The Business Times, 5 September 1990

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 Wednesday September 5 1990 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 49 1 A UNITED NATIONS food agency announced yesterday that it will provide 3,446 tonnes of emergency food aid for foreigners who fled to Jordan from Kuwait and Iraq. The food, worth US$l.9 million, will be distributed to 120,000 people over 90 days.
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    • 48 1 SINGAPORE should chalk up a strong 8 per cent growth this year as rising oil prices and a weaker US market are likely to be offset by higher external and domestic demand and aboveaverage growth in productivity, a London-based research firm has predicted Page 2
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    • 46 1 CRA LTD chairman John Ralph expects operating profits to strengthen in the second half after the company's equity-ac-counted net profit for the six months ended June 30 fell to A 5269.5 million from As37o million for the same period a year earlier Page 4
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    • 32 1 MERCEDES-BENZ AG has expressed puzzlement at a request by Spain's state-owned holding company INI for Bonn to approve a blocked takeover bid of Empresa Nacional de Autocamiones SA Page 5
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    • 33 1 MAINLAND CHINESE are quickly filling the gap left by the exodus of Hongkong residents eager to get out ahead of Beijing's takeover of the territory in 1997 Page 8
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    • 32 1 RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin is advocating a radical economic plan that would legalise private ownership of land and transfer many of the Soviet Union's powers to its republics. Page 11
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    • 13 1 THE OLD ARAB ORDER PASSES 12 HARD TIMES FOR A DEAL MAKER 13
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    • 31 1 STEFFI GRAF, the two-time defending champion, played almost perfectly on Monday to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open as she dazzled Jennifer Capriati with powerful groundstrokes Page 16
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    • 34 1 SHIPREPAIR, the backbone of Singapore's marine industry, is expected to bring in more money than ever before this year, but its good days may be numbered. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 50 1 NEW YORK stock prices fell steeply in early trading yesterday as the market remained concerned about higher oil prices and the Iraqi standoff, analysts said. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks was down 26.49 points at 2,587.87 as of 10.30 am after one hour of trading.
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    • 51 1 LONDON share prices were lower at midday yesterday with few buyers reported in the market. At 1110 GMT, the Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index was down IB.S points or O.BS per cent at 2,148.1. At 1100 GMT, the narrower Financial Times 30-share index was down 14.9 points at
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    • 39 1 MALAYSIAN interbank interest rates are expected to rise by up to half a percentage point before the end of the year as the central bank, Bank Negara, mops up excess liquidity to check inflation Page 27
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    • 41 1 COLD STORAGE Holdings has reported a SO per cent jump in earnings to a record $23.17 million for the year ended June 30, on the back of strong growth in its retail, bakery and trading businesses Page 3
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    • 19 1 Exch—g» rates US$ S$ 1.7650 Yen S$ 1.2248 IbMiiii'ni' SSO.6559 Overnight 5 7/16 unch 3-montn 6 9/16 unch
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    • 34 1 Loadon Gold PM fix US$381.40 -US$5.35 S'poreOct.... 16l.25'/kg -0.50 Nrsia Oct 243.50*/kg unch KLlh Turnover 50 tonnes -37 Spot MS 15.12/kg -0.12 Cradc pain oil Turnover 492 lots -466 Sept M$663 /tonne unch
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  • 526 1  -  By Alvin Tay THE number of housing loan applications at banks and finance companies has fallen drastically since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug 2, with at least two major lenders reporting a 50 per cent fall in the number of applications each
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  • 450 1 The Gulf Crisis Reuter IRAQI President Saddam Hussein is ready to quit Kuwait and release all hostages provided he gets a guarantee the US will not attack him and he can keep a strip of Kuwaiti territory, a Palestinian leader said yesterday. The
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  • 400 1 AFP A TOUGH leadership battle inside New Zealand's besieged Labour government, facing an election on October 27, came to a climax yesterday when it elected its third prime minister in 13 months. In an unprecedented move so close to an election, Prime
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  • 153 1 RENEWED uncertainty over the Gulf crisis and a sharp boost in oil prices yesterday sent prices on Asian stock markets lower for the second consecutive day. In Tokyo, the key 225share Nikkei index closed 512.79 points or 2.02 per cent down at 24,907.64, after falling 557.94
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  • 314 1  -  By David Chew HEAVY SELLING by miners in the face of poor demand brought the price of tin down by a further 12 sen to a 46-month low of M 515.10 per kg on the Kuala Lumpur tin market (KLTM) yesterday.. And
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    • 30 1 Population shift, Pg 11 The old Arab order passes, Pg 12 Local shipyards could be hit in the long term, Air express majors won't raise rates. Shipping Times Pg 1
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 94 2 LOCAL businessmen can take advantage of Cyprus's strategic location as a gateway to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, said the Minister for Commerce and Industry of Cyprus, Takis Nemitsas. The minister, who was leading a trade delegation to Singapore, also
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      • 76 2 THE Nanyang Technological Institute is inviting organisations in the banking, financial and insurance industries to offer places of attachment for undergraduates in banking and insurance. The periods of attachment for the second-year students is expected to last 10 weeks, beginning from March 11 next year.
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      • 88 2 SINGAPORE Airlines is to extend its "no-smoking" policy to all services with a flight duration of four hours or less from Oct 28. The flights to be affected are services to Hongkong, Taipei, Manila, Madras, Cebu and Colombo. However, services to and from Europe and
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      • 78 2 THE National Trades Union Congress has spelt out its guidelines for part-time workers to join unions and hold office. According to NTUC News, the workers must serve the company for more than three months and pay the union dues according to their monthly income, like holders of full-time
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      • 86 2 THE closing date for entries for the Chingay Float Design Competition has been extended to Sep 21. According to a press release from the People's Association, the float design may reflect the theme of carnivals, festivals, fantasy, celebration and the 21st Century. Cash prizes will be awarded. The
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    • 415 2  -  By Kenneth James SINGAPORE should chalk up a strong 8 per cent growth this year as rising oil prices and a weaker US market are likely to be offset by higher external and domestic demand and above-average growth in productivity, a London-based research
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    • 119 2 LOTUS Development Singapore will replace illegally repackaged Lotus products from its distributor, Imagineering, to protect its customers and to ensure no misrepresentation of its software. Lotus Development, the Singapore arm of the giant US software manufacturer, made this announcement following investigations undertaken jointly by
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    • 195 2 THE local construction industry has good short-term prospects despite the Gulf crisis and higher oil prices, the Senior Minister of State for National Development said yesterday. Construction demand is expected to continue to rise, Dr Lee Boon Yans told just qualified construction workers at a
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    • 278 2 THE Gulf crisis has high* lighted the unpredictability of strategic developments, and untoward developments cannot be completely ruled out despite Asean's best efforts, the Second Minister for Defence (Services) BrigadierGeneral (Res) Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. Peace in the
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 454 3  -  By Elaine Koh COLD STORAGE Holdings has reported a 50 per cent jump in earnings to a record $23.17 million for the year ended June 30, on the back of strong growth in its retail, bakery and trading businesses. However, this will
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    • 382 3  -  By Abdul Hadhi SPECIALIST contractor L&M Group Investments, which already has $40 million worth of contracts in Taiwan, has landed another valued at $4 million for the MRT system in Taipei. Speaking to BT, an L&M spokesman said: "The involvement in a foreign MRT project
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    • 188 3 SINGAPORE FODDER is not aware of any reason for the dramatic increase in interest shown by investors in its shares recently. Replying to a query by the Stock Exchange of Singapore, its board of directors said yesterday that they were "not
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    • 555 3 MARKET TALK HAVE YOU been getting a lot of buy recommendations from your stockbroker lately? Take your time. And hold on to cash if you don't want to be caught in a dead cat's bounce. A dead cat, it
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    • 163 3 THE Malaysian Finance Ministry yesterday announced the new composition of the Capital Issues Committee whose six members now include Ministry of Trade and Industry Secre-tary-General Datuk Haji Shaharuddin Haji Haron and Federal Flour Mills Berhad managing director Mr Oh Siew Nam. The chairman is Tan
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    • 369 3 A SET of interim results released by Parkway Holdings yesterday suggests that the property group continues to be plagued by an erosion of profit margins. For the six months ended June 30, Parkway chalked up a group operating profit before tax, minority interests and
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 96 3 MAGNUM CORPORATION Bhd is expecting an extraordinary gain of MS7O.S2 million from the proposed disposal of the entire paid-up share capital of Sri Damansara Sdn Bhd to General Lumber Bhd. Magnum group chairman Datuk Lim Ah Tam said in a circular to
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      • 75 3 BUKIT PINANG LEISURE Sdn Bhd, a new subsidiary of Beijaya Corporation (M) Bhd, has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Pulau Pinang government to develop Penang Hill and its surrounding environment into a recreation-cum-holiday resort. Beijaya said in a statement yesterday that the
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      • 75 3 POLY GLASS FIBRE (M) Bhd's public issue of 8.938 million shares at M 52.20 per share has been oversubscribed by 17.SS times. A total of 41,021 applications for 50.629 million shares with a value of M$ 111.38 million was received for the 2.729 million shares available for
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      • 73 3 SHELL REFINING COMPANY (FOM) Bhd yesterday reported a 12.S per cent jump in its operating pre-tax profit to MS 108.22 million for the half-year ended June 30, 1990, from M 596.24 million in the previous corresponding period. This was achieved on the back of a 34.7
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      • 65 3 MALAYSIAN Health Minister Ng Cheng Kiat says he has increased his stake in Amalgamated Industrial Steel Berhad (AISB) to 27,285,316 shares through the acquisition of an additional 34,000 shares on Aug 22 and Aug 23, 1990. The 34,000 additional shares were purchased from the open market
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      • 50 3 GCIH PROPERTY Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grand Central Investment Holdings pic, bought 1.15 million shares in Sunshine Allied Investments Ltd from Elders Finance Asia Ltd for nearly $5.2 million on Monday. This brings its stake in Sunshine from 12.98 per cent to 24.12 per cent.
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 99 4 FUJITSU LTD yesterday unveiled in Tokyo a new mainframe oomputer series it called the world's fastest. The presentation is one day before an expected unveiling by International Business Machines Corp of its new generation of mainframes and is the final Japanese mainframe entry as makers
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      • 116 4 SWILYNN INTERNATIONAL Holdings Ltd said in Hongkong yesterday that it had obtained control over 381.84 million shares, or 89.37 per cent, of the issued capital of .Teletech International Holdings Ltd. The listed video-cassette maker's hostile takeover bid for Teletech, a listed colour television manufacturer, closed
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      • 118 4 INL in Gordon Gotch deal r. INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS LTD (INL) said in Welf/ lington yesterday that it had agreed to buy the New Zealand and Australian operations of magazine distributor Gordon and Gotch Ltd from News Corp Ltd unit News Ltd for NZ$2OO million. The deal included the purchase of
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      • 120 4 TRADING FIRM C Itoh and Co Ltd will set up a jointly owned construction steel leasing firm in Taiwan in November, a company spokesman said. The new firm, as yet unnamed, will be capitalised at 1.2 billion yen. It will be owned 30.5
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      • 128 4 THERE WILL BE no immediate effect on production at Inco Ltd's nickel mine in Indonesia after a furnace exploded there last Friday because there was already a partial shutdown, a .(company spokesman said in Jakarta yesterday. But the ofifi- rial said the company was still investigating
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    • 241 4 AFP AUSTRALIAN mining group MIM on Monday reported a As 92 million (U5574.5 million) increase in profits to A 5295.5 million (US$239 million) for the year ending July 1, 1990. Announcing the figures, the chairman of MIM Holdings, Sir
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    • 525 4 Reuter ONE OF Hongkong's biggest companies, Wharf (Holdings) Ltd, expects to double its net profits within five years. John Hung, Wharfs corporate affairs and group finance director, also said yesterday that the expected growth would come from a planned substantial increase
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    • 320 4 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES' largest real estate company, Ayala Corp, expects a slowdown in investments and will take a cautious stance on operations in the second half of this year. Ayala Corp said the Middle East crisis and persistent threats of another coup attempt by
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    • 224 4 THE Saha Group, one of Thailand's biggest business groups, is enlarging its interests from manufacturing to real estate with at least five industrial estates, two hou*ing projects and one hotel. Saha Pathana Interholding company, the holding company of the group, will develop real
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    • 313 4 Reuter CRA LTD chairman John Ralph said yesterday that he expects operating profits to strengthen in the seoond half after the company's equityacoounted net profit for the six months ended June 30 fell to AJ269.5 million from AS37O million for the same period a year
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    • 193 4 A lOf .AT SHERATON lITTII THINGS MIAN A lOT AT SHEIATON UTTIt THINGS MIAN A 101 AT *:< I 'K' 2 0 O 1 X 4 O -.F-i" O j, •> 1f".% fv.'M different con erence 3rcss. ese j < > dssroora, O > \*vV. -J<; z Jl^ jfc m
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    • 120 4 r j|. "^1 This announcement appears as a matter of record only 4* r I 27 Augbst. 1990 I '<- fV i *if yj < i H 1 r 1 '/%-M FAIRBANKS HOLDINGS (PTE.) LTD; (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) v .v n I together with parties acting in
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 383 5 Reuter MERCEDES-BENZ AG has expressed puzzlement at a request by Spain's state-owned holding company INI for Bonn to approve a blocked takeover bid of Empresa National de Autocamiones SA (Enasa). On Saturday, the Economics Ministry said in the official gazette that Instituto National de
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    • 438 5 Reuter THE 1990 group net profit of tyre maker Continental AG could be cut in half from 1989's 227.8 million marks, analysts said, after it reported a plunge in its first half prei- tax profits to 100.S million marks from 16S.S million c>:
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    • 147 5 Reuter WEST GERMAN chemical ptwp Hoechst AG said it expected near term sales to remain at the levels reached in the first half of this year. "We expect ao considerable changes In the development of oar b—iarn in the next few months," Hoechst said
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    • 265 5 AFP BRITISH conglomerate Polly Peck International, hit recently by controversy over chairman Asil Nadir's abortive attempt at a buyout, on Monday confounded its critics by announcing a 72 per cent hike in interim profit. The group, whose interests range from fruit
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    • 226 5 Reuter THE Irish High Court has given an examiner until Oct 10 to investigate the financial health of debt-ridden Good-' man International, Europe's largest meat exporter, which has been hit by the Gulf crisis. Accountant Peter Fitzpatrick, the examiner appointed
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    • 96 5 FRENCH HOLDING GROUP Chameur* SA has confirmed a Financial Times report last week mat it was interested in buying European cinemas owned by Giancario Parretti's Pathe Communications Corp. "We have been tfudying buying these assets sinoe buying Pathe Cinema from Parretti, in particular the cinema
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    • 62 5 A UNIT of Fried Krupp GmbH said on Monday that it had set up a marketing and engineering joint venture with East Germany's Umformtechnik Erfurt GmbH. A spokesman at Fried Krupp said it would hokl 49 per cent and East Germany's Umformtechnik SI
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    • 107 5 TECHNIP, an oil refiner and engineering firm 33 per centowned by Ste National Elf Aquitaine, said in Paris on Monday that it would take a 14.29 per cent stake in Furnish engineering company NPL Engineering Oy for an undisclosed sum. It will take the stake via
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    • 68 5 EAST GERMANY'S porcelain maker Meissen GmbH, founded in 1710, said it wants to remain a state-owned company after unification. "We were always governmentowned and that is what we want to stay," a Meissen spokeswoman told journalists. Meissen, recently converted into a company with limited liability (GmbH),
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    • 82 5 FRANCE'S state-owned Electridte de France (EDF) said its heavy debt load raised questions about its future financing capacity but denied trade union claims that it was discussing partial privatisation with the government "EDF officially denies (privatisation) talks are being conducted with the government There are no
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    • 78 5 FRENCH luxury goods group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, authorised by shareholders in June to raise five billion francs to help fund the purchase of shares in British brewer Guinness pic, is studying an issue of perpetual float-ing-rate notes, bankers said on Monday. A LVMH
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 442 6  -  By Quak Hiang Whai HIGHER investment income and steady claim recoveries during the first six months of this year have helped the Export Credit Insurance Corporation of Singapore (ECICS) to turn in a group profit after tax of $6.89 million at half
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    • 330 6  -  By David Chew TOTAL volume on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) soared to 734,148 contracts last month as a result of the volatile and unsettling conditions in world financial markets following the Gulf crisis. This monthly volume is the highest so
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 96 6 DAI-ICHI Kangyo Bank, Ltd (DKB), the world's biggest bank, is to raise short-term prime rates by 0.625 percentage point to 8.0 per cent effective next week, banking sources said on Tuesday. The planned rate rise is aimed at coping with an increase of fund
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      • 97 6 A JAPANESE syndicate, led by Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan Ltd, Hokuriku Bank Ltd and Yokohama Bav Ltd, will provide a four-year loan of HKS3OO million, eqwralent to about six billion yen, to Sun Hung Kai Properties financial Services) Ltd of Hongkong, a LBJ spokesman
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      • 94 6 WEST GERMAN Finance Minister Theo Waigel said West German capital markets could handle increased government borrowing to finance German unification. In a television interview, Mr Waigel said: "The capital markets can handle what is needed." He did not elaborate. Last week, Waigel put East Germany's financing
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      • 85 6 HONGKONG'S First Pacific Bank is targeting a greater share of the home mortgage market by offering half a percentage point discount off the standard mortgage rate for certain homeowners, according to the South China Morning Post. Under the plan, qualified homeowners could receive a mortgage at
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    • 213 6  -  By Diana Oon CHO HUNG Bank, South Korea's oldest bank, started operations as an offshore-li-censed bank in Singapore yesterday. It joins the Commercial Bank of Korea as the two Korean banks with offshore banking licences here. Of the other Korean banks in Singapore,
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    • 255 6 NM ROTHSCHILD and Sons is targeting Hongkong's HKSl.ll trillion cash deposit market, the South China Morning Post has reported. The United Kingdombased fund management house hopes to gain a larger portion of the Hongkong market by promoting its range of money market funds to local
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • THE REGION 1
    • 358 7 INFLATION, escalating oil prices and higher interest rates are the thiee main problems facing the Chatichai II Government, according to Thai Farmers Bank. According to The Bangkok Post, the bank's research office says that Prime Minster Chatichai Choonhavan may have succeeded in
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    • 440 7 THE THAI COUNCIL of Economic Ministers met on Monday to discuss energy conservation measures with the view of cuskioning the full impact of an increase in domestic oil prices as a result of the Gulf crisis, reported The Nation. Items on the
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    • 251 7 THE THAI Petroleum Authority (PTT) will face a shortage of storage space if the Tkai government raises its mandatory reserves of crude oil and finished products, according to The Nation. PTT governor Dr Anat Arbhabhirama said that shouk the government adopt the new reserves
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    • 54 7 Brigadier-General Marino Filart (left) of the Philippines* Capital Regional Command showing reporters the 113 sticks of dynamite and detonating cords taken from two bombing suspects Mario Villegas (second from left) and brother Anrelio (third from left), who were arrested at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Manila
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    • 151 7 THE MONTH-LONG Persun Gulf crisis has cost Thailand's textile and garment industries millions, perhaps billions, of bahts in unpaid accounts, according to a Bangkok Post report. The low-grade textile and garment producer/exporters have been worst-hit, according to a Business Post survey, as these arc
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 78 7 HIGHER OIL PRICES will slow Thailand's economic growth to a real 7.4 per cent in 1991 against a revised 9.4 per cent this year and about 12 per cent in 1989, a Cabinet spokesman said. Quoting a government study, he said
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      • 44 7 THAILAND AND LAOS are expected to work more closely in promoting tourism in future, according to a Bangkok Post report. Laos' newly-appointed director-general of tourism, Commerce and External Economic Relations Minister Baliene Khamdaranikorn, recently visited Tourism Authority of Thailand deputy-governor Scree Wangpaichitr.
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      • 37 7 A MASS TRANSIT PROJECT proposed a decade ago to ease Bangkok's traffic congestion has been delayed again, this time by Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan on grounds that some details remain to be studied.
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      • 30 7 SENIOR OFFICIALS of a Cambodian coastal province have been suspended and others promoted in a government crackdown on corruption and waste, according to Phnom Penh radio announcement yesterday.
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      • 45 7 MALAYSIA wants to boost economic and trade ties with African countries, according to Foreign Minister Abu Hassan bin Omar said. It wants to formalise bilateral agreements to allow its central bank and those of African nations to guarantee import and export payments.
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    • 369 8 AFP MAINLAND CHINESE are quickly filling the gap left by the exodus of Hongkong residents eager to get out ahead of Beijing's takeover of the territory in 1997. Close to 200,000 people have emigrated since 1984, when Britain and China signed a
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    • 34 8 Sooth Korea* Prime Minister Kang youitf-hooi (right) greeting North Koreas Premier Yoa Hyoag-mak oa his arrival? at Seoal s Intercoatiaental Hotel yesterday. Renter picture j Reuter picture
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    • 429 8 HONGKONG'S Standing Committee on Company Law Reform is looking into ways to amend the oolony's system of liquidating companies, according to the South China Morning Post. The powerful 21-member committee headed by Sir Derek Cons has recommended that the Financial Secretary "substantially" amend the
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    • 275 8 Reuter TAIWAN cracked down on major illegal commodity futures houses on Monday in a bid to eliminate "degenerate money games" on the island, an Investigations Bureau spokesman said. He said more than 200 officers from the Ministry of Justice's Investigations Bureau fanned out to search 17
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • 585 10 AP RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin is advocating a radical economic plan that would legalise private ownership of land and transfer many of the Soviet Union's powers to its republics. If approved by the Russian republic's Parliament, as Mr Yeltsin asked on Monday, the national
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    • 420 10 Reuter JAPANESE business is expected to react coolly to overtures for more investment from Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnaze during his visit to Japan starting yesterday. "The Soviets desperately need our capital and technology because Moscow has no money to develop the region. But, until
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    • 609 11 The Gulf Crisis AP IRAQ has poured its citizens into Kuwait to try to intimit, date the population and may settle thousands there, according to Kuwaiti governr ment ministers. The ministers said on Monday that Iraq was continuing to pillage the country but
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    • 502 11 AFP CARACAS has asked the US Energy Department to help Venezuela build new petroleum refineries, Energy Minister Celestino Armas disclosed on Monday. The government hopes to boost by its refining capacity of 2.7 million barrels per day (bpd) by more than a
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    • 167 11 AP IRAQ on Monday suspended repayment of the country's massive foreign debt in response to the United Nations trade embargo, the official Iraqi News Agency reported. In another development, Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz urged countries that have large numbers of expa- triates in
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  • 473 12 EDITORIAL IWENTY-FTVE years of independence have confirmed one enviable fact: as political systems go, this system But so much more is at stake now: not just survival but continued stability and prosperity for this and future generations. There is ckarly a vested interest by one
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 218 12 PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew's address to the Academy of Law last week is one of the most comprehensive reviews of the problems and challenges facing the legal profession in many years. Mr Lee also made several specific suggestions for improving the legal system. Many
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    • 111 12 THE MOVE to enhance the powers of the proposed Elected President reflects the seriousness on the part of the government in wanting to ensure that Singapore will continue to be administered in the best possible manner. As the Bill introduced last week represents a fundamental change in
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    • 96 12 FOLLOWING FROM National Development Min- 'ister Mr S Dhanabalan's speech about discrimination vis-a-vis the Indian community, we would like to add that it is really a good sign that the issue is being debated openly. This has generated at the very least an awareness of
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    • 221 12 WHAT DOES privatisation mean to the government? First of all, it eases the administrative burden, especially in terms of personnel and expenditure. Secondly, the government gains financial relief from the side of its companies and from recurrent expenditure through lease payments and the corporate tax. Thirdly, privatisation
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    • 100 12 THE SCARCITY of qualified teachers casts a shadow on the start of a new academic year. Education experts are seeking solutions to the problems of a system in which rote learning and mediocre teaching are too common, at a time of flux when more private schools
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    • 165 12 ATTEMPTS TO please all of the people all of the time are usually doomed from the start. But the agreement last week by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council on a possible Cambodian peace settlement goes a long way towards disproving US president
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  • 1315 12 The Arab world cannot turn back the clock to relive the glorious days of its past. In the face of the Saddam Hussein's offering of Arab cohesion, the Arab world must reject his call of hostility against the West and seek reconciliation for the sake
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    • 849 13  -  Alison Leigh Cowan reports on the threat to the Morgan Stanley Group Inc Alison Leigh Cowan NYT PICTURE a company with a patchwork of ownership interests in assets collectively worth US$2O billion and that range from unglamorous textile and paper mills to
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    • 1283 13  -  John Bittleston, a key player in the Suntory-Cerebos mega deal, tells the behind-the-scenes story and how Cerebos's hand will be considerably strengthened in the region. Chuang Pedc Ming reports Chuang Peck Ming HIS pink bow-tie speaks volumes for John Bittleston's state of mind.
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    • 610 13  -  The invasion of Kuwait has brought out the best in the British Foreign Secretary, enhancing his chances of succeeding Mrs Thatcher, writes Cnris Boian Chris Boian AFP WITH the Gulf crisis nearing its fifth week, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has emerged as the
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    • 116 13 WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE 181 Music Lounge. fingers clicking. Besides the Where the eye-popping fashion show, we also make excitement of models on M" 4 c many j"fec ji parade, every Wednesday during HAPPY HOUR, /fIUD' t from 9pm, is a real treat. It with beer and standard
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  • FOCUS
    • 765 15 Environmental anxieties, and now the Gulf crisis, are prompting the Japanese to increase their efforts in developing electric cars. And rising oil prices are making the hydrogen-powered car look more attractive as well. Reuter JAPAN, sensing that growing environmental anxieties
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    • 609 15 NYT ON THE surface, the hydrogen-powered car looks as if it were made by a malevolent Rube Goldberg. It backfires like the cars in the old comic movies. Its engine knocks incessantly. Its'fuel tanks are huge and unwieldy, yet it still
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  • SPORTS 1
    • 1108 16 Agencies STEFFI GRAF, the two-time defending champion, played almost perfectly on Monday to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open as she dazzled 14-year-old Jennifer Capriati with powerful groundstrokes. Grafs 6-1, 6-2 victory at Flushing Meadows was complete in every respect, despite a packed crowd
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    • 389 16 AP BETH DANIEL shot a 5-un-der-par 67 on Monday and beat Susan Sanders by three shots for her second straight Rail Charity Classic title and her fourth victory in the five LPGA tournaments. Daniels 1 U5545,000 share of the US$3OO,OOO purae increased her earnings
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    • 682 17 Reuter TWO MONTHS after the World Cup finals, many of the tournament's top players return to action on Sunday in the world's richest soccer league. Italy's 18 first division clubs bursting with 54 foreign players, including many signed during the
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 68 17 A DETERMINED assault by Carl Lewis and his team-mates on the world 4xloo-metre relay record set by the French squad last week failed at an international athletics meeting in Jerez, Spain, on Monday. Lewis and his Santa Monica track club colleagues Leroy Burrell, Floyd Heard and Mark
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      • 78 17 RUDY DHAENENS is on top of the cycling world after winning the professional road race title at the weekend. Yet two years ago the Belgian was the laughing stock of the sport after a crash in the Tour de France. But the 29-year-old finally set the
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      • 60 17 JACQUES FOUROUX is to be replaced as coach of France's national rugby squad after nine years on the job. The French Rugby Federation said on Monday that Fouroux, who has faced criticism from rugby fans and the French media alike for the team's recent loss of
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      • 74 17 NEW ZEALAND'S new cricket captain Martin Crowe said yesterday that he would try to please the public for a change. His team, he said, would play attractive cricket. "This is something that has not happened in the last couple of years. Perhaps a few of us old
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    • 652 18 TELEVISION AND RADIO A a 0 M-m ~~SBCI2 L 45 Musical latarlada. Excerpts i2t Wquk Prayar Cai. BUSINESS ON RADIO virtim nf Stalin Th vzjszs™™" VlCUiii ui oldiiii ssaars.o.a-* is Ha —_8.00 Trotsky (See Our Choice). 10 30 Saaanaadal Of Hm World 1100 WWf WrastSaa. Financial rsews ,00 1»0 The
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 737 19  -  Everyone knows how Placido Domingo transports his listeners with his enchanting singing. Gazing at the man up close, Cassandra How finds he speaks volumes with his eyes too Cassandra How THE WORLD'S master tenor arrived on time for the press conference, and he didn't have to
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    • 589 19 CHATTERBOX SUESTIONS on the future 13 leading London theatres have been raised by the death of Australian tycoon Robert Holmes a Coart on Sunday, but a family spokesman says the theatres are not for sale. The 13 theatres acoount for one quarter of
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    • 220 19 SINGAPORE'S RESTAURANTS ★RECOGNITION* TUNK-KA OF THAILAND Rated as one of the 100 BEST restaurants in Singapore, Tunk-ka of Thailand scored FULL MARKS for its food quality. It's the choice of Tatler's readers for the best place to eat in Singapore. At Tunk-ka, it's more than a matter of taste! 1
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4618 20  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SHARE PRICES on the Singapore stock market yesterday closed modestly weaker in very thin volume as investors continued to stay on the sidelines, bringing trading volume down to the year s third lowest level. Dealers said the market generally
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  • 4322 21 Main Board Goodwood Park 1430 30 2.!% SPH Foreign 970 -1-10 +1.0% Apollo 1*3" +9 +5.2* Singatron 20* 96 +6 +6.7* Lum Chang Lou 88 +6 +7.3* Inno-Pac Wt 94 36 +6 20.0* Man 50* 690 3 +0.7* Sing Inv k Fin 190 +5 +2.7*
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    • 85 22 Cifwy tela Yaar tormp Net Ntt Mratags Grtu mm to praM/tots (L) per than ('000) (otnto) Htm HUgs Aug 31 Mar 90 81.085(11.129) 5.4(5.6) 6(6) MJ Au| 31 0* 89 MJ20,413(119,771) 3.7a(3.6a) 3 la(3 ID Burwi Aug 30 Mir 90 HKJ30.081 ($70,067 8.1(21.7) 70(110) Mm loong Aug 21
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    • 188 22 Caapaay Data Yaar Gra«p pra-tax Nat aanfega firaaa aaa ta praflt/fcaa (L) par akara <tvMaa< (casta) > Com Plant Sap 1 )un 90 M$88,700($157,400) 6 3(11.9) 18.4(32) on 8M Sep 1 Jun 90 MI39.500($34,900) 7.1(7.2) 20(20) X&SmDv* Sep 1 Jun 90 M$811.400($505.300) 18.2(14.4) 29(22.7) Jy-tom UEP Sep 1
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    • 856 22 Carrot Ex Mate Ml Htallar TataHv »■}■!■< data daaa paytli Hmymr tetyaar Mb IMp 6% Aug 28 Sep 7 Sep 26 6% 6% MM 2.5% Sep 14 Sep 28 Oct 27 2.5* 2* MM 10% Sep 21 Oct 5 Nw 1 10% 7.5%(«) Mm 7.5%TE(I) Oct 12 Oct
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    • 247 22 Caa*aay Date HaH-yaar Craap pra-tax latarlai aaa to prafit/laas (L) flvMuad .0 COOO) Inch Kenneth Sep 3 Jwi 90 M$l,940($l,412) 30(25a) '.AS Aug 31 Jun 90 111.200(119.202) 6(6) 5 Space Land Aug 31 Jun 90 $15,504m($25,132o) .Sunre Pacific Aug 31 Jun 90 HK$2.101d($2.391d) 313(38.3) BAT Aug 30 Jun
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    • 479 22 fcphw Orient lim set up a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Neptune Marine Consultanj; «y, in Singapore to offer consultancy services worldwide. bm Pidfc Hridhgs Ltd (IPH) announced a new substantial shareholder, Indonesia's Saiffl group. Through a series of transactions, the Satim group will end up holding 19.1% in PH
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    • 425 22 Stogapars Stocks UUFMIYmr C«9«y taW 0* Tor M 91 tmm M Mym (TM) Lmm IM Mm M 30 OK 89 $351(10 OB Mm Apr 26 MM 93(a) 23TE(«) 4.747 FM Mm Jm 23 S# 90 35 S 18.0 62.868 MM Mm Ami 11 Die 90 4 6 110
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    • 370 22 Company Right* hilt Ua Ma (H) ONn tar s* by or on bttalf of INUgM (M) BM of 25.2* stares by ny of i nghts altar to m*M toanMMan of W oa to» bass of tartar-one MH-S each. E*Mr M 20 Books do* A* 3 Accepting PayM Sep
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    • 614 22 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS QC m Baton 26/4/13 1 awat 0m H» aril ft—r lm Ca M 2/10/89 to 20/10/94 1 mm* ptotloivl wmwt 0m >1 art «<teato«l CtowUpitow Ctm lip ■> Mack 67 to 31/12/91 136 aonwto ptoi 11.55 git aw t* «m i/tm n 29/7/* 1 mm* pia 11
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    • 479 22 C—HMMiy Rights tow Mai One-torto* 102.00 per share CaHmyhw Caprtal reaction scheme to retece par wtoe of shares feoa $1.00 to 10 60: ftghts issue of 3:4 $0.(0 per stare OH One-tor-one M$4 00 per share Every tour n(hts shares would be issued with one TSR. EMS One-tor-two
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    • 98 22 RECORD HIGHS LOWS BT Composite Index ST Mastriak fata 1990 1* 1435.43 (lfi/7/90) Jf 7 g?2£ 1990 tar *****3 (23/8/90) 22 H 12 x rSS2!! 1989 1322.00 (28/12/89) 22!? !X2 1989 far ***** (4/1/89) 1030.89 (4/1/89) 1988 1* *****6 8/8/88 *****7 1988 Sr 737*3 4/1/M 19M Inr 833J1 (4/1/88) »t»l*
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3645 23 Bernama MBT AFTERNOON bargain hunting and speculative buying helped share prices on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange to recover from early lows. The market closed mixed to slightly steadier after a day of lacklustre trading. The KLSE Composite Index added a mere 0.08
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    • 101 23 Property The property market has been forging ahead in the past two years. The question now is, will it hold? Business Times special supplement on property and construction looks at the trends in the residential, commercial, industrial, retail and hotel sectors. With Singapore companies looking further afield for opportunities, we
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2274 24 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS dosed lower for the second day running yesterday on concern over Middle East tensions and the higher oil prices and tighter credit that could result. Thin volume exaggerated the effects of the growing bearish sentiment, brokers said. "With interest rates
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2358 24 THE Hongkong bourse was barely active as investors steered clear on uncertainty over developments in the Middle East, brokers said "The low turnover reflects the uncertainty over the Middle East most institutions are still adopting a wait-and-see attitude," a broker at ChinTung Securities said.
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Aussie stocks end lower on poor volume
      • 900 25 THE AUSTRALIAN share market closed lower yesterday, influenced by a weaker Tokyo market and disappointment with the half year net profit result from mining house CRA. "The market was initially encouraged by the CRA result but when people ran through the numbers, they realised it was no better than
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      • 365 25 THE TAIWAN stock index reversed early losses to close slightly higher yesterday on late buying in the finance and cement sectors. The weighted index finished 25.86 points up to close at 3,600.75 compared with Monday's 3,574.89 finish. Turnover was NTS33.I billion against NT536.2 billion. Dealers said bargain-hunting in the
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      • 490 25 PHILIPPINE SHARE prices fell below new support levels on reaction to Monday night's bomb explosion, the 18th blast to hit the Philippine capital in three weeks. Manila's composite index closed 15.74 points lower at 732.42 yesterday. Prices were just establishing new support levels after the index hit the year's
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      • 633 25 PRICES ON the Jakarta stock exchange ended mixed yesterday, with the composite index easing 5.08 points to 562.33 and turnover falling to 3.36 million shares from the previous 4.25 million. Bank Duta was the most traded on the regular market with 755,000 shares changing hands, but it fell 450
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      • 444 25 NEW ZEALAND shares closed lower yesterday on market jitters caused by Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer's resignation yesterday morning and a weak opening on the Tokyo bourse. "Financial markets get natural jitters coming up to an election anyway and this has compounded things," said Dave Tetro of Ord Minnett (NZ).
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      • 676 25 THAI STOCKS finished lower in volatile trade yesterday after mid-session gains in the banking and sectors were wiped out by late pftißtaking. The SET Index fell 28.20 points to end at 873.34 on turnover of 3.3 billion baht. Losses led gains 147 tojl2. Most active were Asia Securities, Miva
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      • 821 25 Reuter SEOUL STOCKS edged down in «c3ve trade yesterday as investors reacted with dismay to rumours that 25 securities companies would clear unpaid and.insettled accounts in a lump sum by idling them at current prices. Ts»e composite stock index closed at 632.34, shedding 3.03 points from the previous session.
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      • 443 25 Close ftwlm +A S*4 SYDNEY All Odinanes Index 1493.5 1503.3 -9.8 All Industrials Index 2244.3 2266.7 -18.4 All Resources Index 908.5 912.0 -3.5 Turnover (million) 73.40 59.75 +13.65 BANGKOK SET Index 873.34 901.54 -28.20 Turnover (nearest *000) NA 56,120 JAKARTA Composite Index 562.33 567.41 -5 08 Turnover (nearest XX») 3.36
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • UK stocks higher in directionless trade
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        887 26 tONDON EQUITY prices were sJight- ly firmer towards the end of a session Avoid of major news or direction on Monday. The market struggled to establish a clear-cut trend in the absence of US markets which were closed on Mon- day for Labour Day. Shares drew early inspiration from
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      • 273 26 SWISS SHARES were lower at midsession yesterday. Dealers said volume was light but had increased compared with the previous day. The all-share SPI index fell 11.7 points or 1.15 per cent to 1,006 while the SMI index of leading shares shed 15.1 points or 0.99 per cent to 1,512.2.
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      • 146 26 ITALIAN SHARES slid to close sharply lower yesterday on continuing fears about the Gulf situation but brokers said the thin volume was amplifying the price movements. Brokers said they did not expect turnover to be much better than Monday's meagre 116 billion lire. "The volumes are ridiculous," one trader
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      • 205 26 FRENCH SHARE prices stood sharply down in midday trading yesterday amid general pessimism over prospects of a solution to the Gulf crisis, dealers said. "There's a feeling of general disillusionment. Everyone's sitting on their hands and wondering where it's all going to end," said one trader. The CAC-40 index
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      • 396 26 THE JOHANNESBURG stock market was idle at midday yesterday in a repeat of Monday's aimless performance as investors, still preoccupied by events in the Middle East, waited uncertainly for fresh developments, dealers said. At noon the leading JSE indices were showing no significant change. The JSE all-gold index stood
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      • 311 26 DUTCH SHARE prices sustained opening losses in dull midsession business yesterday as investors stayed at the sidelines waiting for the crisis in the Gulf to end. News that a Palestinian leader said Saddam Hussein was ready to negotiate and to withdraw from Kuwait if obtained certain guarantees was received
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      • 425 26 Reuter WEST GERMAN shares slipped over 2 per cent in low volume trade yesterday as fears of higher interest rates in the wake of another rise in crude oil prices caused investors to sell stocks and led brokers to mark down prices. The DAX index of 30 leading shares
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        925 26 Sep 3 Oom Pirtwn NEW YORK Dow Jones closed 2614.36 NYSE Financial dosed 124.33 SAP 500 dosed ***** Turnover (million) dosed 73.00 LONDON Financial Times 30 1687.40 1,693.6 -6.20 FTSE 100 2166.60 2,162.1 +3.80 Turnover (million) 134.4 337.3 -223.1 AMSTERDAM CBS General 180.90 179.70 +1.20 —HKU Stock Index 3360.91 5608.12
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 323 27 Reuter THE New Zealand Reserve Bank said it is on track to achieve between zero and 2 per cent annual inflation by December 1992, but it raised intermediate targets for 1990 and 1991 because of higher world oil prices. "The December 1992 target remains
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    • 735 27 FOREX MARKET REPORTS THE British pound yesterday firmed slightly in London during morning trading against the US dollar and the German mark, supported by renewed speculation on sterling's full entry into the European Monetary System. After falling back markedly on
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    • 394 27 Cross rates scp4 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.7650 2.6890 1.5800 144.00 0.5313 1.3140 1.2255 1.6207 SS 0.5666 1.5235 0.8952 0.8159 0.3010 0.7445 0.6943 0.9183 MS 0.3719 65.64 0.5876 0.5355 0.1976 0.4887 0.4557 0.6027 Dm ***** I.I 171 1.7019 91.14 0.3363 0.8316 0.7756
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    • 553 27 Interbank rates S* Bid Offer Overnight 5 7/16 5 9/16 1-month 6 7/16 6 9/16 2-month 6 1/2 6 5/8 3-month 6 9/16 6 11/16 mode: 5-1/2 USt Bid Offer 7 days 8 8 1/8 1 month 8 8 1/8 2 months 8 8 1/8 3 months 8
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    • 383 27 ReUter MALAYSIAN interbank interest rates are expected to rise by up to half a percentage point before the end of the year as the central bank, Bank Negara, mops up excess liquidity to check inflation, dealers said yesterday. Short-term interest rates have
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    • 1246 27 SImex mmmiM Open High Lw Sett Est Vol Op/lnt Vol Sep 90 91.98 9100 9L97 9100 983 ***** 760 Dec 90 92.04 92.06 92.04 92.06 5300 ***** 2937 Mar 91 91.98 92.00 91.97 91.99 2025 7523 952 Jun 91 91.83 91.84 91.82 91.84 178 1695 265 Sep 91
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 328 28 THAILAND'S Finance Ministry will ask the cabinet to approve a plan to liberalise gold imports and raise gold import quotas for two authorised firms, the Bangkok Post said. A source told the paper that former Finance Minister Pramual Sabhavasu had endorsed
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    • 335 28 Reuter THE Colombian and Indian representatives to the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) on Monday called for the revival of export quotas, suspended more than a year ago. "An international quota agreement would be the best solution for ensuring the well-being of
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    • 849 28 REPORTS THE price of tin fell a further 12 sen to a 46-month low of M 515.10 per kg on heavy selling. Dealers said that following the lower close on the London Metal Exchange, the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market started with offers
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    • 862 28 NOTICES THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP 90 WMOUIITMfIM A PTE LTO Mubng of tha atwvanamad comply baiil on tha 31al day of August 1900. «w Mowing Spadßl RaaoMlon wm duty "THAT the Company be wound up MunHrty pursuant to Sactiqn 290(1)W of tha Companiaa Art, Cap. 50 and thai Mr Chang
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    • 557 28 THE COMPANIES ACT, (CAP.) 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF HAN WING PTE LTD (Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of Han Wing Pte Ltd duly convened and held at 11.00 am. on the 4 September 1990 the following special resolution was duly passed "That
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    • 644 29  -  POSTCARD FROM MONTREUX By Nicholas Woodsworth LIKE MOST Swiss resorts that hug the steep hillsides along the northern shore of Lake Geneva, Montreux is a town where the clocks, finely-built as they are, might as well have stopped ticking before 1914. Bright red Ferraris
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    • 152 29 As at 3p« yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign cwrency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.429 1.449 Canadian dollar 1.5140 1.5440 NZ dollar 1.0850 1.1150 Sterling pound 3.300 3.330 US dollar 1.7620 1.7720 Local dollars to 100 arts at forrtga currency Austrian schilling 15.60 16.60
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    • 26 29 Td Duratton Title Venue Onmacr T< > Sep 7-17 International Switzerland Schweuer Muster 61/6*6.20.20 l0 16 Sp 1 De Banxtone Far Mu«erme*e £ct££ 'I
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    • 218 29 Singapore Outlook; Partly cloudy with Shower* over a few areas ia the late morning and early afternoon. Report Max temp. 27.8* C Assoc humidity 85% Min temp. 23.1"C Assoc humidity...-—— 91% Hrs of sunshine 0.00 Rainfall in mm 12.7 Rainfall this mth 41.2 Rainy days this mth 4 World forecast
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  • 424 30  -  By Schutz Lee THE buoyancy of the manufacturing sector led to a 35 per cent growth in the demand for industrial land in the year ending last March. Occupancy and allocation rates of both standard and flatted factories also increased as more
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  • 215 30 Reuter FORMER Hongkong Stock Exchange chairman Ronald U was secretly tape recorded lying about his interest in Cathay Pacific Airways shares, a court in the British colony was told yesterday. Prosecutor Michael Kalisher said Li was recorded telling a meeting of the
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  • 42 30 West German President Richard von Weizsaecker (right) listening to King Hussein of Jordan while walking under umbrellas in heavy rain on Monday. King Hussein was on a one-day visit to West Germany. Reuter picture Reuter picture
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  • 341 30 NYT THE FEDERAL RESERVE Board is likely to take the long-expected step to ease monetary policy in the next 10 days to two weeks, credit market analysts say. Recent interviews with Fed officials make it clear that the central bank would like to
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  • 315 30  -  From Suzanne Soh in BATAM FOREIGNERS who do not qualify as investors or Batam residents under Indonesian regulations are not allowed to own residential properties in Batam. These rules on foreign ownership of residences on the Indonesian island were reiterated yesterday
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  • 241 30 THOMSON Consumer Electric of Singapore, which plans to set up operations in Batam next year, has already subcontracted work to an Indonesian factory in Batam. The factory, CV New Paris, is owned by an Indonesian businessman. It ships more than half a million units
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  • 241 30 Reuter AFP THE KHMER ROUGE will boycott Cambodian peace talks scheduled for Jakarta this week unless Hun Sen, premier of the government in Phnom Penh, attends, a spokeswoman for the radical group said yesterday. Khieu Samphan, leader of the Khmer
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    • 519 31 The Gulf Crisis Reuter SHIPREPAIR, the backbone of Singapore's marine industry, is expected to bring in more money than ever before this year, but its good days may be numbered. "The Gulf crisis and a strengthening of the Singapore dollar could
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    • 193 31  -  By Selva Kumar ALL THREE air-express majors DHL, TNT Skypak and UPS gave assurances that they have no immediate intention to impose surcharges or raise their rates due to the Gulf crisis. A spokesman for DHL said: "There is no intention
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    • 198 31 AFP ASIANA Airlines of South Korea has placed 24 firm orders plus 24 options with US aircraft-maker Boeing. The 24 firm orders covered several types of plane and were worth a total of US$3 billion, and the final bill could double that if all
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    • 128 31 Reuter NKK CORP and other major Japanese shipbuilders will participate in separate tenders to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers for Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an NKK spokesman said. Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Co Ltd of the UAE tendered for
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    • 280 31 Agencies PAN AM of the US will receive US$l5O million from Lufthansa under an in-princi-ple agreement for Pan Am to fly on the German carrier's behalf from West Germany to Berlin. Pan Am said that under the agreement, it expected that in
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    • 94 31 AFP TAIWAN and Japan signed an air and sea freight tax exemption agreement yesterday, officials from Taiwan's Eak Asian Relations Association (EARA) said. EARA president Mah Soo-lay signed the agreement with Norishige Hasegawa, president of the Interchange Association of Japan, which represents Japan's interest
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    • 372 31  -  By Selva Kumar THE AIR EXPRESS industry, which is expected to grow by 25 to 30 per cent this year, is rapidly making inroads into the emerging economies of Indochina and Eastern Europe. Leading the way into Indochina is DHL International, which
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    • 250 31 HONGKONG'S Ming Ren Development Enterprises plans to expand its regional cruising business with the purchase of two more ships, having bought the Cora Princess (ex-Coral Princess) recently. Negotiations are underway with two parties in the Far East and Europe, but details
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      • 58 31 UNIONS at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co lid, South Korea's largest shiprepair company, are on strike to demand higher pay, a union spokesman said. The 2,000 woiken at the yard, an affiliate of the Hyundai Group, are demanding a 21.S per cent increase in annual
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      • 98 31 JAPAN Air Lines and All Nippon Airways Co are unlikely to agree to raise prices on flights from Japan at least until October, airline spokesmen said yesterday. "We are waiting to see how the situation turns out. Rises in oil prices haven't
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      • 21 31 A LOOK at some impticatioiS of arbitrating for shipowners doing business with charters*) in China. PmH
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      • 43 31 AUSTRALIA agreed on Mooday to help China build ships, produce coal and upgrade poets during a visit to Beijing by Canberra's trade minister the fust Western minister to visit since last year's democracy crackdown Back Pace
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      • 138 32 'HONGKONG*s Marine Department has called off an air-sea seaidi for a cargo ship believed to be carrying a crew of 17 Filipinos and five Hongkong Chinese, a government spokesman said (Hi Monday. He said the search was called off on Sunday after Royal
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      • 86 32 THAILAND'S Jutha Maritime has decided to pay a threebaht dividend for the firm's common shares and debentures from July 1, 1989, to June 30, 1990. The company will also pay accrued dividend to holders of debentures at 10 per cent per annum for three years,
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      • 73 32 DANISH shipping firm DFDS has imposed a 3.9 per cent oil surcharge, effective from Sep 3, on freight rates between Denmark and continental Europe and Denmark and other Scandinavian countries because of oil price rises due to the Middle East crisis. It said it based the
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      • 77 32 SOCIETY Expeditions said it plans to capitalise on the spirit of glasnost by becoming the first western cruise line to launch sailings to the Soviet Far East. The Seattle-based line said it expects to operate seven 12 to 21-day sailings from late June to September 1991. The
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      • 62 32 DELTA Air Lines asked the US Department of Transportation to award it a new route between Atlanta and Manches.ter, England. The United States is allowed to designate two additional carriers to Manchester under an agreement signed with Britain earlier this year. Delta said an award
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      • 77 32 THE European consortium Airbus Industrie said leasing company United Aviation Services has ordered two Airbus A3lO-300s and placed options on another three Airbus A3OO-600Rs. Airbus said in a statement that the A3lO-300s were due for delivery in mid-1994 and the A-300-600R in 1996. It did
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    • 999 32  -  Mark Sachs, of Shanghai-based law firm Bull Housser Tupper, looks at some implications of arbitrating for shipowners doing business with charterers in China Mark Sachs Fairplay Before china's open-door policy was in place, Chinese state trading companies adopted a take-it-or-leave-it form of charterparty, either time
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    • 583 32 AFP FREIGHT rates retreated on world shipping markets this past week. Very little business was closed because of uncertainty over the future level of bunker fuel prices during the Gulf crisis. The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange (Biffex's) Baltic Freight Index (BFI) closed down 12 points on the
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    • 532 32  -  Fria Al 0 Labita In MANILA THE Aquino government's lifting of the ban on entry of Soviet commercial vessels for repair is expected to rejuvenate the Philippines' financially ailing shiprepair industry, according to shipping sources. The state-owned Philippine Shipyard and Engineering Corp (Philseco), the country's
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    • 12654 40 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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    • 1084 47 THE DRY cargo freight market got off to a slow start this week with the US closed on Monday for a holiday and few significant fixtures were reported. Dealers said the market is still depressed by lack of enquiry with charterers content to wait for rates to stabilise
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    • 1133 47 RECBVWC OF EXPORT FCt CONTAINERS AND LCI CARGO Iteard Boatti/BMwt Wb SNp tay Hi Mod From To Fiwi I Aa Jedt 11A 1 03/1500 03/1659 03/1900 4 04/1200 04/1459 04/1700 Aa Lota 38 3 04/0700 04/1159 04/1400 4 04/1200 04/1459 04/1700 Mew 126N 1 03/1500 03/1659 03/1900 2
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    • 295 47 Put M—g South Pert «i Sep 4: Hong Soon I berth 3; Thai Ho No 1 berth 4; Mas Venture berth 4; Pefcta berth 6; Pernas Safari berth 7; Kin Line No 1 berth 7A. KCT: GuM Bridie; M Tikhonov, Wind. Nwti Pert Jan Chuan berth 11;
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    • 387 48 AFP AUSTRALIA agreed on Monday to help China build ships, produce coal and upgrade ports during a visit to Beijing by Canberra's trade minister the first Western minister to visit since last year's democracy crackdown. But the Australian embassy in Beijing issued a statement saying
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    • 210 48 NORWAY'S Westfal Larsen Co AS has taken a further step towards divesting itself of its chemical tanker operations. The company has sold three of its four chemical tankers to partners involved in the UK-based Seachem Tanker pool. The sale follows that of 11 chemical tankers which
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    • 98 48 THE AUSTRALIAN Federal Cabinet meets tomorrow to decide on the future of telecommunications and airlines privatisation. It is expected to decide whether to accept a proposal from the Australian Minister for Transport and Communications, Mr Beazley, to merge OTC and Telecom, privatise the satellite carrier
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    • 161 48  -  From Shirish Nadkarn in BOMBAY INDIAN ports have recorded steady growth in container handling. Container traffic during 1988-89 totalled 512,804 boxes with S. 1 million tonnes of cargo. This compares with 464,121 boxes with 4.6 million tonnes of cargo in 1987-88. Bombay port led
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    • 194 48  -  From Shirish Nadkarni in BOMBAY THE POOR pay conditions for Indiaa officers has led to certain "unethical" practices to inflate their pay. KE Sukhia, general-secre-tary of the Maritime Uaioa of India, said "there is a dandestine system of contractual employment through consolidating the
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    • 223 48 The Gulf Crisis AFP THE Jordanian port of Aqaba on the Red Sea, Iraq's principal maritime outlet, is currently paralysed as a United Nations Security Council trade embargo on Baghdad begins to take hold, port sources said on Monday. "Not a single ship
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    • 116 48 AP TOYOTA spokesman Yoshiharu Tateishi said Toyota already has agreed with US shipowners that it would contribute its US-registered vessels to the Middle East effort upon US government request Of Toyota's 23 contracts, at least a few are for US-reg-istered ships, Tateishi
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