The Business Times, 17 September 1990

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1 46 The Business Times
  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 Monday September 17 1990 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 88 1 THE BRITISH government has started court proceedings to recover £44.4 million paid to British Aerospace and the Rover Group to subsidise the privatisation of Rover. British Aerospace is being asked to refund £42.9 million and Rover £1.5 million. The Ministry of Trade and
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    • 27 1 THOMSON Consumer Electronics, which has a regional base in Singapore, is scouting for more television components from Thailand and the rest of Asean Page 2
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    • 29 1 THE WORLD BANK approved loans totalling U556.39 billion to Asian countries during fiscal year 1990, about US$ 1 billion less than the year before Page 9
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    • 32 1 ITALY agreed to give the Soviet Union U552.72 billion in credits last Saturday, the day after Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev admitted his nation was in danger of bankruptcy. Page 10
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    • 26 1 PROMINENT opinion-makers in the Arab world give their views on the Gulf crisis and the consequences for the Middle East and beyond. Page 12
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    • 32 1 TRUCK DRIVERS are fighting shy of an automated gate processing system introduced recently by the Port of Singapore Authority at the Tanjong Pagar terminal Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 43 1 INCHCAPE BHD has forecast lower earnings for 1990 from the record reached in 1989 due to the combined forces of the Singapore vehicle quota system, continued weakness in timber prices and overall market effects of the Middle East crisis Page 3
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    • 35 1 A SLUGGISH American economy and a further slowdown in consumer spending resulting from higher inflation means that junk bond issuers face far more restructurings and defaults in coming months, analysts say. Page 6
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    • 27 1 TO STRENGTHEN its regional presence, British-based insurer Commercial Union Assurance has formed a strategic alliance with P T Asuransi Tifa International of Indonesia Page 8
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    • 37 1 THE TOKYO GLOBE Theatre, a copy of the 17th Century London building that staged Shakespeare's major works, will soon become the Panasonic Globe Theatre to credit its new sponsor, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Page 19
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 627.42 -7.66 Kuala Lumpur ....543.62 +0.35 Hongkong 3,062.04 -31.93 Tokyo 24,897.46 -177.62 Sydney 1480.0 -15.7 Friday Change New York 2,564.11 -18.56 London 2,093.8 -33.3
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    • 21 1 Exchange rates USS SSI.7700 Yen SS 1.2967 MS SS0.6568 Money market rates Overnight 6 3/8 7/8 3-month 6 1/2% -1/16
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    • 35 1 London Gold PM fix US$386.20 US$4.00 Rubber S'pore Oct.... 156.00*/kg -1.25 M'siaOct 241.00*/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 64 tonnes +8 Spot MSI5.24/kg unch Crude palm oil Turnover 502 lots +78 Oct M$676 /tonne -I
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  • 473 1  -  Shankar's: hotel and other projects Chung Nan: hotel Cold Storage: shops, apartments By William Chia A NUMBER of multi-million dollar commercial and hotel projects being planned at Robertson Quay could spark the transformation of the old run-down warehouse area along the river into Singapore's next
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  • 477 1 The Gulf Crisis Reuter THE UNITED NATIONS Security Council unanimously condemned raids by Iraqi troops on Western diplomatic missions in occupied Kuwait. In a swift response underlining international outrage at the attacks on French and other embassy buildings in the past week, the
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  • 230 1 THE MALAYSIAN government has raised the retail prices of petroleum products again, but the prices of controlled items remain unchanged, according to a Ministry of Trade and Industry statement. Effective yesterday, premium and regular petrol cost three sen more at 108 and 101 sen per
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  • 415 1  -  From Suzanne Soh in BANGKOK BLUE CHIP Singaporean companies may be considered for over-the-counter (OTC) trading in Thailand to meet rising demand for new stock in the Securities Exchange of Thailand (SET). A Security Exchange Commission Bill containing provisions for OTC
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  • 324 1 OVER one billion baht (Ss7o million) could soon be spent by the Securities Exchange of Thailand (SET) as part of an ambitious move to launch itself as an international stock exchange. Final plans arc being made to develop new premises exclusively for SET operations.
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    • 29 1 M'sia ups oil output, Pg 9 Views by Arab opinionmakers, Pg 12 Clashes past and present, Pg 12 Insurers ease risk rates for Saudi ports, Shipping Times Pg 1
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 66 2 THE EDITOR of Berita Harian and Berita Minggu has been named the new Mendaki chief. Mr Zainul Abidin, 42, who will also serve as Mendaki's director of research and development,. takes over from Mr Ridzwan Dzafir. On secondment from Singapore Press Holdings for
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      • 69 2 THE TRADITION of strong alumni support for their alma mater is weak in Singapore, unlike some overseas institutions where such support is one of the main characteristics of the institutions. Senior Minister of State (Education) Dr Tay Eng Soon said that this could be due to the
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      • 37 2 THE SINGAPORE Island Country Club yesterday presented a cheque for $500,000 to the 25th Anniversary Charity Fund, bringing the amount raised by the 10 golf clubs of Singapore to about $2.73 million.
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      • 94 2 THERE has been a very disturbing trend in the attitudes of both children and parents in the selection of hobbies or extra-curricular activities, said Minister of State for Education and Community Development, and MP for Bukit Gombak, Dr Seet Ai Mee. Emphasis, she observed, is placed
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    • 359 2  -  From Suzanne Soh THOMSON Consumer Electronics, which has a regional base in Singapore, is scouting for more television components from Thailand and the rest of Asean. The French conglomerate, which will relocate part of its Singapore production operations to Indonesia's Batam island next
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    • 414 2  -  11th Aipo general assembly By Anna Teo WHILE Singapore hailed the recent accord reached by the Cambodian factions as a major breakthrough, it would not, as yet, lift its ban on investments in the Indochinese nation. Asked if Singapore would soon allow local businessmen and
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    • 276 2 A COLLECTION of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's views on the June 4 Tiananmen Square massacre was launched by Lianhe Zaobao of the Singapore Press Holdings group yesterday. The book, entitled Lee Kuan Yew on China and Hongkong after Tiananmen, is published by Shing Lee Publishers
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 773 3  -  Group manages to record interim profit of $37m By Magdalene Ng TRADING group Inchcape Bhd has forecast lower earnings for 1990 from the record reached in 1989 due to the combined forces of the Singapore vehicle quota system, continued weakness in timber prices and overall market
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    • 347 3 MBT PERMODALAN Nasional Bhd (PNB), through whollyowned subsidiary PNB Equity Resource Corp, will hold a 30 per cent stake in the M 51.35 billion petrochemical project in Johor. The other shareholders are the Chao Group of Taiwan, BTR Nylex of Australia and
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    • 295 3 Bernama A CONSORTIUM led by Syarikat Telekom Malaysia is bidding for projects under Indonesia's multi-million dollar telecommunications expansion plan. Chief director of the stateowned Perumtel Telecommunications Company, Cacuk Sudarijanto, said a number of local and foreign companies from France, Japan and Malaysia have
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    • 363 3 Reuter MALAYSIA'S state-owned Perwaja Steel Sdn Bhd has obtained a MS6BO million syndicated loan and Ms2oo million working capital facility to revive its Nsl.2 billion steel billet plant. The loan syndication agreements were signed on Saturday between Perwaja officials and a consortium of 32
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    • 391 3 MBT IN A BID to expand its marine business, Malaysia British Assurance (MBA) is talking to several Malaysian parties on the possibility of them reinsuring some of its larger marine insurance business. Chairman Datuk Abdul Latiff Hussain told reporters after an
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 34 3 UNION PAPER HOLDINGS will be the ninth company to be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange second board when trading in the company's shares start tomorrow.
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      • 39 3 GENERAL CORP is reviewing its proposal to bid for an unfinished hotel project in Iran. Director Datuk Abdul Latiflf Hussain said the move was taken following the turn in events in the Gulf crisis.
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      • 41 3 JUARA PERKASA CORP's proposed purchase of the entire equity in R J Reynolds Tobacco Co Sdn Bhd will be satisfied by the issue of 250 million Msl JPC shares at par, the company told the KLSE.
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      • 89 3 NANYANG PRESS (M), which is buying a piece of land in Mukim Damansara, expects to spend Msl2 million to build a new plant for printing presses and its head office. In a circular to shareholders on the proposed purchase, Nanyang said that after completing the acquisition
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      • 89 3 PILECON ENGINEERING has posted an 83 per cent rise in group pre-tax profit to M 56.17 million for the six months ended June 30, 1990, on a 56 per cent gain in turnover to M 5146.19 million. At company level, pre-tax profit rose 39 per
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      • 62 3 DATUK KERAMAT HOLDINGS has reported a 68 per cent jump in group pre-tax profit to M 54.46 million for the six months ended July 31, 1990, despite an 11 per cent drop in turnover to Msll6 million. It attributed the improved results to better profitability of
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      • 107 3 RIVERVIEW RUBBER ESTATES has returned to the black with an unaudited pre-tax profit of Msl.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 1990, against a loss of MsBo,ooo previously. The company said it saw a decline of 91.3 per cent in its estate operating profit to
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 87 4 THE Ten Network on Friday became the second of Australia's three major commercial television networks to be placed in receivership. The receivers, Ernst and Young, said the station licence holder, Northern Star Holdings Ltd, had debts of A 5455 million when it was placed
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      • 61 4 TOSHIBA Corp will produce cathode-ray picture tubes for computer terminal displays in Thailand from June next year, said a company spokesman in Tokyo. Toshiba Display Devices (Thailand) Co Ltd will add a monthly 20,000 cathode-ray picture tubes for computer displays to its current output. The Thai
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      • 74 4 JAPAN Air Lines Development Co Ltd, which is 70 per cent owned by Japan Air Lines Co Ltd, said in Tokyo that it will start operating two new overseas hotels in October, one in the United States and the other in Australia. Hotel Nikko Atlanta in Atlanta,
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      • 85 4 C ITOH and Co Ltd, Century Research Centre Corp, and China International Trust and Investment Corp (Holding) (CITIC) have set up a joint software development firm in Beijing, a C Itoh spokesman said in Tokyo. Century Intelligence Software Co Ltd, capitalised at 20 million
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      • 73 4 AUSTRALIA'S rubber manufacturer Pacific Dunlop reported a 14 per cent rise in its annual profit result last week to A 5300.5 million for the year to June 30. The company reported that gross operating profit rose 8.7 per cent to A 5410.4 million. The rise
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      • 72 4 CHINA and France have set up a $5.85 million joint venture to produce heat-resistant materials, the China Daily newspaper reported on Saturday. The Beijing General Glass Works and the Societe Europeenne de Produits Refractaires the world leader in the field signed a deal in Beijing on Friday to
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    • 616 4 AFP JOHN ELLIOTT'S Harlin Holdings has announced plans to sell a 19.99-per-cent stake in brewing and agricultural giant Elders I XL to Japan's Asahi Breweries for As96o million. Harlin said in a statement in Sydney on Friday that it would sell
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    • 479 4 Reuter THE pillars of Japan's stock market the four largest securities houses are looking increasingly shaky. Nomura Securities Co Ltd, Daiwa Securities Co Ltd, Nikko Securities Co Ltd and Yamaichi Securities Co Ltd announced in Tokyo last week dfanatically lower forecasts ft* parent current net
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    • 342 4 AFP THE cornerstone of Paris's future "Japan Tower" was laid at the French capital's expanding high-rise business centre; of La Defense on Thursday, heralding what many see as a new era in Japanese investment in Europ*. The tower, to be jointly owned and
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    • 266 4 FU HUI Jewellery, a joint venture between the Fujian provincial government and a Hongkong merchant, will offer A) million shares to the public on Tuesday in a bid to obtafc a listing on the HK stock exchange. The South China Morning Post, reported
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    • 121 4 AFP FRENCH carmaker Peugeot and Indonesia's second largest private corporate group, Astra, upmarket, fuel-injected version of its 405 series in Jakarta on Saturday. Officials of PT France Motor, a joint venture between Peugeot and Astra set up in 1972, hope the 405 SRI will be
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 380 6 Reuter A SLUGGISH United States economy and a further slowdown in consumer spending resulting from higher inflation means that junk bond issuers face far more restructurings and defaults in coming months, analysts in New York said. "We think we've just seen the beginning
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    • 231 6 Reuter THREE former top officials of F D Roberts Securities lac, a New Jersey penay stock brokerage firm, pleaded guilty oa Friday to federal feloay charges ia connection with the illegal operatioo of a stock firm that took teas of million of dollars from unsuspecting public
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    • 434 6 Reuter AMERICAN lawmakers who so far have faltered in an effort to craft a compromise Bill on stock index futures regulation still hope fo get a Bill through Congress before the session ends in dirty October. Their chance*; however, appear slim, say congressional
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    • 220 6 Reuter R H MACY Co's Christmas list is short: it wants tightly controlled inventories and less ddht-f, -u Without thaC the United States department store chain, which went private in 1986 in a leveraged buyout led by its chairman, Edward S Finkelstein, could find itself
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    • 216 6 Reuter AMERICAN department store group Sears, Roebuck and Co, revisiqg an earlier figur&4g{jMtt»puld offer to at least 600 staff employees in its merchandise gromx. A Sears spokesman in Chicago earlier said the company would make the severance offer to about 2,000 employees in
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 103 8 THE US Securities and Exchange Commission said it wants accountants to require banks and thrifts to value their debt securities at market price in what would be a radical shift in financial reporting methods. Now financial institutions can value debt issues held for investment purposes
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      • 97 8 SEVERAL Indonesian insurance firms might have to merge to avoid bankruptcy amid the present keen business competition, a leader of the Indonesia Insurance Council (DAI) warns. The Jakarta Post reported Husny Rahman, who is also president of Berdikari Insurance Company, as saying that the competition
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      • 70 8 BANK of Canada governor John Crow is likely to continue paging interest rates, but at a cautious pace, economists said. "Rales are going to come down, but slowly," said Scotia McLeod Inc chief economist Mike Manford. "The balance is in favour of easing." The governor,
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      • 73 8 CENTRAL bank governors from Spain and 31 Latin American nations are to meet in Caracas on today to discuss financial system reforms, according to a statement from the Venezuelan Central Bank BCV. The agenda includes deregulation and supervision; foreign investment in structural reform programs; experiences
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    • 319 8  -  B* Abdul Hadhi TO STRENGTHEN its regional presence, British-based insurer Commercial Union (CU) Assurance has formed a strategic alliance with PT Asuransi Tifa International of Indonesia. The group, which already is well-established in Singapore and Malaysia, has signed a technical service agreement with
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    • 318 8 Reuter THE former chairman of the defunct Federal Home Loan Bank Board, M Danny Wall, declined to detail the bidding process that was used to dispose of a number of failed thrifts in 1988. In testimony before the House Banking Committee,
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    • 442 8 THE cost of borrowing in Hongkong is set to go up as the territory's lenders find it increasingly difficult to manage on tight interest rates, the South China Morning Post reported. This warning came from leading syndication experts Andrew Ferguson of Wardley Capital
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    • 183 8 Reuter FORMER shareholders of the now-defunct Benjamin Franklin Federal Savings Loan Association have sued the US government for allegedly taking over the thrift illegally. The lawsuit, filed in the US Court of Claims in Washington, seeks damages of US$lBl million. The Resolution
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  • THE REGION
    • 499 9 Less commitment to India and China main reason for drop AFP THE WORLD BANK approved loans totalling U556.39 billion to Asian countries during fiscal year 1990, about US$l billion less than the year before, according to the bank's annual report 1990 released yesterday. The
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    • 244 9 Oil News AP MALAYSIA will boost its oil production to its maximum capacity of 650,000 barrels per day to help meet requests for oil by several Asian countries, according to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Dr Mahathir was quoted by Malaysian
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    • 230 9 MEMBERS of Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) have urged the government to channel part of the country's windfall oil profits to cooperatives, according to The Jakarta Post. Speaking at a hearing with Cooperatives Minister Bustanil Arifin in Jakarta last week, ABaramuli and Agus Sudono
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    • 112 9 AP COMMUNIST REBELS urged President Corazon Aquino last Saturday not to raise fuel prices because of the Gulf crisis. The country's three oil companies have asked the Energy Regulatory Board to approve price rises because of the increase in world prices and the decline
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    • 51 9 Shane Maloney, cultural director of the Melbourne Olympic candidature, showing off one of the original aboriginal artworks at New Takanawa Prince Hotel last Saturday, as Melbourne unveiled those artworks being presented as gifts to members of the International Olympic Committee. Reuter picture Reuter
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    • 271 9 THAILAND'S long-expected cut in import duties on machinery could possibly be supplemented by further measures designed to help cut manufacturers' costs and make Thai goods more competitive in the world market, according to a recent report in The Nation. PM's Office Minister
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 108 9 FIVE Indonesian companies are to jointly set up two new industrial estate complexes in East Java with an initial investment of RplOO billion, according to the Jakarta Post. The five companies, NV Djawa Indah, PT Aneka Kimia, PT Raj in Steel, PT Agrindo
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      • 99 9 SOUTH KOREA'S economy will grow an average of 7 per cent to 7.5 per cent a year in the next five years if crude oil prices stay at US$25-US$3O a barrel, a government think tank said. The influential Korea Development Institute (KDI) said that
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      • 95 9 SOUTH KOREA plans to increase its 1991 supplementary budget and import cement from China and North Korea to deal with the aftermath of floods which ravaged parts of the country last week, government officials said. South Korea is undergoing a domestic construction boom and
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      • 103 9 THE PHILIPPINES could lose U5563.08 million in overseas workers remittances this year alone due to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Philippine press secretary Tomas Gomez said in a statement. The statement also noted their were some 60,000 Filipino contract workers in Kuwait during the Aug 2
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      • 104 9 DEVELOPING countries and aid donors need to double annual financing to US$2O billion and find cheaper technology to get safe water to the world's poor by the year 2000, international experts said. Without new financial commitments, the hardship faced by more than one billion people
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    • 266 9 AFP A SENIOR Chinese official in Hongkong has called on Britain for formal talks on the new airport project for the colony. Zhou Nan, head of the Afew China News Agency, China's de facto representative in the British colony, said: "China hopes that
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 105 10 WEALTHY NATIONS have agreed to try to lift the world's poorest countries out of misery, but failed to meet their demands to double financial aid. The United States' rejection of a fixed aid target forced the Second United Nations Conference on the
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      • 96 10 QUEEN ELIZABETH 11, the world's richest woman, has a royal fortune of £6.7 billion, according to a new study of Britain's 400 wealthiest people. The findings, published in the Sunday Times, showed that Britain's aristocrats and landowners have mostly kept their grip on the country's
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      • 97 10 A HIGH-POWERED Japanese business mission left for Beijing yesterday for talks with Chinese leaders on economic cooperation following Japan's lifting of its freeze on official credits to China, a spokesman for the mission said. The 60-member mission, organised by the Japan-China Association on Economy and
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      • 81 10 THE JAPANESE government has decided to abolish tariffs on 2,500 mining and industrial items centring on electronics and machinery in a step aimed at bringing international trade talks to a successful conclusion. The major financial daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, said Japan will present its decision to
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      • 105 10 AMERICAN trade talks with Japan over opening the Japanese market to amorphous metal, an American product used in electricity transmission, have deadlocked, a spokesman for the Office of the US Trade Representative said. No new talks were scheduled before a midnight deadline, he said, which could
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      • 84 10 THE average Japanese household has 11.81 million yen (U5586,700) in savings, up 16.6 per cent from a year earlier, according to a study. It was the biggest increase in savings since 1973, when average savings rose 28 per cent from the year before, according to the national
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    • 33 10 Winnie Mandela, wife of African National Congress Nelson Mandela, saluting residents of Phola-Park squatter camp, outside Johannesburg last Saturday during a visit to the strife-torn area. Reuter picture Reuter picture
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    • 693 10 The $64,000 recession question NYT WHATEVER the statistics say, millions of Americans have concluded in recent weeks that the US is in a recession. They are probably overstating the case. But if the word recession is heard more and more, it
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    • 513 10 Soviet Union in danger of going broke AP ITALY agreed to give the beleaguered Soviet Union 3 trillion lira (U552.72 billion) in credits on Saturday, the day after Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev admitted his nation is in danger of bankruptcy. Italian Foreign Minister Gianni
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    • 361 10 AFP JAPAN and the European Commission are now "very close to an agreement" on at least two key aspects of the plan to liberalise Japanese car access to the European Community (EC), according to reliable sources in Brussels. Officials, meeting in Tokyo last
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    • 123 10 AP EAGER TO attract foreign capital and know-how, the Hungarian government has published the names of the first 20 state-owned companies to be fully privatised in a sweeping plan to slash the state's role in the economy. According to the Saturday edition of Budapest daily Magyar Hi
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    • 329 10 AFP LAST FRIDAY'S news that inflation had topped 10 per cent completed a set of political and economic conditions in Britain that bore an uncanny resemblance to the early months Of 1982, political commentators said. Then as now, Margaret Thatcher was prime minister and
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    • 1269 12 The Gulf Crisis THE Associated Press asked several prominent opinionmakers in the Arab world to give their views on the Gulf crisis and the consequences for the Middle East and beyond. The views represent a wide spectrum of political and ideological opinion in
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    • 411 12  -  By Kenneth W Stein NYT IN THE Damascus office of Syrian President Hafez Assad is a mural depicting the Battle of Hittin: In 1187, near Tiberias in the Holy Land, Saladin won a crucial victory over the Crusaders. Seven years ago, while standing in front of
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 999 13  -  David Chew profiles Major-General Wismojo Arismunandar, seen by many as a possible successor to President Suharto David Chew Major-general wismojo Arismunandar is a man to watch in the fastpaced politics of Indonesia just now. His recent elevation from the relatively obscure
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    • 1210 13  -  Poor income distribution, population drift and over-concentrated industry are not usually associated with an economically powerful nation like Japan. Yet such problems exist, and are getting worse, reports Patrick Smith. Patrick Smith IHT TETSUNDO IWAKUNI, a native of Izumo, a small coastal city facing
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    • 960 14  -  Talk of corporate identity, and images of glossy logos, sleek ad campaigns and imposing flagship buildings come to mind. But a company's identity is more than the sum of these. Chuang Peck Ming examines an approach that takes a total view Chuang Peck Ming WHEN Nestle
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    • 1053 16  -  Lincoln Akin Norton argues the case for succession planning in management Lincoln Akin Norton Lincoln Akin Notion is president and CEO of Corporate Education Resources, Inc and chairman Corporate University Inc THE CONSENSUS of a Columbia University study of 1,500 senior executives in 20 countries
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    • 51 16 PERIOD 5 of Round 2 of the National Management Game saw 55 participating teams scoring profits ranging from $125,000 to $1.7 million. Eleven lost between $133,000 and $940,000. In a fortnight will emerge the semi-finalists. The game is organised by the Singapore Institute of Management, ICL and Business
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    • 466 17 AP ON A Canadian Open scoreboard that looked as if it were turned upside down, non-winner Buddy Gardner had the lead and Curtis Strange was the anchorman. Gardner beat cold, windy conditions on Saturday with some magical putting in a 67 that provided him with
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      • 144 17 DAVE McAULEY retained his International Boxing Federation flyweight title on Saturday with a unanimous decision over Rodolfo Blanco, despite being knocked down four times and cut under both eyes. The former cook from Northern Ireland, making his third defence of the title he claimed from Britain's
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      • 94 17 CECILIA DAHLMAN of Sweden beat Mary Pierce, an American now playing out of France, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, in the J semifinals of the Athens Open on Saturday. Dahlman will defend her title against Katia Piccolini, who defeated fellow Italian Federica Bonsignori 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday. Dahlman, after
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      • 147 17 TWENTY-FOUR of the 25 boats in the third round-the- world solo race set sail from Newport, Rhode Island on Saturday under blue skies after a storm. American Mike Plant made the best start aboard Duracell followed by South Africa's Bertie Reid in Grinaker and compatriot
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      • 141 17 SNURGE held off favourite Hellenic to win the St Leger Stakes horse race in Doncaster, England on Saturday, winning his first race in the sport's oldest classic event. The 7-2 shot, trained by Paul Cole and ridden by Richard Quinn, became the first horse in
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      • 113 17 GREG WELCH of Australia won the men's overall title in M the US$5O,OOO Triathlon World Championship in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, while Karen Smyers of the United States received the top women's honour. Australia swept the top three men's places in the championship at Walt Disney
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      • 111 17 THREE-TIME Tour de France champion Greg LeMond made his debut on a mountain bike on Saturday, winning the 35-mile (56km) Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival in northern Wisconsin. A record 2,250 riders took part in the world's largest mountain bike race. LeMond pulled away from a pair of
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    • 443 17 AFP WORLD SNOOKER champion Stephen Hendry lined up his second successive Scottish Masters title in Motherwell on Saturday night. 'Super Scot' Hendry delighted his home fans by beating England's Jimmy White 6-4 to qualify for a meeting with former world champion Terry Griffiths, whom
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    • 376 17 AP PATTY SHEEHAN turned the US$3OO,OOO Safeco Classic into a runaway with a 66 on Saturday that gave her a 10-stroke lead after 54 botes. Sheehan, with a 200 total, was 16 under par for three rounds on the 6,222-yard Meridian Valley Country Club
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    • 848 19  -  Should archive recordings be digitally doctored and reissued on compact discs? Disappointing transfers abound, but others succeed admirably in bringing tne legendary stars back into focus. J Gordon listens to two anthologies of historical performances that work especially well. J Gordon NOT everyone is enthusiastic about
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    • 422 19  -  Lisa Lee previews the Matsumoto Michiko Ballet Company which will be giving two performances here Lisa Lee PUCK, that most misguided elf, will be weaving his mad magic tomorrow and on Wednesday but not a phrase will be uttered from Shakespeare's famous comedy. And instead of
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    • 616 19  -  Critics may sniff at the banality of Agatha Christie's novels, but the fact remains that they are selling extraordinarily well. Julia Hayley offers some clues which may nelp explain her enduring popularity. Julia Hayley Reuter AGATHA Christie is still baffling them. Exactly 100 years
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    • 472 19 Reuter Shakespeare might be miffed if he knew the Tokyo Globe Theatre was about to be renamed after a Japanese consumer electronics giant. The theatre, a copy of the 17th century London building that staged the playwright's major works, will soon become the
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4917 20  -  By Quak Hiang Whai THE Singapore stock market last week closed weaker in very featureless and thin trade which persisted throughout the week, with its performance closely pegged to overseas market trends. Lacking fresh news from the MiddleEast crisis, retail investors took the cue
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  • 4183 21 Main Board GE Life 1240 +40 +3.3* Spore Land 1250 +30 +2.5% FELS50* 660 30 4.8% Kino 261 +30 +13.0% Sirwnarine50* 380 26 7.3% LOB Foreign 590 +25 +4.4% Setnb Maritime 368 +24 +7.0% Shamri-La 685 +20 +3.0% BAT 22* 370 +18 +5.1% NatSteel 695
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 858 22 Talks appear to be edging towards a compromise FT FOR the past week, a group pf politicians huddled in an air force base outside Washington have commanded almost as much attention on Wall Street as the huge US military build-up in the Gulf. I The
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    • 890 22  -  By Ray Heath BRITAIN'S Desert Rats began to mobilise for the Gulf last week but it was the home front which was causing the main concern in the stock markets. The ultimate outcome of the Gulf crisis cannot be known, but the problems facing
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    • 492 22 >TOKYO AFP SHARE PRICES on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rebounded last week, with the key Nikkei Stock Average closing on Friday at 24,897.46 yen for a 935.39yen, or 3.9 per cent, weekly advance. The 225-blue chip average had plunged 2,016.30 yen the previous week. The
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    • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
      • 102 22 AUSTRALIAN stocks rose slightly during the past week as offshore selling prevented share prices rising in line with some overseas markets, brokers said. The main market indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, posted a gain of one point to 1,480.0. The All Industrials Index slid 4.1 points to 2,203.7. The
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      • 221 22 SHARE PRICES on the Taiwan Stock Exchange inched up last week as the Central Bank injected more liquidity into local financial institutions and the government moved to spur economic activity on the island. Following the previous week's 326.43-point slump, the 216-issue Weighted Price hidex recovered 171.62 points, or 5.12
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      • 215 22 PRICES tumbled for the second week in a row at the Jakarta Stock Exchange. Trading last week was dominated by Bank Duta, a private financial institution connected to President Suharto, and Canadian nickel subsidiary Inco. The JSE index fell 3 per cent from 546.599 to 529.120 while the Jardine
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      • 162 22 AFP PRICES on India's main stock market soared last week before tumbling after authorities declared a leading broker a defaulter. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensitivity index closed at 1,228.2 points last week, after gaining 27 points on Monday and a further 38 points on Tuesday, then falling 35
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    • 985 22 DBS securities SHARE PRICES edged up in thin trading on the Hongkong market last week, with the key Hang Seng Index gaining 17.25 points or 0.57 per cent to close on Friday at 3,062.04. Average daily turnover shrank to HK$5B5 million (US$75
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3935 23 MBT SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market rose last week despite two losing sessions on Thursday and Friday. There was comparatively good follow-through support for blue chips and quality issues although lower-liners and speculative counters continued to attract the bulk of interest. Selected
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    • 100 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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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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        1173 24 WALL STREET stock prices drifted lower again on Friday. The Dow Jones average of 30 blue-chip stocks shed 18.56 points for the day to 2,564.11. While still sluggish, trading activity rose to 133.4 million shares, from 123.4 million on Thursday. Share prices got off to a weak start
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        736 24 SHARE PRICES on the London stock exchange fell sharply on Friday. With the tension in the Middle East and Friday's release of an unexpectedly high 10.6 per cent August inflation rate, caution would prevail in the market for the near future, traders said. The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100-share
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      • 554 24 WEST GERMAN shares ended almost two per cent lower in very thin trade on Friday, with generally negative market sentiment further aggravated by renewed concern about the Gulf crisis late in the session. Dealers said reports that Iraqi troops had entered the French Embassy in Kuwait brought prices under
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      • 294 24 DUTCH shares finished two per cent lower on Friday in almost dead trading as news about Iraqi troops entering the French embassy aggravated concerns about the Gulf crisis. "Everyone wants to square their books before the weekend in case the situation in the Gulf takes a turn for the
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      • 122 24 BELGIAN shares dropped an average 1.85 per cent, following the lead of other world stock markets, in thin, pre weekend trading, dealers said. "The market went down out of sympathy with Wall Street and Tokyo," one dealer said. Brussels Sep 14 Francs FORWARD MARKET Acec 3420 -80 Artoed 3810
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      • 445 24 Johannesburg Sep 14 Rand INDUSTRIALS A Alpha 2400 unch A E C 1 1400 -10 Abercom 55 -2 Amaprop..... 780 unch AMIC 7250 -150 Barlows 3250 -25 Basil St He 20 HAZ Blyvoor 1450 25 CG Smith 7100 -50 Cnagalo 1635 unch Curfin 350 unch Edgars 3600S unch Fed Voile
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      • 408 24 SWISS shares closed at the day's low on Friday in light volume. Private inves- tors were absent from the market and other participants did not want to open new positions before the weekend, dealers said. <" The all-share SPI index fell 11.8 points or 1.18 per cent to the
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      • 207 24 MOUNTING tension in the Middle East weakened Toronto stocks on Friday, but the fall on the resource-rich market was tempered by a jump in oil and gas shares, dealers said. "You've still got a high risk premium in the price of oil," said analyst Ben Joyce of Burns Fry
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      • 79 24 Sep 14 Close Previous NEW YORK Dow Jones 2,564.11 2S82.67 -18.56 NYSE Financial 120.65 121.94 -1.29 SAP 500 316.83 318.65 -1.82 Turnover (million) 133.4 123.37 +10.03 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,609.6 1632.90 -23.3 FTSE 100 2,093.8 2127.10 -33.3 Turnover (million) 418 335.4 +82.6 AMSTERDAM CBS General NA 184.20 I BRUSSELS
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 326 25 WEEKLY ROUND-UP Reuter THE US dollar ended higher against the yen and mark in New York but weaker against most other European currencies in thin trading punctuated by bouts of buying and selling on developments in the Mideast. The dollar closed at 1.5705/10 marks
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    • 691 25 ASIAN CURRENCIES AFP THE US DOLLAR continued its downward trend against a number of Asian currencies last week amid fears of easier US credit. The Japanese yen rose sharply to hit a 13-month high against the greenback, while the Australian, Hongkong, New Zealand and Thai
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    • 397 25 Cross rates se P >s US$ SS* MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.7740 2.6950 1.5685 136.70 0.5274 1.2945 1.2121 1.5962 SS* 0.5637 1.5186 0.8816 0.7689 0.2987 0.7328 0.6816 0.8962 MS 0.3711 65.85 0.5820 0.5072 0.1957 0.4803 0.4498 0 5923 Dm 0.6376 1.1343 1.7182 87.15 0.3363
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    • 550 25 Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 6 3/8 6 1/2 1-month 6 3/8 6 1/2 2-month 6 7/16 6 9/16 3-month 6 1/2 6 5/8 Overnight mode: 6-3/16 LSS High low 7 days 8 1/16 8 1/16 1 month 8 1/8 8 1/16 2 months 8 1/16 8
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    • 492 25 Reuter LINGERING softness in the federal funds rate is due to technical factors and not a sign of Federal Reserve monetary easing, economists said. Funds have closed just below the Fed's perceived 8 per cent target every day last week
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    • 401 25 Reuter THE phenomenal growth in futures and options trading seen over the last decade cannot continue at such a rate, said Leo Melamed, chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) executive committee. No sector of the financial community can escape from
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    • 440 25 GOLD FINANCIAL FUTURES REPORT INVESTOR confidence in gold was dealt another blow when spot prices fell from the week's high of U*****.70/U*****.20 last Monday to the week's low of U*****.30/U*****.30 in New York later that night. Analysts attributed the sell-off to heavy Japanese physical
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    • 268 25 m\\ EX Sep 14 GOLD FUTURES (100 oz) Open High Low USS/oz Settle Change Sep Oct 388.00 389.50 385. Nov Dec 392.80 394.00 389. Feb 395.40 397.40 394. Apr 399.50 400.00 399. Jun 405.20 405.20 404 Aug Oct 410 80 409 00 409 Dec 419.00 419.00 419.
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    • 507 25 BANKS Hokkaido Takushoku A v 0L Bank Ltd (The Takugin) 8V» n.,,V pi"r Indian Bank Allied Irish Bank PLC 8% n dian Overseas Bank 8V» Amencan Express Bank 8W |ndustria l Commercial 8 Am Dam R terdam Bank 8 W Industrial Bank (Japan) 8* Arab Banking Corp 8%
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 427 26 Reuter THE chief executive of RTZ pic, Sir Derek Birkin, said he expected to see a weakening of copper and aluminium prices next year. "At the moment prices are looking pretty robust for both metals in the second half but we expect
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    • 320 26 Reuter THE possibility of reviving the troubled cocoa pact as a market force may not be examined for another year and its members should aim to boost its other aspects meanwhile, International Cocoa Organisation (Icco) council chairman Peter Baron said.
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    • 860 26 REPORTS AFP GULF CRISIS uncertainty continued to overshadow commodities markets last week, as fresh gains were registered by gold, crude oil and aluminium following a statement from Iran apparently suggesting support for Iraq's position in the crisis. Earlier, solidarity expressed by the
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  • 1122 26 Rubber HAS (W> in bates) Scents/kg Int 1 RSS Close Sep 10 156.75 Sep II 156.50 Sep 12 156.00 Sep 13 157.25 Sep 14 156.00 MRELB (lob hi bate*) M cents/kg Int 1 RSS Close Sep 10 241.00 Sep II 241.00 Sep 12 240.50 Sep 13 241.00 Sep 14
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    • 845 26 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA MARITIME INDUSTRIES PTE. UIMITEO (In M«mb«f* Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS [Pursuant to Saction 290<2)(b)J At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held at 29th Floor. Harbour Centre. Harbour Road. Wanchai. Hongkong on
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    • 334 26 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP M) AND IN THE MATTER OP VASTA COMPANY PRIVATE LIMITED At an Extraordinary General Meeting of Vasta Company Private Limited held on 14th September 1990, the following special resolutions were duly passed Resolved: 1 that the company be wound up voluntarily and
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    • 771 27  -  LETTER FROM DETROIT By Janet Bush THE glass-plated skyline of Detroit shimmers with promise. A sleek elevated monorail sweeps along the waterfront of the narrow river which separates Motor City from its Canadian neighbours. A cluster of outsized steel and glass towers called the
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    • 152 27 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.455 1.475 Canadian dollar 1.510 1.5330 NZ dollar 1.100 1.130 Sterling pound 3.325 3.355 US dollar 1.7700 1.7800 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 15.85 16.85
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    • 44 27 THE PEOPLE PAPER "r,'* o X'gp l J [Maneater Madonna 1 Mr H.J* I**|« -'fc.- r..» 1. tnp uA itopTstseller OTtQjtD Still hungry for glory gp Mpj Ijjiß jj in nwiiUMi, rr c«f Whether they are kopi-tiam millionaires, authors, singers, football stars or politicians,
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    • 250 27 I Keeping an eye on hands to Hh 9 Long heartened by newly 3 ordered aid forming cargo UhJ LJ II Early centre of missionaries 12 Reveal permit to board H—Ry-H nally satellites to provide home 18 f 9 I _l—-l__L——L— comforts turned presumably from 30"" his wanderings (5) I
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    • 215 27 Singapore Outlook: Showers over a few areas in the late morning and afternoon Report: Max temp 33.3* C Assoc humidity 46% Min temp. 27.2* C Assoc humidity 83% Hrs of sunshine 9.55 Rainfall in mm Nil Rainfall this mth 85.9 Rainy days this mth 8 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond.
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  • 553 28 The World Bank Annual Report AFP, Reuter THE WORLD BANK, in its annual report set for release today, said it expects to provide between US$2l billion and US$24 billion in loans and credits to developing countries in its fiscal year which began on July 1.
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  • 410 28 Reuter, AFP CAMBODIA'S Supreme National Council, meeting for the first time in Bangkok today to plan the way to peace, is evenly divided over what role to assign Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the chameleon of Cambodian politics. The government has said that the mercurial
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  • 160 28 Reuter, AP CHINA and Singapore "have held talks on establishing diplomatic relations and an agreement will be signed soon. The two sides reached a common stance after four days of friendly talks ended in Beijing on Saturday. The People's Daily said the agreement will
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  • 473 28 Reuter, AFP SOME 20,000 PROTESTERS marched through the streets of Moscow yesterday demanding radical economic reform and the resignation of the government of Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzkhov. The demonstrators, carrying banners calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister and supporting Russian Republic
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  • 269 28  -  By Sangeeta Mulchand TO HELP First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong win the next election. This was the answer given by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew who, on turning 67 yesterday, was asked to name his birthday wish. Mr
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  • 250 28 Bernama JOHOR and Singapore have identified high technology industries joint industrial ventures, tourism promotion and human resources development as possible areas of cooperation under the proposed economic growth triangle that also covers Indonesia's Batam Island. Johor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Haji Muhyiddin
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    • 228 28 PiageT JOAILUER EN HORLOGERIEDEPUISIB74 GENEVE SIIIITH FAST ASIA u EXHIBITIOn j. %onr[R[ncE'9oV The first regional Building Services Exhibition and Conference. Technologically exciting! On show will be the industry's latest technological developments View the state-of-the-art M&E systems airconditioning and ventilation, fire protection, etectncal distribution systems, maintenance matenals and systems, vertical transportation,
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  • Shipping Times
    • 427 29  -  By Dexter Lee OLD HABITS die hard. Truck drivers are fighting shy of an automated gate processing system introduced recently by the Port of Singapore Authority at the Tanjong Pagar terminal. Gate processing refers to a procedure carried out at the port's entry/exit
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    • 142 29 AFP FRANCO-Vietnamese shipping company Germatrans has opened a route for shipping containers between the northern Vietnamese port of Haiphong and Taiwan via Hongkong, the Vietnamese press said last week. The joint venture between the Union Vietnamienne des Transports Maritimes and the French Compagnie Generate Maritime
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    • 196 29 AFP THAI Airways International has signed a contract to buy five new BAe 146-300 aircraft worth US$l2B million from British Aerospace, a THAI spokeswoman said on Friday. The spokeswoman said the contract was signed last Wednesday in Hongkong by THAI president Air Chief
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    • 188 29 CHOKHANI Shipyard, Keppel Corp's joint-venture shipyard with Chokhani International in Madras, was officially opened on Saturday, bringing shiprepair services to the doorsteps of India's domestic fleet. India is estimated to spend about one billion rupees ($99 million) in foreign exchange on shiprepair jobs every year.
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    • 228 29 The Gulf Crisis Reuter WAR RISK insurance rates for cargo moving to or from Gulf ports in northern Saudi Arabia have been cut from the high levels prevailing in the days immediately after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Rates for cargo going
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    • 396 29 HONGKONG exporters, already hit by higher wage costs and domestic inflation, face another blow on Oct 1 when airfreight prices to Europe and the rest of Asia rise by 10 per cent, said the South China Morning Post. Even bigger
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    • 259 29 LUFTHANSA has shifted its regional office from Hongkong to Bangkok. The office markets the airline in up to 10 countries. Since 1987, Lufthansa had administered the entire Asian area through its office in Hongkong. The move enables better contact with agents and customers because
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    • 383 29  -  From Suzanne Soh in LAEM CHABANG THAILAND'S Laem Chabang seaport, which is urgently needed to ease congestion at Bangkok's river port, will open part of its first terminal in December. A multi-purpose cargo terminal will be fully operational next January
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      • 42 29 LAST WEEK, the Singapore National Shipping Association announced an increase in documentation fees to defray sharply higher operating costs. This has drawn protests from Singapore National Shippers' Council Technology is seen as a key issue here Page 2
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      • 54 29 ONE of the three largest Soviet shipping companies, Baltic Shipping Company, after a long and bitter campaign for independence, has been given the go-ahead to operate its 2 million dwt fleet outside state control. Before perestroika, it would have been unthinkable; even now it is a
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      • 24 29 HONGKONG'S cable television project is feeling the squeeze of satellite television before either is even launched Back Page
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      • 25 29 Kuehne Nagel to open CFS in China GERMAN freight forwarder Kuehne and Nagel plans to open a container freight station in southern China. Back Page
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      • 34 29 ASSOCIATED British Ports Holdings' chairman Sir Keith Stuart said depressed conditions in the property market meant the group would be shifting its priorities towards port profitability. Back Page
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      • 81 30 KYOWA LINE of Japan will start a monthly direct service from Bangkok to Manila, Guam and Saipan from Sep 18, said Jardine Shipping Services, which was appointed agents in Thailand. Kyowa's 10,000-dwt vessel Selene will also offer fast transshipment via Guam to all
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      • 87 30 KAWASAKI Heavy Industries signed an agreement with Rolls-Royce pic to participate in development and production of the Trent 800 jet engine to be used in the 8777, Boeing's next-generation passenger aircraft. IshikawajimaHarima Heavy Industries Co Ltd (IHI) will also join the project soon. Kawasaki will develop
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      • 26 30 HONGKONG-based shipmanagement company Mercury Shipping has appointed Miss Paula Wise as executive director of its recently established Singapore subsidiary, Mercury Shipmanagement (Singapore).
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      • 69 30 WORKERS at the French port of Marseille-Fos went on a 24-hour strike on Thursday, fearing that plans to expand a nearby river port at Aries will take business away and cut jobs, unions said. They planned to stop work again yesterday. Paul Granet, president of Compagnie
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      • 49 30 BRITAIN'S Transport and General Workers Union said 100,000 local government workers who are union members had voted overwhelmingly to accept a 9.38 per cent pay offer for the next 12 months. The pay package will give increases of between £10.65 and £12.67 a week.
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      • 82 30 SAUDI ARABIA last Friday accepted its first shipment of Australian live sheep following continued rejections since April, livestock officials said. David Coombes, spokesman for the Australian Meat and Livestock Corp, said the 63,000 sheep were the first to be accepted since recent guidelines were set up
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      • 76 30 SOUTH African Airways (SAA), the national carrier, announced last week that it is imposing an 8 per cent fuel levy on all domestic flights from today in response to "unusual" hikes in fuel prices. The fixed aircraft fuel price for September is 33.5 per
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    • 508 30  -  Last week, the Singapore National Shipping Association announced an increase in documentation iees to defray sharply higher operating costs. This has drawn protests from the Singapore National Shippers' Council. Dexter Lee sees technology as a key issue here Dexter Lee BUSINESSES, be they manufacturing, trading
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    • 1006 30 After struggling for independence, Soviet company Baltic Shipping is now struggling for survival Lloyd's List THE Soviet shipping industry has seen nothing to rival it in more than 70 years. One of its three largest shipping companies, Baltic Shipping Company (BSC), after a long and bitter
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    • 821 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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    • 11972 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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    • 569 45 VbmI Hi Bvtti Arrival Oaparfcn Vnad (toy Hi Baft Arrival BpMi KmmI Wka m*s Gma 24 P2A 16.09/2300 17.09/1500 Bar l H32 alongside 20.09/2000 Hamdah 20/90 P2A 17.09/0700 18.09/0700 Beau Grace 1A K34 alongside 23.09/0600 LMggarjati 13/90 P2B 17.09/0700 18.09/0600 Or Mio Ml JWfU K30 alongside 17.09/1200
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    • 1093 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND La CARGO m Record Boofcng/Bjfanct Mb S* Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To Fran J r 3b Me 13A 19/1900 2 16/1700 17/0659 17/0900 I 4 17/1200 17/1459 17/1700 Men 206 19/0700 2 16/1700 17/0659 17/0900 < 4 17/1200 17/1459 17/1700 H
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    • 330 45 Port Mmg South Port on Sep 14: Entity berth 1; Global Jupiter berth 1; Stott Sceptre berth 2; Petro Bucklion berth 3; Kris Madura berth 3; Seng Soon Chew berth 4; Lucoraa berth 6; Hong Soon I berth 7. KCT: Wan Hai 202 berth 8; Swadaya berth
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    • 944 45 CHARTERING on the dry cargo freight market on Thursday was quiet with rates holding steady where seen, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index (BFI) was again unchanged at 1,191. Charterers paid US$lO.5O for heavy grain from the US North Pacific to Japan, unchanged from last business. Its BFI
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    • 514 46 Reuter HONGKONG'S cable television project, which could cost its partners up to HK$6 billion, is feeling the squeeze of satellite television before either is even launched in the British colony, analysts say. 'There's enough smoke to suggest cable consortium members are not exactly enamoured
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    • 276 46 Kuehne Nagel to open CFS in China GERMAN freight forwarder Kuehne and Nagel plans to open a container freight station in southern China to cope with increasing Asian business, the South China Morning Post reported. The growing importance of trade between China and Europe and burgeoning intraAsian business has created
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    • 211 46 Reuter ASSOCIATED British Ports Holdings' chairman Sir Keith Stuart said depressed conditions in the property market meant the group would be shifting its priorities towards port profitability. Two years ago, when profits from the group's property and ports businesses were evenly split, Mr Stuart
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    • 315 46 AP THAI and Australian aviation officials are investigating a near-miss between a Qantas jumbo jet and a giant US Air Force C 5 Galaxy, a Thai air traffic official said on Friday. The two aircraft came within 15 metres of each other and 11,300 metres above
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    • 238 46 AFP TAIWAN and Australia are soon to exchange landing rights in an effort to boost tourism in the two countries, Queensland's Minister of Tourism, Sport and Racing Rob Gibbs said. Mr Gibbs, promoting tourism in what he called Australia's "sunshine state" of Queensland,
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    • 1494 35 Mip|iuig iiuies, munaay isopwuian NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL: *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) BOOKINGS: UK/EUROPE SERVICE— *****19 USA SERVICE— *****16 AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE— *****18 FAR EAST SERVICE— *****48 TERMINAL OFFICE .*****22 DOCUMENTATION DEPT: *****44/ *****14 CFS: M 2 —IMPORT: *****69/*****50 CFS:M2 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 NEPLINE SDN BHD MALAYSIA n L e
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    • 1566 37 pacific international lines (pte) ltd J Ml PIL Burtding, 140 Cecil Street HKXHX), Singapore 0106. VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SIN N KOTA MCLATI IMB 1M 21/10 24/10 VESSEL VOV SIN BKK SJN EDEN M3O 20/9 22/9 M/ 0 MAI HUI JON W 22 DELTA MAS ITM 23/9 2S/9 30/9 PEQASUS
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