The Business Times, 7 July 1990

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  • 11 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 Weekend Edition, July 7-8 1990 75*
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  • NEWS& MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 39 1 WALL STREET stocks were higher in early activity yesterday as traders studied the latest reading on US employment. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose 12.87 to 2,892.08 in the first 90 minutes of trading.
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    • 44 1 LONDON share prices were higher at midday yesterday, helped by position-squaring ahead of the close of the latest trading account. At 1106 GMT, the Footsie 100-Share Index was at its intraday high of 2,338.3 points, up 6.9 points or 0.3 per cent.
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    • 69 1 A SURPISINGLY strong upward revision to May's US non-farm jobs data overshadowed weak data for June, convincing economists that the Federal Reserve will not ease interest rates in the near future. June non-farm payrolls rose by only 40,000 jobs, compared with forecasts for a
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    • 48 1 JACK. CHIA-MPH Ltd is to contest the court action taken by Haw Par Brothers International and its subsidiary Tiger Balm alleging that JC-MPH and the Jack Chia group of companies were passing off "Golden Lion Shield Balm" products as "Tiger Balm" products Page 2
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    • 26 1 PROPERTY-BASED First Capital Corp is strengthening its presence in the garment industry by acquiring a majority stake in a knitwear company. Page 3
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    • 24 1 SABAH and Taiwanese businessmen have signed agreements for several joint venture projects worth M$ 148.3 million in the Malaysian state Page 4
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 795.20 -1.81 Kuala Lumpur ....593.86 +0.88 Hongkong 3,357.61 +1.17 Tokyo 32,445.12 +93.45 Sydney 1,554.4 -3.7 Tharaday Change New York 2,879.2 -32.42 London 2,331.4 -24.1
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    • 21 1 Fffrhtnyt ritn US$ SSI.8290 Yen SS1.212I MS SS0.6759 MoWJ Rl4r kct ritM Overnight 7 1/4 +1/4 3-month 7 3/4% +1/16
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    • 32 1 London Gold PMfix US$361.15 US$1.45 yporeAug... l57.00»/kg -0.50 Nfsia Aug M232.50.«/kg -0.50 KL Tin Turnover 98 tonnes +26 Spot M$15.96/kg -8 Crude pain til Turnover 820 lots +447 Jul M$674/tonne -3
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  • 405 1  -  From Catherine Ong in Hongkong SINGAPORE is in a delicate position in its efforts to promote the so-called growth triangle concept and cannot rely too much on the resources of neighbouring countries for continued prosperity, in the view of a regional management consultancy.
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  • 301 1 AFP TAIWAN has approved a record US$73O million worth of overseas investment projects by local businessmen in the first half of this year, according to the Investment Commission. The investment value of the 159 approved cases reflected a whopping 546 per cent surge
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  • 172 1 Bernama MALAYSIA is confident of retaining its trading privileges given by the US government under the generalised system of preferences, Human Resources Minister Datuk Lim Ah Lek said yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. Speaking to newsmen after meeting the US Ambassador to Malaysia, Mr Paul Geveland,
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  • 229 1 Reuter THAILAND'S central bank said the economy was performing better than it had expected and would post real double-digit growth for the third consecutive year. Siri Kancharoendee, chief economist of the Bank of Thailand, said Thai gross domestic product would expand more than
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  • 331 1  -  By Dexter Lee A NATIONAL achievement which fulfilled a vision Singapore had 18 years ago. That's what the Mass Rapid Transit system represents, said Dr Yeo Ning Hong last night at a ceremony to mark the completion of the system and the opening of Boon
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 76 2 ABOUT 250 companies from 15 countries will display their products at COMTEC '90, an annual microcomputer exhibition due to begin on August 23. The fourth in a series, the four-day event will be held in Halls 4 and 5 of the World Trade
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      • 46 2 PRESIDENT Wee Kim Wee, on behalf of the people and Government of Singapore, yesterday sent condolences to President Suharto of Indonesia for the large number of Indonesian pilgrims who lost their lives during the tragedy at the Al-Muassem Tunnel linking Mecca and Mina.
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      • 44 2 SINGAPORE'S Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr Kemal Siddique, has been concurrently appointed as Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic. He presented his credentials to the government of the German Democratic Republic in Berlin on July 2, 1990.
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      • 51 2 AS PART OF its expansion programme into the South-east Asian market, Singapore-based Tour East recently opened a full service Destination Management office in Bali, Indonesia. Aside from the office, Tour East will also have its own fleet of limousines and coaches to meet its transportation
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      • 32 2 THE LATEST in office equipment, supplies and services will be featured at Office '90, an exhibition-cum-conference to be held at the World Trade Centre from October 10 to 13.
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      • 75 2 BECAUSE OF the National Day Parade 1990 rehearsal, the following roads will be closed tomorrow: Beach Road (between Rochor Road and Bras Basah Road), Bras Basah Road (between Victoria Street and Nicoll Highway), Collyer Quay, Connaught Drive, Fullerton Road, High Street, Middle Road (between North Bridge
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    • 431 2  -  By William Chia JACK CHIA-MPH Ltd is to contest the court action taken by Haw Par Brothers International and its subsidiary Tiger Balm alleging that JC-MPH and the Jade Chia group of companies were passing off "Golden Lion Shield
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    • 372 2  -  By Shoeb Kagda LOCAL timber exporters, faced with shrinking supplies from traditional sources, are beating a path to Indochina and other heavily forested txeas in search of new supplies of tropical timber. Though currently facing bleak sales as a result of overstocking in major
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    • 243 2 IT WOULD make sense to allow only those companies that have raised their retirement age to 60 years to hire foreign workers, National Trades Union Congress sec-retary-general Ong Teng Cheong said yesterday. He said many union leaders had proposed that the
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 447 3  -  By Lim Mui Khi PROPERTY-based First Capital Corp (FCC) is strengthening its presence in the garment industry by acquiring a majority stake in a knitwear company. The acquisition of 1.93 million shares in Poly Allied Knitwear (Pte) Ltd costs FCC $14.48 million. The
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    • 240 3 MBT METROPLEX BHD, which expects to finalise negotiations for the purchase of the 170-room Strawberry Park Hotel in Cameron Highlands, in a few weeks, is considering building a resort hotel in Langkawi. Managing director Dick Chan Teik Huat said the group had been in
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    • 292 3  -  By Magdalene Ng SHAREHOLDERS OF Pacific Carriers, whose listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore was delayed for a week, will finally be able to trade their shares on Tuesday. An announcement from the SES yesterday said PCL's issued capital of 300 million
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    • 230 3 Bernama KINTA KELLAS Investments pic is seriously considering expanding its operations overseas via Pengurusan Lebuhraya Bhd (PL) which it intends to acquire. "We are looking at every angle now and eyeing projects elsewhere especially in the South-east Asian region," executive director David W Berry
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 78 3 NEPTUNE Orient Lines Ltd said following approval obtained at a meeting of holders of its Irredeemable Convertible Cumulative Preference shares (ICCPS) and EGM on July 4, the dividend rate for its 60 million ICCPS has been revised to 9.49 per cent per annum amounting
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      • 69 3 KAMUNTING Corporation Bhd's additional ordinary shares of SO sen each arising from the conversion of M 52,000, seven per cent convertible secured notes 1987/1994 will be granted a listing and quotation with effect from July 9. The shares will not be entitled to any dividend
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      • 66 3 ROXY Electric Industries (M) Bhd said that its feasibility study on the resort project in Perak has not been finalised. It said in reply to a query from the KLSE that the figure of MSBSO million was merely a preliminary estimate in response to a question
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      • 33 3 GADEK (M) Bhd has appointed four new directors, including Wan Azmi bin Wan Hamzah, Mohd Tamrin bin Abdul Ghafar, John Chia Sin Tet and Sundra Moorthy s/o Krishnasamy.
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      • 87 3 PROMET Bhd said it is still discussing with the Kedah state government and the Kedah SEDC to get back the contract to develop 460 ha of beach land in Tanjung Rhu, Pulau Langkawi. Replying to a KLSE query, it said that an appropriate announcement would be
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      • 102 3 MATSUSHITA Electric Co (M) Bhd has reported a 58.8 per cent increase in group pre-tax operating profit of M 531.52 million for the year ended March 31, 1990 against M 519.85 million previously. The consumer electric appliance manufacturer's turnover rose by 19.5 per cent to
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      • 79 3 UNIVERSAL Cable Holdings Bhd (UCH) said that following Universal Cable (M) Bhd's (UCMB) capital restructuring scheme, the existing 62.5 million shares in UCMB will be removal from the official list of the KLSE from 10.00 am on Monday, July 9. UCH added that 15.62 million new shares
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    • 660 3 Bernama FIFTEEN publicly-listed Malaysian companies issued a total of 1.119 billion shares worth M 5883.64 million for acquisition purposes in the first five months of this year. The companies were Kamunting Corp Bhd, Guinness Anchor Bhd, Renong Bhd, UM
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    • 611 3 Prtoaa(M«t 9.7.90) Convanlon t*rma MjTnnnntl Amount OpbowT* wtaq Company lM«Md Wrt» 8h«r» Lr> atk i Qwrtng m units) Conv Ewr c-h Lntfk 1 "J? ratio prtco vaiu* > I C4CW! 37.5 1.970 4.480 1.00 3.09 13 2.27 26.4.93 33 Causeway Inv 72 0.615 1.330 0.770 1.00
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    • 476 3 MBT LION CORPORATION and its joint venture partner, China Steel Corp, are expected to complete their feasibility study on the proposed M$ 13 billion integrated steel mill project within six to 12 months. Chairman and managing director William Cheng said the feasibility study
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 88 4 TAIWAN'S Acer Group is taking over US-based Altos Computer Systems in a transaction worth US$94 million. The Acer Group, Taiwan's largest personal computer maker with revenues of US$7OO million in 1989, will purchase all outstanding Altos shares at $8.35 net cash per share. Altos will
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      • 109 4 FRENCH oil group Elf Aquitaine is buying US group Amoco's refining and distribution activities in Britain, doubling its British market share. The agreement covers 70 per cent of the Milford Haven refinery, with a capacity of five million tonnes a year, stakes in a pipeline
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      • 94 4 AMERICAN Express said its Travel Related Services unit will open travel services offices in East Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden. The first agency is scheduled to open in the fall. The company also said it will offer American Express Cards, American Express travellers' checks and its
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      • 80 4 HONDA Motor Co said its US car sales in the June 21-30 period increased 128.1 per cent to 26,841 from 11,768 units a year ago. For the month, it said sales rose 83.2 per cent to 47,175 from 25,756. Honda said its domestic car sales rose 22.6
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      • 113 4 SAN MIGUEL Corp, the Philippines' biggest company in terms of revenues, said it raised by 50 centavos the retail prices of most of its beer products after the government increased ad valorem tax on beer to 50 from 37 per cent. The tax level will further
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      • 41 4 BANK of Montreal said it had completed the estimated Cs23 million sale of its 20 per cent stake in Banque Transatlantique, a French bank, to the bank's largest shareholder, Credit Industriel et Commercial de Paris.
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    • 327 4 Bernama SABAH and Taiwanese businessmen have signed agreements for several joint venture projects worth M$ 148.3 million in the Malaysian state. The projects signed included a $100 million tourist resort in Tuaran, prawn farming in Tuaran ($lO million), tour and travel
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    • 360 4 Reuter DESPITE negative second quarter earnings projections by several technology companies, analysts expect industry leader International Business Machines Corp and many other computer makers to post robust profits. High technology shares were broadly weaker on Tuesday after three computer companies said their results
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    • 246 4 Reuter ELECTRONICS conglomerate NV Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken is negotiating with shipping and transport company Koninklijke Nedlloyd Groep NV over the sale of Philips's Dutch transport activities. Philips gave no financial details. Philips said its own transport network was inadequately equipped to meet the
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    • 257 4 Bernama SHELL'S expandable polystyrene (EPS) plant costing MS 100 million to be located in Pasir Gudang is scheduled to come onstream in mid--1992. Planning and design of the plant, which would have a capacity of 30,000 tonnes per annum while providing about 60
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    • 379 4 Reuter UAL CORP's decision to suspend talks on a new jet order at the behest of the employee group seeking to buy the airline suggests the group is serious about partly financing the planned US$4.4 billion buyout with funds from aircraft or
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    • 256 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR-listed Scientex Industries Bhd through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Masai Golf Sdn Bhd, has entered into a sale and purchase agreement to dispose of 943,400 shares in Quatari (M) Sdn Bhd at M 52.54 apiece for M 52.4 million cash. The
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    • 132 4 Reuter NOMURA Securities Go Ltd has launched two investment funds that will invest mainly in the stock markets of Italy and the five Asean countries, a Nomura spokeswoman said. Nomura plans to collect up to 30 billion yen for each fund. Both funds will be closed
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    • 206 4 STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE SUPPLEMENT 1990 The global equity market is losing much of Its shine. Volatility rules the day, and the technology that brings markets closer to each other also exposes one market to another's weaknesses. But with the increased risk or volatility also comes greater opportunity for profit.
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 504 5 NYT DESPITE pressure from the White House and Congress to lower interest rates quickly to try to prevent a recession, the Federal Reserve apparently decided at a policy meeting this week to hold rates unchanged for the time being. That was the assessment
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    • 202 5 NYT THE BUSH Administration on Wednesday stepped up pressure on the Federal Reserve, the US central bank, for an early cut in interest rates following the meeting of its policy-making open market committee earlier this week. Mr Nicholas Brady, Treasury Secretary, while carefully
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 78 5 WESTPAC Banking Corp chairman Sir Eric Neal dismissed speculation the bank may be considering closing its wholly owned stockbroking unit Ord Minnett Ltd. "The sale or closedown of Ord Minnett Ltd is definitely not being contemplated. Indeed, Ord Minnett is extending its operations in New Zealand,"
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      • 83 5 SUMITOMO Bank Ltd opened a representative office with a workforce of three yesterday in East Berlin, it said in a statement. "With the unification of Germany anticipated, the needs of our customers for information on the economy, trade and finance in East Germany are increasing,"
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      • 112 5 THE Export-Import Bank of Japan and nine Japanese commercial banks will lend Mexico a total of 51.8 billion yen to finance construction of an oil-and-coal-burning electric power plant there, an Ex-Im Bank spokesman said. The Ex-Im Bank will provide 31.1 billion yen and other banks
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    • 510 5 Reuter THE EUROPEAN Community's development banker, Ernst-Guenther Breeder, said the West needs to help the Soviet Union stop the deterioration of its economy if political reform is to take root. Mr Breeder president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), said in an interview that
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    • 212 5 Reuter MANY FINANCIAL investments in developing countries are providing a yield or return that is highly attractive in relation to the objective risk, says Chartered WestLß Ltd (CWB). In the first issue of its Developing Country Investment Review, CWB says a proliferation of investment
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  • THE REGION
    • NOTE BOOK
      • 92 6 PRESIDENT CORAZON AQUINO failed on Thursday to convince congressional leaders to join her new national movement and one of them blamed incompetent Cabinet members for the government's poor performance. Representative Ramon Mitra, speaker of the House of Representatives and a long-time Aquino supporter,
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      • 91 6 AUSTRALIAN opposition leader John Hewson on Thursday called on Philippine President Corazon Aquino and said the US should maintain a "strategic presence" in the region. He said at a pre-departure news conference that he had discussed bilateral relations with Mrs Aquino and had expressed "concern
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      • 106 6 THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY said on Thursday it was giving Bangladesh 2.6 million European Currency Units (US$3.3 million) to make up for export earnings lost in 1989 due to falls in the price of tea and jute. The EC's executive commission said a further 670,000 ECUs (US$840,000)
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      • 88 6 CHINA IS TO HOLD talks with Hongkong for the first time on the problem of cross-border pollution and other environmental protection issues next week, a Hongkong government spokesman said yesterday. A high level delegation from neighbouring southern China's Guangdong province is to arrive in Hongkong for the
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      • 126 6 CHINA SAID on Thursday that it would continue its policy of allowing only one child per family in its drive for modernisation. "Controlling population growth is very important for China's programme of socialist modernisation," the ruling Communist Party newspaper People's Daily said in an editorial on
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      • 143 6 THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT is to draw up measures to encourage more medical college graduates to work in rural areas hit by a lack of health professionals, it was reported yesterday. The China Daily, quoting a Ministry of Public Health official, said the move was part of
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    • 479 6 MBT THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), the world's largest source of direct project financing for private investments in developing countries, is broadening its investment base in Malaysia. "We would like to invest in all types of projects in Malaysia," its East and Asia Pacific
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    • 234 6 MBT THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) has been called to provide the Malaysian private sector with links to new technology, foreign partners and international markets. Finance Ministry Secre-tary-General Tan Sri Zain Azraai Datuk Zainal Abidin said on Thursday that the IFC, with
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    • 234 6 AFP THE COORDINATOR of US assistance to the Philippines yesterday said Washington was still committed to an international aid plan for the country. Elliot Richardson, US representative in the Multilateral Aid Initiative (MAI), a project proposed by Washington to help revive the
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    • 384 6 AFTER THE election defeat in May of the military government of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), the investment climate of the secretive South-east Asian country is rapidly improving, according to the Japan Economic Journal. Foreign investors are especially attracted by the country's abundant natural resources. The
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    • 74 6 RAJIV GANDHI, former Indian prime minister and now lender of the opposition Congress Party, leaning from his second-class train carriage to say goodbye to supporters at Bharatpur railway station In Rajasthan on Wednesday. Gandhi was on a three-day tour of the northern desert stnte, where
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    • 152 6 Reuter CHINESE and Indonesian officials will meet to discuss the future of 300,000 former Chinese passport holders in Indonesia who are now effectively stateless, the Kompas newspaper reported yesterday. The newspaper quoted Justice Minister Ismail Saleh as saying officials would meet after diplomatic
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    • 322 6 THE DEVELOPMENT of Shanghai's Pudong special economic zone will greatly benefit the economies of China's central provinces by creating demand for raw materials and energy, a senior trade official from Hubeik said. "As Pudong begins to take off, the economic benefits will gradually
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    • 144 6 Bernama LABUAN, the island of some 35,000 inhabitants that became a Malaysian federal territory six years ago, has become a hot issue in the campaigning for this month's Sabah state election. So far, two parties contesting in the election the ruling Parti Bersatu
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    • 246 6 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AMBASSADOR ENGINEERING SERVICES PTE LTD MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION At an Extra-Ordinaiv General Meeting of the Company, Ambassador Engineering Services Pte Ltd deemed to be held at 400 Orchard Road *07-04 Orchard Towers, Singapore 0923 on the 30th June 1990, the
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    • 252 6 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AMBASSADOR PROPERTIES PTE LTD MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION At an Extra-Ordinaiv General Meeting of the company, Ambassador Properties Pte Lid deemed to be held at 400 Orchard Road #07-04 Orchard Towers, Singapore 0923 on the 30th June 1990, the following special resolution
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    • 277 6 Df THE MATTES OT THE COMPANDEB ACT, CAP N AND IN THE MATTES OP TOMODACHI INSURANCE BROKERS PTE LTD (lMrpinMliflag*fin) (la whn' vataatery wtaJlag-ep) At an extraordinary general meeting of Tomodachl Insurance Brokers Pte Ltd duly convened and held at 116 Middle Road #08-03 ICB Enterprise House Singapore 0718 on
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  • THE WORLD
    • 432 7 ON. THE STRENGTH of personal spending, capital investment and recovering exports, the Japanese economy will grow a real 4.9 per cent in fiscal 1990 ending next March and 4.8 per cent in fiscal 1991, according to the Japan Economic Journal. That's the
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    • 251 7 BARELY three months after they drove down their initial projections for the growth of the Japanese economy, the nation's numbers experts have turned bullish again. According to the Japan Economic Journal, Japan's major private research institutes have revised upward their economic growth
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    • 371 7 AFP THE COLLAPSE of the East bloc and the threat it poses to the industrialised West largely explains rising economic and trade tensions in the West. According to a Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) report, "since World War
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    • 37 7 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and American President George Bush sharing a joke during the family photo session in London on Thursday after a sober first session of the Nato Summit in Lancaster House.
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    • 42 7 Australian circus clowns protesting outside the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Thursday the approval given to The Great Moscow Circus to tour Australian country towns, arguing they will be left with nothing and nowhere to perform'. AFP Pictures AFP Pictures
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    • 293 7 AP THOUSANDS of East Germans again brought their industries to a temporary halt to press demands for better pay to cope with prices that are skyrocketing under freemarket conditions. Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere criticised the higher costs, saying prices on some foodstuffs were
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    • 218 7 Reuter THE UNIFICATION of East and West Germany is hurting Czechoslovakia's economy by cutting trade and increasing competition for badly-needed loans, according to Czechoslovak Deputy Foreign Minister Zdenko Pirek. "We in Czechoslovakia have already registered some significant negative impacts on our economy in this respect,"
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    • 407 7 AMERICA'S persistent demand last week that Tokyo increase public works spending was as much a response to pressure from Congress back home as a desire to see Japan heat up its domestic economy, according to the Japan Economic Journal. The Structural Impediments Initiative,
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    • 345 7 Reuter ABOUT 63,500 businesses have been created in East Germany so far this year, bringing ISO,OOO desperately needed new jobs in the painful transition from communism to a free market economy. Most of the new businesses founded in the first half of
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 98 7 THE JAPANESE CABINET decided at a regular meeting yesterday to cut the rice price paid to farmers for the 1990 crop by 1.5 per cent from 1989 levels, Agriculture Minister Tomio Yamamoto told reporters. The reduction, to an average of 16,500
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      • 74 7 FINANCE MINISTER Theodor Stolojan has warned Romanians of impending unemployment and taxes as the government pushes through economic reforms. "Unemployment, bankruptcies, income taxes and value-added taxes will be consequences of the shock therapy necessary to transform from a Stalinist economy to a market economy," Mr
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      • 94 7 NORTH KOREA yesterday renewed its call for promoting contact and travel between North and South Korea by opening the demilitarised zone separating the two sides. As an incentive to the South, North Korea will "open the portion of north side at Panmunjom from Aug 15, 1990", the
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      • 78 7 A PLAN to tax securities transactions is one of several options being considered by the US administration to raise revenue and pare the US budget deficit, congressional sources said on Thursday. But the idea, labelled in an article in the Wall Street Journal as a
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      • 61 7 SOME DISGRUNTLED Soviet coal miners apparently will go ahead with a one-day political strike next week, ignoring an appeal by the Communist Party Congress. A labour union official told the official Toss news agency that miners in western Siberia's Kuznetsk basin will stop work
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      • 78 7 SALES OF domestically produced cars and light trucks jumped 12.5 per cent in late-June, surprising analysts and raising hopes among American car executives that the industry had turned a corner after a nine-month slump. The gains were shared by General Motors Corp, whose vehicle sales
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      • 56 7 GIBRALTAR said it appointed a commissioner on Thursday to control the British colony's booming financial centre, which has come under attack recently for alleged money-laundering activities. William Penman Brown, a former vice-president of the Manufacturers Hanover Bank subsidiary in the Channel island of Guernsey, will run the
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      • 71 7 ZIMBABWE is on the brink of a far-reaching economic shake-up after Finance Minister Bernard Chidzero this week won Cabinet approval to scrap state controls introduced 25 years ago. "If we implement all the policies, it could be a whole new Zimbabwe in three to five
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4179 8  -  By Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE SHARES experienced yet another quiet trading day despite the sharp falls on Wall Street and London the day before. Said a broker "Don't you know, we now have a life of our own? For 20-, 30-point falls, we will
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3765 10 Bernama SHARE PRICES in Kuala Lumpur yesterday closed on a mixed note for the second consecutive day due to a lack of follow-through support and on buyer's reserve ahead of the weekend. Blue chips and high-priced stocks were selectively sought after, signalling the
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    • 139 10 BT SURVEYS Looking Wider, Thinking Deeper Some sutyects are of such Interest to our readers that they demand more space and more research than can be given in our dally reporting. As part of BT's overall service we have always recognised this and taken the necessary steps. Filling the gap
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2302 11 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS yesterday closed higher on futures arbitrage buying in afternoon trade. There was scattered buying of small-capital issues but many brokers said these stocks had already moved too high and that the market could fade next week as there was nothing on
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    • 2519 11 Reuter HONGKONG stocks recovered on bargainhunting yesterday after initial losses and closed higher. "Many local investors went bargain hunting and sentiment was bullish," a US company's broker said. Turnover totalled HKSI.BIB billion against Thursday's HK$ 1.658 billion. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index rose 1.17 points
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Profit-taking softens Australian market
      • 1135 12 THE Australian sharemarket yesterday finished slightly weaker on profit-taking and in response to the 32-point fall in the Dow Jones index on Thursday, brokers said. The All Ordinaries index ended 3.7 points weaker at 1554.4. Brokers said the market had stood up remarkably well which suggested room Cor further
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      • 679 12 THAI stocks closed mixed yesterday in selective trade dominated by heavy profit-taking on bank blue chip shares, brokers said. The official SET Index fell 20.05 points to close at 1050.13. Declines led advances 117 to 28. Most active were Union Asia Finance, Nava Finance and ITF. Some banking shares
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      • 367 12 TAIWANESE stocks finished higher yesterday for the first time in four sessions after investors felt the index had hit bottom, dealers said. The weighted index rose 168.65 points to close at 4,693.20. Turnover rose to NTS4I.6 billion from 30.9 billion on Thursday. Buying was sparked by newspaper reports foreign
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      • 758 12 SEOUL stocks fell in thin trading yesterday, with news that North Korea offered to partially open its borders to the South failing to boost the market, brokers said. The composite index closed at 716.17, down 6.93 points from the previous session. Turnover was 138.2 billion won against 125 billion
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      • 512 12 PRICES on the Jakarta stock exchange closed barely changed yesterday, with the composite index easing 0.61 to 626.81. Brokers said the market was generally quiet in the day's half-day trading. Pulp producer Indorayon dominated the regular market with 138,000 shares changing hands. It rose 50 rupiah to 9,850. Astra
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      • 501 12 PHILIPPINE shares closed mixed yesterday in quiet trade marked by spurts of buying which followed Thursday's rebound after days of decline. The Manila Stock Exchange index rose 3.19 points to close at 873.67. The combined volume at the two bourses fell to 540.15 million shares but value rose to
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      • 77 12 LEADING New Zealand shares held their ground on healthy volumes at the dose yesterday, as Aukralian investors continued to take advantage of a low New Zealand-Australian exchange rate. "It was pretty flat, but that was a good performance after Wall Street was off 30 points," said Phil Hardie-Boys
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      • 664 12 CIOM PrtTi—i Mr* SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index 1554.4 155®.I -3.7 Ail Industrials Index 2449.0 2453.6 -4.6 All Resources Index 875.1 877.9 -2.8 Turnover (million) 98.59 142.33 -43.74 BAWGKfHt SET Index 1050.13 1070.18 -20.05 Turnover (nearest "000) NA NA JAKARTA Composite Index 626.81 627.42 -0.61 Turnover (nearest *000) NA NA HfiHH
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Tax talk sparks sell-off in New York
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        988 13 A WHITE HOUSE proposal that would tax securities transactions triggered a sharp sell-off in US stocks on Thursday and gave blue chips their biggest decline in about two weeks. Heavy programme selling and weak bond prices contributed to the drop. The Dow fell about 32.42 points to 2879.21,
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        779 13 SHARE PRICES dropped sharply on London's Stock Exchange on Thursday, as investors became worried about the outlook for corporate profits. The market opened lower and continued to decline. It was further depressed by weakness on Wall Street. But volumes were light. The Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index fell 24.1
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      • 237 13 WEST GERMAN shares soared nearly one per cent yesterday as foreign investors apparently worried they could miss the boat jumped into the market. The DAX index of 30 leading shares closed at 1,932.80, up 18.62 points from Thursday's finish and more than 50 points or 2.8 per cent above
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      • 240 13 SUGAR and foods group CSM extended its earlier gains as Dutch share prices picked up slightly at mid-session yesterday in very thin trading, dealers said. At 1200 GMT the CBS all-share index was up 0.2 points from Thursday's dose at 119.7. CSM gained 2.60 guilders to reach a 12-month
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      • 427 13 SWISS shares were mostly higher in lively trading at midsession yesterday, buoyed by signs that Swiss interest rates were now beyond their peak. The all-share SPI index was 8.6 points higher at 1,217.8 while the SMI index of leading shares rose 15.7 to 1,804.5. Wall Street's 32-point loss the
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      • 159 13 BELGIAN shares opened mixed yesterday in low volume of 170 million francs with chemical stock UCB the only share to give the market some sparkle. Traders said the market showed little reaction on the downside to overnight losses on Wall Street and on the upside to gains on the
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      • 353 13 GOLD SHARES closed lower in dull trading in Johannesburg on Thursday in the absence of any fresh factors to stimulate activity. Caution about the bullion price remains prevalent, dealers said, noting thin overseas trading conditions, ahead of the reopening of US markets after their July 4 Indepence Day holiday,
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      • 264 13 ITALIAN share prices extended their weak run to cioae 1.21 per cent down overall under pressure from the persistent selling of blue chip stocks, brokers said yesterday. The market's nerves were further jolted by talk a broker was facing problems in meeting financing guarantee commitments because of the market's
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      • 263 13 FRENCH SHARE prices hovered around the key psychological barrier of 2,000 on the CAC-40 index yesterday, with strong support for construction stocks on hopes the French peace dividend would be ploughed into new homes, roads and schools. Dealers said that reports the French government planned to cut military spending
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      • 317 13 July5 Clo« PwloM -f/. NEW YORK Dow Jonea 2,879.21 doted -32.42 NYSE Financial 143.53 doaed -1.42 SAP 500 3SS.6I doted -4 48 Turnover (million) 121.32 130.30 -2.18 L0N00N Financial Timet 30 1838.2 1881.1 -22.9 FTSE 100 2331.4 2355.5 -24.1 Turnover (million) 386.8 353 33.8 AMSTERDAM CBS General 196.40 197 60
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1229 14 FOREX MARKET REPORTS STERLING was again well bid during a quiet European morning session yesterday, but dealers are becoming nervous after its recent surge and antidpate a correction soon. By 1100 GMT the pound had firmed to ***** marks from an
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    • 388 14 Cross rates juiy 6 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr A$ NZJ USS 1.8315 ***** 1.6545 151.05 0.5613 1.4025 1.2531 1.6949 SS ***** 1.4778 0.9034 ***** 0.3065 0.7658 0.6842 0.9254 MS 0.3695 67.67 0.6113 0.5581 0.2074 0.5182 0.4630 0.6262 Dm 0.6044 1.1070 1.6358 91.30 0.3393 0.8477 *****
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    • 565 14 Interbank rates s» BM Ofc Overnight 7 1/4 7 1/2 1-month 7 3/4 7 7/8 2-month 7 V4 7 7/8 3-month 7 3/4 7 7/8 Overnight mode 7-3/4 US> BM Offer 7 days 8 1/4 8 3/8 1 month 8 3/16 8 VI6 2 months 8 3/16 8
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    • 291 14 Reuter IF YOU bdieve some analysts, the Australian dollar has recently been defying gravity. Many warn that the currency is overpriced and vulnerable. But it steadfastly continues to rise, surging past the US$O.BO levd this week for the first time in 15 months. The world's sixth
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    • 1495 14 SIMEX Open High Low Sett Eat Vat Opflnt Vol Sep 90 91.13 9L83 9177 9L82 9513 ***** 333* Dec 90 91.13 91.83 91.77 91.82 4079 7405 3614 Mar 91 91.79 91.79 91.74 9I.7S 924 2888 1610 Jun 91 91.64 91.64 91.60 91.63 171 SIO 390 Sep 91 91.49
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 436 15 MBT THE MALAYSIAN palm oil industry is working on setting up three large groups to market its produce in the international market. This is aimed at reducing competition among Malaysian producers so as to get equitable prices for the commodity. Primary Industries Minister Datuk
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    • 242 15 Reuter CHILE Copper Corp (Codelco) closed a wing of its El Teniente mine following another rock blast there and will not reopen it until the shafts are reinforced, a company manager said. The closure will last until December and means a drop of 18,000 tonnes
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    • 113 15 AP MALAYSIAN Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik has expressed confidence that in releasing tin from its stockpile, the US government would not do anything to affect the already depressed market. On Monday, the US National Defence Logistics Agency resumed commercial sales of
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    • 812 15 REPORTS HIGHER disposals and buyers' reserve brought down the price of tin by another eight sen to M$ 1 5.96 per kg on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) yesterday. Traders said the market's tone was still very bearish in view of
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  • 1320 15 Rubber My 6 ■OS (tot hi totm) Scents/kg Noon Close Int I RSS Prompt I56.OOIS7.OON 156.OOI57.OON Int I RSS Aug 90 157.*****.50 I57.00I57.50N Int 1 RSS Sep 158.*****.00 I58.50I59.00N Int 2 RSS OP 153.50/155.SON I53.*****.50N Int 3 RSS OP I49.OOI51.OON 149.00/151 OON Int 4 RSS OP 145.00/147.00N 145.00/147.00N Int
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  • 413 16  -  By Kenneth James MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said the growth triangle concept was a good idea, adding that he was "quite agreeable" to having the triangle become part of the planned development of Johor state. Dr Mahathir
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  • 279 16 Reuter JAPAN will not neglect its Asian neighbours in a rush to provide more economic aid to Eastern Europe and Latin America, officials say. They say Japan will join other members of the G-7 group of industrial nations the US, West Germany, France,
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  • 291 16 AFP BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) has ordered 33 Boeing 747-400 jumbo jets at a cost of almost £4 billion (US$7.l4 billion) in its biggest ever single order. BA has made a firm order for 21 747s at a cost of about £2.33 billion (US$4
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  • 241 16 Reuter THE FRANKFURT bourse board said it approved a plan to transform the bourse into a joint stock firm by Jan 1, 1991. The move splits the bourse from Frankfurt's Chamber of Industry and Commerce. The new firm, Frankfurter Wertpapierboerse AG
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  • 316 16 AP NATO yesterday offered the countries of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact a non-aggres-sion declaration, invited President Mikhail Gorbachev to its headquarters, and proposed the eventual elimination of nuclear artillery shells. US President George Bush and other leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, at
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  • 149 16 PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew is slated to be the keynote speaker at the Commoawealth Press Union's annual conference to be held in Hongkong in mid-October. Announcing this in its journal, CPU News, the I Jinitnn hnicd association Mr Lee would deliver n "fascinating
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  • 384 16 Bernama MALAYSIA is expected to record a loss of Ms7so million in export earnings from commodities in the first half of this year compared with the same period in 1989 due to the marked fall in petroleum earnings. Bank Buruh Bhd, in making
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  • 267 16 Reuter AN AMERICAN company has pulled out of a project to build a US$34O million power generation plant for Caltex Petroleum Corp unit Caltex (Philippines) Inc after two and a half years of negotiation. In a serious blow to the government's
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • 1184 17  -  Who hoards these grapes i of the possible aftermath? :Who might possibly prefer ia cellar to a Honda? Why? Claire Leow finds out Claire Leow O M E T H I N G about bottled grapes does strange l things to certain r people. According
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    • STRAWS IN THE WIND
      • 31 17 VISITORS to the recent Singapore 2000 exhibition were asked to sit on the floor at the Theatre of the Future. "This must be the seat of the future," quipped one.
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      • 29 17 AGAIN on Singapore 2000. A reader called up to say it should have been called Japan 2000, since most of the stuff in the exhibition was Japanese-made.
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      • 45 17 ACCORDING to an American study, men produce less sperm during the summer, which may account for a dip in the spring birth rate. Well, at least that doesn't apply here, in a land where the birth rate fluctuates according to the zodiac year.
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      • 56 17 AN INSOMNIAC football fan let loose a Freudian slip when a drawn-out three-hour match between Argentina and Italy stood at draw, with the final outcome to be decided by a round of penalty kicks. When he heard this, the numb fan blurted out: "What, Panadoi kicksr He was duly
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      • 47 17 THERE IS a school in England called Giggleswick. A Singaporean lady sent her child there for a lark, though some of her friends thought it was a stupid name for a school But if anything, the kids should at least emerge with a sense of humour.
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    • OPINIONS
      • 1068 18  -  Robert Barton is not only a repository of old Singapore but an acute observer of new Singapore as well. He provides some refreshing insights into what happened along the way. Robert Barton Mr Barton was the group chief executive and managing director of Cold Storage
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      • 542 18  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Gene T H Sng CONGRATULATIONS for producing a very good article on warrants in your weekend edition (BT, June 23-24). The article is a great improvement on past efforts and covered a much wider area. However, two important points
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      • 208 18  -  Mrs J S Goh Manager Corporate Communications Dept Singapore Telecom WE REFER to the article, "Singapore Telecom poised to move into the PC market" (BT, June 28). Thank you for your coverage of the opening of our two-day Teleview Service Provider Conference. However, we
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      • 251 18  -  B Y Hiew Senior Manager (Product) Tan Chong Sons Motor Co (S) WE REFER to the letter by K H Kwek (BT, June 16) and titled, "Car Mark-Ups: making profits or profiteering". In response to the writer's query on the high mark-up for the
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      • 364 18  -  Lim Ang Yong Acting Director Civil Service Institute WE READ with interest the article entitled "Civil servants need training in better service" (BT, June 23-24). In particular, we quote: "Some civil service officers have probably not received what is known as 'attitudinal' training. Perhaps what
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      • 755 18  -  The 'fever' is about to abate. Life is returning to normal. Soh Tiang Keng, who never misses, a World Cup final on TV since 1966, tells why. he has survived soccer mania yet again. Soh Tiang Keng Tomorrows world Cup final between West Germany
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      • 363 18 I REFER to your report "Straits Land to be acquired" (BT, July 5). The Gazette Notification dated July 4 clearly specified that only Lots 1-36, 1-44, 1-46, 1-47, 99-2, 99-3, 99-4 and 1-10 all in Mukim 2 belonging to Straits Trading Co Ltd
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      • 396 18 I REFER to the reply (BT, June 30) by the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (SISV) to my query about the undue emphasis placed on academic qualifications as a prerequisite for the real estate agency course. In its usual style, the SISV completely ignored the contents
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      • 1265 19  -  P J O'Rourke, wary of all mass movements, declares war on the eco-trippers P J O'Rourke Punch 1F THE great outdoors is so swell, how come the homeless aren't more fond of it? But can any decent, caring resident of this planet possibly, disagree
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    • EPICURE
      • 743 20  -  Quek Swee Peng dives into the lunch crowd at Wah Lok for its seafood specials Quek Swee Peng I WONDER what crab maestro Sebastian would say. The clever crustacean in Walt Disney's production, The Little Mermaid, would probably gasp at the realisation that two of his cousins
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      • 816 21  -  N K Yong begins the first of a two-part guide to buying red burgundy N K Yong BUYING red burgundy has always been difficult. It is scarce, considering that Burgundy is very much smaller than Bordeaux, with fewer good vintages. Although production is small,
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      • 918 21  -  Computers may be hazardous to your health, warns Richard Seah Richard Seah Richard Seah is editor of the health magazine, The Good Life WRITING this article puts my health at risk. I'm using a Macintosh computer, which, according to the latest issue of Mac
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      • 499 21 PLACIDO DOMINGO isn't just coming to Singapore to sing; he's also going to tell the organisers how to run his show. Or so it would seem. Hailed as one of the finest operatic tenors of the century alongside Luciano Pavarotti, the Spaniard will be
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    • PURSUITS
      • 1671 22  -  Sipping a king coconut by a beach in Sri Lanka at sunset, Sangeeta Mulchand falls in love with... Sangeeta Mulchand THERE WERE no tanks in Colombo. Or in the towns in central and western Sri Lanka. There were, however, big boards pointing to police stations
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      • 343 22  -  Samuel Ee treads gingerly around the new Royal Doulton boutique in town Samuel Ee PERHAPS you have selective dyslexia. Perhaps it doesn't allow you to recognise the word "fragile" in any colour or point-size. Even if there's an accompanying picture of an umbrella.
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    • SPORTS
      • 591 23 Fate has so far appeared to be on Navratilova's side as she sails into the semi-finals of her latest title challenge. What are her chances of clinching the elusive record ninth Wimbledon singles title for which she craves? AFP OPPONENTS must be wondering
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      • 203 23 Reuter WORLD CUP fever and tighter safety rules have slashed the crowds at the Wimbledon tennis championships by 50,000, according to official figures. Attendance is down by almost 15 per cent compared with 1989, largely because of the reduced capacity ordered by safety experts and the lure
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      • 475 23 AP THE TWO NATIONS in tomorrow's World Cup final may the same, but Argentina and West Germany have produced the reverse images of the teams that battled for the 1986 World Cup. Argentina streaked in 1986, showing off skills, poise and
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      • 468 23 Reuter IVAN LENDL wants it badly, Stefan Ed berg feels he has a good chance and Goran Ivanisevic is,, hoping for the best. But when the Wimbledon men's singles semifinals started yesterday, defending champion Boris Becker was the player they all feared the most.
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      • SIDE LINES
        • 90 23 GEORGE FOREMAN, hoping to earn a shot at the heavyweight title, will continue his comeback against Canadian champ Ken Lakusta July 31 in Edmonton. Foreman said at a news conference in Edmonton on Wednesday that he would prefer to be in the ring with
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        • 104 23 JENNIFER CAPRIATI has been named to the US Federation Cup team, which will seek to defend its title later this month. The 14-year-old sensation will join Zina Garrison, Mary Joe Fernandez and Gigi Fernandez for the competition in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 21 to July 28.
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        • 135 23 ENGLAND MANAGER Bobby Robson said in Turin on Wednesday that the penalty shootouts which decided both World Cup semifinals were an unfair tie-breaker and urged the use of a simple alternative. "You play on, after extra time. You play on until something happens and a goal is
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        • 98 23 MARK O'MEARA and Greg Hickman shot seven-under-par 64s for a one-stroke lead after the first round of the US$l million Anheuser-Busch golf tournament in Williamsburg, Virginia, on Thursday. Lanny Wadkins and Brian Qaar are in second place, a stroke off the pace. A group of seven
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        • 109 23 GIANT sumo wrestler Konishiki is laid up with gout just before the start of a major tournament. The average sumo wrestler puts away mountains of fish stew, rice, beer and sake daily to build up fighting weight. Hawaiian-born Konishiki clearly takes all of his share
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      • 173 23 Reuter BELEAGUERED Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond has announced he will not contest the next America's Cup series to be held in San Diego in 1992. Bond, who made history in 1983 as the first challenger to win the yachting trophy from America
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    • JOBS
      • 803 24  -  Sometimes, there are unusual twists in the executive search industry. The head honcho of a Japanese firm just set up here was a top scalp at a competing company. He was a hunter who became the hunted, and got caught. Anna Teo reports Anna
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      • 313 24 SALARYMEN in Japan, from marketing executives to engineers and research and development scientists, are being prepared in record numbers to work abroad as companies attempt to ease the "investment friction" that has made them the target of criticism. According to the latest
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      • 251 24 JAPANESE salarymen preparing to work abroad are being taught that the body language and expressions they are used to can communicate acutely different meanings in foreign cultures. The poker-faced expression that is almost second-na-ture to Japanese businessmen may communicate to Westerners that they
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      • 1006 24  -  Vfichael Dixon says recruiting top people one way and their juniors differently is blinkered snobbery Michael Dixon FT ANYONE seeking an example of grim irony need only consider what looks to have been Europe's first formal measure to promote social equality in
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      • 250 24 Andrew Mainprize has been appointed marketing director for Citibank Singapore's Consumer Services Group. Mr Mainprize, 38, joins Citibank from Pepsi-Cola based in Singapore, where he was area vice-president in charge of South Asia operations. Michael Goh has been appointed Federal Express' regional manager for Southeast Asia. He
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    • PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT 1
      • 845 25  -  Two companies will soon be listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. Lim Mui Khi profiles Singapore Aerospace while Magdalene Ng sounds out General Magnetics STCKK Lim Mui Khi Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE Aerospace: the name excites. It brings to mind space-age technology, and images
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      • 664 25 CASSETTE tape maker General Magnetics' new share offer has all the makings of an ideal stag. The shares are priced at less than 10 times annual earnings, making it cheap when compared with earlier issues this year where prospective price earnings had ranged from
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      • 930 25  -  Professor Norbert Walter examines the implications of German unification on the mark Professor Norbert Walter Prof Walter is the chief economist of Deutsche Bank JULY 1 saw the start of a new era for German monetary policy. The foreign exchange market has been
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      • DON'T QUOTE ME!
        • 139 25 GUTHRIE-GTS likes to portray itsdf as an old company that has been rejuvenated by new management. (Very new indeed. Its CEO of one year, Mr Low Hua Kin, was recently ousted at a shareholders' meeting.) Perhaps it is fitting that it has identified
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        • 80 25 ASTROLOGER Joyce Jillson, gazing into her crystal ball, has come up with this prediction for beleaguered American tycoon Donald Trump: By 1996, David Geffen (who's he?) will own Trump Tower and Yoko Ono will be running the Plaza. Donald and Ivana will reconcile, and pool their
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      • 166 25  -  By C Dow THE STIR in the banking sector last week following the announcement on relaxed foreign shareholdings limit brought the SES All-Finance index to a post-'B7 crash high of 414.39, But there was no follow-through as the dust quickly settled
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      • 643 26  -  TAKING By Alan Street WHILE IT is perfectly possible for a life insurance policy to be issued as a stand alone contract, it becoming increasingly popular various optional extras or "riders" to be included under one policy in order to provide a more complete insurance plan
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      • 918 26 Outlook for major European stock exchanges over the next six months Reuter THE FTSE-100 index could end the year on a high note if, as many analysts forecast, Britain joins the exchange rate mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System, and UK. base rates fall as a
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      • 617 26 Reuter WEST GERMAN shares are forecast to set new records by the end of 1990, boosted by expectations that the opening of East Germany and other East Bloc countries will bring windfall profits for West German firms. Share analysts expect the
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      • 468 26 Reuter Foreign investors fell in love with France's stock market in the spring but their passion has since waned, leaving analysts with mixed feelings about prospects for the Paris bourse for the rest of the year. "For the time being I don't think the
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    • THE TRAVEL PAGE
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      • 472 27 LETTER FROM NEW ZEALAND Fast and furious the river filled its steep course, preventing easy travel. The climbers clambered over a huge boulder and plunged into dense scrub again. Persistent drizzle deepened into drenching rain as the evening light faded. Just as darkness
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      • 153 27 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.4520 1.4820 Canadian dollar 1.5600 1.5800 NZ dollar 1.0670 1.0970 Sterling pound 3.2500 3.2800 US dollar 1.8270 1.8370 Local dollars to 100 units of fort ign cHTficy Austrian schilling 15.40
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      • 197 28 The World's Greatest Musical My Fair Lady This musical production has a long history dating back to 1912. This is an Alan Jay Lemer and Frederick Lowe adaptation of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. The relationship between Eliza and Higgins provides the core of the story, as the other characters weave
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        264 28  -  Compiled by K Jayanti Treasures of Han On display are more than 200 pieces of Han Dynasty artefacts, including a jade suit made up of more than 2,000 pieces of jade sewn together with about one kg of gold thread. Till next April. Venue: The Empress Place. Time 9am-9pm.
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      463 28 CwiMei ef War Sean Penn and Michael J Fox are two friends in the Vietnam War who fall out with each other when Penn wants to have his way with a Vietnamese girl and Fox doesn't Midnight tonight at Orchard and Marina 1. Nit List. Just when you thought
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    • 54 18 DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU v M/KE, ENOUGH tUTTH THE I PUNNO, J.J..MAYBE 1 MAYBE rTtSVME TO VOCES. YOU HAVE A FAMILY. I KNOW- T UIONT 1 SHOULD UttNTO 1 QUfT THE BUSiNBS6 A 5 H/EMP AS TT MAY SOUND VOU'KB AMOKE MY INNEA VOICE... I ANPHNPMORESAVS- COMIN6 FROM ME, RIGHT.
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