The Business Times, 21 October 1989

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  • 14 1 BUSINESS TIMES TlwWWrtWwMl WiDteiWfWc >>■»». MCI (P) 45/12/88 Weekend Edition, October 21-22 1989 75 CENTS
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  • 572 1  -  IMPACT OF SAN FRANCISCO QUAKE ON S'PORE BUSINESS By HELEN CHANG SINGAPOREAN electronics companies have suffered little physical damage in the San Francisco Bay Area earthquake, but they may experience short-term losses due to delayed shipments and a slowdown in orders by Amertcsn companies recovering
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  • 39 1 Reuter WALL STREET stock prices pered inltisl slight gains snd turned lower In early trading yesterday amid a sharp drop in transportation averagee. The Dow tell about three to 2,681. Decliners outpaced gainers by about six to fiva. Router
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  • 45 1 AP LONDON ahare prices were slightly lower d midday yeaterday, with prices drifting in thin, featurslsss trading. Sentiment wes dented by earty weeknsss in ths pound againd the mark. The FTBE 100-ehare index was down 64 points d 2,182.8 points d noon (1100 GMT). AP
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  • 366 1  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA JUST UNDER a third of the suppliers and industrial sod-users who tandared for a share of ozone-depleting chemicals have succeeded in their bids. The Trade Development Board disclosed last night that the lowest successful tender price for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) was
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  • 416 1 ONE OF Hongkong's best-kept corporate secrets is likely to be revealed next year. Hongkongßank, the colony's biggeet bank, has disclosed that it was studying s provisionsl plan to make public the size of its substantial inner reservee, the
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  • 228 1 Reuter THE US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England instituted night shifts to intervene during Asian currency trading if needed, after the Group of Seven communique on Sep 23, market sources said. The Bundesbank established an early morning shift,
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  • 302 1 THE CHARGES against Hong Leong group chsirmsn Kwek Hong Png and his nephew may affect plans to list the hotel arm of City Developments Ltd on the Hongkong Stock Exchange. The South China Morning Pot reported yestsrday that it was understood thst the exchange
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  • 171 1 WALL STREET'B 30-poiot gsin on ttw second anniversary of tie global stockmarkst Crash rubbed off onto the regional markets yestsrdsy. In Tekye, institutions and foreign and private Inveetors shrugged off memories of the 15 per cent crash in prtcee two years sgo to push up sharei
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 473 2  -  WAYS TO BETTER PENETRATE THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN By JEFFREY TSANG JAPAN'S imports from the Asian region grew by 47 per cent last year. But even with this phenomenal growth, progress of foreign efforts to penetrate the Japanese market seems
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    • 282 2 IN AN EFFORT to increase trade with Japan, the Trade Development Board ia setting up a second office, this time in the second largest Japanese city of Osaka. The office, which will be set up in late November, will complement its existing office
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    • 274 2  -  lIXJ I by Genevieve Cua VETERINARIANS in Singapore are getting involved in genetic engineering to produce "transgenic" animals animals which can be engineered to eat less, grow faster or have less body fat. National Development Minister S Dhanabalan disclosed this yesterday during the
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    • 155 2 THE ECONOMIC Development Board (EDB) will lead its first sutomation business development and study mission to the US next week. Headed by the director of National Automation. Mr Leong Cheng Chit, the miaaion will be in the US from Oct 23
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    • 88 2 WEARNES TECHNOLOGY and Ashton-Tato software have entered into a joint "computing triathlon" promotion with MPH Bookstore. During the promotion, the two computer companies will display and sell their products at tour MPH bookstores in Stamford Road. Robinson Road. Centrepoint and Parkway Parade. For the two
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    • 374 2  -  By SANGEETA MULCHAND THE GROWING TASTE among affluent Singaporeans for salmon will probably make it the fastest growing category in Norway's trade with Singapore thia year. In an interview with BT. the regional representative of the Export Council of Norway. Oie
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    • 262 2  -  By JEAN FOONG SUZUE-PSA Cokj Storage has leased space from the Housing Board at a cost of $2 million a year to boost its coidroom facilities. The three-year lease starts on Nov 1. Covering an area of 4,177 square metres, the additional space located
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 202 2 Global l*mp*ratur«« and wMthar forecast tor Oct 21 mdMfrmillflMllM CHy Max/ Note outlook: MmNn rc kpm far 34 haon prior Afaordoon 13/09 WMy to 7.30 pi m Oe 30 al AiiHi limn 15/109towori Atom 22/11 Sunny Awddand It/11 Fair Aoooo kanM% .76, Bangkok 31/24 Cloudy —"TlLm* M MN 19/08 Oowdy
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 457 3 Reuter THE European Community is considering phasing out restrictions on car imports from Japan by 1998 a scenario bound to disappoint Italian snd French car makers. EC snd industry sources said. The plan, discussed st a meeting
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    • 317 3 AP THE CHIEF of the International Monetary Fund credits Japan with significant economic achievements and says the Japsnese should now take the lead in eliminating trade barriers. "It Is particularly important for Japan to take further steps to improve market access for
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    • 366 3 AFP THE third round of EastWest conventional arme reduction talks ended in Vienna on Thursday with negotiators confident a treaty will be signed next year. The seven Warsaw Pact delegations responded poeitively to propoeals put forth by the 16 nations of
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    • 183 3 AFP A FLORIDA power company that won Japan's moat coveted quality award haa come under Are for hiring Japanese consultants linked to the union making the award. State officials have been asked to investigate charges that Florida Power and Light hired
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    • 168 3 AFP THIS YEAR'S refugee exodus to the West has cost East Germany billions of marks, according to an economiet of the University of Halle Wittenberg in the centre of East Germany. Peter Thai said in an article published on Thursday in the
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    • 240 3 NYT HIGH-DEFINITION television (HDTV) has come of sge in Japen technologically at leest That seems to be the prevslling impression shared by visitors to the Jspsn Electronics Show '00, which opened in Osaka on Thursday. Among displays of the latest tschnologiss, such as
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    • 386 3 Agencies BRUNEI WILL BUY British Aerospace light attack aircraft patrol vw la and othar military equipment to beef up its defence forcee in a US$4OO million deal. Britain will supply a squadron of 16 Hawk-100 fighter aircraft and three missileequipped offshore
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    • 291 3 Asahi SUMITOMO Metal Industries Ltd has become the latest Japanese steel maker to announce plans to davalop theme parks in Japan as a way of diversifying from its core business, which in recent years haa suffered from increased foreign competition.
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    • 377 3 AFP INDIA is prsparlng its Isrgast and most expensive security exercise ever for next month's polls, when 500 million Indians elect a new Parliament for the world's largeet democracy. The awesome plan to mobilise hundreds of thousands of troopa waa launched on Wednesday
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    • 27 3 A 12-metre-high bunch of grapes consisting of 2,500 balloons s world rscord sat by tha growers of tha Tourslna-Maslsnd wine In Onzaln, Central Franca.
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    • 243 3 Reuter CHINA yestsrday reportsd that inflation had slowed dramatically due to Hi 13-month-okl austerity programme. Zhang Zhongji, spokesman for the Stats Statistical nuraaii. told a news conference that ttie annual inflation rats had halved since the first quarter to 13 par cent In
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    • 121 3 A UNIQUE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY I GKN Australia Ltd are inviting companies to tender for the purchase of 240 tons of system scaffold and 32 selfpropelled scissor lifts. The lifts range in elevation from 3 metres up to 10 metres and are either petrol or electrically powered. The equipment may be
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 420 4  -  FIRST-HALF BILATERAL TRADE SOARS TO US$36l m By AL O LABITA Jr SINGAPORE is now the Philippines' fifth major trading partner. In the first half of this year alone, the two Asean membernations' bilateral trade ballooned to U*****.1 million, and senior Filipino economists
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    • 353 4 Reuter BRITISH businessmen end politicians on Thursday welcomed s decision by Britain and Argentina to restore consular relations and direct air and sea links, broken during the 1962 Falkland# War. Keith Newlanda, Latin America consultant for the Confederation of British Industry, said:
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    • 262 4 Reuter THE US government's General Accounting Office said that South Korea's trade protection policy has prompted the diversion of a flood of coveted US goods from US military shops to the local black market. Donna Heivilin, GAO's director of logistics
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    • 210 4 AP US SECRETARY of Commerce Robert A Mosbacher on Thursday called (or radical changee to solve the "desperate economic problems" In Eastern Europe. In a speech, Moebacher also said that independent banks are essential for solving the economic problems of those Communist
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    • 371 4 AFTERMATH OF THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE NYT IT WAS business almost as usual on Thursday in San Franciso's Bay Area as the banks opened for business, the hotels began restocking food and the computer-chip producers operated at full speed. To be sure, some problems remained.
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    • 226 4 Reuter THE MAN who built the highway that collapsed and killed 250 people in Tuesday's earthquake said he had expected half of San Francisco to cave in before his road crumbled. Hampton Roberts, 72, who supervised and managed the construction of the stretch
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    • 279 4 The latest tourist attraction quake debris Reuter TOURISTS who flock to San Francisco to see cable cars climb half-way to the stars hava found a grim naw attraction in the city of song death and destruction. While weary emergency workers search for survivors and clear rubble from Tuesday's devastating earthquake,
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 238 5 By QUAK HIANG WHAI JAPANESE manufacturing giant Asta Matsushita Electric (S) is launching a $50 million note issuance facility on the local capital market. The borrower intends to use the proceeds from the three-year facility to finance its general operations here.
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    • 84 5 Reuter FIVE Western banks have signed an agreement with Soviet officials to open the first mixed capital bank in Moscow to finance the growing number of joint ventures. A spokeswoman for- Credit Lyonnais said yesterday the new bank would be 60 per cent owned by its Western
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    • 280 5 A NIGHT OF MUSIC and charity will be the highlight of Kansal-lis-Osake-Pankki (KOP)'s centenary celebrations in Singapore on Monday. KOP, Finland's largest commercial bank, is flying in an opera singer and an accompanying pianist from Helsinki to help celebrate its 100 th year
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    • 327 5 Bernama MALAYSIA'S Ban Hin Lee Bank Bhd (BHLB), which has a full banking licence in Singapore, hopes to be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange by 1991, said its director Dr Salim Caasim. In addition, the bank also intends to
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    • 239 5 Reuter FOR THE FIRST TIME since 1929, the Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing is looking at new designs for US dollar bills of all denominations to beat counterfeiters. A bureau research panel said the proposed changes, not visible
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 350 5 RAS prices In I canto/kg, FOB in baton NOON CLOSE flu y 3 4 y 4 S® 111 bit 1 RSS Prompt 162.00 163.00N 162.25 163.25N fa* 1 RSS Nov 163-50 164.00 163.75 164.25 bit 1 RSS 0k 166.75 167.25 167.00 167 JO Int 2 RSS OP
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    • 202 5 London Commodity Exchange Buyer/Seller dosing prices on Oct 19 (£/tonne unless specified). Previous dosing prices in parenthesis. Coffee Bosh ln-jtof• London, sellon option OF London Nov 703/706 {704/705) High/Low 710/700 Jan 666/668 (675/676) High/Low 678/666 Sotot (2338) Cocoa Doc 732/734 (739/740) High/Low 742/729 Mar 715/716 (720/722) High/low 722/711
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    • 301 5 SINGAPORE: Rubbar prices closed little changed yesterday, with November 1 RSS buyer quoted at 163.75 cents a kg, up 0.25 cent from Thursday's close. Dealers said the afternoon market was very quiet and featureless, with prices hovering within a narrow band in thin trade. On the TSR-20 Award market,
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    • 193 5 THE Kuala Lumpur Tin Marital (KLTM) yaetorday rebounded two aan to end at M 520.54 a kg on ahoricovaiing allar a sharp (all on Thursday, brokers •aid. "R to a technical adjustment as lha prlca had fallan too much," ono daalar said. Tha market attractad brisk European, Japanaaa
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    • 614 5 MALAYSIAN CRUDE PALM OIL FUTURES on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange eased off yesterday under the pressure of profit-taking and liquidation ahead of the week-end, dealers said. The loss was also aggravated by bearish technical indicators of higher production and stock figures. According to the Statistics Department yesterday.
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    • 195 5 Chinese Produce Exchange Seller*' non closing prices on October 20 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bulk FOB 92.00 OW drum FOB 106.00 New drum FOB 102.00 Copra Mixed (loose) 52.00 teller? Pepper mUnro* WTWTw FOB Niw 490.00 Sarawak whit* FOB foq NIW 480.00 Sarawak tpedal black FOB NIW 392.50
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    • 158 5 Telerate SENTIMENT for fuel oil was partially boosted by a stssdy HSFO futurss market Offers for CSTIBO were reportedly up ss high ss $100 mt fob Sing for November cargoss. Bids, however, were $4 mt lower st around $06 mt fob Sing. Fundamentals tor CSTIOO were
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    • 105 5 Reuter CBOT soybean futures closed up 5-3/4 cents to 9.0 cents a bushel on Thursday. with spot November above its previous resistance. The contract cioeed at U555.65-1/4. Traders said demand was the driving force that took prices higher. "We've got rumblings that the Soviet Union is buying 200.000 to
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    • 89 5 Reuter WHILE most of the Thursday's trading centred in CBOT corn and the soy complex, wheat futurea staged a late comeback to end up 1/4 to 3.0 US cents. Spot December closed up 1-1/2 cents at US$4.O73/4. Commercials were the most active buyers, traders said. Two-to-five-inch snows acroea the
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    • 285 5 HONGKONG: Gold ended firmer yesterday in quiet two-way trade on a lack of fresh incentivee, dealers said. They said light shortcovering by US and Australian traders boosted prices despite light selling by Swiss traders. Bullion rose to USS3B6.BQ/367.30 an ounce from New York's U*****.30/80 close. Local gold cloeed
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 554 6 ONLY WAY TO CURE BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC ILLS Reuter BRITISH Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, sharply criticised for using high interest rates to choke inflation, defended his strategy on Thursday as the only way to cure Britain's economic ills. "The key to operating a
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    • 357 6 AFP UK BANK LENDING hit a record £10.2 billion (US$l6.3 billion) last month and the M 4 money supply was up 2.4 per cent over the previous month s level, the Bank of England said on Thursday. The M 4
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    • 51 6 THE overnight rat* on the Singapore money market waa unchanged at 5-5/8 per cent yeeterday. Term ratee were also unchanged. S$ Interbank rates at itw doM yatterdayt arm m 0-r-3 S/t 3 1/2 1-w* Si/9 3 1/4 2-m* 5 1/1 3 1/4 3 3/t 3 1/4 nod* S
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    • 104 6 Treasury bills Period tou* Yoslorday's dosing Day's cod* Maturity ND OFFER NGH LOW 3 month* IS*****V 18.01.90 4.28 6 month* 8S*****V 18.01.90 4.28 4.23 1 yor BY*****Z 18.10.90 4.33 4.28 4.33 4J1 Government notes and bonds Poriod ts«M Maturity Coupon Yostorday's dosing Day's oodo rat* MO OFFER
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    • 151 6 •m prim* latiii«nSa of 12 M|or tanks In •>«« Interbank mart** rates (oller/bkl) on Oct 20 US$ DM SWFC Y«n 7 4m *11/14 Il/l* IS 1/1* 14 IS/1* 7 J/4 7 7 1/3—7 1/4 3/1*—1/1* I.* •J/4-«»/» Ml/i—W 77/»-7»/4 7I/J-7J/I 1/4 1/* 1 *V« I* 1/1* 7
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    • 1138 6 SINGAPORE: Position-squaring and news that British Airways will not participate in a buyout of UAL pushed the US dollar down against most currencies in quiet trade, dealers said. "The dollar fell in the afternoon when news of British Airways not participating in a UAL buyout brought renewed nervousness
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    • 515 6 Reuter EURODOLLAR futures yesterday cloeed mixed in moderate trade on short-covering and weekend booksquaring in thin trade, dealers said. December Eurodollar fell to 91.71 from Chicago's 91.72, while March was unchanged at 91.96 with about 3,585 lots traded. Currency futures ended higher on a US dollar that eased after
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    • 242 6 IMM currency futures ended mixed on Thursday, surrendering the bulk of the day's advance in afternoon trading. While mark futures ended the day largely unchanged, traders saw favourable interest differentials supporting the West German currency contract. Prices rallied initially when the US consumer price report showed flagging growth in
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    • 802 6 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Friday October 20, 1969 ntlllX IWWftBB (MMEX) DHNHII 0M«pm» Ln> Ml M* Lm> M 53 53 54 JAPANESE YEN (SMKX) 0m««» 0H«pMi Lm Mi M* Lm Mi 71 73 73 75 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS IMM Thursday, Odobcr 19, 1989 MtfTMM POUNO Ml.—. owHi pmr t Mm
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    • 246 6 ASIAN dollar deposit rates ended little changed from their opening levels after quiet trading yestsrday, dealers said. Term rstes firmed 1/16 point st the start following a rise in New York stock prices. One month closed at 8-3/4 8-5/8 per cent, three months at 8-11/16 8-9/16 per
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    • 153 6 Gold futures on Odobor 19, 1969 100 toy ouncas. USS par toy ounc* Opw Mgb Low MM Oct 367.10 -1.60 No* 36X70 -170 Omc 37X50 373.90 ***** ***** -140 Fob *1 377AO 377.60 374.10 ***** -140 Apr 301.00 361.30 376.30 36X90 -140 Jw 366.30 366X0 36X60 36X70
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    • 401 6 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF PEPE SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) Members' Voluntary Winding-Up At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 101 A Upper Cross Street, *09-20 People's Park Centre, Singapore 0105 on
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  • COMPANIES & STOCK MARKETS
    • 413 7 Bernama HUME INDUSTRIES (M) Bhd has earmarked a total of M 520.16 million out of the proceeds of about M 5143.16 million from proposed rights issue for the repayment of its debts. Hume, a building materialsbased group with
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    • 461 7  -  By ELAINE KOH SPP LTD, the paper manufacturing subsidiary of Tuan Sing Holdings, is selling its 33-year-old industrial building in Alexandra Road through a tender to be launched next week. The five-story flatted factory and office, a few doors away from the Kodak office
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    • 601 7 MBT. BERJAYA CORPORATION Bhd is aiming for a turnover exceeding Msl billion in the current year compared with $477 million last year. Berjaya director and group general manager Yong Teck Ming told reporters after the company's 20th annual general meeting in Shah
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    • 397 7  -  By KEVIN GWEE DIVERSIFIED ARAB Malaysian Development Bhd (AMDB) has turned in a set of sparkling results for its latest half-year, which matched the earnings for the full year ended Mar 31, 1969. For the six months to Sep 30, 1989, group after-tax profit
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    • 496 7 MBT UNITED ENGINEERS (M) Bhd has forecast a gross earnings per share of 80.7 sen and 94 sen for the years ending Dec 31, 1989 and 1990 respectively. This is based on its existing issued capital of 75 million shares of
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    • 391 7 UNBAR ESTATE Sdn bhd, I a subsidiary of Emtex Cor- I poration Bhd, ha* boon put i under receivership follow- i ing a default by a third par- < ty to a loan obtained from MBf Finance Bhd. Emtex told the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange a representative from
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    • SES
      • 1094 8  -  by ABDUL HADHI WALL STREET S rally on the second anniversary of the October market crash and gains on regional markets lifted Singapore share prices. The Straits Times Industrials Index gained 8.48 points to 1,345.60, while the 40-component Business Times Composite
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      • 311 8 Managers' prices for Oct 21/23 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.17 124 The Savings Fund 101 102 S pore Prog fund 045 0 49* S'pore Sec fund 0.74 079 S pore Invest fund 0 78 083 S'pore Equity fund 055 059 Asia Unit Trust Mai Invest fund 139
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      • 50 8 LINQUI DEVELOPMENTS BERHAO: 21st AGM at the function room, Bth Floor, Mirama Hotel, Jalan Maharajalela, Kuala Lumpur, on Oct 25 at 12noon. AMALGAMATED PROPERTIES ft MOUSTRES BHD: 19th AQM at Campaka Room, Mazzanina Floor, Hotel Equatorial, Jalan Sultan Ismail, *****, Kuala Lumpur, on Oct 25. Wednesday, at 10am.
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    • 5785 8 Or'a Qr*s 1969 Tal Last Vol Day Last Quote Dtv Dtv TM Nat M Cap High Low Coda Company 8ala +or- ('000) High Low Buyar Sallar Cvr P/E Smll OCT 20 SESOAQ 280 120 I 4000 Amtek Eng 20* 271 -2 56 274 266 271 272 12.0N
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    • KLSE
      • 3505 9 SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market managed to finish slightly higher aa lata profit-taking trlmmad aarllar galna In modarataly qulat trading yaatsrday. Oaalars said tha advanca was strongsr in tha morning, partly booatsd by the overnight sharp 30.56point jump on Wall Street The Dow
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    • REGIONAL MARKETS
      • 499 10 DIRECTORS SAY COMPANY REMAINS VIABLE Reuter ALAN BONO'S flagship company, the Bond Corporation, has announced the largest loss In Australian history. Bond Corporation said it had chalked up a net loss of AsBl4 million (US$6lO million) in the year to June 30 after
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      • 300 10 Reuter CRA LTD ia buying the coal buai- i ness of the British Petroleum Co of I Australia Ltd for US$275 million, i the companies said in a joint state- i ment. 1 The wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of the British Petroleum Co
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      • 76 10 AFP JAPANESE STEELMAKERS plan to boost Investment by 7.1 par cant to 750 billion yen (US$5.3 billion) next year to modernise and expand production facllltiee. the Japan Iron and Steal Federation aaid. That comparee with an estimated 700 billion yen (U554.96 billion) in the current fiecal year
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      • 54 10 Reuter INDONESIA will privatise the Jakarta Stock Exchange by the end of thia year, aaid an official of the Capital Marketa Executive Board (Bapepam), the state body that currently operatee it "We are in final preparation." he said. "With private management, we hope the market
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      • 538 10 Tokyo Reuter THE TOKYO market ended the week on a high note, both in terms of volume snd share pricee. A variety of Inveetors cams into the market from institutions to foreigners to private Inveetors. shrugging off memoriee of the 15 per cent crash in pricee two
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      • 1200 10 Hongkong HONGKONG share price® roe* sharply yesterday on Wall Street's Thursday gains and news signalling a positivs turn In SlnoBrtttsh political relations. rinj IS|l~i I ih (M po«iuc*i rn#ionc that's been flying around is one of the things that has been holding the market beck," said
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      • 183 10 Reuter SEOUL stocks fell in thin trsding for the third strsight day yastsrdsy, bringing ths index to ths brink of breaking ths crucial 900 barrier. The compoeite Index clossd at 003.20 yestsrday, down 6.25 points from Thursday and 31.6 points from Monday. Turnover was 136 billion
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      • 196 10 THAI stocks moved higher across the board yesterday in reeponse to overnight gains on Wsll Street. The Stock Exchange of Thailand Indsx gainsd 13.70 to doss st 666.66 in sctivs trsds. Qsins outnumbered loesss 120 to 11. Most sctivs were Padaeng Industry, Sism Cement and Semi-Conductor. OCT
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      • 423 10 Sydney Reuter A STRONGER CLOSE on Wall Street led Australia's share market higher in relatively subdued trading yesterday. The All Ordlnariee index climbed 15.2 points to dose at 1,673.1, barely off Its high for the day at 1,674.1. The Index has lost 60.2 points since laat Friday, before
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      • 95 10 Reuter THE NEW ZEALAND share market closed firmer yesterday after opening strongly on Wall Street's 39.56-point rise but drifting off in afternoon trading. Brokers said Investors were nervous about the long weekend with Wall Street having two trading days before the NZ market reopened on Tueeday af-
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      • 176 10 Reuter BUOYANT eentlment pushed Philippine shares higher scroes the board yesterday in pre weekend trade following firm Wall Street prices. "The Dow Jonee made It through the (Oct 19. 1907) Crash snnlversary." said trader Hermle Santiago of Pryce Securities Inc. "Jitters have eased snd ws don't
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      • 103 10 Reuter JAKARTA stocks rsnged around previoue levels in slow half-day trads yesterday, while the index inched down 1.66 to 431.39. One stock performed well among a host of losers. Pharmaceutical firm PGI, formerly Richardeon Vicks, shot up seven thousand rupiah to 96,000 on a trade of
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      • 391 10 Reuter TAIWAN shars prlcee lost some ground from eerty gains to close moderately higher yesterday after Investors sold their holdings to taks profits. Ths wsightsd indsx rose 69.54 points, or 0.69 per cent, to end st 10,161.99 sgainst Thursdsy's 10,092.45 closs. Turnovsr ross to NT5150.57 billion from
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      • 87 10 Reuter SHARE pricee moved erratically and ended mixed yesterday, with gaining stocks rising sharply on heavy institutional buying tor the third day running. The market opened bullish but attracted prof-it-takers on the last day of the current two week account after heavy short- covering in the
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    • WORLD MARKETS
      • 862 11 New York Reuter, AFP WALL STREET »hsre prices closed higher on Thursday, the anniversary of the 506-point plunge two years ago, as investors focused on a positive US economic outlook and prospects for lower interest rates. The Dow Jonee Industrial Average gained 39.56 points to
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      • 789 11 London Reuter SHARES opened moderately lower yeeterday. despite Wall Street's near 40 point gain, as the London market showed disappointment with Thursday's monetary policy speech by Chancellor Nigel Lawson. Mr Lawson repeated his aggressive defence of high interest rates and said that sterling depreciation was
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      • 717 11 GOLDSMITH EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TAKEOVER BATTLE NYT SHAREHOLDERS OF BAT Induetriee pic have overwhelmingly approved the company plan to sell tome US$6 trillion worth of operations, including its Saks and Marshall Field department store chains, and to buy hack as
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      • 260 11 FT RUPERT MURDOCH, well-known for his complaints about ths service hs oats from marchant bankars, is to put part of his considarabla psrsonal fortuna whars his mouth is. In suitabla pin-stripad attire, tha madia magnata amargad at a City of London launch racantty
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      • 1490 11 Reuter BRUSSELS: Belgian shares started generally firm in quiet trading yesterday after Thursday's gains on Wall Street "The market opened a little higher, but things are pretty calm," one dealer said. Retailer Delhaize opened Arm at 5,990 francs. 50 above Thursday's close. Steelmaker Cockerill edged two higher
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      • 364 11 AP FOR NOW. British Airway* pic is pulling out of s proposad takeover of UAL Corp, parent of the second-largest airline in the United Btates. a leading US newspaper reported yesterday, quoting the British company's chairman. "I have to go back snd
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      • 334 11 NYT INVESTMENT BANKERS postponed on* US$22O million "Junk bond" offering on Thursday, and bankers at another firm sweetened the offer on a US$475 million issue to attract reluctant investors. A banker at Prudential-Bache Capital Funding, the merchant banking affiliate of the securities firm, said
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    • 324 12 AFP PAKISTANI Prime Miniater Benazir Bhutto aaid yeaterday that her country wanted an arms control dialogue with India to help slash defence spending and prevent nuclear proliferation in South Aaia. Ma Bhutto, who haa led Pakistan back into the Commonwealth told after 17
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    • 531 12  -  By JOHN THOMAS COMMONWEALTH leaders Boded the first phase of their conference here yesterday to go into a weekend recess st Langkawl resort, weighed by the need to continue efforts to find a compromise on some divisive issue® that cropped up
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    • 144 12  -  by LOH HUI YIN MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad is now satisfied with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's explanation that the use of Singapore facilities by the US military is not permanent a senior official of the Malaysian Foreign Ministry
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    • 184 12 THE SITUATION in Hongkong and next month's economic forum of Asia-Pacific countries in Canberra wars among the topics discussed whan ths prima ministers of Singapore and Britain met in Koala Lumpur yaaterday. Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Mrs Margaret Thatcher also talked about the
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    • 550 12  -  By LOH HUI YIN TWO HONGKONG groups which met Commonwealth leaders, including Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, here are satisfied that they have put their cause across to the leaders. Yesterday afternoon, the Omelco group met Mr Lee,
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    • 121 12 SOVIET leaders have accepted an Invitation from Singapore Parliament Speaker Tan Soo Khoon to visit the Republic. According to a Thursday Age nee France Preeae report, based on information from the otticial Soviet news agency 1)88, the invitation was extended to Soviet officials
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    • 309 12 AP AFTER decades of opposition, Myanmar (Burma) has agreed to take part in an international project that will make road travel between Europe and South-east Asia a reality. A joint press release in Yangoon yesterday said that Myanmar had recently decided to
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    • 268 12 NYT US OFFICIALS are prepared to negotiate sn entirely new military bases agreement with the Philippine government that will acknowledge increasing Philippine concerns about sovereignty, according to a Western diplomat in Manila. The agreement is expected to include joint-use arrangements like those common
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    • 582 12 Reuter ASIAN INVESTORS still see property on the weet coast of the United Statee as a great chance for profits, In spits of the San Francisco earthquake. "It Is hard to Imagine a sharp decline in investments becauee of the disaster.
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    • 133 12 Reuter COMEX gold futuree were down allghtty in alow eerty tradee yesterday as the metal looked to the dollar for direction. Tradera said an uneventful eeeaion waa ahead with no economic indicators due out yestsrday. Scattered commiaaion and trade houee activity coaxed gold lower at the
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    • LATE FILE
      • 40 12 Bernama THE ASIA-PACIFIC VM has an annuel growth rata potantial of 26 par cant in toe field of civil aviation during tha next aavaral yaert. according to statistics on tha induatry raleaaed in Kuela Lumpur yaatorday. Bamama
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      • 31 12 Reuter HONGKONG Governor Sir DevM Wilaon said in Loa Angelea that tha British colony hopaa to double tha capedty of Its port by tha year 2000.
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      • 51 12 AFP MALAYSIA and Brazil have reachad an agreement to cooperaie to oevetop Men ar's minaral raaourcas. Tha Malaysian Primary Induatrtaa Minister and the Brazilian Mines and Energy Minister signed a protocol in Kuala Lumpur, paving the way tor privsto investment in mining projects in the two
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      • 35 12 AFP THE TAIWANESE Cabinet hes approved e draft to legaiiee the hiring of foreign workers tor major public construction projects that have been stowed down by a labour shortage. AFP
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    • 83 12 THE FINANCE MINISTRY hss directed the Reglatrar of Compe niea not to accept the word Rafflea" in any company name for registration, if the company is invotvsd in the operation of a hotel, motel or lodging house. The new rule, acoording to the Government took effect
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    • 108 12 —r 51 yv /tr I fr" <-»-fj BT Special I I The Property Supplement. I For the third year running Business Times surveys the B property market. We ask analysts, consultants and B government agencies what they think is in store f or investors. B We take another look at
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • HORROR-SCOPES
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        65 13  - Your neighbourhood palm reader has gone to Hawaii on vacation. That woman who reads tea leaves so well has suddenly switched to jiggling Lipton bags. Fortune-telling isn't what it used to be, but take heart. Let self-styled swami JAIME LYE tell you what to do with your future, and what
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      • 885 13  -  *£#< v v**s wlth QUAK HIANG WHAI EVERYTHING they say about Hongkong is true. The crowded streets, Suzie Wong movies, the faceless Chow Yuen Fatts, the rich, the poor and the rude they all leap out at you the moment you take in
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    • Commentary
      • 872 14  -  ASAD LATIF IT IS VERY DIFFICULT to say anything bad about Mother Tare- < sa. It la avan mora difficult to say anything good and original I bacauaa it haa all been said be- I fore. But the clichea came to life i for
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      • 1405 14  -  TYE KIM KHIAT THE MEEK shall inherit the earth, says the Bible. And Christians shell inherit Singapore, as empirical evidence so far would have us believe. It not, they should at least hold sway in many spheres of public life. Even now,
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      • 138 14  -  letters to Hie Editor E SUKUMAR Director University Llelson Offlc® Dear Sir, I refer to the letter "Let some LKY Distinguished Visitor* be luminaries of culture and the arts" by Mr Ken Sunn (BT. Oct 14-15). The appointment of Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished
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      • 68 14  -  D W DISTANT Dear Sir, I believe Rothschild (Singapore) should be complimented on their prompt publication of the reeults of the recent loan stock with tsr rights issue by Caueeway Investment Ltd. In fact the announcement was dons the day following the close of the rights
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & Pursuits
      • 527 15 TMe: Dont Bend Over In the Garden, Granny. You Know Them Talace Qot Eyes Autt»r Lewis Qrtoard Publisher VHtard Books, 246 pagee. $32.50 Reviewed by JAIME LYE LEWIS GRIZZARD is a man of titles. Good titles. He comes up with
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      • 610 15  -  LANGUAGE By KHOO HOW SAN IT SEEMS THAT in the colonial late 50b. the British governor of Singapore used to throw a ball every year at the Government House (now the Istsna), to mark the king or queen's birthday to which leading VIPs, both local and expatriate,
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      • 329 15 SOME PEOPLE can find the most exotic excuses to avoid speaking to journalists. One BT staffer received this classic reply: "Can you call me back in about an hour-and-a-haif? I'm playing mahjong with my friends." ON THE application form for a Visa card from one bank,
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      • 551 15  -  BOOKS By SAMUEL EE COMING TO terms with what happened in Tiananmen Square isn't easy. Especially when you were there. Four months later, the shock still remains for Ms Sandra Burton. An sditor of Time magazine, she retivee her experiences of the Chineee government's crackdown
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Pursuits
      • 769 16  - Krug the Rolls-Royce of champagnes z Wzne By N K YONG ONE OF THE MOST instructive and interesting wine experiencee I have had wss in the tasting room-labora-tory of Krug in Rheime. After the customary and traditionsi tour of the ceiisrs we were shown into this room, severely clintcel in
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & Pursuits
      • 392 17  -  FOOD By JAIME LYE THE LAST TIME I had waffles. they came out of a toastpr. Coated with jam and something pasting off as mapie syrup from a plastic container (it could have been gula melaka for all I knew), it was merely sugared
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      • 211 17  -  -by Samuel Ee PLACE A RED-AND-WHITE checked cloth on the table and you could make a I moat anyone believe you were born in Florence and your father ran a pizzeria. Place a sarong on the table in Cafe Palm at the Plaza Hotel and
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      • 967 17  -  HEALTH By RICHARD SEAH The miter is editor of The Qood Life, a health megezine. The views expressed in this column ere personal. HEART PATIENTS must have had a nasty shock recently when a report said new studies suggest that diuretics might actually cause heart
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      • Article, Illustration
        1260 17  -  uofnptrwo oy JUANITA SHAKILA STAGE PERFORMANCES: Hla Soonda. Prize winning choir, from the University of Philippines performs on Oct 23 at the DBS Auditorium at 12.45pm. Formed by a group of 16 in 1971, it used to call itself the State Varsity Fellowship Singing Group until its size grew
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Pursuits
      • 1162 18  -  FASHION By DICK LEE MY FASHION memories began in 1966, when, as a wide-eyed innocent, I was dragged along to elegant tea shows at the Prince's Hotel Garni. There, my senses were assaulted by enough long limbs and swan necks to make my childish world
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      • 131 18 Uptown downtown: what's on, who's in and where HAUTE COUTURE'S enfant terrible. Christian Lacroix will try and upstagtf the rest when Hagemeyer (which markets the other Christian Dior) opens a boutique next year. The fashionable and the rich (the two at times being mutually exclusive) will have
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      • 528 18 FASHION SOCIETY SODA stirs again with its second Fashion Connections Singapore, platform for a host of local and international fashion events. The week of Oct 27 begins with the Asean Designers Show, featuring three designers each from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore, showing their collections
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      • 84 18 Foreground: CLUB 21 adds another to its stable of labels with the opening of the Max Mara boutique in Forum Galleria this month. Founded by lawyer Achille Maramotti in 1951, this Italian name has grown considerably to include 14 different ready-to-wear collections for men and
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      • 30 18 Background: Egypt is the main source of inspiration for Cartier's new jewellery collection. An exhibition of the collection was held at the Hilton Gallery from Oct 12-19.
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      • 68 18 Company is a leading name for sportswear from Italy. available in its new boutique within Tangs Studio. Function h and form are the V key words that M designer Massimo 1 Osti firmly believes in. So while the details are minimal, the look is still identifiable
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      • 129 18 THE SPANISH LOOK has been around since the start of the decade but it s only now that Singapore is fully receptive to such designs. The first two labels to arrive are Purification Garcia and Sybilla Sorondo both reflecting an easy, minimalist style. r 't' ca
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & Pursuits
      • 899 19 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL BAYOU COUNTRY QREEN RIVER WILLY AND THE POOR BOYB COSMO'S FACTORY PENDULUM MARCH QRAS LONG AFTER the ashes of Haight-Ash-bury had been scattered and just before the advent of punk, one American group dominated radio airplay and record sales. Creedenca Clearwater
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      • 384 19  -  FASHION By SUZANNE SOH SHIVANI makes clothes for the wearer, not just for the style. They're tailored to suit various climates, and even the colours are chosen to enhance the skin complexion of different nationalities. In other words, the line is exclusively
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      • SHORT TAKES
        • 138 19 HEALTH NUTS can look forward to mora sharing and airing of their health concerns. Because coma Nov 4. there'll be symposium on "Nutrition and Our Changing Lifestyle". To be held at the World Trade Centre, it will be a day-long symposium wtth various seeeione, for example, on
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          128 19 WANT to see the world's smallest video camera? Or service your SLR? Then hop along to Photo Fair '88 at the World Trade Centre. At Its official opening last Wednesday, there were top hats, tails and tights, all dancing to the rhythm of "There's No Business Like Show
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        • 140 19 IT MIGHT still be two months to Christmas but it's still not too early to give. If you want to share with the lees fortunate this festive season, you can have your name inscribed on a giant gingerbread house. For a donation of 15 You see,
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Personal Investment
      • 489 20 STOCK MARKETS NYT SOME MONEY managers and analysts are reading the same tea leaves as their more hopeful colleagues but divining a decidedly different message: The stock market is unstable and will head down. These doomsayers argue that the plunge is not
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      • 1024 20  -  PROPERTY PROSPECTS By PAULINE GOH Ms Got) director, commmrdal mgmncy, Richard Elll* PH Ltd The government has recently announced the policy to decentralise commercial activities in the city to reduce congestion and to revitalise the area by encouraging more housing, schools and other facilities. What are
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      • 961 20  -  INVESTMENT By ANDREA BORCH IF YOU'RE THE KINO who counts the number of shopping days until Christmas, maybe the fact that only 10 weeks remain until the end of this decade will catch your eye. The international editions of Fortune and Business Week certainly hope
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      • 548 20 GETTING involved in the stockmarket is like planning a day out on the beech. It is helpful to know the tides before taking the plunge. Similarly, it would pay the investor to find out if the market tide is high or low. BT does
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      • 413 20 CHARTING The Economist ASK AN ACADEMIC economist for an opinion on chartists and the reaction will fall in a range between indifference and contempt. Economists prefer "fundamentals" to the entrails of charts. To judge where the dollar will be in six months' time,
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      • Don't quote me...
        • 111 21 "THE timing couldn't be better", says Fortune proudly about the annuel Investor's Guide which it launches in its latest issue. The magazine says one of its editors assembled and directed a crew of more than 40 for the guide, which provides "a treasury of
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        • 103 21 FORTUNE is not the only one with bad timing. In Singapore, DBS Securities was hit by a double dose. Last Thursday and Friday, it held a grand investment seminar for a large number of foreign fund managers at which glowing accounts were given about Singapore
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        • 89 21 SPEAKING of falling prices and stock market crashes, remember that wonderful line uttered by First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong on Oct 18, 1987. the day after the crash that almost pulled down the world financial markets. When asked about the impact of
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        • 110 21 IT IS NOT usually an honour for a business person to be singled out for special mention by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD). Indeed, the less attention this white-collar crime-busting unit pays the better. But there was no reason at all for corporate mover and shaker Ong
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      • 808 21  -  OUTLOOK By AMY BALAN IT WAS A PITY that Wall Street did not plunge further on Monday after Frightening Friday the 13th. That would have set stock prices on s lower but firmer footing, dispelled doomsday fears of a bear market and perhaps started
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      • 1106 21  -  mm wm b* LORETTA McLAUGHLAN WHETHER YOU ARE licking your wounds or celebrating the opportunities offered by s volatile market, this week's wild oscillations in share prices have changed the whole stock market picture. Until Monday, Singaporelisted squities had been trading within a 40-point band for
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      • 371 21  -  CHART POINT By C DOW Mr Dow is an investment manager with a major publiclylisted company. SINCE October 1967, many gurus, especially chartists, have been giving warning signals that a major top of the stock markets is round the corner. This possibility looms larger
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      • 500 21 Conversion forms Premium/ Amount Pricsa (aa at 20.10.89) (discount) Expiry Optional** Company un4U wrta Share Lnatk Ln atk Cash Cash 1 Ln atk» G artn 8* J,' pricw nom Data mt s value laft 8 CKTang 16.9 2.940 5.300 1 00 2.25 -2 1.80 31 5
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      • 1087 21  -  f AMY BALAN BEFORE WE TRY to chart a path through the landmine of stockpicking, it might be wise to survey the extent of the week's damage. Badly mauled on Monday were warrants and Malaysian speculativee and second-liners. Of the top 20
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Sports
      • 408 22 GOLF AFP TIM SIMPSON shot a five-undar-par 67 in tailing temperatures in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on Thursday to snatch a two-shot lead at the hallway stage of the US$BOO,OOO Walt Disneyworld Classic. Simpson, who began the day four shots behind Bob
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      • 270 22 TENNIS AFP CARL-UWE STEEB of Waat Germany blasted his way into tha sami-finala of tha U*****,500 Seiko Super man's tennis tournament in Japan yeeterday with a straight-sets victory over American Rick Leach. Tha fifth-eeeded West German, who helped his country to victory in the
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      • 526 22 AP THE INTERNATIONAL Tennis Federation announced on Thursday a US$6 million men's event which It said would be the richest tennis tournament in the world end would help develop the sport In poorer nations. Ths winner of the sessonending, eight-man Grand Slam Cup
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      • 148 22 AP AUSTRIA'S Thomas Muster led the field going into the quarterfinals of the U*****,000 Nabisco Grsnd Prix Tennis Tournsmsnt on Thursday. But Muster's countryman, defending champion Horst Skoff, wss ousted 8-2, 8-4 by unseeded Americsn Glenn Lsysndecker. The young American, who is rsnked
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      • 124 22 AFP JIMMY CONNORS stsysd on course for a second tournament triumph in eight dsys but hsd to battle for mors than two hours to rssch ths ssmi-finsls of ths men's Grsnd Prix tournament in Tel Aviv on Thursday. Connors, 37, did not have it all
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      • 213 22 MOTOR-RACING AFP NIGEL MANSELL aims to ailence the samba drums in Japan tomorrow by wracking Ayrton Senna's world championship ambitions. Tha British drivar, banned from laat month's Spaniah Grand Prix, has settled his differencea with motor-racing'a governing body but is mora datarmined than
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      • 520 22 on TMCK With JEROME FANDOR TRAINER Teh Choon Bang's tilt at hi* racord of 107 winners in a championship saaaon has spluttarad in rscant waaks and all but ground to a halt Evan Batman failad to dalivar in tha Quaan Elizabath II Commonwealth Cup.
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      • 389 22 BOXING AP TRIPLE world boxing champion Jeff Fenech can feel his deeire flooding back. F«nech, who quit the ring after successfully defending his World Boxing Council featherweight title with a unanimous points decision over Mexican Marcos Villasana In April, is set to make a comeback
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      • 109 22 AP MIKE TYSON Mt down on a chair in the middle of the patched-up ring at Panthar Gym in Edmonton on Thuraday aa swaat poured down hia forehead. "We've been travelling a lot and the climate change has left me a little
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      • 211 22 AMERICA'S CUP AP THE MERCURY BAY Boating Club formally requested permission on Thursday to appeal last month's New York Supreme Court sppellets ruling that awarded the America's Cup to the San Diego Yacht Club. New Zealand held the Cup from March until September, after
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    • Executive Jobs
      • 417 23  -  By TAN KEE WEE NOT MANY managers are aware of this. But the way they treat their subordinates will determine whether the subordinate's performance and development is at a superior level, or st an inferior IVVOV. And how managers treat their subordinates is subtly
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      • 1134 23  -  If your organisation retains the sen/ices of a human resource consultancy, what is the bottomline for you? SHOEB KAGDA reports. SHOEB KAGDA THE MAN. not his machine. Is in vogue sgain in the corporate world. After a decade in which computerisation was seen as
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      • 265 23 THAM CHONG KONG of Cerebos Pacific Limited will be appointed to the bosrd of dirsctors from next month. He is currently its treasurer. Next March, he will assume the position of finsncs director ss well ss treaaursr. Also promotsd is LESUE MAH, who will become compsny secretary
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      • 375 23 IT IS NOT TRUE that the construction industry la a sunset industry and that prospecta for engineers are bleak in the next century. For the latest Manpower Survey by the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) seems to indicate otherwise. In fact, the 1960
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      • 762 23  -  fj U By MARTIN SOONG By MARTIN SOONG LOOKS can be deceiving. Take Llm Cheng Kim, for example. Demure and decidedly attractive, Miea Urn haa the demeanour that would bring out the protective. fatherly inetinct in all but the hardeet men. Sit down
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