The Business Times, 14 February 1992

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  • 16 1 BUSINESS TIMES THE BUSINESS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA MITA (P) 35/12/91 Friday, February 14, 1992 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 60 1 TOKYO Japan's customscleared trade widened to an unadjusted US$3.B4 billion (556.26 billion) surplus in January from a downward revised US$9ll.ll million surplus a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday. However, economists said the pace of growth would slow and the figure for all
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    • 55 1 DEARBORN, Michigan Ford Motor Co yesterday reported a loss of US$2.3 billion (553.7 billion) for 1991, the largest in its history. Ford lost US$476 million in the fourth quarter of 1991, and chairman Harold Poling said it continued to face many of the
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
  • 542 1  -  Expenditure projected at $273 m in 1992/93 despite soft demand By Selva Kumar SINGAPORE Although demand for industrial facilities is expected to continue to be soft, the Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) will increase its spending on development projects in the coming financial year
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  • 370 1 Reuter SYDNEY A fall in Australia's jobless rate in January for the first time in three months heartened the government of Prime Minister Paul Keating yesterday and surprised financial markets which had been expecting unemployment to surge. The
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  • 198 1 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Suharto has proposed that a passage fee be levied on ships passing through the Malacca Strait to help finance the safeguarding of the environment of the international sea lane. Visiting Malaysian Science, Technology and Environment Minister Law Hieng Ding told
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  • 385 1 NYT WASHINGTON Under growing pressure from lawmakers and shareholders to make companies more accountable for executive pay, the Securities and Exchange Commission was expected yesterday to propose rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose more fully how much their executives are
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  • 112 1 Reuter WASHINGTON Sales at the retail level in the US were broadly higher in January, representing the largest advance in eight months and well exceeding economists' expectations for the sector, the US Commerce Department said yesterday as demand for goods ranging from new cars
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  • 644 1 KYOTO Japan and all of East Asia should use the next decade to strengthen not only their economic but also political, cultural and personal ties, Mr Lee Kuan Yew told Japanese business leaders yesterday. The region should do
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    • 375 1 Fullmark TEL: 268 6688 Call for cooperation FRENCH companies should explore business opportunities in Indochina together with Singapore companies, says Singapore's Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry. Page 2 Building boom SINGAPORE'S construction industry has lived up to expectations its output grew by 35 per cent last year.
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    • 132 1 Boost for Scotts HIGHER RENTS from its properties boosted Scotts Holdings Ltd's turnover and profit in the first half ended Dec 31, 1991, to $21.04 million and $2.42 million respectively Page 4 Kanzen issues KANZEN BHD, formerly Dreamland Holdings Bhd, has proposed a one-for-two bonus issue coupled with a one-for-one
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    • 44 1 JTC units generate $54m surpluses, Pg 3 Jurong Port reports record turnover, Shipping Times Pg I SI ,4 PROSPERITY YU SHENG 5/2/92 to 18/2/92 -t A </ S 4^ <# I -i PrimaTower s«§E«jß« «»o«o4o9EXe&2ol* 201 K*pp«< Road Singapore 0409 TEL: *****22 *****88 *f tt J&.
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
    • 522 2 Bid to end blackouts, lessen dependence on imported oil Reuter MANILA The Philippines has unveiled a US$l5 billion (5524.5 billion) energy plan designed to end frequent electricity blackouts and make the country less dependent on imported oil by the turn of the century. The
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    • 662 2 KYOTO Let Japan take the first step towards militarism and its obsession with perfection will lead it to the fore. To ensure that it never become a military power again, Japan should keep its combat troops at home and provide only logistical
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    • 262 2 FT NEW DELHI India has started the process of easing the restrictions on imports imposed in March last year when the country was in the midst of a severe balance of payments crisis. S Venkitaramanan, the governor of the Reserve Bank of
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    • 320 2 SINGAPORE French companies should explore business opportunities in Indochina together with Singapore companies, said Lim Boon Heng, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry in Paris yesterday. Significant opportunities in infrastructure development, commodity trading and petroleum-related activities exist in Vietnam, and
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    • 332 2  -  From Genevieve Cua In PARIS SINGAPORE can stay competitive only by raising the quality of its workforce, said Lim Boon Heng, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry. The possibility of tapping a skilled labour pool will be a magnet drawing investors to
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    • 684 2 Firm may be set to play leading role in new stock scandal AFP TOKYO Japan's Honshu Paper Co Ltd, the company whose stock price mysteriously tripled, then plunged just as precipitously, in the space of a few months in 1990, is suddenly back in the news.
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    • 222 2 JAKARTA Maintaining low inflation will continue as part of Indonesia's economic strategy in the years to come. "We will not compromise our efforts to keep inflation low," Minister of Finance J B Sumarlin in his capacity as chairman of the Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI), was
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    • 12 2 Indon banks likely to meet Bpc capital target by *93, Pg 6
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    • 91 2 CONVERSATIONS AT RAFFLES As a technocrat you want get things done. But you become too egoistic, failure is too terrible to consider. If you run for office, you don't want to lose. Meet Dr Narongchai Akratanee, economic adviser to the Prime Minister of Thailand. Student leader at 12, his country's
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 397 3  -  Output of industry up 35pc in 1991: URA By Colin Tan THE output of the construction industry soared 35 per cent in 1991, according to figures released yesterday by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. The URA's monthly figures for December show the
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    • 446 3  -  By Lee Han Shih THE subsidiaries of statutory board Jurong Town Corporation (JTC), created to function as private companies, generated surpluses of $54.3 million, out of a total turnover of $97 million for the financial year ended March 31, 1991. JTC has three subsidiaries Singapore
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    • 386 3  -  By Dexter Lee THE government has commissioned the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRTC) to build Singapore's first underground bus interchange at a cost of $34 million in Woodlands. The new bus interchange, which will be the most expensive terminal to be
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 123 3 THE SINGAPORE Armed Forces (SAF) will introduce a Warrant Officer and Specialist Corps from July I this year. Defence Minister Dr Yeo Ning Hong said yesterday during a visit to the SAF Infantry Non-Commissioned Officers School that the SAF would no longer operate
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      • 74 3 STANDARD CHARTERED BANK and the Marketing Institute of Singapore have launched a graduate diploma in financial services. The one-year course, costing $3,500 for locals, will be offered to Stanchart employees initially, before it is opened to staff of other financial institutions. Subjects covered will include
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      • 55 3 THE Secretary of the Year Award, now in its fifth year, is under way again. The backers this year are Sheraton Towers Singapore, Singapore Airlines and Her World, the leading local women's magazine in Singapore. Nomination forms for secretaries' employers are in the January and
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      • 47 3 SENTOSA is expected to receive its three-millionth visitor for 1991-92 by the end of this month. The Sentosa Development Corporation said yesterday the lucky visitor would receive prizes, including cash, shopping vouchers and three days stay at the Beaufort Hotel on the island.
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    • 280 3 A MAN at a bus stop gets out his portable computer and checks when the next bus is due. It seems farfetched now, but in the year 2000 such information will be accessible through emerging technology such as the Broadband Network system. The network, announced
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    • 193 3 By arrangement with Harvey Goldsmith HOTEL PROPERTIES LIMITED PRESENTS An Evening With Sir PETER USTINOV J The 1990 Season sold out weeks ahead of the Opening Night this time book early for the one man show that brought extraordinary critical acclaim. "He thanked us for our company but, Mr Ustinov,
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 97 4 KUALA LUMPUR Timah Langat Bhd is to acquire 10.4 million shares of M$ 1 each representing 49 per cent of the paid-up capital of Connectics (M) Sdn Bhd for $10.4 million or at a price of $1 per share. Timah Langat said
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      • 84 4 KUALA LUMPUR Magnum Corporation Bhd said its acquisition of a 20.99 per cent stake in TA Enterprise Bhd would contribute positively to the future earnings of its '-group. Magnum said in a circular to shareholders that the activities of TA group would complement the Magnum group <
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      • 39 4 SINGAPORE As a result of the exercise of share options pursuant to the OCBC executives' share option scheme, the issued and paid-up capital of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation increased to $595,436,777 as at Jan 31, 1992.
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      • 65 4 SINGAPORE The register of UOL loan stockholders will be closed from March 14 to 20 for the purpose of determining entitlement to interest. Interest will be paid on March 31 for the period April 1, 1991 to March 31, 1992, at 8 per cent Mess 31
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      • 21 4 SINGAPORE Causeway Investment appointed Ms Janice Lee Lye Wah as a director of the company on Jan 31.
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    • 174 4 SINGAPORE Listed SinIgapore Petroleum Company (SPC) has secured a $500 I million contract to supply J fuel oil to the Public Utilities 'Board. Under the two-year contract, which starts from 1993, !SPC will deliver 32,000 bar- rels of fuel oil daily to Senoko
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    • 333 4  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Higher rents from its properties boosted Scotts Holdings Ltd's turnover and profit in the first half ended Dec 31, bringing its results in line with its forecast. Scotts Holdings, which owns Scotts Shopping Centre and The Ascott service
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    • 285 4 SINGAPORE To concentrate on its core business activities, First Capital Corporation Ltd (FCC) yesterday announced that one of its subsidiaries is selling its entire 60 per cent equity holding in Mimax Ribbons Pte Ltd. The buyer is Malaysianlisted MWE Holdings Bhd, which
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    • 360 4 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Stockbroking firm J B Securities in Johor Baru plans to exploit its proximity to Singapore by catering for the markets on both sides of the Causeway. J B Securities, which evolved from the revamp of R&I Securities,
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    • 233 4 KUALA LUMPUR Edwin Otomobil Nasional Bhd (EON), the distributor of the Proton Sagas, intends to maintain 20 per cent equity interest in Cyde Carriage Lid of Singapore. Accordingly, EON would monitor the issued share capital of C&C at all times and purchase such
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    • 422 4  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Kanzen Bhd, formerly Dreamland Holdings Bhd, has proposed a one-for-two bonus issue coupled with a one-for-one rights issue that will more than double its capital base to 83.79 million shares of Msl (550.63) each and raise M 555.30 million.
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    • 314 4 SINGAPORE A Pacific Carriers Ltd (PCL) subsidiary has reaped an extraordinary gain of HK521.27 million (554.48 million) from the sale of part of its stake in Citic Pacific Ltd. PCL said in a statement yesterday that its subsidiary, Sanryo Company
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    • 366 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Mutual Fund Bhd will launch its third fund next month the 100 million unit Kuala Lumpur Index Fund. The fund priced at Msl per unit will invest in component stocks of the Kuala Lumpur Stock
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    • 252 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Land and General Berhad reported a 37 per cent increase in its group pre-tax profit to M 586.67 million (5554.6 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1991 compared with M 563.19 million previously. It said in a
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    • 460 5  -  From S N Vasuki in_KARACHI STOCKBROKERS and merchant bankers in Pakistan's nascent stockmarket say Singapore's securities industry and regulatory authorities could play a vital role in advising the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) on sustaining growth and mapping expansion plans. "We virtually started
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    • 376 5 HONGKONG The aggrieved minority shareholders of Chinese Estates are continuing their crusade against Evergo Holdings' successful privatisation of their company, the South China Morning Post reported earlier this week. They presented formal complaints to the Governor, Legislative Councillor Chim Pui-chung, Omelco and the stock
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    • 380 5 Reuter LONDON Reuters Holdings pic on Wednesday reported a 6.3 per cent rise in '1991 profits, but the interna--1 tional news and information organisation said sales f growth was expected to slow in 1992. Pre-tax profit rose to £340.3
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    • 344 5 FT TOKYO Leading Japanese camera makers are anxiously awaiting contact from Honeywell, the US electronic control systems manufacturer, which was awarded US$96 million (SSISS million) last week by a US jury for alleged violation of its autofocus technology patents by Minolta of Japan.
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 106 5 SEOUL South Korea's Lucky Ltd, a unit of the LuckyGoldstar Group, will buy the remaining 50 per cent equity in Lucky Hoechst Corp from Hoechst AG for three billion won, Lucky said. A company spokesman said Lucky and Hoechst of Germany agreed in
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      • 129 5 CHICAGO Sears, Roebuck Co said on Wednesday it will cut about 600 jobs nationwide as part of a plan to save the company some US$5O million (SsBl million) by next year. The third-largest US retailer said the cuts would affect its field management
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      • 96 5 SYDNEY Pacific Magazines and Printing Ltd (PMP) shares opened at $3, 40 cents below issue price, when they officially listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The News Corp Ltd raised $382 million last year by selling 55 per cent of Pacific Magazines, which holds News Corp's
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 86 6 WASHINGTON US banks significantly increased their holdings of Treasury securities in 1991, according to a survey by the American Bankers Association. The group said the survey showed banks putting about 25 per cent of their securities portfolio into Treasuries, compared with 15 per
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      • 68 6 HELSINKI Finland's Osuuspankkien Keskuspankki Oy (OKOBank) said it maintained its profit level in 1991 despite being hit by increased loan and guarantee losses. Credit losses more than doubled to 209.8 million markka from 87.2 million. Its net income from financial operations rose to one billion markka
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      • 91 6 ROME Italy's Lower House on Wednesday approved an insurance fund for businessmen whose property is attacked by the mafia because they refuse to pay extortion money. The fund will repay merchanls up to U*****,000 (*****,500) tax-free for each attack if they help identify the gangsters involved. The
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      • 75 6 SYDNEY Special investment vehicle Prime Asset Vehicle Ltd is issuing Asloo million (S$ 123 million) of promissory notes under Australia's first single-asset commercial paper securitisation, the programme's developer County Nat West Australia Ltd said. "The product is also unusual as it has a different
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      • 52 6 SAN ANTONIO, Texas Community bankers at their annual convention on Wednesday said maintaining deposit insurance coverage levels and protecting the legal foundation of the United States' diversified financial system will be their top priorities. The resolution was part of a comprehensive package of measures approved by
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    • 361 6 JAKARTA Indonesia expects most of the country's banks to meet the required 8 per cent capital adequacy ratios by the end of 1993, central bank governor Adrianus Mooy said yesterday. He told a parliamentary hearing that 181 banks would have
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    • 489 6 Reuter HARTFORD, Connecticut Aetna Life Casualty Co reported a 34.5 per cent drop in fourth-quarter profits on Wednesday as a deteriorating real estate market took its toll on the United States insurance industry. Another insurance giant, Travelers Corp, announced that net
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    • 434 6  -  By Harish Mehta THE Malaysian-listed Public Bank will sign a contract next week with the Cambodian central bank to set up the first Malaysian joint-venture bank in Phnom Penh. The signing of the contract will coincide with a three-day official visit
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    • 318 6 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Public Bank Bhd has been able to meet challenges in 1991 despite rising cost of funds and the competitive and stringent banking industry, chairman Thong Yaw Hong said. The bank faced operational challenges and competitive opportunities but
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    • 406 6  -  Seeks USssom term loan b* Kooi Cho Teng SINGAPORE Commercial Bank of Korea is tapping the Asian capital markets for a US$5O million (5581.5 million) term loan. So far, it is the only South Korean institution (o do so during this quarter and
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    • 211 6 AFP WELLINGTON A NZ$lOO million (5588.2 million) money-laundering charge has been laid against officials of Equiticorp, New Zealand's biggest-ever corporate failure, it was reported on Wednesday. The Serious Fraud Office introduced the new charge against the Equiticorp group during a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday in
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    • 664 6  -  MARKET TALK By Kenneth James SINGAPORE Banana money it is not. But a yen bloc Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry recently released data showing that more and more trade, especially with the other Asian economies, is being done in yen. Now
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  • THE REGION
    • 260 7 NST BATU PAHAT Malaysian state governments will be empowered to stop the sale of land, other than industrial lots, to foreigners if a proposed amendment to the National Land Code is passed. Mentri Besar Muhyiddin Yassin said foreigners will be
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    • 192 7 AFP HANOI Vietnam will halt the export of processed wood, rubber and coffee starting this year while tightening restrictions on imports, State Planning Committee vicechairman Le Xuan Trinh said. "In 1992, the Vietnamese state will maintain only the export of rice and annul
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 75 7 BANGKOK The Thai air force has dropped plans to buy 38 AMX fighters from a Brazilian-Italian consortium. "There is no money to buy the fleet," Police General Pow Sarasin said on armed forces television on Wednesday night. The Thai military would have
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      • 62 7 MANILA The Philippines loses US$l billion (SS 1.63 billion) a year because of smuggling, a newspaper quoting a World Bank report said here yesterday. The Manila Chronicle said the World Bank report partly blamed the large losses caused by smuggling on the archipelagic nature of the
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      • 67 7 KUALA LUMPUR The Ministry of International Trade and Industry will have to revoke the licences given to flat steel manufacturers who have not shown any progress on their projects. The minister, Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz, said her ministry had approved 10 licences for the production
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      • 60 7 LANGKAWI Malaysia and Thailand are studying the border agreement signed by the Siamese and the British government of Malaya in 1909 to determine the boundary between the two countries. Foreign Ministry Secretary-Gener-al Datuk Ahmad Kamil Jaafar said this would be looked into by officials from both
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    • 308 7  -  Money will finance telecoms expansion From Al O Labita Jr in MANILA THE MANILA-BASED Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$lB5 million (*****.3 million) loan to finance the expansion of Indonesia's telecommunications system. In a statement, ADB said that the
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    • 235 7 UPI JAKARTA About 20 US companies plan to spend up to US$3O billion (5548.9 billion) in trade and investment in Indonesia, particularly in the country's oil and gas industries, a US businessman said on Wednesday. Harvey Goldstein, chairman and chief executive officer of
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    • 265 7 BANGKOK Australian cattle raisers are negotiating with their Thai counterparts on investing in a joint venture for cattle production using Brahman breeders for both the domestic and export markets, according to a report in The Nation. The paper, quoting Pallop Photipeuk, president
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 122 7 Ail opportunity for children of expatriates and permanent residents in Singapore Commencing February 17th 1992 English College at Woodlands will offer Secondary (from Year 7) and PreUniversity (South Australian Matric) programmes and from March 2nd 1992 First Year Undergraduate Courses. The undergraduate twinning programme is a flexible one with possibilities
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  • THE WORLD
    • 476 9 Kohl should not give people false hopes, they say Reuter BONN Leading economists are casting doubt on Chancellor Helmut Kohl's forecasts of early economic recovery in formerly communist east Germany, saying it could take up to 20 years before living standards approach
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    • 37 9 VENTURA, California A mobile home park adjacent to an interstate highway was flooded on Wednesday following heavy rains which caused damage throughout the Los Angeles area. At lease five people were killed.
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    • 576 9 Bid to lessen dependence on oil AFP ABU DHABI Gulf Arab states, no longer satisfied with massive earnings from oil clients, now seek foreign technology for industrialisation projects. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has earned more than US$BOO billion (Ssl.3 billion) since 1980 but
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    • 234 9 AP WASHINGTON Stateowned exporters in the former Soviet Union managed to keep US$l4 billion (5522.8 billion) abroad last year in spite of government efforts to get hold of muchneeded cash, an international banking group estimated on Wednesday. New policies and conditions might
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    • 451 9 Reuter WASHINGTON Russia and the other former Soviet republics will suffer skyrocketing inflation and a steep fall in output this year as they struggle to shift from communism to capitalism, an international banking group said on Wednesday. But the group, the Institute of
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    • 301 9 AFP OTTAWA Canadians are in danger of losing their position among the world's richest people unless they change their attitudes and behaviour, a governmentappointed think tank has warned. The Economic Council of Canada, in a report released on Wednesday, suggested that
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 127 9 TOKYO The Japanese government and industry will be faced with the task of reconsidering an earlier decision to ban the manufacture and sale of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the year 2000 after the announcement by US President George Bush on Tuesday that the US
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      • 96 9 HONGKONG A record number of tourists visited southern China's Guangdong region last year as the province plans to build a US$26O million (***** million) theme park to attract more visitors. An all-time high of 6.17 million tourists visited Guangdong, which borders on Hongkong, last year, up
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      • 58 9 WASHINGTON The World Bank has approved a US$llO million (SSI79 million) loan to China to help finance a project to expand water supply and improve sanitation. More than nine million rural residents in Guangxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Gansu, Nei Mongol and Xinjiang will benefit from new waterworks
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      • 71 9 STRASBOURG Relations between Argentina and the European Community are overshadowed by the EC's continuing use of "protectionist measures", Argentine President Carlos Menem told the European Parliament on Wednesday. But he urged the EC to put new drive into cooperation with Argentina, for example by reaching a
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    • 351 9 CARPET AUCTION Sunday 16th February 1992 1.00 p.m. (Auction) (Viewing 10.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.) Jasmine Room. 2nd level. Hyatt Regency Singapore. 100 carpets and rugs from Persia and Pakistan. All carpets are backed up by a full trade-in guarantee at our show room. Auctioneer: LEE BOON CHUAY Presenter: PETER
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  • 492 10 EDITORIAL THE high-powered Singapore investment mission which left for Europe last Sunday will be on the look-out for strategic alliances between Singapore and European businesses. It will not just bring in investments, as had been the aim of missions in the past. Taking the European mission which
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 294 10 UNITED STATES President George Bush would be ill-advised to try to recapture now the historical opportunity that he missed a year ago, when he called a halt to the Allied forces' advance into Iraq, allowing Mr Saddam Hussein to remain in power in Baghdad. The compelling
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    • 85 10 THE SINGAPORE Association of Islamic Religious Teachers (Peigas) is setting a good example for other Muslim organisations with its plan to offer working contracts to its religious teachers. The aim is to upgrade professionalism and improve the standard of teaching among the religious teachers. With more formal
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    • 141 10 IN A WAY, it is true that Western countries do not feel a sense of urgency to help the Commonwealth of Independent States. To the United States, so long as the CIS does not revert to the path of the former Soviet Union, it will not pose
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 202 10 VETERAN politicians, many of whom have switched parties since the previous election in 1988, once again told the media about their determination to serve the Thai people, bring social justice to the country and promote prosperity if they are elected to the House of Representatives. Palang Dharma
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    • 169 10 THE Tenaga offering will be the largest fund-raising drive in Malaysian corporate history and the company is expected to take over the lead from Telekom Malaysia as the largest company on the bourse in terms of assets and paid-up. The power company's entry will strengthen the
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    • 141 10 FINANCIAL Secretary Hamish Macleod's maiden Budget speech will be a test of how well he understands local politics. Unlike his predecessors, Mr Macleod is in the unenviable position of being the first Financial Secretary to have to deliver a Budget before a Legislative Council which contains directly
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  • 1160 10  -  Coca-Cola has a master plan for the 1990s and it includes the corporate goal to double total non-US sales volume by the end of the decade, says Alan Friedman Alan Friedman FT SOMEWHERE in the outer reaches of the Himalayas, a small and specially-trained
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1115 11  -  To some 6,000 Filipino Muslims, Gaya Island, near Kota Kinabalu, is the place they call home. But to the Sabah government, it is worse than a bad dream. Leslie Lopez explains why Leslie Lopez NAKED children run along rickety gangways above shallow waters filled with
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    • 621 11  -  Financial markets keep going up and down because of the United States Federal Reserve chairman's confusing comments, writes Samuel Fromartz Samuel Fromartz Reuter HOW DO you say the same words over and over and sound completely different each time around? It's not hard if you're Alan
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    • 758 11  -  There are high hopes in China that reforms, which have been stagnant for some time now, will soon be expanded. Sheryl Wu Dunn reports Sheryl Wu Dunn NYT SOME Chinese officials say they see momentum building within the leadership to accelerate economic change while
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    • 1238 12  -  US business is taking steps to recover its financial health. Martin Dickson reports Martin Dickson FT THE euphemisms vary but the song remains the same: whether it is called "restructuring", "downsizing" or "reshaping to better meet the challenges of the *****", corporate America is
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    • 395 13 Winter Olympics AP ALBERTVILLE, France An Olympic gold medal completed Jacqueline Boerner's amazing comeback 17 months after she was nearly killed in a traffic accident. Boerner won the women's 1,500-metre speedskating title on Wednesday on legs so battered in the crash that she spent eight
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    • 182 13 AP ALBERTVILLE, France Seiko Hashimoto, the durable speedskater whose fighting spirit makes her a favourite in Japan, finally won an Olympic medal on Wednesday, in her third and last Winter Games. Japanese-language banners around the rink exhorted "Hang in there, Seiko," as the 27-year-old skated to
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    • 264 13 AP LA PLAGNE, France Austria's sledding Neuner sisters kept each other awake dreaming of Olympic medals. Doris and Angelika, who turned in the best finishes in their country's history in women's luge on Wednesday, didn't miss the sleep. "In that situation, there's so much
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    • 574 13 Reuter LONDON To run or not to run is the choice awaiting England in its crucial Five Nations rugby union showdown with France in Paris tomorrow. England's brilliant backs are currently the envy of European rugby but, like millionaires with keys to both
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      • 126 13 CHICAGO Martina Navratilova, bidding for an all-time record 158 th career singles title, wasted no time at the Virginia Slims of Chicago tournament on Wednesday by taking just 32 minutes to beat Halle Cioffi 6-0 6-0 and reach the quarterfinals. Cioffi, 22, was no match
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      • 55 13 BRUSSELS American Jim Courier breezed past France's Fabrice Santoro 6-2, 6-1 in an opening round match on Wednesday at the US$BOO,OOO Donnay Indoor tennis tournament. Courier, who replaced Sweden's Stefan Edberg as the world's top-ranked player last weekend, needed only 63 minutes to beat the
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      • 73 13 MEMPHIS Top-seeded Michael Stich and second seed Pete Sampras both had success at the US$7BO,OOO International indoor tournament on Wednesday in opening matches that went according to the script. Stich, who like Sampras received a first-round bye, posted a 6-2 6-2 win over American Todd Martin in
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      • 84 13 SAN DIEGO Wednesday's America's Cup defender series race between Dennis Conner's Stars and Stripes and Bill Koch's Defiant was postponed due to winds of almost 30 knots (55 kph). The race was rescheduled for late yesterday. Though the 22.5-metre America's Cup class sloops are designed to
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      • 98 13 NEWPORT, Wales Stephen Hendry showed he is back to top form with a near flawless 5-1 sixth round victory over local hero Terry Griffiths in the £120,000 Regal Welsh Open on Wednesday night. On a slick table criticised by the majority of players, Hendry demonstrated the
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    • 609 14 TELEVISION AND RADIO Valentine verve OUR CHOICE SMrley Valentine, 10.45pm, SBC 5 Pauline Collins won an Oscar nomination as a housewife stuck in Liverpool. She escapes her dreary husband and the dreary weather for sun, sea and sex in Greece. She has a fling with Tom Conti but really falls
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    • 584 15  -  Mary Blume on the Allen-mania that is sweeping the Citv of Lights prior to his film premiere Mary Blume IHT THAT the world premiere of Woody. Allen's new film, Shadows and Fog, is being held this week in Paris instead of New York has been a
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    • 527 15 THE BRITISH rock group Queen said on Wednesday it would play an open-air concert in London in April as a tribute to its lead singer, Freddie Mercury, who died of Aids last year. Proceeds from the April 20 concert at Wembley football stadium,
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 865 16  -  By Claire Leow PROPERTY stocks continued to decline yesterday as analysts and brokers revised their ratings on the counters in anticipation of a worsening glut in the property market. But a broker warned that the market could be over-reacting. "Those who talked about
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      70 16 Comment UPSIDE target of $2.70 was not reached and the stock has now retreated. We are still probably in-a large triangle, which means buying on dips and selling on rallies would be the best approach. First buying level is around $2.25 to $2.30. If this breaks, expect a
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  • 1070 17 MAIN BOARD LOANS A WARRANTS 1991/92 Tci Canr Last Vol Day Last Qaote Rate Gr's YTd High Low 1 1 Code Coapaay Traded Sale +ar(W0) High Low Bayer Seller <%) <%) 25 386 88 38 95* 10 78 75 23 86 t t 1521 1565
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  • 115 18 I rerun M shafW < > uotod 1 0411 Jnd 10,5 <* 1000 stwa P/E rate Reflect last nut consofcdated results Forefn shares P/Es are adjuted tor currency LtUCHU unless otherwise specified inferences. ABN shares quoted m doMars Gr YTd Forev shares adiusted for currency
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 481 19 Losers lead gainers 205 to 33 Bernama SHARE prices here closed lower yesterday, extending Wednesday's losses on further profit-taking, causing the key barometer to fall about one per cent. Investors were also reluctant to lend support amid mixed signals from the major overseas bourses.
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    • 24 20 Forecast figures are contributed by Baring Securities, Crosby Securities, DBS Securities. GK Goh Securities, Hoare Govett Securities and Kay Hian James Capel.
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    • 120 20 F«ures m brackets are for the previous corresponds period L: Loss. TL Tai Exempted. Ik Net. HYA: Not Yet Available, (a): Adjusted for scrip issues, (b): In mril»n Dutch Florms, (c): Profit after tax. (d): In rmltion HKJ, Company's profit (f): In million yen. (f): Profit after tai
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    • 350 20 Feb 12 Sngapore Electronic and Engineering Ltd has revamped its corporate structure to make itself more customer-oriented and more competitve. Pubic France Berhad, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Public Bank Berhad, plans to float 70.47 m shares and seek a listing on the main board of the Kuala Lumpur
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    • 126 20 Ml shares quoted have a par value of $1 unless otherwise specified NYA Not Yet Avatoble. kit Interest I Intenm, N Net TE Tai Exempt S Special tfcwdend. (a) Adjusted tor scnp issue, (b) First and Fmal. (c) Includes 41 special dividend, (d) Includes 6% special dividend; (e)
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND
    • 148 21 UPI STOCK prices finished slightly higher in record trading yesterday with the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index closing at 803.2, up 1.76 points. "The market movement was quite volatile after the big advance on Wednesday," said Am porn Ruangprasertkul, a broker from
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    • 90 21 SHARES closed higher yesterday, boosting the index by 1.21 points to 292.55, brokers said. They said the market was 'active with strong local buying interest in most sectors. The turnover rose to 12.55 million shares compared with Wednesday's 11.79 million. Indah Kiat closed 250
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 251 22 Reuter STOCKS closed lower yesterday for the third consecutive day in choppy trade. Bargain hunting and renewed hopes of easier credit helped offset fears that a raid on a trucking firm may herald a major new political scandal, brokers said. Yesterday's monthly options
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 241 22 Reuter SHARES yesterday advanced solidly in heavy trading to a record close, but finished well off their intra-day highs on profit-taking. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index put on 31.07 points to 4,763.50, piercing the previous record of 4,733.56 set on Monday.
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  • AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 397 23 UPI PRICES closed well below their highest level for the day on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday after the release of better than expected jobless figures, brokers said. At the close of trading, the All Ordinaries Index was up 2.2 points to
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Absence of fresh news sends Seoul index lower
      • 102 23 THE STOCK INDEX fell for the fourth consecutive day, dropping through the 660 level in the absence of fresh news in the market to improve investor sentiment, brokers said. The composite stock index fell 7.74 points to close at 656.49. A total of 26.8 million shares worth 349.5 billion
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      • 157 23 SHARE PRICES finished higher across the board, rebounding slightly after recent sharp falls. Brokers predicted narrow trade in coming days. The weighted index closed at 5,088.10, 26.50 points higher than Wednesday's 5,061.60 finish. Turnover fell to NT529.65 billion, the thinnest in over a month, from NT$32.B billion. Brokers said
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      • 186 23 SHARES slipped on dampened investor interest after pro-administration presidential candidate Fidel Ramos went abroad for an undisclosed purpose and the market was left to speculators. The Manila Stock Exchange composite index lost 6.16 points to close at 1,219.32. Traders sought a clearer picture of political alliances for the May
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        806 24 STOCKS scaled new heights on Wednesday to close at record highs in both the listed and secondary markets, helped by programmes and rotation among issues. Spurred in part by expectations of a further interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve, many indices bounded past recently set records. Analysts
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        370 24 LEADING stocks finished lower here on Wednesday after a report from the Bank of England dampened hopes for recovery and lower interest rates. In its Quarterly Bulletin, the bank said it could see no signs of an economic upturn and highlighted the difficulties in cutting interest rates. The FT-SE
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      • 505 24 SHARES shrugged off rumours of a new coup in Russia to end a volatile trading session mixed, with the focus on second-tier stocks. The 30-share DAX index ended 4.63 points lower at 1,678.92, well above the day's low of 1,671.63 which came after some slight selling pressure emerged on
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      • 253 24 A GENERALLY quiet stock market closed mostly firmer on Wednesday, buoyed by slightly improved interest in quality issues and stronger world gold prices, dealers said. But no clear direction was evident in the thin conditions, they said, describing the atmosphere as cautious. The JSE overall share index ended the
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1187 25 REPORTS THE US dollar had worn out a pfennigwide groove around 1.60 marks by the London mid-session as dealers pushed it to and fro in rather listless technical trade. A lack of good gossip yesterday morning the dollar's four pfennig
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    • 348 25 FT TOKYO Japanese people reached for their calculators on Wednesday after Mr Michio Watanabe, the Foreign Minister, announced that knocking noughts off the yen would lead the country out of "recession". A redenomination, he argued, would revive the economy by stimulating
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    • 256 25 Reuter BUENOS AIRES Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo said the government planned to stick to its economic programme and had no intention of giving in to pressure to devalue the peso. "There is no way in which we are going to give up the stability we
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    • 10 25 Source: UOB Source: Astley Pearce Source: OCBC
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    • 74 25 Rates quoted by Astley Pearce Rales quoted by NatWest Note: Based on latest issues Source: The Monetary Authority of Singapore Average of prime or equivalent lending rate Feb 13 Bangkok 14.3 Frankfurt* 9.75 Hongkong 8.5 Jakarta 23.0% Kuala Lumpur 9.0 London 10.5 Manila 21.0% New York 6.5 Tokyo
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    • 17 25 Note: Volume and open interest are for previous day trading. Source: Singapore International Monetary Exchange
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 423 26  -  By Shoeb Kagda SINGAPORE Tin prices, long depressed, have begun to climb over the last few days after hitting record lows in January. Though the worst seems to be over, traders and tin miners remain sceptical about the long-term health
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    • 282 26 Reuter FRANKFURT Prices of non-ferric metals have reached the end of the recent trough and will show a recovery soon, German metals group Metallgesellschaft AG said. Metallgesellschaft chairman Heinz Schimmelbusch told a news conference: "Judgment of metal markets is particularly difficult this
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    • 842 26 REPORTS CRUDE palm oil prices were higher at the close yesterday on light covering interest that reflected gains on the futures market, dealers said. They said sentiment was aided by recent export business to Pakistan and Egypt. Trading remained thin with operators cautious about
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  • 443 28 Trucking firm Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin under scrutiny Reuter TOKYO Japanese officials raided offices of two former executives of a trucking firm yesterday in the first step of an investigation into what political sources say could become another huge political scandal. "Following our undercover
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  • 354 28 AFP BEIJING More than 1,000 state-run Chinese factories have been given capi-talist-style management powers as part of sweeping efforts to reform the industrial sector, official media said yesterday. The government chose the 1,000 key enterprises as the first batch to be reformed and
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  • 171 28 Reuter JAKARTA President Suharto yesterday said continued international criticism of an army massacre in East Timor three months ago amounted to a violation of Indonesia's rights. "No country should impose its values (on another country)... it is not in accordance with the
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  • 438 28  -  From John Helmer in MOSCOW POLITICAL factions within the Russian government will prevent any move towards a peace treaty with Japan, or a settlement of the Kurile islands dispute. Senior Russian officials told Business Times that the resumption this week in Moscow of
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  • 40 28 CHAKOTHI, Pakistan Kashmiri activists facing tear gas fired by Pakistani police on Wednesday after crossing a barbed wire barrier. The protesters were trying to cross the ceasefire line that separates Pakistan and India.
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  • 188 28 AP BONN Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Cabinet on Wednesday approved a landmark treaty that would end border controls among West European nations on Jan 1, 1993. But in a bizarre move, Mr Kohl's own parliamentary faction threatened to block ratification of the accord.
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  • 420 28 Reuter GENEVA Opec oil ministers yesterday resumed their hunt for an elusive formula to slow their pumps and put a floor under petroleum prices teetering on the edge of collapse, delegate sources said. Ministers from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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  • 207 28 Reuter LONDON Britain's economic prospects are bright despite the persistence of the recession, Prime Minister John Major said on Wednesday. He was speaking after a survey from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), an influential employers' group, showed the British economy remaining in a
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  • 206 28 Reuter MOSCOW Russian President Boris Yeltsin, heading off opposition to his economic reforms, said yesterday that he is planning changes to ensure better social protection of the poor and to stimulate growth. He also stepped up pressure on Vice-President Alexander Rutskoi, a potentially powerful
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    • 498 29  -  Business went up by 41 pc to $51 million By Selva Kumar SINGAPORE Riding on a boom in bulk and general cargo throughput, Jurong Port has turned in a record turnover in the financial year ended March last year. According to the Jurong Town Corporation's
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    • 274 29 Reuter JAKARTA A fire on an Australian cruise ship, the Ocean Pearl, off the Indonesian island of Sumatra has been put out and its 400 passengers are safe, an official with the Indonesian shipping company Pelni said yesterday. "The fire has
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    • 328 29 AP PARIS The French government on Wednesday recommended that airlines using the Airbus A 320 review how they use a computerised navigation system that malfunctioned aboard a jet landing in Bordeaux a week ago. Air France and its domestic counterpart, Air Inter, said
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    • 266 29  -  Bt Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Mexican shipping company Transportacion Maritime Mexicana (TMM) has named Jardine Shipping Agency (JSA) its new agent in Indonesia in an effort to bolster its position in South-east Asia. The 35-year-old TMM sees Indonesia in particular as having considerable
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      • 64 30 LONDON British Airways is considering acquiring a minority stake in French regional airline Transregional (TAT), the Financial Times newspaper said. It said British Airways was believed to have received an approach from TAT. The French government last year disposed of its 35 per
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      • 85 30 TORONTO Bombardier Inc said it is the designated supplier of rolling stock for the Bangkok rail transit system announced on Saturday. Other steps must be taken during the next year before construction of the system is assured, Bombardier said. If the project is carried through, Bombardier
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      • 62 30 LONDON The Panamanian tanker Sulu Sea, adrift in the South China Sea has been contacted by a tug and is now under tow back to Hongkong, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence Service said on Tuesday. The 6,377-dwt oil, chemical and molasses carrier was found at position Lat
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      • 56 30 LONDON The Cyprus bulk carrier lapetos, which sustained a crack in its hold after hitting a quay at Zeebrugge on Feb 2, has moved to a berth for repairs, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence said on Tuesday. The 119,500-dwt vessel has unloaded 106,000 tonnes of iron ore.
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      • 82 30 RIO DE JANEIRO Two sailors were killed in a dawn attack by pirates on a Maltese-registered ship anchored in the bay off Rio de Janeiro, police said on Monday. About 10 masked and armed men swarmed aboard the Anand early on Friday as
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      • 65 30 STOCKHOLM Swedish investigators have concluded ice probably caused the Dec 27 crash-landing of a Scandinavian Airlines System plane in which all 129 aboard survived, Swedish radio reported on Tuesday. The investigators were said to have found that material from outside the McDonnell Douglas jet,
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      • 54 30 STOCKHOLM Bilspedition said on Tuesday it will acquire all the shares of air freight firm Jetpak in exchange for its 50 per cent stake in Swedish airline Linjeflyg AB. Bilspedition managing director Martin Lundberg said that this was part of a three-way agreement among Scandinavian Airlines
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    • 1044 30 Although the Indian government is keen to help its maritime industry expand, it not able to do so due to fiscal pressures from every direction of the economy sential. International Transport Journal WITH THE world's biggest democracy clearly intent on liberalising its shipping industry policies and encouraging
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    • 787 30 CHARTERERS again failed to make any relevant moves in the dry cargo market on Tuesday and rates eased further, brokers said. No key grain fixtures were reported and both the panamax and capesize sectors were subdued, dragging the Baltic Freight Index down another seven points to 1,349. The
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    • 88 30 This report is based on umpit* as analysed by Veritas Petroleum Services and it an abstract Iron its mora detailed fuel quality statistics which art maNed nk f po T t h r 1 b TJ ro Ji p !l, ln r#fkMU brtvtt y Comparison has
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    • 4639 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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    • 354 46 UPI HOUSTON Continental Airlines unsecured creditors are trying to sue former chairman Frank Lorenzo and another company executive for US$lBO million (*****.7 million) and also want to sue the federal pension agency for US$l24 million. Lawyers for the creditors filed separate motions with a Chapter
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    • 326 46 Reuter TORONTO Honda Canada Inc accused the US of "Japan-bashing" on Wednesday after a preliminary report from the US Customs Service found Canadian-built Honda Civics do not meet Canada-US free trade rules. "We see this an abuse of the Free Trade Agreement and
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    • 395 46 NYT NEW YORK In a move to attract business travellers and make New York's Kennedy International Airport, more of a domestic hub, TWA announced on Wednesday that it would add new morning flights from Kennedy to six big cities. Trans World
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    • 272 29 THE FAMOUS HOT LINE 224 1833 For more information ple»»e refer to Pg. 13 Obstacles facing Indian maritime expansion WITH the world's biggest democracy clearly intent on liberalising its shipping industry policies and encouraging the growth of the Indian fleet without unduly assisting it, the tension between Indian owners and
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    • 1184 33 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 15 Hoe Chiang Road #09-01 Sanford Building Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fa/: *****17 SERVICE TO SABAH SARAWAK BRUNEI SUM IS HOPE STRJUTS VENTURE MM!! BROOKE STRAITS STAR VO2E Mum Skan, Ta«r VO4E Muara, Lab. KK Vos£ Muara. lab. KK Vo3t Muara. Skan, Tata ACCEPTS CARGO 14-15
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    • 1156 35 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) BOOKINGS: (TOLL FREE) USA SERVICE FAR EAST SERVICE UK/EUROPE SERVICE AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE *****00 (TOLL-FREE) 7844/27S w J 4 5' ■is ,< NEPTUNELINK TEL *****82 DOCUMENTATION DEPT *****31 TERMINAL OFFICE *****22 *****89 IMPORT CFS MB2 *****69/*****98 *****32 EXPORT CFS MB2 *****53/*****50
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    • 885 36 K K LINE KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD AS AGENTS KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD ICR No: **********0 M) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****07/8/9 MALAYSIA: "K" UNE MARmME (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD TEL SA *****00 PK *****01/5 PENANG *****0 JB *****1 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUT INTERNUSA TEL: JKT *****76. *****77. *****08
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    • 764 37 PIL PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 REGIONAL CONTAINER SERVICES CR NO: **********0E VUUL A VIIWL BUNQA MELOR VOY SM KEK KAO SIN IS/2 25/2 27/2 5/3 33/3 3/3 5/3 19/3 hhhh VESSEL VOY SIN BLW PEN SIN SCA QLORY SQY2OS
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    • 520 40 TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND TO USA/CANADA cargo totUSA Houston, Savannah, Norfofc, BaMmara, Now Tort CANADA Montreal. Toronto FROM USA/CANADA/EUROPE/MEIMTERRANEAN I\l KM \(»I \li i; no BELSIN SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE LTD >i r, MACOLINE SEMI-CONTAINER FEEDER SERVICE Accepting LCL To: BUSAN 17/2 PORT KELANQ/PCNANQ 14/2 MELBOURNE 20/2 BARCELONA 24/2 CONVENTIONAL SERVICE ITA
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