The Business Times, 16 December 1991

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  • 16 1 Business Times THE BUSINESS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA MITA (P) 35/12/91 Monday, December 16, 1991 15*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 57 1 CAIRO A ferry carrying 578 people sank in the Red Sea after ramming a reef in rough weather, and more than 400 people were missing and feared drowned yesterday. The authorities said that all but 10 of the passengers were Egyptians, some
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    • 35 1 BANGKOK Cambodian leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk has offered Laos the use of port facilities at Cambodia's Kompong Som port, the official Laotian Radio said in a report yesterday.
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    • 55 1 BEIJING China and Japan will lay an underwater fibre optic cable between the two countries, the Xinhua news agency announced yesterday. "Hie 10-billion-yen (SSI2B million) contract was inked last Friday by China's Post and Telecommunications Ministry, Japan's Kokusai Denshin Denwa and American Telegraph
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    • 30 1 WORK on the new $390 million Kan dang Kerfoau Hospital in Kampong Java Park has started with the demolition of the City Veterinary Centre Page 2
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    • 31 1 INDONESIA approved US$7.9 billion (5513.0 billion) worth of foreign investment projects in the nine months to September this year, but not all will be carried out. Page 7
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    • 27 1 TIGHT money supply and rising interest rates worldwide may give rise to a shift in the types of investment flows into East Asia Page 8
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    • 39 1 AS the American economy continues to grind down and is nearing if not actually reentering recession, the Federal Reserve Board is pondering whether to take another slice at interest rates to stir revival Page 9
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    • 39 1 FRENCH shipping company Compagnie Generale Maritime will launch its Far East-Europe service next year with partners Nedlloyd and Malaysian International Shipping Corp with an optimistic forecast of a sizeable growth in cargo traffic. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 26 1 DIVERSIFIED Malaysian group Boustead Holdings Bhd plans to move into the financial services sector to complement the activities of its parent Page 3
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    • 30 1 JAPAN'S securities houses expect rough seas ahead, and sec-ond-tier brokers are now charting courses they hope will keep them clear of shoals and storms Page 4
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    • 39 1 GOLDMAN SACHS Co, the US investment bank that was a market maker in shares of Maxwell Communication Corp pic, has said that it had not manipulated securities markets for the benefit of Robert Maxwell Page 5
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    • 35 1 THE new management of PanGlobal Insurance Sdn Bhd has removed another two executives from the company, and will also dismiss seven or eight others who are not contributing to its business Page 6
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    • 41 1 BRITAIN'S Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, has said the pound will be at its present central rate of 2.95 marks when it moves to the narrow 2.25 per cent fluctuation bands in the EC currency grid Page 25
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    • 28 1 SAUDI ARABIA thought oil prices went too low last week, a Gulf industry source familiar with Riyadh's oil policy-mak-ing said last Friday. Page 26
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    • Article, Illustration
      27 1 Friday Ckaage BT-MGA 702.32 +7.31 Kuala Lumpur ....537.85 +5.16 Tokyo 22,754.9 +1.042.3 Hongkong 4,155.48 59.48 Sydney 1,598.6 +8.1 New York 2,914.36 +19.23 London 2,451.6 +28.3
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    • 24 1 Cicfcinf rates USS S$ 1.6520 100 Yen SS 1.2831 Ml SS 0.6014 Momey mariut rates Overnight 2 1/8 3/8 3-mofttn 2 3/4% +1/8
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    • 27 1 SJiTjan 129.00*/kg +125 M'siaJan 215.50«/kg +0.50 KL Tin Turnover 57 tonnes +5 Spot MSl4.66/kg -0.02 Crvdt pdn oB Turnover 816 lots -1543 Feb MS905 /tonne -2
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  • 486 1  -  Shinawatra aims to strengthen its activities in Thailand From Michelle Rowe in BANGKOK THAI GIANT Shinawatra Computer and Communications is considering a joint venture with a leading Singapore bank to strengthen its activities in Thailand, says the firm's executive chairman, Dr
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  • 327 1 Reuter SEGAMAT, Johor Malaysia's state oil company Petronas is considering selling natural gas to Thailand following a similar agreement with Singapore. Petronas president Azizan Zainul Abidin said last Saturday that Malaysian and Thai officials had held preliminary talks on gas sales. "The project is
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  • 450 1 Agencies MOSCOW US Secretary of State James Baker arrived here yesterday to seek assurances from leaders of the disintegrating Soviet Union on safeguards for nuclear weapons, and to offer new proposals to reduce the risk of misuse of the Soviet nuclear arsenal. While
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  • 197 1 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's official indirect investments in China hare pinny li since early April this ycnr, officials said yesterday. 14 We hare approved 59 local Anns to indirectly invest some US$5O million (abort SsB3 Million) In China since April 8 this year, when in the
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  • 58 1 PRESSURE is again being pot on the construction industry to become nun efficient and to dose tbe gap with the other sectors in productivity growth. Jnst what are the problem? Ami can the industry catch up? BT talks to contractors, developers, and others in the construction
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  • 566 1 AFP SINGAPORE The Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) summit next month is expected to adopt a proposal for a free trade area with no further major changes, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister BrigadierGeneral (Res) Lee Hsien Loong said. BG Lee
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 114 2 THE NEW ZEALAND government, delighted by the extent of Singaporean investor interest in New Zealand over the past year, will be organising a second investment seminar in Singapore next February. As at the first such seminar last March, New Zealand's Minister for Trade Negotiations,
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      • 83 2 COMMUNITY CENTRES and clubs have a role to play in helping the government encourage the young and old to adopt healthy lifestyles, said the Minister of State for Health, Dr Aline Wong, yesterday. This is because community centres and clubs could organise many activities
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      • 106 2 THE GOVERNMENT has no plans to change its Speak Mandarin policy for Chinese Singaporeans, although the Education Ministry has allowed dialect names to appear before pinyin ones in school records from next year, Minister for Information and the Arts George Yeo said on Saturday. "I
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      • 73 2 THE MINISTRY of Education's humanities scholarship attracted a record 92 male applicants this year after a series of talks designed to encourage male "O" level holders to opt for the arts course. A ministry official said this was the highest number of male applicants since
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      • 93 2 THE SINGAPORE Tourist Promotion Board will host a half-day seminar to promote understanding and awareness of the role of research in tourism marketing and product development. The seminar and workshop on Jan 13 will provide insights into how to look at tourism statistics, and how these
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    • 379 2  -  Eight-storey building in Kampong Java Park to be completed in 1995 By Colin Tan SINGAPORE Work on the new $390 million Kandang Kerbau Hospital in Kampong Java Park has started with the demolition of the City Veterinary Centre. A Ministry of Health
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    • 257 2 MOET-HENNESSY Asia has joined forces with the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) to set up a testing centre for alcoholic beverages, said to be the first of its kind in the region. Located at Sisir, the $1.1 million
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    • 258 2 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board plans to open offices in India and Thailand next year to boost its presence in the increasingly important Indian and Asean markets. Announcing this in his speech at the Singapore Tourism Industry Ball on Saturday, STPB
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • 452 3  -  Bid to complement activities of parent From Sylvia Wong in KUALA LUMPUR DIVERSIFIED Malaysian group Boustead Holdings Bhd plans to move into the financial services sector to complement the activities of its parent. Boustead, which was taken over last year by the Malaysian armed
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    • 395 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) is set to launch the first phase of the much-delayed Central Depository System (CDS) in July next year, executive chairman Nik Mohamed Din bin Datuk Nik YusofT said last Saturday. "Preparation to launch
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    • 204 3 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian International Shipping Corporation Bhd (MISC) will be cautious in looking at overseas investments, says managing director Ariffm Alias. He said the company would consider the investment viability as well as the economic and political environment in the foreign countries,
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    • 635 3  -  MARKET TALK Expected lower earnings range from $8.7 m to 14m By William Chia SINGAPORE Singapore multinational Wearne Brothers is expected to report a fall in group earnings when the company releases its year-end results this week. Wearnes' earnings have taken a beating from fierce
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    • 345 3 NST KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Group Bhd will start work on its Ms3oo million (SslBo million) Star Hill Crescent project here in June next year. Group managing director Patrick Low said last week that details were being worked out. With KL Plaza
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 91 3 KUALA LUMPUR Pilecon Engineering Bhd's whollyowned subsidiary, Pilecon Private Lid, has disposed of 6. S3 million ordinary shares in Causeway Investment Ltd to Nasnpa Sdn Bhd for 554.86 million. The company announced to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange on Saturday that the disposal is not expected
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      • 87 3 KUALA LUMPUR Long Huat Timber Industries Bhd is gearing up to maintain a diversified and expansionary programme. This includes downstream and upstream tim-ber-based activities to reduce operating cost and provide a broader earnings base. Chairman Datuk Lew Sip Hon said in his annual statement that
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      • 77 3 KUALA LUMPUR Benta Plantations has trimmed its group pre-tax operating loss to M 53.89 million (552.33 million) for the year ended last June, from M 54.02 million previously. The improvement was in line with the 12 per cent increase in turnover to M 521.32 million against M$
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      • 63 3 KUALA LUMPUR The Faber Group's acquisition of the entire paid-up capital of Saperijoo Sdn Bhd and three pieces of land in Port Dickson will be financed through bank loans. In a reply to queries from the KLSE, Faber said it has so far paid a
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    • 314 3 Beijaya Textiles first-half profit fall by half Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Singer Bhd has reported a 15 per cent rise in group pre-tax profit to M 528.01 million (5516.8 million) for the first half-year ended Oct 31, 1991, from M 524.24 million previously. Turnover increased
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 97 4 HONGKONG A recently-formed mainland Chinese business group will set up its own headquarters in Hongkong, an official of the group said here on Friday. Cao Huicong, from the Hongkong and China Enterprises Association, said the group was looking for a site to
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      • 75 4 SOMERSET, New Jersey Brother International Corp, a unit of Brother Industries Ltd, said it denies Smith Corona Corp's Dec 10 charges that Brother uses misleading "made in the USA" labels. It noted that the labels in question actually read "Made in the USA from domestic and
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      • 83 4 LISBON Share prices of Portugal's biggest private holding group, Sonae Investimentos Sociedade Gestora de Participacoes Sociais SA have dropped sharply in recent months, due mainly to lack of adequate information about the group for investors, market analysts said. The share price of the supermarkets-to-finance group has
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      • 58 4 PLEASANTON, California ComputerLand, the international computer seller near bankruptcy a few years ago, is on the verge of going public now that operations are solidly in the black, chief executive William Tauscher said. He said the firm has cleaned up major problems in its overseas
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      • 92 4 CHANDLER, Arizona Motorola said it has signed a memorandum of understanding under which a unit of General Electric Co will join the team of companies working to develop a global network of telecommunications satellites, known as Iridium. GE's Management and Data Systems group will be
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    • 233 4 Reuter HANOVER, Germany Continental A G, the German firm whose talks with Pirelli SpA failed this month, has said it is not currently in cooperation talks with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co, or Japan's Bridgestone Corp. Management board member Alan Ockene dismissed stock market rumours to this
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    • 604 4 Reuter TOKYO Japan's securities houses expect rough seas ahead, and second-tier brokerages are now charting courses they hope will keep them clear of shoals and storms. A bear market and a string of scandals, plus the promise of deregulation and stiffer
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    • 256 4 HONGKONG Wharf Holdings is to acquire the International Bank of Asia Building and World Trade Square from Realty Development Corp for about HKSI.I2 billion (SS23B million), the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday. The acquisition mirrors the efforts of World International
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    • 381 4 HONGKONG South China Morning Post Holdings has confirmed that it will enter the competitive Chineselanguage daily newspaper market through the purchase of Wah Kiu Yat Po from Overseas Chinese Daily News, the South China Morning Post reported on Friday. In Wah Kiu, SCMP believes it
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    • 263 4 HONGKONG The Ming Pao group's complicated restructuring has left many observers puzzled and questioning whether investors, who sought a newspaper play, will stick with a newlook company carrying some exposure to the Philippines hotel sector, the South China Morning Post reported last Friday. In line
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    • 546 4 MARKET TALK Reuter PHILADELPHIA Coming off its worst year in almost a decade, the US chemical industry faces a slow, uneven recovery as it stumbles into 1992, analysts said. While speciality chemical makers can expect to rebound with the economy, global overcapacity has clouded
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    • 351 5 Reuter NEW YORK-Orion Pictures Corp kept up its fight to stay alive last Friday by winning a badly needed cash injection, amid speculation that it had entered talks with British record company Poly Gram. Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland signed an order
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    • 360 5 Reuter MONROEVILLE, Pennsylvania Westinghouse Electric Corp chairman and chief executive Paul Lego said the company's non-financial business units will likely produce close to US$l billion (about 551.65 billion) in operating in 1991. "Before the reserves associated with those problem areas, we're still going to
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    • 401 5 Reuter NEW YORK Goldman Sachs Co, the US investment bank that was a market maker in shares of Maxwell Communication Corp pic, has said that it had not manipulated securities markets for the benefit of Robert Maxwell. The statement last Friday followed
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    • 401 5 Reuter MINNETONKA, Minnesota Giant agricultural conglomerate Cargill Inc said on Friday that its directors approved selling up to 30 per cent of the company to its employees, but made clear that the company would remain privately-held. Cargill did not disclose the price
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 94 6 FRANKFURT The Soviet Foreign Trade Bank, Vneshckonombank, is to present a steering committee today with detailed proposals on ways to resume debt principal payments. "On the agenda is the presentation of details about the measures to be taken," Deutsche Bank A G
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      • 64 6 NEW YORK The arraignment of BCCI was delayed last Friday until Dec 20 after court-appointed liquidators and state prosecutors agreed to continue talks aimed at avoiding a stiff fine against the bank. The arraignment of Lux-embourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International has been delayed several times
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      • 60 6 LONDON British bankers say they are not optimistic Bulgaria can finance a restructuring of the more than US$lO billion (5516.6 billion) it owes commercial banks. "At the moment, Bulgaria has not put any formal proposals to the banks," said one banker last Friday. "But I don't
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      • 76 6 WASHINGTON The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp will soon issue new guidelines covering its sales of debt securities to ensure the accuracy of data it receives from dealers, an executive with the group said last Friday. The quasi-federal agency, known as Freddie Mac, is making
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      • 71 6 SAN FRANCISCO California State Treasurer Kathleen Brown has said Standard Poor's decision to downgrade the state's debt to AA from AAA is premature and unwarranted. "Standard Poor's decision is a little like the Grinch that stole Christmas," she said last Friday, adding that it would have been
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      • 68 6 BOSTON Two independent audits have been completed of the loan portfolios of Bank of Boston Corp and Shawmut National Corp. clearing a path in stalled merger talks between the two banks, the Boston Globe has reported. The reports could be accepted by the boards of
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    • 411 6 KUALA LUMPUR The new management of PanGlobal Insurance Sdn Bhd has removed another two executives from the company, and will also dismiss seven or eight others who are not contributing to its business, the Star reported on Saturday. The two removed were not
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    • 230 6 KUALA LUMPUR PanGlobal Insurance Sdn Bhd had every reason to look forward to an "exciting, eventful" year and a "more than modest growth in sales and earnings", according to former principal officer/managing director Datuk Mak Kok. While sales and earnings growth have yet to be seen,
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    • 608 6 Reuter LONDON TSB Group pic's chairman. Sir Nicholas Goodison, has said Britain's recession is likely to carry on through the first half of next year and will need further provisions against bad debts. TSB reports its full year results
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    • 370 6 Reuter LISBON The Portuguese government, aiming to slash its budget deficit, will borrow less on local capital markets in 1992, Finance Minister Jorge Braga de Macedo said. Addressing his first press conference since being appointed on Oct 30, Mr Braga de Macedo
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    • 267 6 HONGKONG Monetary authorities have expressed "strong support" for a system of official assistance to banks facing temporary liquidity problems, a consultative paper circulated among senior bankers says. The South China Morning Post reported on Saturday that the paper, prepared for the Banking Advisory
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    • 451 6 Reuter NEW YORK New Plan Realty Trust expects "relatively flat" per share earnings for the second quarter ending Jan 31, said chairman William Newman. "But flat is great in this market-place," he said. New Plan Realty is the largest US real
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  • THE REGION 1
    • 398 7  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Indonesia approved US$7.9 billion (S$ 13.0 billion) worth of foreign investment projects in the nine months to September this year, but not all will be earned out, says Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc). Insufficient infrastructure, power
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    • 285 7 Reuter SEGAMAT, Johor Malaysia has brought onstream South-east Asia's largest natural gas pipeline project, designed to increase the booming economy's energy supply while reducing the reliance on oil. "This is a historic occasion for the country," Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mahamad
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    • 629 7 Hanoi reshuffled its leadership in 1991, but its policy of remaining socialist remains AFP HANOI Vietnam switched its leaders in 1991, but the new top rank promptly reaffirmed the country's policy of remaining socialist in spite of the changes in the Soviet Union
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 109 7 COPENHAGEN Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen has blocked new Danish aid to Indonesia until he sees how Indonesian authorities react to an official report on the killing of mourners by troops in East Timor last month. Denmark will review its aid plans when
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      • 105 7 MANILA The Philippines reopens talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington this week to try to hammer out an acceptable economic programme so that IMF lending to the heavily-indebted country can resume. The IMF has blocked payments from a US$9OO million (551.487 billion) 18-month
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      • 98 7 MANILA The Philippines is preparing to file claims for millions of dollars against Iraq for losses during the Gulf War, it said on Friday. The claims would cover remittances lost by Filipinos working in Kuwait and higher oil bills resulting from Iraq's invasion of the
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      • 79 7 PHNOM PENH India stands ready to contribute soldiers to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (Untac), a senior diplomat from New Delhi said late on Saturday. Speaking at the end of a three-day visit, Indian Minister of State Eduardo Faleiro pledged Delhi's support for
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      • 93 7 PHNOM PENH Phnom Penh rejected yesterday faction leader Son Sann's proposal that resistance officials be given government posts alongside their former enemies. Phnom Penh Trade Minister Nhim Vanda spoke moments after Son Sann returned here from Bangkok and renewed his call for all Cambodian factions
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    • 364 8 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Tight money supply and rising interest rates worldwide may give rise to a shift in the types of investment flows into East Asia, from foreign direct investment (FDI) in joint ventures to those in licensing, and technical and royalty
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    • 53 8 PHNOM PENH Cambodia's V ice-Foreign Minister Dith Munty (on the right), welcoming Son Sann. head of the Khmer People s National liberation Front (KPNLF) at Phnom Penh's airport yesterday. The US-hacked guerilla leader is here to attend a meefng of the country s
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    • 555 8 Continued growth seen amid worldwide recession Reuter HONGKONG Western nations tightened their belts this year while the peoples of Asia a bright spot in a world of economic gloom loosened theirs. Increasing domestic consumption and rising regional trade kept their exportoriented economies growing fast even though
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    • 319 8 BANGKOK Thailand should be developed gradually into a financial centre for Indochina, the Bank of Thailand has recommended to the Finance Ministry. The Bangkok Post reported on Friday the bank's three-step development plan, considered the most suitable for Thailand where the financial
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    • 597 8  -  From Michelle Rowe in BANGKOK THE boss of Thailand's biggest communications firm says the government should release its stranglehold on the nation's economic development and let the private sector play a much bigger role. Dr Thaksin Shinawatra. executive chairman of the Shinawatra Computer and
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  • THE WORLD
    • 404 9 Reuter WASHINGTON As the United States economy continues to grind down and is nearing if not actually re-en-tering recession, the Federal Reserve Board is pondering whether to take another slice at interest rates to stir revival. Analysts are generally convinced that the
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    • 308 9 Reuter BRUSSELS Poorer European Community states may delay ratifying the treaty on political and monetary union unless the promised increase in spending on backward regions is agreed next year, EC Commissioner Bruce Millan said. Mr Millan, responsible for regional development on the EC executive,
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    • 267 9 FT LONDON Britain's inflation rose in Nov 6 for the first time in over a year to an annual rate of 43 per cent, partly because of higher seasonal food prices. The rise in the retail price index from October's 3.7
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    • 353 9 G-7 believes situation has worsened in disintegrating Union Reuter LONDON The Group of Seven (G-7) leading industrial countries agreed last Friday to intensify efforts to rush emergency food aid to a disintegrating Soviet Union and discussed a US proposal for a crisis meeting of
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 73 9 WARSAW Polish Prime Minister-designate Jan Olszewski faced a major setback in his bid to form a government on Saturday when another ally in his four-party coalition walked out Leszek Moczulski, leader of the Confederation for an Independent Poland (KPN), told journalists that his party would
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      • 57 9 PARIS International donors have pledged US$7OO million (SS 1.16 million) towards the US$l.5 billion needed for urgent reconstruction work in Lebanon, the World Bank said on Friday. Lebanese Prime Minister Omar Karami, his Finance Minister Ali al-Khalil and other senior officials met delegates from 11 donor
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      • 81 9 BEIJING Technical problems have delayed the opening of the first phase of the Daya Bay nuclear power plant in southern China until the summer of 1993, Xinhua News Agency said. The two-reactor 900 megawatt power station's first phase was originally due to come on line
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      • 57 9 KARACHI The opposition will boycott the Pakistan president's address to Parliament if the people who sexually assaulted a retired politician's daughter are not arrested, former premier Benazir Bhutto said on Saturday. President Ghulam Ishaq Khan is to address a joint session of the National Assembly
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      • 67 9 HAMBURG The trade minister from the Soviet central Asian republic of Kirghizstan was nabbed for shop-lifting a polo shirt in a department store here, the Bild newspaper reported on Saturday. Kirsiem Ba/.hasitov was caught by a store detective as he tried to smuggle out the
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    • 354 9 Reuter MOSCOW Russia's inflation rate will reach 100 to 150 per cent in January after the republic lifts controls on prices at the beginning of the year, said Russian Deputy Premier Yegor Gaidar. But Mr Gaidar, quoted by the Soviet news agency
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 690 10  -  What would happen if a major earthquake were to hit Tokyo? Would the aftershock be felt all over the world's financial markets? Scott Miller reports Scott Miller Reuter R AGING citywide fires, massive destruction and loss of life, the collapse of the world's biggest
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    • 1800 10  -  The construction industry suffers from inefficiency. Elaine Koh speaks to developers, contractors and others in the industry to find out what they have to say about the problem of low productivity Elaine Koh WHEN the Minister for Trade and Industry complained recently about the poor productivity performance of
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    • 230 10 PRODUCTIVITY growth in the construction sector has been lagging the national average since the mid-80s. l year, it stood at 1.4 per cent, an improvement over 0.1 per cent in 1989. But it seems to be on the way down again. In the third quarter of
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT 1
    • 920 11 CEO disease or the yes-men syndrome Chief executive officers who make their decisions based on information from top management may be getting a distorted idea of what their troops really think NYT FIVE years ago, when W Thomas Stephens became the Manville Corp's chief executive, he toured several company plants.
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    • 353 11 Sony chief sees it as way to ease US-Japan friction Asahi FIFTY years after Imperial Japan attacked Peart Harbour, Japan stands at a crossroads in its relations with other nations, Akio Morita, chairman of Sony Corp said in a recent interview with the Asahi
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    • 1273 12  -  A recent survey on South-east Asian managers should be taken with a pinch of salt, some managers tell Chuang Peck Ming Chuang Peck Ming F I want to W I bring in a manager and kick butts, in a turnaround case for instance,
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    • 432 13  -  Mobil Marathon By Nirmal Ghosh THE WEATHER was kind at first. Post-midnight rain had laid a cool carpet of moisture on the streets as thousands gathered at the National Stadium in the predawn darkness yesterday for the start of the Mobil Marathon. The car park was
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    • 734 13 Grand Slam Cup AP MUNICH Michael Chang saved a match point and rallied from two sets down to beat Ivan Lendl on Saturday, advancing to the final of the US$6 million (559.9 million) Grand Slam Cup. Chang needed more than 4 1/2 hours to win 2-6, 4-6,
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    • 339 13 AP DORADO, Puerto Rico Mike Hill is one step away from a major goal. "Being No. 1 is the most important thing for me," Hill said last Saturday after shooting a five-under-par 67 with birdies on the last two holes. The fast
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    • 344 13 AP i m PARIS Ten thousand people dressed in white and carrying torches, banners and illuminated mobiles marched up the Champs Elysees on Saturday to mark the arrival of the Olympic flame to this country. Following the torch up the broad avenue,
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    • 92 13 FRANKFURT East Germany's secret police helped oversee the widespread consumption of performance-enhancing drugs by the former nation's top athletes, according to a just-released report. A special commission studying the ranK. pant use of steroids by East German athletes on Saturday recommended that top trainers,
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    • 70 13 DONCASTER, England Outsider Gary Wilkinson beat firm favourite Steve Davis 18-11 to win the World Matchplay title on Saturday night. Wilkinson, who had toppled John Parrott and Jimmy White in his previous two matches, added the scalp of the world number-two to his list of conquests as
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    • 413 17  -  Santa Claus himself officiated at the SSO's Christmas Concert last Saturday. P Y Van reports on the fun and festivities P Y Van WITH the instruments gaily decked out in the season's latest party gear and the harp looking more like a hamper, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's
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    • 4932 21 Bernama THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange ended Friday the 13th on a hearty note as institutional investors led the bulls back into the bourse after four weeks of declines. Strong buying support for blue chips due to windowdressing activities from fund managers gave the
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    • 1074 22 DM 11 Cfty Developments is proceeding with plans for King's Centre, a 1370 m devetopwl which wM add 800 new hotel rooms in the Havelock Road vicinity, after a delay of eight years. Shno lIP riapaiai M plans to convert the bulk of its Johor land bank in
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 444 23 But gains limited by worries over possible poor quarterly results of US firms AFP SHARE PRICES rose moderately last week thanks to encouraging news on the US economic front, but the gains were limited by concerns over projected mediocre American corporate earnings. The Dow Jones
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    • 839 23 THE MARKET was affected by an aggregate 850-point decline on the Nikkei on Tuesday and Wednesday and lost an unexpected 75 points on Tuesday and subsequently dipped briefly below the 4,100 support level. Sentiment was then lifted by a decent
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    • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
      • 181 23 THE apparent resolution of Australia's leadership tussle and a surge on Tokyo boosted the local stock market last week, said brokers in Sydney on Friday. The market's All Ordinaries Index finished on Friday at 1,597.9 points, a rise of 14.1 on the week. The All Industrials Index gained 19.9
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      • 78 23 THE Stock Exchange of Thailand index gained 12.29 points last week, an increase of 1.78 per cent, to close at pointsoosn s Friday, compared with the previous week's closing index of 687.39 points. Average daily turnover last week was 56,572,605 shares and 4.15 billion baht. The previous week's average
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      • 156 23 THE Philippine stock market defied the usual Christmas season downturn to rise slightly last week, due partly to business optimism for next year, analysts said. The composite index at the Manila Stock Exchange closed at 1,126.1 points on Friday, up 2.1 per cent from the 1,102.45 points posted on
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      • 191 23 SHARE prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange registered a slight recovery last week as investors waited for a possible pre-election upturn, said brokers on Friday. Overcoming the previous week's 0.2 per cent dip, the 248-issue weighted price index inched up 17.18 points or 0.4 per cent to end the
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      • 182 23 BEARS had a slight upper hand on Indian stock exchanges last week, with the Bombay Stock Exchange sensitivity index dropping 61.2 points to close at 1837.9, and the national index down 27.4 at 865.7. Brokers said several factors led to large-scale selling on the market in the early part
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    • 444 23 AFP •>TOKYO THE Tokyo share market ended a four-week losing streak thanks largely to the Nikkei Stock Average posting the year's biggest single day advance of 1,042.33 yen on Black Friday. The Nikkei closed the week at 22,754.90 yen for a 309.84-yen gain after
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    • 851 23  -  Ray Heath THE headline writers of the Tory tabloid press in the UK spared no cliche to welcome the result of the European summit in Holland last week. "Mighty Major's Maastricht Miracle", summed up the collective applause for the latest piece
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Dow breaches 2,900 level in active trade
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        1288 24 STOCKS closed broadly higher in active trading on Friday, mounting their first two-day rally since the midNovember debacle on the strength of encouraging economic news and strong overseas markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, wsich jumped 29.75 points to 2,895.13 on Thursday, rose 19.23 points to 2914.36, its
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        767 24 THE beginning of a year-end rally in the world's major equity markets saw London shares surge ahead for the second consecutive day on Friday. Comments by Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont that he would not use a move into the narrow band of the European exchange rate mechanism
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      • 170 24 GERMAN shares on Friday were trading around 0.8 per cent higher as a rise of almost 5 per cent in Tokyo and about one per cent higher in Wall Street buoyed the mood and prompted operators to cover short positions. The 30-share DAX index rose quickly to close at
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      • 252 24 DUTCH shares had a strong day on Friday, with broad demand for leading issues in a technical reaction to recent weak sessions. Much of the inspiration came from a firmer Wall Street, London and Tokyo. The EOE Index rose 1.26 per cent, finishing at 274.30. This was a rise
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      • 168 24 THE Paris bourse continued to improve on Friday in quiet trading, buoyed by the Tokyo market's strong performance and by lower French interest rates. The CAC-40 stock price index was up by a hefty 1.47 per cent at the opening, and was able to hold the bulk of that
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      • 275 24 SWISS shares closed a moderately active Friday session firmer and just on the day's high as Wall Street's firm trend supported a technical recovery, also raising hopes for a year-end rally, traders said. The Swiss National Bank statement on monetary policy had little impact as the expected 1992 money
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      • 246 24 ITALIAN shares closed higher but off their peaks on Friday as the initial technical rally on the last session of the December trading account ran out of steam. Shares dipped below early highs as players began to take profits but also on news of fighting in the breakaway Soviet
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      • 92 24 PRICES on the Stockholm bourse closed firmer on Friday but off the day's highs in moderate trade after broad declines earlier this week. The rise was triggered by foreign advances, dealers said. Herman Sjoberg, chief analyst at Consensus Fondkommission, said he believed a long period of decline would soon
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      • 155 24 BELGIAN shares were higher in mod- eratdy active early trade on Friday fol-..." lowing a half-hour interruption business due to a fault on the electronic CATS trading system. The Bel-20 index of leading shares was up 1.19 per cent to 1,079.30 points with 386 million francs worth of Belgian
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      • 377 24 JOHANNESBURG shares dipped sharply for the third consecutive day on Friday. Some Light interest at around midday helped lift prices off their lows, but failed to inspire a meaningful rally, they said. Trading was nervous, but dealers detected no panic selling. Some dealers felt that the falls have been
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      • 235 24 TORONTO stocks held steady at higher levels to dose firm on Friday, ending a losing streak of eight straight sessions. US economic data showing little inflation encouraged some players off the sidelines. The TSE 300 composite index closed up 11.05 at 3,359.47 points. Advancing issues led declines 327 to
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      • 116 24 Ok 13 Clw* Pint— NEW YORK Dow Jones 2,914.36 2,895.13+19.23 SAP 500 384.47 3SI.SS +2.92 Turnover (million) 201.4 193 +8.4 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,863.9 1,848.6 +13.3 FTSE 100 2,451.6 2,423.3 +28.3 Turnover (million) 768.6 629.1 +139.5 nMNKFURT DAX Index 1,559.03 1.546.32 +12.41 AMSTERDAM EOE Index 274.30 270.88 3.42 PAMS
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  • CURRENCY,MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 303 25 NEW YORK Reuter THE US DOLLAR doaed firmer in quiet trading in New York last Friday, but the market focused on the pound, which rose sharply in Europe after UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lament quashed expectations of a sterling devaluation. ''Sterling
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    • 930 25 ASIAN CURRENCIES AFP HONGKONG Only the Australian dollar's roller-coaster performance ending with a drop and the sharp weakening of the South Korean won marred a generally quiet week for Asian currencies against the US dollar. Other falters were the yen, Indonesian rupiah, Malaysian ringgit
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    • 351 25 Croti rates p*i3 us$ SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.6545 2.7495 1.5800 129.15 0.5522 1.3970 1.2962 1.7921 SI 0.6044 1.6611 0.9550 78.0598 0.3337 0.8444 0.7834 1.0832 MS 0.3637 0.60 0.5746 46.9722 0.2008 0.5081 0.4714 0.6518 Dm 0.6329 1.0472 1.7402 81.74 0.3495 0.8842 0.8204 1.1342
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    • 337 25 Reuter LONDON Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont last Friday said the pound would be at its present central rate of 2.95 marks when it moves to the narrow 2.25 per cent fluctuation bands in the European Community currency grid. Sterling leapt
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    • 287 25 FT FRANKFURT Hans Tietmeyer, deputy president of the Bundesbank, has sought to reassure Germans concerned about the disappearance of the Deutschemark under European Monetary Union by saying that the central bank would defend the currency's strength until union took place. The currency would also be
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    • 551 25 GOLD FINANCIAL FUTURES REPORT SPOT GOLD'S failure to hold above the U*****.00 level, after opening at the week's high of U*****.50 last Monday, led to a sharp technical sell-off which sent prices tumbling as low as U*****.50/357.00 last Thursday. A 0.4 per cent rise
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    • 364 26 Reuter LONDON Saudi Arabia thought oil prices went too low last week, a Gulf industry source familiar with Riyadh's oil policy-making said last Friday. "Saudi Arabia is not happy about it," the source said by telephone from the Gulf when asked to
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    • 331 26 Reuter BOGOTA Colombia will not. permit increases in the area sown with coffee in 1992, the financial newspaper La RepuMica reported. "New sowings of coffee will not be allowed in 1992," La Republica said in a front-page article last Saturday. It said
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    • 921 26 REPORTS LONDON Developments in the Soviet Union once again took centrestage in commodity market developments last week. With the complete collapse of the Soviet Union looking inevitable after the creation of an independent commonwealth by the three richest republics Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia gold prices rallied
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    • 678 27  -  POSTCARD FROM ROME By B J Fernandes THE Hotel Hassler di Medici is one of those hostelries which is not everyone's choice of overnight accommodation. It is not intended to be. For more than a hundred years, it has been the residence in Rome
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    • 151 27 As at 3pn on Dec 13: Load dollars to ooe unit of foreign arrency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.2708 1.2881 pdollar 1.4305 1.4595 NZ dollar 0.9125 0.9495 Sterling pound 2.9772 3.0175 US dollar 1.6510 1.6570 Local dollars to 100 safes of farcip citfcy Austrian schilling 14.68
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  • 543 28 Money being sunk into foreign accounts and properties AP HONGKONG Chinese companies and individuals, worried about the stability of the last great communist regime, are moving billions of dollars out of China, according to diplomats, bankers and real-estate brokers. They report that stateowned companies,
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  • 350 28 Reuter LONDON Arguments over international media tycoon Robert Maxwell's death intensified yesterday after one of his newspapers said he killed himself by jumping overboard from his luxury yacht. I "SUICIDE", was The Sunday Mirror's banner headline, flying in the face of assertions by his
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  • 58 28 NEW DELHI A protesting Tibetan student screaming in pain as she was pushed into a police ran yesterday here near the heavily guarded Presidential Palace, where visiting Chinese Premier Li Peng was staying. More than 600 Tibetans, demanding that Tibet be freed, have been arrested
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  • 236 28 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's military commander has given warning that he will take a tough line to preserve peace in East Timor, the official news agency Antara said yesterday. Stern action, though unpleasant, had to be taken to preserve the authority,
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  • 114 28 AFP BANGKOK Yangon was quiet yesterday aad a marathon race ia the city passed off without incident, residents said. After last week's demonstrations by pro-democracy students at the city's university, there were fears that aati-janta demonstratioas aught break out during the race. The race went
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    • 357 29 State-owned firm expects competition from China Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's stateowned China Shipbuilding Corp is recovering strongly from several years of poor business as the world shipbuilding market pulls out of a slump, company officials said last Friday. "The market began recovering in 1989 and we
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      • 38 29 NOBODY (apart from secondhand aircraft salesmen) claims that private flying is the cheapest way of getting around. But thanW to the recession, it is far less expensive than ever before Par 2
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      • 41 29 AN extraordinary exchange of vitriolic letters between Mr Richard Branson, the chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways, and the two deputy chairmen of British Airways on Thursday intensified the year-long between the two airlines. Back Page
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      • 128 30 MANILA The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it has approved a loan worth US$BB.B million for the construction &f deep water berths and facilities for three major potts in north-eastern China. The loan, from the ADB's ordinary capital resources, has a
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      • 72 30 ROTTERDAM A powerful explosion on Friday set a petrochemical plant's storage tanks ablaze and killed six people, authorities said. The explosion occurred in a storage tank of benzoic acid and set fire to adjoining tanks loaded with explosive hydrocarbon fuels, including the solvent toluene, at
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      • 68 30 CHICAGO UAL Corp's United Airlines said it reached a tentative labour agreement with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents 27,213 United employees including mechanics and ramp service, food service and other personnel. It said the agreement will be presented to
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      • 70 30 PANAMA CITY A Canadian firm wants to build a US$6OO million pipeline in Panama to transport oil from America to Asia, Panama's comptroller-general Ruben Carles said on Thursday. Canadian engineering giant SCNLavalin plans to invest US$6OO million in the project, which would create 7,000 new jobs,
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    • 818 30 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more eomprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 404 30 FREIGHT market fixtures were scarce and a further fourpoint fall in the Baltic Freight Index (BFI) indicated lower rates in nearly all sectors, brokers said on Thursday. The BFI stood at 1,548, showing losses on most routes except the Queensland/Rotterdam coal and coke route. Soviet chartering continued despite
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    • 1242 30  -  Private flying is not merely for millionaires. Recession nas reduced the cost of chartering most kinds of planes to 20 per cent less than a year ago, reports Roger Collis Roger Collis IHT Nobody (apart from secondhand aircraft salesmen) claims that private flying is
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    • 218 46 Reuter LONDON British Aerospace pic said last Friday it is restructuring its main defence interests into one company from Jan I, 1992. The new company British Aerospace Defence Ltd will combine the land, sea and air capabilities of four of the group's divisions. These
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