The Business Times, 18 July 1990

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 Wednesday July 18 1990 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 53 1 FOREIGN MINISTERS of the two Germanys opened talks in Paris yesterday with the four wartime Allies saying that a Soviet-German accord had given a new impetus to German unity. The US, Britain, France and West Germany expressed "overwhelming satisfaction" with Monday's accord, a West
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    • 25 1 STAMFORD Educational Towers has been sold to Japanese businessman Yoshiharu Miyake, who heads Science and Engineering Investment, for $12 million Page 2
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    • 44 1 THE PRIME MINISTER has called on Old Raftlesians to support their alma mater in "money, time and interest" in order for Rattles Institution to remain competitive against other independent schools, which can rely on very strong alumni support Page 2
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    • 29 1 BEIJING has been urged to cooperate more closely with Thai companies and clarify its trade, monetary and tariff policies to improve bilateral trade ties Page 7
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    • 26 1 WORLD TRADE grew last year but much more slowly than in the last two years, according to the International Monetary Fund Page 8
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    • 30 1 SOVIET President Mikhail Gorbachev says Moscow wants to reschedule some debt on better terms because of the difficulties it is having in reforming its economy Page 8
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    • 40 1 THREE MONTHS before the new building at Pasir Panjang Distripark opens its doors, almost 80 per cent of its space has already been snapped up proof of the continued warehousing boom in Singapore. Shipping Times Page I
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 47 1 STOCK prices on Wall Street were mixed in early trading yesterday, with the Dow Jones industrial average crossing the 3,000 mark but prices in the broader market sluggish. The Dow Jones average stood at 3005.20 after one hour of trading, up 5.45 from Monday's close.
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    • 32 1 LONDON shares were higher at midday yesterday, boosted by a shortage of stock. At 1100 GMT, the FTSE 100-share index was up 22.3 points, or one per cent, at 2,428.8.
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    • 28 1 DICKSON TRADING (S) and Pico Art are said to have been unsuccessful in their applications for a listing on the local stock exchange Page 3
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    • 31 1 FAR EAST Levingston Shipbuilding (FELS) has clinched a contract, believed to be worth $30 million, to build a car factory in Guangdong province in China Page 3
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    • 34 1 THE EUROPEAN Commission, stepping up the drive for a single market after 1992, is ready to unleash a proposed law that will shake up the huge non-life EC insurance industry Page 6
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Tuesday Change BT-MGA 819.22 -1.32 Kuala Lumpur ....631.13 +0.61 Hongkong 3,463.94 -24.91 Tokyo 33,172.28 +150.55 Sydney 1,623.0 +15.2 Monday Change New York 2,999.75 +19.55 London 1,900.9 20.8
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    • 22 1 rxrhmn rates US$ S$ 1.8175 Yen SS 1.2272 MS SS0.67I7 Money market rates Overnight 5 1/4 unch 3-month 7 1/8% -3/16
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    • 35 1 London Gold PM fix US$360.70 -US$2.55 Rubber S'pore Aug 154.50'/kg -0.50 M'sia Aug M230.50 Vkg unch KL Tin Turnover 56 tonnes -36 Spot MSl5.85/kg -18 Cmde palm oil Turnover 1247lots +338 Jul M$666/tonne -2
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  • 302 1  -  By Sangeeta Mulchand SINGAPORE businessmen are expected to snap up almost half of the 600 light industrial units in Johor that are being offered for sale by Panoramic Industrial Developers Sdn Bhd. Indeed, of the first 70 units at Taman Perindustrian Cemerlang marketed
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  • 411 1  -  By William Chia THE PALM RESORT Golf and Country Gub in Johor has received such overwhelming response to its initial membership drive that it will more than double its membership intake and expand its golfing facilities. Mr Yoshiharu Miyake, managing director of
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  • 162 1 AFP JAPAN'S Foreign Minister, Taro Nakayama, will make an 11-day tour from July 26 of Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Laos, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said yesterday. During the trip, he will attend a meeting oif Asean foreign ministers and their dialogue partners set for
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  • 467 1  -  By Magdalene Ng FINANCIAL institutions in Singapore are still unsure about financing scripless shares a month after the new system was launched for mainboard stocks. Checks with a few local banks and finance companies yesterday revealed that their officers are not clear
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  • 133 1 Reuter JAPANESE Transport Minister Akira Ono will propose the idea of a Japan-Korea undersea tunnel during his four-day trip to Seoul on July 26 when he will meet his counterpart, Kim Chang-sik. "Japan and South Korea should be able to build a tunnel just as
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  • 376 1  -  By. Magdalene Ng UNITED INDUSTRIAL Corporation has confirmed the sale of its entire 20 per cent stake in Development Commercial Bank to Rashid Hussain Bhd (RHB) for M 52.20 a share or MJ224 million. Confirming a BT report yesterday, UIC said it
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  • 209 1 MENDAKI, the council for the development of the Malay/Muslim community, is venturing into the corporate sector through its new holding company, Mendaki Holdings Pte Ltd. Speaking at a news conference yesterday announcing the council's new three-year corporate plan, the deputy chairman of its board of directors,
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 67 2 THE CONSUMER Price Index last month was 2.9 per cent higher than that a year ago. Compared with the first half of last year, the index was 3.5 per cent higher. An upward revision of service and conservancy charges by the Housing and
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      • 70 2 THERE IS much scope for cooperation among regional countries on health problems as many of them are common to all, said Acting Health Minister Yeo Cheow Tong at the International Union for Health Education regional conference yesterday. One area that can be explored, he said, is
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      • 68 2 PKESIDENT Wee Kim Wee, on behalf of the government and people of Singapore, has conveyed his deepest sympathy to the victims and families of the earthquake which hit the' Philippines on Monday. In his message to President Corazon Aquino, President Wee said that he was confident
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      • 62 2 AS A RESULT of the powerful earthquake that struck Manila and the rest of Luzon island on Monday, telecommunications services to the Philippines have been partially affected. This was due to damage caused to the Asean Philippine-Singapore submarine cable. A Telecom statement said telecommunications traffic is being
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      • 93 2 THE SINGAPORE Design Award has attracted 75 locallymade products this year, of which 60 were submitted by SI local companies. The rest were from eight foreign companies based here. The selection will take place next month. The awards will be announced and presented during the opening ceremony
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    • 415 2  -  By William Chia SCIENCE and Engineering Investment (SEI), which is headed by Japanese businessman Yoshiharu Miyake, is making waves in Singapore and Malaysia through its aggressive ventures in the property, leisure and industrial supplies sectors. Mr Miyake, a director of Kamunting Corp,
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    • 245 2 ALLOWING schools to be partially-independent and self-financing, like community centres, can create the competitive educational environment necessary to bring out the best in Singapore's youth, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday. Speaking to fellow old Rafllesians at a Raffles Institution
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    • 201 2 THE NATIONAL Computer: Board (NCB) has announced the appointment of a new deputy general manager to. help beef up the statutory, board's management. Mr Ko Kheng Hwa, who was formerly divisional direc-» tor in charge of Information Technology Application and Human Resource, will
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 331 3  -  By Abdul Hadhi DICKSON TRADING (S) and Pico Art are believed to have been unsuccessful in their applications for a listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. Dickson, an upmarket fashion goods distributor, has been trying to get a listing
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    • 375 3  -  By A J Leow SEMBAWANG MARITIME (SML), which was once almost reliant on salvage work, expects its shiprepair and offshore contracting divisions to contribute about half of its revenue this year. Managing director Lai Park On hoped that salvage work, which contributed 60
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    • 357 3 Bernama PACIFIC BANK Bhd's public issue of 14.417 million shares has attracted 293,663 applications for a total of 420.013 million units worth close to Msl billion. This represents an over-subscrip-tion of 28.13 times. The flotation involved a total of 22.234 million shares
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    • 144 3 Bernama SIME Sembawang Engineering Sdn Bhd (SSE), a member of the Sime Darby group, has completed fabrication of Dulang A, a Ms 23 million jacket, within 14 months of its contract award. In a statement in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, Sime Darby said the four-legged, 2,575-tonne
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    • 266 3 Bernama BOLTON Properties Bhd is to acquire the 5.02 million shares representing 27.52 per cent of Bolton Finance Bhd's paid-up capital held by Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ling Liong Sik for M 511.06 million. Replying to a KLSE query,
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    • 387 3  -  By Yong Pow Ang FAR EAST Levingston Shipbuilding (FELS) has clinched a contract, believed to be worth $30 million, to build an automobile factory in Guangdong province in China. With this project, FELS has secured $800 million worth of contracts thus far this year.
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 168 3 THE EMPORIUM group made a turnaround last year, three years after Hongkong-listed IHD Holdings Ltd acquired (he; ailing retail group and pumped in another $6 million to makeit more competitive. Tliis brings the group a step closer tb a~ listing on the Stock Exchange
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      • 51 3 MR LEE KIM YEW, Mr Wong Aun Phui and Mr Goh Yeok Chay have resigned as directors of Tat Lee Finance (HK) a subsidiary of Tat Lee Bank. Mr Lee has also resigned as a,, director of Premier Investment Pte Ltd, another Tat Les-' bank
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      • 60 3 MR CHEW Leng Seng has resigned as chairman and directpc of Singapore Jamco Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore Air= lines Ltd, with effect from July IS. Mr Robert Tan Kim Tedc is now the new chairman, while Mr Teo Chye Seng has been appointed
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      • 72 3 PERMODALAN Nasional Bhd (PNB) has increased its shar eholding in Golden Hope Plantations Bhd to 108,535,2i>* shares following a series of acquisitions between May 21 and June 11, 1990. The 207,000 additional shares were bought oftthe open market. PNB also declared that it had reduced
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      • 94 3 GENTING Bhd has reduced its stake in Resorts World Bhd 1 to 298.270 million shares through placements of 938,006; shares by two of its wholly-owned subsidiaries between June 25 and 29, 1990. The subsidiaries, Maxitage Sdn Bhd and Genting Equities (HK) Ltd, sold 816,000 shares
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 75 4 BOND CORP Holdings Ltd said it had sold its Observation City seaside resort on the northern fringes of Perth to Pakwell Pty Ltd for A 577.34 million. The 337-room luxury hotel was owned by Austmark International Ltd, a 47-per-cent owned subsidiary of Bond Corp. Bond
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      • 97 4 BOND CORP International Ltd (BCIL) has agreed conditionally to take full control of a piece of property in Rome by acquiring the remaining 50 per cent stake from Bond Corp Holdings Ltd for US$7O million. BCIL said in a statement that it will pay
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      • 55 4 UNDER new rules being adopted by the Securities Exchange of Thailand, listed companies will be required to allot at least 35 per cent of their equity to small shareholders for new share issues, while authorised companies must divest more than 20 per cent of their
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      • 82 4 THAI company Land House plans to spend several billion baht during the next few years on developing projects, according to The Bangkok Post. The projects will be handled either by Land House or by its affiliates. Land House is holding talks with a Japanese company
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    • 375 4 IN WHAT WOULD be the first major overseas hotel takeover by a Thai company, the Dusit Thani Hotel group plans to buy the five-star American Plaza Hotel in Dallas, Texas, for an estimated US$2O million (approximately 500 million baht). According to The
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    • 136 4 Reuter THE TAIWAN Stock Exchange ordered a major Taipei brokerage house to stop trading temporarily yesterday because it was unable to explain the loss of NT$54O million. An exchange spokesman told a news conference on Monday night that Ten Jen Securities Co, one of Taiwan's top
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    • 371 4 THAILAND'S Finance Ministry has said that Thai Airways International must raise its registered capital by issuing I billion baht in new shares to finance expansion this year, according to The Business Post. These new shares are expected to be listed on the Securities
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    • 207 4 AFP MARUBENI CORP, Japan's leading trading company, said yesterday it would team up with South Korean and Taiwan companies in a project to produce fibre board by recycling scrap wood in Canada. The three companies Marubeni, South Korea's Hyundai Corp and a
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    • 226 4 J?y.:.. W jMMiy GIANNI VISENTIN Famed Italian sculptor and jeweller, Gianni Visentin will for t^ie rst me n Singapore exhibit his highly acclaimed llr^Y masterpieces sculptures of biscuit porcelain encased in Wm 18K gold, platinum and precious stones. jp He derives his inspiration from political or JjS/b social issues war,
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 382 5 NYT SOUTHLAND CORP's major creditors have agreed to sweetened terms of a takeover offer from Japan's ItoYokado Group that will give Southland's debt holders 20 per cent of the company and an additional US$3O million. Under the agreement on Monday, the founding Thompson family will
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    • 143 5 Reuter OXFORD Instruments Group ptc said it had won an order from International Business Machines Corp (IBM) for a new device to manufacture advanced computer chips developed with IBM funding. Oxford Instruments chief executive Peter Williams said IBM was taking delivery of the
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    • 417 5 AFP THE WEST GERMAN monopolies office has blocked a planned joint takeover of Spanish truck maker ENASA by West German concerns MAN and Daimler-Benz. The takeover would have had serious consequences on competition in the truckmaking sector, the monopolies office said in a statement on
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    • 269 5 AFP FRENCH oil group Elf Aquitaine has taken a 25 per cent stake in major Spanish oil company Cepsa and a 3.2 per cent stake in Cepsa's parent company Banco Central. Elf did not give the value of the deal,
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    • 268 5 AFP THE VALUE of public company takeovers and mergers completed in Britain in first half of 1990 was down by more than half on the same period of 1989, according to a specialist review published in London on Monday. But the period was
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 109 5 SWEDISH forestry group Svenska CeUulosa AB (SCA) snd holders of more than 90 per cent of the shares in Britain's Reedpack Ltd have accepted SCA's offer to acquire the ooft*pany, thus ensuring the bid's success. SCA said in a statement that the acquisition
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      • 67 5 THE FRENCH stock exchanges association (SBF) said thp bourse watchdog body, COB, had no objection to Bernard Tapie Finance shares being relisted, expected yesterday, tifc SBF said in a statement Shares in two Tapie-controlled weighing machine subsidiaries, Testut and Terraillon, woifli also be relisted. All three
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      • 82 5 THE CO-CHAIRMAN of French hotel group Accor said he would like to reorganise the hotel operations of Belgian tia\fcl and tourism group Cie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et au Tourisme SA. "We're looking at a reshuffling of the hot 6 sector of Wagons-Lits. We're thinking of partnerships
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      • 46 5 RENTOKIL Group pic, an environmental services and prop* erty group, said it is paying £12.2 million cash for tropical plant rental and maintenance businesses owned by Brierley Investments Ltd of New Zealand. The businesses are based in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
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      • 74 5 WEST GERMAN chemical giant Bayer AG said it was buying Rhone-Poulenc's British Selby citric acid unit for £S6 million, subject to approval by regulatory authorities. The purchase brings Bayer's citric acid production capacity to 150,000 tonnes a year, compared with global demand for 500,000 tonnes,
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      • 82 5 WAL-MART Stores Inc of the US is offering US$5OO million of 9.10 per cent notes due July 15, 2000, underwriters said. Goldman Sachs and Co is lead manager. Priced at par, the notes yield 65 basis points over comparable Treasury securities. Selling concession is U553.75, gross
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 76 6 STANDARD CHARTERED Bank has lowered its Taiwan prime rate to 14.75 per cent from 16 per cent, effective immediately. In a statement in Taipei yesterday, the bank said the reduction was in line with easier money market conditions. The bank, which usually takes the
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      • 69 6 A TAIPEI COURT has sentenced the head of Taiwan's second largest unlicensed bank and his subordinates to prison terms of three to four and a half years on charges of violating banking rules. A court official said on Monday that Ting Lei»miao, chairman of
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      • 59 6 THE BANK of New England is closing its representative office in Brazil at the end of this month, Richard Hayes, vice-president and representative, said in Sao Paulo on Monday. The Bank of New England in recent months has reported restructuring in the wake of problem loans
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      • 65 6 NOMURA SECURITIES Co Ltd opened a representative office in Rome yesterday. A spokesman said: 'The office will make it easier to collect information as Rome is a centre of politics in Italy." The office will also support Nomura's wholly-owned subsidiary, Nomura Italy SPA, in Milan.
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      • 66 6 THE STATE BANK of Victoria (SBV) has cut back its offshore foreign exchange operations in New York and London. "We have come out of direct market operations but we will still have an on-going presence," SBV international treasurer Peter McLeand said in Melbourne yesterday. The New
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    • 506 6 Reuter THE European Community executive commission, stepping up the drive for a single market after 1992, is ready to unleash a proposed law that would shake up the huge non-life EC insurance industry. Barring last minute objections, the 17-member executive
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    • 438 6 NYT PROBLEMS with bad real estate loans and sluggish demand for new loans are depressing profits of some large banks around America, according to reports of earnings for the second quarter on Monday. Chase Manhattan Corp, First Chicago Corp and Bank of New
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    • 295 6 Reuter HUNGARY intends to list shares in its banks on Budapest stock exchange by the end of the year as put of its moves towards a Western-' style market economy, a government economic adviser' said. Count Istvan Bethlen, t, leading member of the Hungarian
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    • 150 6 Will coffee beans today make you a has-been tomorrow Facts that figure: July *****0, Zaobao Business. China, Japan and the 4 NIEs are the formidable behind Chinese entrepreneurs on foreign soils. paper, the business section is undergoing a radical economies that ring the Pacific rim. How will their cai=*i,T*T l.*L
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  • THE REGION
    • 349 7 THE CHINESE government has been urged to cooperate more closely with Thai companies and clarify its trade, monetary and tariff policies to improve trade ties between the two countries. The Bangkok Post quoted Board of Trade executive director Prayoon Thalerngsri as
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    • 200 7 Bernama MALAYSIA'S Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz on Monday called for collaboration among local manufacturing companies in anticipation of possible revocation of privileges on certain products under the generalised system of preferences (GSP). Speaking to newsmen after launching Metrojaya Sdn Bhd's
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    • 266 7 INVESTORS and players ploughed 300 million baht into Thai golf club memberships during the first three months of this year, prompting industry observers to blame a surge in prices on rampant speculation by both foreign and local investors. According to brokers and industry analysts, up
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    • 270 7 Reuter THE SRI LANKAN government wants to borrow up to a further 11 billion rupees (US$275 million) from local and foreign banks for development work, officials said. They said parliamentary approval has been sought to approve the loans. In the 1990 budget sanctioned
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    • 329 7 AFP THAI Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan and his much criticised coalition government are bracing themselves for an opposition onslaught when they face a no-confidence debate in Parliament today. And while political analysts do not expect the 70-year-old Mr Chatichai, halfway through his four-year
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 59 7 THE ROYAL Thai Air Force wants to buy a squadron of 16 F-5E fighter planes and 10 10-seater passenger jets from the United States Air Force. Air Chief Marshal Kaset Rqjananil said he hoped Thailand could buy the planes at a "friendship
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      • 88 7 Fiji's military commander Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka said on Tuesday he wanted to quit the army within six months to become the Pacific nation's prime minister. Rabuka, who led two coups in 1987 to topple Fiji's democratically elected government, told Radio New Zealand he would like
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      • 79 7 UP TO 1,500 special forces have been deployed in the north-western Indonesian province of Aceh where small armed groups have killed 30 troops and police and as many civilians over the past three months, informed sources said on Monday. The sources said two Kopassus (special forces)
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      • 66 7 SOLDIERS and rescue workers battled yesterday to free hundreds of people trapped beneath the rubble of hotds and a school building which collapsed when a powerful earthquake rocked the northern Philippines. The United States sent civil engineering teams with sniffer dogs to hdp in the rescue
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 92 8 EAST GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER Markus Meckel has argued for a transition period of more than two years to precede his country's full integration into the European Community. Mr Meckel, who symbolically took part in a luncheon of the 12 EC foreign ministers meeting
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      • 86 8 A DELEGATION of Japanese Diet (Parliament) members led by former finance and foreign minister Kiichi Miyazawa met US Trade Representative Carla Hills in Washington on Monday to open a week-long review of Japanese-American political and economic relations. The delegation, representing five parties, was to meet US
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      • 73 8 KING HUSSEIN of Jordan has said in a US television interview that war could break out in the Middle East over the rising number of Soviet Jewish immigrants. "This area seems to be facing a very bleak and very dangerous future at this point," he
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      • 59 8 THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT may allow foreign investors a larger stake in its privatisation programme, but is determined to keep "strategic" companies in Portuguese hands. Elias da Costa, Secretary of State for Finance, said in Lisbon on Monday that Portuguese groups had not consolidated themselves enough yet
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    • 486 8 AP WORLD TRADE grew last year but much more slowly than in the last two years, according to the International Monetary Fund. The growth was 8.6 per cent, against nearly IS per cent in 1988 and almost 19 per cent
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    • 194 8 AP US BUSINESS SALES shot ap 0.9 per cent in May, the biggest jump in three months, while inventories rose modestly, the government said on Monday in a report indicating continued economic growth. Monday's report, which was in line with economists' expectations,
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    • 381 8 NYT JAPANESE PURCHASES of American companies jumped sharply in the first half of this year, while American purchases in Japan remained small. But while the Japanese buying seems to get most of the attention, Japan was not the leading buyer of US companies.
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    • 318 8 Reuter SOVIET PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev has said that Moscow wants to reschedule some debt on better terms because of the difficulties it is having in reforming its economy. He said in Mineralnye Vody on Monday at the end of his two-day talks
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    • 318 8 Reuter CHINA'S budget deficit, one of the economy's most serious problems, may balloon this year as tax collection from industry meets stubborn resistance, Chinese economists and foreign diplomats said. Official newspapers highlighted the problem on Monday, quoting Finance Minister Wang Bingqian
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  • 460 10 EDITORIAL IT IS a positive sign that Malay professionals have decided to take a more active role in the life and affairs of their community. Professionals in every ethnic or cultural group can play a potentially positive role in helping their people. So too, Malay
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 233 10 THE defections that followed the 28th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party are strong evidence that the congress marked not President Mikhail Gorbachev's arrival at the Holy Grail; only another milestone in his stormy journey to perestroika. Time is running out for the Soviet leader to
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    • 138 10 THE dinner organised by the PAP Malay Affairs Bureau last Sunday for Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew was a perfect tribute to the man who has done much for Singapore and for the Malays. The Muslim community, particularly the Malays, is grateful to the government under Mr
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    • 105 10 MALAY professionals are making a positive move in organising a convention to look deeper into the Malay problems. They have indicated that an 'integrated strategy' is needed to solve the problems facing Malays. But Malay professionals have got to keep their focus on the core problems.
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 172 10 BRITAIN'S Trade and Industry Secretary Nicholas Ridley, in an interview with The Spectator magazine, where he accused Germany of again trying to take over Europe and dismissed the French as the German's poodles, did not merely represent the latest blunder by a politician with a long track
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    • 146 10 PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino of the Philippines seems close to siege in Malacanang. A dozen bomb attacks and attempted attacks last Friday renewed the image of an unstable nation wracked by uncontrollable violence. The president faces war on her administration from two directions. The far left and
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    • 194 10 IN RECENT weeks, quite a few American legislators and lobbyists have been mounting their high horse and have been in a high dudgeon over various alleged offences committed by Malaysia. Last year, the country was accused of purveying palm oil to Americans, as if Malaysia was responsible
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  • 1142 10  -  Dr John Hewson, Australia's shadow prime minister and leader of the opposition, talks to Harish Mehta about his plans to make the new-look opposition a force to be reckoned with Harish Mehta Australia's shadow prime minister, a Ferrari-driving, gourmet restaurateurturned leader of the opposition,
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    • 61 10 POONESBURY YOU KNOU,GANG, NOW THAT TOUGH% OW, AND MrVEAL&AnHI tmjAamn UMM rnujfjn THE PPESIPWTHAS BAILED ON MM SJAND PORTHE BUSH- M GOT A CALL \GO AHEAP, HISTAX PLEDGE,HOSGONGTO Wf&X* IT6ANBEA CALLER, WHAT DO s tOU VGTES riWm^AL HEED A NEUB&JEF! NO TAXES UTTIZ P&iQGOGtC, Th/NK POPPY'S NEMJ £&AT"z Errnr' M6THEON&THN6HESIOOD
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 779 11  -  Thailand is one of Asia's fastest growing economies with double-digit growth in the past three years. But there are no signs that the majority of the population the farmers and unskilled labourers are enjoying the benefits of the new prosperity. Denise Young reports
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    • 1641 11  -  Malaysia is enacting legislation to make Labuan the first international tax naven in Asean and a global offshore financial centre. Alvin Tay reports Alvin Tay W" -w HERE is LabuM an? That was the frank reply of an ''•jW American bank- j ing executive '&ased
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    • 800 11  -  Carol Giacomo reports on Mikhail Gorbachev's remarkable ability to survive internal squabbles and challenges Carol Giacomo Reuter WASHINGTON analysts, well-schooled in rough and tumble politics, are marvelling at Mikhail Gorbachev's latest display of a wily ability to survive domestic power challenges. "People
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    • 898 12 Signs of prosperity are evident as the Hanoi regime loosens its grip on the economy. But this happy turn of events is marred by a recent natural disaster. And the omens point to further gloom. AP A DRAMATIC UPTURN in rioe production
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    • 956 12 Reuter Nature has wreaked a fierce revenge for the wholesale destruction of forests in northern Vietnam, devastating an entire valley with a sudden flood that surged down the barren hills. The submersion of Muong Lay in flood waters up to seven metres deep
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    • 280 12 SINGAPORE INSURANCE INSTITUTE SEMINARS 26 July 1990 Pan Pacific Hotel Morning Session: An overview of the worldwide catastrophes and their impact on the world insurance market by Prof. Un Hoe Park, Professor of Insurance, Sung Kyun Kwan University (Seoul) Damages in personal injury claims (including death) by Mr R Karuppan
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  • SPORTS
    • 375 13 AP CLAUDIO CHIAPPUCCI added three seconds to his slim lead in the Tour de France on Monday, as the leaders rode a conservative 1 Sth stage and allowed France's Charles Mottet to win the leg by nearly five minutes. I Greg LeMond, Eric Breukipk and Pedro
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    • 330 13 AFP FOR SEVERIANO Ballesteros* the 1984 British Open at St Andrews was his most memorable victory. The best Tom Watson can say is that he still has affection for the course. In 1984, he came to the famous 17th Road Hole, level with Ballesteros. But his
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    • 293 13 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Mark Woodforde let a first-set tie-break slip away then rallied past American Paul Annacone 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the U*****,000 Washington Tennis Classic on Monday. Woodforde, ranked 126 th in the world, had a set
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    • 144 13 AP YUGOSLAV Goran Prpic beat Francisco Clavet of Spain in straight sets in the first round "of the. men's US$l million Mercedes Cup tennis tournament in Stuttgart on Monday. Prpic, ranked 33rd in the world, clinched a first-set tiebreaker 7-3 and went on
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    • 218 13 AFP CARL LEWIS won his 63rd consecutive long jump contest with a leap of 8.51 m in his first attempt at the Barcelona international athletics meeting on Monday. The 29-year-old American has now gone undefeated in the event since March
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 95 13 AUSTRALIA overpowered a combined West Coast-Buller side 62-0 yesterday for its first win of its 12-matcfa rugby union tour of New Zealand in Greymouth. The visitors scored 11 tries, six in the first half to lead 34-0 at half-time. Fullback David Knox kicked eight
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      • 68 13 SEVENTH-SEEDED Anne Smith advanced to the second round of the U*****,000 Virginia Slims of Newport tournament on Monday by beating unseeded Terry Phelps 6-2, 6-3. Smith, ranked 30th in the world, led 6-2, 4-0 before Phelps broke Smith in the fifth game and held serve
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      • 56 13 JIMMY KEY allowed three hits over seven innings and Fred McGriff homered as Toronto regained first place in the American League East by beating the Seattle Mariners. 4-3 in Seattle on Monday. The victory, coupled with Bo*~' ton's loss to Minnesota, gave the Blue Jays a
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      • 70 13 US BASEBALL'S World Series will start on Tuesday, Oct' 16, three days later than originally scheduled, in the home park of the National League champion. The series was originally scheduled to start on Oct 13, a Saturday, but was' set hack because baseball owners locked
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 819 15  -  The first conquest of the Matterhorn in 1865 was marred by tragedy when four of the seven-man team died in the descent. Hanns Neuerbourg reports on a new book published on the 125 th anniversary of the event Hanns Neuerbourg AP ANEW book has rekindled
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    • 368 15 AP OLD AGE is no excuse if Grandpa forgets to take his pill at mealtime or buy bread on the way home from golf, according to a study that surprised researchers. In two laboratory experiments, elderly participants did just as well
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    • 516 15 CHATTCREQifl HOW does Pope John Paul II get away from it all? He sleeps "late", until 6am, hikes for hours on Alpine trails and before the day's light fades, reads a little German poetry outdoors. That's a typical day of the papal holiday.
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    • 297 15 AP HORMONE replacement therapy can sharply reduce the risk of hip fractures in women during and after menopause, according to a study of more than 23,000 women. Researchers found that a combination treatment of estrogen and progestogen could reduce the
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 903 16  -  By Magdalene Ng PROFIT-TAKERS emerged yesterday to pare recent gains on the Singapore stock exchange in relatively active trade. Brokers said local share prices opened broadly firmer on continued buying interest in line with Wall Street's sustained rally overnight. Cautious investors, however, soon decided to
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  • 4254 17 Main Board Cold Stora* H 525 20 4.0% Keppei Corpn 815 +15 S1A Foreign 1890 +10 +0.5* DBS Foreign 1410 +10 +0.7* OCBC Foreign 1050 +10 +1.0* SPH 805 +10 +1.3* Ming Court 560 +10 +1.8* Partway H 50* 338 +10 +3.0* CACWt 230 +10
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    • 190 18 fiBpr j Date Year Grtwp pn-tax N«t earning Grow m t* pf©m/te*« (L) par dhrtd^d COM) (CMts) IUjM Hussam Jul 13 May 90 M$30,105(M$15.338) 21.8(11.1) 5(4) PtfeV BM M 12 Ma* 90 M$14.247(M$10,387) 6.5(4.6) 10(8) tseten MS Mar 90 $32.090p($19.078) 48.5(39.1) 14(10) AlexHMgs Jon 29 Mar 90 $1.786($1.672)
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    • 153 18 C~M-y 6r^ f l»rt-Ux n > mh to pnM/litt (U dmiino ('000) M Cement Jul 12 May 90 MJ29.627(MJ14.717) 7.5(6) r .Ganta HMbs Jun 29 Mar 90 M$3.237L($2,236l) Pacific Can Jun 29 Mar 90 S6SL( Samanda HWgs Jun 2S Mar 90 M$4,997(J5,120) CASH Jun 26 Feb 90 MJ669MJ5001)
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    • 628 18 Currant Mu Tatal «nr Total lar MnWp 6% Aug 28 Sep 7 Sep 26 6% 6% MR NYA Jun 20 Jul 5 Aug 15 NYA 129scn Ma Padk 1541(1) Jul 4 Jul 16 Jul 20 15.4% 358% Mm 7.5%TE(I) Oct 12 Oct 25 No* 15 7 5*TE 25%Tt
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    • 753 18 !h|ipiri Stocks Last Fad Yoar Capan* NM Date Tea M EPS Gran M annate* at*g (cab) pre* M ra (TOM) Leang IM Menm Mar 30 Dec 89 5351(h) 06 Menm Apr 26 tol 90 9.3(a) 2.371(a) 4.747 Tat Laa tan Fatal ton 1 Dec 89 12 3 8
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    • 627 18 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Cmpif Ctmmntm paM Mi (m fcr mm artftaay CSC Mm 26/4/93 hS^MSS C—ay L— W 2/10/89 to 20/10/94 1 wvrat plus $1 ca* or 1 wwrat ptos >1 noun* amount of loan skid OtoaHfltalni Chan m March 87 to 31/12/91 1S5 warrants ptos >1.55 ca* GtoM Hp
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    • 332 18 at Jd IS Smgmame Industries, a Keppel Corp subsidiary, has acquired a cruise chartering company, Orient Charters. Tokyo-based MRsri OSX Lines has set up a joint-venture company, Mitsui OSK (M), with Malaysia Shipping Agencies (MSA). The paid-up capital for the new company is M 5300,000. United Mstriai Corporation
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    • 298 18 Company Rights Issue ■Step One-torthree 0 KJ160 per share (30.131m IS Convertible Unsecured Loan Stock of MSI 00 nommal value to be sued on the bass of 1 CULS lor every shares held. Ei-date Jun 6 Books dose Jun 20 Acceptance I Payment Aug 6 KMa Kales (KX)
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    • 499 18 Company Rights Issue CjNMway kn Capital reduction scheme to reduce par value ot shares from $100 to $0 60; fbghts issue o» 3:2 fc $0.60 per share OM One-tor-one fe MJ4 00 per share Every tour ngMs shares would be issued •nth one TSfi OB One-tor two $1
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    • 241 18 Transmarco Ltd: AGM at 65 Chulia Street. #334)0 OCBC Centre, Singapore 0104 on Friday, Jufy 20, at 11.30 am. Metro Hotdhp Ltd: 17th AGM at 65 Chulia Street #334)0 OCBC Centre. Singapore 0104 on Friday, July 20, at 12 noon. Sngapore Mks Limited: 18th AGM at the Bencooien
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3782 19 Bernama, MBT PROFIT-TAKING surfaced yesterday to cut short the three-day rally on the Kuala Lumpur stock market, with share prices closing mixed. It initially appeared that the market was headed for a fourth straight session of gains when share prices opened a shade firmer.
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    • 265 19 AT SHERATON IITTII THINGS MIAN A lOT AT SHERATON UTTU THINGS MIAN A lOT AT SHfIATON O < m Z 2 he could hardly of bed to open the Heaton refused to let us call in a doctor. So our waiter took the Asia's panacea for o It all happened
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2315 20 Reuter TOKYO stocks yesterday closed higher on a spurt of futures-related arbitrage buying in the final moments of trade. Market sentiment was otherwise cautious after an early rally fizzled out, but many brokers expressed subdued optimism for the near term. "There are technical signs
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2482 20 Reuter, AFP HONGKONG'S main market barometer, the Hang Seng Index, ended lower yesterday as profit-taking on last week's big gains continued for the second straight day. The Hang Seng Index shed 24.91 points to end at 3,463.94. "It's a healthy retreat," said Antony Mak, of
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Steady buying lifts Aussie stocks
      • 85 21 Cloae Pwtwi Jaiy 17 SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index 1,623.0 1,607.8 +15.2 All Industrials Index 2,522.2 2,499.2 +23.0 All Resources Index 935.9 926.890 +9.09 Turnover (million) 67.18 87.27 -20.09 BANGKOK SET Index *****6 1054.84 7.72 4 Turnover (nearest *000) NA NA JAKARTA Composite Index 629.50 630.73 -1.23 Turnover (nearest *000) NA
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      • 293 21 la local evreacy la SS la USS day year day year day yew J«*y 16 ladex ckmm dmm ckmm cha—t Worid 438.9 0.8 -5.6 0.4 -9.3 0.4 -51 JEAFE 610.4 0.9 -10.4 0.7 -13.3 0.7 -9.3 Europe 4S8.7 0.3 1.8 -0.1 4.0 -0.1 8 8 Pacific 1043.4 1.4 -17.6 1.3
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      • 1160 21 STEADY overseas and domestic buying gave the sharemarket a boost with the All Ordinaries Index, the leading indicator, closing 15.2 points higher at f,623.0, brokers said. w Brokers said the market took its lead from New York, where the Dow Jones Index closed 19 points higher. "There was good
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      • 676 21 THAI STOCKS rallied in moderate trading yesterday, with banks and finance firms leading the advance, but prices closed off highs on late profit-tak-ing, brokers said. They estimated the composite Set Index closed 8.31 points higher at 1,062.56 after it rose 14 points halfway through the session. Bangkok Bank gained
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      • 366 21 TAIWAN stocks closed higher in a technical rebound as investors entered the market after early, quiet gains, dealers said. The weighted index rose 108.66 points, or 2.3 per cent, to close at 4,818.41 compared with Monday's 4,709.75 finish. Turnover climbed to NTS 37 billion from NT532.9 billion. Dealers said
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      • 474 21 PHILIPPINE shares firmed further in light trade despite a powerful earthquake that shook the capital and several northern provinces. The Manila Stock Exchange composite index rose 5.67 points to close at 897.17 yesterday. The combined volume at the two bourses eased to 291.92 million shares worth 77.48 million pesos
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      • 431 21 NEW ZEALAND shares closed modest- ly higher but well off their day's highs, as the market consolidated after a rush of buying support in early trade. "It started off with a bit of a hiss and a roar, with some overseas buying still overflowing from the weekend," said
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      • 578 21 PRICES on the Jakarta stock exchange ended mixed, with the composite inddx easing 1.20 points to 629.50. Pulp and paper producer Indah Kiat fell 250 rupiah to 10,950 on the regular market on its second trading day with 8,500 shares changing hands. On the block board for lots of
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      • 684 21 Seoul JULY 16 Wm (XX)) A nam Electric Ind 192 5 A nam Ind 220 3 Ankuk Insu 252 unch Asia Cement 283 36 Asia Motors 202 4 Bank Of Che Ju 165 -4 Bank Of Pusan 124 unch Bank Of Seoul 105 unch Byuck San 192 16 Cheil Sugar
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Dow comes very close to 3,000 mark
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        1237 22 US BLUE CHIPS turned on a last-min-ute advance to come within a hair's breadth of closing at the 3,000 level after futures-related sell programs and profit-taking eroded heftier afternoon gains. Although it failed to close above the 3,000 barrier, the blue-chip index climbed to its third new high
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        802 22 LONDON share prices opened firmer, lifted by a 19-point rise on Wall Street and boosted further by FTSE futures, with the September contract showing an 80 point premium over the cash market, dealers said. By 0945 GMT the FTSE index was 13.5 points up at 2,420.0, the day's high
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      • 184 22 Belgian shares were mixed to lower in early trading as steel cord and steel wire maker Bekaert plunged 7 per cent after the company reported a drop of more than 50 per cent in first-half consolidated profit. Bekaert dropped 1,000 francs to 13,000 francs as first-half profits sank mainly
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      • 172 22 PRICES of West German shares opened weaker across the board on profit taking after recent gains and on foreign investor selling, mainly from England. "People are realising the bourse hasn't got the strength to reach new highs and are pulling out," said one trader. Selling orders focused on car
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      • 159 22 SELLING pressure drove Milan share prices lower at the opening in reduced volume, with only the banking and ce- ment sectors moving against the downward trend, brokers said. The MIB index was down 1.2 per cent at 0900 GMT. Blue chips continued to perform poorly. Fiat ordinary slipped to
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      • 347 22 SWISS shares opened slightly lower as the weaker Swiss franc weighed on the market, dealers said. The SMI index of leading shares fell 7.2 points after about 10 minutes of trading. Traders said after Monday's all-time high a consolidation had to be expected. The weaker franc dampened hopes that
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      • 363 22 JOHANNESBURG gold shares weredrifting around slighty easier levels in slack trading at noon on Tuesday as the market cautiously waited for fresh dues, dealers said. Very few shares had been traded,' they said, among which heavywetgttf; Vaal Reefs was off four rand at 286 ana Randfontein 15 cents easier
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      • 212 22 TORONTO stocks, boosted by a rally! in resource shares and a firm Walk Street, closed at session highs in moderate trade on Monday. The Toronto Stock Exchange-306 1 climbed 42.47 or 1.18 per cent fcti 3,638.85 on volume of 18.53 shares. Advances led decline* 348 to 223. >« i
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      • 156 22 FRENCH share prices opened higher, boosted by Wall Street's record close, with trading active in cement maker Lafarge and oil company Elf Aquitaine, dealers said. The CAC-40 index started at 2,023.97 after closing at 2,015.59, and rapidly climbed to a high of 2,025.20. Lafarge gained six francs to 466.50
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      • 260 22 Other markets in Europe, South Africa and Canada mm Amsterdam July 16 Fh ABN 36.80 +0.1 Aegon 132.60 +0.1 Ahold 142.60 unch Akzo 122.70 -1.6 Alrenta 158.10 +0.5 AMEV 58.20 unch AMRO 73.30 +0.6 Ass. Stad 46.30 unch BOLS 185.00 +0.5 Borsumy 92.00 -0.7 Buehrman Tetterode.... 74.40 +0.3 CSM 90.10
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      • 84 22 July 16 Close Preview NEW YORK Dow Jones 2,999.75 2,980 20 +19.55 NYSE Financial 145.95 145.06 +0.89 SAP 500 368.95 367.31 +1.64 Turnover (million) 149.43 215.6 -66.17 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,900.9 1,880.1 +20.8 FTSE 100 2,406.5 2,382.2 +24.3 Turnover (million) 346.9 399.2 -52.3 AMSTERDAM CBS General 202.2 201.2 +1.0
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1177 23 FOREX MARKET REPORTS THE US DOLLAR yesterday closed barely changed against the yen and shghtly higher against the mark. Trading was quiet ahead of the May US trade data due out at 1230 GMT last night and US Federal
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    • 401 23 Cra— rates July 17 I USJ S$ MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.8175 2.7030 1.6555 147.95 0.5559 1.4190 1.2706 1.6863 S» 0.5502 1.4872 0.9109 0.8140 0.3058 0.7807 0.699 0.9278 MS 0.3700 67.24 0.6125 0.5474 0.2056 0.5250 0.4701 0.6239 Dm 0.6040 1.0979 1.6327 89.37 0.3358 0.8571
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    • 565 23 Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 5 1/4 5 1/2 1-month 7 1/8 7 1/4 2-month 7 1/8 7 1/4 3-month 7 1/8 7 1/4 Qvernight mode: 5-3/8 t'S$ m Offer 7 days 8 3/16 8 1/16 1 month 8 3/16 8 1/16 2 months 8 3/16 8
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    • 322 23 Reuter THE BANK of Japan (BOJ) has been allowing money market rates to edge up marginally this week as part of its efforts to raise bond yields, money traders said in Tokyo yesteixiay. "The BOJ's target is the August long-term prime rate," said
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 465 24 Reuter THE RECENT STRENGTH of the Australian dollar will hit the country's commodity earnings, analysts said in Sydney yesterday. "Each one cent rise in the local dollar against the US dollar cuts farm returns by nearly As2oo million a year," said Terry
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    • 148 24 MORE THAN 100 experts and specialists from Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, the UK, the Netherlands and Papua New Guinea will take part in the 4th international symposium on sago in Kuching from Aug 6 to Aug 9. The four-day symposium, which is jointly organised
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    • 842 24 REPORTS THE PRICE of tin slipped 18 sen to M$ 15.85 per kg on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) yesterday on selling pressure and buyers' reserve, traders said. The downtrend was in line with the overnight drop on the London Metal
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 690 25  -  LETTER FROM CYPRUS By Jacqueline Reditt AS BULLDOZERS roar into action each sunny morning on Cyprus many feel they may be digging a grave for the fate of tourism on this Mediterranean holiday island. Though the money keeps rolling in as bigger hotels and
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    • 152 25 As aft 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.4240 1.4440 Canadian dollar 1.3530 1.3730 NZ dollar 1.0630 1.0930 Sterling pound 3.2600 3.2800 US dollar 1.8140 1.8240 Local 4ollan to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 13.30 16.30
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    • 208 25 Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas ia the morning. Report Max temp. 31.9"C Assoc humidity 63% Min temp. 23.5"C Assoc humidity 97% Hrs of sunshine 10.80 Rainfall in mm Nil Rainfall this mth 52.9 Rainy days this mth 6 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Coad. Auckland 15/09 Showers Bangkok 34/26 Fair
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  • 424 26  -  By Quak Hiang Whai RISING interest rates on the interbank money market has boosted POSB Bank's net surplus to an all-time high of $295.3 million for 1989, an increase of 71 per cent over the previous year. The 1989 net surplus, which
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  • 163 26 Reuter SOUTH KOREA'S Finance Ministry has proposed a major tax reform aimed at simplifying the corporate tax structure, reducing the tax burden on wage earners and discouraging real-estate speculation. The proposal will be presented to Parliament in September after deliberation by a committee formed by
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  • 164 26 AP VIETNAM has amended its foreign investment law to let private groups cooperate with foreign organisations, the official Vietnam News Agency said yesterday. Only state organisations were allowed such contacts under the original taw issued in December 1987. The report said the amendment opened the
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  • 416 26 THE PRESIDENTIAL fight in the Malaysian Chinese Association is over after the party's deputy president, Datuk Lee Kim Sai, yesterday called off his challenge against Datuk Dr Ling Liong Sik following a four-hour meeting of the party's central working committee. Datuk
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  • 422 26 AP THE US trade deficit climbed to U557.73 billion in May, reflecting a big jump in imports of oil and foreign cars. The US Commerce Department said yesterday that the May trade deficit was S.B per cent higher than a revised April imbalance
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  • 179 26 AFP AIR INDIA chief Rajan Jetley, who transformed the company from a loss-maker into one of the most profitable in India's public sector stable, has resigned. An airline spokeswoman in New Delhi yesterday said that Mr Jetley, 40, had quit to join
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  • 337 26 Reuter FRANCE is seeking better relations with Japan to offset the political and economic might of a unified Germany, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said yesterday. His comments came two days before the arrival in Tokyo of French Prime Minister
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  • Shipping Times
    • 413 27  -  By Rahita Elias THREE MONTHS before the new building at Pasir Panjang Distripark (PPD) opens its doors, almost 80 per cent of its space has already been snapped up proof of the continued warehousing boom in Singapore. The three-storey building, initially scheduled
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    • 170 27 AFP MACAU Governor Carlos Melancia has lent support to Hongkong's planned new airport as he wound up a oneday visit to the British colony. Mr Melancia said on Monday that Macau's planned airport would not compete with Hongkong's mammoth airport project. His Hongkong counterpart
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    • 125 27 Reuter SAUDI ARABIA has asked najor Japanese shipbuilders :o build very large crude earners (VLCC) and 140,000iwt Suezmax crude carriers o strengthen its crude oil ihipping fleet, Japanese inlustry sources said. Arabian American Oil Co Aramco) and Saudi Arabia's tanker chartering arm, Vela, visited
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    • 160 27 AFP INUI Steamship Co, a leading Japanese shipping company, will lodge an appeal if ordered by a US court to pay U5543.5 million to settle a dispute with its Filipino sailors, Inui officials said. Inui president Hidefumi Inui was quoted by company officials as
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    • 274 27 Reuter AUSTRALIA is set to merge state-owned domestic telephone company Telecom Australia with the international carrier OTC Ltd and to privatise the debt-ridden Aussat satellite company, government sources said. They said tentative agreement on the reforms was approved by a committee of Labour
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    • 185 27 INDONESIA'S first locally produced planes are scheduled to enter the world market in the mid-*****. BJ Habibie, president of state-owned carrier Nusantara Aircraft (IPTN), told the Jakarta Post that "the first flight of N-250s will be in 1995, coinciding with the 50th anniversary
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    • 101 27 AFP THE Chinese government has agreed to buy four Airbus A3OO-600s for a total of some US$4OO million, an industry source in Beijing said. The medium-range planes, with a capacity of 250 to 300 passengers, will be delivered between 1993 and 1995 for use by
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    • 384 27  -  By Dexter Lee IN A MOVE to optimise use of its Asia Container Express service, Tokyo Senpaku Kaisha (TSK) Line has started accepting Hongkong-bound cargo from Singapore. The latest service, which started last Thursday, entails loading cargo bound for Hongkong in Singapore on its vessels
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    • 232 27 THE THAI government has been urged to support the development of four new aviation activities in efforts to establish Thailand as the main aviation hub in Southeast Asia. Involved in the ambitious plan, spearheaded by the Transport and Communications Ministry, is the promotion
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      • 48 27 THE chairman and managing director of Air-India, Rajen Jetley, has resigned to take a new job outside India. He will be replaced on an interim basis by finance director Subhash Gupte, a company spokesman said, but declined to give details about Mr Jetley's new job.
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      • 41 27 SUMITOMO Heavy Industries Ltd has won an order to build a 280,000-tonne very large crude carrier (VLCQ from the Greek shipping firm Onassis Group. The VLCC will be double-hulled and is scheduled for delivery in 1993.
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      • 40 27 IN CONTRAST to the transatlantic routes, where difficulties for lines appear to be resurfacing, the transpacific container trades are slowly returning to better health. Traffic volumes are up, and freight rates are firming. Page 2
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      • 41 27 FOLLOWING the attainment of free trade in goods between Australia and New Zealand five years ahead of schedule, the two countries have signed a protocol aimed at freeing up the trans-Tasman trade in services Back Pate
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      • 21 27 PHILIPPINE ports have posted higher cargo traffic for the first half of this year. Back Page
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 61 28 SWEDISH shipping company Walleniusrederierna AB (Wallenius Lines) has acquired 2,402,208 restricted A-shares and 110,918 free A-shares in Swedish haulage firm Bilspedition AB. Wallenius Lines said this gives it 8.06 per cent of the share capital and 15.65 per cent of Bilspedition's votes. Earlier, Sweden's
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      • 74 28 JAPAN-CHINA Oil Development Corp and China National Offshore Oil Corp have started commercial production of crude oil at one of their jointly developed oil fields in the Bohai Gulf, a Japan-China official said. Output of Bohai Light-2 crude at the 8Z34-2/4E field, some 200 km off
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      • 86 28 ROCKWELL International Corp said its Collins Defence Communications (CDC) unit has been awarded a US$6.2 million increase to the Milstar Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) subcontract from the Raytheon Co. The company said that with the addition of this award, CDC has received US$2l5 million for
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      • 73 28 PAKISTAN'S first satellite was successfully launched into orbit from China's launch centre in Sichuan province on Monday, Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) officials said. Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said the successful launch of the 50 kg satellite, named Badr-1, is "a source of
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      • 73 28 AT&T has signed an agreement with Toshiba Corp to help build a network that will link the company's 220 offices in 36 countries by 1992. The company said the communications hubs in Los Angeles, London and Tokyo will be linked through the Pacific Link and the
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      • 46 28 SINGAPORE bulker Torm Alice was in collision with a fishing vessel when leaving San Vicente in Chile in dense fog on July 12, Lloyds Shipping Intelligence Service said. Both vessels were damaged. The 44,969-dwt Torm Alice is anchored in San Vicente Bay.
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      • 60 28 DEUTSCHE Airbus GmbH, the West German arm of Airbus Industrie, has agreed with the Soviet Union to develop jointly jet aeroplanes run on hydrogen or frozen methane. Deutsche Airbus said in a statement that the craft, to be based on the A-310, will use hydrogen or frozen
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    • 845 28 Container shipping in the transpacific is returning to better times, and lines in a stronger position with the Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement are determined to push through higher freight rates Lloyd's List IN CONTRAST to the transatlantic, where difficulties for lines appear to be resurfacing, the
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    • 612 28 NYT FROM the Exxon Valdez to the Mega Borg, when a tanker's oil hits the water these days, huge sums are spent on cleaning up for booms to stop the oil from spreading and skimmers to separate the oil, and for manpower.
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    • 556 28 AFP A stabilisation after the long-run-ning world freight rates decline was reflected in the first weekly climb in index numbers of the summer so far on the London market in the past week. The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange (BIFFEX)'s Baltic Freight Index (BFI) ended 11 points up
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    • 12439 36 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a maximum
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      • 1086 43 CHARTERING on the freight market was fairly routine on Monday, with rates holding steady, brokers said. A 52,000 long ton heavy grain shipment from the US Gulf to Japan was secured at an unchanged US$lB for early August loading, while a 120,000 long ton iron ore cargo from
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      • 530 43 VmmI 1*1 No Berth Mnl (tapvte* Kippd Wlu Continent 1 rvM 6/90 K29 alongside 18.07/0700 frotasantos 56WB K18 alongside 17.07/2300 H Jnpran 43 F90 C09 atongside 16.08/2359 Kota Petal* 34/90 K31 atongside 18.07/0230 Mostwwn 8 *****1 K33 atongstoe 17.07/2300 Ronghuashan 5 K32 alongside 17.07/0500 Shaptoewet 3W K30
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      • 1101 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bootonf/Batance Mb Si Sty toy No Period From To Fran P ol OkM Space toD 1A 2 16/1700 17/0659 17/0900 3 Cance Lied 4 17/1200 17/1159 17/1700 Pi ta bd. 4A 3 17/0700 17/1159 17/1400 4 17/1200 17/1459 17/1700
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      • 308 43 Pwt Kl—t South Port on My 17: Tomoe 508 berth 1; Encounter berth 2; Pac. Ocean berth 3; Kris Merutx berth 4; Hung Lee II berth 7; Mercury berth 7A Choon Hong 111 J. BCT; Petro Mewah i. Shell. KCT: Wah Hai 202 berth 8; Eagle Cloud
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    • 412 44  -  From Brian Gomez in SYDNEY FOLLOWING the attainment of free trade in goods between Australia and New Zealand five years ahead of schedule, the two countries have signed a protocol aimed at freeing up the trans-Tas-man trade in services. One of the first targets under
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    • 117 44 NYT THE McDonnell Douglas Corp said on Monday that it would eliminate as many as 17,000 jobs, or nearly 13 per cent of its workforce. The cutbacks represent the most striking example yet of the economic impact of declining Pentagon spending and the intense competition
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    • 196 44 NYT ATTORNEYS for Eastern Airlines met representatives of the US Attorney's office in Brooklyn on Monday but were unable to reach an agreement in a grand jury investigation of the carrier's maintenance practices at three airports. Workers at Eastern are accused of falsifying maintenance records at La
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    • 252 44  -  From Al O Labita in MANILA CARGO TRAFFIC at Philippine ports totalled 46.16 million metric tonnes (mt) from January to June this year, a 7.37 per cent jump from 42.99 million mt in the same period last year. In its latest report released recently,
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    • 87 44 IHI parts for Pratt Whitney Reuter JAPAN'S Ishikawajima-Hari-ma Heavy Industries Co Ltd may start supplying parts for aircraft engines produced by United Technologies Corp's Pratt and Whitney division, an IHI spokesman said. Pratt and Whitney is developing an engine for the Boeing 777, a next-genera-tion jetliner being developed by The
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    • 193 44 Reuter ARGENTINA has moved a step closer to its second major privatisation when it disclosed on Monday an offer made by an investment group headed by the Spanish Iberia airline for its Aerolineas Argentinas carrier. Iberia and its local partners, which include Cielos del Sur
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    • 1593 31 Steamers Maritime Holdings Ltd SEJp&o TM STRAITS SHIPPING I Wk Containers VoyNePKtanf S'pore S'ton Mtwi R'fcave* R'tfam lah »rrc«T« mic CAAOMAN RAY WO T.RWJ-110 1W 13« VW m DMI 17JH ACCEPTS DUE SAILS cm or emnkjrc «w <-cah-»p wiw urn W* CARGO KURABA mm fAU-22/7 ZW WlMff DM IM» 1M»
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