The Business Times, 10 November 1992

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  • 16 1 Business Times THE BUSINESS PAPER EOR S-E ASIA MITA (P) 35/12/91 Tuesday, November 10, 1992 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 68 1 HONGKONG The number of foreign joint venture firms topped the 3,000 mark in Guangzhou, placing it third after the Shenzhen economic zone and the capital Beijing, the semi-official Hong Kong China News Service said yesterday. In the past 10 months, a total of
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    • 57 1 BANGKOK Thailand's Constitutional Tribunal yesterday upheld an amnesty issued in May that protects from prosecution all those involved in four days of violence that left scores dead. Members of the Student Federation of Thailand immediately denounced the ruling as a setback for Thai democracy, but stopped
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    • 45 1 SINGAPORE companies should invest in emerging Malaysian states such as Trengganu and Pahang, says Malaysia's International Trade and Industry Minister, Rafidah Aziz. Steps are being taken to turn the eastern industrial corridor into an attractive viable manufacturing location, she adds Page 2
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    • 58 1 WHILE most Malaysian banks are posting record profits. Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd reported lower group earnings yesterday. The cut in group earnings to M 522.7 million (S$ 14.7 million) for the year ended March 1992, from M 586.7 previously, was due to higher provisions for nonperforming
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    • 38 1 THE CREDIBILITY of the Hongkong government and Chris Patten is now on the line, following the unveiling of the governor's political blueprint, says a report by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Page 3
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    • 35 1 THE PRICE WAR has taken its toll on IMI Electronics. But the manufacturer of personal computers, which set up shop in Singapore two years ago, intends to outlast the competition Page 17
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    • 31 1 UNITED Arab Shipping Company (UASC), the Arab world's largest shipping firm, has announced a slot-sharing agreement with two other lines for intra-Asia services. Shipping l imes Page 1
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  • MARKET SUMMARY
    • 22 1 WALL STREET prices opened lower yesterday, with the Dow Jones Index of 30 leading industrials down 4.08 points to 3,235.98.
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    • 28 1 LONDON share prices were lower at midday vesterday. At about 1230 GMT, the FTSE 100-Share Index .was down 4.1 points, or 0.15 per cent, at 2,698.6.
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    • 56 1 THE 1994 HOLDERS of $18 million loan stocks voted overwhelmingly in favour of InnoPac's divestment plan at a meeting yesterday. However, Inno-Pac could not get a decisive vote because a another meeting yesterday for its 1992 holders of $17.76 million loan stocks had to be delayed
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    • 27 1 CYCLE CARRIAGE is now exposed to US-dollar exchange risks, following its decision to use the greenback to finance its property forays Page 4
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    • 33 1 COMPUTER COMPANY Powermatic Data Systems, •which originally planned to offer all 17 million of its shares to the public, has placed 40 per cent of the shares with institutions Page 4
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    • 29 1 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore yesterday announced more details to beef up the financial strength of insurance firms and help them expand overseas Page 7
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    • Article, Illustration
      20 1 Friday Chaage BT-MGA 675.65 +2.11 Kuala Lumpur ..648.93 -5.67 Tokyo .......16.417.05 -452.76 Hongkong 6.267.91 -47.10 Sydney 1.419.5 -3.9
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    • 23 1 Exchange rates US$ S$ 1.6335 100 Yen SS 1.3200 M$ S$ 0.6476 Money market rates Overnight 1/4 -1 1/4 3-month 1-3/4% -1/16
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    • 36 1 London Gold AM fix US$$335.00 -US$ 1.90 Rubber S'pore Nov 144.00*/kg -0.50 M'sia Nov 222.50*/kg unch KL Fin Turnover 35tonncs -15 Spot M$14.10 /kg -0.13 Crude pahn oil Turnover l,2691ots 4-481 Dec M$940 /tonne 16
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  • 564 1  -  Joint frequent flyer scheme to counter competition in Asian market By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Asian airlines are grouping together to counter the threat posed by US and European carriers in the lucrative Asian market. Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, and Thai Airways
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  • 419 1 BRUSSELS EC foreign ministers met yesterday to discuss the threat of a crippling trade war with the US and most said they first wanted to give negotiations another chance. Senior British officials said British Prime Minister John Major had
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  • 127 1 SINGAPORE Hectic trading in Malaysian counters boosted total volume on the Stock Exchange of Singapore to a new record yesterday. Total turnover rose to 348.00 million shares valued at $410.79 million, with trading on Clob International accounting for about 90 per cent,
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  • 374 1  -  The Peat Marwick partner case By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE The Attor-ney-Gencral's Chambers has filed its appeal against the recent acquittal of accountant Peter Chi on charges of having misappropriated $183,650. The appeal is said to have been filed in late September, about
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  • 381 1  -  By Colin Tan SINGAPORE The output of the construction industry grew 26.2 per cent in the third quarter in terms of progress payments. Figures released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority yesterday show the sector received $2,166 billion in progress payments, compared with Si.7l
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  • 354 1  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE The latest government data suggest that demand for private houses and flats remains active, though not at the frantic level seen in the second quarter of the year. In October, the Central Provident Fund Board received 1,048 applications to withdraw
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    • 198 1 i^ruuih Aircraft Schedule 29 KLSE 23 Unit Trusts 21 Commodities 28 Money Changer Rates 29 Weather 29 Company News 4-6 Money Market 27 World News 9 Cryptic Crossword 29 Regional News 8 Editorial 10 Regional Stock Markets 26 Financial News 7 SES 19-21 Business Times address: Times Futures Options 27
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
    • 366 2  -  Seminar on Investment Opportunities in Malaysia By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE firms should invest in emerging Malaysian states such as Trengganu and Pahang, Malaysia's International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz said yesterday. About 75 per cent of Singaporean investments now
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    • 258 2  -  By Shoeb Kagda SINGAPORE Malaysia's largest commercial bank is aiming to become a one-stop bank for Singapore businessmen who want to invest in Malaysia. Malayan Banking Bhd's senior general manager for operations, Amirsham A Aziz, told BT yesterday that given Maybank's extensive network in
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    • 546 2  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR AT A TIME when most Malaysian banks arc posting record profits, state-owned Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd registered group earnings of M 522.7 million (5514.7 million) for the year ended March 1992, down significantly from M
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    • 363 2  -  From Salil Tripathi in MAURITIUS ON THE EVE of his departure from Mauritius, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said an economically developed Mauritius would be another partner for Singapore on the western side of the Indian Ocean. "It is like Hongkong. A
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    • 447 3  -  Firms like Jardine, Swire support HK governor From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG HONGKONG Major "hongs" here have refused to back public criticisms made by a group of leading businessmen and professionals against Gov Chris Patten's proposals for more democratic elections in 1995. Vincent
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    • 181 3 AFP HONGKONG Governor Chris Patten's political credibility is now on the line after unveiling his political blueprint for the territory in the transition to 1997 to China's disgust, a report said yesterday. The report, published by the Hongkong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, said
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    • 286 3  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Sony Precision Engineering Centre's (Spec's) $13 million technology centre can help local companies strengthen their technological and operational base at home before they expand beyond Singapore, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lim Boon
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    • 385 3  -  Division to manage worldwide operations for portable printers By Helen Chang SINGAPORE HewlettPackard has decided to make its Singapore office the company's global headquarters for its portable printers division and could pump much as US$7O million (about S$ 112 million) more into the unit
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    • 257 3 Compiled by staff from agency reports SINGAPORE US-based Reebok International Ltd and Easy Call, a Philippine pager company, will set up shop in Subic Bay Naval Base and create a total of at least 4,000 jobs for the community
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 72 4 SINGAPORE Tuan Sing Holdings Limited has announced that the Stock Exchange of Singapore has given in-principle approval for the company's proposed rights issue. Tuan Sing plans to offer 283.33 million new ordinary shares of 25 cents each at 30 cents per share with detachable
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      • 33 4 SINGAPORE The directors of Provisions Suppliers Corporation have announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fortune Food Manufacturing Pte Ltd completed the purchase of Shakey's Singapore Pte Ltd on Nov 6 1992.
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      • 98 4 KUALA LUMPUR Hong Leong Industries Bhd expects to conclude its feasibility study on the manufacture of cement in Malaysia by end of this year, its senior group managing director Lim How Soon told newsmen after its AGM yesterday. Mr Lim said: "If the study showed positive
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      • 42 4 SINGAPORE UOL Equity Investments Ltd has announced that it acquired 215,000 shares in United Industrial Corporation last Friday. The company paid 95 cents for each UIC share and it currently holds 7.3 per cent of UlC's equity.
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    • 314 4  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Computer firm Powermatic Data Systems, which originally planned to offer all 17 million new shares to the public, has placed 40 per cent of them with institutions the first Sesdaq company to do so. It
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    • 358 4  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Beleaguered Inno-Pacific Holdings Ltd has received the approval of one of its two groups of loan stockholders to proceed with the company's general divestment plan. The 1994 holders of $18 million loan stocks voted overwhelmingly in favour of Inno-Pac's divestment
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    • 145 4 SINGAPORE Keppel Corp sprang two surprises in one announcement yesterday. It said Tien Sing Cheong had resigned as chief executive officer of Steamers Maritime Holdings and that CN Watson was returning from Britain to take his place. Mr Tien had earlier indicated that he intended
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    • 358 4  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Cycle Carriage Ltd's ambitions to be a major property player have exposed the company to US-dollar exchange risks. The listed blue-chip company, which is already exposed to the deutschemark through its import of Mercedes cars, has taken on the
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    • 355 4  -  Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Singapore Aviation Services Co (Sasco) a subsidiary of listed Singapore Aerospace (SAe) celebrated the official opening of its second hangar at Paya Lebar yesterday. Sasco vice-president and genferal manager Francis Yuen said the $8 million hangar should
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    • 178 4 SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines Ltd has bought a 10storey office block in Perth for A 54.2 million (554.75 million) cash, bringing its total investment in Australian commercial properties to about As2s million. According to the national carrier's in-house newsletter Outlook, the deal was struck through its
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    • 652 4  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Every November, Singapore Press Holdings announces an increase in profit and, every year, its management faces the daunting task of improving the company's results. With the economy now approaching maturity," the
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    • 430 5 South China Morning Post HONGKONG World Trade Centre Group is suing a mainland-backed consortium that bounced three cheques issued for a HK$5O million (S$ 10.56 million) down payment in the failed HK$2.5 billion World Trade Centre building deal. The group last Friday
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    • 281 5 Reuter BANGKOK Mutual Fund Co Ltd yesterday reached its third straight 10 per cent daily limit high on market reports that investor Song Vatcharaviroj and his associates have accumulated a combined 27 per cent stake in the company. The mutual fund
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    • 286 5 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's slumbering stock market has finally been jolted awake by a new investment law after months of ignoring events from the Gulf War to the election of a new US president. The law, which allows foreigners to buy bank shares,
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    • 598 6 Newcomers find US movie industry difficult to break into AFP HOLLYWOOD Foreign investors such as the French and the Japanese are making major financial forays into the US movie industry, but they face an uphill battle to become true players in Tinseltown. "For
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    • 353 6 Reuter MUNICH German firms arc becoming less willing to make investments as capacity utilisation falls and they arc generally pessimistic about the outlook for coming months, says the Ifo economic institute. West German manufacturers in particular were less keen to invest in
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    • 225 6 Reuter NEW YORK Three American computer heavyweights Digital Equipment Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc say they are planning major product announcements today that are expected to include powerful new workstations. Industry analysts expect a new line of Digital computer
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    • 326 6 Reuter PARIS French luxury goods group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA said it is not worried about potential American trade sanctions against imports of cognac and perfume, two of LVMH's leading products. Washington said on Thursday that it
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 88 6 LONDON Confidence among British company directors is at its lowest since the Gulf War crisis, according to the latest survey by the Institute of Directors (lOD) published yesterday. Barely 10 per cent of company directors were "more optimistic" about the economy in
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      • 58 6 COLOGNE, Germany German chemical group Bayer AG said President-elect Bill Clinton's plans to stabilise health costs in the US could hurt its pharmaceutical operations there. Bayer management board chairman Manfred Schneider told Cologne's Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper that its solid pharmaceuticals profit in the US may be
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      • 66 6 ROME Italy's long-awaited privatisation plan, after years of empty promises and despite a deeply embarrassing ieak, enters its final preparation phase this week, ahead of official unveiling on Nov 19. Privatisation receipts next year are expected to account for seven trillion lire (558.33 billion) of a 93
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      • 66 6 TORONTO Conrad Black has acquired a 23 per cent stake in Southam Inc, Canada's largest newspaper chain, the Canadian Press reported on Sunday. The news agency quoted the media mogul's holding company, Holliger Inc, as saying that it bought the stake from Tor Star Corp. Southam
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      • 49 6 PARIS Total SA said third-quarter consolidated sales fell to 33.39 billion French francs (SSIO billion), from 33.74 billion francs a year earlier. The French oil company said in a statement that nine-month consolidated sales totalled slipped to 102.14 billion francs, from 103.32 billion francs.
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      • 45 6 LONDON A £55 million (*****.5 million) plan by Heron International pic chief executive Gerald Ronson to buy out two businesses from the private property group is meeting opposition from some of the group's bondholders, the Independent on Sunday newspap# said. r
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 350 7  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE More details to beef up the financial strength of insurance companies and help them expand overseas were announced yesterday by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. These rules, effective from Dec 31, cover higher solvency margins for
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    • 644 7  -  THE By Shoeb Kagda The Sang Kancil weekly column tracks the profit/loss of a US$5O,OOO live account set up by futures house Refco. Relying on both technicals and fundamentals, the account will trade in currency, interest rate, commodity and stock index futures. SINGAPORE The
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 84 7 WASHINGTON Timothy Ryan, who has overseen the clean-up of the US thrift industry for more than two years, officially announced his resignation yesterday as director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He said he would step down on Dec 6, with the task of
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      • 74 7 TOKYO The Bond Underwriters Association of Japan will set up a task force and hold its first meeting today to discuss ways to improve Japan's straight bond market, said Nobuaki Iwai, a manager of the association's Planning and Research Division. The move is designed to
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      • 77 7 KUALA LUMPUR Standard Chartered pic has reiterated its confidence that Malaysia's robust economic growth would continue to benefit the industrial sector and business community. Its chairman, Rodney Galpin, said that the group would maintain its role in serving the needs and facilitating trade and industry. He
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      • 89 7 BEIJING China's first joint venture bank, the Xiamen International Bank, has opened a branch in coastal Fuzhou, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The bank was founded in 1985 with Asian Development Bank support and has subsidiaries in Hongkong and Macau and representative offices in Zhuhai and
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      • 109 7 FRANKFURT A German financial magazine said that one of the two owners of financially troubled Germany's BfG Bank AG was blocking the sale of a large stake in the bank because the price offered was too low. WirtschaftsWoche magazine said trade union holding company BGAG, with
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    • 235 7 Reuter BOMBAY The head of a parliamentary committee investigating India's US$l.2 billion (551.92 billion) securities fraud says that foreign banks initiated India's biggest financial scandal. "They have been initiators of massive violations of the rules and regulations of the host country," joint parliamentary
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    • 366 7 Reuter HANOI Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and the Export-Import Bank of Korea opened offices in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday, joining the rush by foreign banks to get a foothold in Vietnam before the US lifts its trade
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  • THE REGION
    • 576 8 But analysts see backlash from global slowdown AFP UNDATED Soaring intraeast Asian trade has so far insulated the region from the recession in the rest of the world, but analysts warn that the region is bound to be hurt if the global
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    • 330 8 BANGKOK Various infrastructure projects are proliferating in Bangkok which will totally change the facade of the city in the next few years, the Bangkok Post reported on Friday. Three huge mass transit systems will be constructed soon in the city. Two million telephone lines
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    • 303 8 Reuter CANBERRA The government is investigating a migration racket in China in which would-be emigrants are promised jobs and residency in Australia, officials said yesterday. Last Saturday, Australia repatriated 113 Chinese boat people who arrived at the remote Australian territory of Christmas
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    • 261 8 AFP HANOI French speaking is in retreat in Vietnam, where the former colonial language is increasingly viewed as irrelevant in a region that has adopted English as the medium of business and trade. The evidence is everywhere. On arrival, Frenchspeaking tourists and investors are warmly
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 54 8 BANGKOK Thailand's most powerful military commander has come out against sanctions aimed at the Cambodian Khmer Rouge faction's trade in gems and timber with Thai businessmen, a newspaper said here yesterday. Army commander General Vimol Wongwanich is opposed to sanctions because he says they would not
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      • 77 8 HANOI Foreign investment in Vietnam this year is up by more than a quarter on last year and the country is expecting a further influx from Japan after Tokyo announced a large aid plan. In the first nine months of the year, 141 projects worth
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      • 63 8 BANGKOK The Bank of Thailand expects the Thai economy to grow 8 per cent in 1993, while inflation will grow 4.7 per cent. The Nation newspaper said on Saturday. Central bank officials told Thai government economic ministers that the country's 1993 current account deficit
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      • 49 8 MELBOURNE Australia is heading for one of its biggest strikes ever today in protest against state labour reforms in Victoria. Union leaders spoke of "industrial war" to fight a decision by the just-elected conservative government in Victoria to scrap holiday and weekend pay rates.
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  • THE WORLD
    • 461 9 AFP, Reuter Beijing The value of China's foreign trade is ex- pected to surge 10.5 per cent this year to US$l5O billion (Ss24o billion), the China Daily reported. China hopes to surpass Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore in the world league
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    • 192 9 AP TAIPEI Foreigners working illegally in Taiwan said on Sunday they have been exploited by Taiwanese employers, and demanded official permission to stay on this affluent island so their rights would be protected. "We are treated like prisoners and live in fear," said a Filipino
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 68 9 OSLO Norway's ruling Labour Party on Sunday voted to apply for membership of the European Community. At the end of a four-day national convention the motion to seek EC membership was approved by 182 votes, with 106 delegates voting against. Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland,
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      • 68 9 BERLIN More than 300,000 Germans answered calls by their political leaders on Sunday to come to the capital to condemn violence against foreigners, and then watched helplessly as jeering rioters bent on violence hijacked the demonstration from them. Booing the assembled civic leaders as "hypocrites," 300
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      • 69 9 TAIPEI Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui on Sunday called for Asian countries to set up a system of collective security to promote regional peace. Asian countries should "work for collective security while reforming their economies", Mr Lee said in a written address to a seminar on
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      • 80 9 BEIJING China is to set up its first national adoption centre to meet a rising demand from foreigners to adopt Chinese children, the China Daily reported yesterday. More than 2,000 children are adopted annually by foreigners, mostly by overseas Chinese in Hongkong, Taiwan
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  • 480 10 EDITORIAL SO IT all comes down to this one side won't listen; the other decides to stop talking and start punishing. It would be less bewildering if we were talking of a border war, or of protagonists still culturally wedded to the sword. But no, these are
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 250 10 DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's reminder last week that multi-national corporations continue to have an important role to play in Singapore is useful amid the recent emphasis on developing home-grown regional corporations. He is right to point out that the ability of MNCs to provide
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    • 95 10 THE WINTER iii Bosnia this year will be a very tormenting one. Many Bosnians, especially Muslims, have lost their homes. It will not be easy holding a ceasefire knowing fully well that the Serbs are gaining a foothold in the country. And they will not withdraw this
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    • 140 10 EVEN the most liberal-minded person will agree that it is very difficult for an R(A) movie, regardless of how high its artistic content, to be "suitable for both young and old." On this issue, it is perhaps from the residents and community leaders in housing estates that
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 208 10 FOR ONE WEEK NOW, the public has witnessed in disbelief the inconsistencies of how police in Songkhla Province is handling the investigation into the murder of a young woman or teenager which took place inside the provincial hall. With public interest still focused on this case, there
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    • 147 10 IT IS FOR CERTAIN that a Clinton administration will pursue human rights in developing countries as aggressively as the last Democrat Jimmy Carter who occupied the White House about 12 years ago. The Japanese government has also announced that, in future, the amount of aid that
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    • 121 10 PRIME MINISTER Mahathir Mohamad has wisely reminded bumiputras that political power is a crutch for someone who is handicapped. A crutch is only used to overcome temporary weaknesses and it should not be used to prop up anyone forever. That is why bumiputras should not
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  • 714 10  -  The French president is finding himself torn between conflicting pressures over global trade negotiations. Paul Taylor reports Paul Taylor Reuter FRENCH President Francois Mitterrand is torn by conflicting domestic and European pressures as he contemplates his next move in a transAtlantic tug-of-war over trade negotiations with
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 768 11  - Venturing abroad and letting outsiders in, too Michael Richardson discusses the wider issues behind Singapore Telecom's bid for Australia's third mobile-telephone licence Michael Richardson IHT MORE THAN just commercial interest is at stake for Singapore Telecom International (STI) in its bid to win Australia's third mobile-telephone licence. STI, the overseas
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    • 1375 11  -  Michael Kelly finds out how, after raising hopes in his election campaign, Bill Clinton is now trying to lower expectations Michael Kelly NYT AS President-elect Bill Clinton begins the transition from campaigning to governing, his overarching concern is to cope with the emotion he
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    • 714 12 TELEVISION AND RADIO \Tr\r\Ar\r\ lai/o crmrrc? ***** ZZ 7JO Si Sud(M) business on radio Y |Ifftll ft I 111 V C i 7.25 PM Opening followed by to- Show);.., J-JJ k< BBC, 88.9 mlfz Ml VHF Band II pan Business Today. £2 Ell«£ n 7.05 am, 5.05pm, 1.05 am: World
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 893 13  -  The father of New-Age music disowned his child to produce narrative albums. N R Kleinfeld traces Will Ackerman's switch from music to spoken word N R Kleinfeld NYT Ackerman is a guitarist and the vaguest simulacrum of a record mogul. He burst into national prominence as
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    • 559 13  -  Which costs more lipstick or packaging? Julie Chatterjee finds out Julie Chatterjee EVERYTIME a woman shells out up to $30 for a brand-name lipstick, this thought usually comes to mind: which costs more, the product itself, or the packaging? There is no doubt that the high
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    • 618 13 CHATTERBOX EDDIE MURPHY and fiancee Nicole Mitchell are the new parents of a 3.4-kg baby boy. Mitchell gave birth last Saturday to Miles Mitchell Muiphy at Englewood Hospital in New Jersey, said the actor's publicist, Terrie Williams. "Love's all right," Murphy said in a statement.
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  • FOCUS
    • 763 15 Japan's economic power has encouraged about lm people worldwide to study its language. Mark O'Neill traces its phenomenal growth Reuter WHEN former prime minister To s h i k i Kaifu arrived for a meeting with 12 foreign ambassadors to Japan, he was stunned
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY 1
    • TECH TAKES
      • 96 16 SINGAPORE Clone maker AST has got off to a good start this fiscal year. The California-based firm has reported a 45 per cent increase in revenue to a record U*****.4 million (Ss46B million) for the first quarter, ended Oct 3. Compared with the same
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      • 62 16 SINGAPORE Digital Equipment Singapore (DEC) has launched a new service to help organisations produce information and training programmes. DEC's Customised Training Services division will help firms analyse their training requirements and design and develop course material. DEC will take advantage of increasingly popular multi-media technology, which
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      • 110 16 SINGAPORE The director of Mical Enterprises Pte Ltd, Michael Foo Doon Chin, has been fined $100,000 for contempt of a court order that he stop making printer ribbon cartridges that bear the Epson name. Judicial Commissioner G P Selvam imposed the penalty on Oct 30 after
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      • 97 16 SINGAPORE Sun Microsystems, a Californian producer of workstations, will launch a low-cost colour RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) system today. At U554,295 (557.016), the new SPARCclassic (above) is built around a 50-megahertz microprocessor developed by Sun and chip maker Texas Instruments. Unlike PCs, the machine
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    • 741 16 Andrew Baxter examines a technological revolution that holds exciting possibilities for dry-cleaning FT YOU ONLY have to glance round a big supermarket to realise how microwave ovens have transformed the convenience food industry over the past decade, with whole ranges of tempting dishes created specially for heating
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    • 280 16 Reuter Substances known to slow the bone loss that affects women after menopause can also prevent the hip fractures they commonly suffer, according to a major study published in London last week. The study published in the British Medical Journal
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    • 877 17  -  The price war has taken its toll on IMI Electronics, but it intends to outlast the competition. Claire Leow reports Claire Leow Frank khoie's IMI Electronics is like Teflon. Many unkind things have been said about the PC manufacturer, but none seems to stick.
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  • SPORTS
    • SIDE LINES
      • 148 18 ADELAIDE Gerhard Berger survived a fuel scare and held off hard-charging Michael Schumacher on Sunday to win the Australian Grand Prix, the season-ending Formula One race. But Berger's victory by less than a second in his last race for McLaren-Honda was nearly overshadowed
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      • 98 18 COUNTRYSIDE, Illinois Bjorn Borg of Sweden beat Roscoe Tanner on Sunday to win the Advanta Tour of Chicago his first tournament victory since 1981. The top-seeded Borg earned U5525,000 (about S$40,000) for his 6-4, 6-1 victory over Tanner, who also fell to Borg in
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      • 122 18 HONOLULU Chi Chi Rodriguez, ahead by one stroke at the start of play on Sunday, birdied the first hole and cruised to an easy victory in the inaugural Senior Invitational at the Ko Olina Resort. The 57-year-old Rodriguez, of Naples, Florida, played a strong round under tough conditions
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      • 126 18 MEXICO CITY Tom Sieckmann shot a final-round 69 on Sunday to win the 36th Mexican Open golf championship by three strokes over Steve Elkington. Sieckmann completed four tours of the 7,020-yard La Hacienda Golf Club course in 20-under 268. Elkington shot a 70 for 271. "I
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    • 177 18 AP OAKLAND, California Monica Seles, who didn't drop a set all week, used blistering returns to defeat Martina Navratilova 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday in the U*****,000 (*****,000) Bank of the West Classic and win her ninth title of the year. Meeting Navratilova in
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    • 403 18 Couples' three birdies in four holes power team to victory in Madrid AFP MADRID Fred Couples hit three birdies in the last four holes to give the US its first World Cup win since 1988 here on Sunday. Defending champion Sweden's team of Anders
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    • 309 18 AP PARIS Boris Becker won a battle of aces as he defeated defending champion Guy Forget of France 7-6 (7-3), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Sunday to win his third Paris Open title. Becker finished off a week of superb tennis that reminded observers of the form
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    • 133 18 AP NEW YORK Playing basketball is only an income supplement for superstars like Chicago Bulls guard Michael Jordan, who tops Forbes magazine's third-annual ranking of the world's highest-paid athletes. The really big bucks come from product endorsements, which earned Jordan an esti- mated US$32 million
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    • 117 18 AP PHOENIX After battling Godzilla in TV commercials and the rest of the world at the Barcelona Olympics, Charles Barkley was ready for a monster game. He got it on Saturday night, in his first regularseason contest for the Phoenix Suns. Barkley, acquired in
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    • 210 18 AFP KIEL, Germany Australian Chris Dittmar, the world number two who has chased the leading Pakistani squash players around the globe for almost a decade, won the European Open squash title here last Sunday. The four-game win over compatriot Rodney Martin kept Dittmar's hopes flickering
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 3187 19  -  ®y Paul Leo TRADING in Malaysian counters Overwhelmed activity in Singapore counters yesterday, accounting for almost 90 per cent of the total turnover. Frenetic activity in the Malaysian counters pushed the UOB-OTC Index up 14.27 points, or 1.7 per cent, to 862.05. In contrast, the benchmark
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    • Article, Illustration
      77 19  -  Paul Leo GENTING Bhd rose 43 per cent from its recent low at $7.20 to a high of $10.30 on Nov 5. It has since fallen 60 cents tq around $9.70. The correction should bring the price lower towards $8.65, where it should find some support. The charts
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    • 474 21 BUSINESS T Toll free Tel No: 737 0043 Fax No; 734 3098 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF SINGAPORE MALAYA ADVERTISING SERVICE (PTE) LTD (Members' Voluntary NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308(1) of the Companies Act, Cap. 50, a
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    • 192 21 In the Matter of THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 And In the matter of ARIESCO ELECTRONICS PTE LTD NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 306(2) of the Companies Act (C*>. 50) that the Final Meeting of Members of the abovenamed Company will be held at the office of Tan
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 5528 22 Bernama THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange closed higher on strong speculative buying support yesterday in spite of profit-taking activities in in-dex-linked stocks. The KLSE Composite Index ended 5.67 points lower at 648.93 while the Industrial Index fell 9.87 points to 1,138.94. The all-share Emas Index
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 207 23 Company Date Year Group Nat Nat earnings Gross ann to profit/loss per share dividend (000) (cents) SPH Nov 6 Aug 92 $186,682($153.802) 76(62 6) 27(25) GKGoh Nov 3 Jun 92 $8,582(110.107) 4.3(5.1) 10(10) Jaya HWgs Nov 3 Jun 92 J7,093(18.573) ll.lW(-) 5TE(-) Scotts HWgs Nov 3 Jun 92
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    • 107 23 Company Date Year Group Net Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss per share dividend ('000) (cents) Faber Nov 2 Jun 92 M$33.305(MJ32.435) 3.9(8.6) H Leong Credit Nov 2 Jun 92 MJ52.725(M$38.978) 24 1(21.5) 9(9) Renong Nov 2 Jun 92 M$111.549(MJ80.650) 7.7(5.6) Uniphoemx Nov 2 Jul 92 M$3.717(MJ8.609) 2.3(5.4)
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    • 226 23 Company Date Half-year Group Nat Interim ann to profit/loss dividend (000) J Cement Nov 9 Sep 92 55.875(55.740) Rothmans M Nov 2 Sep 92 M5102.434(M5106.559) 60(50) Asia Pac Land Oct 29 Jul 92 M$8.321(M$5,367) 2(2) Esso Oct 29 Jun 92 M$37.500(MJ72.200) 20(20) Heua Oct 29 Jul 92 M51.136(M583L)
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    • 781 23 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment data dose payable the year last year Bedford 50c 1% Nov 2 Nov 16 Dec 7 2% BMT 510 100% Nov 12 Nov 24 Nov 26 140 9% 150% Boustead 50c 10% Nov 20 Dec 4 Dec 30 17.5%
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    • 486 23 Nov 6 In a surprise team-up, Yaohan has roped in Hongkong tycoon Li Ka-shing as a partner to develop a large property project in Penang. Nov 4 Scotts Hokfings Ltd has bought a 56-unit freehold serviced apartment building in central London for £11.8 million (5529.5 million). Pacific Can
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    • 391 23 Company Rights Issue Guthne GTS One-tor-one $0 23 per share Cx-date: Nov 26 Books dose: Dec 8 Acceptance Payment NYA 0C8C One-tor five fe S3 00 per local share Or* for five fe, $4 19 per foreign share Exnlate Oct 8 Books dose: Oct 20 Acceptance Payment Nov
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    • 239 23 UAC Bhd: 29th AGM at the Menara Boustead. 28th Floor. Jalan Raja Chulan, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday, November 10. at 11.30 am Malaysian Pacific Industries Bhd: 31st AGM/EGM at the Conference Room, 14th Floor, Bangunan Hong Leong, 117 Jalan Tun HS Lee, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Wednesday,
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    • 190 23 Conversion Special Trdg Scriptess Conversion deadline Period Trading Com pan> starts (IDP) (ST) starts Bonvests Nov 9 Dec 3 Nov 23 Dec 3 Dec 4 Ceretoos Oct 16 Nov 12 Nov 2 Nov 12 Nov 13 Chemical Ind Nov 9 Dec 3 Nov 23 Dec 3 Dec 4
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    • 362 23 In local out In S$ In US$ dy >t S dy >t S dy yr No\ S Index chge chge chge chge chge chge World 381.5 -O.I -6.6 0.0 -8.7 -0.5 -9.3 JEAFE 448.1 -0.2 -10.8 -0.3 -14.2 -0.8 -14.7 Europe 413.7 0.2 0.6 -0.3
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  • 595 23 Relative Strength Index: This indicator measures the rate at which prices move up or down, and theoretically ranges between zero and 100. In practice, it normally fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100
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  • CHINA STOCK EXCHANGES
    • 419 24 CLSA THE Shanghai domestic share market tumbled 6.6 per cent yesterday. Investors are sceptical that Chlor-Alkali's new A share listing, scheduled for Nov 13, will be successful, and are afraid that it might aggravate the already depressed market. Another factor was market players' renewed
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  • JAKARTA STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 958 24 Reuter BANKS continued to dominate trading on the Jakarta Stock Exchange which closed little changed yesterday. "Activity is picking up... but a lot of interest in banks is local. I suspect some banks are involved in supporting their own prices," one foreign
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND
    • 2121 24 Reuter STOCKS traded lower across the board yesterday in a major correction led by losses in the banking and finance and securities sectors, brokers said. The SET Index lost 19.72 points, or 2.06 per cent, to close at 939.36 on turnover of 13.81
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2543 25 Reuter STOCKS ended sharply lower yesterday on a weaker futures market and small-lot selling, with sentiment dampened by a flow of poor corporate earnings results and political uncertainty. The 225-share Nikkei Average was down 452.76 points or 2.68 per cent to 16,417.05. Turnover was
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2489 25 Reuter SHARES closed lower in diffident, uneventful trading yesterday, pulled down by profit-taking in the wake of last week's record-breaking run, dealers said. "Some bargain-hunting kicked in at the middle of the day, but there is still persistent selling," said Antony Mak of Citicorp Vickers.
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  • AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2044 26 THE Australian sharemarket closed weaker yesterday in line with offshore markets, pushed down by continued uncertainty about Westpac Banking Coip and a general lack of positive news. Brokers said small early gains were short-lived after the release of data showing retail trade
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Seoul stocks surge on buying spree
      • 405 26 THE New Zealand bourse closed marginally lower yesterday after a reasonably active Monday's trade but was seen well supported as a string of leading shares shed dividends. "The market performed very well considering that it had that volume of stocks going ex-dividend." Cavill White Securities' Don Turkington said.
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      • 822 26 TAIWAN STOCKS closed slightly lower in sluggish trade yesterday as the market remained trapped between 3,500 and 3,550 points, lacking buying incentives, brokers said. The Weighted Index ended 5.64 points down at 3,530.14 on a turnover of NTS6.I6 billion. The financial and paper sectors managed marginal gains but other
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      • 507 26 SEOUL STOCKS raced up to close higher for the fifth consecutive session yesterday as investors piled in to snap up shares almost indiscriminately, setting a record for turnover, brokers said. "The market skyrocketed in a liquid-ity-driven market aided by aggressive individual investors who encouraged healthy foreign and institutional interest,"
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      • 537 26 A MILD DECLINE in oil sector stocks is expected to pull share prices on the Manila Stock Exchange's Composite Index down about three points today, traders said. The index lost 5.02 points, or 0.37 per cent, yesterday to close at 1,345.66. It shed 5.91 points last Friday and finished
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      • 53 26 INDICES TURNOVER Close No* 9 Previous NEW ZEALAND NZSE-40 Capital 1.401 98 1.403.67 -1 6 MANILA Composite Index Turnover (mil pesos) 1.345.66 100 1.350.68 105 -5.02 -5 TAIPEI Weighted Price Index Turnover (NTS billion) 3.530.14 6.16 3.535.78 7.5 -5.64 -1.34 SEOUL Composite Stock Index Turnover (billion won) 686.46 1.060 664.0
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1193 27 REPORTS THE US DOLLAR ended at a fivemonth high yesterday against the mark in Tokyo, while dollar/mark gains helped push the dollar higher against the yen. dealers said. The dollar rose to 1.6010 marks in afternoon trade, the highest since
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    • 304 27 AP NEW YORK In spite of Japan's economic and financial might, the market for its corporate bonds is just a speck on the map. Unlike US companies, which typically raise hundreds of billions of dollars a year by selling lOUs to domestic investors,
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    • 1492 27 SIMEX EUROOOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Act/Vol Op/lnt Dec 92 96.27 96.30 96.25 96.25 3550 6219 ***** Mar 93 96.28 96.30 96.25 96.26 ***** ***** ***** Jun 93 95.78 95.82 95.76 95.76 7350 3723 ***** Sep 93 95.32 95.35 95.28 95.29 1900 1689 3044 Dec 93
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    • 395 27 Crass rates Nov 9 US$ SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.6335 2.5210 1.5980 123.70 0.6545 1.4350 1.4286 1.8939 SS 0.6122 1.5433 0.9783 75.7270 0.4006 0.8785 0.8745 1.1594 MS 0.3967 0.65 0.6339 49.0678 0.2596 0.5692 0.5667 0.7513 Dm 0.6258 1.0222 1.5776 77.41 0.4095 0.8980 0.8940
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    • 589 27 Interbank rates SS Bid Offer Overnight 1/4 1/2 1-month I 7/16 I 9/16 2-month I 5/8 1 3/4 3-month 1 3/4 1 7/8 Overnight mode: 1-1/4 LSS Bid Offer 7 days 3 3/16 3 5/16 1 month 3 3/16 3 5/16 2 months 3 5/8 3 3/4 3
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 321 28 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Spot gold prices are likely to fail by the end of November to US$332 per ounce from around US$336 now, because the recent strength of the US dollar, which has supported gold, is seen as temporary, market
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    • 296 28 AFP HAVANA Cuba's tobacco industry, which has taken a hit from the country's economic decline and the demise of socialism, is hoping to develop new markets in Eastern Europe and the Pacific. Over the past two years, Cuba's tobacco production has fallen 15
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    • 743 28 REPORTS TIN PRICE on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market shed 13 sen to close at M 514.10 per kg on higher offerings yesterday. Dealers said the easier trend was in line with the poor performance of the London Metal Exchange which closed
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  • 1361 28 Rubber HAS Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Dec 92 144.00 143.75 144.00 175 2.500 Jan 93 0.00 0.00 144.25 200 4,275 Feb 144.75 144.75 144.25 100 4.750 Mar 0.00 0.00 144.50 0 5.250
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 644 29  -  LETTER FROM MEMBRILLA By Julia Hayley BENT double, with baskets strung from their waists and up to their ankles in mud, the villagers are picking a precious harvest. Hidden inside the bedraggled purple crocusses is the most expensive spice in the world saffron. Each flower yields
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    • 151 29 As at 10am yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.1375 1.1535 Canadian dollar 1.2858 1.3118 NZ dollar 0.8582 0.8755 Sterling pound 2.4861 2.5210 US dollar 1.6290 1.6360 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14.37
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 144 29 26 Itefcn oily saw takes this treatment lying Roman marbles missing 23 His eye son the target (4) (14) 8 (3^6) e and YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 1 Put two and two together V 1 P (4 3) Application for injury ben- BrM t iBaBBaMIMsMBoM 2 Words that appeal to the (10)
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    • 165 29 Singapore Outlook: Cloudy with showers over many areas in the late morning and afternoon. Report: Maximum temperature 27.3 Assoc humidity 85% Minimum temperature 24.6 Assoc humidity 92% Hours of sunshine 0.00 Rainfall in mm 1.4 Rainfall this month 150.3 Rainy days this month 7 World report Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* C'ond. Bangkok
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  • 380 30 Reuter HARROGATE. England Industrial leaders have put forward a seven-point plan to propel Britain's recession-bat-tered manufacturing industry back on the road to prosperity. The leaders, at the opening day of the annual Confederation of British Industry (CB1) conference, have called
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  • 441 30 NYT, AP LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas In an effort to demonstrate a commitment to boosting the battered American economy, US President-elect Bill Clinton plans to assemble a conference of business and economic leaders within the next few weeks and create an
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  • 38 30 MARSEILLE, France Firemen fighting a blaze after explosions ripped through a Total refinery here early yesterday. Three people were killed and four reported missing. The refinery has an annual capacity of six million tonnes.
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  • 401 30  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE THE Clinton administration is likely to adopt a policy of supporting and collaborating with US industry, says a visiting American professor. The policy would be along the lines of that adopted by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry,
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  • 682 30  -  The Bottom Line HARISH MEHTA HARISH MEHTA The writer is a BT correspondent AN OLD Indochinese aphorism has had a leavening effect on Vietnam's economic renovation: The lotus is undamaged, the water unstirred, but the fish caught. The Indochinese communists incorporated the aphorism
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  • 231 30 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG China will soon allow farmers and agri-culture-related enterprises to export their products directly and deal with foreign businesses, the official China Daily said over the weekend. State agricultural bureaus will also be given more freedom to approve foreign investment in
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  • 238 30 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan is tightening its screening of foreign investment applications and bids for infrastructure contracts to block projects by companies with large mainland Chinese shareholdings. "We are screening foreign investment applications prudently to prevent communist Chinese capital from slipping through." said Chen Mingpang, secretary-general
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    • 333 31  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Kuwaitibased United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), the Arab world's largest shipping firm, has announced a slotsharing agreement with two other lines for intra-Asia services. The agreement with South Korea's Hanjin Shipping and Dongnama Shipping Co Ltd will take effect
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    • 333 31  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Members of the London-based International Salvage Union, including Semco Salvage Marine Pte Ltd, have agreed to arrest the decline in the global deployment of salvage crew and equipment. However, the exact measures are still being finalised by the Salvage
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    • 306 31 AP PARIS A Japanese freighter laden with highly toxic plutonium was sailing southwest in the Atlantic from Europe and could reach the Azores Islands tomorrow, Greenpeace reported. A Greenpeace boat was tracking the freighter. Greenpeace says the reprocessed plutonium, bound for Japanese nuclear reactors,
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      • 84 32 MADRAS South India Shipping Corp, based in Madras, has bought two bulk carriers from Russia. The 43,124 deadweight, Brazil-built Chennai Sadhanai has been delivered, and the Chennai Jayam is due for delivery this month. Sisco plans to acquire two more capsize bulkers in
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      • 141 32 SINGAPORE Passenger traffic on European airlines in September was up 8 per cent on the corresponding figure for last year a result slightly lower than in the previous months. Above average growth was confined to three of the smaller route groups Mid and South Atlantic
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      • 104 32 BASLE, Switzerland UK-based Blue Star Line, CMB Transport of Belgium and France's Compagnie Generale Maritime's subsidiary, Seas, have decided to merge their northern Europe/East Coast of South America (Ecsa) activities. "A new company will be set up in Paris to carry out full line-management on behalf of
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      • 127 32 MOMBASA, Kenya Port authorities banned a Panamani-an-registered freighter leaving for Mexico on Sunday carrying 300 Chinese passengers stranded for 36 days. Officials said it would be dangerous for the the ship, which they identified as the Ong Brothers, to put to sea with such a
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      • 89 32 The annual European Regional Airlines Association award was presented to Tony Goldman. The award was for being "the person who has done the most for regional aviation for the past year". He is head of the Head of the Civil Aviation Policy Directorate in the UK Department
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    • 1414 32  -  The new Pittsburgh airport is a costly showcase, for which US Air will pay more than US$ 1 billion during its 30-year lease. Edwin McDowell reports Edwin McDowell NYT From high above, the maze of geometric designs is reminiscent of the Nazca lines,
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    • 8681 40 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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    • 1465 45 Abex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7822. Fax: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Tel: 545-8033. Fax: *****05. Aerospeed Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express International Tel: 542-7666. Fax: *****74, *****50. Air
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    • 3348 46 ALBANIA Durres: 6 vessels in port of which 1 loading bitumen in drums. 1 discharging bagged sugar. 1 discharging bulk wheat. 1 discharging meat. I loading chrome ore, 1 discharging chicken food. ARGENTINA Labour working normally. Buenos Aires: Most general cargo berths; no congestion; 3 tugboats involved in
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    • 559 46 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Flight Type ETA T From Op Flight Type FIT) T To TODAY TOOAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 1 NRT SIA SQ802 B747F 0230 2 SYD/AKL KAL KE697 B747F 0150 1 SEL NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 1 BKK/NRT JAL JL617 B747F 0345 1 TYO KAL
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    • 430 46 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Pep Name of Vessel ETA ETD Ports of Calls Port Agent Telephone No NOVEMBER 10 11 Fantasy World 1000 1900 Sin-Jakarta Lauw Sons Pte Ltd 227-8284 15 15 Fantasy World 1000 2000 Sin-P Klang Lauw Sons Pte Ltd 227-8284 15 15 Ocean Pearl 0800
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      • 232 47 Jotwfe Port Berth: 1: Thai Yang Jenwin; 2: Million 111 Bangkhonti; 3: Kinta Maru; 4; 30 Agutos; 5; Sol; 6; nil. 09 jetty: Chem Noon. DCi: Tea Rose. Due on Nov 9: Lady Pauline, Abadi, Johan. Pernas Sekoi, Bangkok Bridge, Aries. Due on Nov 10: Bum Han, Cerlang,
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    • 1001 48 THE UPTREND in the dry cargo freight market continued on Friday as firmer grain fixtures were reported for panamax vessels, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index (BF1) was marked up by 11 points to 1,135 and had risen 24 points last week. Strong fixings were confirmed on the
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    • 388 48 Nov 10 11: Shiprepair and Conversion 92 Conference cum Exhibition to be held at Olympia London, jointly organised by BML Business Meetings Limited (UK) and Petamgas Maritime Services Pte Ltd. For details and registration forms, please contact Petamgas at tel: 223-6118 or fax: 223-9929. Nov 18 19: Ship
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    • 278 50 BANGKOK Thai Airways International (Thai)'s executive board yesterday announced a reshuffle of senior management officials. According to the Bangkok Post, the reshuffle involves the following changes: Atthaya Watanapong was moved from vice-president for domestic flight operations to acting vice-president for special operations, Samran Pungsuk
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    • 331 50 Plans underway to ease HK airport's congestion AFP HONGKONG China's special economic zone of Shenzhen is to open its airport to international airlines next year, with plans to back up saturating Hongkong's Kai Tak airport, it was reported yesterday. Kong Dong, general manager
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    • 300 50 SINGAPORE Stuttgartbased Mercedes-Benz has won accolades from the American government for producing the first CFC-free passenger car the S-class model which was launched last year. The German luxury-car maker received the Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award 1992 from the Environmental Protection Agency
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    • 300 50 BANGKOK The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) has admitted that conflicts with Hopewell Holding over engineering designs delayed commencement of the elevated mass commuter train, adding that if the two sides failed to settle their differences the plan would be adversely affected.
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    • 179 50 NYT NEW YORK Continental Airlines the bankrupt carrier that is about to emerge from bankruptcy protection has been the object of a lot of other airlines's affections: they want to take it over. But a week ago, one of Continental's suitors, Lufthansa German
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    • 653 50 NYT NEW YORK With the recent flood of bad news from General Motors, including last week's purge of the chairman, Robert CStempel, and the announcement of a US$753 million (SSI.2 billion) loss for the third quarter, it is sometimes
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