The Business Times, 22 April 1992

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  • 15 1 BUSINESS TIMES /HE Hi SINESptxPER FolcS-h:. ~sW MITA (P) 35/12/91 Wednesday, April 22, 1992 i*7sfi
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 59 1 TOKYO Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa indicated in a meeting here yesterday with Vietnamese National Assembly chairman Le Quang Dao that Japan is ready to financially help Vietnam, official sources said. "We need to deepen friendly ties," he said after the Vietnamese parliamentary
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    • 67 1 TOKYO Japan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has warned 15 printing companies against bid-rigging. The firms, including Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd and Toppan Printing Co Ltd, held pre-tender negotiations from April 1988 to March 1992 to illegally fix prices for magnetic card tickets and coupon
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    • 42 1 ONLY two of the eight land parcels next to the Singapore River offered by the Urban Redevelopment Authority received bids when the tender closed yesterday, continuing a trend of poor responses tor its land sales in recent months Page 2
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    • 33 1 MALAYSIAN businessman Lim Thian Kiat of Multipurpose Holdings Bhd (MPHB) is preparing to wrest control of Pilecon Engineering Bhd. a construction and property group specialising in piling systems Page 3
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    • 28 1 RUSSIAN economic reform is entering a new stage which will determine whether or not the country succeeds in creating a market economy Page 12
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    • 40 1 WORLD sales of goods and services would rise by USSI9S billion (***** billion) a year within a decade if measures planned in the Gatt talks are adopted, says a report published by the OECD Development Centre Page 13
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    • 32 1 WASHINGTON and its rich allies are expected to try to thrash out ways to avert a global recession at a meeting of economic policy-makers this weekend Page 13
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    • 34 1 IN a major docking exercise stretching over from last year, Keppel Shipyard was awarded a SBO million contract to refurbish a fleet of 15 Exxon vessels. Shipping l imes Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 34 1 PRICES on Wall Street moved up slightly early yesterday with the Dow Jones index of leading industrials rising 2.01 points (0.06 per cent) to 3,338.32 in the first five minutes of trading.
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    • 41 1 LONDON SHARES were lower at midday yesterday after dealers marked down prices following declines on the Tokyo and New York markets. At about 1115 GMT, the FTSE 100-Share Index stood at 2.627.5. down 11.1 points, or 0.4 per cent.
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    • 38 1 AFTER announcing yet another move to trim its massive debt by SlO2 million last week. UIC is said to be planning a further cut of SIOO million through the sale of assets Page 5
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    • 27 1 ROUGHLY 80 per cent of Swens Asia Pacific Ltd shares were allotted to larger investors. or those who applied for over 10.000 shares Page 5
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    • 25 1 OVERSEAS Union Bank will focus on the buoyant East and South-east Asian countries this year, says chairman Lien Ying Chow Page 5
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    • 26 1 BANK NEGARA does not feel that the rise in the statutory reserve will trigger another increase in the base lending rates Page 8
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    • 31 1 London GoM am fix USS338.20 USS 1.40 Exchange rates USS SS 1.6605 100 Yen SS 1.2346 MS SS 0.6519 Money market rates Overnight 2 1/4% -13/16 3-month 3 3/16 -1/16
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Tuesday Change BT-MGA 684.94 -2.06 Kuala Lumpur ...572.57 fO. 11 Tokvo 16.787.33 -284.03 Hongkong 5.093.09 10.40 Sydney 1.588.0 -2.0 Monday Change New York 3.336.31 -30.19 London closed
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    • 29 1 Rubber Spore Mav.. I40.00*/kg unch M'sia May 2l6.50«/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 35 tonnes Spot MSI4.54/kg f0.04 Crude palm oil Turnover 431 lots -843 June MS897 /tonne unch
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  • 555 1  -  Problems cited in securing use of a hawker centre, wet market By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE A muchpublicised $300 million deal to forge a partnership between the Fraser and Neave (F&N) group and govern-ment-owned Pidemco Land has fallen through. As part of the deal, listed
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  • 155 1 SINGAPORE Regional markets, except for Hongkong, generally ended easier or mixed following Monday's losses on Wall Street and Tokyo's weaker close yesterday. Tokyo stocks posted its third consecutive day of losses in thin trading, with the 225share Nikkei Average dropping 284.03 points, or
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  • 425 1 New military chief threatens to ban rallies Reuter BANGKOK Thailand's stock market suffered its biggest one-day loss tor eight months amid growing disapproval of the unclectcd new prime minister. General Suchinda Krapravoon. The official SET Index plunged 23.75 points, or 2.94
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  • 358 1 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian central bank governor Adrianus Mooy yesterday appealed to banks to lower interest rates, set nearly two years ago to cool down an overheated economy. "The present deposit rates are still too high." he was quoted by the Jakarta
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  • 655 1  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA'S top economic think-tank has forecast the country's gross domestic product (GDP) to slow to 7.5 per cent in 1992 and warned that a growth rate of more than 8 per cent will result
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
    • 345 2  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Only two of the eight land pareels next to the Singapore River offered by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) reeeived bids when the tender elosed yesterday, continuing a trend of poor responses for URA's
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    • 402 2  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE Australia will have to decidc where it wants to fit in as the drive towards regionalisation leads to the emergence of three major trading blocs. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told Australia's national paper. In
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    • 453 2  -  By Kenneth James SINGAPORE Australia is vigorously knocking down, piece by piece, all of the barriers that have separated the continent from the Asian region, the country's Treasurer John Dawkins said yesterday. Addressing a lunch meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association, Mr Dawkins said
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    • 276 2 Reuter CANBERRA Most Australians believe they are outsiders in Asia, despite Prime Minister Paul Keating's efforts to integrate the country into the region and play down ties with Europe, according to an opinion poll. Sixty-nine per cent of those polled view their
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    • 722 3  -  Group's bid may lead to battle with HK-listed Allied Group From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN businessman Lim Thian Kiat of the diversified eonglomerate MultiPurpose Holdings Bhd (MPHB) is preparing to take control of Pilecon Engineering Bhd, a construction and property group
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    • 564 3 Reuter TOKYO Debate is raging in Tokyo's corridors of power about whether Japanese companies will be forced to abandon the strategies which have brought them such stunning success and such harsh criticism in world markets. But agreement is still a long
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    • 256 3 Reuter HANOI Asian countries should develop their markets for their mutual benefit after decades of conflict, Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday during a visit to Vietnam, scene of Asia's last great war. Vietnamese and visiting Malaysian officials announced new cooperation in
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    • 744 3  -  New arrangements for clove trade and TV licence fees From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA THE Indonesian authorities have moved to defuse widespread public criticism of monopolies. The government has announced new arrangements involving the clove monopoly BPPC, and has taken steps to revoke
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    • 171 3 Mahathir opens first M'sian-Viet joint venture bank, Pg 8 fi ft: Model No. BA 31 JOT Legends have sought this watch. Napoleon. Wellington, too. And the crowned heads of Kngland, France, Italy, Spain and Russia. Then, as today, those who shape destiny are quick to pursue that which seems most
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 103 4 SENIOR MINISTER Mr Lee Kuan Yew has accepted the invitation of Vietnam's Chairman ot the Council ot Ministers Mr Vo Van Kiet to visit the country. Mr Lee will be in Vietnam from tomorrow to April 27, a statement Irom the Prime Minister's
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      • 89 4 SHELL raised its petrol and diesel prices at the pump last night. For the three grades of leaded and unleaded petrol, a litre now costs 4 cents more while diesel is 20 cents more. The oil companv, which operates the biggest chain of petrol stations in
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      • 62 4 THE Eleventh Meeting of the Asean Women's Programme will open at Singapore's Carlton Hotel today. The three-day event will be launced by the Minister of State for Health Dr Aline Wong. The Asean Women's Programme is a sub-committee of the Committee on Social Development, a functional committee
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      • 54 4 THE visiting Malaysian Chief of Navy Vice-Admiral Dato Seri Mohammed Shariff bin Ishak yesterday called on Defence Minister Dr Yeo Ning Hong. Vice-Admiral Shariff arrived in Singapore on Monday for a three-day official visit at the invitation of the Singapore's Chief of Navy,
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    • 454 4  -  By Dawn Tan NORWAY-BASED Christiania Bank has settled a mul-ti-million-dollar debt claim with the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS), sources say. The estimated $13 million out-of-court payment, believed to have been made in December last year, ends a year-long legal tussle by DBS
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    • 478 4  -  By Dexter Lee NERVOUS car distributors, who are scrambling for Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) for vehicles without catalytic converters, have driven COE prices to record highs. Motor industry sources say the premiums will be even higher in June as these distributors pull out all stops
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    • 369 4  -  By Clarissa Tan LOCAL company Oraltech Pte Ltd has produced an electric toothbrush, called Pembrush, which has a rapidly oscillating single brush head. The product, which derives its name from the phrase "plaque eliminating mechanical brush", is the brainchild of entrepreneur Dr Si-Hoe Kok Soon,
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • 501 5  -  Sale will help to meet debt reduction target: sources By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE After announcing yet another move to trim its massive debt by SlO2 million last week. United Industrial Corporation (UIC) is said to be planning a
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    • 291 5  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Roughly 80 per ccnt of Swcns Asia Pacific Ltd shares were allotted to larger investors, or those who applied for over 10.000 shares. A DBS official said the man-in-the-street, defined as those who applied for less than 10,000 shares,
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 88 5 KUALA LUMPUR Minority shareholders will be given greater proteetion against the actions of unscrupulous company directors and substantial shareholders under proposed amendments to the Companies Act 1965. Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Abu Hassan Omar said yesterday that the amendments, to
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      • 32 5 SINGAPORE Malayan Credit Ltd has appointed Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia as adviser to its board of directors on the takeover by Cycle Carriage Ltd, it said yesterday.
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      • 44 5 SINGAPORE Guthrie Manufacturing (S) Pte Ltd. which recently completed a takeover for shares in L&M Group Investments Ltd, said its offer to holders of options under L&M's senior executives' share option scheme closed on April 8 without any acceptances.
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      • 50 5 SINGAPORE United Overseas Land Ltd said the Stock Exchange of Singapore will suspend trading in its 1983/93 loan stock from May 6 to May 25 for the redemption of the issue. Thereafter, the loan stock will be removed from the official list of the SES.
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    • 346 5  -  By Hong Lee Tiam SINGAPORE A 48-per-cent rise in pre-tax profit last year at Singapore Mandarin International Motels Pte Ltd, the wholly-owned hotel management subsidiary ot Overseas Union Enterprise Ltd, has helped boost the group's earnings in 1991. In his annual statement
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    • 259 5 SINGAPORE Overseas Union Bank will focus on the buoyant East and South-east Asian countries this year, chairman Lien Ying Chow said in his annual statement. Mr Lien said the move which is part of OUB's business strategy is a response to
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    • 457 6 50pc share in Aussie hotel Ventures with S'pore. Jakarta in Bintan BANGKOK The Thai Wah Co has expanded its international property development business through the purchase ot' 50 per cent of the shares in a hotel in Cairns. Australia, and joint ventures with
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    • 423 6 Company expects to improve on last years strong profits Reuter i j MANILA Philippine food and beer giant San Miguel Corp (SMC), chalking up strong 1991 profits in spite of a recession, says it is ready for heightened competition and is forecasting an even better
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    • 993 6  -  HOCK By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE When Mercedes distributor Cycle Carriage Ltd launched a hostile bid for Malayan Credit Ltd earlier this month, many reckoned that any ensuing battle would be brief and brutal. Malayan Credit's controlling shareholder, the Teo family,
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    • 333 7 UPI Reuter NEW YORK Colgate-Pal-molive Co, citing strong sales growth in Asia and the US. on Monday reported that its first-quarter net income jumped 25 per cent to a record US$ll3.B million (*****.1 million), or 74 US cents a share, from
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    • 372 7 FT NEW YORK Credit Lyonnais severed the last connection between MGM, the Hollywood film studio, and Giancarlo Parretti, the controversial Italian financier, when the French bank foreclosed on the 98.5 per cent of MGM's stock it holds as collateral for loans made to MGM
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 91 7 HONGKONG The issuing of stocks to the public in China will be strictly limited to five cities and provinces, the semi-official China News Service yesterday quoted an authoritative source in Beijing as saying. The five are Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan provinces and
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      • 110 7 TOKYO Mitsubishi Kasei, a major Japanese chemical company, said yesterday it has purchased a major US magnetic tape manufacturer for between 3.5 billion and 4 billion yen (5543.2 million-5549.4 million). Mitsubishi Kasei said it purchased Carlisle Companies Inc through the Japanese firm's US subsidiary. Verbatim
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      • 125 7 TOKYO Mitsubishi Materials Corp, of the Mitsubishi group, yesterday denied it is considering participation in a copper-smelting project in Indonesia. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper reported that the company is considering joining a consortium, including Germany's Mctallgesellschaft AG and US-based Freeport-McMoßan Inc, to build
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      • 116 7 TOKYO Japan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has warned 15 printing companies against bid-rigging, the commission said yesterday. The firms, including Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd and Toppan Printing Co Ltd, held pre-tender negotiations from April 1988 to March 1992 to illegally fix prices for magnetic
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      • 88 7 TOKYO Nomura Securities Co Ltd said yesterday it had unrealised losses of 34.54 billion yen on securities holdings at the close of the fiscal year ended March 31, 1992. But Nomura said there would be no change in its current profit forecast of 45
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      • 138 7 NEW YORK Capital Cities/ABC Inc said on Monday that its earnings for the first quarter fell 28.7 per cent and that the ABC network had reported a loss. The eompany attributed the weak performanee to the absenee of revenues from the Super Bowl and
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    • 627 7 American unit files bankruptcy petition, seeks to liquidate assets Reuter DETROIT The Yugo. which attracted motorists in the 1980s with its ultra-low sticker price but drove them away with its quality problems. has been withdrawn from the US market, leaving dealers and owners in
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS 1
    • 369 8 Challenges to the banking industry in NICs Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bank Negara does not feel that the rise in the statutory reserve will trigger another increase in the base lending rates, its deputy governor Tan Sri Dr Lin See
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    • 285 8 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Finance Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim cautioned banks against funding speculative investment, even though it was a profitable business. "It is futile and, in the long-run, destructive to focus on the creation of paper fortunes by merely shifting money around,"
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    • 204 8 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Standard Chartered Bank is confident of achieving profits in its first year of operations from its offshore banking activities in Labuan. The manager of the Stanchart Labuan Offshore Bank, Mr Lee Ming Tiong, said on Monday that business had been very encouraging,
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    • 347 8 Bernama HANOI A Malaysian-in-corporated bank opened its branch here yesterday in joint venture with a local bank to pave the way for the promotion of a strong Malaysian business presence in Vietnam. The branch, called the ViD Public Bank, the first Vietnamese-Malaysian
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    • 438 10  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG SINCiAPORE-BASED Morgan (ircnfell Investment Management (Asia)'s US$5O million (SSX2.S million) China Fund was listed and traded on the Hongkong Stoek Hxehange yesterday, becoming the first to do so si nee rules were approved for funds invested in
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    • 333 10 UPI WASHINGTON More than one-third of the largest US banks and thrifts holding vast deposits from mutual funds and brokerages are expeeted to come under Federal supervision when a pending regulation becomes law in June, government officials say. These so-called brokered deposits
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    • 560 10 Chase, Dime Savings quarterly profits also rise due to better interest-rate spread NYT NEW YORK Nationsbank, the fourth-largest banking company in the US. said on Monday that its firstquarter profits increased 95 per cent, while earnings at Chase Manhattan rose 20.5 per cent. At Dime
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  • THE REGION
    • 342 11 Foreign-funded ones more likely to do so: report BANGKOK Despite the record number of investment projects approved by the Board of Investment (Bol) between 1987 and 1990, fewer than 30 per cent actually materialised, according to a study commissioned by the
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    • 412 11 AP AFP MANILA Leaders of coup attempts against President Corazon Aquino have urged military officers to intervene if next month's elections are marred by fraud, the army commander said yesterday. Government sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, also said the military
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    • 421 11 Chaos as new morning rush-hour rule takes effect AP JAKARTA The fathers of this city of nine million expected chaos on the roads during the first few days of an experiment to ease traffic jams and chaos was what they got. The
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 75 12 MANILA The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it will give Cambodia USS2.4I million (Ss4 million), its first major technical assistance grant to the country since 1973. The United Nations Development Programme will supplement the grant with an additional US$l.44 million. The ADB said the
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      • 75 12 BANGKOK Thailand's investors were told to put on hold their plans to invest in the garment industry in Vietnam, the Bangkok Post reported on Monday. Thai Garment Manufacturing Association vice-president Aroonrus Leelahasuwan gave the advice after spending a week inspecting investment prospects in Vietnam, particularly in
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      • 106 12 MANAMA. Bahrain Saudi Arabia will provide the former Soviet republics with loans worth US$l.25 billion (552.08 billion), the remaining amount of US$l.5 billion pledged to the Soviet Union last year. Riyadh-based economists said. They said US$5OO million the remainder of an initial US$75O million credit
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      • 152 12 OTTAWA Canada's economy is showing some earlysigns of recovery, but economists warn that lingering high unemployment will hurt any bounceback. "On balance, we are starting to see a turnaround but it so slow that people are barelv noticing it." said Leo de Bever, chief economist with
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    • 775 12 Monetary policy to be eased, industries to be revamped FT MOSCOW Russian economic reform is entering a new stage which will determine whether or not the country succeeds in creating a market economy. Monetary discipline will be relaxed in favour of an attempt to
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    • 441 12 Reuter WASHINGTON The US, faulted for focusing on Russia at the expense of other former Soviet states, will play host to President Leonid Kravchuk amid signs that it may be elevating its relationship with Ukraine. Because of its sheer size, its resources
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    • 411 12 Reuter BUDAPEST The work of building market economies in Eastern Europe remains an awesome challenge two and a half years after the collapse of communism. The magnitude of the task becomes clearer each day as the full legacy of communist central planning
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    • 282 12 Reuter TUNIS Arab slates fear Washington will soon seek tougher sanctions against Libya probably a freeze on foreign assets if Tripoli fails to surrender suspects in the Lockerbie airliner bombing, say Arab diplomats. "Unfortunately, there is a time limit. I
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    • 465 13 FT LONDON World sales of goods and services would rise by US$l95 billion (***** billion) a year within a decade if measures planned in the Gatt talks were adopted, said a report published yesterday by the OECD Development Centre, the Parisbased
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    • 560 13 Washington to press for growth package Reuter WASHINGTON The US and its rich allies are expected to try to thrash out ways to avert a global recession at a meeting of economic poli-cy-makers this weekend. Western diplomats and private economists said Japan's collapsing
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    • 542 13 NYT NEW YORK The veiy rich in the US raised their share of the country's total pool of privately held property during the 1980s economic boom, according to researchers at the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service. Total private wealth
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    • 164 12 gWENg (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 12,000,000 ORDINARY SHARES OF 550.05 EACH ("SHARES") COMPRISING 8,400,000 NEW SHARES AND 3,600,000 VENDOR SHARES AT 550.55 FOR EACH SHARE PAYABLE IN FULL ON APPLICATION ("THE INVITATION") The Directors of Swens Asia-Pacific Ltd announce that at the close of
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  • 464 14 EDITORIAL THE ground-breaking ceremonies earlier this week for two ferry terminals in Bintan and Singapore were simple affairs. Singapore and Indonesian officials put their hands to shovels, laid some stones and had a jovial, hope-filled telephone conversation in a special hook-up between the Republic and Bintan.
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 248 14 EVEN as Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong kicked off the 10-year healthy living campaign this week, a report appeared on how rising medical bills could become a cause of concern to many companies in Singapore. The moral is the same in both cases: More needs to be
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    • 151 14 EVERY year, 200 Singaporeans become desperate because of kidney failures. The recent case of a Singaporean's operation in India that went wrong highlights the agony of many kidney patients. The National Kidney Foundation has done immensely well in focusing national attention on kidney problems. However, dialysis poses considerable
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    • 118 14 THE effectiveness of the health campaign depends on the efforts made in three aspects: the leadership of and the example set by the government, the total support of employers in the private sector and the serious pursuit of a healthy life by an individual and his family.
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 218 14 WILL the ban on private cars carrying less than three people along certain streets beginning on Monday give Jakartans a foretaste of what will be here to stay? Or will it merely be a passing nuisance, doomed to be dubbed a fiasco? Or will it prove
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    • 157 14 THE announcement by Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Abu Hassan Omar on the tabling of a Bill of Parliament next year to regulate direct selling activities is applauded without gusto. It cannot be perceived as a symbolic moment where good triumphs over evil. The "evil",
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    • 138 14 MEASURED against the relatively high levels of interest demonstrated by the Bangkok electorate in the gubernatorial election two years ago, the 23.01-per-cent voter turnout for the city governorship election yesterday was a disappointment. Be that as it may, the administration of Bangkok's affairs must go on. The
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  • 1239 14  -  The syndicate of banks which managed to get Alan Bond declared a bankrupt will not find much of his empire left, reports Florence Chong in Sydney Florence Chong The writer is BT's Sydney eorrespondent AFTER a year of trying. a syndicate of banks, led by
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous

  • ANALYSIS
    • 714 15  -  Christoph Bertram ponders over the deadlock between Russia and Ukraine and its consequent effect on a future European order Christoph Bertram The writer is diplomatic correspondent for the German weekly Pie Zeit HAVING just returned from Moscow to Hamburg, I am less worried by the
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    • 865 15  -  Simon London looks at the consequences of refinancing billions of dollars in warrant and convertible bonds issued by Japanese companies and which mature within three years Simon London FT The protracted weakness of the Tokyo stock market recently means that Japanese companies will have to
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    • 1349 15  -  Thinking of investing in Johor or some other part of Malaysia? If so, Peter Tan and Lim Poh Chin can tell you more about Malaysia's programme of tax incentives Peter Tan and Lim Poh Chin The writers are from an international accounting firm JOHOR plays an
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    • 191 15 SECRETARIES WEEK (April 20 24) ■jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjH fly^ r> t- n^i *S ■JVr'X" X A Jt WK- jj BOSSES TAKE NOTE: For the woman who organizes your office life, plan a lunch treat to show her your appreciation. A surprise gift awaits her at both outlets. Senbazuru Let your secretary take
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      • 108 16 TOKYO Mountain-sized Salevaa Atisanoe, the Hawaiian who has won two of the last three sumo wrestling tournaments, was quoted as saying the reason he has not been promoted to the sport's highest rank is racism. "Strictly speaking, this is racism," Atisanoe, who wrestles under
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      • 80 16 SHEFFIELD, England Thailand's James Wattana beat 15th seed Tony Jones of England 10-5 in the opening round of the world snooker championship on Monday. Leading 7-2 after the first session, Wattana lost his discipline and went for some reckless shots. But breaks of 59, 56
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      • 82 16 LONDON Chris Fairclough's 53rd-minute header from close range against Coventry regained Leeds the top position in English soccer's first division on Monday, after former leader Manchester United lost 2-1 to visitor Nottingham Forest. The Leeds-Coventry game started two hours after the United-Forest match. Leeds players knew
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      • 56 16 DONINGTON PARK, England Frenchman Raymond Roche stormed to the top of the world superbike championship here on Monday. The Ducati rider, who won the title two years ago, won a closely-fought first leg and finished second behind Britain's Carl Fogarty in the second leg. Roche now
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    • 603 16 Reuter BOSTON A tearful Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya won his third Boston Marathon on Monday in the second fastest time ever while rising Russian star Olga Markova upset world number one Wanda Panfil of Poland in the women's race. Hussein's winning time of two hours
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    • 399 16 Reuter SAN DIEGO Italy's II Moro di Venezia equalled the narrowest winning margin in America's Cup history to level the challengers' finals, while America 3 held off Stars in Stripes to extend its defenders' lead to 2-0 on Monday. In easily the most
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    • 369 16 UPI NEW YORK Muhammad Ali. relishing the typical glow created by his presence, on Monday returned to the city where he split two fights with Joe Frazier to be honoured for his humanitarianism. At a luncheon in an exclusive midtown hotel, Ali was the first
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    • 243 16 the Quadrant The Quadrant A 28-storey intelligent office II 1U V/ concouK prote reW ta the conae* 11 LJ CII 7 nm^'of Ae i pta, miionrnmi ior n 111 111 V\ Church Street. With the Raffles Place MKT stanon just a Jgl 10 and conv™n® Jil H *»complementtbeenratamn. Incotponmg 3
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  • THE LAW PAGE
    • 880 17  -  In the third in a series of articles on arbitration, David Gabriel looks at some of the different non-judicial methods for settling commercial disputes. David Gabriel TALK TO Lawrence 800. chief executive of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), and he will use the
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    • 402 17 t NEO POH GUAN SONS PRIVATE LIMITED V. COMMISSIONER OF LAND High Court of the Republic of Singapore, Originating Summons No 1233 of 1991. Justice Chan Sek Keong. THE issue was whether a deed of conveyance registered with the Registry of Deeds was effective in passing
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    • 434 17 LIM LIP HL'A V. SEAH CONSTRUCTION PRIVATE LTD High Court of the Republic of Singapore, DC Appeal no 76 of 1991. Yong Pung How, Chief Justice. THE Lim family had lived in a rented home in Florence Road since 1945. In 1989. Seah Construction became
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    • 387 17 SIM HILL TAN WONG V. LIM KAY SENG AND OTHERS High Court of the Republic of Singapore, Originating Summons No 1181 of 1991. Justice Chan Sek Keong. THE DISPUTE arose over the purchase of property at Gambir Walk. The purchaser was Queen Astrid
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    • 627 19  -  Singapore Film Festival Simone Vaz previews tonight's screening of Guilty By Suspicion Simone Vaz AS WITH almost all his movies, Robert de Niro displays such a huge talent in Guilty hy Suspicion that he eclipses everyone else from the screen. An exception might possibly
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    • 632 19  -  Nirmal Ghosh finds Akira Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August finely crafted and politically startling Nirmal Ghosh Akira Kurosawa has struggled for most of his illustrious life for finance in Japan, and Rhapsody in August marked the first time in 21 years that he has managed to find it.
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    • 242 19 CHATTERBOX MADONNA is teaming up with Time Warner Inc in what is reported to be one ol the most lucrative deals ever negotiated by a pop star a seven-year contract worth perhaps US$6O million to the Material Girl. The communications giant confirmed on Monday
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    • 3605 20  -  By William Chia FALLS on the New York and Tokyo bourses depressed sentiment in Singapore yesterday, eausing share prices to fall in thin trade. The key Straits Times Industrials Index ended at 1,402.65, down 10.14 points from Monday's elose but off
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      63 20  -  By Anthony Pang Comment SAN TEH's share price has been rising steadily since mid--1991, against the Sesdaq market trend of declining prices. A short-term correction, however, looks likely as the 13-day RSI is again showing a divergence compared to the price trend. But with the long and medium-term
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    • 250 22 BANKING, FINANCE AND INSURANCE SUPPLEMENT 1998 A special Business Times Survey May 4, 1992 The theme for this year's supplement is "Managing the Tiger" which focuses on the tremendous growth achieved in recent years by Asia's banking and finance industry and the constraints faced by the region's regulators to encourage
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 5129 23 Bernama Reuter SHARE PRICES in Kuala Lumpur closed slightly easier yesterday on lack of support although selected speculative interest lifted prices off the day's lows. The KLSE Composite Index at the close was 0. II of a point higher at 572.57 and the
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 323 24 Mai* Board Last FuD Year Forecast Date Net Net Profit EPS amcd Year EPS Gross profit Range Range Com pair) Period last yr ending (cts) dtv ($000) (SSrn) (cts) SPH I Apr 26 At* 92 626 2b 0 *****2 /9 9 168 4 325 68 5 SIA F
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    • 611 24 Main Board Ust Fu Ve Company Period Date Tear EPS Cross Net announced ending (cts) dw last year W EMS Final No* 6 Jul 91 30TE Jacks Int Final Apr 30 Ian 92 2281 HTP Hldgs hnai May 6 Mar 92 4 5 3 3 6.032 Chem
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    • 183 24 Company Date Year Group Net Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per share dividend ('000) (cents) Tempteton Apr 16 Ctec 91 US$63 073($58 034) 39 5(36 3 2100(1500) ti)L Apr 1« Dec 91 HKS80.73/(S10./61L) 2.7(-) HSBC Apr 14 Dec 91 $5 664 i$3 096 35(1 9) 1
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    • 1043 24 Company Date Year Group pre-tax Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per share dividend ('000) (cents) Dunlop Est Apr 16 Dec 91 VJH6.821 ($3,803) 15( 5(5) V Resources Apr 15 Dec 91 M$1 800($l./62) 0 /(0 6) Per!.s Plant April Dec 91 M$209 84/($204 043) 496(52 1)
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    • 330 24 Company Date Half-year Group pre-tax Interim ann to profit/loss (L) dividend (000) New World Apr 1 Dec 91 HK$1 276d($521.808) 21(16) Burwill Mar 31 Dec 91 HK$14.779($11.169) 25(25) H leong Credit Mar 31 Dec 91 M$28 558<$*****) 3(3) Insas Bhd Mar 31 Dec 91 MJ2253L ($5211L> Material H
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    • 305 24 Apr 20 Gold Coin will change its name to Goldtron Ltd as part of Acma's plan to transform the former feedmill manufacturer into a diversified electronics manufacturing anddistribution group. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation opened a representative office in Ho Chi Minh City, its first presence there
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    • 376 24 Trans Registered Substantial Buy/ Shares Amount Shareholdings Stock Date Holder Shareholder/Director Sell involved Before Cnge After cnge o JH 16/04/92 COPSsangyong Cement lemasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd S 3.000 II !i SPC 16/04/9? CDP Ssangyong Cerwnt DBS Bank *S 3000 132.379 4/6 41 37 !NX 16 04/9? Lee
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    • 1687 24 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment date dose payable the year last year A cm j 5% kin 5 Ion 18 W 122% I0%TE Amtek Em 50c 6%TE(I) Ape lb Apr 21 Apr 30 6%TE 12%TE Anno 20c 12 5%TE Ma. 3 Mar 13 May
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    • 634 24 Company Rights Issue Nbnce Tech One forone J1 00 per share Bedford Issue of $175 lm nominal amount ol 551 Bar* Guaranteed Bonds 1992 97 with detachable transferable subscription rights (TSR) on the basis of one ISR for every four ordinary shares (<> M$0 195 for each fSR
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    • 89 24 Contention Special Irdg Scripless ComersHMi deadline Period I rading Company Marts <I»P> (ST) Marts Centrepoint Mar 30 Apr 21 Apr 8 Apr 21 Apr 22 First Capital Mar 31 Apr 22 Apr 9 Apr 22 Apr 23 Gold Coin* Ma\ 12 Jun 8 -,un V. Ilai San Hup
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    • 145 24 Hotel Plaza Ltd: EGM 23rd AGM at the Board Room. 30th Storey. UOB Building, 1 Bonham St. Singapore 0104. on Thursday. April 23. at 1145 am Renong Bhd: EGM at the Balroom. Mezzanine Floor, Hotel Equatorial, An Sultan Ismai, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Friday, April 24, at 10am
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    • 167 24 RECORD HIGHS LOWS BT Composite Index ST Industrials Index 1992 tagti: *****8 21/2 92 > 1992 htfv 15*592 (27 192 1992 low: U9131 (09 4 92) 1992 tow: 35?« (09 4 92) 1991 Nfh: *****8 3 6 91) 1991 *«eh ,1ft i ll! 1991 low: 1022 52 (16 1 91)
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    • 236 24 Company Rights Issue BdHa, issue at *90 9/8m nominal amount ot 35*, Redeemable Unsecured Guaranteed Bonds 199? 97 with 45 489m detachable TSRs on the basis ot V nominal amount ot Bonds tor every three ensting shares held Ei date Apr 15 Boohs close Apt 30 Acceptance Payment
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND
    • 2208 25 Reuter THE stock market suffered its biggest one-day loss for eight months yesterday amid growing disapproval of the unelected new Prime Minister, General Suchinda Kraprayoon. The official SET Index plunged 23.75 points, or 2.94 per cent, to 785.09 on a turnover of 5.01 billion
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  • JAKARTA STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 1171 25 STOCK PRICES closed slightly higher in fairly active trading yesterday, with volume rising to 3.87 million shares from Monday's 2.81 million. The official index rose 1.86 points to 273.24. Brokers said sentiment was bullish in the financial and industrial sectors. Pulp producers Indah Kiat
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2575 26 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS posted a third consecutive day of losses in thin trade yesterday and the 225-share Nikkei average closed down 284.03 points or 1.66 per cent at 16,787.33. Depressed by the market's failure to hit bottom, most investors stayed away as in-dex-linked selling eroded
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2658 26 Reuter STOCKS finished firmer but off the day's highs in eautious trade yesterday. Brokers said share prices traded generally higher in the morning on local retail demand for banking and utilities counters, but slipped back around 5,100 later. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index
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  • AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 1930 27 Reuter STOCKS closed slightly lower in thin volumes yesterday with many investors still on holiday and sentiment depressed by weakness in offshore markets. "The market was affected by the overseas news." said Potter Warburg director Mark Fordree. "It did try to get up during
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Seoul market edges higher as small stocks rally
      • 57 27 INDICES TURNOVER Close Apr 21 Prrriows NEW ZEALAND NZSE-40 Capital 1.411 54 1.***** +0.85 MANILA Composite Index Turnover (million pesos* 1.171.54 1919 1.176.22 172.25 -4.68 19 65 TAIPEI Weighted Price Index Turnover (NTS billion) 4.556.09 16.15 4.547.74 II 66 8 35 -4.49 SEOUL Composite Stock Index Turnover (billion won) 588.51
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      • 862 27 STOCKS ended a fraction firmer yesterday to post a gain for the sixth consecutive session with buying centred on medium and low-priced shares between 10,000 and 15,000 won. brokers said. "The market pattern remains the same a rally in low-priced counters, a correction in low-PER shares and fiat in
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      • 489 27 SHARE PRICES reversed early losses to finish slightly higher yesterday, brokers said. The weighted index finished 8.35 points higher at 4,556.09. Turnover was a thin NTS 16.15 billion against NT511.66 billion on Monday. Brokers said slight buying emerged in the last hour but most investors remained sidelined, worried by
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      • 503 27 SHARE PRICES finished lower yesterday as investors concerned about threats by army rebels to launch a fresh coup attempt ahead of the May 11 elections decided to stay on the sidelines, brokers said. The Manila Stock Exchange composite index slipped by 4.68 points to end at 1,171.54 from Monday's
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      • 350 27 THE SHARE MARKET recovered from a weak beginning yesterday to close steady on light volumes, heartened by the generally stable Australian and Japanese bourses. Brokers said the main interest had been in the re-rating of quality second line shares. "Probably it's a reflection of relatively little overseas interest."
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Dow drops 30 points in cautious trading
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        1775 28 STOCKS retreated in cautious trading on Wall Street on Monday on a broad sell-off. tied to profit-taking following last week's big gains and concern over slumping bond prices and the Tokyo market's further deterioration. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rose 12.74 points to a record high 3.366.50
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      • 72 28 INDICES TURNOVER Apr 20 (low Prr»ious NEW YORK Dow Jones 3.336.31 3. 366 50 -.3(1 19 S P 500 410 16 ***** -5.89 Turnover (million* 192.04 233.23 -41.19 LONDON Financial Times .10 closed 2.059.2 1TSF. 100 closed 2.638.6 Turnover (million) closed 889 1 FRANKFURT DAX Index closed 1.749.23 AMSTERDAM EOE
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      • 808 28 Other markets in Europe, South Africa and Canada Johannesburg Apr 16 Rand INDUSTRIALS A Alpha 4100 unch AECI 925 unch A MIC 7700 400 Abercom 125 Amaprop 690 10 BAZ 1300 Barlows 5525 unch Basil Strk 10 unch Blyvoor 515 CG Smith ***** unch Cnagalo 2550 75 Curfin 690 20
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        566 28 Apr 16 Pent* INDUSTRIALS \llied-L\ons 640 S Amec 169 •1 31 "i unch B Airwa\s 282 4 344 BAT Ind 748 10 BICC 343 5 BOC Group 680 8 V; BP 259 4 BTR pic 452 i Barclays 337 4- 3 267 -8 481 3 795 8 274 2
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      • 367 28 STOCKS wound down a very slow post-holiday session on Monday, ending moderately lower with few discernible trends emerging during the session. traders said. After an opening flourish on the downside, the market settled into a narrow range for most of the day. Moderately hea\y losses in Canadian and US
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    • 27 28 The London. Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Zurich, Stockholm, Brussels and Johannesburg markets were closed on Easter Monday Don't miss Personal Finance Investment in Business Times every Saturday
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1196 29 REPORTS ASU TOKYO: The US dollar ended slightly higher against the yen yesterday in nervous but narrow Tokyo trade, dealers said. Interbank long-liquidation and exporters' and investors' sales capped the dollar's rise against the yen, although dealers said sentiment was
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    • 384 29 Cross rates Apr 21 I USS S$ MS Dm Yen SFr A$ NZS USS 1 6630 2.5480 1.6660 134.50 0.5721 1.5410 1.3038 1.8450 SS 0.6013 1.5322 1.0018 80.8779 0.3440 0.9266 0.7840 1.1095 MS 0 3925 0.65 0.6538 52.7865 0.2245 0.6048 0.5117 0.7241 Dm 0.6002 0.9982 1.5294 80.73
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    • 541 29 Interbank rates s$ Bid Offer Overnight 2 1/4 2 1/2 1-month 3 1/8 3 1/4 2-month 3 1/8 3 1/4 3-month 3 3/16 3 5/16 Overnight mode: 3-3/16 ISS Bid Offer 7 days 4 1/16 4 3/16 1 month 4 1/16 4 3/16 2 months 4 1/16 4
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    • 335 29 Reuter TOKYO The Canadian dollar has firmed against the yen recently, mainly because of the strength of the US dollar. but currency dealers here expect the gains to be limited without the active participation of Japanese institutional investors. "The Canadian dollar
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    • 1339 29 SIMEX EUHOOOUAH Open High Lw Sett Est Vol Act/Vol Op/lnt Jun 92 95.79 95.80 95.78 95.79 4500 4945 ***** Sep 92 95.39 95.43 95.38 95.42 6823 9067 ***** Dec 92 94.63 94 70 94 63 94 68 6200 4768 8697 Mar 93 94 36 94 44 94.35 94
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 476 30 Reuter HOUSTON Opec is making a move to bring members of the Commonwealth of Independent States under its umbrella, a US Department of Energy representative said. One of the former Soviet states. Armenia, already has agreed to Opec terms, while several others, including
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    • 292 30 Reuter WASHINGTON The Philippines should produce 1.875 million tonnes of centrifugal sugar in 1992-93, based on a cane harvest projection of 21 million tonnes, according to an unofficial US attache report from Manila. The attache said estimates were based on expected increased planting
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    • 1005 30 REPORTS THE price of tin on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market closed four sen higher at MS 14.54 per kg on some covering interest yesterday. Dealers said the market held steadier as there was some demand from local and European
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  • 976 30 Rubber MS(tebte Ww) s cents/kg Noon Close Int 1 RSS Prompt I4025/I4I25N *****/141 OON |nt I RSS Mav 92 140 25/***** 140 00/140 50 Int I RSS June 141.25/141.75 141.00/141.50 Int 2 RSS OP I39.00/I40.00N 139.00/140.00N Int 3 RSS OP 138.50/139.JON 138.50/139.50N Int 4 RSS OP 136.00/137.00N 136.00/137.00N Int
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    • 631 31  -  POSTCARD FROM SEVILLE By Judy Cantor KING Juan Carlos, the man who guided his country from a semi-devel-oped dictatorship to a modern democracy, gave the order on Monday to open Expo '92 and show the world that Spain is entering the 21st century in style.
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    • 151 31 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.2680 1.2780 Canadian dollar 1.3950 1.4050 NZ dollar 0.8910 0.9210 Sterling pound 2.8945 2.9145 US dollar 1.6562 1.6662 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14.00
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    • 305 31 1 Merely leaves the army, |mJ iMf —iH gets comeuppance (4,7) 8 Form an ambition to conceal love. It's anathema ~~HH|H German by reversals (4) 12 Taken to a Spartan queen ***** I I I 1 I 13 Aggregate and aluminium found in dynamite (7) 15 Anticipate the Red —JBB—
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    • 174 31 Singapore Outlook: Fair, except for showers over a few areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Report: Maximum temperature 34.0 Assoc humidity 59% Minimum temperature 27.1 Assoc humidity 91% Hours of sunshine 10.20 Rainfall in mm Nil Rainfall this month 126.6 Rainy days this month 8 World forecast Asia-Pacific
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  • 578 32 Hopeful signals even as economy continues to slow Reuter TOKYO Japan's economy has continued to lose steam, but some sectors have shown signs of recovery. Bank of Japan branch managers reported. The Japanese are shying away from buying video decks and automobiles
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  • 425 32 Reuter MOSCOW Russian President Boris Yeltsin presented a draft law to the country's supreme legislature yesterday, asserting his personal control over the government. The law, if approved by the Congress of People's Deputies, could thwart a bid by conservative deputies to
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  • 458 32 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan is sharply cutting back a huge programme of government bond issues as its six-year, US$3OO billion (***** billion) economic development plan runs into difficulties, officials said yesterday. The government intended to increase new bond issues by at least
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  • 431 32 Reuter BEIJING Allies of China's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, did battle in the press yesterday against hardline conservatives, hailing his reforms as a revolution in which emphasis on stability could block progress. "Reform is a revolution." the Economic Daily said, reporting on
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  • 418 32 Former British PM takes credit for election victory Reuter NFW YORK Former Brit ish prime minister Margaret Thatcher has taken credit for the Conservative Party victory earlier this month and warned the party not to "undo what I've done". In a two-page
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  • 153 32 Reuter KABUL Afghanistan's acting president said yesterday that his government was ready to hand over what was left of its power to mujahideen rebel groups encircling Kabul. But Abdul Rahim liatif said the forces must first agree among themselves what sort of government
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    • 354 33  -  Work on 13 ships completed, two still undergoing repairs By Tan Hua Joo SINGAPORE In a major docking exercise stretching over from last year, Keppel Shipyard was awarded a $80 million contract to refurbish a tleet of 15 Exxon vessels. The vessels
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      • 32 33 THE Oil Pollution Act 1990 took centre-stage at Intertanko's annual meeting earlier this month in Genoa. Andrew Guest takes a look at the issues raised Page 2
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      • 89 34 SINGAPORE Taiwan's Eva Airways is expecting delivery of a Boeing 767 tliglit simulator front the UK manufacturer kediffusion Simulation. Eva's sister company Evergreen transported the Concept 90 simulator as containerised and out-of-gage cargo. E\a is also expecting delivery of 747 simulator later this year.
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      • 98 34 JERUSALEM Israel's state-run airline El Al yesterday announced net profits of USS3B.9 million for 1991, double the previous year when the Gulf crisis hurt business more. El Al carried 1.75 million passengers, a fall of one per cent over 1990. but cargo tonnage increased
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      • 69 34 NEW DELHI Authorities beefed up security at Indira Gandhi International Airport early yesterday amid reports that deposed Afghan President Najibullah may be allowed to leave his country and fly to the Indian capital. Although there was no official confirmation Mr Najibullah would arrive, dozens of
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      • 97 34 JACKSONVILLE. Florida CSX Corp's CSX Transportation Inc subsidiary said the United Transportation Union has ratified an agreement eliminating brakemen positions for through-freight operations on the former Seaboard Coast Line portion of its railroad system. In January, a similar agreement was ratified on the former Georgia
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      • 122 34 GENOA A regatta of 82 large sailing ships from 12 countries set out for America on Sunday from the home port of Christopher Columbus to mark the 500 th anniversary ot the explorer's maiden voyage to the New World. The sailing ships "will realise
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      • 38 34 TOKYO Toyota Motor Corp plans to open four engineer training centres in the Commonwealth of Independent States with the aim of producing and repairing Toyota-made cars there, a report said on Saturday.
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    • 12936 42 This is a list ot" ship> loading T at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the 6 ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure z from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND v PN: ship
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      • 595 49 Vessel Way No Berth Amval Departs teX M total Pi|Mr»t Marina Terminal 1 lurong Port BatamBaru 8141 M05 alongside 22 04 ,>300 to 49 B atoflgsrfe jwj Btm Bahagia *****? M03 alongside 21 04 2300 0»i Daya 2300 Garuda G43 M04 alor*«te 22 04 2300 A*an Ma,.
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      • 282 49 Joliort Port Berth: 1: Gentki; 2: Timber Royal; 3. Su Yang; 4: Taygetus; 5; Victoria; 6; Uni Moral 01 jetty: AkJebaran DCJ: Bunga Kekwa. Due on Apr 21: Anax Puma. Banki. Barge Eastern One. Melaka Jaya No 3. Pelego Iso. Abadi iaya. Kara Sea. Barge Sea Maco.
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    • 587 52 Move shows airline will not be undercut NYT NEW YORK American Airlines announced on Monday that it was lowering fullcoach and discount fares on many routes, in a calculated warning to weaker carriers that had undercut the simplified fare structure American announced less
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    • 289 52 Reuter MAPUTO Mozambique said it faced environmental disaster and appealed for international help on Monday after more than 3.(MX) tonnes of heavy fuel oil spilled from a stricken Greek-owned tanker otY Maputo. "It is the biggest environmental disaster ever to hit
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    • 431 52 It will ensure safety of shipment from France UPI TOKYO Japan will assume "100 per cent responsibility" for the safety of radioactive plutonium to he shipped from France this year, the head of Japan's Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp said on
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    • 287 52 UPI CHICAGO Ameritech Corp joined Motorola Inc and two prominent Brazilian firms on Monday in an international consortium to bid for the first cellular licence in Sao Paulo. Brazil. The Brazilian partners in the consortium are Unibanco, a leading financial conglomerate, and Odcbrecht. Brazil's
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