographic surveying
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    • 182 2 THE RURAL and Industries Bank of Western Australia (R&l), the biggest financial institution in Western Australia, hopes to set up an offshore branch in Singapore a year from now. The Australian bank, which opened its representative office here on Thursday, plans
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 254 2 WEATHER^ Global temperatures and weather forecast City Max/ Not. lata afternoon and tarty (®C) mnkig. Ab.rd.on 12/07 Rainy *o 7.30pm or Oct 6 at It* Amsterdam 17/08 Shower* airport: 1 Athens 25/15 Sonny Max temp 29.4 Auckland 17/10 Showers Aeaoc humtdfty 74 Bangkok 32/25 Shower* Mln lamp. 21.1 Beijing 22/12
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 443 3 AP THE OUTSPOKEN Philippine agrarian reform secretary submitted her resignation to President Corazon Aquino yesterday after her confirmation stalled in a congressional committee because of allegations of misconduct. Miriam Defensor-Santiago offered her resignation in a letter to Mrs Aquino, but there was no
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    • 318 3 AFP TAIWANESE Economic Minister Chen Li-an says indirect trade between Taiwan and China could bring both political and economic gains to the Nationalist island. The Economic Ministry would not interfere with indirect commerce conducted by Taipei's private businessmen which had enabled traders to expand
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    • 62 3 Reuter THE STOCKMARKET fever gripping Taiwan has had an unexpected side effect a postcard shortage. Government-printed postcards, used by millions of investors to register for share lotteries, are now in such demand that they are traded on a black market. Company lotteries for new shares and
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    • 130 3 AFP TAIWAN'S foreign trade surplus widened to U5510.42 billion in the first nine months of 1989, a 37.1 per cent rise over the same period last year, according to government statistics released on Thursday. The imbalance exceeded the target of US$6.B billion set
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    • 372 3 Agencies TAKING FULL advantage of the Nobel Peace Prize spotlight, the Dalai Lama immediately fired a verbal double-barrel at China, criticising Beijing for its crackdown on his Tibetan followers and on its own pro-democracy demonstrators. In a statement released on Thursday, just
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    • 165 3 AFP A REVIEW of New Zealand's Business Immigration Policy, which has attracted mainly Asian entrepreneurs, found that the scheme has brought positive economic and social advantages to the country in its three years of operation, Commerce Minister David Butcher said yesterday. The review, by the Ministry
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    • 211 3 Reuter ASIAN COUNTRIES have shifted radically away from dependence on oil over the past two decades by tapping alternative local energy sources. Asian Development Bank energy adviser Vishvanath Desai revealed yesterday that developing countries in Asia had coped better with the
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    • 566 3 ONLY CANDIDATE FOR RULING PARTY PRESIDENCY AP JAPANESE Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, in office for less than two months, was assured of two more years in office yesterday when he registered as the only candidate for the presidency of the governing
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    • 164 3 AFP THE US trade deficit with Japan accounts for about half of the country total deficit for 1989, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher said on Thursday. The US deficit had been whittled down to between US$lOO billion and US$llO billion
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 524 4 REACTIONS TO EUROPE'S INTEREST RATE HIKES AP EUROPE'S interest rates were increased by more than the financial markets had been expecting, and some critics warned that the move would slow economic growth too much. Britain is the most vulnerable to economic and political
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    • 240 4 Reuter DESPITE a round of interest-rate rises in Europe partly aimed at lowering the dollar, economists believe the US Federal Reserve will not join the fight against the currency by easing its monetary policy. "We don't think the Fed will lower rates,'' said Jack
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    • 159 4 AFP JAPANESE Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said yesterday there was no need for Japan to change its monetary stance following key interest-rate hikes by European countries. Speaking to Japanese reporters, Mr Hashimoto said: "The situation is not such that a change in
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    • 998 4 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed higher on short-covering and institutional buying, after choppy trading and concerted central bank intervention, dealers said. The Bank of Japan, which intervened repeatedly in Tokyo, also sold dollars in Singapore at 142.20/30 yen in early afternoon trade. Dealers here could not confirm Tokyo
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    • 284 4 Reuter MOST IMM currency futures ended lower and near the session lows after a dramatic reversal of early gains Futures rallied early in volatile, fast market trading conditions after the Bundesbank and several other European central banks raised their interest rates. Although the move by the West German central
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    • 283 4 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates ended at their opening levels after quiet trading yesterday. Dealers said the market was awaiting the 1230 GMT release of US September employment data for direction. Term rates began steady to slightly lower and remained unchanged. One month closed at 9-1/16 8-15/16 per
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    • 555 4 Reuter EURODOLLAR futures closed mixed on weekend book squaring and ahead of last night s release of US September employment data, dealers said. The market would be watching the employment figures for clues to the health of the US economy and the Federal Reserve s monetary policy, dealers said.
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    • 59 4 THE overnight rate on the Singapore money fell by 1/16 point to 5-3/8 per cent yesterday. Term rates were all 1/16 point higher at 5-3/8. S$ Interbank rates at the dose yesterday: OHB MO 3 3/8 5 1/4 1-mon* 3 3/S 3 1/4 2-«KMh 3 3/S 3 1/4
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    • 99 4 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's dosing Day's code Maturity KID OFFER HIGH LOW 3 months BQ*****Z 04.01.90 4.35 4.30 6 months BS*****V 18.01.90 4.28 4.23 4.25 4.25 1 yoor BY*****F 24.05.90 4.38 4.33 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's dosing Day's code rate BID
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    • 184 4 Indicates ths avtragt of ths prim* tending rates of 12 ma|or banks In Singapore Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Oct 6 US$ DM SWFC Yen 7 doyt 9 1/16 t 13/16 14 7/1 14 3/4 7 15/16 13/16 7 1/1-7 3/1 5 11/1* 9/1* I MX 9
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    • 1054 4 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Friday, October 6, 1989 DEUTSCHEMARK (SIMEX) 0« M can* D*c M putt 52 53 54 JAPANESE YEN (SIMEX) Dac M call* Dac M puts 71 72 73 75 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS IMM Thursday, October 5 1989 BRITtSH POUND CS2.S00; CMk p*r C strk. Pun»«w« Prtc* OcK
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    • 168 4 Gold futures on October 5, 1989 100 troy ounces, USS per troy ounce Opon Htgfc Low SoWo Oct 366 00 366.00 362 80 363.40 -3.60 Nov 363.90 3.60 D*c 371.30 373.00 367.20 367.90 -3.40 fob 91 375.10 376.30 371.50 372.00 -3.60 Ape 379.30 379.30 376.00 376.20
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  • COMPANIES & STOCK MARKETS
    • 428 5  -  By ELAINE KOH THE HONG LEONG group and Asia Insurance are putting on the market one of the last major pieces of freehold land in the central business district, a lure which developers here will find hard to ignore. The ?,747 sq
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    • 282 5 Bernama THE FAR EAST group of Hongkong is looking for suitable hotel, entertainment and tourism projects in Malaysia in which to invest, the managing director of one of its subsidiaries said. Through another subsidiary, it has bought a piece of land in
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    • 429 5  -  By KEVIN GWEE IN A MOVE which could be a prelude to a new bond issue, DBS Bank has exercised its option to redeem both its outstanding US-dollar convertible bond issues before their respective maturity dates. The exercise, which will save the bank
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    • 483 5 THE PERLIS State Economic Development Corporation (PEDC), which holds a crucial 58.8 per cent stake in Cement Industries Malaysia Bhd (Cima), has accepted United Engineers Malaysia Bhd's (UEM) takeover offer. PEDC chairman Or Abdul Hamid Pawanteh said PEDC had decided
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    • 379 5 MBT DATUK ABDULLAH Ahmad has been reinstated as executive chairman and managing director ot Syarikat Permodalan Kebangsaan (SPK) after obtaining an ex-parte injunction from Justice Datuk N H Chan at the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Thursday. He walked into
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    • SES
      • 1084 6  -  by ABDUL HADHI OVERNIGHT HIKES in European interest rates and the sharp fall on the Tokyo market failed to dampen buying interest as share prices surged past the 1,420level in active trading to a postCrash high yesterday. "The market closed very
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      • 319 6 Manager*' price* for Oct 7 9 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.24 131 The Savings Fund 1.07 I 13 S'pore Prog Fund 0.47* 051* S'pore Sec Fund 0.77 082 S'pore Invest Fund 082 087 S'pore Eqwty Fund 0 5B 0 62 Asia Unit Trust Mol Invest Fund 163
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      • 58 6 QULA PERAK BERHAD: AGM at Malacca Room, Lower Lobby. Shangri-La Hotel, Jalan Sultan Ismail, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Oct 16, Monday, at 10am. INDUSTRIAL A COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED: EGM at the Board Room of United Overseas Bank Limited, 30th Storey, (JOB Building, 1 Bonham Street, Rattles Place. Singapore
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      • 6631 6 Gr's Qr's 1969 Tel Last Vol Day Last Quota Dlv Dlv Y'M Nat M Cap High Low Coda Company Sala +or- (*000) High Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E Smll OCT 06 SESDAQ 275 120 t 4000 Amtek Eng 20t 263 -1 2 263 260 262 264 12
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    • KLSE
      • 3596 7 MBT SHARE PRICES closed mixed on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yeeterday in less active trading. Brokers said blue chipe which were well sought lately took a back seat with several finishing lower on profit-taking. Tyre retreader Autoways Holdings made its debut on the second board
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    • 700 8 BT SPECIAL ADVERTISING FEATURE Introducing a new concept: The Customer Service Electronic Banker to take care of your non-cash transactions THE UNITED OVERSEAS BANK QROUp is blazing another trail in the stiffly competitive consumer banking arena. Barely months after introducing the Self-Service Electronic Banker for non-cash
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    • 475 8 -To support the largest network of 79 branches amongst commercial banks in Singapore DRAWING UPON state-of-the-art technology, the United Overseas Bank Group has launched the largest private data communication network among Singapore's financial institutions. The private data communication network will link the Group's head office and 97
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    • 1150 9 Capitalising on computer technology to meet customers needs THE LATEST ,ip banking technology is nothing new at the United Over*seas Bank Group, especially when it *tfenslates eventually into greater customjtt satisfaction. Since introducing the 24*nour automated teller maohine (ATM) in 1980 to give customers greater access to
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    • REGIONAL, WORLD MARKETS
      • 918 12 New York Reuter A ROUND of concerted one-point interest rate increases by European central banks on Thursday cooled Wall Street's recent fervour but was unable to completely break its upward momentum. Blue chips eked out a slight gain- to end at a new high. The
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      • 838 12 London Reuter LONDON share prices opened lower yesterday amid fears that Thursday's one-point rise in British base rates may lead the economy into recession, dealers said. "There's no real weight of selling at the moment, but market makers have marked shares lower as a defensive
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      • 1342 12 Selected indices HONGKONG All Industrials Fridoy 2.819 9 Hongkong Index Thursday 23)6 7 Fr»doy Ti l Week ogo 2.767 5 Thursday 1.547 05 week ogo 1,***** NEW YORK Hang Seng Index [>q W Jones F"dav £826 21 Thurjdoy* 2.***** Thursday 2.803.17 Wednesday 2.***** Wwk ago 2.758 25 w#ek 2.694 91
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      • 369 12 Reuter THE US SECURITIES and Exchange Commission (SEC) said the Prudential Insurance Co of America subsidiary PrudentialBache Securities Inc has agreed to a settlement of charges that it violated the Securities Exchange Act by failing to maintain possession or control of securities that
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      • 257 12 Reuter BAT INDUSTRIES pic will pursue its previously announced restructuring plan despite Sir James Goldsmith s statement on Thursday that he intends to make a new bid for BAT. "It appears as if Goldsmith is threatening to make a real offer," a BAT
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      • 1354 12 Hongkong HONGKONG'S blue-chip Hang Seng Index closed 23.04 points up at a postJune 4 high of 2.626.21, its fourth consecutive high finish. Brokers said the steady rise signalled the market was back on its feet after falling 581.77 points the day after Beijing tanks
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      • 469 12 Reuter MILAN: Italian shares continued to slip in early trading yesterday, while shares of Mondadori's paper subsidiary Cartiera Ascoli were suspended indefinitely following Mondadori's announcement on Thursday of a joint venture with Svenska Cellulosa. dealers said. The MIB Index fell 0.26 per cent to 1.168 by midday,
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      • 214 12 Reuter THAI stocks yesterday closed mixed in very active trsde dominated by profit-taking on electronics shares which posted sharp gains this week. The SET Index gained 0.56 point to close at 688.56, with declines leading advances 63 to 53. Most actively traded were Padaeng Industry. Siam Cement
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      • 404 12 Reuter TAIWAN share price# finished higher across the board after a sporadic rally ended on a strong note, dealers said. The weighted index rose 228.09 points, or 2.44 per cent, to end at 9.545.85 against Thursday's 9.317.76 finish. Turnover rose to NTJBI.I7 billion from NTSB4.B® billion. Dealers
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    • WORLD STOCK & COMMODITY MARKETS
      • 651 13 Tokyo Reuter TOKYO stocks were battered in rounds of selling by index-linked trust funds and by other investors who caught the interestrate jitters after concerted rate rises in Europe failed to beat the US dollar down. Prices slumped to end broadly lower in moderate trading. The key
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      • 550 13 Australia Reuter AUSTRALIAN shares ended the day barely changed after drifting in directionless trading. The All Ordinaries Index closed 0.1 down at 1,773.3. The market opened weaker, rose slightly on short-covering and then lost most of its gains during a bout of afternoon profittaking, brokers said. One broker
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      • 98 13 Reuter THE NEW ZEALAND share market continued to surprise some brokers by remaining firm yesterday despite the collapse of DFC. Direction next week is likely to depend on Wall Street's performance yesterday, brokers said. "The market's in a drift pattern and waiting for events offshore to give
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      • 270 13 Reuter SEOUL STOCKS fell in low trading volume yesterday as inertia settled in the market, with investors listless in the absence of encouraging news, brokers i said. The composite index closed at 922.85. down 2.26 points from Thursday. Turnover was 196.4 billion won compared with 220.1 billion
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      • 98 13 Reuter PHILIPPINE shares surged in busy trade yesterday, with individual and institutional investors encouraged by the country's economic performance, brokers said. "It's bullish,'' Antonio Tan. an analyst at First Pacific Securities Philippines Inc. said of general market sentiment The Manila Stock Exchange composite index rose
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      • 53 13 Reuter AFTER three consecutive days of losses, share prices rebounded on heavy institutional buying ahead of the end of account, brokers said. They said the institutional support set off active short-covering. "The market was oversold and when institutions stepped in with large buy orders there were few sellers,"
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      • 398 13 SINGAPORE: Rubber prices closed easier yesterday, with November One RSS buyer quoted at 165 50 cents a kg, down 1.25 cents from Thursday's close. Dealers said prices fell after moderate afternoon trade on weekend stop-loss selling due to poor consumer offtake. On the TSR-20 Award market, prices finished little
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      • 364 13 Reuter HONGKONG: Gold closed firmer in moderate trade on physical demand by Swiss and local investors despite a firmer US dollar, dealers said. "Traders were expecting a firmer US dollar because the US has not cut its rates following Europe's interest rate rise, in accord with the G-7
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      • 195 13 Chinese Produce Exchange Sellers' noon dosing prices on October 6 (S$/100 kg) Coconut oil Bulk FOB 94.50 Old drum FOB 104.50 New drum FOB 108.50 Copra Mixed (loose) 53.00 sellers Pepper Muntok white FOB NIW 490.00 Sarawok whit* FOB foq NIW 480.00 Sarawak special block FOB NIW 380.00
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      • 203 13 London Commodity Exchange Buyer/Seller closing prices on Oct 5 (£/tonne unless specified). Previous dosing prices in parenthesis. Coffee Basis in-sforo London, sellers option OF London Nov 686/687 (683/684) High/low 708/673 Jan 682/684 (682/684) KMgh/Low 698/667 Solos (5492) Cocoa 0* 732/734 (724/726) High/Low 735/726 Mor 721/722 (724/726) Hfch/Low 723/715
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      • 283 13 RAS prices In S cw«Ag, FOB In Im(m NOON CLOSE Buy*n Selleri Buyers Sellers Wit 1 RSS Prompt 165.00 166.00N 163.75 164.75N Int 1 RSS Nov 166.75 167.25 165.50 166.00 Int 1 RSS Dec 169.50 170.00 168.25 168.75 lot 2 RSS OP 164.50 166.50N 163.50 165.50N Int
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      • 582 13 Bernama MALAYSIAN CRUDE PALM OIL FUTURES finished slightly easier on the KLCE yesterday on some selling pressure. Dealers said the market opened slightly easier following Thursday s softer tone as a result of long liquidation. However, losses were checked by the good interest in the cash market where
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      • 175 13 FURTHER scattered buying demand pushed the Kuala Lumpur Tin Mark* (KLTM) price anothar 10 aan higher to M 522.31 a kg, brokers said. Hlghar London Matal Exchange's (LME) closing, becked by merchant buying thara, prompted high bide of 226 tonnee agalnat offers of 104 at tha opaning, thay
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      • 153 13 Telerate FUEL oil prices held steady at near unchanged levels from Thursday. The higher prices in the Arabian Gulf and North-West Europe kept prices of Singapore cargoes competitive. A few offers were heard slightly lower at around $94 mt fob Sing. A Western trader bought a
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      • 103 13 CBOT soybean futures took a back seat on Thursday as buying interest shifted to feed grain futures. Prices closed down 21/2 cents in the spot November to U555.74 to off five cents, and commission houses were featured sellers, traders said. While corn and wheat benefited from US grain export
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      • 120 13 Reuter CBOT soft red winter wheat futures tagged along with corn movements and settled mixed on Thursday, up 1-1/2 cents in the nearbys to off 2.0 cents in the September, traders said. Spot December closed at US$4.lO-3/4. Recent Egyptian purchases of 500,000 tonnes of US EEP wheat proved supportive
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    • 316 13 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY SINGAPORE PTE LTD (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting deemed to have been held on Wednesday, 27 September 1969 the following resolution was passed pursuant to Section 179(6) of the Companies Act,
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    • 656 13 [NOTICES M THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 60 ANO IN THE MATTER OF IRVING TRUST INTERNATIONAL (ASIA) UMITED (In Mambara' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary Qanacal Meeong of t» sbovanamad Company daamad to hava baan duly convanad and hald at Grange Road #0643, Tha Colonada,
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  • 195 14 AFP PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew yesterday ruled out any possibility that the US would set up a full-fledged military base in Singapore. "We are not going to have an American base in Singapore." Mr Lee said after meeting President Suharto in
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  • 222 14 THE US Transportation Department is proposing that foreign airlines be given exclusive rights to fly between their home countries and some US cities that have little or no international air service. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner said on Thursday that h« will
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  • 547 14  -  CLAMPDOWN ON USE OF OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES By GENEVIEVE CUA THE CLAMPDOWN on the use of ozone-depleting substances in Singapore began this week, amidst a concerted effort among a number of government agencies to cushion the industrial impact of the restrictions. The first round
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  • 294 14 SUPPLIERS and industrial endusers of ozone-depleting gases were gloomy about the impact the public tender system would have on their businesses, but they were resigned to the fact that something had to be done to save the earth s ozone shield. Companies contacted by BT pointed
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  • 377 14  -  By WALTON MORAIS THE GOVERNMENT is to consider extending design education to pre-university and primary education level. Mr Mah Bow Tan, the Minister of State for Trade and Industry. yesterday said that with the first batch of students sitting for the
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  • 153 14 Reuter THE EUROPEAN Community and Opec have agreed to cooperate on solving environmental and technological problems and hope this would lead to deeper political ties in the future. The two sides came to an accord at the first official talks between a secre-tary-general of the Organisation
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  • 362 14 And now a computer language to unite the world AP If K S GOPALAKRISHNA had his way, "I love you" would become "1171 ***** 1172 1" or "kata gecab katam", in a language the Indian computer-linguist claims will unite the world. The 50-year-old inventor says that through Abasama. as he
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    • 39 14 AP TAIWAN'S Justice Minister Hsiao Tien-tzang resigned yesterday because of a scandal over a golf course, becoming the first top official to bow to public pressure since Taiwan lifted martial law two years ago. AP
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    • 25 14 AFP A BURMESE plane with 85 passengers was hijacked by dissident students and landed at a military airport in Thailand yesterday. AFP
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    • 33 14 AFP PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino yesterday rejected acting agrarian reform secretary Miriam Defensor-Santiago's resignation announced earlier in the day, saying that the country would be the loser if she quit. AFP
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    • 29 14 AFP AUSTRALIA'S domestic airline pilots agreed yesterday to take part in arbitration proceedings as the dispute over pay claims entered its eighth week. AFP
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  • 210 14 THE USE of resources in development must be such thst they •re not completely exhausted, leaving future generations with nothing to work on, Malaysia's Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, Datuk Amar Stephen Yong, said yesterday. Datuk Yong was explaining the concept of sustainable
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  • 72 14 Reuter COMEX gold futures were higher early yesterday on the US dollar's slide. The metal turned down at the open, but commission house buying and scattered shortcovering recouped losses. December gold was US$l.lO higher at U*****.00 an ounce. Silver futures slipped into the minus column in
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    • 298 15 OLD BOYS of the Anglo-Chi-nese School will receive a new-look magazine with fullcolour gloss and ads this week. Not surprisingly, the first issue is speckled with the alumni's more exposed faces. For example: Glenn Goei of M Butterfly fame is featured in what looks more like
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    • 1258 15  -  The man who made Gardenia bread a success tells health columnist RICHARD SEAH about his new business and interpretation of the good life. RICHARD SEAH THE MAN who turned Gardenia from a small bakeshop into the biggest bakery in South-east Asia now believes
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    • 820 15  -  Do you have what it takes to face the world? (If you do, stand up and say 'I'm ready!'?) Anyway, according to this writer's aesthetician (see Page Nine for definition), he doesn't. All because of some pus-filled bumps on a face oily enough to
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    • Commentary
      • 1015 16  -  TYE KIM KHIAT SMOKE GETS in your eyes. The Platters waxed lyrical about it in a sanitised recording studio, of course. But in real life, a smoke-filled room is nothing to sing about. It is downright unromantic and nauseating except to the most insensate.
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      • 920 16  -  ASAD LATIF SOME ARGUMENTS never grow old. That is sad. because it is time they did. Last Wednesday s issue of The Australian Financial Review carries a commentary titled "Pity about racism, but that's freedom". In the piece, columnist Peter
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      • 345 16 letters to the Editor Dear Sir, As an independent observer of the corporate scene, I would like to share my feelings and reservations on the fate of shareholders of Sungei Besi Mines. It was mentioned in the newspapers that the company has proposed a
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      • 141 16  -  V BALAKRISHNAN for Commissioner Parts A Recreation Department Ministry of National Development Dear Sir, I refer to the letter. "Danger from machine is real" (BT Sep 30 from Mr DW Distant, who has queried whether there are any controls over the use of grass
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      • 103 16  -  SEEK HANG PENG Public Relations Officer Registry of Vehicles Dear Sir, Please refer to the letter, "Too early to ask for revision of road tax?" by DW Distant (BT Sep 16). The Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) System is expected to
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      • 123 16  -  ROBIN BAIDEN Dear Sir, Congratulations to MDK on establishing a joint venture in Hongkong, but I am sure it would not want to perpetuate the mistaken belief, reported in Business Times on Oct 5. that it is "the first local PR firm
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      • 139 16  -  TNG BEE HUAT for Director Public Affairs Deportment Republic of Singapore Police Deer Sir, I refer to the letter "Need for a second left turn lane at Pickering junction" from Mr John M Carter (BT Sep 23-24). The Traffic Police
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Pursuits
      • 799 18  -  By N K YONG PULIGNY-MONTRACHET, the name which stands for some of the finest white burgundies of the world, is, like all the wine towns in Burgundy, very small and very quiet. We were looking for the premises of Domaine Leflaive one autumn morning,
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & Pursuits
      • 350 19  -  FOOD By QUEK SWEE PENG PRAWNS. You can t get away from them. Not if you're eating Chinese cuisine prepared by Hongkong chefs. No meal, it would seem, is complete without at least one prawn dish, whether you are eating at home or dining out. It
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      • 145 19 THE MUCH-AV AITED SEASON of Shanghai hairy crabs has arrived. Cherished delicacies of many generations, they are appreciated for their milt and roe. rather than their flesh. Some contend, however, that the male crab's milt tastes better than the female s roe. The rationale is that
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      • 588 19  -  TAIWAN FILM FESTIVAL By NG PENG HUI THINK TAIWANESE FILMS and you immediately remember those insipid melodramas that appeared on our screens during their heyday in the 70s. But they are such a rarity these days that you need to organise a festival for
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      • 246 19  -  CAFES By SAMUEL EE I'VE HAD SATAY at Kajang and I've had duck I'orange in Paris. But juat the other day, I had siew ngap at Oscars. That's right, roast duck, Oscars Brasserie, down a basement along Robinson Road. Declaring themselves free of their 1819 baggage,
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      • 333 19  -  YACHTS By JOHN THOMAS HMY Britannia, built to be a home for the British monarch on her visits abroad and outfitted to serve also as a hospital ship, has been a pleasure cruiser for the royalty and a mercy ship for the commoner. But the
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        1128 19  -  Compiled by. JUANITA SHAKILA STAGE PERFORMANCES: Sydney Conaervatorlum Chorale. As part of its South-east Asian Tour, the chorale will be giving three performances in Singapore. A select group of the conservatorium's full-time students, it has performed major works such as Belshazzar's Feast; Damnation of Faust, Camina Burana and most
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment
      • 982 20 THE BLOW MONKEYS: Choices The Singles Collection (RCA) EVERYTHING was going well for the Blow Monkeys until 1986. Up to then, their songs had an earthy rock sound which combined interesting brass arrangements that seemed to give the group a winning edge over other new
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment, the Arts & Pursuits
      • SHORT TAKES
        • 140 21 FANCY GETTING MARRIED without doing anything except saying •"I do" and paying for the whole doodad? Well, if you do, then Yumi Katsura Bridal House has to be your cup of tea. Er, glass of champagne. From the rental of a car and its 'decorations, to the flowers
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        • 154 21 IF YOU ENJOY having dinner in front of the TV, you might like to have yet another shot at dinner theatre. If you can bear the pace. House Guest is a West End play that will make its debut here in early November for three nights. Presented by
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        • 94 21 MOST OF AMERICA'S corporate executives who've reached the top believe their business practices are more ethical now than a decade ago but would generally hesitate to promote a homosexual, according to a new survey. Those are two of the findings of a survey by the Wall Street Journal
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        • 166 21 OKAY, all culturally-barren, materialistic guys out there: you're going to learn all about Papua New Guinea. According to the people who are bringing in a cultural troupe of state performers from the PNG, it's to educate Singaporeans. It'll be an exercise in altruism, say the Furama Hotel who
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        • 135 21 THE TOKYO International Film Festival, still a fledgling event its third time around, is making its mark by giving 30 million yen (U*****,000) the largest cash prize at any film festival to young and first-time film-makers from around the world. The prize money "represents a significant amount
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      • 989 21  -  OPERA By DONAL HENAHAN NYT I MAY BE the last person alive to have realised it, but isn't it remarkable that opera is so heavily populated by oppressed, manipulated and otherwise pitiable women? This revelation came to me with blinding force the
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        471 22  -  All dressed up and nowhere to go on a Saturday evening pregnant with song. So SAMUEL EE, deciding that there's more to life than crooning at the Strawberry Bush Karaoke Lounge, enlisted the help of the lounge's maitre'd cum amateur-voyeur to suss out some favourite.., SAMUEL EE HOW
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & Pursuits
      • 694 23  -  by Richard Sea TWO CONTRASTING health stores in Californte-helped Mr Roland Goh shape the imaflfcof/flnatura into one which he dasorilw as "non-yuppie and nonhippi*V*" Th*'Jlrst store, in Los Angeles, was very slick. It was clean, hygienic and pleasant Goods were displayed "proThe
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      • 729 23  -  DICK LEE faced the facts and visited an aesthetician. That's the person gentlemen will lose face to in order to save face. If you feel yours could use a perking-up, he suggests you take it like a man, and say... DICK LEE SOME OF HIS clients
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Personal Investment
      • 1100 24  -  PROPERTY By AMY BALAN PROPERTY has had a good run. So have property stocks. With a good 89 per cent gain since the beginning of this year against 34 per cent by the broader market up to September, the question now being asked
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      • 683 24 ANY PROPERTY play now, given the strong gains already achieved, must be based on a more selective investment strategy. In picking the winners in the next property push, MGAS has come up with some desirable attributes, the most notable
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      • 960 24  -  s P a W T|. PROPERTY PROSPECTS By LI HIAW HO Mr Li Hiaw Ho is a director, valuations, of Richard Ellis (Pte) Ltd THE GOVERNMENT S recent decision to allow those buying HOB and HUDC flats in the open market to invest in private
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        • 192 25 TALK OF ASKING for the sky. Malayan Credit Ltd. which at the bottom of the property market in 1985 valued its Ardmore Park development at $199.5 million, is now said to have put a $500 million price tag on the property. This means that each
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        • 125 25 What's brewing at Goodwood IS SOMETHING happening at the Goodwood group of hotels? A few months ago Goodwood hit the front page with the news that the Japanese group EIE was keen to take control of the chain comprising four hotels, Goodwood Park, Boulevard, York and Ladyhill from the family
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        • 105 25 SPEAKING OF HOTELS, many are bracing themselves for Nov 1. That is "smokeless day" the day when the ban will be extended to many places, including airconditioned restaurants. Hoteliers say business in the F B outlets is likely to suffer from the ban. Of
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      • 538 25  -  %m Money trends By C DOW ■Mr Dow is an investment manager with a major publiclyi listed company. This is a techni- cat view of the currency market i and is a personal view of the writer and not to be construed
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      • 402 25  -  ®DP? by Najoob Jarhom Najaab Jarhom, rata arch managar, Frasar Roach A Co Pta Lid AFTER the mid-week breakout on heavy volume, the Straits Times Industrials Index seems poised to challenge its next technical resistance level around 1,450-1,460 in coming
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      • 818 25  -  EQUITIES By AMY BALAN THE BULL MARKET is not over. Not yet. Even erstwhile bears are saying so. Admittedly, stocks are no longer cheap but the fundamentals, that is, economic growth and growth in corporate earnings, are still good. Most analysts and dealers agree
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      • 861 25  -  mm By ANDREA BORCH SINCE the end of June, the share price of Malaya Glass Bhd has climbed from M 54.50 to M 56.60 on Thursday, a 46.6 per cent rise. Analysts read this improvement differently. Some say it naturally follows
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      • 575 25 Conversion terms Premium/ Amount Prices (as at 6.10.89) (discount) Expiry ed Optional" using Company (m units) Wrts Share! Ln stk Ln stk Cash Cash 1 Ln stk J Gearing 4 price nom Date mths value C K Tang 16.9 3 040 5.200 j 1.00 2.25 2
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      • 521 26  -  GOLF By A SURENDREN TO THE CANTONESE, the number eight signifies luck. Singapore's top executives will hope it is their lucky day tomorrow at the Business Times Advertising 13th Anniversary Golf Competition. The denizens of the boardrooms come out of their pristine
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      • 295 26 AFP BERNHARD LANGER shot a five-under-par 67 to take the immediate lead in his own German Masters promotion at Stuttgart's Solitude Club on Thursday. Langer, who co-promotes the event in partnership with his brother Erwin, has a twin aim to win the title for
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      • 482 26 AP LANNY WADKINS posted an early 8-under-par 62 on Thursday and then sat back and saw it matched by Mark Wiebe and Tom Sieckmann in the first round of the Texas Open. Attacking cozy Oak Hills Country Club with his customary fervour, Wadkins dropped a 12foot
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      • 345 26 TENNIS AFP DEFENDING CHAMPION Czechoslovakia won the decisive doubles to oust West Germany 2-1 in the quarter-finals of the U*****,800 Federation Cup women's tennis tournament in Tokyo yesterday. The top-seeded United States meanwhile remained on course for a 13th Federation Cup title by beating eighth-seeded Austria
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      • 293 26 BASEBALL AP THE CHICAGO CUBS still can't figure out Kevin Mitchell and Will Clark. But Mark Grace and friends had no trouble solving Rick Reuschel and salvaging the split they needed. Pitcher Mike Bielecki, the worst hitter in the major leagues, singled to
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      • 276 26 ATHLETICS AP BEN JOHNSON, who lost his Olympic gold medal last year after testing positive for steroid use, has urged young athletes not to make the same mistake. "I got caught in Seoul. I lost my gold medal," Johnson said at a
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      • 353 26 BOXING AFP GARY MASON, Britain's latest heavyweight hopeful, would not last two rounds with Mike Tyson. That was the verdict of Tyrell Biggs after being knocked out in the seventh round by the 26-year-old Londoner on Wednesday night. It was obvious Mason's only
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      • 923 27  -  Applying for a job? A polished performance during the interview may not get you very far, but passing the battery of pre-employment tests will. TAN KEE WEE reports. TAN KEE WEE INCREASINGLY, more and more managers, faced with the decision about who to recruit, are beginning
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      • 337 27 CANCY TAN has been promoted to research director of Survey Research Singapore (Pte) Ltd. She will oversee the development of the customised research unit as well as training. She has been with SRS for six years, since graduating from the National University of Singapore. THE NEW managing
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      • 514 27  -  By CHUANG PECK MING BEING in the middle of a corporate sandwich is an unenviable position, which is where general managers find themselves these days. A Harvard Business School professor. Hugo Uyterhoeven, says these general managers are very different from the traditional top-level general manager.
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      • 282 27  -  By ABDUL HADHI TRADITIONAL TENETS remain strong in corporate Singapore, even in the area of job designation. Increasingly, business firms in the West are using the term "general manager" for mid-dle-management positions. But traditionally, the position of GM has been associated with senior management and
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      • 276 27  -  By SHOEB KAGDA INDONESIA'S deregulation policy is likely to lead to an acute shortage of qualified professionals needed by an expanding financial sector. At the head of what could be a wave of executive search firms into Indonesia, international headhunter Ward Howell International Group
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