The Business Times, 21 February 1990

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 170/12/89 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1990 75 CENTS
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  • FINANCIAL MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 33 1 Reuter US STOCKS opened sharply lower yesterday in line with much lower bond prices and weakness in global financial markets. The Dow industrials were down 28 points to about 2.607. Reuter
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    • 43 1 AP LONDON shares were lower at midday yesterday, though well above their morning minimums as bargain hunters bought stock at technical support levels. At 1200 GMT, the FTSE 100-share index was down 11.2 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 2,285.9. AP
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    • 43 1 Twadoy ST Industrials Index 1,595.40 (+2.17) BT-MGA Index 806.09 (-0.42 NST Industrial Index 3,158.81 0.76 HK Hong Seng Index 2,980.90 (+12.90 Tokyo Nikkei Average 36,895.52 (-327.08 Sydney All-Ordlnarlet 1,629.9 (-16.0) Monday New York (Dow Jones) Closed London (FT 30 Index) 1,813.5(-23.1
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    • 10 1 US$> 144.50yen 1.*****M S$ 1.8590 £> US$1.7080 M$< S$0.6881
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    • 17 1 Euro-$ (Mar) 91.62 DM (Mar) 0.5988 Yen (Mar) 0.*****2 Pound (Mar) 1.6994 Nikkei Index (Mar) 37,200
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    • 12 1 S'pore (buyer's quote) US$419.30 2.00) London (Morning fix US$419.05( +2.10)
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    • 10 1 S'pof* March 158.50 c*nt»/kg 0-50 M'tia March 229.50Mct5/kg 0.50
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    • 8 1 16.91 Ms/kg 0.54) Turnover: 86 (-12
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    • 15 1 Turnover: 1,351 loft( 505 Mar Mj664/toor>« 6 Apr M)676/tonn« 4 May M5677/tonn« 4
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    • 10 1 6.48 (average of 12 major banks' PUts)
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    • 43 1 THE overnight rate on the Singapore money market was up 1/4 point at 5 per cent yesterday. Short-term rate for one month was up 1/16 point at 6-1/4 per cent. Two- and three-month rates were also up at 6-5/16 per cent.
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  • 233 1 REGIONAL MARKETS were mixed in response to Tokyo's 327-point fall yesterday. Among the gainers, the Singapore market hit a new high. In Tokyo, the 225-share Nikkei Index lost 327.08 points to close at 38,895.52, after a a 237.72point loss on Monday. Selling hit many
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  • 121 1 Reuter THE PIVOTAL ROLE of the US dollar in international finance is likely to be reduced during the 1990s as other currencies become more influential, World Bank Treasurer Donald Roth said yesterday. "As a more pluralist international monetary system evolves in the *****, the dollar's pivotal
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  • 692 1  -  Competition comes not just from NIEs By ANNA TEO WORRIED BY the trend of rising business costs resulting from various recent and scheduled operational hikes, business groups have renewed their call to watch Singapore's competitiveness. Left unchecked, the cumulative effect of the
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  • 109 1 AFP ADVERTISING EXPENDITURE in Asian countries now exceeds US$3O billion and will top US$5O billion by 1997 as the region's economy continues to expand. Masaharu Yamada of the Tokyo-based advertising giant Dentsu told an Aaian media conference in Manila yesterday that advertising expenditure had risen in direct
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  • 377 1  -  By RAHITA ELIAS WORK ON Singapore's second container port is in full swing with the award of a $245.6-mil-lion contract to a joint venture between Chuan Joo and Hyundai of South Korea. Under the contract, the team will build five container berths and a
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  • 179 1 THE US DOLLAR ended steadily lower yesterday in major Asian foreign oxchange markets after the larger-than-expected rise in Japan's January money supply had failed to move the yen. Traders in Tokyo had apparently also discounted the results of the Japanese elections as the market
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  • 606 1 MALAYSIAN CURRENCY AT HISTORIC LOW AGAINST SING DOLLAR Bernama WITH THE MALAYSIAN RINGGIT at a historic low against the Singapore dollar, opinion among economists is divided about the effect this will have on Malaysia. They said that while a strong Singapore dollar could
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  • 486 1  -  By SANGEETA MULCHAND THE VOCATIONAL and Industrisl Trsining Board (VITB) is studying the feasibility of making it compulsory for young premature school leavers to enrol for vocational training before entering the workforce. This move follows growing concern over the sizesble number
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  • 159 1 AFP INDONESIA has asked its traditional Western aid donors to grant it US$l.6 billion in special assistance. Indonesian Finance Minister Johannes Sumarlin yeeterday told a parliamentary hearing in Jakarta that the government had v met representatives of the donor countries to discuss aid requirements
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 444 2  -  Boon for small- and medium-sized manufacturers By JAYARAM MENON SMALL- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises may soon have access to a computer time-share facility to help them run their plants more efficiently. BT understands that the National Computer Board is encouraging one
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    • 442 2  -  By SANGEETA MULCHAND FOLLOWING the growing appetite for processed food in the region, European food ingredient makers are elbowing their way into this part of the world. Armed with investment plans, a Dutch participant at the first Food Ingredients Asia
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    • 84 2 PRIME MINISTER Lh Kuan Yaw dm praaantad with the "Man For Paaca" award yaatarday (abovm). Tha award, glvan by tha Togathar for Paaca Foundation, waa praaantad to tha Prima Minister at tha latana. In tha citation, tha foundation aald tha award was "for his long,
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    • 161 2 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board haa promoted Chui Seng Wah as director in charge of Auatralia and New Zealand. The appointment, from May 1, will see Mr Chui replacing Roney Tan, who returna to Singapore Airlines from next month. Mr Tan waa aeconded
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    • 169 2 WITH THEIR sights sat on the US$l5 billion Japanese book market, 16 local companies will be in Japan next week for the first Tokyo International Book Fair. Singapore companies offering printing, typesetting and colour separation services will be out to secure contracts, said
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    • 289 2 THE YOUTH WING of the InterReligious Organisation. Singapore. is organising a multi-faith. 10-day Peace Bus trip from Singapore to Bangkok in December. The project, part of IRO's 40th anniversary celebration, was discussed at a one-day dialogue session with Japaneae youths on Sunday at the Central Sikh
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    • 330 2  -  By GENEVHEVE CUA THE ENTERPRENEURSHIP Development Centre (Endec) yesterdey mapped out ambitious short- and long-term plans to help small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The plans for this year include the launch of a "centre for inter-firm comparison". This is a database of market information
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    • 369 2  -  By HONG LEE TIAM THE DRAMATIC opening up of Eastern Europe last year may distract Western European investors from the Pacific rim countries but this distraction will only be short term, says French banker Antoine Jeancourt Galignani. In an interview with BT, Mr
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 191 2 Qlobal temperatures and weather forecaet Clty "jjjj' N OUTLOOK: Fair. •O—. Report for 24 hourt prior to 7.30pm on Fob 20 at Abordoon 08/04 Cloudy okporh Amttor dom 10/04 Br oozy teaip> 33.S kiiwjjlHw M Alhont 14/06 Sunny Auckland 24/14 Fair MJ Bangkok 33/25 Fok Hr.olmMWMnoZ.SJi Ml"fl 08/-1 Cloudy fUintoM
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  • REGIONAL BUSINESS & POLITICS
    • 330 3 INDONESIA needs more experts who are able to design labour force plans. The Jakarta Post reported on Monday. Manpower Minister Cosmas Batubara said the experts were needed mainly in provinces out- side Java. He told students of the Open University in Jakarta on
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    • 402 3 THfc INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT is now providing immigration facilities for local businessmen who want to go to the Soviet Union and other East European countries, The Jakarta Post reported on Saturday. Rony Sikap Sinuraya, the di-rector-general of immigration, told a press
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    • 287 3 AFP POLICE in Venezuela have uncovered a multi-million dollar illegal immigration network which brought some 1,100 Hongkong Chinese to Venezuela during the past six months. Jose Antonio Herrera, director general of the Attorney General's Office, said in Caracas on Monday that the gang
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    • 430 3 PRESIDENT SUHARTO of Indonesia says that his government is determined to reduce the social gap and remove jealousies in the society. The Jakarta Post reported on Monday. He told provincial governors who had just ended a conference in Jakarta on Saturday that despite unfavourable
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    • 162 3 AP CHINESE PREMIER Li Peng, apparently concerned about ethnic separatism in the neighbouring Soviet Union, has ordered that any such movements in China be wiped out immediately. "A tiny number of separatists, under the mantle of nationalism and religion, oppose socialism and sabotage the
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    • 107 3 AFP FRENCH Foreign Trade Minister Jean-Marie Rausch will begin a three-day visit to Kuala Lumpur on Sunday to promote bilateral trade ties, a Malaysian official said yesterday. Mr Rausch is scheduled to hold talks with Malaysian Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz and
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    • 422 3 Bernama TIMBER-RICH Sibu. the second largest city in Sarawak. will have a new airport capable of handling Boeing 737 aircraft by 1993. The Minister for Infrastructure Development. Datuk Amar Dr Wong Soon Kai, said 11 international contractors, including a joint-venture company, had been pre-qualified
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    • 496 3 THE AMERICAN lawyer hired by the Thai government to lobby the US Congress to reduce subsidies on rice says he sees little chance of getting rid of the programme that has the greatest effect on prices when the Farm Act is
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    • 329 3 AP THE SIX MEMBERS of Asean are the rising new economic powers" of Asia, and their growth will outpace that of the powerhouses of northern Asia in the coming years, an international banker said yesterday. Steven Baker, division executive for North Asia
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    • 166 3 AP SOUTH KOREA and Australia opened their second round of negotiations in Seoul yesterday on boosting Korea's global beef import quota for this year. The two-day meeting was also to discuss details of forming a joint team to gauge
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  • WORLD BUSINESS & POLITICS
    • 318 4 REACTIONS TO JAPANESE ELECTIONS AFP US PRESIDENT George Bush has sent a congratulatory letter to Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu after his ruling party's victory in weekend elections, Chief Cabinet Secretary Mayumi Moriyama said in Tokyo yesterday. Mr Bush told Mr Kaifu that he
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    • 864 4 AFP. NYT WITH Japan's elections behind them, economic officials in Tokyo face a tough six weeks as they prepare for upcoming US trade talks, a new budget and revisions of an unpopular consumption tax. All this comes against a background of increasingly nervous financial markets.
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    • 136 4 AP AT&T has demonstrated a digital telephone service to Japan and Great Britain based on an international standard, making it easier for companies to set up worldwide communications networks. The service, unveiled in New York on Monday, can be dialled up like a regular
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    • 520 4 AP THE TALL MEN in cowboy boots stalking shoppers in a Tokyo meat market were cattlemen looking for hints on how to remodel their herds to suit Japanese tastes. Across town, a firgi called Shop America Ltd will soon sllow Japanese to order
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    • 434 4 AP THE US is holding its own in ths rscs sgsinst J span to dsveiop ths nsw supsrconductors, which could bs in commsrcisl uss within fivs yssrs, sccording to s psnSl Of American SXpSftS. Nsxt yssr, ths US will lor ths first
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • WORLD BUSINESS & POLITICS
    • 465 5 NYT IN AN EFFORT to prevent plant Closings and resulting layoffs, American union leaders and a tiew Investment firm said on Monday that they are forming :< a fund to help workers buy -factories. The Employee Partnership Fund is
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    • 323 5 Reuter CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S state-run airline announced a cooperation deal with Western financiers on Monday that is likely to be the biggest forsign investment so far as Czechoslovakia moves towards opening its sconomy. Neither of the prospective partners, Czechoslovak Airlines ifCSA) nor merchant bank Credit
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    • 347 5 Reuter CZECHOSLOVAK!AN President Vaclav Havel arrived in Washington on Monday seeking to expand trade with the US and restors his country's image after four decades of communism. "We went to show that we are essentially a Western country that
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    • 637 5 Bleak outlook gives way to moderate growth consensus AP THE WEATHER isn't the only thing behsving strangely this winter. The US economy hss been topsy-turvy ss well. In ]ust two months. December snd Jsnusry, msny economists went from predicting an impending economic downturn to believing that
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    • 453 5 NYT MOST American companiee view the Soviet Union and the newty opening nations in Eastern Europe aa potential markets for their products or as sources of low-coet manufacturing labour. And a growing number are expected to tap another reeource they describe
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 469 6 THE LIBERAL Democratic Party's victory in the Japanese general election is a lesson in political philosophy as much as in politics. The latter is clear enough: the LDP's victory in Sunday's poll represents a conservative mandate given to it by voters who chose not to
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    • 1771 6  -  What now after the restructuring of the Cold Storage Holdings group? Noel Robertson, chairman of Goodman Fielder Wattie (Asia), now the majority shareholder of CSH, outlines to ANDREA BORCH what is on the cards, and how shareholders will benefit from the changes as
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    • 958 6 LIFE AFTER DREXEL BURNHAM LAMBERT NYT WITH THE DEMISE last week of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. a collective sigh of relief is sweeping the boardrooms of corporate America. The collapse of the Wall Street firm, which created the popular "junk bond", is seen as
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    • 785 7 AP TCt GET a rough idee of Eastern Europe's rotting infrestructurs, try riding the creaky Bulgarian railroads or walking a snowy SofiaUvenue in the deed of winter. *Ae moet Eastern Europeans know, but many potential Westsrn investors have yet to find out getting
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    • 1184 7  -  Kazuo Wada, chairman of Yaohan Department Store, is someone who takes risks, breaks all the rules and still manages to remain successful. JAMES STERNGOLD of The New York Times profiles the man and explores the unique character his store acquired. JAMES STERNGOLD SO OFTEN In Japaneee
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • COMPANIES & STOCKS MARKETS
    • 509 8  -  Group chalks up 31 pc rise in net profit to $3.6 m By ELAINE KOH UNITED INTERNATIONAL Securities, the closed-end investment trust of the United Oversees Bank group, is proposing s rights issue with warrants to raise funds for investment purpoeee. The group
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    • 429 8  -  By ABDUL HADHI MBf FINANCE BHD has ventured into the stockbroking business with its proposed takeover of broking firm Charlee Brsdburne Co (1930) Sdn Bhd for Ms 7 million. In an announcement yesterday. MBf directors said: "When the scquisition is successfully completed. MBf Finance
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    • 321 8 THE STOCK EXCHANGE of Singapore hat expanded the number of counter* on Clob International with the addition of seven new listings, bringing the total number of stocks traded on the over-the-counter (OTC) market to 146. In an announcement yesterday, SES said
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    • 384 8 INDONESIA'S PT Raja Qaruda Mas group has been givan the go-ahaad by tha Stock Exchanga of Singapora to gain control of naarly 40 par cant of listed video-tape houaing manufacturer, Electro Magnetic (S) Ltd (EMS). The purchase ia being done through Aaia Investment
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    • 316 8 nana Bernama PB SECURITIES has recommended that investors "sell on strength" UMW Holdings shares as the company's prospective earnings are only slightly better. Reviewing UMW's results in its weekly stock market review, it said even though the company had performed better financially,
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 406 10 Reuter SAMAWORLD Malaysia Sdn Bhd and Canada's Qiant Bay Resources Ltd are to jointly develop a Msl billion reaort at Qenting Highlands just outside Kuala Lumpur. The reaort. which will have holiday homes, condominiums,
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    • 440 10 Talk of radical changes in investment policy AFP FOUAD JAFFAR, general manager and deputy chairman of the financially powerful London-based Kuwait Investment Office (KIO) has been recalled to Kuwait. News of Mr Jaffar's removal fuels recent speculation that the KIO, the Kuwaiti government's international
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    • 129 10 Reuter INDONESIA will soon announce new stock market regulations requiring full financial disclosure by listed companiea. says Finance Minister Johannee Sumarlin. "We are working on the regulations right now," he told a parliamentary commission in Jakarta yeeterday. He gave no date. The current regulations
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    • 426 10 Bernama DIVERSIFIED ANTAH Holdings Bhd has teamed up with South Hope NV, a company registered in the Netheriand Antilles, to set up a Ms2s million joint venture to manufacture candy bars at the Bangi Industrial Eetate. The joint-venture company, Charlee Candy Sdn
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    • 355 10 MBT UNIPHONE TELECOMMUNICATIONS is to invest snother Ms 6 million this year in its cable manufacturing operations now under its wholly-owned subsidiary Uniphone Cables. Deputy chairman and managing director Rameli bin Musa said Msl million was invested last year in cable manufacturing operations. He
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 513 11 Reuter THE BANK of Japan (BOJ) is carefully examining the domestic price environment before deciding whether to raise the discount rate. BOJ officials said. "We do not have enough data upon which we can make a decision to act."
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    • 160 11 AFP THE West German central bank on Monday expressed concern over rising interest ratee. noting that the average yield on public loans had reached ita highest level in seven years. The yield level had reached 9.06 per cent on Monday, and in addition
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    • 141 11 CITIBANK senior executive William Rhodes met with Argentine Economy Minister Antonio Er- man Gonzalez and Alvaro Alsogaray, a presidential adviser on the country's US$6O billion foreign debt, local newspapers reported. After talking with Rhodes, who until recently chaired Argentina's bank advisory commite
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    • 64 11 PHILIPPINE central bank Governor Jose Fernandez bowed out on Tuesday as the Philippines' monetary chief after steering the country through its worst financial crisis with measures that plunged him into controversy. His successor Jose Cuisia was sworn into office on Tuesday. Mr Cuisia, 46,
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    • 274 11 NYT WHILE the credit market appears to have weathered the collapse of Orexel Burnham Lambert Inc last week, the full fallout from the bankruptcy is likely to include higher US interest rates. One reaaon for the debt market's calm response to the
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    • 131 11 Reuter INTEREST RATES rose and stocks fell but Sweden's financial markets defied the gloomiest of predictions when banks reopened after a threeweek conflict. "Trading is rather cautious. There is no fulfillment of the very dark prophecies heard last week,'' said Swedbank economist Dag
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    • 331 11 AFP JAPAN's money supply grew at an average annual rate of 11.5 per cent in January, up from 10.0 per cent in December and the fastest rate in 15 months, the Bank of Japan said on Tuesday. The
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    • 682 11 Reuter THREE YEARS AGO, when the world's richest democracies signed the Louvre Accord to stabilise foreign exchange rates and smooth world economic growth, financial markets said it was a relic of the paat like the contents of the vast Paris
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    • 546 11 Bernama BANK NEGARA has finalised a rescue scheme for three ailing finance companies placed under its supervision. Banking sources said the central bank had given its approval to Southern Finance Co Bhd to take over ailing Eu Finance Bhd. Mayban Finance Bhd
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    • 107 11 Reuter FORMOSA Plasties Group. Taiwan's largest privately owned business conglomerate, said it would issue US$45O million worth of convertible Eurobonds this year to help finance construction of a US$l.7 billion naphtha cracker in Texaa. The 10-year bonda would carry a coupon of between 0.75 per
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    • 182 11 Reuter INDONESIA'S foreign debt repayments will incrssse slightly to U556.79 billion in the 1990/91 fiscal year starting April 1, from an expected US$6.3B billion in 1989/90, Indoneeian Finance Minister Johannes Sumarlin said. He told a parliamentary commission the 1990/91 figure,
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    • 208 11 The UNITED Overssas Bank group has revamped Its corporsts set-up reeulting in the group heving fivs main sectors, each hssded by an executive vice-preeident (EVP). Under the new structure which took effect on Monday, the msnsgement structurs will bs grouped into internstionsl
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 396 12 NYT CALL IT THE mystery of ths mlhlr| money. Why It it, some want to know, that about U6t1,000 worth of curroncy ia now in dfeuHMon for aach of tho MO mttMon Americana whan tha hold P the equivalent of *****0 for aaeh
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    • 160 12 AFP A NCW PACKAGE at sooIntreduced toy Argentine President Carlos Menem toiled to hell toe doner's »toe sgsinst ths Arsustrsi on Monday* The suHrtty mossurs* were wweffsd on Sundsy to countoi s sherp drop in W9 MVW ■WW uw OOftor. ttnos Feb
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    • 71 12 THE overnight rate on ths Singapore money market was up 1/4 point at 5 per cent yssterday. Short-term rate for one month was up 1/16 point at 6-1/4 per cent. Two- and threemonth rates were also up at 6-6/16 per cent lOTwl of Mm doM ytittrdayi on MO
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    • 195 12 indiclai Mm average el the prime liiidbg rsAss of 12 major benka tm t'pore 1 Interbank marfctt rates (offar/bkl) on Fab 20 US$ DM SWFC Yan 7 4mrt ll/H-IVU IS—14 7/9 1-77/1 7/1 I 3/4 4I3/U- *11/1* I a* 9 3/14 3/1* IJ 1/14 14 IS/14 4
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    • 94 12 Treasury Mils Porfod Issuo Yesterday's doting Day's cod* Maturity NO OTO MGH LOW 3 month* 8Q*****V 17.05.90 165 X60 X75 3S5 6 twomhi 1 year IY*****Z 18.10.90 4.00 3.95 Government notes end bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yostorday's dosing Day's a»d« rate MO orm MGH LOW 2
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    • 1661 12 MNQAPORE: The US dollar cloaed eaaier againat sterling and the mark in cautioua trading ahead of US Federal Reaerve chairman Alan Greenspan'a congreesional testimony in Waahington, dealers eaid. Uncertainty about a possible Japanese intereet rate increaae aubdued dollar/yen trading although the market haa already largely discounted it they
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    • 574 12 SIMEX rarsisMer futures closed mif on pototion adjustments ss traders awaited guidance from Federal Reserve chairman Alan Qreenapan'a House Banking aub-committee testimony, dealers said. March dosed at 91.62 against Slmex's Monday settlement of 01.64 and June at 91.56 against 91.60. Around 11,006 lots were traded. In Eurodollar options 104
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    • 91 12 INTEREST RATE OPTIONS Tvesdoy, February 20, 1990 SUROOOtLAII (MMX) MrHMk MarMp* Ua M Lot Ml 9130 16A l« J 9175 3A 3 M 9200 1 171 V 9225 9250 9279 lilt HI 9300 Jmnmm Jmrnprn M# Lot Ml Mgk Lot Ml 9025 IMA 139 9135 133 13 9150 30*
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    • 265 12 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed mixed after quiet trading. Most operators were sidelined due to a lack of interest, with the market awaiting US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before the House Banking Sub-committee, dealers said. Tuesday/Wednesday rate closed slightly higher at 8-5/16 8-3/16 per cent
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    • 273 13 MNQAPOftE: Rubber price* closed mixed with March 1 RSS buyer quoted et 158.90 cents kg. up 0.50 cent from Monday's close. Dealers said prices fluctuated narrowly in early afternoon trading and rose marginally towards the cloee on light covering irite reet. On the TSR-20 Award market, prices were little
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    • 192 13 PRICES on tha Kuala Lumpur Tin Martat roaa 84 oanla la data at month'a Mgh of Wll.lt a kg an fratfi buying aparkad by tha llrmar London nMlfßw« •aid. Brokara said Vw London Molal Exchanga^raNy months tin tradad at IM7O par lonna, up $200 from Friday, buoyad by
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    • 111 13 AFP MEXICO will spend US$5O billion on oil explorstion over the next five years with some of that money coming from the private sector, according to news reports published on Monday. President Carlos Salinas signed the programme that calls for private capital to
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    • 361 13 Reuter THE FALL of cocoa pncea to S 14-year low has pushed growers in Malaysia, the world's fourth largest producer of the commodity, to the brink of financial ruin. Growers in Sabah, the state on Borneo ialand which accounts for about 60 per
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    • 263 13 Bernama MEMBERS of the Association of Tin Producing Countries (ATPC) cannot do much at the moment to prevent a glut in the metal this year, a Malaysian government officisl said. Against a background of continuing price weakness and an
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    • 244 13 HONGKONG: Gold cloeed firmer, helped by Japaneee and US buying and local short-covering In relatively active late trading. A range of US$4l7 to US$42O is expected later in New York. Bullion ended at U*****.60/U*****.10, up from London's U*****.50/ U*****.00 close. Local gold roee HK$2l to HK53,891 a tael.
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    • 236 13 AFP IRAQ hopee to sign s new kind of contract with foreign oil companiee. which would develop newly-discovered oilfields In exchsnge for supplies of crude, Iraqi Oil Minister Isam Aah-Shaiabi was quoted as saying. In what hs termed s statement of
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    • 728 13 Malaysian crude pelm oN prices closed higher, extending their riee on further light covering intereet following gains in palm oil futuree and news that Egypt would tender on Wednesday for 20,000 to 25,000 tonnes of RBO palm stearin for April shipment, brokers said. The market had risen earlier
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    • 855 14  -  By LIM MUI KHI IGNORING Tokyo's 327-point fall. the Singapore market closed mixed and at a new high in ac- tive trade yesterday. The Straits Times Industrials Index gained 2.17 points to finish at 1,595.40. The previous high of > 4,593.77 was
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    • 3084 15 MBT SHARE PRICES Closed higher lor the second straight session on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday as investors largely ignored downtrends on major overseaa bourses. However, blue chips and higher-priced issues were comparatively quiet. Attention was focused on lower liners and situational stocks. Brokers noted
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    • 299 15 Managers' pricot for F*b 21 Singapore Unit Trust The Cokmwc* 134 141 Tha Savingi fund 1 16 1 23 Spor* frog Fund 050 054 SpO'» S*t Fund 0&5 090 S'pom Fund 0»l 096 S'por* Cqu>*y Fund 061 065 Asia Unit Trust Mol lnva»» Fund 177 186 Mai Prog
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 278 16 Currency losses and higher interest Reuter FOREIGN EXCHANGE losses and higher interest expenses have trimmed Honda Motor's group net profits by 8 per cent to 22.52 billion yen (US$l56 million) in the three months ended December 31, 1960. profits, which meaflta* the health
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    • 152 16 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES is converting its equity in the country's only nickel company into shares snd is selling them to a Filipino firm in a new attempt to transfer the state-owned property to private hands. The government Asset Privatisation Trust said at a news
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    • 286 16 Reuter MEMBERS of the Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd group have sold 67 million shares, or a 7.5 per cent stake, in ANZ Banking Group Ltd, Adsteam company secretary Neil Brandford said. spokeswoman for Westpac banking Corp Ltd said the bank had acquired the
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    • 1191 16 Hongkong HONGKONG stocks finished moderately higher yeeterday as the market continued to benefit from the improved sentiment of the past few weeks, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index cloeed up 12.90 points at 2.980.90 while the Hong Kong Index roee 8.45 to 1,955.79. Turnover was HKSI.74 billion,
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    • 553 16 Tokyo Reuter TOKYO share price* closed broadly lower yesterday in sympathy with drops in yen bond prices in very thin trading, brokers said. Wary investors pecked at scattered medi-um-capital stocks seen aa volatile and thus more likely to return profits in light ectivity. Selling hit many large-capital
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      555 16 Australia Reuter AUSTRALIA'S sharemarket slid to a sharply weaker close yesterday, dragged down by fears about rising overseas intereet ratee and a fall in the Tokyo market The All Ordinaries Index fell 16 points to 1,629.9. Wall Street was closed on Monday for a public holiday, but London
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    • 198 16 Reuter THAI stocks advanced In thin trad* yesterday with tha focus on selected hotal and shipping Issues, brokers said. Thay estimated tha composite SET Indax roaa 2.57 points to cioee at 841.56. Shara pricaa movad highar in tha first half hour before modarata profit-taking aat in at
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    • 329 16 Reuter THE Taiwan stock indax soersd to t sharply highar finlah yaatarday as a surge* in tha haavlly waightad bank sactor sparkad an serosa-the-board rally, dealers said. Tha waightad Indax jumped 479.29 points, or 3.9 par cant, to and at 12,271.94 againat Monday's 11,792.65 finiah. Turnover
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    • 79 16 Reuter SENTIMENT wu bullish on tha Jakarta Stock Exchange yesterday. pushing turnovar up to 3.36 million aharaa from Monday'* 2.73 million. The composite index closed at 479.30, up from the prevtoue 473.23. The Jardina Fleming Nuaantara Index roaa 1.4 points to 110.92. indocement wh again the most
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    • 208 16 Reuter BOMBAY ehare prices cloeed down but off lowa yesterday aa atala owwad Invaatmant trust* bought haavily attar the markat dropped sharply in aarty trada, brokara said Faara of haavy taxation in tha March budget undermined aantimant. An axchanga decision to remova a month-long ban
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    • 201 16 Reuter THE NEW ZEALAND Share market cloeed weaker yesterday after a lacklustre day in which neither buyera nor eel lore were out in force. "It'a a market that juet aeema to be holding," eeid Rue Bourke of brokers Jerden Morgan. "It aeema to be waiting for
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    • 177 16 SEOUL stocks tall tor the fourth day in a row yeeter* day after rallying in aarty trada on a brief technical rebound, brokers said. The composite stock index lost 2.00 to 060.04. Turnover was sON weak at 100.7 billion won against 104.0 billion on Monday with
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    • 108 16 PHILIPPINE shares cloeed lower yesterday on wary selling ahead of Sunday's fourth anniversary of the revolution that made Corazon Aquino president. Brokers said investors cashed in on Monday's galne. They feared poseible violence from rightist forces during the celebrations. brokers said. The Manila Stock Exchange compoaite index
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 110 17 HONGKONG Hongkong Index Tu«doy 1.***** Monday 1,947 34 WMk oflo 1.879 16 All Industrials Tu«jday 2.516.7 Monday 2.5365 Week ogo 2.515.5 NEW YORK Hang Seng Index Tuasdoy 2,980 90 Monday 2.***** W»«« 090 2.***** Dow Jones Monday Clo»«d Friday 2.***** We«k ago 2.619 14 TOKYO Nikkei Average Tuojday
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    • 1454 17 Reuter AMSTERDAM: Dutch share prices took fresh nosedive yesterday as Dutch bonds, following the lead from West German paper, slumped and interest rates shot up again, dealers said. "The climate remains dominated by interest rate worries," one of them said, noting today's release of 1989 results by
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    • 166 17 AFP QRANO Metropolian food group revealed on Monday that it is negotiating with two potential buyers on the sale of its breweries, while the British Sunday press had reported it was sure to sign an agreement along those lines with Australian brewer Elders
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    • 905 17 London Reuter LONDON share prices opened weaker in dull morning business yesterday after the Tokyo market fell by 327 points, or 0.88 per cent, yesterday on fears over yen bond market weakness. Qilts were weak in response to losses on the West German bond market.
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    • 540 17 Govt using bourse in fight against inflation AFP THE ISTANBUL stock market, getting ready to welcome Islamic financial establishments at the end of the month, has been beating all records since the start of the year. Encouraged by a decree issued by the Department
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    • 381 17 Reuter DEVELOPERS building a rail tunnel to link Britain with the rest of Europe have failed to produce a promised statement on the final rescue package for the financially troubled project after reporting progress in talks with their bankers snd contractors. Eurotunnel, the developers
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    • 438 17 Reuter EUROTUNNEL plc/SA will appoint a deputy chief executive to act as a buffer between the An-glo-French consortium and its contractor Transmanche Link (TML). "He will act aa a buffer between TML and Eurotunnel chief executive Alaatair Morton," a banker from one of Eurotunnel's agent
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    • 437 17 NYT MITSUBISHI HEAVY Industries. Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Fuji Heavy Industries, which are among the biggest foreign suppliers of aircraft components to the Boeing Co, are expected to be the core of the Japanese aerospace industry. Oonald Krueger, the aerospace analyst for Sanyo Securities
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    • 345 17 Reuter FORMER Swiss Justics Minister Elisabeth Kopp hss denied she violsted official secrecy laws by telling her husbsnd to quit s company subsequently linked to money laundering. Ms Kopp, the first government minister in Swiss history to fsce criminal charges, testified she hsd no
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    • 437 19 HEALTH AP RESEARCHERS hope they have found a way to treat muscular dystrophy by altering the genetic makeup of weakened muscles. Scientists injected donor cells into the foot of a nine-year-old muscular dystrophy patient at the University of Tennessee recently, testing a procedure called a
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  • SPORTS
    • 659 20 TENNIS AP ANDREW SZNAJDER of Canada fought off six match points to defeat John Fitzgarald of Australia 6-2, 4-4. 7-6 (9-7) on Monday in tha opening round of the US$l million US Pro Indoor tennis championship in Philadelphia. Fitzgerald lost two match points at 5-2 in
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    • 221 20 IN YESTERDAY'S final day of the qualifying round of the Volvo Tannia Championship hald at the Singapore Tennis Centre, the first five qualifiers were decided a) press-time. They are Masuda Kentaro of Japan, Lee Jin Hoo and Ji Seng Ho, both of South Korea,
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    • 467 20 AFP AP HARD-HITTING Thomas Muster of Austria failed to climb back into the driving seat after droppmg the second-set tie-break and waa beaten in the first round of the ATP Stuttgart Classic by home player Patrick Kuhnen on Monday. Muster, struggling to recapture his
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    • 352 20 MOTOR-RACING AFP BRITISH Formula One team McLaren will not unveil its new car this week to avoid stirring up the conflict between its Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna and motor racing s governing body FISA. McLaren wants to save Senna from a press quizzing
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    • 259 20 CRICKET AFP THERE WAS still confusion on Monday as to whether the second leg of the troubled tour of South Africa by an unofficial English side will go ahead as planned in November. South African Cricket Union (SACU) president Geoff Dakin was
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    • 233 20 AP JOSE SCI LAI MAN, the embattled president of the World Boxing Council, said on Monday that he has no intention of resigning, as published reports have said he would do at a meeting of the organisation's executive committee today in Mexico City. "I'm a fighter,
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    • 513 20 BOXING AP JAMES "BUSTER" DOUGLAS finds himself a VIP at a luxurious new hotel-casino in Las Vegas and says: "I can't believe all this is happening. It's really unbelievable.'' The conqueror of Mike Tyson was talking about his sudden fame and the attention it has
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    • 350 20 GOLF AFP CLUB PROFESSIONAL golf era from Continental Europe will be eligible for the team that takee on the United States in the PGA Cup match at Kiawah Island, South Carolina, from Sep 21-23. Since the match began in 1973, the
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    • 338 20 BASKETBALL AP MICHAEL JORDAN scored 30 points and th« Chicago Bulls survived s 27-4 Houston spurt in ths second half to beat ths Rockets 107-102 on Monday. The Rockets had a chance to tie the scors with s 3-point field goal with 14 seconds left,
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    • 1965 21  - Tat Lee Bank and ACB living with the banking giants Tat Lee Bank and Asia Commercial Bank are the only two home-bred banks that are not subsidiaries of the Big Four local banking groups. The four giants DBS Bank, OCBC Bank, Overseas Union Bank and United Overseas Bank have acquired
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    • 659 21 THE DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK, LIMITED (INCORPORATED IN JAPAN) Non-Consolidated Balance Sheets Non-Consolidated Statements of Income Years ended March 31, 1989 and 1988 Years ended March 31, 1969 and 1968 Millions of yen Millions of yen IW 1968 IS— 1908 ASSETS INCOME Cosh and Due from Bonks ¥12,643,200 9,776.039 Interest on
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  • 474 22 Rural industry and private sector hard hit Reuter CHINA'S economic growth slowed dramatically last year after being crimped by a tough austerity campaign, a government spokesman said yesterday while predicting more sluggishness this year. Figures revealed a decline in employment in rural industry
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  • 324 22 AFP, Reuter THE TAIWANESE Economic Ministry is to propose further removal of trade restrictions with China by allowing local manufacturers to make business trips to the mainland and conduct market research there, Vice-Eco-nomic Minister Wang Chien-shien said yesterday. The ministry
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  • 565 22 Reuter US DEFENCE SECRETARY Dick Cheney flew to Japan yesterday after re-affirming Washington's determination to comply with its aid pledges to the Philippines. A joint communique on Mr Cheney's talks with Philippine defence chief Fidel Ramos in Manila said they "reaffirmed the continuing
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  • 293 22 Reuter JAPANESE Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, confident after an election victory, is expected to visit Washington in the near future. While a date for the proposed trip was still pending, the period from late April to early May was "not that far from the
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  • 159 22 AFP INDIA is planning to review a US$l.B-billion contract with the European Airbus consortium for its latest A-320 aircraft following a fiery plane crash last week, newspapers reported yesterday. The Economic Times quoted unnamed Civil Aviation Ministry sources as saying New Delhi
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  • 119 22 Reuter WEST GERMAN Economics Minister Helmut Haussmann said East Germans will not lose their savings when the two Germanys forge monetary union. "This is the position of the West German government: no East German saver should lose his money." Mr Haussmann told the
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  • 251 22 AFP CHINA'S paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, has told North Korean President Kim 11-Sung that China will eventually eetablish formal ties with South Korea, the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri reported yesterday. The remark was made when Mr Kim held talka with
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  • 284 22 AFP THE PHILIPPINE Supreme Court yeeterdey issued e last-minute order stopping the government from taking bids for a property in Tokyo's high-priced Roppongi district as a controversy raged over the planned sale. Bidding was scheduled for today in Tokyo and the
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  • 442 22 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S Labor government is to outline an economic package. to include a wage-tax deal with the trade unions, in order to help ensure its victory in the March 24 election. Treasurer Paul Keating, who will unveil the package this afternoon. is
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  • 319 22 Reuter AFRICA and Latin America could be hard hit by a shift in Western investment to Eastern Europe during the *****, but East Asia will remain a development bright spot, a senior World Bank official predicted yesterday. World Bank Treasurer Donald
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  • 449 22 Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called for the setting up of a global environment trust fund aa an interim measure for environmental protection. He said the trust fund could be financed by levies imposed on the production
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  • 249 22 Bernama PEREMBA BHD will control between 40.1 per cent and 40.8 per cent of Landmarks Bhd (LB) after the completion of the letter's proposed acquisition and proposed offer for the shares of Saujana Resort (M) Bhd. The exact amount will depend on the level
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  • 99 22 Reuter COMEX gold futures yesterday gained on catch-up buying following Monday's US holiday. In the first half hour of trading, April gold rose US$2.3O to U*****.10 an ounce before profit taking nearly halved gains. Spot increased gain of US$O.9O to US$4lB.OO. Analysts said prices rallied on
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    • 34 22 AFP HONGKONG-BASED Bond Corporation International Lid is willing to Mil its remaining assets in China and Italy it the prica is right, director Patar Lucas said in Perth yesterday. AFP
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    • 40 22 Reuter REMARKS by Bank of Japan officials after the releaae of January money supply data suggest tha central bank will wait at leaat until mid-March befora raising the discount rate, market analysts said yesterday. Reuter
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    • 51 22 AP SONY announced it was recalling up to 990,000 television sets in Japan to replace high-voltage components that could catch fire. It became the fourth Japanese manufacturer to recall TV sets in recent months, after Pioneer Electronics, Matsushita Electric Induatrial and Toahiba did the same in
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    • 32 22 AFP JAPAN'S Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said yesterday that it had finalised an agreement with US-based General Dynamics to develop a controversial new-generation jet fighter known as the FSX.
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    • 34 22 Reuter INTERNATIONAL food exporters voiced concern yesterday that a West German gift of up to US$l3O million to the Soviet Union to buy European Community food could disrupt commodity markets.
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    • 39 22 Reuter EXPORT orders for Taiwanese products fell 6.1 per cent to US$4.B9 billion in January from US$5.2l billion in December and compared with U555.43 billion a year earlier, the Taiwanese Economic Ministry said. Reuter
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    • 25 22 AFP STATE-CONTROLLED Philippine Aeroepace Development Corporation has begun assembling S-211 trainer jets under s contract with the Italian firm Agusta. AFP
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    • 39 22 Reuter THE US GOVERNMENT is studying the possibility of airdropping swarms of caterpillars to eat the coca crop in Paru and Bolivia and cut cocaine supplies to the US. the Washington Post reported yesterday. R outer
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    • 107 22 TRADE MISSION A I 5 DAY'S $2388 I f ii. -u >(11* i rjn S Dep 26/3. 23/4. 21/5. 11/6. 18/6. 25/6, 23/7. 20/8. 3/9. 24/9. 22/10. 26/1 1 3/12, 10/12, 17/12, 24/12 Interested to trade or invest in Myanmar? EE 5 S[>,< I.HI, organised Vyanm.tr by b -ort'ss Service
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    • 15 22 U Peng orders crackdown on separatists, PAGE 3 Leader, PAGE 6 More stories, PAGE 4
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    • 192 22 Asian powerhouses, says banker, PAGE 3 7 SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT Merchandising and Display for Retail Stores and Supermarkets April 2-4,1990 Fee: Ss7so SIM member/SsB6o non-member This seminar is designed to help participants understand and apply the principles of retail merchandising. It will also introduce THE LATEST merchandising CONCEPTS and
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      • 110 23 Reuter HONGKONG BANKING and financial group Dah Sing Financial Holdings Ltd said a wholly-owned unit will take 15 par cant of nawly-formed Tailwind Shipping SA of Panama, owned 75 per cent by Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd. Wing Tak Shipping (Holdings) Ltd, controlled by Dah
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      • 81 23 Reuter A COLOMBIAN FREIGHTER carrying 34 tons of coffee from El Salvador is still looking for a port to offload its cargo after workers refused to handle its beans. The Ciudod do Booosvontura has sailed the length of the US weet coast in an attempt
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      • 57 23 Reuter FINNISH FREIGHT FORWARDERS said they would no longer clear goods through Finnish customs because industrial action in the banks meant they were not being paid. Krister Gronlund, director of the Finnish Freight Forwarders' Association representing 96 per cent of forwarders, said half of Finnish imports
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      • 130 23 AFP JAPAN S TOYOTA MOTOR CORP said on Monday that its vehicle exports rose 1.5 per cent from a year earlier to 146,330 units in January while rival Nissan Motor Corp reported a 36.8 per cent decline to 68,672 units. Toyota said its incrsase, the
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      • 69 23 Reuter THE PANAMANIAN BULK CARRIER Dansktw, 32,163 dwt. is listing at Suez following action to deal with a suspected fire in one of its holds, Lloyds Shipping Intelligence Service said. The vessel ran aground in the approaches to the Suez Canal on January 26 and
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    • 188 23 BINQAPORE stands a good chance of overtaking Hongkong as the world's number one container port this year, say the Colony's marine officials. The South China Morning Poet quoted Tim Frawley, the Assistant Director of Marine for planning and local
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    • 44 23 NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA hat started land transport operation® in Australia, following a similar meaaure in the United States to link its conventional shipping services to customer-oriented home delivery servicee. NYK haa formed joint ventures with several medium-ecale Austrslian trucking companies.
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    • 1166 23 Poga Cat— AK CoaiaiaaHUa Tkinaaa 5 Accord Sfcet Tot 3-5 AJfcotrot AJtrad c Toaator Taarlaaa S Akrar**l llxr Filnta 5 WC Una Sotot S ah nm J-S AIS f <***—* I Aimro liaa Fthaaa VS A# row |mm Niaa 5 Awoo Up>n ii* US A cWorOTOMMg h»OT
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    • 373 23  -  ■y RAHITA ELIAS SINGAPORE'S Wsng Coo-Kien t Co hes outbid four other tenderers for s BS2O million contrsct to develop the first phase of the Singapore Cruise Centre project. The contract involves the construction of a main pier comprising two berths, four
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    • 433 23  -  By JEAN FOONG CASTING ITS EYES on the growing intrs-Asisn trade, Japanese shipping major Kawasaki Kieen Kaieha ("K" Line) plans to start more services within two years to accommodate the expected traffic increase. "NewbuikJings and bigger ships will be phased
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    • 241 23 Reuter RIDING THE WAVE of a shipping market recovery, Japan's Sumitomo Corp has won orders for four tankers and one bulker from overseas ownsrs this year, a Sumitomo spokesman said. He said his company signed a contract with Teekay Shipping Co Inc of
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    • 264 23 NEPTUNE Oriant Unas Ltd (NOL) has sat up s joint-venture company with Chinaas inter eats to provida cargo consolidation, trucking and warahouaing sarviosa in tha Boutham provinces of China. Tha )olot-vantura company. International Transport Enterprises Co Ltd (tmsco). has its haad offica in Huangpu.
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    • 2476 24 The massed ranks of dark suited men remain the order of shipping's clubby top echelons. But Seatrade Business Review managed to catch up with some of the few women who have won their membership in Hongkong, New York, Piraeus and
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    • 1937 24 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Voy No M h Arrival DapM Kippd wharvo Ne«o (MkM Oe»wio 01 To««cfcaag Tr<m Fr«ad AMI 1 C Oowoto Ckofc Dyoog Ox* Goo* Hoo Or—* Ghm !»■>»> I to»m Mm O»»*ou fort VO> Protat MU Tn»i«| M M/1M 3SH (-CM 4 nw V I
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    • 1087 25 THE FREIGHT market was extramaty quiat on Monday but rata* rsmsinsd stable with tba Baltic Fraight Index (BFI) unchanged at 1.676 points, brokers said. The President's Day holiday in the US contributed to the lack of activity. Qrain fixtures included a total of 13,500 long tons of maize
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    • 11598 30 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore
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    • 2567 37 Who acts for whom A nmirf Mm Accord Shpg Pl* Ltd (S)/Accord Contr Lin* (M) Sdn BM (PKVAowrd Contr Unai(PO) Sdn Bhd (PN) ABC CuMlMrtM MV KYC LMe (SVRenown Shpg (PK/PN). ni 111M1I Umt Kim Shpg Trdg (3). MMM 111 «lr BersMe Fr«U Shpg Pte Ltd (8). MM C OcmM
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    • 563 38 LIBERIA and Vanuatu were the main beneficiaries of the short-lived flight of ahipe from the Panamanian flag at the end of laat year. According to a Journal of Commorco spot aurvey, 27 out of 57 ex-Panamanian-flag veasels switched to Vanuatu. All the
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    • 244 38 LLOYD'S REGISTER has launched a survey which will provide the maritime community with data to assess marine exhaust emissions. "There is an increasing awareneea of the effects of environmental pollution throughout the world. In the case of marine transport this shows itself
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    • 189 38 Reuter REBEL TRUCK DRIVERS angry at new road traffic laws have maintained a boycott of freight into or out of Australia's most populous stats despite s union decision to end the action. The drivers ars blockading some transport corridors into ths stats of New
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    • 384 38 Fairpley THE DIRECTOR General of Merchant Marine for the Spaniah government. Rafael Lobeto Lobo, haa been accuaed of corruption and negligence in a Bilbao court The caae, brought by a committee of employeea from the offahore supply veaael operator Fuera Coeta
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    • 864 38 AFP SHIPPING freight ratea slipped lower thia past week in a market showing very few new fixings. The Baltic international Freighta Futures Exchange (Biffex)'s Baltic Freight Index (BFI) ended the week down seven points on the previous week's ctoee at 1,563. Nevertheieaa brokers reported s rieing level of
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    • 20 23 J-' o®*0®* •"<* services represented by /^MTOv Member* of the Registry of Accredited (?bsb*l Shipping Agents, Singapore Nationei \rXsMfl Shipping Association.
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    • 413 23 BALTIC MADRAS/CALCUTTA SHUTTLE NEXT SAILING Yntti/Ymf M EAA SOI LEUVE 111! 25/2 2/3 ILOVIK 100N 25/2 4/3 T. RIVE* 15 23/2 21/2 CALL: *****71 (Ses Pa«s 13 Column 4). INSIDE Women In •hipping THE MABBED RANKS of dark suited men remain the order of shipping's dubby top schsioni But Sicfridf
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    • 608 28 —WPWWWWWB ftlftil'lil'M IRANIAN SERVICE I Si np port Loading far:- I A VSI In Ifarch I Utaaml Un w Unlet) ix west cMST/mm/camuiL AMBUCA CMTMB SBVICf HKC LI JNSENAOA LCAJtOCNAS SAUNA CRUZ HANZANILLO OAXACA «-U W UD Mf) I*3 M H/J gg&J i i i i I Mm accepting to
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    • 1185 29 JIIIX 1 AIIVJ TT ggPfl PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD J /I PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street #03-00, Singapore 0106, Tel: *****33 VUKL VOY SIN JKT MY VOY UN HKO YOK MOO KOO OUO KM KAO HKO MA MAUL SSO7 SU> OLD 01IM In PI MMJ "J" HAI OUANO 2SM
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