The Business Times, 15 December 1990

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  • 11 1 Business Times MCI (P) 16/12/90 Weekend Edition, December 15-16 1990 75*
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  • NEWS & MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 101 1 BRITAIN'S inflation rate fell sharply in November to 9.7 per cent from an eight-year high of 10.9 per cent in October, showing that a damaging price spiral has peaked. Official statistics issued yesterday for the ycar-on-ycar change in the Retail Price Index gave some
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    • 25 1 NEW YORK share priccs opened lower yesterday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 7.68 points to 2,606.68, five minutes into the session.
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    • 40 1 LONDON share prices were higher at midday yesterday, buoyed by news of a sharp drop in Britain's annual inflation rate. At about 1215 GMT, the Footsie 100-Sharc Index was up 11.9 points, or 0.5 per ccnt, at 2,184.1.
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    • 64 1 SINGAPORE still has some tough hurdles to cross before it can take full advantage of the recent move by the American government to allow the Republic's air carriers greater access to the US. Although Singapore Airline can now fly to the US via Frankfurt, it is
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    • 42 1 SOFT-DRINKS group Frascr Ncavc churncd out another year of record sales but suffered a drop in earnings largely because of a shortfall in export volume and the disruption of moving to its new plant in Tuas Page 3
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 589.25 -1.78 Kuala Lumpur ....508.11 +2.68 Hongkong 3.125.69 -24.43 Tokyo 24.349.50 -293.47 Sydney 1,310.0 -10.0 Ihursday Change New York 2,614.36 -7.92 London 2,172.2 +15.3
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    • 20 1 Exchange rates USS S$ 1.7130 Yen SSI.2977 MS SS0 636I Money market rates Overnight 5-1/4% unch 3-month 5-1/2% +3/16
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    • 37 1 London Gold AM fix US$373.15 HJSS0.I5 Rubber S'porc Jan 150.25«/kg unch M'sia Jan 239.50«/k g -0.50 KL Tin Turnover 39 tonnes t-9 Spot M$ 15.17/kg unch Credo palm oil Turnover 1,955 lots +1,382 Jan MS846/tonnc 11
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  • 618 1 Cuts in taxes and duties Reuter, AFP MALAYSIA yesterday unveiled an expansionary budget for calendar year 1991, cutting taxes and duties to boost economic growth. Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin told Parliament that the government's strategy was to sustain economic growth, curb inflation, improve
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  • 438 1 Bernama THE Malaysian government, in a move to reduce excessive protection for local industries as well as to reduce prices, has proposed the abolition or reduction of import duties on products which have been highly protected for a long time
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  • 300 1 Reuter US INFLATION at the wholesale level surged by an unexpectedly high 0.5 per cent in November, the Labour Department reported yesterday, dampening Wall Street's hopes for lower interest rates. The advance in the Producer Price Index, as slightly cheaper oil
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  • 347 1  -  By Rahita Elias THE VOLUME of air cargo between the US and Singapore. which has been on the decline, is likely to get a boost from the rcccntlysigncd Singapore-US air agreement. An industry source said that as more US destinations bccomc accessible to
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 100 2 DESPITE an anticipated slower growth for the computer market next year, the response to Singapore Informatics '90 has been good. Organiser Technofairs has reported a record 65,000 visitors for the first two days, double last year's. Although overall sales figures are not available yet, exhibitors
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      • 83 2 THE YOUTHS of Singapore and Indonesia have a vital role to play in nurturing and strengthening bilateral ties between the two countries, said the Minister for Health and chairman of the National Youth Council, Mr Yeo Cheow Tong. He was speaking yesterday at the inauguration
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      • 70 2 THE SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) is sponsoring nearly $9,000 of equipment for the Toa Payoh Senior Citizens Health Care Centre run by the Home Nursing Foundation for patients suffering from arthritis and other muscular and joint ailments. This is part of the SPH's annual sponsorship and
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      • 35 2 THE SENIOR MINISTER of State (Defence), Dr Lee Boon Yang, will visit the Brani Naval base next Tuesday as part of his familiarisation visits to Singapore Armed Forces units.
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      • 57 2 THE THREE judicial managers of Electro-Magnetic (S) Ltd arc Messrs Chan Ket Teck, Tan Swan Jeng and Edwin Khoo of international auditing firm Coopers Lybrand and not Messrs Wong Tui San, Abbasbhoy Haider Nakhoda and Ong Yew Huat as stated in yesterday's story "CAD joins investigation of
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    • 509 2  -  By Rahita Elias, Dexter Lee SINGAPORE still has some tough hurdles to cross before it can take full advantage of the recent move by the American government to allow the Republic's air carriers greater access to the US. Although Singapore Airline can
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    • 334 2  -  By Claire Leow TO CAPITALISE on the growing electronics business in this part of the world, American firm Robinson Nugent has entered into a joint venture with local electronics company Microtronics Systems. Their new factory fn Lorong Bakar Batu will design and make electronic
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    • 266 2  -  From Harish Mehta in HO CHI MINH CITY SINGAPORE company Rothenberger Tools Far East Ptc Ltd, which participated in a trade fair in Vietnam recently, is looking for a Vietnamese business partner. Rothenberger Far East had a booth at the November Quang Trung
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 474 3  -  Beverage group achieves another year of record sales By Elaine Koh SOFT-DRINKS group Frascr Neave churned out another year of record sales but suffered a drop in earnings largely bccause of a shortfall in export volume and the disruption of moving to
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    • 322 3  -  By Elaine Koh ONE OF DBS Land's top men, Mr Loh Soo Eng, is understood to be leaving the group after more than 16 years for another listed company, Wing Tai Holdings. Mr Loh, DBS Land's general manager, has been
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    • 447 3 Bernama METROJAYA Bhd's offer for sale and public issue involving 5.76 million shares available for public subscription had been oversubscribed by 9.6 times, said MIDF Consultancy and Corporate Services Sdn Bhd in a statement in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. A total of 49,212 applications for
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    • 476 3  -  By Magdalene Ng THE FIRST listed stockbroker in Singapore, Kim Eng Holdings, has revealed a onethird drop in group earnings for the six months to endSeptember, reflecting the anticipated adverse impact of the Middle-East crisis. Kim Eng said yesterday that its interim group
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    • 343 3  -  By Lee Han Shih THE huge discrepancy between a forecast made by QAF chairman Didi Dawi on the company's interim results and the much-poorer actual performance was due to its totally unexpected losses in the second quarter, the food group told the Stock Exchange
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    • 218 3 Bernama MINORITY shareholders of Sime UEP Properties Bhd have been told to vote in favour of the company's proposal to sell a piece of land measuring 1.26 ha in Subang Jaya and to acquire about 485 ha of land in Seafield and Damansara
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 68 3 SUMMA INVESTMENTS, which was given a six-month extension by the government in October to reduce its stake in Keppel Finance to below 5 per cent, sold another 2.5 million shares in the listed finance company, reducing its stake to 10.48 million shares,
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      • 62 3 SHAREHOLDERS of First Capital Coiporation approved the group's international arm, the Guoline group, to enter into new distribution and trading agreements with Hong Lcong (M) and five other FCC-related companies at FCC's extraordinary general meeting yesterday. The agreements will essentially form the springboard for FCC's move into
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      • 20 3 BONVESTS HOLDINGS has raised the authorised capital of wholly-owned subsidiary Dyna-Jet from $25,000 to $2 million.
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      • 43 3 UNITED OVERSEAS LAND has changed the name of wholly-owned subsidiary Mount Echo Park, a property development, property investment and equity holding company, to UOL Equity Investments, an investment company holding long-term and strategic investments of shares and securities.
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      • 63 3 PENTEX-SCHWEIZER's shareholders gave approval to its directors on a number of issues at the company's general meeting yesterday, including the offer and granting of options under the company's share option scheme to executive employees eligible under the scheme, and the issue of shares, due to the exercise
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      • 47 3 PALMCO HOLDINGS Bhd is confident of achieving continued growth and improved performance in the coming year. Chairman Datuk Chan Woot Khoon said the group achieved a pre-tax profit of M 50.83 million for the year ended June 30 against a M 55.35 million loss previously.
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 114 4 GERMAN CAR MAKER Opel signed a deal with eastern Germany's privatisation agency Treuhandanstalt on Thursday, paving the way for construction of a one billion mark (US$675 million), ultra-modern car assembly plant. Louis Hughes, chairman of Opel, a subsidiary of the US
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      • 81 4 HONGKONG LAND Holdings Ltd, the British colony's biggest commercial landlord, declined comment on market talk that it was preparing to acquire all or part of a large British property concern. Shares in Hammerson Property Investment and Development Corp climbed on Thursday in London on the talk.
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      • 60 4 WALT DISNEY Co and the family of the late Jim Henson said the negotiations for Disney to acquire Henson Associates Inc, including principal Muppet characters, had ended. The Henson family, who are joint owners of Jim Henson Productions, the parent company, said: "After 18 months of
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      • 98 4 CASTLE AND COOKE Inc said it will not spin off its Dole Foods unit. "We're not going to pursue a spin-off at this time," Carol Kiein, a Castle and Cooke spokeswoman, said. Earlier, the company said it decided not to sell Dole. Although several
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      • 82 4 JAPANESE oil firm Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd and South Korean conglomerate Lucky Goldstar Group agreed to jointly start producing coal at an Australian mine from around April next year, an Idemitsu spokesman said. A joint company will be set up by February, and production at
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      • 46 4 GERMAN tyre maker Continental is in talks to,acquire former East German rubber maker Transportgummi in the state of Thuringia, Continental spokesman Dieter von Herz said. He said it was unclear when the talks would be completed, but "the situation doesn't look bad".
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      • 50 4 MATSUSHITA Electric Industrial Co Ltd of Osaka said the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act in connection with its tender offer for all MCA Inc shares at US$66 each expired on Dec 12. The tender is scheduled to expire Dec 29 unless extended.
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    • 486 4 AT&T still placing top priority on friendly takeover Reuter NCR CORP's plans to meet major shareholders are a fresh sign its board is preparing to either reject American Telephone Telegraph Co's US$9O a share hostile bid or force the offer higher, analysts said.
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    • 336 4 Reuter HILTON Hotels Corp said it is not in discussions with Donald Trump's company over a possible acquisition of an Atlantic City casino, but said it continues to be interested in buying a boardwalk property. "We're not in conversations with anyone, and
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    • 198 4 ThomsonCSF plans large staff cutbacks AFP DEFENCE contractor Thom-son-CSF announced on Thursday that it would abolish 3,695 jobs over the next three years: 1,084 next year, 1,581 in 1992 and 732 in 1993. But the CFDT union confederation said the figure relates only to Thomson-CSF itself (23,000 employees), and the
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    • 420 4 Reuter HIGHER petrol prices helped Australia's largest company Broken Hill Pty Ltd post a 65 per cent rise in net half-year profits to a record A 5901.8 million (US$6B2 million) yesterday. But excluding net abnormal gains of A$ 157.1 million, the petroleum, mining
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    • 263 4 Reuter INDONESIA'S state-owned tin company PT Tambang Timah, squeezed by tin prices lower than production costs, is offering to subcontract operations at its mines to private firms as it fights to become competitive. "We are offering our onshore mines in Bangka, Belitung and
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    • 576 4 Reuter TEXAS OILMAN T Boone Pickens may think corporate Japan's defences against unwelcome investors are plenty strong enough, but some Japanese companies feel very exposed. "The buying back of one's own company's shares, and holding companies, which are permitted under US commercial
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 390 5 Bernama MALAYSIAN National Insurance Sdn Bhd will establish offshore operations on Labuan soon, making it the first insurance company to set up shop at the international offshore financial centre, a senior Bank Negara official said. Abdul Murad Khalid, manager of Bank
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    • 188 5 Reuter US NATIONAL banks will no longer be able to include loan loss provisions as part of income when calculating the amount of dividends to pay, the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said. The OCC, which regulates federally chartered banks,
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    • 249 5 AS lIIK short-term demand for money stays volatile and overheated, Thailand's central bank believes that lending interest rates may rise by another 0.5 to one percentage point to 17.5 to 18 per cent. The Nation reported on Wednesday. This situation also shows the
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    • 573 5 DBS Bank weekly currency report US$/mark: Faithfully 'yours!' THE BEAR divergence seen in the daily stochastics on Thursday last week drove the US dollar to a new historical low of 1.4625 on Monday. Since then, the US dollar has been consolidating between the range of
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    • 293 5 Reuter THE NEW ZEALAND government will stand by a rescue plan for the troubled Bank of New Zealand, despite a plunge in BNZ's share price which would allow it to renegotiate the deal, Finance Minister Ruth Richardson said yesterday. Merchant bank Fay
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    • 299 5 Reuter CUTBACKS and sackings by foreign banks in Australia are likely to continue and some banks could leave "the lucky country" nursing big losses, bankers and analysts say. It has not been a good week for foreign banks or their employees.
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 72 5 SEVEN MEN conncctcd with former New Zealand share market high tlicr Equiticorp International pic, including founder and former chief executive Allan Hawkins, appeared in court yesterday on conspiracy to defraud charges. After a brief court appearance, a grim Mr Hawkins told reporters he would plead
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      • 73 5 YASUDA Fire Marine Insurance Co Ltd of Japan has agreed to tic up in non-life insurance business with Hanoi's only and state-owned Vietnam Insurance Company, a Yasuda spokesman said. Vietnam Insurance handles both life and non-life insurances and has annual net premiums of about 100 billion
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      • 87 5 SOCIETE Gcncralc of France and two Chinese firms have formed a joint venture in Shanghai to provide financial services, partly to spur a major development project in the cast China city, the official New China News Agency said. It said the Shanghai Joint Financial Co has
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      • 67 5 ASB BANK Ltd said it was prepared to take the initiative on cutting lending and mortgage rates if the government's package due next Wednesday produces "what appears to be a sustainable momentum for a lower interest rate regime." In anticipation of that package, ASB said
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      • 61 5 BRITISH stockbroking company Barclays de Zoete Wedd Ltd (BZW) cut 39 staff in its UK equities division on Thursday. Financial analysts said they expected more job losses in the overcrowded industry. "There is still significant overcapacity. To cure the problem there has to be a
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  • FOCUS
    • 658 6 Real gross domestic product for 1990 expands by an estimated 9.4 per cent Bernama IT HAS BEEN another good year for the Malaysian economy in 1990 as domestic demand provided the main stimulus to growth while the industrial countries experienced a slowdown, the Treasury said
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    • 419 6 Bernama THE government has set guidelines for Malaysian and foreign investors to regulate the acquisition of assets, mergers or takeovers of companies and businesses, the Economic Report 1990/91 released yesterday says. The guidelines provide that the proposed acquisition of assets of any interests, merger
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    • 789 6 Bernama PRIVATE investment in Malaysia is expected to grow by 31 per cent in nominal terms or 25.4 per cent in real terms this year in line with the country's stable economic growth and the increasing confidcncc among the
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  • REGION & WORLD
    • 399 7 Delors presents draft monetary union treaty tomorrow Reuter EUROPEAN Commission President Jacques Delors will unveil a draft monetary union treaty tomorrow that says a future EC central bank should manage a strengthened European currency unit (ECU), officials said on Thursday. The proposal is
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    • 362 7 Reuter BRITAIN's weakening economy suffered another body blow on Thursday when unemployment registered its biggest monthly rise for more than eight years. Official figures showed the number of people without jobs jumped by 57,600 in November to more than 1.76 million in a
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    • 409 7 AP UNITED STATES construction companies have eked out US$lOO million in business under a 1988 agreement to pry open bidding in one of Japan's most exclusive markets, a senior US official said on Thursday. But that's only a fraction of
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    • 383 7 Bernama MALAYSIA'S International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz has called on large corporations which can afford and have interest in workers' training programmes to set up training centres for specific skills on a sponsorship basis jointly with the government. Such
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    • 345 7 Reuter THE Russian Federation plans to offer foreign investors a share in its immense export wealth in return for billions of dollars worth of badly-needed consumer goods, a senior government official said on Thursday. Under new proposals to stabilise the economy and
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    • 278 7 AUTOMOBILE production in Indonesia has been projected to reach a record 270,000 units this year, representing an increase of more than 25 per cent on the previous peak of 212,674 units recorded in 1981. The Jakarta Post on Wednesday reported the head of
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    • 260 7 Reuter EUROPEAN Commission President Jaequcs Dolors will unveil a draft monetary union treaty today that says a future EC central bank should manage a strengthened European currency unit (ECU), officials said on Thursday. He said Mr MacSharry and US Agriculture Secretary
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 109 7 SLUMPING new-car sales helped pull total US retail sales down slightly by 0.1 per cent in November, the Commerce Department said on Thursday, in a fresh sign of weakening consumer demand. It was the first drop in monthly sales since May, when they were
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      • 125 7 SMUGGLING is on the increase in Vietnam despite efforts by the authorities to curb it, the army daily Qhan Doi Nhan Dan reported on Thursday. Vietnam's borders with China to the north and Cambodia to the southwest are the worst affected, with goods being smuggled
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      • 103 7 JAPAN'S imports on a contract basis jumped 20.5 per cent from a year earlier in November, while exports rose 14.0 per cent, the government said on Thursday. The contracted imports and exports were valued at U5519.52 billion and $23.71 billion respectively, Japan's International Trade and Industry
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      • 74 7 THE 100 member countries of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ended a short annual session on Thursday without fixing a date for resuming deadlocked Uruguay Round trade liberalisation negotiations. Gatt director general Arthur Dunkel, of Switzerland, will reconvene the talks next year
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      • 92 7 INDIA and the Soviet Union on Thursday finalised a bilateral trade plan with a turnover of U555,227 billion both ways for 1991, an official announcement in New Delhi said. A protocol signed between the two sides envisaged Indian imports worth $2,405 billion from the Soviet Union
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    • 231 7 AFP THAI police have threatened a crackdown on employers of illegal immigrants and syndicates specialising in forging passports and visas, authorities said in Bangkok yesterday. Police quoted deputy national police chief General Manus Krutchaiyunt as saying on Thursday that employers hiring illegal foreign
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    • 195 7 AFP UP TO 15 per cent of Hongkong's emigrants who had scurried abroad for foreign passports ahead of China's 1997 takeover were returning to make the most of local "opportunities", the government said on Thursday. Amid an economic slowdown in their adopted countries the favourite destinations
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4618 8  -  By Diana Oon SPECULATIVE trading on Malaysian OTC counters was the main feature of yesterday's proceedings on the Singapore stock market. Dealers said there was heavy prc-Malaysian Budget buying yesterday afternoon, with the main benefactors being cheaper second-line counters as well as Umno-relatcd
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  • 4098 9 Main Board DBS Foreign 1070 30 2.9% Jurong Ship 50« 570 +20 +3.6% Metro Hldgs 474 +20 +4 4% Spore Land 540 +15 +2.9% Hwa Hong 136 7 5 4% Singmarine 50* 354 +6 +1.7% OCBC Foreign 845 +5 +0.6% UOB Foreign 625 +5 +0.8%
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3967 10 Bernama SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market ended mixed to firmer as profit-taking alternated with bargain-hunting ahead of the presentation of the 1991 Budget yesterday. The KLSE Composite Index closed 2.68 points higher at 508.11 while the Industrial Index rose 6.05 points to 1,016.69.
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2148 11 Reuter TOKYO stocks finished lower after posting the heaviest turnover in nearly two months. The market closed broadly weaker on net futures-re-lated index selling as brokerages settled December futures contracts, which expired on Thursday. "There were buyers waiting at lower levels," a fund
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2024 11 Reuter, AFP SHARE prices closed lower in dull trade and brokers said the traditional Christmas holiday doldrums had got under way. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index eased 24.43 points to 3,125.69 and the broader-based Hong Kong index lost 15.43 to 2,048.81. Turnover
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • No news of rate cut, so Aussie shares fall
      • 943 12 THE Federal Government's failure to deliver the much anticipated cut in official interest rates saw Australian shares end the week on a sorter note. Brokers said hopes for a rate cut were inspired after the November labour force data showed unemployment at 8.2 per cent. But the Reserve Bank
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      • 316 12 TAIWAN stocks finished slightly lower across the board after a day of slow trading that saw many investors opting to stay out of ihe market, dealers said. The weighted index lost 68.07 points, or 1.6 per cent, to finish at 4,304.31 compared with Thursday's 4,372.38 close. Turnover was N
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      • 539 12 PHILIPPINE shares closed higher but mixed yesterday with interest in some blue chips supporting the market against profit-taking pressure in oils, brokers said. The Manila Stock Exchange composite index ended up 2.38 at 690.25 points. Combined turnover on the two bourses cased to 5.45 billion shares worth 231.6 million
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      • 705 12 THAI stocks closed higher yesterday on a limited rally led by finance issues and on speculation that Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan may announce his new cabinet tonight, brokers said. The SET Index rose 5.48 points to finish at 649.58 in moderate trade. Siam Cement was steady at 5,286 baht,
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      • 812 12 SEOUL stocks fell for the fourth day in a row on growing doubt among individuals that a year-end rally would materialise, brokers said. The composite stock index lost 2.76 points to 710.06, with volume moderate at 204.3 billion won against 175.7 billion on Thursday. Falls led rises 422 to
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      • 292 12 NEW ZEALAND shares recovered some of their early losses but still closed below 1.200 on the Barclays index for the first time since August, 1984. Brokers reported mild afternoon support for Brierley Investments below the US$l mark, as well as other leaders which had fallen this week on
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      • 568 12 Reuter LARGE price rises on a couple of small share trades pushed the Jakarta Stock Exchange index upwards yesterday, taking it 4.29 points higher to 390.41. Insurance firm Asuransi Bina Dharma Artha jumped 40 per cent to close at 3.500 rupiah. Reuter Jakarta Rupiah VoK*00) Abda 3500 F 1000
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      • 85 12 INDICES TURNOVER Close Dec 14 Previous SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index Ml Industrials Index All Resources liulcx Turnover (million) 1.310.0 l,«MJ 782.6 61.30 1.320.0 2.0034 792.5 66.0 -10.0 -9.1 -10.0 -4.7 BANGKOK SFr Index Turnover (million) 649.58 NA 644.10 67.12 5.48 JAKARTA Composite Index 390.41 386.12 4.29 MANILA Composite Index Turnover
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      • 306 12 DEC 13 Index In Inral currency day year change change in 99 day S year change change day year change change World $EAFF. Europe 367.4 487.4 379.3 809.2 1.0 1.2 0.3 2.0 -21.0 -28.4 -15.8 -36.1 0.6 1.0 0.2 1.6 -24.1 -28.3 -11.3 -37.8 0.8 1.2 0.4 1.8 -15.6 -20.3
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Vista takeover move props up dull session
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        993 13 SPECIAL situations most notably the US$55-a-share takeover of Vista Chemical Co sparked interest in an otherwise listless day on Wall Street. Shares ended mixed as blue chips faltered. Investors found few incentives to bid up prices. The bond market dropped sharply, oil advanced a dollar, and the timetable
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        878 13 UK SHARES were strong at yesterday's midsession, supported by the November Retail Price Index data which showed that inflation has fallen to 9.7 per cent from 10.9 per cent. Shares began moving up prior to the release of the data at 1130 GMT and showed slight gains when the
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      • 297 13 DUTCH shares opened a little easier as attention shifted to the bond market where a new 10-year nine per cent de- benture loan was announced yesterday morning. At 0930 GMT the CBS all-share trend index was 0.1 points lower at 97.5. Oil group Royal Dutch was 0.10 guilders higher
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      • 172 13 BELGIAN shares cased an average one quarter per cent in thin pre-weekend trading yesterday as investors shunned the market. "Volume is getting thinner the closer we get to the end of the year," said one trader. "People just won't take the risk to open large positions with holidays coming
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      • 193 13 GERMAN share prices dropped 0.6 per cent in a disappointed market yesterday, as fading hopes for a further rally before the year-end prompted some investors to sell in thin volumes. "There arc a few people who still believe we could reach 1,600 (DAX points) by the end of the
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      • 79 13 PRICES on the Stockholm bourse fell in moderate early trade yesterday in reaction to a gloomy forecast on Sweden's economy from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), dealers said. By mid-morning, the bourse general index had lost 0.12 per cent to 891.97 in turnover of 100 million
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      • 259 13 FRENCH share priccs idled lower at yesterday's midscssion, with operators increasingly reluctant to take initiatives ahead of a weekend, during which the Gulf situation could changc suddenly, dealers said. The CAC-40 index stood 14.29 points lower at 1,645.11 at 1129 GMT. It had opened 14.59 points down at 1,644.81.
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      • 329 13 JOHANNESBURG share prices showed hardly any change in slack morning trading yesterday, with dealers anticipating another quiet day ahead of the weekend and seasonal Christmas holiday period. By 10:15 the JSE all-gold index had slipped a shade further to 1136 after weakening to a 1141 close on Thursday while
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      • 230 13 TORONTO stocks closed flat on Thursday after treading in a narrow range throughout the day, dealers said. "Basically a slow, dull and drab day. Nothing came through to really give us a shot in the arm," Said Ira Katzin, an analyst with Richardson Greenshields of Canada Ltd. Uncertainty over
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      • 115 13 Milan Dec 13 lire Ass Gen ***** +1530 Bastogi 319.00 +21 Fiat 5928 +258 F insider susp IfiPriv ***** +635 Italcementi Ord ***** +1140 I taigas 2716 +6 Magneti M Pf 920 37 Mcdiobanca ***** 490 Miralanza Mondadon Priv susp Montedison 1480 79 Olivetti Ord 3498 95 Olivetti Priv 2725
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      • 377 13 Reuter SWISS shares opened quietly lower yesterday as overnight losses in Tokyo and New York and easier German shares depressed sentiment, dealers said. The SMI index of leading shares dropped 11.5 points to 1,405.5 in the first 20 minutes of trading. In the late morning the Swiss National Bank
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      • 88 13 INDICES TURNOVER Dcc 13 Claw PrevkMH NEW YORK IXwv Jones 2.614.36 2.622.28 -7.92 NYSE Financial 122.36 122.87 •051 S&l' 500 329.33 330 19 ■0 86 Turnover (million) 162.1 182 -19.9 LONDON Financial Times .10 1.704 9 1.692.2 12.7 FTSE 100 2.172.2 2.156 9 f 15.3 Turnover (million) 693.6 504 1
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1178 14 REPORTS Reuter THE US dollar steadied in early European trading yesterday as the market awaited a batch of US economic indicators that could foreshadow a further cut in interest rates. The US currency was quoted at 1.4793 marks and 132.15
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    • 386 14 Cross rates d^m USS S$ MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1-7110 2.6930 1.4760 132.00 0.5136 1.2630 1.3123 4.6708 S$ 0.5845 1.5739 0.8627 0.7715 0.3002 0.7382 0.7670 0 9765 MS 0.3713 63.54 0 5481 0.4902 0.1907 0.4690 0 4873 0.6204 Dm 0.6775 1.1592 1.8245 89.43 0.3480
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    • 562 14 Interbank rates S$ Offer <Jvernight 5 1/4 5 1/4 I-month 5 3/8 5 1/2 2 month 5 7/16 5 9/16 J-month 5 1/2 5 5/8 Overnight mode: 5 1/8 L'SS Bid Offer TJays 7 5/16 7 7/16 1 month 8 1/8 8 1/4 2 months 7 7/8 8
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    • 459 14 Reuter THE GERMAN Bundesbank on Thursday stressed it would maintain a tough antiinflationary policy, setting an ambitious 1991 monetary growth target and warning that monetary policies would have to stay tight. Speaking to journalists in Frankfurt, Bundesbank president Karl Otto Poehl said the Bundesbank
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    • 163 14 AP OIL TRADERS might have two places to buy and sell crude oil futures in New York, if the Commodity Exchange Inc of New York and London's International Petroleum Exchange can agree on a deal being discussed. "We've been considering agreements with many
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    • 1246 14 SIMEX EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/lnt Vol IXx 90 92 24 9125 9122 91 25 1800 ***** 153? Mar 91 92.68 92.69 92.67 92.68 8000 ***** 4886 Jun 91 92.76 92.79 92.76 92.78 2300 8111 2740 Sep 91 92.71 92.73 92.70 92.71 1050 2814 684
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 462 15 Reuter US ANALYSTS said Opec's decision to allow members to continue pumping at capacity until the Gulf crisis is resolved does little to ease the uncertainty hanging over world oil markets. Analysts said the accord was the only one possible, given the
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    • 198 15 Reuter CHINA will recognise full foreign ownership and take other liberal investment measures to win Japanese participation in developing placer mines in southern China, a Metal Mining Agency of Japan (MMAJ) official said. China plans to develop ilmenite, rutile and zircon deposits in southern
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    • 880 15 REPORTS Reuter THE tin pricc on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market was unchanged yesterday at M$ 15.17 a kg despite the easier trend on the London Metal Exchange overnight. Dealers said prices on the LME could be set to drift down towards the
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  • 1342 15 Rubber Dec u KftS (>■> Mm) S cents/kg Noon Close Int I RSS Prompt 150.7V15I.75N 151.00/152.00 Int I RSS Jan 91 I50.0CVI50.50 150.25/150.75N Int I RSS Feb 150.50/151.00 150.7V15I.25N Int 2 RSS OP I47.50/149.50N 147.50/149.50N Int 3 RSS OP 142.50/144.50N 142.50/144.50N Int 4 RSS OP 138.50/140.SON 138.50/140.SON Int 5
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    • 476 15 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP.» AND IN THE MATTE* OP TAISOON FARM PTE.LTD. (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the ■—b— of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 101 UpperCroaa Street #05 14 People s Part Centre ''"IT"* 0103 oa
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    • 482 15 IN THE MATTER OP THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP.» AND IN THE MATTES OP VEST CHOKE HOUSING AGENCY PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the —fc— of the abovcnamed Company duly convened and held at 101 UpperCroea Street #05-14 People's Pwk Centre Singapore 0105 oa
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  • 469 16  -  Company may set up a software development centre in Singapore From Genevieve Cua in Tokyo FUJI XEROX, a leading name in copying equipment, may set up a software development centre in Singapore where its Asia-Pacific headquarters will be based. The company is also studying
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  • 284 16 Bernama SINGAPORE has joined Malaysia in opposing the increase in cost of transporting rubber imposed by the Far East Freight Conference (FEFC), Risda director-gener-al, Datuk Hassan Ibrahim, said yesterday. He hoped Thailand and Indonesia would also support Malaysia in its stand on the issue.
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  • 143 16 AFP THAI Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan announced his new coalition government yesterday, five days after he resigned. The Premier, 71, has brought in two former opposition parties to the government, giving his coalition a total of 227 seats in the 357strong Parliament. But Mr Chatichai's Chart
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  • 402 16 AFP CHINESE Premier Li Peng yesterday endorsed the Philippines 1 booming commercial relations with Taiwan but called on Manila to refrain from official contact with Taipei, Filipino officials said. He also restated to President Corazon Aquino Beijing's "position in principle of opposition to foreign bases
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  • 235 16 Reuter UNITED STATES Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter said yesterday he saw hopes of rescuing Gatt world trade talks, which collapsed last week in disarray over cutting farm subsidies. "I am more optimistic than last week," he said after meeting European Community Farm Commissioner
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  • 142 16 Reuter BRITISH Prime Minister John Major, attending his first European Community Summit, said yesterday that Britain wanted to play a central and positive role in Europe. "I don't think anyone in the Community wants confrontation," Mr Major told reporters before the opening
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  • 404 16  -  By SN Vasuki THE FAILURE of the Uruguay Round of talks will have serious implications on world trade and a deadlock may lead to the formation of restrictive trading blocs, said a leading Canadian businessman. Thomas D'Aquino, president and chief executive officer
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  • 541 16 AFP BROKERS on Friday backed the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) which is fighting off a puzzling bid by a private consortium to introduce options and financial futures trading. The merchant bank which announced on Tuesday it had government approval in
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  • 497 16 The Gulf Crisis Agencies THE United States and Iraq clashed angrily over the dates of prospective Gulf crisis talks on Thursday as US President George Bush and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein exchanged strong words. Bush derisively dismissed any suggestion he might reward
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • 1276 17  -  Jaime Lye tells of a teddy who wants to be more than a gift Jaime Lye 5 Y 1 WAS the night before Christmas I and the Promenade was dark. Benny the bear awoke from his nap, one of the two that he and his
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    • STRAWS IN THE WIND
      • 67 17 SPOTTED at a supermarket: an elderly woman trying to pay for her groceries with an ATM card. It must have been her first time, for when she was handed the console to key in her PIN number, she looked around suspiciously before whispering; "Wei, wei, wo de
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      • 73 17 "IF YOU would like to find someone to love and care for you... come to Introducer, where there are hundreds of post-graduates, graduates, diploma holders and *A' and 'O' Level members just waiting to be friends with you." And so sums up a flyer for this dating agency. But
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      • 24 17 THERE is talk that The Mirror will be revamped and relaunched. Some wag has already suggested a name for it: Goh Magazine.
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      • 78 17 A YOUNG man who turned up for a wedding dinner was incredulous when the restaurant waiters burst into laughter when they saw him. When he indignantly asked if they were laughing at his fashion sense, one of them said: "No, Sir. But the wedding was yesterday. All the
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    • OPINIONS
      • 895 18  -  Why do the people of Myanmar now blame their economic woes on an oppressive regime? Tan Kee Wee on how the loss of faith came about Tan Kee Wee Dr Tan Kee Wee is a research fellow on regional economies at the Institute of South-East Asian
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      • 1050 18  -  Some people would make the claim that racial feelings are and primeval :*2ind, therefore, [•Natural. Being natural, they must But this is ifot the case, says rjfan Tarn How. for moral and societal reasons it is jiinacceptable to make race the grounds on which
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    • SPORTS
      • 1196 19  -  Today is Cup final day. Singapore challenges Kedah for glory in the Malaysia Cup soccer competition at Kuala Lumpur's Merdeka Stadium. Walton Morais, who has a 100-per cent record predicting boxing fights, sticks his neck out again Walton Morais The writer is a Malaysian Forget what the
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      • SIDE LINES
        • 48 19 AMERICAN Davis Cup hero Michael Chang became the first man to reach the semi-finals of the US$6 million Grand Slam Cup when he beat French jester Henri Leconte 7-6 6-3 on Thursday. Chang, the 1989 French Open champion, kept his concentration despite Leconte's constant clowning.
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        • 82 19 US OPEN champion Pete Sampras has yet to register his remarkable rise in tennis in his mind. But the aches and pains of a successful year are already plaguing his body, at the age of 19. The American battled his way into the semi-finals of the Cirand
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        • 95 19 SOVIET YACHTING officials said on Thursday they are ready to make their bid for the America's Cup in 1992 with some help from the Soviet space industry. It would mark the Soviets' first attempt to claim the cup. Three Soviet firms are working now on the
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        • 75 19 CATHY JOHNSTON became one of the few women to ever lead a mixed golf event when she birdied the final three holes on Thursday for a 5-under-par 67 and a onestroke lead in the opening round ol the US$3OO,OOO Spalding Invitational Pro-Am. Johnston had her
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    • EPICURE
      • 443 20  -  Quek Swee Peng savours the scent of chrysanthemum in her snake soup Quek Swee Peng WHAT IS IT about exotic Chinese delicacies that inspires poetic outbursts among even the most unemotional? I have never ceased to chuckle at the literal and at times ludicrous English
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    • LIFESTYLE 1
      • 539 21  -  Roby Duke is not singing for his supper. He's singing so that the children of the world can get theirs. Samuel Ee meets the man Samuel Ee IT IS the season to be jolly but one American singer won't be singing any Christmas
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      • 683 21  -  WINE By N K Yong IN SPRING this year, during the course of a more extensive tour of the Brunello di Montalcino region of Italy, I visited II Poggione again. My first visit some 18 months ago had been far too brief; there was
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      • 346 21  -  BRIDGE By Sybil Holloway IT IS said that one day, playing in a game of whist at the notorious gaming rooms in Bath, the Duke of Cumberland, son of George 111, King of England, who was an inveterate gambler for high stakes, was dealt this
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      • 648 22  -  CD Review By RINGO LIEW IT'S THAT time again when the tropical air resounds with songs of snow, Santa Claus, mistletoe and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Just a few degrees north of the Equator, notions of sleigh rides, reindeer and other polar
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      • 337 23  -  YES! It's here again. That time of year for some yuletide cheer, new festive gear, egg-nog, red sock and a big, big, big Christmas Eve party. But there's a small sartorial snag. Because while you know you don't want to look like Santa, you re afraid
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    • JOBS
      • 239 24 Ang Ah I.ay has been appointed general manager of 3untec Investment Pte Ltd. He will develop new business opportunities in Singapore and the region. Prior to this, he was an executive director of Elders Pacific Ltd. Wong Jee Tu has been appointed principal consultant of Ward Howell International
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      • 990 24  -  With more and more companies planning their move into Vietnam, just what is life, and business, like as a country manager? Harish Mehta talks to a few in Vietnam. Harish Mehta SHANTANU Srivastava doesn't like to travel too far from a tennis court. Why, then, is
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    • 1130 25 at* Adelaide Amttrdji Flight 1 SQ228 1 QF8i lTA Flight 1910 QF82 2010 1345 KL83J 1505 SQ24 ETD 2115 2U5 2200 City 1 KucMng 1 1 1 Flight MH641 MH643 ETA 1225 1 1645 2310 Flight MH640 MH646 MH644 C 1 1 ETD •900 615 945
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    • THE TRAVEL PAGE
      • 482 25 LETTER FROM INDIA Thirty-six tiny islands with a total land area of only about 3.2 hectares constitute the archipelago of Lakcshadweep, the smallest of the States and Union Territories of India. Until 1956, the islands formed part of the state of Madras, and were
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      • 152 25 As at 3pm yesterday: IxKal dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.3010 1.3210 Canadian dollar 1.4620 1.4820 NZ dollar 1.0200 1.0600 Sterling pound 3.3200 3.3400 US dollar 1.7090 1.7190 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 16.20 17.20
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      • 84 25 Duration Tide Venue Organiser Td Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Jan 16-20 Jan 19-27 Jan 21-24 Tourism Recreation Fair International Exhibition For Caravaning. Motoring, Tourism Middle East Computer Show Netherlands Germany Manama, Bahrain Koninklijke Nederiandse Jaarbeurs Stuttgart er Messe Und Kongress Arabian Exhibition Management WLL (31)30/*****1 (46)711/2589-0
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    • PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT 1
      • 611 26  -  If you are still wondering whether the US is in recession, don't bother. In fact, the current US bear market is already in its last lap,'says Paine Webber senior vice-president Edward Kerschner. William Chia reports. William Chia INVESTORS should position their market strategy
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      • 1034 26 The Tokyo stock market has drawn little comfort from a strong rally in Japanese bonds. That, plus a lack of buyers, is why share prices will soon test old lows again. Economist Shell-shocked Japanese equity investors have just enjoyed a two-month
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      • 1351 27  -  Bucking the trend is the best way of striking it rich. But how do you know you are right and others are wrong? Gerald Holtham offers some clues Gerald Holtham The writer is chief international economist, Lehman Brothers International AS EVERY investor
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      • 642 27 Reuter SOUTH KOREA'S stock market, deserted by once-adoring fans, should survive an economic downturn in 1991 like a movie star whose box office appeal has gone but who fights for a comeback, analysts said. They said major indicators pointed
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      • 603 27 L1190) Conversion toms I Premium/ (discount) Expiry Amount lafl 1, Cn. using Company Issued f M .uJlaV wits Shaft Ul SIR Com tier Lnstk Cash Cash 1 Lnsfc 1 Gearing 4 Data Mths in units) m m M nom left raw value c&cwt 37.5 1.020 3.420
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      • 211 27 Fraser Roach CRUDE PALM OIL; The strong break-out above both its 50 and 100-day exponential moving averages (EMA) after a six-month consolidatory phase carried the commodity through an important resistance at the 750 mark. As most of its oscillators have swung to the extreme
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      • DON'T QUOTE ME!
        • 87 27 BLAND MESSAGES can take on a totally different meaning under some circumstances. Take for example Qaf, which on Monday announced an unexpected 98 per cent fall in its interim earnings to $31,000. Speaking of the prospects in the second half, Qaf said its board
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        • 97 27 POOR DIDI DAWI. Five months as Qafs chairman and4f& is bearing the brunt of its poor results, with questions comiry from all fronts, including the Stock Exchange of Singapon.But what must really hurt is his investment in the compafijL. On Feb 28, he bought four million Qaf shares
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        • 50 27 THE going joke in the stock market, after being hit a flsw years ago by the Pan-Electric affair and now by Electro-Mag-netic (S), is that investors in the future should avoid companies with "electro" and "electric" in their names. Is that a case of twice shocked, forever shy?
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        • 118 27 MAGAZINES are finding it hard to survive in Hongkong. In June, the high flying Billion bit the dust, and has since been incorporated into its once competitor, Asiamoney, the Asian publication of the Euromoney people. And now, Asia Technology, a sister publication of Far Eastern Economic Review,
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    • TIME OFF
      • 237 28 SSO Concert Featuring Singaporean Tsao Chieh's orchestral work. Amidst The South Of Winds. which will be accompanied by two poems by Edwin Thumboo, who will also narrate. Plus Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, performed by Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa. Victoria Concert Hall, today. 8.15pm. In-Tempo 1990 This is an annual
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      • Article, Illustration
        285 28  -  Compiled by K Jayanti Photo Finish An exhibition of works by Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, Bettina Rheims, Herb Ritts, Sheila Metzner and Bruce Weber. The names I of these internationally ac- claimed photographers are synonymous with the best of I modern photography. The Gallery. #02-26/27 Hilton International. Until Dec
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    • Article, Illustration
      581 28 Air America. They thought this movie would sell with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr's names in the credits, but apparently some people do prefer movies with plots, which is why this flick about a pilot and his young protege crash landed with the critics. Tonight midnight at Bedok
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    • 258 20 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN WHEBE TO WINE, DINE Didn't I see you at Scandals? Kvcry Thursday: Indies Night. Every Night: ITie place to %ee and be seen. Scandals, Singapore's most sophisticated club and meeting place. For details on membership, call 330 8310
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    • 86 25 SOCCER SUNDAY ■BMpH It's the Big Match tonight. Tomorrow, you can read all about the W jg| Malaysia Cup clash between Singapore MALAYSIA r KSQjfl In The New Paper's Sunday Special. Jeffrey Low's report. Pictures. Goal graphics. Interviews. Plus much more. Also, results, reports and pictures of the f English
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 1474 28 TODAY'S TV Vampire Buster, 10.20pm, Arfcona Bald Eagle, 4.40pm, SBC 8 SBC 5 s tmo. Antique vases, we are told in To proteet the endangered JRi I^'.;^V% j it»f e*l l t )i y ri r H. 30 TV Education. this Hongkong movie, are bald eagle, some biologists .'lt II4S
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    • 651 28 MOVIES ON TV Gnnga Din, Mon, 10.30pm, Fanny with child. Leslie CaSBCI2 ron, Maurice Chevalier and Before there was the Malay- Charles Boyer sing Hdlo, sia Cup and 100-Plus, there thats smy baby in this flawas the archetypal water-boy. vourful drama. There was Gunga Din. Now How rd th( Dlieh
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