The Business Times, 23 July 1992

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  • 16 1 Business Times MITA (P) 35/12/91 Thursday, July 23, 1992 THE BUSINESS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 59 1 WASHINGTON Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan said the Fed was not considering redefining M-2 to account for its apparent new relationship with the economy. In testimony before a House Banking subcommittee, Mr Greenspan also said that long-term rates could fall further if inflation
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    • 57 1 LONDON Britain's current account balance of payments deficit rose to £722 million (552.238 billion) in June t'om the £630 million in May, the Central Statistical Office said yesterday. Meanwhile, letail sales fell 0.2 per cent in June from May after rising a revised 0.4 per
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    • 35 1 SINGAPORE'S affluent class out-did all other Asians in maximising their investments while the Hongkong Chinese were Asia's top earners, a recent survey sponsored by the Hongkong-based Far Eastern Economic Review showed Page 3
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    • 27 1 CHINA announced new restrictions yesterday on fishing in its offshore waters, including the disputed South China Sea. said the official China Daily newspaper Page 8
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    • 54 1 THE Organisation for Economic Cooperation and De\elopment yesterday projected its highest jobless level since 1983. Despite expectation that economic growth will advance modestly this year, the number of unemployed people in the major industrial nations is likely to rise this year by two million to almost
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    • 32 1 THE International Olympic Committee is considering legal action against American Express Co over its alleged "ambush" marketing campaign to attack its rival Visa, an official Olympic sponsor said. Page 16
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    • 33 1 THE US has become a "war zone" for tanker operators since the introduction of the American Oil Pollution Act of 1990. said Intertanko managing director Tormod Rafgard. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 38 1 WAI L STREET stock prices headed lower early yesterday, following the lead of markets in overseas financial centies. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 15.67 points to 3,292.74 in the first hour of trading.
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    • 28 1 LONDON share prices were lower at midday yesterday. At about 1100 GMT, the FISE 100-Share Index was down 36.8 points, or 1.5 per cent, at 2378.8.
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    • 27 1 KtPPEL Integrated Engineering, which closed its share offering yesterday, has attracted some 45.000 applicants for its fixed price tranche involving 22.5 million shares. Page 4
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    • 50 1 INTRACO Ltd has ie-sold its office space on three floors of the NOL Building to Neptune Orient Lines, the building's owner, for $29 million in cash. Based on the depreciated \alue of the freehold property, it will result in an extraordinary gain of $6.3 million Page 4
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    • 33 1 LISTED Keppel Corp. with a market value of USS2.I billion (553.4 billion), has become the latest local company to join the ranks of International Businessweek's Global 1.000 Page 4
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 ednesday Change BT-MGA 698 85 +3.35 Kuala Lumpur ...608.79 +3.63 Tokyo 15.541.95 -460.46 Hongkong closed Sydney 1.607.2. -2.0 Toesday hange New York 3.308.41 +5.41 London 1.831.0 -*-6.9
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    • 25 1 Exchange rates L'SS SS I 6110 100 Yen SS I 2832 MS SS 0 6447 Money market rates Overnight 2-1/16 +1/16 3-month 2-3/16% -1/16
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    • 37 1 London Gold AM fix USS357.IO -US$0.30 Rubber S pore Aug 143.50*/kg unch M sia Aug 221 */kg unch KL Tin Turro\er 45 tonnes -41 Spot V1S!6.96/kg +0.43 Crude palm oil 7urro\er l,082lots -523 Aug MS860/tonne +2
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  • 573 1  -  Sector's 20pc jump will add 1.4 points to GDP growth By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE The booming construction industry, the economy's star performer, looks poised for a recordbreaking year $10.2 billion worth of contracts by year-end, higher than the last peak in
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  • 352 1  -  Asean Ministerial Meeting From Chuang Peck Ming in MANILA VIETNAM and Laos yesterday signed the Asean Treaty of Amity and Cooperation, formally signalling the end of more than a decade of hostilities between Indochina and its non-communist neighbours. The signing, which capped
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  • 475 1 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's central bank, having declared inflation its chief enemy, is expected once again to raise banks' reserve requirements in an effort to keep interest rates from falling, dealers said yesterday. "I would say it is a 75
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  • 81 1 LOCAL interest rates are low, the stock market is down and no one knows where property prices are headed. So where should you put your money? Business Times has asked some of Singapore's brightest financial brains. And their answers are in our Infesting *92 supplement, free with today's
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  • 513 1  -  By Shoeb Kagda SINGAPORE Singaporebased banks are poised to play a vital role in financing Indonesia's US$7B billion (S$ 125.6 billion) worth of infrastructure projects over the next 10 years. Industry sources told BT that the tight money supply in Indonesia
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  • 145 1 SINGAPORE Tokyo stocks plunged to a six-year low yesterday while steady bargain-hunting in Singapore helped the local market to make modest gains. Index-linked selling and gloom over prospects for the world economy contributed to the 460-point plunge of the Nikkei Average. It ended the
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    • 42 1 More reports on Pg 3: Asean urges restraint in Spratlys dispute Russia calls for talks to limit naval games Rich nations rapped for not concluding Gatt talks Hock Lock Slew: Thai Airways headed for bumpy takeoff on Bangkok bourse today, Pg 4
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 160 2 WITH anything between 36,000 and 100,000 Singaporeans abroad, Singapore has the resources to globalise and invest overseas, said senior civil servant J Y Pillay yesterday. The question, he said, is how to match the needs of local firms for corporate globe-trotters with the desire of many
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      • 112 2 FOUR Japanese printed circuit-board experts will be in Singapore next week to conduct a study on the state of the local PCB industry and suggest ways to upgrade local operations. These include techniques to produce the increasingly popular multi-layer PCBs. The team will be headed
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      • 64 2 SURVEY Research Singapore (Pte) Ltd has donated a 590.000 computerised retail space management system to Temasek Polytechnic. Called the Apollo Space Management System, the software enables students to assume the role of merchandisers in planning the use of retail space. The system, which is being used
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      • 43 2 THE second Muslim cadaveric kidney donation in Southeast Asia was carried out here a few days ago at the height of the Muslim Transplantation Month. The thrust of the campaign has been to get Muslim support for kidney transplants.
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    • 388 2 SINGAPORE Compaq Computer Corporation, which started the latest PC price war, yesterday reported lower margins despite more shipments of personal computers. Last month, Houstonbased Compaq launched lowpriced PCs and cut prices on existing models by reducing production costs. The move has hurt
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    • 246 2 Property update SINGAPORE The annual demand for private homes has increased by about 20 per cent over the last decade, says property consultant Knight Frank Cheong Hock Chye Baillieu (KFCB). Speaking at a property and construction seminar yesterday, KFCB director Amos Koh said
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    • 198 2  -  By Kooi Cho Teng SINGAPORE ERA Realty Network Pte Ltd, which sold half a billion dollars worth of resale housing property last year, has reported a 25 per cent increase in sales for the second quarter. Figures just released by the firm's residential
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    • 507 2  -  Taiwanese computer maker attacks attitude of American companies By Joseph Rajendran TAIWAN computer king Stan Shih yesterday warned American rivals to stop exploiting Asian suppliers and ridiculing the quality of their products. "Many American companies pay a low price for our quality,
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    • 334 2 TAIWAN personal computer manufacturer Acer will contract other Asian companies to make its PC processing units. Acer chairman and chief executive Stan Shih said yesterday that up to 75 per cent of the firm's processing units would be made by outside suppliers
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    • 619 2 SINGAPORE The quota system may be a blunt instrument for tackling traffic congestion, but it works and so it will stay, said Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan yesterday. It is for now the most effective way of meeting the
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    • 450 3  -  Asean Ministerial Meetin: Reports from Chuang Peck Ming,Al O Labita Jr in MANILA ASEAN foreign ministers, concerned with the security implications of the Spratly islands dispute, yesterday called on claimant nations to exercise restraint to avert a new regional conflict. Asean officials fear the
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    • 221 3 THE Russians have suggested that the leaders of the Asia-Pacific region hold regular talks to limit naval exercises in international seas and set up a crisis management system to block the build-up of military tensions in the region. Russia counts itself, along
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    • 347 3 SINGAPORE has confirmed reports that it is one of two Asean countries bidding to house the secretariat of the 15-member Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) forum. The other country is Thailand. Disclosing that Singapore made its offer last week during a meeting of senior
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    • 490 3 ASEAN foreign ministers yesterday expressed dismay over the lack of political will by the industrialised economies to conclude the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations. "Failure of the round could only further restrict economic growth and opportunities, encourage protectionist
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    • 347 3  -  By Shoeb Kagda SINGAPORE Singapore's affluent class outdid all other Asians in maximising their investments while the Hongkong Chinese were Asia's top earners, a recent survey revealed. Sponsored by the Hong-kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review, the survey concluded that Singaporeans have the highest
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    • 131 3 Reuter NEW DELHI India's gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 3.5 per cent to 4 per cent this fiscal year, against an estimated I.S per cent increase in 1991/92, a respected economic research group said yesterday. The Bombay-based Centre for Monitoring the Indian
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    • 654 3 KOREA S LEADING BANK KORER s£ EXCHRNEE BRNK (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA) 31st December 1991 Statement# of Condition Statement# of Earnings Won (millions) Won (millions) 1991 1990 1»1 1990 ASSETS REVENUES Cash and due from banks W2.909.464 W3,140,095 Interest on loans W861.307 W766,506 Foreign exchange purchased 1,862,269 1,398,580
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    • 8 3 China curbs fishing in offshore areas, Pg 8
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 41 4 SINGAPORE ANA Hotels Singapore Ltd has announced that for the purpose of conversion scripless trading, shareholders are advised to deposit their share certificates with the Central Depository between July 31, 1992, and Aug 27, 1992.
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      • 58 4 SINGAPORE Ban Hin Lee Bank Bhd's group earnings rose 70 per cent to M 59.5 million (Ss6.l million) on a 17 per cent increase in net operating income to M 540.55 million for the six months ended June 30, 1992. At the bank level,
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      • 47 4 SINGAPORE Barite powder maker Trenergy (Malaysia) shares was oversubscribed 16 times when its public offer (open portion) closed this week. Trcnergy's flotation, the 20th in Malaysia this year, comprised an offer of 3.75 million shares, of which 1.376 million were reserved for bumiputra investors.
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      • 33 4 SINGAPORE The public share offer of cement pipe maker Jasa Mcgah Industries Bhd, a subsidiary of Malaysian IGB Bhd, was oversubscribed 48 times when its offer closed yesterday.
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      • 45 4 KUALA LUMPUR Hicom Properties Sdn Bhd and Menang Corp (M) Bcrhad signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop an urban commercial centre in Petaling Jaya. Hicom will have a 51 per cent stake, while Menang will have 49 per cent.
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      • 38 4 KUALA LUMPUR Ganda Holdings Berhad is considering an offer from Rangkaian Tenaga Sdn Bhd to acquire operational rights for an electronic library system, now serving 1,500 primary schools in four Malaysian states.
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      • 46 4 SINGAPORE A United Engineers subsidiary, Graphic Communications, has forged ties with computer chip maker Intel and computer giant IBM. Graphicom will be the first company in the region to collaborate with Intel to develop Digital Video Interactive boards and software programmes.
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    • 288 4 KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Singer Bhd is taking a Ms 23 million (S$ 14.72 million) controlling stake in an investment holding and industrial trading company, Topgroup Holdings Sdn Bhd (TGH). The company announced yesterday that it had entered into an agreement for a 51
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    • 318 4  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Keppel Integrated Engineering, which closed its share offering yesterday, has attracted some 45,000 applicants for its fixed price tranche involving 22.5 million shares. Applicants for this tranche of shares, which is understood to be two times subscribed, could only apply
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    • 320 4 Increase in visitors helped boost occupancy rates SINGAPORE King's Hotel, which is part of the CDL Hotels group, has chalked up a strong 53.27 million in net earnings for the half-year ended June 30, 1992 up 66 per cent from last year's
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    • 678 4  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By Loh Hui Yin SINGAPORE With a badly-dented bottomline and a sullied image, Thai Airways makes its debut on the Stock Exchange of Thailand today. Thai Airways shares were chased to as high as 80
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    • 297 4  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Intraco Ltd has re-sold its office space on three floors of the NOL Building to Neptune Orient Lines, the building's owner, for $29 million in cash. The government-owned trading company will make an extraordinary gain of $6.3
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    • 259 4  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Foreign shareholdings of Overseas Union Bank Ltd have finally hit the 40 per cent mandated ceiling, the bank announced yesterday. Accordingly, the bank said it would not register further transfers of shares in favour of foreign persons. Instead, foreign
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    • 451 4  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Listed Keppel Corp has become the latest Singapore company to join the ranks of International Businessweek's Global 1,000. Keppel, with a market value of US$2.l billion (553.3 billion), was ranked 933 rd in the list published by the
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    • 383 5 Joint venture to build 30 residential, commercial blocks HONGKONG Pacific Concord Holding has launched a joint venture in Shanghai with the Shanghai Xin Jin An Real Estate Corp for a HKS2.4 billion (***** million) commercial and residential development. The Pacific Concord joint venture will
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    • 331 5 Reuter TOKYO The extended slowdown in Japan's economy will force major companies to slash their earnings forecasts and increase pressure on the Bank of Japan to cut the discount rate, economists said yesterday. They said that results for 1992/93 ending March would be
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 61 5 MANILA Philippine multinational San Miguel Corp is negotiating with a Hanoi brewer to set up a joint venture brewery in Vietnam, company spokesmen said yesterday. The negotiations with Hanoi Brewery for a proposed beer-brewing plant "are still going on", they said without giving
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      • 77 5 KUALA LUMPUR Samsung Corp of South Korea and US-based Corning Inc will set up in Malaysia the world's third largest manufacturer of glass for colour television picture tubes, officials said on Tuesday. The US$2BO million ($451 million) joint venture, Samsung Corning, will be located
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      • 56 5 TAIPEI Taiwan's Ching Fong Group is to invest US$7O million (S$ 112.7 million) in an investment and trust office and two motorcycle plants in Vietnam, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. Its affiliate, Cathay Investment and Trust Co Ltd, will soon invest US$l5 million to
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      • 92 5 TOKYO The head of Japan's biggest media group resigned from his other top posts yesterday. Hiroaki Shikanai announced his resignation as chairman of Fuji Television and Nippon Broadcasting System Inc at a news conference. Directors were expected to discuss the move at board meetings
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      • 57 5 TOKYO IBM Japan Ltd, a unit of International Business Machines Corp, plans to temporarily transfer 1,200 workers to 1,300 workers to Japan in calendar 1992, 44 per more than a year ago. IBM Japan set up 12 Japanese subsidiaries and affiliates this year, bringing its total
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    • 419 5 Reuter SYDNEY National Australia Bank Ltd's AS 1.09 billion (S$ 1.31 billion) bid for Bank of New Zealand Ltd has not quenched its longheld desire to take over one of its major Australian rivals, share analysts believe. Market speculation remains
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 97 6 PRINCETON Knight-Ridder Inc, Reuters and the Washington Post Co posted higher earnings for the second quarter of the year. Reuters Holdings pic said on Tuesday that pre-tax profit rose 10.2 per cent to U*****.9 million (*****.4 million) from U*****.2 million. The Post said its
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      • 49 6 KUWAIT Kuwait has agreed to refer any financial misconduct of its investments abroad to public prosecutors, local dailies reported on Tuesday. At a meeting on Monday, Finance Minister Nasser Abdul'la al-Rodhan and the partially elected National Council discussed Kuwait's troubled multi-billion dollar investments in Spain.
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      • 49 6 STAMFORD, Connecticut GTE Corp said it posted second-quarter net income of US$446 million (*****.9 million), or 49 cents a share, compared with profit on continuing operations of US$394 million, or 44 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue rose to US$5.O6 billion, from US$4.B5 billion.
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      • 53 6 CHICAGO Pepsico's second-quarter net income rose 20.3 per cent to U*****.0 million (*****.2 million), or 0.48 cents a share, compared with U*****.3 million, or 0.39 cents, in the same quarter of 1991. Quarterly net sales hit US$5.2 billion, compared with US$4.7 billion in the same
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      • 52 6 BASLE Roche Group said sales in the first half of 1992 increased 19 per cent to 6.621 billion Swiss francs (558.12 billion) from 5.546 billion francs a year earlier. Roche said in a statement that pharmaceutical sales advanced 23 per cent to 3.485 billion francs, from
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    • 279 6 Reuter CHICAGO Sears, Roebuck Co on Tuesday reported higher earnings for the second quarter, but its key retailing division failed to share in the gain and instead suffered a 50 per cent drop in profits. Sears said earnings rose to U*****.8
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    • 360 6 FT BONN The German telecommunications network, Deutsche Telekom, was touted as the "people's share of the nineties" in a privatisation programme unveiled on Tuesday by Finance Minister Theo Waigel. The government will also sell off its remaining 51 per cent stake in the
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    • 460 6 Reuter WASHINGTON US Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Richard Breeden has toned down his vociferous opposition to the New York Stock Exchange's plan to trade more foreign stocks, and SEC sources are predicting an agreement eventually will be struck. But America's top
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    • 435 6 Reuter NEW YORK Convicted junk bond king Michael Milken denied on Tuesday that he ever offered a former investment portfolio manager a bribe in exchange for buying junk bonds from Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. Milken testified at the trial of
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    • 433 6 Reuter BUCHAREST Stockbrokers in most countries are men in smart suits and ties. But the bulls and bears of Romania's rudimentary share market are women in long braids, with colourful gypsy skirts, often with babies feeding from their breasts. "I buy shares, I
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    • 345 6 FT NEW YORK Smith Corona, the manufacturer of portable typewriters which has spent years fighting alleged Japanese cut-price "dumping" of products in the US, announced yesterday it was closing its last US manufacturing plant and relocating production to Mexico to save
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 101 7 BEIJING Foreigners may be allowed to buy foreign currency bonds issued in China's domestic market by the Bank of China, a bank official said on Tuesday. The day before, the official New China News Agency reported that the Bank of China, a
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      • 76 7 TOKYO Japan's Ministry of Finance yesterday said it will allow banks to issue perpetual subordinated bonds to help achieve international capital adequacy standards. The banks which are seen studying the issue of perpetual subordinated bonds are Bank of Tokyo Ltd, Sanwa Bank Ltd, Tokai Bank
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      • 69 7 TOKYO The Federation of Bankers Associations of Japan has advised its member banks that it is better to avoid the Japanese banking custom of extending foreign exchange contracts for customers, a federation official said yesterday. This custom is called historical rate rollover, in which a bank
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      • 46 7 TOKYO German and French banks were the most profitable foreign banks operating in Japan last year while banks from the US and Hongkong suffered the steepest losses, according to an annual survey by international accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick released yesterday.
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    • 225 7 FT LONDON A group of banks that is owed money by Efim, the Italian state holding company, met here on Mooday in the first sign of concerted action by banks around the world to recover US$2 billion (553.2 billion) of foreign debts owed
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    • 477 7 Lower interest rates and cost cuts contribute to higher earnings Reuter NEW YORK Major US banks reported across-the-board gains in second-quarter earnings on Tuesday with the No. 1 bank, Citicorp, leading the way with a huge jump in profits. Citicorp said
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    • 417 7 Reuter LONDON British home loan groups gave the government some breathing space on Tuesday in its battle to keep a lid on interest rates and prevent dearer borrowing from hindering attempts to revive a recession-battered economy. Building societies and banks welcomed quick government
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    • 330 7 Asahi TOKYO Major banks that own stakes in Nippon Housing Loan Co, one of the largest companies of its kind in Japan, may be unable to rescue the debt-ridden company alone, according to an internal company report. As of March 31, Nippon Housing Loan
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    • 185 7 AP TAIPEI The Finance Ministry has approved six banks to operate in Taiwan's short-term money market, ending a 16-year monopoly of underwriting by three local companies, officials said yesterday. Chen Mu-tsai, director general of Monetary Affairs Bureau, said the market's liberalisation would lead to lower
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  • THE REGION
    • NOTE BOOK
      • 89 8 CANBERRA The Australian economy will likely post 2 per cent growth for the fiscal year ended June 30 while gross national product will expand "on the order of 4 per cent in the year to June 30, 1993, Prime Minister Paul Keating
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      • 89 8 BANGKOK The leader of one of the country's biggest political parties filed a defamation suit on Tuesday against former prime minister Kukrit Pramoj (right) for suggesting that he favours a presidential system of government. The suit was filed on behalf of Chaovalit Yongchaiyudh, head of the
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      • 68 8 MANILA Russia has asked Vietnam for continued access to air and naval facilities at Cam Ranh Bay in order to help guarantee stability in South-east Asia, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev said here yesterday. "We are not necessarily rushing to leave," Mr Kozyrev, a
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      • 72 8 BANGKOK The US has cancelled a joint military exercise with Thailand following the Thai army's massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in May, Thai and US officials said yesterday. The three-day annual logistics exercise, codenamed Logex, had been due to start today. "The US is temporarily suspending
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      • 74 8 JAKARTA Indonesia is seeking to sell injectable contraceptives to Cambodia, the Jakarta Post daily yesterday quoted Health Minister Adhyatma as saying. The daily quoted him as saying on Tuesday at the opening of a new plant that will produce injectable contraceptives here that Indonesia could now
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      • 97 8 WELLINGTON New Zealand's ruling National Party, which slumped to record-low unpopularity last year, has returned to favour, according to an opinion poll published yesterday. The New Zealand Herald-National Research Bureau poll showed 35 per cent of respondents favoured the National Party in July,
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    • 429 8 AP, Reuter BEIJING In another move likely to anger Southeast Asian nations, China announced new restrictions yesterday on fishing in its offshore waters, including the disputed South China Sea. China has claimed much of the sea as its territorial waters
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    • 342 8 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Additional budget requests from various agencies as at March 31 this year had exceeded the government's public expenditure allocation under the Sixth Malaysia Plan (6MP) by M 512.5 billion (SSB.O billion). Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the additional requests were
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    • 389 8 Reuter BANGKOK A Cabinetappointed committee has called for a governmentowned enterprise to take over the building of a mass transit rail system in Bangkok after the Thai government scrapped an agreement with a Canadian firm. Committee member Phisit Pakkasem told
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    • 320 8 BANGKOK Some foreign investors and analysts are undermining the Thai stock and property markets with the intention of pushing down prices so that they can buy into the sectors cheaply, the Bangkok Post reported a leading banker as saying on Tuesday. Speaking
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    • 277 8 AP BEIJING China's concerns over funding for a new airport for Hongkong has little to do with how much the British colony has in its foreign exchange reserves, a Chinese official said on Tuesday. The Hongkong government last week released details on
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    • 203 8 Reuter HANOI Voters here elected younger, more highly educated deputies to Vietnam's National Assembly in July 19's nationwide polls, according to first results published yesterday. J The General-Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet- nam, Do Muoi, 75, was re- elected by a big
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    • 344 8 AFP UNITED NATIONS The UN Security Council threatened on Tuesday to cut off international aid to the Khmer Rouge if it continues to hold up the peace process in Cambodia. In Security Council Resolution 766, which was passed unanimously, members called on
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  • THE WORLD
    • 501 9 Close to 30 million now unemployed IHT PARIS The number of unemployed people in the major industrial nations is expected to rise this year by 2 million, to almost 30 million, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said yesterday, projecting its highest
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    • 439 9 Reuter WASHINGTON Eager to clinch a free trade deal with the United States and Canada soon, Mexico is making big concessions on the opening of markets for everything from computers to corn for tortillas, trade sources say. Mexico has said
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    • 432 9 NYT NEW YORK Desperate for hard currency, Russia offered on Tuesday to sell to the United States tons of uranium from retired nuclear arms, saying the concentrated material could be diluted into fuel for civilian reactors that make electricity. Any East-West deal that
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    • 460 9 Reuter TOKYO Three opinion polls published yesterday showed Japan's ruling conservatives heading for a moraleboosting success in Sunday's national elections. The polls, carried out last weekend, predicted that the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) would retain around 70 of the 76 seats
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    • 412 9 AP WASHINGTON The major weapons suppliers around the world sold 40 per cent fewer weapons to the Third World last year, a congressional report said on Tuesday. The United States is still selling more than any other country but
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    • 673 9 NYT CAIRO Egyptian schoolchildren find Palestine, not Israel, on their maps in Geography class. The destination of the flights to Tel Aviv, which require three hours of security checks, are not announced on information boards in the Cairo airport. And Egyptians who
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 106 9 BEIJING Chinese Premier Li Peng said too much credit and cash was issued in the first half of the year and urged a tighter monetary policy, official news reports said yesterday. Speaking at a meeting of the State Council, China's Cabinet, Mr Li
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      • 71 9 MOSCOW Russia plans to build free economic zones in the Far East, including the Port of Nakhodka, in a few years under a foreign investment promotion programme obtained by Kyodo News Service. The programme, drafted by a committee on foreign investment within the Russian Finance Ministry
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      • 50 9 LONDON British Prime Minister John Major (left) with opposition Labour leader John Smith as he arrived for a dinner with the Mexican President at 10 Downing Street earlier this week. Both men were seen together for the first time since the latter was formally appointed to his post.
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      • 89 9 CANBERRA Germany's State Secretary for Finance Horst Koehler said he is confident German growth will remain robust despite last week's rise in the discount rate. "I am confident that German growth will remain robust in spite of the latest Bundesbank discount rate hike," Mr Koehler
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  • 490 10 EDITORIAL NEGOTIATING peace in the Middle East is an intricate shadow-play involving symbols and gestures as well as a good dose of rhetoric. And each night politicians have to play to a different audience. Those at home adore their leaders when they breathe fire and brimstone; an
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 229 10 REPORTS that the Sri Lanka government is regaining the military initiative against Tamil separatists renew hopes that a new political initiative might follow. True, majority Sinhalese political parties are said to be against a compromise: understandably, they may think that the very success of the military
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    • 133 10 COULD the Malays' problems be halved in a decade? The poser by Minister of Health and Com- munity Development Mr Yeo Cheow Tong. in his recent speech at the AMP function, is both encouraging and challenging. Indeed, while the Malays improve themselves in education, many are trapped in
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    • 126 10 SINCE Diet approved the sending of troops abroad under the United Nations Peaeekeeping Operations Cooperation Bill, not only does the government gradually display the intimidation of a superpower, but even militant civilian groups are showing a high profile. Japan's demand that Russia should return the disputed islands
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 184 10 IT's welcome news that America's number one chipmaker, Intel Corp, is moving its entire micro controller division in the US to its offshore plant in Penang. The move must surely constitute a milestone in the local electronics industry. For the first time, a multinational is giving its
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    • 127 10 THE logic behind Indonesia's continuing to add to its debt burden is that the country is facing the perhaps classical problem of having to borrow more in order to pay back its loans. However, there is an important divergence from the familiar pattern in that the country should,
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    • 201 10 WITH the sobering example of Lord Wilson's fruitless pilgrimage to Beijing in January last year to remind him of the pitfalls, Mr Chris Patten knows that it will be risky to involve himself in last week's negotiations. Much as he would like to see progress on the airport
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  • 960 10  -  The crucial referendum on the Maastricht Treaty in France this September may well be affected by Bonn's determined fight against inflation, writes Roger Cohen Roger Cohen NYT GERMANY'S stubborn determination to place its fight against inflation before any concessions to spurring a European economic recovery
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1396 11  -  The military forces of Russia, China and North Korea are modernising and this is causing Japan great concern, even after the close of the Cold War. Harish Mehta reports Harish Mehta THE JAPANESE Defence Agency's annual white paper, Defence of Japan 1992, has for the first
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    • 1087 11  -  Michael Kelly examines the partnership between US presidential hopeful Bill Clinton and his running mate Albert Gore Michael Kelly NYT Governor Bin Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, and Senator Albert Gore Jr, his running mate, have developed a political act unlike any seen on an
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 815 13  -  American dance teacher June Lewis talks to /lichelle Low about a voyage of self-discovery during her visit to China Michelle Low NEW YORK dance teacher June Lewis has a thing about China. And about rice. Indeed, it was a vision about a bowl of rice
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    • 618 13  -  Dorie Greenspan pays homage to this indulge-and-bulge concoction Dorie Greenspan NYT FOR sheer stick-to-it-iveness in a Held where favourites melt away in moments, ice cream has few equals. Having been around for almost a millennium, travelling from the Orient to Italy with Marco Polo
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    • 645 13 CHATttlB&X THEY started lining up at 3am on Tuesday in front of Planet Hollywood on Manhattan's West Side, some of them with fur stuck to large fake ears, blood on their hands, hideous masks covering their faces, others in business suits or jeans, waiting
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  • SPORTS 1
    • SIDE LINES
      • 145 14 BARCELONA More than two million people have signed a petition calling on Barcelona mayor Pascual Maragall to help outlaw bullfighting. The petition, gathered by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), was handed to Maragall yesterday, just days before the Olympic
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      • 71 14 BARCELONA Four Americans were arrested after attempting to sell tickets for the Olympic Games basketball final for more than US$2,BOO (554,500) apiece, police said on Tuesday. Police also seized 80 tickets which have a face value of between 6,500 pesetas (about Sslo9) and 9,000 pesetas. The
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      • 26 14 BARCELONA One of Australia's Olympic divers, April Adams, taking a practice leap on Tuesday with the picturesque host city in the background.
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      • 69 14 KITZBUEHEL, Austria German Lopez of Spain gave second-seeded Pete Sampras all he could handle at the Philips Head Cup clay-court tournament on Tuesday, forcing the American to a third-set tie breaker before losing. The unseeded Lopez opened strongly to win the first set before Sampras, ranked third
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    • 354 14 AFP BARCELONA Malaysian Sports Minister Annuar Musa rejected allegations of bribery after Kuala Lumpur was chosen to host the 1998 Commonwealth Games here on Tuesday. The Commonwealth Games Federation voted in favour of the Malaysian capital by 40 votes to 25 for
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    • 398 14 AP BARCELONA She shoots, she scores! That shout will soon be heard around the Olympics, now that women's ice hockey has been added to the medal schedule for the Winter Games. The International Olympic Committee took the action as it opened its 99th
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    • 671 14 Time may come for a circuit featuring the best of the best The Economist LONDON A World Tour for golf is an idea whose time must surely come. For it is no longer possible, as it was a decade or two ago, for
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    • 352 15 Tour de France AP LA BOURBOULE, France Stephen Roche of Ireland found some of the form that helped him win the Tour de France in 1987, taking the 16th stage of the famed bicycle race on Tuesday. Roche Finished a raindampened stage
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    • 813 15  -  George Vecsey laments the collision of politics and sport George Vecsey NYT BARCELONA It was only eight years ago when the world was charmed by the sweet and modest Winter Games in Sarajevo, in the countiy that used to be Yugoslavia. Now some of
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    • 135 15 You don't have to be a Teleview subscriber tot WIN! 'V'nßfewT^Vj > Enter the SPH Shine Olympics Contest at Comcentre 2. If you're a Teleview user, just Our questions will be changed key into Teleview page *4102#. weekly -so the more times you If you're not, come down to enter,
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    • 168 15 ELECTRONIC f CONSULTANT FOR DISCERNING ADVENTURERS^ We're talking about Shine, Singapore Press Holdings' on-iine interactive information network on Teleview. With over 30,000 screens of well-packaged and designed information, Shine covers a wide f* -VJ'-'w range of editorial on business, lifestyle, education, and travel! Text is meticulously edited to make it
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING 1
    • 559 16 Companies are rushing to tap the business potential of the Olympics. In these two pages, BT looks at the stakes involved Reuter, NYT THE International Olympic Committee is considering legal action against American Express Co over its alleged "ambush" marketing campaign, a senior Olympics official
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    • 370 16 AP NIKE INC suffered a major setback on Tuesday in its trademark battle with a Spanish lawyer who has vowed to prevent the United States track and field team from wearing Nike's name at the Barcelona games. With the Olympics set to open
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    • 650 17  -  Sylvia Wong on Coca-Cola's US$33 million sponsorship of the Barcelona Games Sylvia Wong W "W". T HAT better partnership J could there Wi Wl be than an T T activity that makes people thirsty and a product that quenches thirst so deliciously? On
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    • 496 17 Malaysia's commercial TV station says it'll be more up-to-date in its coverage of the coming Games MBT Commercial television station Sistem Televisyen Malaysia (TV3) is expected to earn about MS 10 million (556.5 million) in advertising revenue for its 16-day coverage of the forthcoming
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    • 306 17  -  Hong Lee Tiam looks at Singaporeans' response to sports-tour packages Hong Lee Tiam WITH just three days before the Olympic Games begin, local tour operators say they have yet to see a surge or even a blip in demand for plane seats to
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    • 168 17 SOME Olympic programmes will be shown on wide-screen Philips television sets in stores and shopping centres across Singapore. The electronics group said selected events would be shown on the sets, which have a "16:9 aspect ratio". In layman's terms, this means
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4285 18  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE SHARES closed firmer on late bargain hunting yesterday, ending a two-day losing streak. The 30-share Straits Times Industrials Index edged up 2.44 points to close 1,436.90 in quiet trading, recovering only a fraction of the 16.68 points it had lost
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      63 18  -  By Quak Hiang Whai Comment FAR EAST Levingston Shipbuilding has tumbled from more than §7 last year to about $4 now. While the trend is generally downward, the charts indicate a possible rebound. Daily and weekly stochastks are near zero and appear to be turning up. A rebound
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  • 3300 20 Magnum Corp 50* 505 +19 3.9% Dunlop Em 200 9 4.7% Innovest Bhd 55 7 +14.6% Petaling Gd 50* 140 +7 +5.3% Menang Corp 56 +6"/j +13.1% Golden Plus H 106 +6 +6.0% Sateras Res 50 +6 +13.6% Gentings 50* 840 5 0.6% Dunlop Est
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    • 172 20 Please be informed that the undermentioned has ceased employment with our Company with effect from 21 July 1992: AJIT PRASAD alias JAIVIN PRASAD I/C NO. *****17/ C He is therefore not authorised to transact any business, collect payments or represent the Company in any capacity whatsoever. GLAMOURETTE PLUS TRADING PTE
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 5120 21 Bernama THE SHARE MARKET in Kuala Lumpur yesterday sustained Tuesday's uptrend on continued buying support although sentiment was cautious following poorer overseas leads and the prevailing lack of fresh incentives. The KLSE Composite Index ended at 608.79, up 3.63 points while the Emas Index
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 268 22 C»wp«y Date Year Croap N«t Mat nniap tmi mn to proflt/tou (L) par shara dMdaad (000) (cwita) IMC Hldgs Jul 17 Mar 92 HK$182,755($197.832) 52(56 40(40) Roth Inds Jul 10 Mar 92 $33,451n($45,747) 29.2(39 9) 50(65) GB HkJgs Jul 10 Mar 92 $4.166($6,776) 6.1(9.9) 10TE(10TE) Metro Hldgs Jul
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    • 199 22 Company Date Year Group pre-tax Nat earnings Grass ana to profit/loss (L) par share dividend (000) (cants) Sn Hartamas Jul 21 Dec 91 MJ955L ($14,8741) GP Batteries Jul 2 Mar 92 515.492(514.186) 41.3(47 9) 18 8TE(17 6TE) Pelangi Bhd Jul 1 Mar 92 M$37.824(S22.583) 11(9) 15(10) Pertama Jun
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    • 170 22 Company Oat* Half-year Group pre-tax Interim ann to profit/loss (L) dividend COOO) C Properties Jul 15 Jun 92 $8.203($5.029) 25(20) M Cement Jul 6 May 92 MJ36 539(137.272) 18(16) Asa Pacific Jun 26 Mar 92 $63.038($59,214) 14N(10N) F&N Jun 26 Mar 92 $99,550(189.232) 92(9.2) Pacific Can Jun 26
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    • 752 22 Current Ex Books Date Total far Total for payment date dose payable the year last year Mn Hdp 50c 61(b) Aug 26 Sep 7 Sep 24 6% 61 fcned 25c 101 Aug 21 Aug 27 Sep 10 101 101 ftpob 2 51 Jun 3 Jun 16 Jul 23
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    • 457 22 Company Rights Issue D1C Bat One-for two MSI 25 per share Ex-date Jun 2 Books close Jun 17 Acceptance Payment Jul 30 Eu Tan Sang Three tor one US per share Ei-date Jun 17 Books Close Jun 27 Acceptance Payment Aug 3 MM Three-tor tour at MSI 00
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    • 521 22 ki 21 Cement industries of Malaysia Bhd has acquired a 20.7 per cent equity stake in Faber Groub Bhd for MJ148.2 million. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has begun to restructure treasury and capital market activities worldwide following its takeover of Britain's Midland Bank, aiming at creating a
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    • 85 22 Transmarco Ltd: AGM at 65 Chulia Street #33-00, OCBC Centre, Singapore 0104, on Friday, July 24, at 11.30am Metro Hokfings Ltd: 19th AGM at 65 Chulia Street #33-00, 0C8C Centre. Singapore 0104, on Friday, July 24, at 12.00 noon Sunshine ASed Investments Ltd: 31st AGM at 481 Tanglin
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    • 363 22 In local curr In S$ In USS dy N yr dy yr dy )t Jul) 21 Index chge chge chge chge chge chge World 374.0 0.3 -8.4 -0.8 -8.6 -I.I -8.2 *E\FE 433.1 0.2 -13.7 -1.7 -13.4 -1.9 -13.0 Europe 405.9 0.3 -1.3 -2.5 0.1
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  • 610 22 Moving Averages: A moving average curve shows at any one time the mean of the prices over a specified time frame. A five-day moving average, for instance, is the average of the last five days' prices. Moving averages (MA) are normally plotted with the prices, and serve as
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND
    • 1787 23 Reuter SMALL capitalisation stocks were active and their gains moved the Bangkok stock index to a higher close yesterday, brokers said. The SET Index ended 3.71 points or 0.49 per cent higher at 757.96 on a turnover of 6.42 billion baht.
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  • JAKARTA STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 965 23 TRADING on the Jakarta stock market was very quiet yesterday and some traders blamed the typhoon warning in Hongkong for keeping orders down. The Jakarta Composite Index lost 1.05 points to end at 319.21. Popular new listing Kabelmetal dropped 300 rupiah to 3,950 after
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  • 205 23 THE Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (CLSA) All China Index, launched in May, is the first index to track all shares on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. It is backed by four sub-in-dices which monitor separately the A and B shares on the two bourses. All the
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2595 24 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS fell yesterday as the Nikkei Average closed at a new six-year low, dropping 460.46 points to 15,541.95. Futures-linked programs and institutional selling battered prices in thin trade, with investors wary about prospects for the economy, corporate profits and stocks. The
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  • AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2082 25 Reuter THE Australian share market closed lower after a strong start yesterday, dragged down by losses in Tokyo where the Nikkei index plunged to a six-year low. But the All Ordinaries Index finished only two points down on the day at 1,607.2.
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Manila share prices finish higher
      • 560 25 SHARE PRICES closed stronger yesterday as investors picked up bargains and took positions in potentially highearning stocks, brokers said. The Manila Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 20.75 points to close at 1,453.79. "It shows the market has bottomed out, selling pressure has eased and investors wanting to position are
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      • 543 25 SHARE PRICES wavered narrowly to finish slightly lower yesterday after early buying in low-priced issues failed to boost sentiment, brokers said. The Weighted Index closed 4.22 points lower at 4,154.80. Turnover fell to a thin NT$ 18.57 billion from NT523.73 billion. Brokers said there were signs that major market
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      • 882 25 THE stock market yesterday shook off some of its recent gloom with a 2.76 per cent surge in moderate trading across the board, dealers said. "This is a good sign. There were no rumours floating in the market today... it has surged on its own," said an analyst at
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      • 115 25 SHARE PRICES finished selectively higher on Tuesday in erratic trading, brokers said. "There was technical support," said broker Anil Chowdhury. "Short sellers turned buyers to cover their positions." But no one was interested in building up long positions, he said, because of fears that this might put them in
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      • 195 25 Ctoac Preview J ah 22 NEW ZEALAND NZSE-40 Capital unav unav unav MANILA Composite Index 1.453.79 1.433.04 >20.75 Turnover (mil pesos) 313.71 371.6 -57.89 TAIPEI Wetghted Price Index 4.154 80 4,159.02 -4.22 Turnover (NTS billion) 18.57 23.73 -5.16 SEOUL Composite Slock Index 526 511.84 +14.16 Turnover (billion won) 162.% 107.53
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • US stocks eke out gains after 2-day slide
      • 314 26 July 21 CVMC NEW YORK Dow Jones 3,308.41 3,303.00 5.41 SAP 300 413.76 413.75 +0.01 Turnover (million) 173.76 165.76 —8.0 LOHPOtt Financial Times 30 1,831.0 1,824.1 +6.9 FTSE 100 2,415.6 2,403.7 +11.9 Turnover (million) 416.2 454.4 -38.2 FRANKFURT DAX Index 1.659.77 1,649.67 -10.1 AMSTERDAM EOE Index 291.01 287.64 +2.27 PARIS
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        1302 26 NEW YORK stocks eked out modest gains in moderate but choppy trading on Tuesday as the blue-chip sector led a technical rebound from a two-session slide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which lost 28.64 points on Monday, regained 5.41 points to 3,308.41. Among the broad gauges, the New
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        671 26 SHARES WERE up in trading on the London stock exchange on Tuesday, having had a steady afternoon after wide fluctuations during the early trading session, dealers said. At the close, the FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares was up 11.9 points at 2,415.6. The FT-30 was up 6.9 at
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      • 213 26 THE FRANKFURT stock market indices gave sharply different results on Tuesday following Monday's plunge, operators said. The DAX Spot Trend Index rose by 0.61 per cent to finish at 1,659.77, while the Commerzbank indicator skidded to 1,854.5 against 1,884.30 on Monday evening Operators said that trading was hesitant and
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      • 259 26 DUTCH SHARES closed mostly firmer after a moderate Tuesday session, staging a partial recovery from recent losses on the back of the stronger dollar. But uncertainty over whether the dollar could maintain current levels, reached after Monday's concerted central bank intervention to support the currency, kept operators cautious. The
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      • 204 26 THE PARIS bourse finished an up-and-down day slightly lower on Tuesday, and the CAC-40 Blue Chip Index clocked up its lowest close for over six months for a second day running. The index ended 5.23 points lower at 1,762.67 on leisurely turnover of about 1.9 billion francs' worth of
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      • 212 26 ITALIAN SHARES on Tuesday closed slightly lower as the market consolidated after Monday's sharp losses sparked by the weekend killing of a leading anti Mafia judge. The MIB All-Share Index closed 0.25 per cent lower at 807 and the market is now at levels it last stood at in
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      • 253 26 SWISS SHARES closed higher on Tuesday in a technical recovery as investors took the opportunity to buy high-quali-ty blue chips on lower levels after Monday's steep price fall, dealers said. The All-Share SPI Index rose 15.4 points to 1,128.6 and the SMI Index of leading shares added 29.5 to
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      • 134 26 SWEDISH SHARES on Tuesday climbed part way out of Monday's deep hole to close higher with the aid of a stronger dollar. The bourse General Index closed up 0.98 per cent at 848.55 in moderate turnover of 283 million shares. The top-16 index was up 1.91 per cent. "If
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      • 498 26 CONCERN OVER the state of overseas equity markets sent South African mining financial and industrial blue chips drifting easier in reasonable volume trade on Tuesday. Dealers said the Johannesburg Stock Exchange market was expected to drift sideways until there was a substantial recovery on Wall Street. The Gold Index
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      • 391 26 A BARRAGE of sell orders at the open-, ing set the tone for heavy losses on the Toronto stock market, dealers said. Northern Telecom opened late due to a imbalance of sell orders after it reported surprisingly poor second quarter earnings, they added. The TSE 300 closed off 27.4
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    • 1221 27 REPORTS Tokyo: Late short-covering yesterday pushed up the US dollar from early lows and it ended weaker against the mark in Tokyo but closed firmer against the yen, dealers said. Mark-buying for the yen led the market, which pushed the US
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    • 379 27 Cross rates W 22 US$ SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1 6120 2.4990 1.4860 125.40 0.5240 1.3195 1.3396 1.8248 SS 0.6203 1.5502 0 9218 77.7916 0.3250 0.8185 0.8310 1.1320 MS 0.4002 0.65 0.5946 50.1801 0.2097 0 5280 0.5360 0.7302 Dm 0.6729 1.0848 1.6817 84.39
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    • 539 27 Interbank rates SS Bid Offer Overnight 2 1/16 2 3/16 4-month 2 1/16 2 3/16 2-month 2 1/8 2 1/4 3-month 2 3/16 2 5/16 Overnight mode: 2-1/8 US$ Bid Offer 7 days 3 5/16 3 7/16 1 month 3 3/8 3 1/2 -2 months 3 3/8 3
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    • 334 27 MILAN The Bank of Italy breathed a sigh of relief as a stronger US dollar, boosted by Monday's central bank intervention, eased pressure on the lira within the European Monetary System's exchange rate grid on Tuesday. But analysts warned the
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    • 1528 27 SIMEX EURODOLLAR 94 Open High Low Sett Est Vol Act/Vol Op/lnt Sep 92 96.52 Dec 92 96.06 Mar 93 96.03 Jun 93 95.71 Sep 93 95.31 Dec 93 94.72 Mar 94 94.55 Jun 94 94.16 Sep 94 93.80 Dec 94 93.32 Mar 95 93.23 Jun 95 92.96 Sep
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    • 386 28 FT, Reuter MOSCOW Russia's oil industry faces critical problems in supply and distribution while the opening of new fields has slowed down to the extent that production in 1993 or 1994 threatens to run below the domestic needs of the former Soviet
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    • 286 28 Reuter GENEVA Production policy has been dominating a second set of negotiations on a new cocoa pact with economic clauses, but the talks are generally moving at a snail's pace, say delegates. "We have made progress. But nothing is agreed until everything
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    • 742 28 REPORTS THE PRICE of tin rose by 43 sen to MS 16.96 on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market yesterday in line with the sharp rise on the overnight London Metal Exchange. Dealers said the uptrend on both the KLTM and LME
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  • 1582 28 Rubber HAS Comwdtty Eictangt (trtro rtMlwf as at lp) WSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Aug 92 144 00 144.00 143.50 325 1.950 Sep 144.00 144.00 144.00 550 4.925 Oct 144 00 143.75 144.25 450 4,075 Nov 144 00 143.75 144.25
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    • 740 28 BUSINESS TIMES Toll free Tel No 737 0043 'Fax No: 734-3006 UQUOR LICENCE NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I.TokNgee Chiang of Blk 362 *11-300 Hougang Avenue 5, Singapore 1953, have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop bcence in respect of premises at MA Kimisawa Supermarket (S) Pte Ltd at
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    • 693 29  -  LETTER FROM HO CHI MINH CITY By Mark Hodson FROM the roof terrace of the Rex Hotel in Saigon, you can see the twin spires of Notre Dame. The red-brick cathedral is almost an identical twin of its sister in Paris except that it stands
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    • 152 29 As at 10am yesterday: Local dollars to oat unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.1987 1.2130 Canadian dollar 1.3389 1 3660 NZ dollar 0.8742 0.8920 Sterling pound 3.0633 3.1050 US dollar 1.6100 1.6160 Local dollars to 100 ■■its of fanigi currency Austrian schilling
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    • 66 29 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Aug 22-25 International Frankfurt, Messe Frankfurt (49)69/***** Trade Fair for Germany GmbH Consumer Goods Sep 6-9 Fine Food Melbourne Australian (61)3/867.7981 Exhibition Services Sep 6-10 International Earls Court, Reed Exhibition 081-*****71 Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Watch, Jewellery London Companies Ltd and
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    • 340 29 1 To provide the final insult a learner driver's plate 5 Become reconciled to war 8 j |_L_ 9 Obvious method to find a road where parking is pro- *2 1 I I I J 13 10 How the hours pass when composedly asleep (6) 12 If it goes in
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    • 166 29 Singapore Outlook: Shower* over many areas in the early and predawn hours. Report Maximum temperature 30.1 Assoc humidity 72% Minimum temperature 24.S Assoc humidity. 93% Hours of sunshine 1.20 Rainfall in mm 0.5 Rainfall this month 149.2 Rainy days this month 13 World report Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 18/14 Rain
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  • 565 30 Votes come after reformist official gets nine-year jail term AFP, Reuter WASHINGTON US The House of Representatives passed two Bills on Tuesday to clamp down on China's lucrative trade with the US, hours after Beijing sentenced a reform-minded official to
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  • 570 30 Reuter, NYT WASHINGTON Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan's faintly upbeat testimony about the economy before Congress is likely to give the White House little encouragement that the economy will bolster President Bush's faltering reelection campaign. The Fed chairman characterised current economic
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  • 209 30 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Suharto yesterday said the military should maintain its role and involvement in the country's political life to safeguard stability. "If Abri (the Indonesian armed forces) is not involved in the process of determining the orientation of the state, it
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  • 254 30 Reuter WASHINGTON US Secretary of State James Baker will leave his post next month to return to the White House as President George Bush's senior policy adviser and effective head of his reelection campaign, several Bush administration officials and Republican political
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  • 133 30 AFP HONGKONG Tropical storm Gary bypassed Hongkong yesterday, leaving behind a few inches of rain, scenes such as that above, and a lot of angry businessmen. The Royal Observatory, which last week was accused of underestimating the strength of tropical storm Faye which caused
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  • 180 30 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that the blanket amnesty issued in the wake of the May political turmoil does not violate the national charter, a government official said yesterday. The decision appeared to rule out the prosecution of military officers for the deaths
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  • 781 30  -  The Bottom Line MANU BHASKARAN MANU BHASKARAN The writer is economic research director of Crosby Securities Pte Lid AS THE Chinese economy roars ahead, there are many who see similarities with previous bouts of excessive growth. Some even suggest that this boom, like its predecessors, will
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  • 352 30 Reuter CAIRO US Secretary of State James Baker yesterday said that he is satisfied Israel will make a "severe and substantial reduction in settlement activity" in occupied Arab territories. He told a news conference after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: "I
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    • 406 31  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE The US has become a "war zone" for tanker operators since the introduction of the American Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90), said Intertanko managing director Tormod Rafgard last week. Under OPA 90, tanker operators operating in
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    • 483 31 Asahi Shimbun TOKYO The basic principle of freedom of maritime transport calls for respect to free and fair competition on a commercial basis and minimising government intervention by leaving the matter to discussion among businesses. However, this principle is at risk now. The biggest
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    • 244 31 Bernama KUCHING Sarawak's shipbuilding industry has the potential to build ships for the international market if its shipbuilders upgrade technology and expertise. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk A mar Dr Wong Soon Kai said on Tuesday. Sarawak shipbuilders, noted for their capability in producing boats
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    • 881 31 Page Col ABC Containerline 12 I Accord Group 8 1-3 APL 5 3-5 Arrow Inter 9 2 ASCL 5 9 Alpha Feeders 6 1 ANL 3 1/2 Bait Canada Line 7 4/5 Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 Bank Line, The 9 5 Batamindo
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    • 409 31  -  By Diana Oon SINGAPORE The shipping industry's growing concern over safety and environmental matters have led major ship classification societies to include them into their existing classification systems. US-based American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) is integrating new ship technologies and safety, quality and enviromental
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    • 171 31 Knight-Ridder BANGKOK Thailand will cut two customs procedures for big importers and government agencies to promote the country's international trade and to ease congestion at the Bangkok port, a government official said yesterday. The Finance Ministry's Customs Department will waive the price-evaluating process. It
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    • 192 31 International Transport Journal LONDON On current trends, the UK-registered merchant fleet could disppear within three years and the total UK-owned fleet within two decades. That was the gloomy prediction of Michael Everard, president of the Chamber of Shipping, when he last week pressed the government
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 110 32 HONG KONG China plans to build an international airport in the eastern city of Hangzhou to attract foreign investment to coastal Zhejiang province and the nearby metropolis of Shanghai, an official report said on Tuesday. Preliminary work on the one billion yuan (US$lB3 million)
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      • 112 32 SINGAPORE Northwest Airlines has announced that it flew 5.58 billion revenue passenger miles (RPM) in June, up 13.7 per cent from the 4.9 billion RPM flown in June last year. Northwest's capacity was up 8 per cent to 7.55 billion available seat miles in June from
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      • 62 32 NEW YORK Daimler-Benz AG's Mercedes Benz Credit Corp formed a new subsidiary, debis Financial Services Inc, to provide leasing and finance programmes. The company, which provides financing for Mercedes Benz cars and Freightliner vehicles, said on Tuesday the programmes will be aimed at customers of its
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      • 65 32 LONDON The Norwegian flag bulk carrier Havkatt has been surveyed afloat at Ponta Delgada in the Azores after sustaining engine damage on June 26, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence Service said. The 27,273-dwt vessel will have affected parts replaced and then proceed to Holyhead in about 10 days to
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      • 143 32 PARIS French passengers held hostage by Iraq after their British Airways flight landed in Kuwait during the 1990 Iraqi invasion said on Tuesday they were suing the airline for 51.7 million francs (5516.6 million). "A bailiff was due to deliver notice to British Airways
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    • 1141 32  -  Mazda is pushing ahead in the race to develop emissions-free fuel by taking on the large technical challenge of hydrogen, writes John Giffiths John Giffiths FT MAZDA, Japan's fourth largest car maker, will soon seek Japanese government approval for an on-high way test programme for
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    • 815 32 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 11974 40 This is a list of ships loading Fi at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the 5. ship, the shipping line in- volved and the estimated 7 dates of arrival and departure a from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND m
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    • 3255 45 JLm.BC" Containerline NV: Bclsin Shpg Agcncics lie Ltd (SV Marine Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). tccord Group: Accord Shpg Ptc Ltd <$VAccord C'ontr Line (PK/PN). Vdkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsourcc Shpg Trdg fee Ltd (S) Jthrenkiel Liner Service. Kim Shpg trdg (S). \ltatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg fce Ltd
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    • 262 45 Abacus Couriers Td: 545-8011. Fa*: *****98. Air Express I ravel Td: 533-5771. Fax: *****44. Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fa*: *****16. *****80 Airswift Worldwide Courier Td: 278-0188. Fa*: *****83. AJS Supplies Td: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fa*: *****75. City-Link International Tel: 344-3377. Fa*: *****50. Cluster Link Supplies Services
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    • 1486 45 Abex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7822. Fa*: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Tel: 545-8033. Fa*: *****05. Aerospeed Tel: 542-5911. Fa*: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express International Tel: 542-7666. Fa*: *****74. *****50 Air
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    • 3041 46 ARGENTINA Buenos Aires: Port quite: several general cargo berths available. S*n l>orenzo: Six vessels operating of which 3 loading pellets, 3 loading grain; four vessels anchored in roads of which 2 to load grain. 2 to load by-products. Rosario: Eight vessels operating of which 6 loading grain. I
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    • 555 46 ARRIVALS Op Flight Type ETA T From TODAY KAL KE697 B747F 0150 I SEL SI A SQ827 B747F 1730 2 CPH/DXB CLX CV794 B747F 1845 1 LUX/DXB NCA KZ203 B747F 1930 I NRT KAL KE685 A30F 2345 I SEL/MNL TOMORROW JAL JL6I5 B747F 0240 I TYO NWA
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    • 267 46 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SNIPS Ait Pep Name of V essel ETA L I D Forts of Calls Port Agent Telephone No JULY 23 23 Ascan World 0900 1800 Sin-Hkt Sembawang Johnson Mgt 227-8284 24 24 Koyal Pacific 1300 1930 Cruise to Nowhere Ocean Trade Chartering 299-0366 26 26 Ko>al
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    • 862 46 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES VESSELS ON OFFER Bulk Carriers Young Senator 62.800 dwt and built Jan 1989 Namura. ideas US$22 million. Sovereign Venture: 37,871 dwt and built June 1977 IHI. ideas US$B million but try US$7.5 million. Fsmeralda I: 37.096 dwt and built Sept 1984 Hyundai, best offers invited. Copper
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 592 47 VomI ley Hi Baft Arrival P^ertae VttMl V** Baft ftiM Marina Terminal 1 Batam Mam *****2 M05 alongside 23.07/0500 Batammdo 2 2020S M02 alongside 22.07/1900 Sun Amazon SKA11B P06 23.07/1730 24.07/0700 Sutra 1 OA/92 P088 23.07/2100 24.07/0600 Tong Mun 05/92 P02 23.07/1400 23 07/2300 Garuda G62 M03
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      • 1720 47 Jl, i J 7X1 CONTAINERS IN PROGRESS SNP Voy No Conbmn nU* Voy No CaNUtan ntattt Arthur Ms 9212 *****2 0755 Lampung *****N COO(EST) 22 0 7 92 2030 0 Sentosa 67N 21 07 92 0800 Pol East 7225E COO(EST) 2207 92 1500 Supanya Str Pnde 59W *****2
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    • 742 48 Sept 6-18: Scatradc Academy's Anatomy of Shipping, organised by Seatrade. The event will take place at Selwyn College Cambridge. England. Sept 15-16: Asia-Pacific Digital Cellular Mobile Communications. organised by IBC Technical Services Limited at The Mandarin Singapore. For further details please contact IBC Technical Services at tel: 732-1970
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    • 687 48 THE FREIGHT market on Tuesday remained in the summer doldrums with no trend-set-ting fixture news circulating. Dry cargo brokers said charterers preferred time-charter deals, mostly in the Pacific, over single voyage bookings. The Baltic Freight Index was off one point at 1,060. Dreyfus fixed US Gulf/Odessa Panamax size
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    • 435 50 Reuter NEW YORK British Airways' move to invest US$75O million (SS 1.21 billion) in USAir Group Inc reassures investors about USAir's viability and is an important step in British Airways' global expansion, airline analysts said. It also heightened industry speculation that USAir would
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    • 391 50 AFP SYDNEY The US carrier Northwest Airlines announced on Tuesday that it would buy seats on Ansett Australia flights in a new commercial partnership forged between the two airlines. The deal is the first to be announced since Ansett opened negotiations in September
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    • 145 50 AP DUBLIN Aer Lingus, Hie Irish national airline, on Tuesday reported losses of over £10 million (5530.8 million) last year its first losses since 1983. The £10.6-million loss compared with a £7.5 million profit the previous year. Overall the state-owned company suffered losses of £36
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    • 352 50 Reuter WASHINGTON The US commercial aviation agency on Tuesday proposed to put into effect by this winter new rules designed to prevent dangerous buildup of snow and ice on wings of aircraft waiting to take off. Icing has been a factor
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    • 562 50 Reuter MEXICO CITY The president of Nissan Mexicana SA de CV said the company plans massive exports of lowcost, "Made in Mexico" cars to Japan as part of a threeyear, billion-dollar capital spending plan. "We are aiming to ship
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    • 270 50 AFP SYDNEY Striking baggage handlers at Australia's Melbourne airport returned to work yesterday, ending five days of disruption to international flights which affected thousands of foreign tourists. Transport Workers' Union industrial officer Ken Howard told reporters the baggage handlers, employed by Australian carrier
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  • Investing '92
    • 680 51  -  By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE investors arc in a quandary. Many of them have surplus investable funds but are not very sure where they should be putting their money this year. Perhaps for the first time in years we are witnessing the phenomenon of too
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    • 2065 52  -  The Singapore dollar has risen against many foreign currencies over the past year. But Tan Siew Kheng advises investors to be aware of exchange rate risks Tan Siew Kheng The writer is vice-president. Treasury, oj DBS Bank TODAY, the cashrich Singapore investor is
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    • 808 53  -  By Diana Oon The writer is a BT journalist FIXED deposit rates are now at their lowest level in five years. A combination of factors leading to falling interest rates have brought the market average for three-month deposits to 3 per cent, slightly lower than the
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    • 1986 54  -  Soh Fng Hwa picks the stocks that have good earnings potential Soh Eng Hwa The writer is research manager of Phillip Securities Pte Ltd THE Singapore stock market has undergone consolidation between 1,350 and 1,500 for about six months and is expected to move out
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    • 1631 55  -  Tan Mong Tong and Um Peng On assure investors that derivative instruments are not as complex as they seem to be Tan Mong Tong,Lim Peng On Mr Tan is managing director and Mr Lim, director, of investment banking, NDC Merchant Bank Limited Derivatives are
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    • 1393 56  -  In other words, are the good times over for residential landlords? Willy Shee puts the market conditions into perspective and points out factors affecting the tenant's choice. Willy Shee The writer is the managing director of Richard Ellis IS THE residential rental
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    • 1292 58  -  For those out looking for that dream apartment, there is good news and there is bad news, writes Syhia Wong Sylvia Wong The writer is a BTjournalist IT's been about six months since the naysayers of the property field prophesied that condominium prices would fall due to an
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      801 59 RARE is the car that can balance family, corporate and sporting needs all at once. A mini-bus might be the best thing to ferry the wife, kids, dog and windsurfboard around, but it isn't exactly what you would call stylish. On the other hand, something sleek, sporty and
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    • 966 60  -  Tan Suee Chieh looks at investment-linked life policies, which offer good yields as well as protection benefits Tan Suee Chieh The writer is general manager and actuary of the Prudential Assurance Co Singapore Pte Ltd ITS a balanced investment portfolio equities, property, fixed interest instruments
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    • 1109 60  -  A J Pathmarajah examines the investment values of various types of life-insurance policies A J Pathmarajah The writer is director and chief executive officer of Great Eastern Life FOR CENTURIES, life insurance has provided the benefits of financial protection and security to countless number of families.
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    • 1797 61  -  Charles Chow assesses the Singapore residential property market and some property counters Charles Chow The writer is research director of J Bellas Investment Research The objective of the recently announced additional government land sales is to cool the market and not kill it. In
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    • 1173 62  -  Card competitors are going all out to outdo one another with freebies and prizes as the number of credit and charge cards in Singapore falls, writes Kooi Cho Teng Kooi Cho Teng The writer is a BT Journalist AFTER convincing people that
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    • 1487 63  -  Alain Farhi introduces you to the world of precious metals and explains how you can invest in them Alain Farhi The writer is the managing director of Comhedge Pte Ltd and Future Source Singapore Pte Ltd FOR centuries, precious metals such as
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    • 1765 65  -  David Ranson examines how the price of gold can serve as a forecasting tool David Ranson The writer is president of H C Wain wright A Co Economics Inc and the article is a summary of a presentation given by him at
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    • 615 65  -  Hong Lee Tiam takes a look at an area of investment that's worth watching out for Hong Lee Tiam The writer is a BT journalist An investment that appreciates as time goes by that's how some buyers view their timepieces. It's usually the intricate, hand-made ones that catch
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    • 1454 66  -  Stella Chua explains why unit trusts are a good investment channel for the investor who wants to see that his savings are not eroded by inflation and will yield him a decent return Stella Chua The writer is manager, investment division, of Schroder International Merchant Bankers
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    • 100 51 CONTENTS Currencies Investors' dilemma Page 2 Fixed deposits Heading south Page 3 Stocks Six top performers Page 4 Derivatives A growing market Page 5 y v;_ fi Residential property Will home rentals fall? Page 6 Shopping for an apartment Page 8 Insurance Life as an investment Page 10 Credit cards
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    • 99 60 GLOBAL INVESTMENT '93 2nd International Exhibition and Conference on Banking, Finance Investment 11-14 May 1993 Raffles City Convention Centre Singapore Supported by: Organised by: Financial Houses Association m Tn£mmEE* M of Singapore 'Sl Life Insurance Association jT Life Underwriters Association Times Centre, 1 New Industrial Road, of Singapore Singapore 1953.
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