The Business Times, 30 July 1990

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1 46 The Business Times
  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 Monday July 30 1990 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 67 1 PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino has dispatched top economic officials to Japan and the US to seek aid to finance reconstruction following this month's earthquake. She said yesterday that the government had sent Finance Secretary Jesus Estanislao and central bank governor Jose
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    • 29 1 THE NANYANG Technological Institute's School of Accountancy and Business has launched an expansion programme which will more than double the number of staff and courses Page 2
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    • 26 1 SOUTH-EAST ASIAN leaders say they are concerned over threats to the global environment, but cannot ignore the linkage between environment and development Page 7
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    • 45 1 US SECRETARY of State James Baker has ruled out the immediate re-establishment of diplomatic ties between the US and Vietnam, but urged Hanoi to respect human rights and to contribute to a peaceful settlement of the Cambodian conflict Page 8
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    • 26 1 THE EAST GERMAN government, strapped for funds as it restructures its economy, has started to raise money on financial markets Page 10
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    • 29 1 KOH TSE YING in Houston braves a summer of sliced fingers, 'creative abuse' and difficult customers as she tackles the exacting task of string repair Page 19
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    • 35 1 IDEMITSU, one of Japan's largest shipowners, has given a firm commitment to Malaysian Shipyard and Engineering to repair its fleet at the latter's facilities in the next one year. Shipping Times Page I
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 25 1 CWT DISTRIBUTION, privately owned by five govern-ment-related firms, is planning to seek a listing on the local stock exchange Page 3
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    • 41 1 BUOYANT international and domestic shipping conditions have enabled Keppel Philippines Shipyard Inc and its 46per cent associate, Cebu Shipyard and Engineering Works Inc, to turn in impressive results for the first half ended June 30 Page 3
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    • 31 1 THREE firms owned by Hongkong tycoon Li Ka-shing are spending US$l5O million to buy American junk bonds once owned by Columbia Savings and Loan Page 4
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    • 23 1 MONTEDISON is merging with Ferruzzi Agricola Finanziaria (FAF) to create one of the biggest industrial conglomerates in Italy Page 5
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    • 29 1 THE UK domestic banking market is undergoing its most severe depression since 1982, says Lloyds, the smallest of the country's "Big Four" clearing banks Page 6
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    • 38 1 THE BANK of Thailand is asking banks to limit the growth in credit this year to 2S per cent in a fresh attempt to keep the inflation rate within 6.5 per cent Page 6
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    • Article, Illustration
      27 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 814.62 +0.69 Kuala Lumpur ....627.76 +0.75 Hongkong 3,485.80 +2.21 Tokyo ...........30,863.48 -506.27 Sydney 1,578.7 -11.5 New York 2,898.51 -22.28 London 2,330.1 -14.0
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    • 21 1 Exchange rates USS SS1.8190 Yen SS 1.2074 MS SS0.6715 Money market rates Overnight I 1/2 1 3-month 7 1/16% unch
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    • 31 1 Rubber S'pore Aug... 155.50*/kg -0.75 M'sia Aug M233.50 '/kg +0.50 KL Tin Turnover 72 tonnes -5 Spot M$l6.02/kg +0.05 Crude palm oil Turnover 548 lots -53 Aug MS660 /tonne 3
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  • 343 1  -  From Genevieve Cua in JAKARTA HOMEGROWN conglomerate Keppel Corporation is joining forces with an Indonesian corporate giant to build a US$2OO million resort hotel in Bali. Jakarta sources close to the project told BT that Keppel and the Wanandi group, a diversified
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  • 266 1  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY A SINGAPORE group has submitted an expression of interest to buy the Northbeach Parkroyal, in North Wollongong, about two hours' drive from Sydney, at an asking price of As6o million. The submission was among seven received by the receiver
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  • 531 1  -  Warns against racially biased economic blocs By Kenneth James THE ASIA-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum can contribute significantly to world economic growth by supporting free trade, and to world peace by preventing an international economic division along racial lines, Prime Minister
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  • 168 1 ASEAN wants the Asia-Pacif-ic Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum to succeed, but Apec should also show that it is in Asean's interest for it to succeed, Minister for Foreign Affairs Wong Kan Seng said yesterday. Welcoming more than 400 foreign and economics ministers, delegates and
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  • 511 1 Reuter JAPAN'S strong economy is set to grow steadily for at least another year and break its post-World War Two record for a continuous growth period, the head of the country's Economic Planning Agency said yesterday. "The current period of steady economic
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 55 2 THE Foreign Minister of Ireland, Gerard Collins, will visit Singapore today at the invitation of Foreign Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng. Mr Collins will be accompanied by officials from Ireland's Foreign Ministry. The programme for the four-day visit includes a meeting with Trade Development Board
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      • 85 2 ABOUT $20 million has been committed to the Cosec (Core Skills for Effectiveness and Change) training programme in terms of grants from the Skills Development Fund. Cosec was launched by the National Productivity Board in 1987. Since then, about more than 20 training organisations offer the Cosec
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      • 64 2 THE real source of funds and efforts for the National Kidney Foundation lies in the volunteers, said Dr Tay Eng Soon. Speaking during a tea reception for NFK volunteers, the Senior Minister of State for Education said that about 6,500 people are involved each year directly or
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      • 77 2 THE Minister for the Environment Dr Ahmad Mattar will view a joint oil spill combat exercise in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore today. Dr Mattar is viewing the exercise at the invitation of Datuk Amar Stephen Yong, the Malaysian Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment.
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      • 59 2 A DELEGATION of 20 students from the Shizuoka City of Japan will be in Singapore from today for a five-day international cultural exchange programme. This is the first time the students are being sent here under the programme. The team comprises 14-year-olds from junior high schools in
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      • 59 2 THE Wishing Well will see visitors from the Rotary Club of Singapore and Singapore Shipbuilding and Engineering this week. SSE management and staff will drop 2,000 cards when they visit the well today. SSE's wish is that Singapore will continue to prosper. The group will be accompanied by
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      • 61 2 COMPUTER Engineering Systems is jointly launching a seminar on computer recovery with US-based COMDISCO Disaster Recovery Services, the largest operator of recovery centres in the world. Disaster recovery seeks to ensure that a company's essential data and software are protected should a disaster affect operations at its
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    • 394 2  -  By Genevieve Cua THE Nanyang Technological Institute's School of Accountancy and Business (SAB) has launched an expansion programme which will more than double the number of staff and courses. The bulk of the expansion will take place in the school's business faculty where courses are being
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    • 410 2 SMALL COMPANIES form a sizeable proportion of the total number of establishments in the manufacturing sector, but their contribution to the sector's output is only about one per cent. Aocording to the Economic Development Board's just published 1988 Census of Industrial
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    • 420 2 THE government has said that a recent editorial of The Asian Wall Street Journal shows the newspaper's intent to interfere in Singapore's domestic politics and that the existing restrictions on the newspaper and its correspondents would continue. In a
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 412 3  -  By Linda Chee CWT DISTRIBUTION, which is privately-owned by five government-related companies, is planning to seek a listing on the Singapore stock exchange. The company is said to have completed a study on the listing and is now seeking final approval from its shareholders before
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    • 398 3  -  By William Chia BUOYANT international and domestic shipping conditions have enabled Keppel Philippines Shipyard Inc (KPSI) and its 46-per cent associate Cebu Shipyard and Engineering Works Inc (CSEW) to turn in impressive results for the first half ended June 30. Keppel Philippines
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    • 349 3 MBT HONG LEONG Industries (HLI) has proposed obtaining a stock exchange listing for its subsidiary, Hong Leong Marketing, under which a trading group will be formed. A listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange will be sought for the
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    • 452 3  -  MARKET TALK From Catherine Ong GRAND HYATT Taipei, a US$2OO million five-star hotel in Taipei developed by the Singapore Hong Leong group, is fast becoming the in-place for affluent Taiwanese to see people and be seen. To be officially opened on Sep 21,
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    • 258 3 Bernama MEGA First Corporation Bhd (MFCB) is concerned that a significant number of its shareholders have not responded to its share certificate replacement exercise. "Shareholders are strongly urged to send their old share certificates as soon as possible so that the company's reconstruction exercise
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 177 3 LEMBAGA Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT) has extended its takeover offer for Boustead Holdings Bhd's shares to Aug IS. Permata Merchant Bank Bhd said in a statement 0n... behalf of LTAT that the extension was made in view of the fact that the minimum level
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      • 108 3 KUMPULAN Emas Bhd has acquired the remaining equity in its formerly 51 per cent-owned information technology subsidiary, KE Systems Sdn Bhd. KE Systems is Malaysia's sole distributor for prime computers and assembler of niche personal computers. Among its clients are financial institu tions, securities firms, government departments
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      • 77 3 THE Foreign Investment Committee (FIQ has approved Setron (M) Bhd's proposed acquisition of an additional 16 per cent, comprising 3,200 ordinary shares at a price of MS 18.50 per share of the issued capital of Darulmas Manufacturing Services Sdn Bhd. With the acquisition, Setron said it will
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      • 81 3 TDM BHD said it has appointed three new directors —-\l Datuk Ibak bin Abu Hussin, Mr Mohd Adib bin Awang Noh and Mr Hamidun Masuod with effect from July 21. It t. added that Mr Hassan Abas had resigned as chairman and director and Mr Tajudin Ramli
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      • 109 3 KUALA LUMPUR Industries Bhd (KLI) has reported a group operating loss of M 53.06 million on turnover of MS 15.79 million for the half-year ended April 30, 1990, compared with a loss of MS 1.52 million on turnover of M 522.52 million in the previous
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 68 4 MMC SITTIPOL Motor Co, the Thai distributor of Mitsubishi cars, has expressed opposition to the Industry Ministry's plan to lift an import ban on small cars as a means to lower car prices for consumer benefit. Takami Nurasawa, executive vice-president, said it would
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      • 71 4 THAILAND'S Dusit Thani Hotel group has signed a contract with the Education Ministry to launch officially a comprehensive training school for hotel staff which it had announced earlier this year. Designed to tackle the problem of critical staff shortage, which is exacerbated by the group's
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      • 68 4 A THAI-FRENCH joint venture has won Thai Board of Investment promotional privileges to invest over three billion baht to manufacture cold-rolled stainless steel in Chachoengsao. Prayuth Manakitsiri filed the application on behalf of the joint venture seeking promotional privileges to invest 3.16 billion baht to produce
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      • 63 4 A TAIWANESE investor, Li Chi Sien, representing a whol-ly-owned Taiwanese venture, has won promotional privileges to invest 36 million baht in the production of plastic equipment for export. The Suranasree Industrial Estate factory in Nakhon Ratchasima will run with a capacity of 160,000 kg a year, employ 140
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      • 95 4 NOVEL ENTERPRISES has suffered its worst year since its listing, with a 34 per cent drop in profits as a result of depressed market conditions and operational troubles in China. The textile and knitting producer posted a net profit of HK5112.36 million for the year
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      • 125 4 HONGKONG'S Securities and Futures Commission has revoked the registration of an investment adviser for the first time since the publication of its new "fit and proper" criteria. The decision to revoke the registration of Paul Mantoura was announced last week. The reason given was that "he was guilty
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    • 482 4 AP THREE firms owned by Hongkong tycoon Li Kashing are spending US$l5O million to buy American junk bonds once owned by Columbia Savings and Loan. Cheung Kong Ltd and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, two leading Hongkong companies controlled by Mr Li, along with a
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    • 559 4 FRENCH electronics giant Thomson AS plans to invest an additional 600 million baht to boost its production of colour television sets and make Thailand one of its largest TV manufacturing bases in the world, The Bangkok Post reported. The
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    • 312 4 ELECTRICAL machinery manufacturers and carmakers dominated the top ranks of Japan's most profitable listed firms on a consolidated basis for the fiscal year ended March 1990. Strong non-consolidated corporate performances boosted consolidated net profits. Nineteen firms posted net profits of 50 billion
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    • 277 4 SSpfSlSI 1. Toyota Motor 346,262 (t1.3) 2. NTT 273,747 (22.7) 3. Matsushita Electric Industrial 235,561 (10.3 4. Hitachi 210,963 (13.6) 5. Toshiba 131,836 (10.4) 6. Nippon Steel 117,139 (50.0) 7. Nissan Motor 116,013 (1.2) 8. Sony 102,808 (41.8) 9. Fujitsu 86,758
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    • 290 4 Reuter SOUTH KOREA, currently negotiating to buy a Candu nuclear reactor from Canada, wants to acquire more of the units to help power its burgeoning economy, the president of Canada's nuclear agency said. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, which has failed to make
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    • 55 4 PAMA Prudential Asset Management Asia Limited a wholly owned subsidiary of The Prudential Insurance Company of America takes pleasure in announcing the opening of its Malaysian Representative Office Representative Francis C.H. Huang 01 08 Amoda, 22 Jalan Imbi ***** Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Telephone: (03) *****18 Fax: (03) *****18 N Hong
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 383 5 FT MONTEDISON, the leading Italian chemicals concern, is merging with Ferruzzi Agricola Finanziaria (FAF), the ag-ro-industrial holding company of the Ferruzzi group, to create one of the biggest industrial conglomerates in Italy. The new entity will form a plastics to soybeans empire with
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    • 139 5 Reuter RECESSIONARY fears are driving down earnings estimates on Walt Disney Co, but analysts are split over the likely effect of an economic downturn on the entertainment giant. "You had a good third fiscal quarter. However, the comparisons are much more difficult, and we
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    • 419 5 Reuter CALLS by American congressmen for the US Air Force to bar Northrop Corp from future contracts may damage Northrop's prospects on two massive programmes now under review by Congress, financial analysts said. The House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee is probing alleged fraud
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    • 539 5 Reuter EQUITY analysts following Siemens AG are still confident about the company's prospects for the year despite the announcement by the electronics firm last week of slightly lower than expected nine months profits. Analysts point to Siemens' fundamental strength in all its activities, including the
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 85 5 SHELL OIL CO said on Friday that its net income fdl 63.4 per cent in the second quarter, as earnings declined in each of its exploration, refining and marketing and chemicd units. Net income was US$l6l million, compared with US$44O million in the
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      • 93 5 SWISSAIR registered a first-semester loss of 99 million Swiss francs (US$7O million), a Swissair stockholders letter published on Saturday said. The Swiss airline, explaining the losses by increased fuel costs and salaries, coupled with the strength of the Swiss franc which has reduced foreign receipts,
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      • 95 5 the WASHINGTON TIMES has been losing US$35 million a year and the deficit is being covered by the Unification Church and its subsidiaries, according to an interview with a church leader published on Friday. The Washington Post quoted Bo Hi Pak, a deputy to the church
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      • 77 5 COMPANIA de Telefonos de Chile SA's (CTQ share listing on the New York Stock Exchange raised US$9l55 million for the company, CTC said in a statement. CTC listed USSUO.49 million shares as American Depositary Receipts in an operation underwritten by a syndicate led by Salomon Brothers
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      • 85 5 QINTEX Entertainment said it agreed to settle for US$4 million a class action lawsuit brought against it after the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last October. Qintex filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors last October 19 after failing to meet a required payment to MCA Inc under
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      • 53 5 STUDENT Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) president Lawrence Hough said a takeover of the Higher Education Assistance Foundation's assets would not harm Sallie Mae's triple AAA credit rating. "We would not do this if there were any possibility or any danger whatsoever, you can bank on
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 82 6 THE Malaysian-owned South East Asian Bank Ltd in Mauritius, in which Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd has a 20 per cent stake, has bought over the Habib Zurich Bank in the island, BBMB executive chairman Datuk Hanafiah Hussain said. The purchase, which was concluded
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      • 73 6 US Education Undersecretary Ted Sanders said five to seven additional student loan guarantee agencies are in a weakened condition but are not about to collapse. "They are not teetering at the point that the Higher Education Assistance Foundation is," Mr Sanders told the Senate Banking committee.
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      • 110 6 PERWIRA Habib Bank Malaysia Bhd (PHB) expects to receive approval from Bank Negara for its proposed capital restructuring scheme by next month, its executive director, Raja Datuk Aman Ahmad, said. He said: "We are still working with Bank Negara on the scheme's mechanism." It was reported
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    • 417 6 BANK INDONESIA is reducing the growth of money supply in a bid to curb the rapid rise in inflation, the Jakarta Post has reported. A spokesman for the central bank, Dahlan Sutalaksana, said last Friday: "The inflation of 4.8 per cent during the
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    • 574 6 FT THE UK domestic banking market is undergoing its most severe depression since 1982, Lloyds, the smallest of the "Big Four" clearing banks, said. Provisions against bad debts in the UK wiped £190 million from Lloyds' pre-tax profits for the half-year ending in June, which
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    • 733 6 THE BANK of Thailand will ask commercial banks to limit the growth in credit this year to 25 per cent in a fresh attempt to keep the inflation rate within 6.5 per cent, governor Chavalit Thanachanan was quoted
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    • 349 6 Reuter SOME US bank stocks are finding favour on Wall Street, despite expectations that the generally poor earnings of the first two quarters will continue throughout 1990, analysts said. For the most part, analysts are avoiding money centre bank stocks, citing
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • THE REGION 1
    • 323 7 AFP SOUTH-EAST ASIAN leaders said on Saturday that they >were concerned over threats to the global environment, but could not ignore the linkage between environment and development. In meetings in Jakarta with their major trading partners, foreign ministers of Asean underscored the need for a
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    • 206 7 Reuter TAIWAN is planning a fiveyear drive to boost its trade with Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and Vietnam to US$lO billion a year, trade officials said. A delegation, led by the Economic Committee of Taiwan's Parliament, was scheduled to start yesterday a three-week
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    • 323 7 HONGKONG'S inflation rate is likely to remain above 9 per cent, but economic growth will pick up in the second half of the year to an annual rate of 2.7 per cent, according to the Hang Seng Bank. The South China Morning Post
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 71 7 THE PHILIPPINES has asked Japan and the US for easier debt repayment terms to enable it to recover from a devastating earthquake, a Philippine diplomat said on Saturday. Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus conveyed the request of President Corazon Aquino to Japanese Foreign
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      • 65 7 THE POLICE of the six Asean countries have agreed to set up a regional database called Aseanpol Database to counter crime in the region, a communique issued at the end of the 10th Annual Conference of Asean Police Chiefs (Aseanapol X) in Kuala Lumpur said on Saturday. It
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      • 63 7 SOUTH KOREAN and Malaysian businessmen on Friday identified five areas in which their small and medium-scale industries can increase cooperation. A joint communique issued at the end of the one-day joint meeting of the South Korea-Malaysia Economic Cooperation Committees listed the areas as agricultural processing; small-scale resource development
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      • 51 7 THAILAND exported about 290,000 million baht worth of goods during January to June, up by 15.5 per cent on last year, the Business Economics Department reported. However, the figure fall 3 per cent short of the target jointly set earlier this year by the public and private
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    • 419 7 THE Bank of Thailand will seek Finance Ministry approval early next month to implement the next major parlfagt* of foreign-exchange deregulation measures, which will literally free all current accounts in trade and services while according greater flexibility to capital movements. Details of
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    • 315 7 THE Hongkong Mass Transit Railway Corp (MTRQ suffered a loss of HK$2l7 million in the first half of the year, compared with $160 million for the same period last year. Despite a seven per cent increase in patronage over last year, deterioration
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    • 317 8 AFP US SECRETARY of State James Baker yesterday ruled out the immediate reestablishment of diplomatic Relations between the US and Vietnam, but urged Hanoi to respect human rights and to Contribute to a peaceful settlement of the Cambodian conflict. "The question
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    • 627 8 IHT |N HIS rolled-up sleeves, oversized glasses and rumpled shirt, Dr Chung-Hsing Chen is not Taiwan's most imposing figure. But as a di-|-ector of Taiwan's Securities and Exchange Commission, Dr Chen is a bulwark against pressure to open Taipei's stock market to direct
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    • 270 8 Bangkok Post THE Federation of Thai Industries' car club backs a Thai industry ministry plan to lift a ban on imports of completely-built-up cars under 2,300 a:. However, club chairman Kawee Vasuvat said the government should not allow the importation
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    • 301 8 South China Morning Post THE HK$ 106.5 million Clearwater Bay Golf and Country Club Marina has opened for business after eight years of construction by developers Marina Ventures (HK) Ltd. Marina Ventures is a joint venture between the Clearwater Bay Golf and Country Club
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    • 177 8 AFP A GOVERNMENT brawl over deregulation of Australia's telecommunications industry will show if Prime Minister Bob Hawke has lost his old healing touch. Political analysts in Sydney said yesterday that four months after winning a record fourth term, the ruling Labor Party is deeply
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 65 10 THE TIME IS RIGHT for the Soviet Union to join the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said in Moscow last Saturday. "Our country regards its membership of the IMF as a logical continuation of its policy of wider involvement in global economic
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      • 70 10 THE POLISH SENATE, or Upper House of Parliament, has overwhelmingly approved a law on privatising state enterprises, the last parliamentary hurdle for the government's plans to liberalise the economy. The 100-seat Senate voted 60-7 with two abstentions last Thursday to pass the law voted by the Lower
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      • 53 10 CORPORATE West Germany's push to forge partnerships with East German companies appears already complete, according to European corporate partnership statistics compiled by KPMG Peat Marwick Mclintock. However, second-quarter 1990 showed a strong decline in corporate partnerships struck with East German companies, to 44 from 106 in
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    • 389 10 Reuter THE EAST GERMAN government, strapped for funds as it restructures its crumbling economy, has started to raise money on financial markets. The West German central bank, acting on behalf of the East Berlin Finance Ministry, announced last Friday that it was inviting East and
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    • 263 10 Reuter SOVIET Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze is expected to propose a disarmament plan for Asia at September's Asia-Pacific security seminar in the Soviet Far East port of Vladivostok, Japan's Kyodo News Service has reported. It quoted Japanese and Soviet sources last Saturday
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    • 328 10 AP JUNK BOND financier Michael Milken and convicted stock speculator Ivan Boesky will be granted immunity from additional prosecution to testify before the US Congress. The decision by the full US Energy and Commerce Committee last Thursday virtually guarantees the two most
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    • 289 10 Reuter THE JAPANESE government has adopted a plan to allow its national budget for 1991/92 starting April to rise up to 4.4 per cent to 36.9 trillion yen against a 3.9 per cent rise in 1990/91. The increase in current expenditure, which
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    • 407 11 FT A COUNCIL in north-east England, whose poll tax level has been capped by the government, is to make 1,100 workers redundant more than an eighth of its staff. The job cuts are the heaviest yet made by any of the
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    • 385 11 AFP MONGOLIA'S small army, equipped with World War II vintage gear and slated to get even smaller, is adjusting to democracy after a fashion as the country went to its firstever multi-party polls yesterday. "Me, I am voting for the colonel," said a soldier of
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    • 173 11 AFP EUROPEAN Community budget ministers have reached preliminary agreement to boost the EC's budget for next year by 12.2 per cent. The ministers meeting in Brussels last Friday gave preliminary approval for a 1991 EC budget of 52.4 billion ECUs (U5566.5 billion), an increase
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    • 436 11 FT AFTER YEARS of steadily worsening public transportation in the London area, individuals and businesses are increasingly voicing anger. The transportation crisis is not limited to London, although the British capital is the most obvious and critical example of the problem. The Confederation of
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    • 55 11 Newly elected Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori waves to Members of Parliament following an inauguration ceremony in Lima last Saturday. In his first speech as head of state, Mr Fujimori said he intended to restore Peru's ties with the international financial community broken by his predecessor, Alan
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    • 305 11 AFP MUSLIM insurrectionists who seized Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Ray Robinson and most of his Cabinet last Friday announced victory early yesterday, saying that the Premier had signed a resignation document. Shooting round the rebelheld Parliament and state television station died out around
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 760 12  -  David Chew reports on the latest rumbling in the forest David Chew Timber merchants who have been given rights or "concessions" to fell trees under Indonesia's selective tree felling system (TPI) will find the going tougher in future, especially for those who flout
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    • 1509 12  -  Australian and New Zealand economic cooperation talk has been going on for 30 years without much results. Florence Chong reports on a new formula the two countries are working on Florence Chong Florence Chong is Business Times' reporter in Sydney
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    • 853 12 Reuter EVERY DAY, in the stifling heat of the Pakistani summer, small numbers of the faithful gather in front of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad to make their devotions. But these prayers and benedictions are not directed at Allah most merciful, they are
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT 1
    • 724 14  -  A corporate customer service effort needs to focus on two types of customers, external and internal. Before a company can create a service culture, it must get its own house in order. David Gabriel continues this series on customer service by taking a look
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    • 459 14  -  SPOTLIGHT ON MA^ftEMENT 11 •> By Steven Choo (Steven Choo is a consulting manager at Ernst A Young Consultants Pte Ltd.) MORE attention should be given to a relatively easy and inexpensive way to help your business grow better management of your cash. Managing your
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    • 352 15 Seminars and courses Omwbom TMe Ve*t Orgaalser Td Jul 30 A New Dimensions in SIM Mgt Singapore Institute of *****66 31 Saks Forces Mgt House Management Jul 30- International Strategic Marina Mandarin Times Conferences *****3 A „1 Management &ES&U jul 3o_ Corporate Financial Marina Mandann Times Conferences *****3 Al
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    • 871 15  -  By Claudia Deutsch NYT WILLIAM GODSEY had headed the General Dynamics Corp's European operations in Brussels for three years when he got a call from Frederick Wood, a vice-president at the St Louis headquarters. Wood thought Godsey should apply for the newlyopened job
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  • SPORTS
    • SIDE LINES
      • 98 16 LANCIA's world champion driver Massimo Biasion of Italy took his third Argentine motor rally title on Saturday after sweeping all four legs of the 2,118-km race in Buenos Aires. Biasion finished eight minutes and two seconds ahead of Toyota's Carlos Sainz of Spain, who
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      • 92 16 LESLIE SHANNON has been saying for the past six months that the way the US was going to get the Curtis Cup back from Great Britain and Ireland was to play well in foursomes. The US did not do that in 1986 and 1988 and lost. That
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      • 103 16 KOdIRO MACHIDA's solo home run with one out in the bottom of the 14th inning in Seattle yesterday gave Japan a 7-6 victory over the US in baseball at the Goodwill Games. The US, who beat Japan in the gold medal game at the Seoul Olympics
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      • 61 16 ZINA GARRISON and Jennifer Capriati posted straight-set victories as the US advanced on Saturday to face the Soviet Union for the 28th Federation Cup championship. The defending champion and top-seeded Americans beat No 3 seed Austria 3-0 and will meet fourth-seeded Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was
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      • 65 16 ROSIE JONES took the lead after the third round of the first-ever US$l-million LPGA purse at the Mazda LPGA Championship on Saturday. Jones shot a one-under-par round of 70 at the challenging 6,246-yard Bethesda Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, for a three-day total of four-under par
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    • 449 16 AP EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Californian Michael Chang and Pete Sampras battled for three hours under a scorching mid-day sun on Saturday before Chang prevailed for a 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 victory in the semi-finals of the Players International tennis tournament in Toronto. Chang, winner of the 1989
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    • 227 16 AFP US OPEN champion Hale Irwin continued his brilliant play on Saturday and took a one-shot lead after three rounds of the Buick Open. Irwin, who grabbed a share of the lead with a re-cord-matching 63 last Friday, returned with a 67 on
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    • 251 16 Reuter NATALIA KALININA scored a perfect 10 in the floor exercise on Saturday to upset Soviet team-mate and 1989 world champion Svetlana Boginskaya for the gold in the women's all-around gymnastics event at the Goodwill Games in Washington. Henrietta Onodi of Hungary took the bronze. With
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    • 124 16 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Shin Dong Kyo of Blk 174 Toa Payoh Lor.l #02-1250, Singapore (1231), have applied for a Public House, second class licence in respect of premises at M/s Ar-Li-Lang Korean Restaurant Pte Ltd at #81-09, 101 Thomson Road United Square, Singapore (1130), and that
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  • THE ARTS 1
    • 923 17  -  In a bold and intelligent undertaking, the Musee Granet in Aix has opened a major international art exhibition devoted to a very special mountain. Edgar Munhall reports. Edgar Munhall NYT FOR THREE DAYS at the end of August last year a forest fire of epic force
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    • 709 17  -  Marina Dolganova-Balanenko, dance critic for the Moscow weekly Sovetskaya Kultura (Soviet s Culture) and the first Soviet journalist to visit the! American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina, shares her cross-cultural experiences in an article translated by Lynn Visson. Marina Dolganova-Balanenko NYT ONE
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    • 1314 19  -  Koh Tse Ying in Houston braves a summer of sliced fingers, 'creative abuse' and difficult customers as she tackles the exacting task of string repair Koh Tse Ying The first time I told a pianist friend that I was spending the summer learning string
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    • 414 19  -  PY Van attended the first two nights of the Choral Festival held at the World Trade Centre last week P Y Van THIS YEAR'S Choral Festival, held from Wednesday to Friday last week, was part of the month-long Singapore Youth Festival. It saw choral presentations from
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    • 560 19  -  The South African arts festival has been criticised as being too European in focus. Brendan Boyle reports. Brendan Boyle Reuter The complacent routine of South Africa's premier arts festival was shattered this year when the African National Congress came to town and said Mozart would have
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    • 502 19  -  There was much to enchant the audience at last week's clarinet and piano recital organised by the Goethe-Institut, writes P Y Van P Y Van THE Goethe-Institut Auditorium was packed last Tuesday for a short, sweet recital given by Hans-Dietrich Klaus (clarinet) and Nerine Barrett
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    • 952 17 UNION BANK OF FINLAND LTD Statement of accounts for the year ended 31st December 1989 Consolidated Balance Sheet Consolidated Income Statement 31-12-1989 31-12-1989 HM milt. FIM mill. ASSETS J1.12.1W9 31.1119X8 1.1.-31.12.19*9 1.1.-31.12 I9BX l.kfuid awls Income C ash in hand 735.9 741.5 Interest income 13 662.9 10 426.4 Due from
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4878 20  -  By Magdalene Ng ACTIVITY in the local stock market is expected to be quiet this week with the major stock indices trading within a narrow band. Some analysts feel that this lull is just part of the long consolidation period before
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 739 22 FT IT WAS A WEEK when raw fear finally showed through, when Wall Street's perspiration index soared. For over a month now the US equity markets have been behaving rather like someone with a passion for deodorants. How simple, how sweet smelling and how controlled life
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    • 577 22 'Tgtfe AFP SHARE PRICES on the Tokyo Stock Exchange plunged last week in response to fears of higher interest rates, with the Nikkei Stock Average suffering a huge 1,558.04-point or 4.8 per cent weekly loss. The key market indicator closed the week
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    • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
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        114 22 THE PHILIPPINE stock market posted significant gains last week despite the earthquake that recently ravaged parts of northern Luzon island. The Composite Index on the Manila Stock Exchange rose by 41.41 points, or 4.7 per cent, to close at 924.57 from the previous week's 883.16 closing level. At the
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        95 22 AFP PRICES on the Taiwan Stock Exchange ended higher last week despite uncertainty over oil price hikes, financial troubles at several brokerage firms and rumours that Seoul would soon switch recognition from Taipei to Beijing. With the market advancing for the third consecutive week, the Weighted Price Index climbed
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        252 22 THE AUSTRALIAN stock market lost ground slightly last week, with poor trade figures hurting investor confidence. The main market indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, finished the week 24.2 points down at 1,578.7, shedding 12 points on Friday after a higher than expected current account deficit of AS 1.575 billion
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        215 22 SHARE PRICES broke new ground as market bulls pushed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) to record highs in a week that took even the most optimistic investors by surprise. The BSE's Sensitivity Index breached the 1,000-point barrier during the week, months before every one had predicted it would. In
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        115 22 PRICES on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) fell last week as trading slumped due to lack of buyers. The JSE Index dropped 0.9 per cent to 624.987 on Friday from 630.096 a week earlier. The Jardine Fleming Nusantara Index fell to 145.25 from 146.40 with the consumer sector suffering
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    • 851 22  -  By Ray Heath THE WONDER of the stock market in Britain last week was not that it tumbled 70 points but that the fall in the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index was not greater. For while the country baked under blue
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    • 970 22  -  By DBS Securities SHARE PRICES on the Hongkong stock market dropped sharply last week with the Hang Seng Index losing 54.63 points or 1.5 per cent to close at 3,485.80. Average daily turnover, however, rose to HK52.36 billion against the previous week's HKS2.2B
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 4012 23 MBT SHARE PRICES in Kuala Lumpur fluctuated under bouts of buying and selling to close mixed to firmer last week. Following firmer trading the previous week, profit-tak-ing and stale bull liquidation set in but the bulls were in no mood to give in.
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Poorer earnings outlook dampens Dow
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        993 24 economic data renewed worries about the -.outlook for corporate earnings and in.X.tejest rates, pushing New York stocks moderately lower at the close on Friday. 7" Sharp drops in the dollar and in the K scares of several market favourites also 1 weighed on stocks, analysts said. The Dow
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        813 24 SHARES closed lower in light trading on London's Stock Exchange on Friday with investors showing very little interest in the market. Shares opened on a weak note and proceeded to drift for most of the morning and early afternoon. When Wall Street opened lower, London stocks were further depressed,
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      • 267 24 TORONTO stocks closed flat on Friday after strong oil and gas shares bucked the trend and shaved overall market losses in afternoon trade, dealers said. All other indices were flat or down on the day with media, construction and gold shares the big losers. The Composite Index lost 1.6
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      • 237 24 GERMAN SHARES slipped in dull trade to end broadly easier on Friday on pre-weekend position squaring and a lack of new factors. Most prices had been soft all week. The 30-share DAX index finished 13.08 points lower at 1,919.81, just off the session's low of 1,919.01. The index closed
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      • 316 24 SWISS shares closed almost one per cent lower in thin volume on Friday. One dealer said lower prices were more the result of a summer lull and price correction than the weaker Tokyo and New York bourses. The SMI Index of leading shares was down 17.0 points at 1,755.8
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      • 190 24 ITALIAN shares finished mixed to lower on Friday after a stable start, with the possibility of a government crisis and Tokyo's sharp price falls weighing on the market, brokers said. The MIB Index eased one point, or 0.09 per cent, to close at 1,065. The index fell 2.2 per
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      • 270 24 FRENCH shares closed lower on Friday with a declining Wall Street doing nothing to breathe life into a market which was generally moribund, dealers said. The CAC-40 Index closed 18.58 points lower at 1,965.79. In the week, the index has shed 64.81 points. The lifelessness was largely due to
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      • 289 24 AMSTERDAM stocks remained under attack at midday on Friday, with many blue chip issues showing large losses as the market fell in line with other centres. The sell-off in the Dutch market followed sharp losses in Tokyo shares and also reflected weakness in West German and British equities, brokers
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      • 167 24 BELGIAN shares ended lower in moderately active trading on Friday as the market followed declines on other European bourses, traders said. The Brussels Forward Market Index fell 19.82 points to 6,301.57 and the Cash Market Index eased 2.97 to 6,341.35. "No-one wanted to take positions before the weekend," said
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      • 419 24 July 27 Cloac Prrriw NEW YORK Dow Jones 2,898.51 2,920.79 -22.28 NYSE Financial 139.70 140.68 -0.98 SAP 500 353.44 355.91 -147 Turnover (million) 149 155.04 -6.04 LONDON Financial Timea 30 1.842.1 1,851.5 -9.4 FTSE 100 2,330.1 2,344.1 -14.0 Turnover (million) 344.7 468.8 -124.1 AMSTERDAM CBS General NA 199.60 2 Stock
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 315 25 WEEKLY ROUND-UP THE US dollar ended at 148.70 yen on Friday in New York unchanged from the previous week. The belief that Japanese monetary policy will stay steady and the potential for higher oil prices pressured the yen. "The market is focusing
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    • 133 25 Reuter RICHMOND Federal Reserve Bank president Robert Black said he thought an American Bankers Association proposal aimed at lowering the risks of the federal deposit insurance system was worth considering In a speech to a group of West Virginia bankers, Mr Black said the
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    • 626 25 ASIAN CURRENCIES AFP THE Japanese yen dropped sharply against the dollar during the week amid tensions in the Gulf and falling Tokyo stock and bond prices, while other Asian currencies were mixed. Losing ground were the Indonesian, New Zealand, Philippine, Singapore and Thai units,
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    • 401 25 Crass rates j^y USS S$ MS* Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.8175 2.7080 1.6098 148.80 0.5435 1.3615 1.2649 1.6935 SS 0.5502 1.4859 0.8857 0.8187 0.2991 0.7491 0.6959 0.9318 MS' 0.3693 67.30 0.6003 0.5563 0.2038 0.5096 0.4722 0.6291 Dm 0.6212 1.1290 1.6659 92.43 0.3376 0.8458 0.7857 1.0520
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    • 523 25 Interbank rates s$ Bid Offer Overnight 1 1/2 1-month 6 7/8 2-month 7 7 1/8 3-month 7 1/16 7 3/16 Overnight mode: S-l/2 US$ High Low 7 days 8 8 1 month 8 8 2 months 8 3 months 8 6 months 8 8 9 months 8 1/8
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    • 525 25 Reuter THE Bank of Japan (BOJ) is trying to calm feverish speculation that it plans to tighten credit, but the move is viewed sceptically by economists and money market managers, given the country's strong economic growth and threat of inflation.
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    • 305 25 AFP THE Australian government's economic priorities are to cut inflation and the current account deficit, Australian Treasurer Paul Keating said. Mr Keating's remarks to the Irish-Australian Chamber of Commerce in Melbourne on Friday strongly suggested that there would be no further
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    • 511 25 GOLD FINANCIAL FUTURES REPORT SPOT gold rallied in two phases last week, fuelled by a combination of rumours and large purchases. The first phase occurred on Monday morning in New York when US stocks sold off sharply on rumours of an attempted assassination of US
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    • 254 25 COMEX cou) nmwES(ioooz) uss/oz Open High Low Settle IHTOO 367.80 T» Aug 569.50 370.80 365.80 368.00 -160 372 00 372.00 372.00 »M0 -60 o£ 373.60 374.70 369.80 372.20 60 Dec 378.00 379.60 374.50 376.60 -J.70 F59I 382 00 382.00 378.50 380.90 -.80 387.00 387.00 384.00 385.00 -.-90 i""
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    • 506 25 BANKS ABN Bank 8ft Allied Irish Bank PLC American Express Bank 8Vj Am'Dam R'terdam Bank 8ft Arab Banking Corp 8ft Arab Bank Ltd 7ft Asia Commercial Bank 7ft ANZ Banking Group 8ft Ban Hin Lee Bank 7ft Banca Commerciale 8ft Banco do Brasil 8 Bangkok Bank 8ft
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 399 26 AFP OPECs landmark crude oil pricing and production pact concluded in Geneva on Friday stands a fair chance of meeting its target of lifting the price of Opec crudes to US$2l a barrel by year-end, oil market analysts said. The new minimum reference
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    • 311 26 Reuter OPEC Secretary-General Subroto has allayed fears that the group would drive oil prices too high. "I must say that there need not be fear in Western countries that we will drive oil prices too high," Mr Subroto told Nigerian journalists. He
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    • 861 26 WEEKLY ROUND-UP AFP TENSION between Iraq and its Gulf neighbours Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as Opec talks got under way set off a sharp increase in crude oil prices last week. Analysts said that Iraq's threats should increase the probability
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  • 1164 26 Rubber HAS (WHw tol—) S cents/kg Int I RSS Close July 23 155.25 July 24 155.75 July 25 155.75 July 26 156.27 July 27 155.50 MEELB (hi In M cents/kg Int I RSS Close July 23 Closed July 24 232.50 July 25 233.00 July 26 233.00 July 27 233.50
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
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    • 770 27  -  LETTER FROM IRELAND By Neville Stack IRELAND is the home of the strange encounter. Not only do the encounters themselves tend to be more than a little on the bizarre side, they are also recounted in anecdotal form that might be described as eloquent
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    • 152 27 As at 3pm yesterday. Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.4190 1.4390 Canadian dollar 1.5650 1.5850 NZ dollar 1.060 ***** Sterling pound 3.2900 3.3200 US dollar 1.8150 1.8250 Local dollars to 100 mils of foreign taupcy Austrian schilling 15.70 16.50
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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    • 210 27 Singapore Outlook: Showers om several areas I ia the pre-dawa hours. I Report Max temp. 32.8* C Assoc humidity 55% Mintemp 25.3 Assoc humidity 96% Hrs of sunshine 10.10 Rainfall in mm trace Rainfall this mth 115.0 Rainy days this mth. 10 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Coad. Auckland 15/07 Showers
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  • 378 28 Asean post-ministerial conference AFP ASEAN and its major trading partners plan to boost private sector cooperation in order to strengthen existing ties, regional diplomats said on Sunday. Greater private sector involvement was deemed necessary to complement existing government-to-gov-ernment ties, diplomats said at the conclusion
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  • 401 28  -  Frtoi Yong Pow Ang in JAKARTA INDONESIA and Malaysia have no objection to any Asean countries providing America with the use of their military facilities as long as these facilities do not add up to a US military base. Singapore has
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  • 224 28 THE MALAYSIAN Chinese Association (MCA) has called on the Chinese community to give its fullest support to the Barisan Nasional (BN) to ensure the coalition's success in the coming general election. In a resolution passed at the party's 37th annual general
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  • 195 28 Reuter CHINA'S leading overseas investor, Citic, will expand its investments in Hongkong to bolster confidence in the British colony, an official newspaper said yesterday. China's latest assurance that it was committed to Hongkong's prosperity came a day after it launched another
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  • 123 28 AFP CHINA is taking steps to prime its rural industrial sector, despite an on-going austerity campaign that was deliberately aimed at slowing its growth. Speaking at a national conference in Beijing yesterday, State Planning Commission chief Zhou Jiahua called rural industries a key link
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  • 239 28 ASEAN and its dialogue partners need to build on some of the cooperative efforts in the economic sphere in which Apec (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) holds "great promise", said US Secretary ot State James Baker. Mr Baker made the remarks at a joint press
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  • 229 28 AFP JAPAN'S giant Daikyo corporation has put projects worth AsBoo million (US$623 million) on hold in Queensland pending a state government investigation, a company spokesman said. The spokesman said that Daikyo, which owns several major tourist-related developments in the north-eastern state, was awaiting
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  • 221 28 AFP BRITAIN is to tighten control on moves by state-owned foreign firms to take stakes in British concerns, says new Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley. In a written reply to a question from a Member of Parliament that was published in
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    • 156 29 Reuter INTERNATIONAL transport group TNT Ltd has denied a newspaper report that it may join The News Corp Ltd in a takeover bid for minority shares in Elders IXL Ltd. "They are simply rumours and we have never commented on rumours," TNT
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    • 333 29  -  By K Vara IDEMITSU, one of Japan's largest shipowners, has given a firm commitment to Malaysian Shipyard and Engineering (MSE) to repair its fleet at the latter's facilities in the next one year. Currently, one of its supertankers, Idemitsu Maru, is undergoing
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    • 274 29 Reuter A SENATE-HOUSE conference has reached agreement on a sweeping oil spill liability law that will allow states to set unlimited liability limits on polluters. The legislation is expected to be sent to the full Senate and House for approval as early
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    • 214 29 SIAM CHEMICAL, one of Thailand's largest chemicalindustrial concerns, is starting up a helicopter charter service for its own diversified operations and commercial use. The industrial group owns and operates an oil refinery on Sichang Island in the Gulf of Thailand as well as fuel
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    • 364 29 Lloyd's List AKP Sovcomflot has again broken new ground by becoming the first Soviet shipowner to publish its financial results. The figures, which cover the first 18 months of the company's operations from July 1, 1988, to Dec 31, 1989 show a net profit equivalent
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    • 402 29 Reuter US NEGOTIATORS said they have not yet decided whether to push for the exclusion of civil aviation, shipping and financial services from a global agreement on trade in services. But they said those sectors could be difficult to fit into
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    • 246 29 Scandutch boosts Far EastNorth Europe capacity BUOYED BY the strong growth in trade between the Far East and Europe, shipping consortium Scandutch has expanded its fleet's capacity on the Far East-North Europe trade route. The Copenhagen-based consortium said in a statement that it has taken delivery of Arosia, the first
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      • 34 29 JAPAN'S cruise industry is floundering in a sea of red ink because of a lack of passeafers. Analysts say operators must do more to drum up interest in cruises. Pace!
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      • 40 29 SHIPYARD Bremer Vulkan AG, East Germany's Deutsche Machinen-und Schiffbau AG of Rostock, and the Italian Fincantieri group have acquired the majority of the diesel motor activities of Swiss Gebrueder Sulzer AG. Back Pace
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      • 55 29 TWO WEEKS AGO, the Watermark column touched on the growing pleasure craft industry in Singapore and the risks owner face when they are out on the sea. Today we examine pleasure craft insurance in more depth and discuss the types of insurance policies available in
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      • 31 29 THE privatisation of the Israeli national airline, El Al, may be threatened by a government plan to cut funds for the carrier's security. Bade Page
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      • 69 30 THE US and Japanese shipbuilding industry leaders will meet in Tokyo next month to discuss the possibilities of joint research and develpment projects, a Shipbuilders' Association of Japan (SAJ) official said. The president of the Shipbuilders' Council of America, John Stocker, will
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      • 67 30 A MARINE engine joint-venture company owned by Japan's Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co Ltd and Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd has agreed with New Sulzer Diesel Ltd of Switzerland on the co-development of large engines. The agreement will enable Diesel United Ltd, which had been a licensee
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      • 53 30 A PAKISTAN International Airlines Boeing 737 with 83 passengers on board skidded off the runway at Islamabad airport last Thursday, forcing the suspension of many flights, officials said. None of the passengers or seven crew was hurt, while the aircraft, arriving in Islamabad from Lahore,
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      • 69 30 CONTINENTAL Airlines Holdings Inc's Continental Airlines unit has filed an application with the US Department of Transportation for one daily non-stop flight from Newark to Madrid beginning in April 1992. Continental said the filing follows the carrier's previously-announced filing for non-stop service from Newark
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      • 50 30 EXECORP, an engineering, finance and commerce subsidiary of France's Aerospatiale, is considering setting up an assembly line at Poland's Gdansk shipyard to producc shipping containers. Aerospatiale said in a statement that the project is part of a cooperation agreement signed between Execorp and the shipyard.
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      • 54 30 AIRBORNE Freight Corp has priced an offering of 2.5 million common shares at U5524.75 each. Net proceeds of about U5559.3 million will be used to reduce outstanding indebtedness in order to enhance flexibility to finance anticipated capital expenditures. The offering is underwritten by a syndicate led
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      • 94 30 THE Chinese leg of a new Sino-Soviet railway is to be completed in late August, one month ahead of schedule, the official New China News Agency said. Only 20 km of track remains to be laid on the 460-km route linking Urumqi, capital of the
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    • 1135 30  -  Japan's cruise industry is floundering in a sea 01 red ink because of a lack of passengers. Analysts say operators must do more to drum up interest in cruises. Ai Nakajima reports Ai Nakajima Japan Economic Journal JAPAN'S "Ocean Cruise Age", which got off to a
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    • 842 30 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 12545 38 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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      • 355 45 Pftw-i South Port on My 23: Botany Triton berth 1; Fuji Brave berth 1; Harukaze berth 2; Massd*)k berth 2; Hong Mau Cha berth 3; Seng Soon Chew berth 4; Pernas Safari berth 7; Berjasa berth 7A. KCT: Anro Fremantle berth 8; Sea Glory berth 9; Anro
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    • 1024 45 CHARTERING on the dry cargo freight market was again quiet on Thursday and rates remained steady, dealers said. The Baltic Freight Index rose eights points mainly due to a 22 point rise on the main grain route from the US Gulf to the North Continent. Earlier there was
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    • 342 46 Reuter SHIPYARD Bremer Vulkan AG, East Germany's Deutsche Machinen-und Schiflbau AG of Rostock, and the Italian Fincantieri group have acquired the majority of the diesel motor activities of Swiss Gebrueder Sulzer AG, Bremer said. A spokesman for Bremer declined to say how large
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    • 82 46 Reuter UNION leaders representing Brazil's port workers said they had started a meeting to decide on possible future strike action. The port workers, who stopped work across the country for eight days, are angry at what they say is a lack of progress in subsequent discussions
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    • 175 46 Reuter THE privatisation of the Israeli national airline, El Al, may be threatened by a government plan to cut funds for the carrier's security, Transport Ministry and El Al officials said. The government has proposed reducing a US$ 15 million annual allocation to El
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    • 80 46 Reuter THE Franco-Italian group Avions de Transport Regional (ATR) will supply Poland's national carrier LOT with eight short-range airliners under a US$lOO million deal signed in Warsaw last week, a LOT spokesman said. The arrangement is being financed by a consortium of banks headed by Banque
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    • 853 46  - Pleasure craft types of policies available in the market By Ian Lancaster The writer is managing director of Citicorp Insurance Brokers Two weeks ago the Watermark column touched on the growing pleasure craft industry in Singapore and the risks owner face when they are out on the sea. Today we
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