The Business Times, 21 December 1990

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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 58 1 US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady >aid yesterday he thought interest rates would come down and that the US economy was in a slowdown which he said would end next year. He said: "In my opinion, the significant lowering ot the discount rate... could
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    • 27 1 THE CHEMICAL industry is the brightest spot in the manufacturing sector, having posted a 15 per cent growth in output this year Page 2
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    • 21 1 GROUND HANDLING agent Changi International Airport Services is opening its hub distribution terminal next month Page 2
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    • 24 1 INDONESIAN President Suharto has inaugurated a USS4I6 million petrochemical project which provides a vital link to Indonesia's booming textile industry Page 7
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    • 43 1 THE ECONOMIC outlook for fiscal 1991 to be released this weekend by the Japanese government will forecast growth at a real rate of 3.8 per cent, a slowdown from the estimated 5.1 per cent growth rate for fiscal 1990 PageS
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    • 32 1 EUROPE'S two major trading blocs have given themselves six more months to clinch an accord on a 19-nation common market stretching from the Arctic to the Mediterranean Page 10
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    • 32 1 GERMANY'S ruling coalition has begun to trim promises it made to win the recent election and is floating ideas for new levies to meet the cost of unification Page 10
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    • 33 1 THESE are gloomy days for the Australian media industry as two national TV networks and the huge Fairfax publishing group find themselves in the hands of banks. Page 13
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    • 23 1 FOR the really rich in the US, this is the season to be merry and beat the taxman Page 21
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    • 30 1 FEDERAL EXPRESS is boosting its South-east Asian operations with more flights and a brand new US$5OO,OOO facility at Changi Airport. Shipping l imes Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 34 1 SHARES on Wall Street started trading yesterday in the minus columns with the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials down 16.58 points at 2,610.15 points five minutes after the opening bell.
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    • 36 1 SHARE PRICES were lower at midday yesterday, depressed by international uncertainty. At about 1215 GMT, the FTSE 100-share index was down 24.4 points, or 1.1 per cent, at 2,154.3. Volume was 327.2 million shares.
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    • 21 1 YEO HIAP SENG is buying out its partner in its Hongkong subsidiary for HKSIOO million Page 3
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    • 35 1 THE JOHOR State Economic Development Corporation and Kulim (M) Bhd have requisitioned for the removal of Datuk Robert Chan Woot Khoon as chairman and managing director of Palmco Holdings Bhd Page 3
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    • 19 1 CEREBOS has changed its financial year to conform with that of its parent, Suntory Page 3
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    • 33 1 THE US banking industry, which has suffered a tough year of dividend cuts, lay-offs and rising loan woes, is not expected to see much relief in 1991 Page 6
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    • 18 1 Exchange rates USS SSI.7330 Yen SSI.2856 MS SS0.64I4 Money market rates Overnight 2 -2 3-month 5-1/4% -1/16
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    • 36 1 London Gold AM fix US$384.45 US$7.65 Rubber S'pore Jan 150.50*/kg unch M'siaJan 239.00«/kg fl.00 KL Tin Turnover 37 tonnes 14 Spot MS 15.01 /kg -0.05 Crude palm oil Turnover 902 lots -90 Jan M$874/tonne +11
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  • 313 1  -  Presidential candidates must resign from political party By Anna Teo THE SELECT Committee on the elected presidency has proposed legislative changes governing the qualifications and powers of the elected president. The changes will also have an impact on the financial procedures of the government
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  • 449 1  -  Architects, engineers to be allowed to form limited liability companies By Elaine Koh ARCHITECTS and engineers will be allowed to form limited liability companies and team up with related professionals to offer integrated services, under proposed amendments to the Acts governing the two professions. This
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  • 328 1  -  By Genevieve Cua THE TRADING ARM of the Natsteel group has tied up with one of China's largest trading companies to set up a metals and minerals distribution operation in Singapore. Natsteel Trade International has a2l per cent stake in the venture
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  • 278 1 AP THE US Federal Reserve, amid fresh evidence of a weakening American economy, lowered another key interest rate on Wednesday, said analysts. The White House said it expected banks to follow the Fed's lead to rejuvenate consumer borrowing,
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  • 357 1 Agencies SOVIET Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, architect of President Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign policy reform that freed Eastern Europe and ended the Cold War, resigned in protest against conservative attacks. His resignation was denounced by President Mikhail Gorbachev, who complained that his longtime political ally
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  • 147 1 Reuter THE GREENBACK climbed sharply against the mark in Europe yesterday after Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze announced his resignation with a warning that dictatorship was taking hold in Moscow. The US unit jumped about three-quarters of a pfennig to 1.4841 mark
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    • 21 1 Fed fund rates ease to 7pc after discount cut, Pr 6 Fed discount rate cut won't avert recession: experts, Pr 11
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 78 2 SINGAPORE passport holders no longer need to get a visa to enter Mexieo as tourists or on transit. The Mexican Embassy yesterday said the move is to promote the flow ot tourism to Mexico and to strengthen the ties of friendship and trade between
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      • 44 2 THE Canadian Business Association (CBA) of Singapore is organising a panel presentation on Canada/Singapore joint ventures next month. To be held at the Pinetree Club, the discussion will touch on the findings of the Singapore Manufacturers Association's recent mission to Canada.
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      • 77 2 THE Housing and Development Board Staff Union will hold its 23rd anniversary celebration with a dinner and dance next Saturday, Dec 29. The guest-of-honour is Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who is also the Minister for Defence. The union will be presenting a $25,000 cheque to
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      • 66 2 SERANGOON Junior College, the ninth JC to be built by the Public Works Department, was handed over to the Ministry of Education (MOE) yesterday. Built at a cost of $21 million, the college stands on six hectares of land, with better features and larger floor areas as
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      • 113 2 THE Singapore Zoo has had a record year of visitors. It expects to welcome early next week its 500,000 th tourist visitor of the year. This will be the first time that the zoo has been visited by half a million tourists within a year. In
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    • 107 2 SELF-SERVICE banking goes another step further with the introduction of the DBS Autobanker. Holders of the DBS Bank Card can now purchase demand drafts, cashier's orders and travellers cheques after banking hours. There are six such Autobankers at the Raffles Place and Orchard MRT stations, and
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    • 346 2  -  By Genevieve Cua THE chemical industry continues to be the brightest spot in the manufacturing sector, posting a 15 per cent growth in output this year. The continuing Gulf crisis appears not to have dented the optimism with which the sector is viewed.
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    • 338 2  -  By Rahita Ellas GROUND handling agent Changi International Airport Services (CIAS) is set to open its Hub Distribution Terminal next month. The 3,000 sq m facility, to be dedicated to air express cargo, forms phase one of the $30 million expansion of its
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    • 294 2 REFLECTING the dull performance of Singapore's light industries, the printing and publishing sector has seen slower growth this year while the textiles and apparel industry has suffered a large fall in export growth. The outlook for next year, according to an Economic Development Board (EDB)
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    • 400 2  -  By Claire Leow CULTURAL influence follows economic strength, and as regional economies develop, Singapore must promote Asian cultures and values with confidence, said Briga-dier-General (Res) George Yeo yesterday. Opening a seminar on "The Social Role of the Singapore Newspapers in Promoting Asian Cultures
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 283 3  -  By Schutz Lee LOCAL food and beverage manufacturer Yeo Hiap Seng (YHS) has bought out its Hongkong partner in its subsidiary in the British colony for HKSIOO million. The acquisition was for E D F Man Pacific's 49 per cent stake
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    • 340 3 Bernama THE Johor State Economic Development Corporation and Kulim (M) Bhd, in which the JSEDC has a 44.2 per cent stake, have requisitioned for the removal of Datuk Robert Chan Woot Khoon as chairman, and managing director of Palmco Holdings Bhd at an extraordinary general
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    • 289 3 CEREBOS Pacific chalked up turnover of $70.3 million and a pre-tax profit of $10 million in the first two months of the Gulf crisis. This information was contained in a report on the company's two-month results, ending Sep 30, released by the listed food
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    • 769 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN MUI purchase into Heritage USA should benefit both parties By Alvin Tay "IN GOD We Trust" that was Tan Sri Khoo Kay Peng's signature tune in his chairman's statement in the 1990 annual report of Malayan United Industries (MUI). Those
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    • 268 3  -  By Amy Balan DESPITE the Gulf crisis and an expected slowdown in growth, Singatronics expects to do better in the current year to end-December. The electronic contract manufacturer has already chalked up higher profits in the nine months to end-September than it did
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    • 240 3  -  By Shoeb Kagda KEPPEL FINANCE, a member of the Keppel Bank group, has claimed that it is the first finance company to have financed scripless share counters under a scheme introduced by the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) in August. In a statement released
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 113 3 MALAYSIA'S IGB Corp Bhd said yesterday it was selling a 20 per cent newspaper stake to Berjaya Corp (M) Bhd for M 541.4 million and would also sell its 9.9 per cent stake in Berjaya. IGB said the 9.9 stake comprising 41.78
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      • 128 3 IN reply to SES queries, Kim Eng Holdings said its total consideration for a 30 per cent stake in Grand Connections Sdn Bhd (GCSB), including the amount required to increase Grand's share capital to Ms2o million, is Ms 6 million cash. GCSB was incorporated on
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      • 44 3 OCBC Bank announced yesterday that it is winding up its wholly-owned investment subsidiary, OCBC Holdings (Australia) (OHA), to rationalise the banking group's structure. OHA's stake in the Bank of Singapore (Australia) will subsequently by held directly by OCBC Bank.
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      • 119 3 The SES has further queried QAF Ltd on the firm's explanation for its profit forecast shortfall. This time, the SES wants to know whether the deterioration in subsidiary Ben's marine business was sudden, whether it could have been foreseen and the cause for the
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 83 4 A LEADING Japanese optieal manufacturer and distributor, Optique Paris Miki, plans to open two more outlets in Malaysia following the success of its first store in Kuala Lumpur. The store opened in October and in the last two months received overwhelming response.
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      • 111 4 THE Indonesian partner in Shell's troubled US$l.7 billion West Java olefin project, Bimantara Group, said the Dutch company has agreed to give it more equity and to divest ownership more rapidly. Bimantara director Harry Kuntoro was quoted by the Bisnis Indonesia daily newspaper
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      • 49 4 THE Japanese electronics firm, Matsushita Communication Industrial (MCI), will set up a R&D centre in the Philippines, the trade department said on Wednesday. The centre, in Laguna province south of Manila, will focus on audio-video and computer products that MCI will be producing in Manila.
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      • 79 4 JAPAN'S Mitsui and Co Ltd and Unisys Corp, the third-larg-est US computer maker, have received an order for a large mainframe computer and related software from the Czech central bank. The two companies are to sign the US$6.6-mil-lion contract for the machine with the Czech
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      • 36 4 JAPANESE farm and construction machinery maker Kubota Corp and magnetic tape maker Hitachi Maxell Ltd will invest in a new electronic publishing firm, called Nippon Denshi Shuppan K.K., was launched in November.
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    • 422 4 AFP SHARE PRICES of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Ltd plunged in Sydney yesterday following a radio report that it would be described in a British television documentary as "teetering on the brink". According to the report, the documentary, to be screened in Britain late yesterday,
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    • 96 4 Reuter THREE Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd companies, Hongkong Land Holdings Ltd, Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd and Mandarin Oriental International Ltd, said in separate statements they had obtained listing on the Australian Stock Exchange. They expect dealing in their shares to start on
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    • 267 4 PT UNITED Tractors has acquired Mobil Coal Producing Inc's 60 per cent share in PT Berau Coal, the Jakarta Post reported on Wednesday. PT Berau Coal owns and operates a coal mining concession in East Kalimantan. "We will soon embark on the construction
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    • 260 4 MOVING aggressively ahead, the Charoen Pokphand group of companies has embarked on an ambitious project in Indochina, where it has tied up with Toyota Corp of Japan to set up passenger car assembling plants in Vietnam as well as in China. The Nation on Tuesday
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    • 192 4 AFP HONGKONG tycoon Li Kashing's pan-Asia satellite television scheme came one step closer to fruition on Wednesday when it obtained a Hongkong government licence to use the British colony as its base. The 12-year non-exclusive licence was issued to one of Mr Li's
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 73 5 IMPERIAL Chemical Industries pic said it has not broken European Community competition law and has put up a strong defence against EC Commission charges of alleged cartel price-fixing. An ICI spokesman said: "We can't make a detailed statement at this stage, but we
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      • 58 5 ELECTRONICS group NV Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken said the head of its corporate legal department, Mr Hans Beekhuis, will leave the company from June 1, 1991. "The termination of his contract of employment... (is) in connection with a difference of opinion about Mr Beekhuis s responsibility as
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      • 74 5 MANNESMANN AG's long search for a buyer for its troubled computer unit, Mannesmann Kienzle GmbH, ended yesterday when US Computer maker Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) said it would pay 340 million marks for a 65 per cent stake in a new joint firm. The move is
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      • 58 5 SWEDISH vehicle manufacturer AB Volvo's chief executive officer, Mr Christer Zetterberg said the potential from Volvo's alliance with France's Regie Nationale des Usines Renault was much larger than previously believed. Mr Zetterberg also said Volvo faced a couple of tough years, but that there were bright
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      • 72 5 EIGHT European consortia submitted tenders, ranging between six and 10 billion crowns, to build the world's longest suspension bridge, over the Great Belt waterway separating east and west Denmark A/S Storebaelt, the state-owned firm managing the project, said. The 6.8 km long road bridge, with
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    • 336 5 UPI ANGERED BY soaring prices, the Brazilian government has threatened to sue. under newly adopted antitrust legislation, a joint venture of Ford and Volkswagen, known as Autolatina, that dominates the country's car market. Joao Maia, executive secretary of the Ministry of Economy,
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    • 224 5 AP McDONALD'S Corp has appointed a syndicated financial columnist and television reporter to its board of directors, raising conflict-of-inter-est questions among editors and experts in journalism ethics. The journalist, Terry Savage, said she does not see any problems with the situation because she reports
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    • 253 5 AFP A SUM of US$25 million has been transferred to jailed Polly Peck chairman Asil Nadir in London to enable him to raise bail, a source close to Mr Nadir said in London on Wednesday. Mr Nadir had been unable to raise bail of
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    • 270 5 AP PHILIPS president Jan D Timmer has issued his first public warning th'at the Dutch electronics giant could be split up if his 55,000-job reorganisation plan is unsuccessful. Mr Timmer's comments appeared aimed mostly at calming speculation that the 285,000-strong Philips empire
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    • 146 5 AP THE international arm of the National Broadcasting Co has formed a joint venture with two Japanese companies that will distribute NBC programmes in the Far East and produce shows in Japan. NBC said the deal will improve its ability to distribute NBC-produced
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 105 6 NCR CORP said it would pay Goldman, Sachs Co 0.25 per cent of the value of an acquisition by American Telephone and Telegraph Co or any other acquirer if more than 50 per cent of its outstanding voting securities or its assets are
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      • 66 6 THE Resolution Trust Corp said rumours that it sold US$l billion of mortgage-backed securities were false. "We cannot confirm (the rumours) because we didn't do anything like that," a spokesman said. Some traders said the rumours were spread by broker dealers trying to depress the price
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      • 71 6 THE US Federal Reserve's cut in its discount rate is "well justified," and could help the US banking industry's profits, Robert Glauber, Treasury Undersecretary for Finance said. MtfGlauber, speaking to reporters after addressing a business lunch said the rate cut puts further funds into
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      • 100 6 T\k Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) board has approved a revised proposal to set up a financial compliance committee with broad authority to monitor and act on the financial hellth of members and member firms. The proposal responds to 4be unexpected bankruptcy last summer of a
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    • 329 6 Reuter THE Federal Reserve signalled an ease in the federal funds rate on Wednesday to 7 per cent, one day after the central bank cut the discount rate, economists said. The discount rate was cut to 6.5 per cent from 7
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    • 201 6 Reuter CLAIMS on Britain's finan-j cial industry compensation j scheme have risen sharply I and are likely to increase further in coming months. Securities and Investment Board (SIB) chairman David Walker said. Levies to pay for the i scheme totalled roughly £12
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    • 244 6 Reuter CREDIT SUISSE already holds enough capital to comply with a court ruling requiring it to back other group companies, and does not need to raise money on the capital market now, its chief executive Robert Jeker said. Analysts had said the bank
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    • 580 6 Reuter THE UNITED STATES banking industry, which has suffered a tough year of dividend cuts, layoffs and rising loan woes, is not expected to see much relief in the recessionary climate of 1991. An industry analyst at Keefe Bruyette and Woods Inc,
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    • 673 6 Reuter MAJOR US banks have begun to withdraw from Europe in an attempt to conserve capital and increase profitability, banking analysts said. On Tuesday Citicorp became the latest in a string of US banks to announce plans for savage job cuts. At
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  • THE REGION 1
    • 298 7 USs4l6m plant provides vital link to booming textile industry AFP PRESIDENT SUHARTO yesterday inaugurated a US$4l6 million petrochemical project which provides a vital link to Indonesia's booming textile industry, officials said. The plant, set up in the huge oil refinery complex in the Central Java town
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    • 445 7 THE Chatichai II government is to accord top priority to the promotion of exports and work on the development of the Southern Seaboard during its remaining 18-month term, government spokesman Pridiyathorn Davakula said. Mr Pridiyathorn was reported by The Nation on Wednesday as
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    • 179 7 AFP THAI DEPUTY Interior Minister Wattana Asvahem has threatened to stop issuing work permits to Taiwanese if Taipei takes drastic action against tens of thousands of illegal Thai workers. The state-run Thai News Agency reported yesterday that Mr Wattana called on Taiwan to help the
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 111 7 ASIA'S newly industrialising and developing economies are likely to grow at a slower pace next year with the exception of Indonesia and the Philippines, Japan's Institute of Developing Economies said yesterday. The institute, affiliated with Japan's powerful International Trade and Industry Ministry, said gross
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      • 78 7 THE East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak will export fewer logs from next year to promote local woodbased industries. Sarawak will cut log exports by two million cubic metres (70.6 million cubic feet) to 12 million cubic metres (423.8 million cubic feet). Sabah,
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      • 95 7 THE MALAYSIAN Inland Revenue Department (IRD) is expected to collect a record Mslo billion in income tax this year, its director general Datuk Abu Bakar Mohd Noor said yesterday. He said up to last month a total of M 59.6 billion had been collected
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      • 58 7 PRESIDENT SUHARTO wants Indonesia to enhance and strengthen economic relations with the South countries in order to diversify its world trading partners. "This will in stages lessen Indonesia's dependency on trade relations with the three world economic powers Japan, the United States and the European community," Trade
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      • 74 7 INFLATION hit runaway levels this month in Vietnam and spread to an alarmingly wide range ot goods, the army daily Quan Doi Nhan Dan said yesterday. Rice has jumped from 1.500 to 2,200 dong (20 to 30 US cents) a kilogramme since the start of the
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    • 203 7 AFP INDONESIA'S, export growth slowed this year, with earnings rising a mere 6.2 per cent in the first eight months to US$l5.lO billion, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said yesterday. The CBS said in its latest report that earnings from oil and gas exports grew
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    • 483 8 Higher interest rates expected to set back investment and housing construction NYT THE economic outlook for fiscal 1991 to be released this weekend by the Japanese government will forecast growth at a real rate of 3.8 per cent, a slowdown from the estimated 5.1 per
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    • 506 8 AFP JAPAN'S Finance Ministry says the country's banking system is still healthy despite a dramatic plunge this year in Japanese stock prices and growing signs of financial weakness in the United States. "We have no worries at all about the fundamental soundness
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    • 572 8 AFP SOUTH KOREA, Taiwan. Hongkong and Singapore facc higher inflation, slower growth and a sharp worsening of their external balance in the wake of the Gulf crisis, the OECD said on Thursday. Asia's newly-industrialis-ing economies (NIEs) are more vulnerable to the rise in oil
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    • 260 8 Reuter FACING the threat of an unfair trade complaint from Washington, South Korea said on Wednesday it was reviewing its tight controls on food imports but that a liberalised trade policy was unlikely. President Roe Tae Woo's special envoy Cho Soon, in Washington trying
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • 454 10 Agreement on single European market expected by next July Reuter EUROPE'S two major trading blocs on Wednesday gave themselves six more months to clinch an accord on a 19nation common market stretching from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. "By next July it should be crowned
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    • 370 10 Reuter ITALIAN Trade Minister Renato Ruggiero said on Wednesday that the EC undermined its own credibility in Gatt talks that broke down two weeks ago over a row on farm subsidies. Mr Ruggiero said the EC Commission, which negotiated on behalf of the
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    • 262 10 AFP BRITAIN is "not looking for, expecting or pressing for" any change in parities within the European Monetary System (EMS), according to Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont. Mr Lamont told a news conference in London on Wednesday that his government would do
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    • 338 10 Reuter BRITAIN'S economy was given stark confirmation that it was in the grip of recession on Wednesday when the broadest measure of economic growth registered a 1.2 per cent quarterly drop, the biggest fall since 1980. The decline in gross domestic product in the
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    • 154 10 AP BRITAIN'S retailers are facing their worst Christmas selling season in 10 years as an economic downturn and 14 per cent interest rates cause Britons to pinch their pence. The sales slump, worsened by unusually cold weather, is driving an unprecedented number of
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    • 496 11 Move seen as coming too late THE US Federal Reserve's dramatic decision to cut a key interest rate effective on Wednesday will reduce Americans' borrowing costs, but won't avert a recession, say US economists. The first drop in the Fed's discount rate
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    • 291 11 AP GERMAN unification could raise interest rates in the US by a full percentage point or more after 1992, according to Congressman Lee Hamilton, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He did not estimate what the actual rate could be.
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    • 319 11 UPI THE GULF CRISIS has dealt a serious blow to the world economy, reducing the growth of global output this year by 0.3 per cent, according to a UN report. The United Nations Department of International Economic and Social Affairs said
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    • 570 11 Reuter SOVIET Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov has said that the Soviet economy is in an unprecedented decline and Western creditors are being scared off by political instability. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, meanwhile, has said that unless key decisions are taken over the next six
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    • 272 11 AFP THE conservative coalition headed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl has begun to trim promises it made to win the recent general election and is floating ideas for new levies to meet the unknown cost of unification. Mr Kohl promised there
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 74 11 POLAND'S presidcnt-clect. Lech Walesa, has chosen Jan Krzysztof Bielecki of the Liberal-Democratic Congress, a small party promoting quick privatisation, as his nominee for prime minister. A government source in Warsaw said on Wednesday that Mr Walesa's selection of the 39-year-old economist followed his decision to
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      • 74 11 RISING UNEMPLOYMENT and the prospect of negative economic growth could leave South Africa treading a fine line between political transition and anarchy next year. Economists in Johannesburg said on Wednesday that said South Africa needed an annual growth rate of 5 to 6 per cent
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      • 86 11 LATIN AMERICA'S gross domestic product dropped a halt of a percentage point this year and its per capita income fell 2.6 per cent, according to a grim report released on Wednesday by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. The commission, a branch of
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      • 94 11 CUBAN PRESIDENT Fidel Castro has of higher unemployment, but says the country will survive one of its most critical stages. The official Cuban news agency. Prensa Latina, quoted Mr Castro as having told a group of students from Latin America, Asia. Africa and Europe in
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      • 74 11 US PRESIDENT George Bush will consider taxing imported oil as part of a national energy strategy. The US Department of Energy said on Wednesday that the tax would be among some 67 policy options the department was preparing for Mr Bush. An import tax
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      • 47 11 US PRESIDENT George Bush has phoned German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to discuss the collapse of international trade talks. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said in Washington that the two leaders on Wednesday discussed the importance to get the trade talks "started up again".
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    • 402 11 Reuter THE European car market will continue to shrink next year, but healthy demand in eastern Germany will temper the slowdown and sales should pick up by the end of the year, say analysts and car makers. The first quarter
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    • 299 10 iimg^M IL ~>«*flMwg^P r Saab launches the new 9000 CDi 2.3. It's in its elements when it comes to overtaking. Just like you. It's not just a matter of more power. It's more power fully integrated system that has not one, but two, electronic when you need it most. When
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  • 528 12 EDITORIAL A RATHER neat analogy suggests itself between Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's decision to set up an education savings fund and the way a company rewards its shareholders. Part of the rationale behind Edusave. which Mr Goh announced this week, is a desire to pay
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 232 12 CONFIDENCE in the agreement giving the United Nations a central role in ending the war and supervising free and fair elections in Cambodia is now faltering. When the agreement was first signed by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council last August, hopes arose
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    • 113 12 MENDAKI's decision to introduce a unit trust fund especially tailored for the Malay/Muslim community opens up more opportunities for the community to invest in business and participate in the economic development of Singapore. The scheme, to be launched early next year, is certainly attractive as it guarantees that
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    • 141 12 DESPITE the incentives offered to encourage Singaporeans to have more children, this call has yet to make deep inroads into the Chinese community. The government needs to study the problems facing Chinese parents, otherwise it will not be easy to attain a breakthrough in the population growth during
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 249 12 CHINA may not understand it yet, but Hongkong knows full well that the first responsibility of a public corporation, even one synonymous with the territory, is to its shareholders. That much was clear in the reaction to the decision by the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to
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    • 130 12 SEMINARS organised by the Indonesian National Army (TNI) in the past have been known as impor- tant events since they came up with conceptual breakthroughs in anticipation of the problems and changes this country had to face. Given the sociopolitical history of this country, in which nationalism
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    • 125 12 EUROPEAN political union took a giant step towards becoming a reality when British Prime Minister John Major endorsed a final communique at last week's European Community summit in Rome, which also laid out common foreign and defence policies. Major's acceptance of the proposals in the communique, which
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  • 930 12  -  William PfafT on why Israel needs a Palestinian settlement immediately William Pfaff IHT THE confidcnce that Yitzhak Shamir expressed after his recent meeting with George Bush was a whistle in the dark. Things could scarcely be worse for Israel. They are worse, perhaps, than
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    • 62 12 DOONESBURY by garry trudeau w POINT. MAPAM. s THAT ME i see MR ~7~ r ~Z~~7 r tvpEAsrcßis&isAveßYayur i iajonper if, in your view, rcNOßFft's okay, why UCATEPMATTER! ANPFKANKEY, CONGRESS HA'? ANYFOiE ,r rrv% POIE IS DON'T OUE OPEN TESTIMONY V (ONGRESt, WHATSOEVER TO PLAY IN TO BUTT TAKE: A
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 974 13 Critics of plans to create a single currency for Europe argue that one money must, in the end, mean one finance ministry. Are they right? The Economist BY definition, if the European Community adopts a single currency, governments will relinquish their sovereignty over
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    • 1494 13  -  Florence Chong, BTs Sydney Correspondent, reports on the woes of an industry which was once said to have a licence to print money Florence Chong, WITH the recent collapse of Australia's oldest publishing company, the John Fairfax group, banks are now the owners of
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    • 702 13 Joint ventures in Eastern Europe are out headhunting IHT STUCK on the corporate ladder and looking for a new challenge on capitalism's latest frontier? Headhunters are searching for executives with the right mix of skills and experience for joint ventures in Eastern Europe. Novices need
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    • 59 13 BALLY FASHI ON 'I' ACCESSORIES liW BALLY BOUTIQUE in SINGAPORE Shaw City. Roval Holiday Inn BALLY AUTHORISED DEALERS Singapore Daima'u Dnen Boutique sefan Branches DFS& Branches Studio Accessories Hyatt Hotc Sogo Paragon Scotts Weitnauer Change Terminal 2 MALAYSIA Batty Boutigue Lot 10 Shoopmg Centre/Jorvan Shoe Kuata Lumpur Plaza Jakarta* ndonesia/RatuPtara/GajahMadaPlaza
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  • FOCUS
    • 646 14 Report of the Select Committee on the Elected President Bill PRESIDENTIAL control over government reserves and assets of key statutory boards and government companies should exclude restrictions on expenditure but take into account actual revenues, the Select Committee has proposed. And in order that
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    • 317 14 THE ELECTED President's safeguard role on constitutional amendments should extend to those relating to the requirement for a general election, as well as the fundamental liberties of citizens, the Select Committee has proposed. Article 66 stipulating that elections must be held within three months
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    • 441 14  -  Reports by Anna Teo PRESIDENTIAL candidates should not be members of any political party when nominated for election, the Select Committee has decided. Noting the views of many representors who feel the President, while necessarily a "political animal", must not only be above party politics but
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    • 207 14 BASIC PROVISIONS on the establishment and composition of the Presidential Elections Committee (PEC), which will pre-qual-ify candidates, should be spelt out in the Constitution, it is proposed. The Elected President bill now provides for all aspects of the PEC to be contained in a
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    • 239 15 CONGRATULATIONS I China National Metals Minerals Import Export Corporation (China Minmetals) and Nat Steel Trade International Pte Ltd on the joint-venture establishment of MINNAT RESOURCES PTE LTD at 24 Raffles Place #26-018, Clifford Centre, Singapore 0104. The incorporation of MINNAT RESOURCES PTE LTD has today diversified into activities ranging from
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  • SPORTS 1
    • 1069 16 AP JOHN McENROE's ouster in Australia, Jennifer Capriati's glitzy debut, eight different Grand Slam champions and a US victory in the Davis Cup highlighted a wild year of tennis in 1990. Pete Sampras, a lanky 19-year-old who serves 195 kph aces, and Gabriela Sabatini, showing off
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    • 452 17 AP THE chief organiser of the Freich Open says six-time champion Bjom Borg would be welcome at Roland Garros if he applies for entrance to the Grand Slam tournament after an eight-year retirement. "We would respond favourably to his request," sad Philippe Chatrier, also
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    • 471 17 AP BRITAIN has decided to enter the bidding for the 2000 Olympics, this time with buildings and blue-prints. The British Olympic Association did not choose a city to support as a potential host for the Games. But it agreed to invite bids and
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 89 17 NEW ZEALAND rugby captain Gary Whetton is confident that no All Blacks will defect to the rugby league next season. "They are all keen to compete in the World Cup and I'm pretty sure no one will be switching codes," Whetton said yesterday.
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      • 93 17 POLE-VAULTING brothers Sergei and Vasili Bubka from the Soviet Union have joined German track and field club OSC Berlin. Details of the contracts were kept secret but officials said the sums involved were not very high. Sergei, 30, is the greatest pole vaulter of all-time. A
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      • 68 17 TIME Warner Sports will begin a monthly pay-per-view boxing show with the April 19 telecast of Evander Holyfield's first defence of his heavyweight title, against George Foreman in Atlantic City. Seth Abraham, the chief executive officer of Time Warner Sports, said on Wednesday that cards would run
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      • 57 17 THE first America's Cup practice boats for the 1992 competition arrived in San Diego on Wednesday from New Zealand, the country that mounted a controversial failed challenge for yachting's most prized trophy in 1988. With their keels shrouded in blue plastic, two scarlet-hulled yachts which will serve
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      • 100 17 THE British Tyrrell Formula One team worked with Honda engineers on a circuit for the first time on Wednesday in testing their 1991 car at Silverstone. Italian driver Stefano Modena, the Formula One team's number one driver since Frenchman Jean Alesi departed for Ferrari, gave the Hondaengined Tyrrell
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      • 48 17 THE PGA European golf tour in 1992 will start in Thailand. The decision follows a sponsor's announcement on Wednesday of a substantial cash boost for the Asian Classic. The inaugural version in Hongkong was won last Saturday by Britain's Nick Faldo.
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    • 313 17 RI J IMXi THE ART OF COMMUNICATION. First. att w words about performance. As befits .1 transmission offering .1 convenient choice ot enthusiastic hindsome lines that have long distinguished the marque Here, a custom designed entertainment system company with an outstanding record ot motor sport success. 'sport or relaxed 'normal
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 1067 18 at, Flight ETA FHgtt ETO Mi MMM GA894 0010 SRI 87 0135 GA890 2225 GA970 2335 AdataMa SQ227 2130 Ammh RJ182 1445 fantrnl— KL835 1505 KL836 0650 SQ24 2215 GA890 2225 SQ45 0805 SQ24 2215 Auckland NZ35 1530 BA11 1255 SQ338 2030 SQ325 2115 BA12 2150
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    • 514 18  -  LETTER FROM ROME By Charles Ridley Despite a trend among richer Italians to take exotic vacations or skiing holidays at Christmas, most ordinary families stick with the old motto: "Christmas with your own folk, Easter with whomever you want." That means Christmas is spent
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    • 152 18 As at 3pm yesterday: Ixical dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.3260 1.3460 Canadian dollar 1.4780 1.5180 NZ dollar 1.0100 1.050 Sterling pound 3.3200 3.3500 US dollar 1.7280 1.7380 liocal dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 16.25 17.25
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    • 107 18 Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Jan 16-20 Tourism Netherlands Komnklijke (31)30/*****1 Recreation Fair Nedcrlandse Jaartoeurs Jan 19-27 International Germany Stuttgarter (46)711/2589-0 Exhibition For Messe Und Caravaning. Kongress Motoring. Tourism Jan 21-24 Middle East Manama. Arabian Exhibition 973/*****3 Computer Show Bahrain Management WLL Jan 23-27 International Madrid IFEMA
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    • 87 18 I) J J THE I BLACK I BARDOT I The girl from South H V London who H conquered the I A fairy-tale rags-to I -riches story. I queen I I MR NICE I A .Of 1C I I GUY I AUCTIONS I The woman who rose I Lim Kay
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    • 306 18 1 A way of drawing the inde- Lm H pendent J|[ H 5 Picture little short of new 111 business (6) 1 _L_L__^B__L_L_L_L_ 9 Goes on about the wrong Hi |HriHf IH men getting 8 (8) __^BL_ JML_JBL_-JBl— 10 Very big nurse's place on 12 the Continent (6) "Moss" com-
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    • 212 18 Singapore Outlook: Occasional showers around midday and in the afternoon. Forecast Maximum temperature 31.6* C Assoc humidity 71% Minimum temperature 23.8* C Assoc humidity 97% Hours of sunshine 6.55 Rainfall in mm 1-2 Rainfall this month 200.2 Rainy days this month 14 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/I-fl* Cond. Auckland 23/18 Fair
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    • 35 18 f T£LL I'D 6>C BUT" 5C f S\R Rcginbld P* C-ONC&L 000 Pne 1 fßom soap*- co^miT^e TMBT uxll SRV A Few \uLI, \u>o*DS fvr C.VRI AND PF\MC£. lS^ c= -i w»mift«Til*u«n«lLTn IM3-IMO WdL, 0396
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    • 223 19 THE PROMENADE UNQUESTOsIABIY I -f//A*£ f &%^AiA s! V_/ '^^1 For a wishful few, life's luxuries begin with an experience with some of life's basic necessities. Like a teddy bear. And come this Christmas, shoppers of The Promenade will cherish a I remarkable gift. Because, with every Christmas teddy bear
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 201 20 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN WHERE TO WINE, DINE Some of our best advertising is by word-of-mouth. For outstanding haute cuisine in surroundings of unashamed V opulence. The Palm Grill is the name on everyone's lips. Reservations. 330 8310 or 338 8585 ext
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    • 345 20 Retreat into a world of classical charm Create traditions. Indulge in English tea or evening cocktails. Enjoy the repertoire of our string quartet or solo pianist. Experience Hyatt Regency Singapore s new ScoCLs Lounge. t •1 w Hvjn Regency Singapixt* 10-12 Scoßs R<ud Singapore 0922 Tel; 733 IW /||W \a
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    • 294 20 Have Poolside "BBQ Buffet" Under the Stars! 1 Ncm; hesuies our weekend f steamboat buffet is the new "all-you-can-eat'Barbeque Jm Buffet "J ,-m Aiiult SIS-H- Child: $9++ 1 Steamboat Buffet* "T"' f Adult: $1250++ Child: $B++ So head for Sky Garden Y» 5 Rxilside where you gt more nt than
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    • 359 20 c72as6a/L H "The Dream Unfolds Anew" Let your nights awaken to new wonders. Come back to our dream oasis of music and magic the newly refurbished, invigorated Kasbah where the magical nostalgic past, the glittering present and the shimmering promise of the future meet. Each night is a flight into
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 780 20 TELEVISION AND RADIO <"* MHt n '■■""IT AO 1 >.:■, Mw :<••■• ■m jr 1 1 il I_„ T SBCI2 :|«aaiS*«* S3 business on radio ThP Irfl W 9.40 H.rdb,» -Wcddmg Bell 645 "J** BBC, 89.9 mHz 111 VHF Band N IV A 111 jjllj O UIW Id TV 1M
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 797 21  -  Bernd Debusmann shows how those whose wallets are recession-proof will celebrate this Christmas and beat the US luxury tax into the bargain Bernd Debusmann FOR the really rich, this is the season to be merry and beat the taxman. Spend $580,000 on a dia-mond-and-emerald necklace from Tiffany's new
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    • 439 21  -  With glasnost, says Michael Collins, Christmas in the USSR is again taking on a religious cast Michael Collins SEVEN decades of official atheism made the USSR's communist government the "Grinch who stole Christmas", leaving behind the secular celebration of New Year's Eve as the main mid-winter
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    • 332 21 CHATTERBOX GOODFELIAS. an unsentimental look at organised crime, its director Martin Scorsese and star Robert l)e Niro were awarded top honours by the New York Film Critics Circle on Wednesday. The movie was named Best Film of 1990, Scorsese Best Director and Robert De
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 250 21 AND ENTERTAIN High Fashion A. THA Every Saturday, High Tea is highly fashionable at the Fountain Lounge. With a fashion show featuring some of Singapore's top models and best fashion. ANA HOTEL lb NASSIM Mill. SINCiAPOKI IC-Ji III: 7 *2 1222 SINGAPORE The Neu Faces mm' m m If your
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    • 70 21 b^/ O Menu kr 10 persons f BSr ESsl t3j Lobster Cold Dish |CJ f Sharks Fin with Crab Meat The Beggar Chicken Sliced Fish in Pineapple Prawns with Dried Red Chilli Stufl Marrow with Minced Moat Three Layer Special Dishes Braised Noodles with Shredded Ch .ken l| if! Dessert
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    • 352 21 I FESTIVE WINING (5 AND DINING AT JOH N ag C HRISTMAS EVE BUFFET DINNER CSI $36 (Adult) SI6 (Child under 12) 1 9()0 hours to 22 BO hours IgNZfl CHRISTMAS DAY BUFFET BRUNCH B9 $28. (Adult) Sl5 (Child under 12) HBM 1100 hours to 1430 hours NEW YEARS EVE
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4334 22  -  By William Chia SHARE PRICES on the Singapore stock market closed mixed in shortened trading hours yesterday after a computer fault led to suspension of trading from the start to 4.05 pm. An official from the Stock Exchange of Singapore confirmed that there
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  • 3949 23 Main Board Melro Hldg.s 535 t-51 t 10.5% lsclan5C 550 H5 2.8% SW Foreign 244 f 14 (6.1% UE 180 HI 6.5% F&N 665 HO f 1.5% H Roval W4 HO +5 4% FF.LSWt 146 7 5.0% NalStccI 775 *-5 H>.6% UOB Foreign 630 5
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 233 24 Company Rights Issue Caioeway tov Three for four g, {0 60 per share Ei-date Dec 10 Books dose Dec 20 Acceptance Payment NYA CMA five-for four fc. MS* 00 per share Ex-date Nov 23 Books close Dec 7 Acceptance Payment Ian 22 Emtei One-tor one (a. MS I
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    • 198 24 > Company Date Year Group Net Met earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per share dividend (000) (cents) Ceiebos Dec 14 Jul 90 $38,911 ($33.777) 126(11 3a) 20TEa(9TEa) 1AM Dec 13 tun 90 $1.418($452) 4 3(15) 2(1) Wing Tai Dec 11 Jun 90 S9.458($19.684) 5 4(12 3) 16(16)
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    • 799 24 Singapore Stocks Last Full Year Company Penod Date Year Net EPS Grots Net anmnced endkij (cents) <*v profit last year < J'000) Leon( Interim Mar 30 Dec 8S 5351(h) CMB Padujnf Interim Nov 13 Dec 90 29 7 132 11.616(e) Pdytek Interim Nov 15 War 91 98 30TE
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    • 800 24 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Company Conversion period Conversion term lor one ordinary share CK Wt Before ?6 4 93 1 warrant ptus $3 09 cash Causeway loan Causeway Wt 2 10 '89 to 20/10/94 1 warrant plus $1 cash or 1 warrant plus SI nominal amount of loan stock Chuan lip
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    • 842 24 Current Ex Books Date Total tar Total tar payment date ctase payable the year last year MS8 10% (b) Jan 4 Ian 18 Ian ?8 10% 12% AMP NYA Dec 14 Ian 3 Feb 15 NYA 28% Amal Steel 126%(b) Nov 29 Dec 13 Jan 21 126% 8%TE
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    • 143 24 Co—pany Date Year Group pre-tax Net earnings Gross ana to profit/loss (L) per share dividend (000) (cents) Avimo Dec 19 Sep 90 $2.745L(S11.287) —(14.7) 125TE(25TE) Aearnes Dec 19 Sep 90 $52.097($43.112) 128(24 9a) 16(14 4a) NST Dec 18 Aug 90 M$80.274($35.445) 67 2(21 8) 20(18) Asia Pacific Dec
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    • 241 24 Company Date Half-year Group pre-tax Interim ann to profit/lo*s (L) dividend COOO) Paslnd Hussain Dec 17 Nov 90 MS21,004(510.862) I Set Oredg Dec 17 Sep 90 MS2.547(S1.881) m Eng Dec 14 Sep 90 56.013(58.526) Choc Products Dec 10 Sep 90 M$1.801(S1.180) <-) QAF Ltd Dec 8 Sep 90
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    • 355 24 Company Rights Issue Alcorn One tor two Mil 00 per share Issue of *0m Cumutative Redeemable Preference Shares o* M$0 10 each at I MSI per share with 10m detachable TSR Bolton One tor-four <a M$2 00 per share I FAC8 Capital Reduction Scheme to reduce par value
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    • 147 24 RECORD HIGHS LOWS BT Composite Index ST Industrials Index 1990 h«h: 1435 43 (16/7/90) 1990 h«h: 1607 12 (27/3/90) 1990 low: 981 07 09/11/90) 1990 low: 1079.50 (11/10/90) 1989 htfv 1322 00 28/12/89) 1989 Nfh: 1487 76 26/12/89) 1989 low: 917 42 (4/1/89) 1989 low: 1030 69 (4/1/89) 1988 h«h:
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    • 399 24 Amtek Engineer** Ltd: 10th AGM EGM at the Meridien Room. Hotel Equatorial Pte Ltd. 429 Bukit Timah Road. Singapore 1025 on Friday. Dec 21, at 2.30pm. City Developments Ltd: EGM at 16 Raffles Quay #26-00, Hong Leong Building. Singapore 0104 on Friday. Dec 21, at 11.30 am. Material
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    • 266 24 Dec 19 Smgmarine Industries' subsidiary. Singmarine Dockyard Engineering, has clinched about $17m worth of ship-repair and shipbuilding contracts from owners in the Asia-Pacific region. Dec 18 The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange announced that trading will cease at 12.30pm and Its office close at Ipm on Christras Eve and
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 156 24 I THE GROWTH TRIANGLE A Special Business Times Survey February 26, 1991 The Growth Triangle began casually as an idea. Singapore. Batam. Johor. Singapore has a rich pool of managerial talent. Batam and Johor are rich in natural resources, land and labour. Combine the three and they make a triangle
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3987 25 Bernama SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market closed lower yesterday under selling pressure as investors reacted to the downturn on the Tokyo market and in other Far East bourses. However, selected issues linked to the key index managed to inch up from
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 1978 26 Reuter SHARE prices closed slightly lower yesterday as profit-taking followed the previous two days' gains, brokers said. "It was extremely quiet, and it's likely to stay that way until we get a breakthrough in the Gulf," said Andrew To, research director at Peregrine
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 164 26 m r !!|EHPP jpj \JUf ■L i of our ongoing efforts to give you the best, we've H* HI II opened a new office here in Singapore! Headquartered in the Shahzan Prudential Tower, we're one of Malaysia's most prominent conglomerates, Hill with diversified interests in manufacturing, property, Hill leisure and
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2228 27 Reuter TOKYO stocks closed down and near their lows in sluggish and featureless trading yesterday after two days of rises prompted investors to take profits. The dollar's advance against the yen, particularly in late afternoon, spurred further selling, brokers said. "The market is resting
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 381 27 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 PURSUANT TO SECTION 290<2)(b) AND IN THE MATTER OF < SINGMA NOMINEES PTE. LIMITED At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above named company duly convened and held at 6001 Beach Road. #12-01 12-11 Golden Mile Tower, Singapore 0719 on
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    • 349 27 NOTICK AURIC PTK I.TD (In Members' Voluntarily liquidation) At an Kxtraordlnary General Meeting of Auric Pte Ltd held on 21st December 1990, the following special resolutions were duly passed. 1. •'That the Company be wound up voluntarily and that Mr Tan Glm Soo of Messrs G. S. Tan Co., Certified
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    • 316 27 IN THE MATTER OF NEW ISLAMIC RESTAURANT PTE. LTD. (la Velutery Liquidation) MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 17 Phillip Street #05-02, Grand Building, Singapore 0104 on the 13th day of December 1990 the Special Resolutions
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    • 360 27 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF JACOBS YOUNG WESTBURY (SINGAPORE) PTE LTO (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act Cap 50, that a Final Meeting of the Members of
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    • 324 27 IN THE MATTER OK EXPORAMA PTE LTD (la WlilUry Liquidation) MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-IP At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the above-named Company duly convened and held at 17 Phillip Street »05-02. Grand Building. Singapore 0104 on the 15th day of December 1990 the Special Resolutions set out
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    • 313 27 IN THE MATTER OK I.EGION IMPEX PTE I.TD (la ValaaUry liquidation) MEMBERS' VOU'NTARY MINDING P At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the above-named Company duly convened and held at 17 Phillip Street *05-02. Grand Building. Singapore 0104 on the 15th day of December 1990 the Special Resolutions
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    • 321 27 IN THE M ATTER OK NORTON INVESTMENTS PTE LTD (la Yalaalary liquidation) MEMBERS' VOLINTARY WINDING-CP 1 At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the above-named Company duly convened and held at 24 Raffles Place *25-04. Clifford Centre. Singapore 0104 on the 15th day of December 1990 the Special
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    • 286 27 NOTICE MINIMAX PRI\ ATE I.IMITKO (la Member*' Voluntarily I lq u Id a lion Al an Extraordinary General Meeting of Mlnlmax Private Limited held on 21st Derem- her 1990. the following special j resolutions were duly passed 1. "That the Company be i wound up voluntarily and that Mr Tan
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    • 275 27 THINK! Before you make your move, read EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS Business Times NOTICE INDI SPAk SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD (la Members' Yaluataril) liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of Induspak Singapore (Pie) Ltd held on 21st December 1990. the following special resolutions were duly passed 1. "That the Company be wound up
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    • 379 27 METACO PTE LTD (In Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act. Cap 50, the Final Meeting of the members of the abovenamed company will be held at the Liquidators Office 2 Finlayson Green 009-12 Asia Insurance Building. Singapore 0104, on Friday 25
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Aussie stocks plunge to 33-month low
      • 346 28 AUSTRALIAN shares tumbled across the board yesterday, led by a dramatic slump in media group News Corp and sharp falls in bank stocks, to close at a 33-month low. Dealers said the industrial sector led the way down, with panic selling of News Corp sending the stock to a
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      • 619 28 THAI stocks closed lower in thin trade yesterday on concerns about the Gulf crisis and rising local interest rates, brokers said. The SET Index fell 6.90 points to 616.68 with a low turnover of 1.08 billion baht. Losers led winners five to one. Siam Cement fell 40 baht to
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      • 477 28 PHILIPPINE stocks, stirred by a new oil find off Palawan island, closed higher for the second day running yesterday, brokers said. Manila's composite index closed 10.14 points higher at 667.59. Analysts said confirmation that the West Linapacan wells were of commercial quantity, with estimated reserves of 100 million barrels,
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      • 327 28 TAIWAN stocks closed higher on thin turnover yesterday. Dealers said investors thought the market had reached bottom. The weighted index gained 101.81 points, or 2.7 per cent, to close at 3,928.90 compared with Wednesday's 3,827.09 finish. Turnover was NTS2B.S billion, the thinnest since November 3, against NTS3S.B billion on
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      • 347 28 THE New Zealand bourse ended little changed yesterday despite brokers' generally warm reception of the government's economic statement on Wednesday which slashed spending. "It's just a pity that the statement came just as we were staring down the barrel of Christmas," said Buttle Wilson's John Rowley. "The market
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      • 793 28 SEOUL stocks closed barely changed in moderate trade yesterday after intervention by the stock stabilisation fund in late trade pulled the index up from morning lows, brokers said. The composite stock index closed at 698.04, up 0.5 point from Wednesday's close. Turnover was a moderate 198.5 billion won compared
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      • 619 28 Reuter JAKARTA stock prices closed little changed yesterday, with the official index edging up 0.37 point to 398.24 and volume rising to 7.45 million shares from Wednesday's 6.48 million. Trading was very active on the big board, with Semen Cibinong dominating the market on turnover of 3.94 million shares.
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      • 1078 28 Close Previous Dec 20 SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index 1,276.6 1,284.0 -7 4 All Industrials Index 1,943.8 1,964.7 -20 9 All Resources Index 762.4 760.6 +1.8 Turnover (million) 117.24 84.14 +33.10 BANGKOK SET Index 616.68 623 58 -6.90 Turnover (million) 1,080.0 JAKARTA Composite Index 398.24 397.87 +0 37 MANILA Composite Index
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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        1102 29 WALL STREET'S celebration over a long-awaited cut in the discount rate proved short-lived as investors returned their focus to the anaemic economy and the prospects of weak corporate results. Shares ended narrowly mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow unchanged at 2,626.73, but the broad market was ahead four
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        811 29 U K SHARES were sharply lower at midday yesterday after the surprise resignation of Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze heightened concerns about the country's stability. Dealers said the resignation could further erode President Mikhail Gorbachev's already shaky hold on power. "It's very difficult to know what this means for
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      • 294 29 DUTCH shares traded lower on yesterday morning with the market unnerved by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation, dealers said. The CBS general tendency index was 1.3 points lower at 94.4 at 0955 GMT, having fallen from an opening of 95.4. "Shevardnadze's resignation is the only real news in
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      • 167 29 BELGIAN shares started mixed in moderate pre-Christmas trading yesterday, although the preferred stock of armsmaker FN rocketed, dealers said. Chemicals firm Solvay, fined by the European Community on Wednesday in an anti-trust case, slipped 75 francs to 10.400. FN stock collapsed after most of the company was taken over
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      • 320 29 GERMAN share prices opened 2.41 per cent lower following news that Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze had resigned. One trader said: "This is bad news for the markets. I can imagine prices will go down sharply on the news because it raises new doubts about developments in the Soviet
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      • 202 29 THE shock resignation of Mr Shevard- nadze propelled French share prices lower, but they quickly stabilised and then trimmed losses in nervous midsession trading. Dealers said the modest recovery of the franc against the mark helped check the fall, but they said the overall trend remained uncertain given extremely
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      • 102 29 PRICES on the Stockholm bourse fell sharply in thin early trade in reaction to Shevardnadze's resignation as the Soviet foreign minister, dealers said. "This was very negative news, and especially his comments (about possible future dictatorship)," one dealer said. By mid-morning, the general index had lost 1.25 per cent
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      • 223 29 TORONTO stocks followed the lead of gold shares and rallied in late trade as tax-loss selling pressure began to ease, dealers said. 'Usually markets are buoyant this time of year,' Don Vialoux, vice president of Richardson Green- shields of Canada Ltd said. Friday is the last day of trading
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      • 227 29 ITALIAN share prices opened sharply lower yesterday following news Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze had resigned. The MIB all-share index was two per cent lower at 1000 GMT with the underlying trend pointing to a loss of 2.7 per cent. "The news about Shevardnadze is a bomb. It could
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      • 260 29 Reuter SWISS shares opened quietly lower as overnight losses in Tokyo depressed sentiment. The SMI index of leading shares fdl 11 points to 1,375.7 in the first 15 minutes of trading. Traders said high interest rates and year-end selling also weighed on the market. Most banks opened slightly easier,
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      • 399 29 Dec 19 Close Previous NEW YORK Dow Jones 2.626.73 2,626 73 unch NYSF Financial 123.27 122.32 +0.95 S&P500 330 20 330.05 >0.15 Turnover (million) 180.4 176.5 +3.9 LONDON Financial Times 30 1.707.1 1.694.2 16.9 FTSE 100 2.178.7 2.161.8 12.9 Turnover (million) 509.3 575.3 -66.0 AMSTERDAM CBS Tcndencv Index 95.7 95
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    • 1234 30 REPORTS THE US DOLLAR rose sharply in Europe yesterday after Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said he was resigning and traders said the US dollar could quickly rally to 1.50 marks. The US dollar was 1.4836 marks by 0925 GMT yesterday. Dealers
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    • 392 30 Cross rates Dec 20 j USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.7275 2.7005 1.4775 134.00 0.5173 1.2675 1 2987 1.6949 SS 0.5789 1.5632 0.8553 0.7757 0.2995 0.7337 0.7518 0.9811 MS 0.3703 63.97 0.5471 0.4962 0.1916 0.4694 0.4809 0.6276 Dm 0.6768 1.1692 1.8277 90.69 0.3501
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    • 570 30 Reuter THE ONCE MIGHTY dollar skidded this year to its lowest levels ever against some major currencies, but it should soon hit bottom and begin to climb again next year, according to experts. The dollar, long sought around the world for its supposed
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    • 1168 30 SIMEX EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/Int Vol Mar 91 92.81 92.82 92.78 92.79 5600 ***** ***** Jun 91 92.87 92.87 92.85 92.85 1600 9676 7101 Sep 91 92.72 92.73 92.70 92.70 900 3380 1469 Dec 91 92.40 92.40 92.36 92.39 300 3439 292 Mar 92
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 414 31 Reuter ARABICA coffee futures are expected to climb as high as US$l.lO a lb next year as a potential drop in world production and expected depletion of abundant consumer stocks boosts prices, analysts said. Coffee for March delivery at the Coffee,
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    • 266 31 Reuter MITSUBISHI CORP and Mitsui and Co have each launched limited partnership commodity futures funds, spokesmen for the trading companies said. Mitsubishi's partnership will be funded at 7.5 billion yen and Mitsui's at five billion when fully subscribed. Each will invest about 60 per
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    • 839 31 REPORTS THE Kuala Lumpur Tin Market fell to its lowest in more than four years yesterday when the price of the metal hit M$ 15.01 per kg, and traders said the price level was expected to dip below Msls soon. The price
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  • 1398 31 Rubber Dec 20 I HAS (fc» hi totw) S cents/kg Noon Close Int 1 RSS Prompt 151.25/152 25N 151.25/152.25 Int I RSS Jan 91 150.50/151.00 150.50/151.OON Int I RSS Feb 151.50/152.00 I5I.50/I52.00N Int 2 RSS OP 148.00/150.00N 148.00/15O.00N Int 3 RSS OP I43.00/145.00N 143.00/ 145.00N Int 4 RSS OP
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  • 410 32  -  Yesterday In Parliament By Elaine Koh SQUATTER clearance, a project that has been ongoing for the past decade, will be made easier with more teeth given to the Building Control Act. Under the Building Control (Amendment) Act, passed in Parliament yesterday, the Building Control
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  • 323 32  -  By Harish Mehta THE US will begin its first military deployment in Singapore in March next year, raising the number of US naval and air force personnel assigned here to about 95 from the present 20-plus. The Senior Minister of State
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  • BRIEFS
    • 144 32 A BILL giving the Singapore Totalisator Board more flexibility to invest its surplus funds in stocks, funds and securities was passed yesterday. Explaining the rationale behind the Bill, Minister for Finance Dr Richard Hu said that under the existing provisions of the Singapore Totalisator Board
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    • 72 32 PtXWI Y-()f.SKiNH) one-r»*»m Housing and Development Riiard flats null he phased imt gradually, while two-room flats nVntifwd mention smill he refurbished. National Dcvelopmrm Mmtaer S Dhanahalan vatd that for a start. 716 units of rrniil tlji\ in three derminM ration precincts of the priftimmr he
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    • 147 32 THE Education Ministry is conducting a comprehensive study of the problems facing parents regarding their children's education when the parents have to live overseas. Education Minister Dr Tony Tan said his ministry would finalise its study and announce its proposed measures in the first quarter of next year.
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    • 60 32 THE Singapore General Hospital has a total of 156 Class C beds, the first 40 of which were opened in October with another 116 opened in December this year, said the Minister for State (Health) Dr Aline Wong in reply to a question on
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    • 56 32 HI I 1. was introduced amending the Parking Places Act to jlkm the Director-General of Public Works to take over from the I rhan Redevelopment Authority the function of regulating jnd control ling public and private parking places. The Hill *hn.h also enhances penalties, was introduced in Parliament
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  • 463 32  -  By Lilian Ang OIL COMPANIES in Singapore are locked in a neck and neck race to pave the way for the launch of unleaded petrol (ULP) at their service stations on Feb 1 next year. Caught slightly ofT-guard by the government's decision
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  • 366 32 AFP JAPAN is set to be a "mainstay" of growth in the industrial world over the next two years in spite of the rise in oil prices, according to the Parisbased Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). It set the expansion of
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  • 313 32 The Gulf Crisis Agencies US OFFICIALS have denied Washington had ever set Jan 15 as the day its forces would strike at Iraq if it failed to quit Kuwait, but warned President Saddam Hussein the mid-January deadline was in
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  • Shipping Times
    • 521 33  -  By Rahita Elias US-BASED Federal Express is boosting its South-east Asian operations with more flights to the region a brand new US$5OO,OOO facility at Changi Airport. To further expand its presence in Thailand, the company will also take over the operations of its general
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    • 323 33 AFP. Jakarata Post NATIONAL carrier Garuda Indonesia plans to open flights to China and expand its services to Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Australia, the official Antara news agency said yesterday. Garuda was now awaiting government approval to open twice-weekly flights from
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    • 286 33 BRITISH Airways (BA) is poised to launch the final phase of a cabin service upgrading programme next month to capture a bigger slice of the air travel pie. Kevin Steele, BA manager for South-east Asia, said yesterday that some £50 million
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    • 215 33 Reuter THE TANKER MARKET remained dominated by active fixtures from the Mideast Gulf to Western destinations as charterers tried to secure tonnage ahead of the Jan 15 deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait. Brokers said chartering activity was hectic and worldscale rates in the high 70s
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    • 205 33 Reuter AIR New Zealand Ltd has struck a commercial alliance i with Qantas Airways Ltd of i Australia to rationalise Pacif- I ic routes. 1 In April, Qantas will with- 1 draw its three times per week v Los Angeles-Auckland return service and buy
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    • 312 33  -  From Al O Labita IN MANILA HQ LINK Pte Ltd. a Singa-pore-based company, will launch in Manila early next year what it described as Asia's biggest telecommunications exhibition. Set for May 15-19, the exhibition, dubbed Telecomex Asia 91, will showcase the state-of-the-art
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    • NEWS SUMMARY
      • 78 33 MORE than any of its predecessors, the Boeing 777 will be shaped by consensus. In a fundamental shift in the way it brings out a new plane. Boeing Co asked eight airlines to help it draft a design, which will be made final early next
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      • 45 33 PANAM's directors met on Wednesday and discussed an offer by Carl C Icahn to take over the airline and merge it with TWA, but it could not be learned what action, if any, the board had taken. Back Page
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      • 44 33 EUROPEAN and Japanese automakers are moving to strengthen their ties to consolidate their competitiveness both in Japan and Europe, setting their eyes on Japan's growing imported car market, as well as the common market integration in 1992 Back Page
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      • 40 33 AN AMERICAN government and industry programme to give airliners more protection from sharp, abrupt wind shifts, one of aviation's most feared hazards, has received a potentially important boost by the Federal Aviation Administration Back Page
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    • 272 33 THE THAI Harbour Department will collect a pilotage fee from ships calling at Koh Si Chang and Mab Ta Pud ports. Suwat Liptapanlop, Thai Deputy Transport Minister, said the traffic at Koh Si Chang is now very heavy and may lead to
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 144 34 lOREIGN SHIP ORDERS received by Japanese yards in November fell sharply as a wait-and-see attitude emerged due to instability in the Mideast Gulf, the yen's rise against the dollar and uncertainty over the global economy, the Japan Ship Exporters' Association (JSEA) said. November orders
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      • 62 34 SALES of imported cars in Japan are expected to rise by 1 3.3 per cent in calendar 1991 to 255,000 from an estimated 225,000 in 1990, the Japan Automobile Importers Association said in a statement. This would represent 5.82 per cent of total projected
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      • 89 34 IOYOTA MOTOR CORP said it will set up a domestic joint venture with Yokogawa Electric Corp to develop, produce and market specialised measuring equipment and measurement control systems for testing and evaluating new vehicles. The new company, named Toyota MACS Inc, capitalised at 100
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      • 48 34 MITSUI Engineering Shipbuilding Co Ltd will give a Polish state-owned chemical equipment maker free technical assistance, a Mitsui spokesman said. Mitsui will send two employees to Polish firm Metalchm Chemical Apparatus Works to provide know-how on quality, production and price management, he said.
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      • 58 34 STATE-OWNED Telecom Australia has won the bid to build, maintain and support a As97o million defence radar system, the government announced. Telecom would be the prime contractor and its main partners would be GECMarconi, a unit of Britain's General Electric Co, and Lockheed Corp's Lockheed Missiles
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      • 70 34 OCEANEERING International Inc's Oceaneering International Services Ltd said Amoco Corp's Amoco-Gabon Gombe Marin Company awarded it a contract to provide a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) system to be installed in the Gomba-Beta field offshore Gabon. Oceaneering International said the US$25 million it was spending
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    • 1210 34  -  Eric Weiner reports on Boeing's 777, which represents a fundamental shift in the way the company is bringing out a new plane Eric Weiner NYT MORE than any of its predecessors, the Boeing 777 will be shaped by consensus. In a fundamental shift in
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    • 12426 42 I his is a list of ships loading A 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
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 671 49 VcssH Voy N» Berth Arnva/ Departue Kappel Wharves Andaman Pees 12/90 (P) K29 alongside 20 12/1400 Kota Bertan 48/90 K32 alongsde 21 12/0500 Mudanshan 10 K31 alongside 2212/2300 Seta Mafcuya 7 K30 alongside 21 12/0600 Trans Star 023B C09 alongside 20.12/2300 Andaman Pees 13/90 (P) C09 21
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      • 1173 49 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookint/Baiance Rstts Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From < M Miraab 52 23/1200 3 21/0700 21/1159 21/1400 4 21/1200 21/1459 21/1700 fceor *****N 22/0100 1 20/1500 20/1659 20/1900 2 20/1700 21/0659 21/0900 B 5efoa 720N 22/0700 1 20/1500
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      • 348 49 Port Klang Berth at South Port on Dec 19: 1: Bim Ik; 2: K Pirosmansh vili; 3: Altoth SS; 4: Berjasa: 5: ml; 6: Tay Do; 7 Swee Long Satu; 7A: Hong Soon N. KCT: 8: Aka Bhum, 9: Swadaya, Kota Bahagia; 10 Ever Grace. North Port
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    • 813 49 CHARTERING on the freight market on Wednesday was quiet and rates held steady, brokers said. Sufficient prompt tonnage will be available to meet any Soviet requirements for recent and upcoming grain purchases, they said. The market expected substantial new grain deals from all major grain buyers for the
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    • 543 50 NYT PANAM's directors met on Wednesday and discussed an offer by Carl C Icahn to take over the airline and merge it with TWA, but it could not be learned what action, if any, the board had taken. The meeting
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    • 381 50 NYT AN AMERICAN government and industry programme to give airliners more protection from sharp, ibrupt wind shifts, one of aviation's most feared hazards, has received a potentially important boost by the ederal Aviation Administra>on. The agency has issued a decree aimed at
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    • 441 50 UPI EUROPEAN and Japanese automakers are moving to strengthen their ties to consolidate their competitiveness both in Japan and Europe, setting their eyes on Japan's growing imported car market and the common market integration scheduled for 1992. German carmaker Mer-cedes-Benz AG and Mitsubishi Motors
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    • 125 50 UPI A US federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday allowed Continental Airlines to finalise the sale of its Seattle/Ta-coma-Tokyo route to American Airlines. The Houston-based Continental, which filed for Chapter 11 protection on Dec 3, said the route transfer has gained approval from the De-
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    • 156 34 BT SURVEYS Looking Wider, Thinking Deeper Some subjects are of such interest to our readers that they demand more space and more research than can be given in our daily reporting. As part of BT's overall service we have always recognised this and taken the necessary steps. Filling the gap
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    • 1497 41 assagpff PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD /y gj Jfcf pit Building, 140 Cecil Street ttXHX). Singapore 0106. I JAKARTA I I BANGKOK 1 VESSEL VOV SIN JUT SIN VESSEL VOV SIN BKK SIN GOWA 71S8 24/12 26/12 PEGASUS PIONEER 112N 22/12 2S/12 29/12 EDEN 9044 26/12 2»/12 2/1 SEA GLORY
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    • 821 44 N INTEGRATED CONTAINER SERVICE FROM FAR EAST TO NORTH CONTINENT OUTBOUND SIN FLX BRV ROM ANT HBC BIUMIN S£N Wf 102 In Pt 13/1 14/1 14/1 17/1 CARMEN CARINA WMIU 25/12 1%1 17/1 20/1 IS/1 16/1 ARABIAN SEN *flo 3 27/12 11/1 20/1 22/1 23/1 THUERINCEN WMIO3 2/1 30/1 2*l
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