The Business Times, 13 September 1991

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  • 9 1 BusinessTimes VfCI (P) 16/12/90 Friday, September 13, 1991 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 68 1 WASHINGTON US wholesale prices posted a modest 0.2 per cent increase in August as the third straight decline in food prices helped to offset the biggest jump in energy costs in 10 months, the government said yesterday. The August increase in the
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    • 65 1 LONDON Recession drove British unemployment up in August for the 17th straight month, according to official figures yesterday which threatened to embarrass the Conservative government in the runup to a general election. The Department of Employment said unemployment rose in August by a provisional,
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    • 33 1 A COMPREHENSIVE plan to shape Singapore's economic development in the 1990s and beyond will be discussed at the National Business Forum to be held on Oct 14 Page 2
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    • 33 1 THE Singapore economy is expected to grow at a slower annual rate of 6.5 per cent for the second half of the year, says the Overseas Union Bank. Page 2
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    • 18 1 POLITICAL and Economic Risk Consultancy has raised the overall risk rating of Indonesia Page 7
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    • 27 1 MALAYSIA is sending a trade mission to Latin America in a bid to increase palm oil sales in Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil Page 7
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    • 21 1 SOVIET and Russian leaders seem ready to promise almost anything in return for Western economic aid Page 8
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    • 27 1 THE SCENE of a tuna auction is a far cry from that of a carpeted room crowded by genteel spectators at Christie's Page 17
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    • 32 1 MIDDLE Eastern carrier Gulf Air, which resumed flying to Singapore in April, has plans to expand its network to include Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 54 1 WALL STREET advanced in early trading yesterday, encouraged by favourable inflation news and falling interest rates. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials climbed 10 points in the first half-hour of trading but then lost some ground to show only a 3.8point gain at 2.990.83 by 1430 GMT,
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    • 41 1 LONDON shares were higher at midday yesterday, helped by some strong gains in certain blue chip stocks and some bargain hunting. At about 1115 GMT, the FTSE lOp-Share Index was up 17.2 points, or 0.7 per cent at 2,643.8.
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    • 30 1 UNITED Industrial Corporation is believed to be finally selling its excess 45 million shares in Sing Land, through a placement yesterday at $5.20 each Page 3
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    • 22 1 SINGAPORE Land's latest half-year results show it is well on the way to becoming a profitable company. Page 3
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    • 30 1 SOUTH KOREA has announced new draft banking rules to allow commercial banks to increase investment in equity-linked securities and provide more equality for foreign banks Page 6
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    • 22 1 Exchange rates USS SS 1.7000 100 Yen SS 1.2639 MS SS 0.6165 Money market rates Overnight 5 -1/4 3-month 5% +1/8
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    • 36 1 London Gold AM fix USS345.45 USS-2.05 Rubber S'pore Oct.... 136.75'/kg -0.50 M'sia Oct 224.50*/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 80 tonnes -9 Spot MSl5.il/kg -0.02 Crude palm oil Turnover 1,695 lots +482 Sep MS809 /tonne +6
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      29 1 Thursday Change BT-MGA 693.51 +1.62 Kuala Lumpur ....549.41 +0.63 Tokyo 22,530.20 +25.41 Hongkong 3,970.10 3.17 Sydney 1567.4 +7.1 Wednesday Change New York 2987.03 +4.47 London 2626.6 -4.2
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  • 458 1  -  Blueprint for the 21st Century By Elaine Koh SINGAPORE Nearly a third of Singapore's future four million people will be living in private apartments, townhouses, terraces and bungalows, with the percentage of high-rise HDB dwellers dropping from 83 per cent to
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  • 701 1  -  Move follows approval for MUI subsidiary to bid for Inter-Pac From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN tycoons Tan Sri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun and Tan Sri Khoo Kay Peng raised the stakes in their fierce battle yesterday, setting the stage for
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  • 322 1 Reuter HONGKONG Land will be sold to meet a sudden rise in demand and this will hopefully deflate the overheated Hongkong property market. In a speech yesterday, the government's director of buildings and lands, Robert Pope, said: "In order to meet
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  • 83 1 THERE'S more to the similarity between Singapore and Penang than meets the eye. Besides being former British settlements, they share a business philosophy when it comes to winning friends and influencing investors. And like Singapore, Penang is revelling in the new mood of economic pragmatism
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  • 161 1 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia has approved the injection of 150 billion rupiah (S$ 129 million) into ailing state tin firm PT Tambang Timah. ''This will help our restructuring programme and also help us survive amid low tin prices in the world," the company's finance
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 113 2 PAY HIKES, averaging 7.6 per cent this year, will be slightly smaller in 1992, according to a survey by Remuneration Data Specialists. Variable bonus, too, is projected to be just lower than the 1.8 months average in 1991. The 1992 forecast shows the
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      • 66 2 THE HONGKONGBANK group in Singapore yesterday launched a Care-for-nature Trust Fund which will be involved in environment conservation projects in the Asean region. Starting with an initial donation of $100,000 from Hongkongßank, the trust fund aims to generate an awareness in nature conservation. It will
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      • 80 2 ABOUT 5,600 telephone subscribers in the area bounded by Tampines Road, Tampines Expressway and Pasir Ris New Town will have their phone numbers changed from Monday. Subscribers whose numbers begin with 542, 543 and 545 will have them changed to 582. The last four
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      • 59 2 WITH THE opening of the Central Expressway tunnels on Sep 21, three more daily area licence sale booths will be opened. From Monday, motorists will be able to buy daily area licences at Ang Mo Kio Ave 6 near Blk 728, Yishun Ring Road near
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    • 328 2  -  By Lilian Ang A COMPREHENSIVE plan to shape Singapore's economic development in the 1990s and beyond will be discussed at a one-day forum to be held next month. The National Business Forum (NBF) on Oct 14, will be the third national platform for
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    • 270 2 1 Hfc ECONOMY is likely to grow at a slower annual rate of 6.5 per cent for the second half of the year the Singapore dollar maintains its strength and foreign demand continues to moderate, says the Overseas Union Bank in its latest
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    • 480 2  -  Blueprint for the 21st Century By Colin Tan COMPLAINTS that there is nothing to do after work may become a thing of the past if plans go ahead to turn Singapore into a huge tropical playground, with more beaches,
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • 334 3  -  45m Sing Land shares to go at $5.20 each By Elaine Koh SINGAPORE United Industrial Corp is understood to be finally selling its excess 45 million shares in SingLand, through a placement yesterday at $5.20 each. At UlC's average cost of $7.25 per Sing
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    • 575 3  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Singapore Land's latest half-year results prove that it is well on the way to becoming a profitable but unexciting company offering steady income but few surprises to shareholders. The results also indicate another thing: that the priority of Sing Land
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    • 263 3  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Surrounded by his children, grandchildren and staff, the grand old man of department-store retailing, Tang Choon Keng, celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday at the store he founded almost 60 years ago. C K Tang, as he is popu- larly known,
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    • 581 3  -  MARKET TALK By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE All eyes will be on Singapore Petroleum Co (SPC) today. The homegrown oil company, floated nearly a year ago, is expected to release its interim results today. The question uppermost on the minds of
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 65 3 KUALA LUMPUR Kiara Development Sdn Bhd, a member of the Singapore-based Land Resource Group, is spending Ms 92 million to buy land and to build a luxury condominium project here. Land Resource Group chairman Ravindran Govindan said the Bayu Angkasa condominiums, located on
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      • 64 3 SINGAPORE Lum Chang Holdings and Eu Yan Sang Holdings (EYS) yesterday issued a joint statement to say that the funding of its leisure project in Bukit Kiara, Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, inclusive of the payment of land lease and development, and costing *****.5 million, will be borne equally by
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      • 25 3 SINGAPORE Guthrie GTS Ltd yesterday announced that Lee Onn Pong had resigned as a director of the company from Sep 8.
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      • 49 3 Acma Ltd clarified yesterday that it had signed an underwriting agreement with Ong Co and Overseas Union Bank relating to 14.7 million shares in Gold Coin. It had inadvertently stated one of the two parties as OUB Securities instead of OUB in its announcement on Wednesday.
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      • 64 3 Corrections clarifications In the report "RMCA Re calls off proposed rights issue", published in BT yesterday, we said that US insurer Cigna pulled out of the (reinsurance) market at the end of last year. This is incorrect. The company only decided to discontinue the underwriting of reinsurance in the London
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    • 277 3  -  By Colin Tan SINGAPORE Diversified group Bonvests Holdings has turned in a dismal performance for the first half of the year ended June 30, dragged down by poor retail business conditions. The group, which has interests in the property, trading and
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 80 4 TOKYO Japanese property firm Daiichi Real Estate Co Ltd plans to sell 120 billion yen (551.52 billion) worth of properties in Japan and abroad, including the Tiffany Building in midtown Manhattan, according to a report in the Japanese financial daily Nihon Keizai
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      • 70 4 VEVEY, Switzerland Swiss international food group Nestle SA said it expected consolidated net profit for 1991 to rise above 1990's 2.27 billion Swiss francs (552.6 billion), on favourable currency developments. The company earlier announced a 3.5 per cent rise in half-year consolidated net profit
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      • 99 4 TOKYO Japanese companies are trimming planned increases in plant and equipment investment to seven per cent in the fiscal year ending next March, a leading financial daily reported on Thursday. The seven per cent growth in capital spending in the latest survey, conducted on Aug
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      • 62 4 LONDON British confectionery and soft drinks group Cadbury Schweppes pic is benefiting from warmer weather throughout Western Europe in the second half of 1991, but the company sees no sign of an end to recession. Earlier, Cadbury Schweppes announced a rise in first half pre-tax profits
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      • 99 4 Proctor Gamble to sue AUCKLAND US cosmetic manufacter Proctor and Gamble on Wednesday threatened legal action against people it says are responsible for a smear campaign against one of its products. The firm estimated the rumours had cost about NZ$l.2 million (S$ 1.2 million) in lost sales. The warning came
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    • 215 4 Reuter HONGKONG Mandarin Oriental International Ltd profits, hit by the Gulf War and a world economic downturn in the first half of this year, will improve in the second half, chairman Simon Keswick said in a statement yesterday. But profit will slip below the
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    • 375 4 Asl94m in question was part of As34om loan by syndicate of three banks Reuter SYDNEY Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation chairman William Purves denied on Wednesday that he had assured Alan Bond that the Australian tycoon's personal guarantee on Asl94 million
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    • 374 4  -  From Florence Chong in MELBOURNE LEADING Japanese retail chain Daimaru opens one of its biggest stores outside its home country today. But the store in the Australian city of Melbourne, Victoria faces a difficult start. It opens with Australia and particularly Victoria in the
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    • 375 4 AFP LONDON Recession, the Gulf War and reduced military- spending slashed profit at British aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce by 90 per cent in the first half of the year, the company announced yesterday. Pre-tax profit for the six months to June slumped
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    • 379 4 HONGKONG German heavy construction group Bilfinger und Berger has acquired 50.15 per cent of Hongkong-listed Beazer Asia from Britain's Beazer pic for HK5466.71 million (S$ 102.5 million) and announced an unconditional cash offer of HK$9 a share for the remaining stake, said
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    • 326 4 NEW YORK IBM took a significant step on Wednesday towards opening its product line so that it could work more closely with its competitors, announcing seven new mainframes and more than 100 hardware add-ons and software programs. The company also said that the powerful watercooled
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    • 356 4 AFP MANILA A special presidential agency said on Wednesday that it had filed a new petition with the Supreme Court to keep Eduardo Cojuangco, a key ally of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, from regaining his seats on the board
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    • 443 4 Reuter LONDON Maxwell Communication Corp pic is negotiating to sell seven or eight businesses which will allow it to pay off US$75O million (S$ 1.29 billion) in debt early, chairman Robert Maxwell said on Wednesday. He told journalists after the company's
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALLCHANGE
      • 100 6 HONGKONG The Hongkong Bank of Canada (HKBC) reported on Wednesday a consolidated net income of C 537.8 million (5556.5 million) for the nine months ending July. The group said the figure compared with C 534.7 million for the same period in 1990.
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      • 83 6 TOKYO Japanese bank lending volume grew by 5.5 per cent in August from a year earlier in the smallest such rise on record, the Bank of Japan said on Wednesday. Lending volume by Japanese banks grew by 6 per cent in July from the same
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      • 93 6 STOCKHOLM The board of Swedish bank Ostgota Enskilda Bank said losses on loans to clients may amount to 400 million to 500 million crowns (Ssl 1,075-$ 13,844 million) for 1991 and 1992 and that it would make large loss reservations in this year's annual report.
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    • 578 6 Reuter SEOUL South Korea has announced new draft banking regulations that will permit commercial banks to expand investment in equitylinked securities and provide more equality for foreign banks here. "Excessive controls in banking management risk depressing financial effectiveness as the economy grows bigger and
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    • 295 6 AFP SYDNEY The listing of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia the government's first major privatisation was a success for initial investors yesterday as the shares closed almost 20 per cent higher than their issue price. Brokers said shares in the
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    • 212 6 Reuter LONDON British banks saw a sharp decline in overseas business in the second quarter of 1991, in line with a general downturn in international banking activity, according to the Bank of England. Figures released by the central bank showed UK banks' total external
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    • 235 6 UPI TOKYO The World Bank plans to exclude the world's largest brokerage firm from an underwriting syndicate of dollar-based bonds it is issuing in major markets this month, press reports said yesterday. The Kyodo News Service cited an international financial source
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    • 430 6 Reuter LONDON Prudential Corp pic, Britain's largest insurer, expects trading conditions in the United Kingdom to continue to be difficult in the short term. Earlier, it had announced a 41 per cent rise in first half pre-tax profit to £170 million (SSSOO
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  • THE REGION
    • 669 7  -  Risk rating goes up as government changes priority By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Electricity shortages, devaluation fears, credit shortages and emerging opportunities offered by the North America Free Trade Agreement have taken the gloss off doing business in Indonesia, says the Political and
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    • 518 7 Philippine President Corazon Aquino faces weakening political power as the likelihood of a US military pull-out increases Reuter MANILA Like an ageing conjurer whose mastery is fading, Philippine President Corazon Aquino invoked her old powers, but found the magio
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    • 360 7 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia is a safe Asian haven for American investors and a better proposition than Eastern Europe, the head of the US Government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Opic) said on Wednesday. "In none of the 120 countries which we (Opic) visited have I
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 103 7 BANGKOK The Thai Cabinet has rejected a proposal from the Industj7 Ministry to liberalise the country's sugar industry by issuing new licences for sugar mills, the Nation newspaper reported on Wednesday. The government said it is hoped that the ruling would also
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      • 76 7 BANGKOK The World Bank has delayed its decision on a US$54 million (Ss92 million) loan for a controversial hydroelectric dam in eastern Thailand, a bank official said on Wednesday. The official, Philippe Annez, said the delay was "purely an internal matter" and had nothing to do
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      • 64 7 HANOI Vietnamese industrial production, which slumped during the early months of the year, reported a 2 per cent increase in August over the previous month, the Nhan Dan newspaper said on Wednesday. Estimated to be worth 1.27 billion dong (about SSI94 million), the industrial production
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      • 65 7 MANILA France has agreed to reschedule 220.7 million francs (Ss6s million) of Philippine debts and provide a soft loan of nine million francs, Central Bank documents released here on Wednesday said. Under the agreement, the portion of the foreign debt provided under official development assistance (ODA) loans
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    • 328 7 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is bidding for a niche in the Central and South American oils and fats market with the dispatch of a trade mission to increase palm oil sales in Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil. Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik,
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • 812 8 Crisis in the Soviet Union NYT MOSCOW By offering to remove all Soviet troops from Cuba and hinting that four Kurile islands might after all be returned to Japan, Soviet and Russian leaders have, in effect, abandoned pride and begun begging for Western
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    • 395 8 Reuter FRANKFURT Fears of a Soviet liquidity crisis still persist in Germany in spite of reassurances from Moscow that the Soviet Union's foreign debt will continue to be centrally managed by the State Bank and the Foreign Trade Bank. Bankers have
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    • 322 8 NYT WASHINGTON US administration officials on Wednesday presented to Congress an agreement offering more favourable trade terms with the Soviet Union, but they said the pact did not include the newly independent Baltic countries and would have little effect on American trade.
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    • 429 8 Reuter MOSCOW Leading Soviet economists have warned that the country would plunge into deeper crisis if the republics failed to sign an economic agreement, and the giant Russian Federation would go it alone. Grigory Yavlinsky, chief architect of the Soviet Union's
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    • 240 8 Reuter HOUSTON The Soviet Union's Ministry of Oil and Gas has been dismantled and replaced by similar agencies in the now largely autonomous republics, a Soviet expert said. "The USSR Ministry of Oil and Gas does not exist any longer," said Hans
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    • 415 9 Report forecasts 2.9 pc economic expansion next year AFP WASHINGTON Experts at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are reportedly projecting a marked resurgence of economic growth next year as well as an easing of inflation. The forecasts are contained in a report on
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    • 198 9 AP SEOUL Communist North Korea, in an apparent policy shift, is placing large orders for South Korean goods, including colour television sets and daily necessities. South Korea's Trade and Industry Ministry officials said on Wednesday that the orders under negotiation totalled
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    • 276 9 FT WARSAW Former Comecon members are seeking ways of spending the rouble surplus accounts bequeathed them after last January, when the entire region switched to hard-currency payments in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet-led economic bloc. The quest is leading
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 119 9 PARIS French President Francois Mitterrand has authorised the government to partially privatise some statecontrolled firms. "I have authorised the government to allow private capital to help finance some of these state firms," he said on Wednesday, adding that the government was authorised to sell some assets
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      • 50 9 LONDON Britain's quarterly trade gap declined to the lowest in four years in the April-June period this year. Official figures released on Wednesday showed the current account deficit for the second quarter was £762 million (552.2 billion), down from £2.6 billion in the previous quar-
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      • 72 9 SEOUL South Korea will reduce crude oil imports by 10 million barrels this year in an attempt to cap a rising trade deficit. A Ministry of Energy and Resources official said on Wednesday: We will release 10 million barrels from our (government) stockpile to cover
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      • 73 9 VIENNA Austria's industries are looking further beyond the country s borders in a bid to expand their business interests. A survey of 192 companies conducted by the Federation of Austrian Industry showed that 87 per cent of the enterprises already have foreign interests. Nevertheless, 62 per
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    • 244 9 AP WASHINGTON Pledges of US$6.l billion in aid (5510.4 billion) will be sought this year for India, according to Attila Karaosmanoglu, vice-president for Asia of the World Bank. In addition, India is expected to be able to borrow about US$2 billion from the
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  • 471 10 EDITORIAL DEEDS speak louder than words. The French intransigence over not allowing the former East Bloc countries Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia to export goods to the Community only goes to show that countries needing aid will find words of comfort and little else. France was once a pioneer
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 313 10 AS BEFITS a nation which has always considered itself great, France thinks big. Virtually alone among the G-7 group of rich nations, it still advocates another Marshall Plan to help reconstruct the broken-down Soviet economy. Speaking during a visit to Moscow on Sunday, Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy
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    • 73 10 SHOULD Filipinos do away with the US base in their country? For President Corazon Aquino, the choice is clear keep the base. But to a mojority of the country's senators, the national pride is at stake. But without external financial assistance which includes income from Subic Bay,
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    • 91 10 WITH renewed calls for the independence of Taiwan, the Taipei authorities have once again cited the mainland threat to use force as a deterrent. Should the opposition Democratic Progressive Party take over political power and declare openly the establishment of the "Republic of Taiwan", or should new
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 142 10 FURTHER liberalisation of Malaysia's financial system comes into effect next month. Among the motives behind the measures is to further level the playing field. Of course, the merchant banks, commercial banks, finance companies and discount houses cannot all be at the exact same level in view of
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    • 187 10 WHILE both President George Bush and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir deny a linkage between the Israeli request for USSIO billion American aid in loan guarantees to finance the absorption of one million Soviet Jews and a Middle East peace conference, the rest of the world knows
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    • 172 10 THE inevitable fact remains that Croatia cannot leave the Yugoslav federation without a war and the hatred and distrust is such that the protection of ethnic minorities cannot be resolved by treaties. But the European Community-sponsored peace conference itself offers a starting point. Working committees will
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  • 1544 10  -  On Sunday, Hongkong goes to the polls for the first time. But just what are the people of the British colony voting for? Catherine Ong, BT's Hongkong Correspondent, reports Catherine Ong WHAT exactly are Hongkong people voting for in the terri-tory-wide election of legislators
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  • 622 10 WHEN Executive Councillor Maria Tain failed to show up for a recent panel debate on the Hongkong election at the Foreign Correspondents' Club, lawyer Martin Lee, her main rival in politics, quipped: "Another no-show from the LDF!" Mr Lee's jibe may be extended to a larger context
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1001 11  -  Penang Chief Minister Koh Tsu Koon, now in Singapore at the invitation of the Singapore Manufacturers' Association, has big plans for his state. BT's Economics Correspondent Kenneth James visited Penang recently and spoke to Dr Koh, state officials and industrialists who are breathing life into
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    • 360 11 SOME 13'/2 kilometres of spectacular bridge links Penang island to the state's mainland province, Seberang Prai. Well before reaching the mainland end, the tops of factories in the Prai Industrial Estate intrude into the skyline. And about a kilometre further, just off the
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    • 362 11 LARGE investors like Conner may be the current darlings of the state's industrial planners, but homegrown support companies like Eng Hardware Engineering are surely the children that do them proud. From a MSSOO (SS3IO) startup company 16 years ago, Eng has blossomed into a
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    • 1446 12  -  In 1989, Poland was the first country in Eastern Europe with a non-communist government, and later it embarked on an ambitious and radical programme of economic reform. Yet today, there is a crisis of legitimacy and Poland seems to have lost its way. Judy Dempsey reports
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    • 438 14 AP LONDON Jeff Harding wanted his title back and expected a battle. He got both. The Australian survived a brutal, 12-round fight with defending champion Dennis Andries of Britain to recapture the World Boxing Council light-heavyweight title on Wednesday night. Harding won by
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    • 335 14 AP INDIANAPOLIS The Soviet Union, still the state-of-the-art team in international gymnastics competition, captured its 11 th gold medal in 14 World Championships on Wednesday night. American Kim Zmeskal scored a perfect 10 on the vault to give the US women's gymnastics team
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    • 430 14 Reuter LONDON Former world champion Nelson Piquet joined Riccardo Patrese in Grand Prix racing's "200 Club" last weekend in Italy, but also found himself at the crossroads of his career. The 39-year-old veteran, upstaged at Monza by German newcomer Michael Schumacher, is unlikely to
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    • 186 14 AP INDIANAPOLIS Boxer Mike Tyson protested that "I didn't hurt no one" after he was booked and fingerprinted and a judge had set a date for his trial on a charge that he raped a teenage beauty contestant. The former heavyweight champion said on Wednesday
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      • 91 14 COQUITLAM, British Colombia Cathy Johnston is very confident for someone who has not won on the LPGA Tour this year or even come close. Johnston is the defending champion of the du Maurier Classic that began yesterday at the Vancouver Golf Club. Johnston's best finish this year is
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      • 65 14 INDIANAPOLIS American gymnast Lance Ringnald, the 1988 Olympian and anchorman on this year's US men's team, will be sidelined for up to six months while he recovers a partial tear of a chest muscle. Ringnald sustained the injury when he dislocated his right shoulder while performing
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      • 79 14 NEW YORK Heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield said Mike Tyson's indictment for rape will encourage fans to cheer him on to beat Tyson in their Nov 8 title fight. Still, Holyfield said, Tyson's problems should not affect the fight. "It's not personal." he said. "We're not talking personal lives.
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      • 89 14 BRASILIA Top seed Karel Novacek of Czechoslovakia and second seed Emilio Sanchez of Spain were both eliminated by unsung opponents in the second round of the Brasilia Open tennis tournament on Wednesday. Novacek, 10th in the ATP rankings, was humbled by 205th-ranked Australian Sandon Stolle in straight
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    • 680 17  -  Sarah Lyall sees how tuna turns on some shirtless men with big stomachs at an auction along the docks of Montauk, New York Sarah Lyall NYT HOURS earlier, it had been just another fish in the sea, a 716-pound tuna gamboling obliviously (as much as
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    • 448 17  -  Dan Biers reports on a Japanese technique to soothe nerves Dan Biers AP ONCE a week, Kuniyoshi Sato stops by the Brain Mind Gym in Tokyo for what amounts to a high-tech mental massage. It is designed to help him do what
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    • 461 17 CHATTERBOX JOAN COLLINS is suing The Globe tabloid for US$2O million, claiming the weekly invaded her privacy by publishing photographs of her dressing at her home in France. The Superior Court lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday concerns the weekly's Aug 20 issue,
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    • 209 17 Reuter CANADA is wasting a chance to preserve its wilderness even though it is one of the most biologically diverse countries, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said in Vancouver on Wednesday. Monte Hummel, the environmental group's Canadian president, said only 3.4
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    • 4857 18  -  By Sylvia Wong APART from two fresh pieces of corporate news, it was another quiet day's trade at the local stock market yesterday. The feud between Malaysia's Tan Sri Vincent Tan and Tan Sri Khoo Kay Peng took the spotlight again when Mr
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    • 190 20 Coaipaay Oat* Year Croup Net Net Minings Cross nn to profit/loss (L) per share dividend COOO) (coats) Eng Sep 11 Mar 91 $9,063($13,457) 4.1(6.1) 6(5) >ohan Hldgs Sep 5 Jan 91 M$9.949l($791L) The H Glass Sep 6 Mar 91 $5,848 ($7,379) 9 75(12 3) 5(5) Gp B Sep
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    • 240 20 Company Data Year Group pre-tax Not earnings Gross ann to proAt/toss (L) per siiare dividend ('000) (cents) Pegi Msia Sep 9 Mar 91 M$4,915($3,560) Cons Plant Sep 7 Jun 91 M$80,200($88,700) 5.4(6.3) 16(184) DMIB Bhd Sep 7 lun 91 MJ39.400($39,500) 8.4(7.8) 20(20) Sea Vie* Sep 7 jun 91
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    • 393 20 Sep 11 Acma Ltd signed an underwriting agreement with two securities Ong Company and OUB Securities which have agreed to buy or procure buyers for the shares, comprising 14.7 m shares or 37.2% of Gold Coin's issued capital, at $3 24 apiece Niter-Pacific Industrial Group Bhd and its
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 4232 21 Bernama SHARE PRICES yesterday ended mixed due to a mild technical correction after three days of consecutive losses with light bargainhunting and better overseas bourses aiding sentiment. In light trading, the KLSE Composite Index edged up 0.63 of a point to 549.41 while
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2177 22 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS ended little changed yesterday. Programme-selling linked to futures and options capped the market, but bargain-hunting sparked by strong bond prices kept stocks trending upward. Brokers said sentiment was fairly optimistic on the market's prospects after today's futures settlement. "General sentiment
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    • 1809 22 AP SHARE PRICES on the Hongkong Stock Exchange closed mixed for the second day yesterday in light trading. The Hang Seng Index, the market's key indicator of blue chips, gained 3.17 points, closing at 3,970.10. Turnover totalled HKS9BO million, little changed from Wednesday's
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Bank flotation lifts Australian stocks
      • 739 23 AUSTRALIAN shares yesterday rose sharply off the back of the A 51.34 billion Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) float, sparking a return to bullish trade. It was the busiest trading day since the 1987 share market crash, the Australian Stock Exchange said. CBA closed at A 56.46, A$ 1.06
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      • 390 23 NEW ZEALAND shares, led by a 10cent fall in Fletcher Challenge, yesterday ended lower after a mixed and confusing day's trade. FCL, New Zealand's biggest industrial, ended at NZ53.52 but fellow forester Carter Holt Harvey was two cents higher at NZ$ 1.66. The NZSE-40 Capital Index was 7.86
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      • 697 23 THAI STOCK prices ended mixed in thin trade with the index finishing almost unchanged. The SET Index closed 0.04 point lower at 722.55 on turnover of 2.44 billion baht. Brokers said the index fell below 720 but bounced back to close higher, indicating that investors saw the 720 level
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      • 690 23 JAKARTA share prices barely changed in fairly active trading on Wednesday, with the official index closing 0.11 points down at 297.07. Brokers said speculation put most prices under pressure. Jakarta Sep 12 Rupiah VoKXM) Abda 2000 200 50 Ahap Insurance 4300 unch Alumindo Perkasa U 3600 unch Aqua Golden
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      • 585 23 PHILIPPINE shares yesterday bounced back to close slightly firmer after market sentiment took a roller-coaster ride ahead of a formal Senate vote on the fate of a proposed US military bases pact. Manila's Composite Index closed 6.74 points up at 902.02. Brokers said trading reflected fickle market perceptions on
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      • 783 23 WORRIES over rumours of defaults by some small companies and general liquidity concerns pulled down Seoul stocks in slow and thin trading, brokers said. "Selling of securities counters by institutional investors in the afternoon accelerated the falls," Daishin Securities broker Yoo Hong-in said. Profit-taking from recent modest rises also
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      • 465 23 TAIWAN share prices finished slightly lower yesterday after fluctuating in a small range and dealers predicted narrow trade would continue in the near term. The Weighted Index lost 5.47 points to close at 4,663.02 compared with Wednesday's 4,668.49 finish. Turnover was very thin at NT$l4 billion against NTS 18.5
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      • 84 23 INDICES TURNOVER Close Previous Sep 12 AUSTRALIA All Ordinaries Index 1567.4 1.557.7 7.1 All Industrials Index 2409.5 2.394.9 10.5 All Resources Index 917.3 915.7 -0.1 Turnover (million) 95.1 81.1 14 BANGKOK SET Index 722.55 722.59 -0.04 Turnover (billion baht) 2.44 3.01 0.57 JAKARTA Composite Index unav 297.07 MANILA •Composite Index
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      • 350 23 Sep 11 Index in local c S day change urrenc> year change In < day change year change In (J day change ifl World 403.0 0.1 12.5 -0.2 6.7 -0.2 9.0 JhAhfc 516.9 0.0 10.0 -0.3 2.7 -0.3 4 8 Europe 435.2 -0.2 19.4 -0.5
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Johannesburg market down 5pc on gold fears
      • 420 24 GOLD SHARES ended a nervous session over 5 per cent lower on Wednesday as world bullion prices plunged to 15-month lows on heavy bouts of selling, dealers said. This followed a report in the UK Guardian that the Soviet Union, over and above its normal gold exports, had secretly
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        1098 24 WALL STREET on Wednesday ended a lethargic session on a mixed note as investors settled in to wait for several economic reports. Concern about the next round of earnings releases and disappointment over the absence of an interest rate cut weighed on equity prices. The Dow closed up
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        783 24 THE LONDON stock market turned gloomy on Wednesday on a warning from defence and engineering giant, British Aerospace, that its annual profits would be far below previous expectations. The blue-chip FTSE 100-share index, which fell 22.4 points on Tuesday, slipped 4.2 points to close at 2626.6. The narrower FT
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      • 262 24 DUTCH SHARES on Wednesday closed narrowly mixed after drifting without direction all day. "Today's market was a total non-event with prices moving in very tight ranges and turnover minimal," said Hans de Jonge of brokers Barclays de Zoete Wedd. The CBS Tendency Index closed 0.1 point lower at 92.1
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      • 294 24 GERMAN SHARES ended another dull trading session on Wednesday narrowly mixed, continuing the trendless trading the market has seen since the start of the month. Dealers said the lack of new trading factors meant no end to the period of listless trading was in sight. The market has been
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      • 185 24 THE PARIS BOURSE ended a dull session on Wednesday virtually unchanged, although it managed a small bounce just before the close as President Francois Mitterrand spoke on television on the partial privatisation of state firms. Dealers said Mr Mitterrand's comments reassured the bourse. He told a news conference televised
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      • 197 24 ITALIAN SHARES closed lower as selling pressure spilled over from Tuesday in a dull market where trading volume barely topped a low 70 billion lire. Brokers noted companies in the Carlo De Benedetti showed particular weakness on worries about first-half results and fears the group ultimately could be affected
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      • 239 24 SWISS SHARES posted modest gains in moderately active trading with demand focussing on industrials after Wednesday's string of corporate results. The SMI index of leading shares gained 4.3 points to 1,713.0 and the SPI AllShare Index was up 2.4 points to 1,108.4. Nestle bearers edged up 10 Swiss francs
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      • 259 24 BELGIAN SHARES on Wednesday closed off the day's lows after a slightly stronger Wall Street opening. The Bel--20 index closed at 1,120.13 points, down 3.33 points. The index, which had fallen to 1,117.64 points in midsession, retraced some of its losses after Wall Street opened. Total volume was worth
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      • 384 24 TORONTO STOCKS closed near the session's lows as technical weakness and some portfolio switching before the end of the quarter sent many investors to the sidelines, dealers said. Talk of the traditional autumn weakness has also spooked many investors. "It's the first sign of a breakdown," said Bill Ram,
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      • 117 24 Sep 11 Clos« PnriotB NEW YORK Dow Jones 2987.03 2.982.5 +4.47 SAP 500 385.09 384.56 +0.53 Turnover (million) 148 143.4 4.6 LONDON Financial Times 30 2068.1 2,071.3 -3.8 FTSE 100 2626.6 2,630.8 -4.2 Turnover (million) 367.6 467.1 99.5 FRANKFURT DAX Index 1.628.19 1,629.12 -0.93 AMSTERDAM CBS Tendency Index 92.1 92.2
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1212 25 REPORTS I ASIA TOKYO: The US dollar was weaker but off morning lows in Asian afternoon trade on short-covering and dollar buying for marks by life insurers, Tokyo dealers said. A string of upcoming US economic data and the possibility
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    • 385 25 Cross rates s. pl2 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr A$ NZS USS 1.7010 2.7560 1.6840 134.40 0.5760 1.4750 1.2642 1.7109 SS 0.5879 1.6202 0.9900 79.0123 0.3386 0.8671 0.7432 1.0058 MS 0.3628 0.6200 0.6110 48.7663 0.2090 0.5352 0.4587 0.6208 Dm 0.5938 1.0101 1.6366 79.81 0.3421 0.8759 0.7507
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    • 467 25 Reuter FRANKFURT Germany's central bank stepped up its drive on Wednesday to squeeze inflationary expectations out of Europe's biggest economy, but economists doubted the move signalled any imminent rise in domestic interest rates. Bundesbank president Helmut Schlesinger was quoted in a French business
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    • 251 25 Reuter AUCKLAND Members of the New Zealand Futures and Options Exchange (NZFOE) will meet in Wellington on Sep 20 to try to resolve the dilemma over which share index will replace the Barclays for futures and options contracts. Trading members are divided over whether
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    • 1145 25 SIMEX EUROOOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/Int Vol Sep 91 94.38 94.39 94.36 94.39 1673 ***** 1983 Dec 91 94.15 94.16 94.13 94.16 7000 ***** 9891 Mar 92 94.13 94.16 94.10 94.15 4025 ***** 4317 Jun 92 93.82 93.86 93.82 93.86 1074 2865 1452 Sep 92
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 449 26 Reuter MOSCOW A senior Soviet banker has warned that wildcat gold sales by increasingly autonomous republics could precipitate a drop in world markets, the Soviet news agency Tass reported on Tuesday. "Hasty, un-coordinated activities can very easily 'spoil' the market and
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    • 217 26 Reuter LONDON The current strength in the copper market is due largely to technical factors, rather than any significant fundamental change, say analysts as well as traders. Three-month prices hit four-month highs of U552,324 a tonne on Monday on the London Metal Exchange
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    • 817 26 REPORT THE PRICE of tin shed two sen to close at 15.11 per kg on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market on high offerings yesterday. The London Metal Exchange eased by US$9 on lack of buying demand. On the KLTM,
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  • 1395 26 Rubber se P i2 HAS (fat to Mw) S cenis/kg Noon Close Int I RSS Prompt I36.00/137.00N I35.75/I36.75N Int I RSS Oct 91 137.00/137.50 136.75/137.25 Int 1 RSS Nov 138.00/138.50 137.75/138.25 Int 2 RSS OP 136.50/138.50N 136.50/138.50N Int 3 RSS OP 135.50/137.50N 135.50/137.50N Int 4 RSS OP 131.00/133.00N 131.00/133.00N
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    • 664 27  -  POSTCARD FROM ITALY By Tom Rubin F lorence, Venice and Rome long the focus of Italy's tourist trade have had their must-see status called into question after a humbling fall in the number of visitors this summer. Now they are scrambling to find new ways to
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    • 151 27 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.3442 1.3557 Canadian dollar 1.4796 1.5020 NZ dollar 0.9846 1.0045 Sterling pound 2.9375 2.9625 US dollar 1.6980 1.7020 local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14.17 14.38
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    • 213 27 Singapore Outlook: Hazy with showers over a few areas in the late morning and early afternoon. Report Maximum temperature 31.0 Assoc humidity 68% Minimum temperature 25.4 Assoc humidity 98% Hours of sunshine 2.85 Rainfall in mm Nil Rainfall this month 41.5 Rainy days this month 5 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo*
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  • 424 28 Farm subsidy issue yet to be resolved AP BONN US Trade Representative Carla Hills said on Wednesday she was not hopeful that international trade talks could be completed by the end of the year. Ms Hills met German Economics Minister Juergen
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  • 194 28 SINGAPORE The G77 group of developing nations has to take a new look at how it operates and must present its interests more effectively in the North-South dialogue, Parliamentary Secretary Yatiman Yusof told Asian members of the group at a meeting in North Korea
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  • 385 28 AP MANILA Communist rebels yesterday announced a unilateral ceaseFire as the Senate moved to reject a new lease for a US naval base. President Corazon Aquino was said to be considering offering the Americans a three-year, rent-free phaseout. Support appeared to be growing
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  • 555 28 Crisis in the Soviet Union Agencies MOSCOW The Soviet Union yesterday pressed for Western aid to help it survive a harsh winter of economic disruption worsened by last month's failed coup. But prospects of massive Western aid look unlikely unless planners soon agree on a
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  • 229 28 AFP HANOI China and Vietnam will normalise ties at a summit in China before the end of the year, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. Diplomatic sources said the summit was fixed for Beijing in early November and would be attended by communist party general
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  • 184 28 Reuter MUNICH Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG (SNI), Europe's largest computer maker, yesterday reported that extraordinary expenditure from the merger of Siemens AG and Nixdorf Computer AG would amount to atx)ut 500 million marks (SSSOO million) in the current 1990/91 financial year. An SNI spokesman
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  • 214 28 Reuter PARIS British Prime Minister John Major, in a sharp attack on French policy, said yesterday that there was no point in aiding the new democracies of Eastern Europe while denying them access to European Community markets. Mr Major
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    • 457 29  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Middle Eastern carrier Gulf Air, which resumed flying to Singapore in April, has plans to expand its service network to include Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. Malcolm Genge, Gulf Air's area manager (Singapore and Southern Asia), said that
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    • 256 29 NYT I>CW TURN KODert L Crandall, chairman and president of American Airlines and long a prophet of growth,-v said on Wednesday that America's largest airline would substantially cut its capital spending over the next several years, including purchases of some new airplanes, because of
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    • 388 29 Reuter AMMAN Jordan's state airline, among the Gulf War's biggest corporate casualties, is trying to get back into shape before it goes up for sale under the kingdom's privatisation drive. "At one stage we lost 70 to 80 per cent of our
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    • 274 29 NYT WASHINGTON The Defence Department has filed a petition with the Federal Maritime Commission contending that a shipping company is overcharging it by as much as 100 per cent for bringing military supplies back to the United States from the Middle East.
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    • NEWS SUMMARY
      • 81 29 WILLIAM Thomson's belief in the Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC) has little to do with its past. True, the FEFC has set the standards in the Europe/Far East trade for 110 years; true, too, it has frequently shown great resilience in the face of daunting
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      • 45 29 ONE OF THE UK's biggest manufacturing groups, has announced a sharp fall in interim pre-tax profits from £146 million to £86 million. BAE al<y> launched its first rights issue since its two-stage privatisation in the 1980s Back Page
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      • 48 29 THE Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday ordered US airlines to replace or disable thrust reversers on Boeing 757 engines to avoid similar accidents to the May 16 crash of an Austrian Lauda Airlines jet in Thailand, which killed 223 people. Back Page
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      • 39 29 KVAERNER Fjellstrand's newly-completed yard in Jurong has bagged its first contract to build a passenger catamaran. The 40-metre vessel, called the Flying Cat, is estimated to be worth nearly $10 million Back Page
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      • 61 30 JAKARTA International Mobile Machines Corp said Maxus Energy Corp has ordered two Ultraphone digital radiotelephone systems to provide communications for its operations in Sumatra, Indonesia. International Mobile Machines said the systems will provide communications from ihe Maxus base camp on Pabeloken Island to remote drilling
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      • 58 30 APIA A small grassed airstrip on Tuesday became Western Samoa's second international airport. Customs Minister Tuilaepa Sailele declared a strip at Fagali'i, close to Apia, the country's second port of entry after the main airport of Faleolo, 36 kilometres away. The 10 hectare facility will
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      • 96 30 LISBON More than 20 ships were unable to enter or leave Portugal's main ports on Wednesday, the third day of a five-iday partial strike that is virtually paralysing shipping irjovements in the country. Port officials said the 12-hour-a--day stoppage by the 100 pilots was causing
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      • 75 30 BJJCHAREST French Alcatel-CIT and two Romanian companies are to sign a telecommunications joint venture for the production of two digital telephone exchanges, officials here said on Wednesday. The agreement, with the Romanian Datatim computer manufacturer and the state telecommunications firm Rom Telecom, is also for the
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      • 102 30 FRANKFURT Japanese car maker Mazda Motor Corp has unveiled its new MX-6 sports coupe at the Frankfurt Car Show. Mazda described the car as "an all-new sporty specialty car with a touch of luxury" and said it will go on sale first in Europe, in November,
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      • 102 30 BOSTON Replicas of three Viking ships sailed into Boston harbour from Norway on Wednesday, commemorating Lief Ericssons' voyage 1,000 years ago and raising again the question of just how extensively Norse adventurers explored North America. Some historians believe the 11th century sailor crossed the North
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    • 1003 30 GJIAIN and time-charter fixtures on Wednesday featured in a ouiet but steadier freight market, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index was up three points at 1,552 with the biggest increase seen in the transatlantic Panamax grain route, which rose to U5513.04 from Uss 12.99. Grain on the US
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    • 1638 30  -  Right now, a lot is happening in the world of the Far Eastern Freight Conference. Here William Thomson, FEFC chairman, talks to John Crichton about his vision John Crichton Containerisation International WILLIAM Thomson's belief in the Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC) has little to do
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    • 10373 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a maximum
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      • 458 45 Vw* Na Brft Mat Oapartut Vtud Voy Ha Birth Arwd Dqwrttfe Marina Terminal 1 Sembawang Terminal Batam Bvu B90 M05 12.09/2300 G Island 15 SOI 1209/1000 Batam Maju *****1 M04 alongside 13.09/2300 PMa S9106 S02 alongside 1309/0600 Brast* 1 36/91 M02 alongside 13 09/2300 Sm Oa *****
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      • 945 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bootonf/Biance Rsfts Ship Voy No Etb/Bfr Period From To From to Concert 22E 13/0700 2 11/1700 12/0659 12/0900 3 12/0700 12/1159 12/1400 ACX Oesy 188 13/1800 1 11/1500 11/1659 11/1900 2 11/1700 12/0659 12/0900 4 12/1200 12/1459 12/1700 61
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    • 457 46 The company launches first rights issue FT LONDON British Aerospace, one of the UK's biggest manufacturing groups, on Wednesday announced a sharp fall in interim pre-tax profits from £146 million to £86 million. BAe also launched its first rights issue since its two-stage privatisation
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    • 194 46 AFP WASHINGTON The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday ordered US airlines to replace or disable thrust reversers on Boeing 757 engines to avoid similar accidents to the May 16 crash of an Austrian Lauda Airlines jet in Thailand, which killed 223
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    • 244 46  -  By Magdalene Phang SINGAPORE Kvaerner Fjellstrand's newly-completed yard in Jurong has bagged its first contract to build a passenger catamaran. The 40-metre vessel, called the Flying Cat, is estimated to be worth nearly $10 million. Work on the catamaran, scheduled for delivery next March, has
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