The Business Times, 3 December 1992

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    16 1 Business Times THE BUSINESS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA MITA (P) 35/12/91 Thursday, December 3, 1992 75'
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
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      EC growth could hit as low as 1.1pc: Commission
      76 1 BRUSSELS The European Commission yesterday said it estimated that economic growth in the Community could be as low as 1.1 per cent in 1992 and remain within the range of 1.0 to 1.5 per cent in 1993. In a document to
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      Nomura to cut 1,400 jobs in three years
      38 1 TOKYO Nomura Securities Co, the world's largest brokerage, yesterday said Wednesday it would eliminate 1,400 jobs over three years to help cope with the nation's business and stock market slump.
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      Buying continues
      45 1 WHILE some Singapore investors have halted their search for property bargains Down Under, others are pressing ahead. Two deals were recently signed. Both were purchases of hotels by a the Swan River for more than As 4 million (554.4 million) each Page 2
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      M'sian triangle
      44 1 AN economic triangle is shaping up in Malaysia's Klang Valley. The triangle linking Kuala Lumpur with Sepang to the south and Port Klang to the west will have the largest international air as well as sea ports in South-east Asia Page 3
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      Bid record
      38 1 LITTLE INDIA'S 28 unrestored shophouses attracted a record 364 bids or an average of 13 bids per unit when tender closed yesterday. Seven of the shophosues drew bids drew of $1 million and above Page 3
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      Six taken as hostages
      42 1 KHMER ROUGE guerillas took six United Nations peacekeepers hostage in central Cambodia yesterday, a UN spokesman said. The local Khmer Rouge commander who took the peacekeepers hostage believed they were spying for the Phnom Penh government Page 8
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      China, Taiwan accused
      21 1 THE Bush Administration has accused China and Taiwan of manipulating their currencies to gain unfair advantage Page 9
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      Eata's first move
      32 1 MEMBERS of the Europe Asia Trades Agreement (Eata) have taken a tentative first step towards easing the overcapacity problem on the eastbound Europe-Far East trade. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKET SUMMARY
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      Dow lower
      31 1 WALL STREET stocks turned lower yesterday after profittaking erased a firm start. The Dow Jones, after touching a high of 3296, reversed course to fall to 3288, down six.
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      Footsie lower
      29 1 LONDON share prices were lower at mid-day yesterday. At 1230 GMT, the Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100share index was down 13.4 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 2,778.6.
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      Stake purchasers
      36 1 THE Salim and Kuok groups have emerged as the backers behind two companies which last week bought a combined stake of 24.78 per cent in marine engineering company Van Der Horst Ltd Page 4
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      Beefing up businesses
      38 1 BRUNEI-backed QAF Ltd will boost its regional and international food and retail businesses in a bid to make it "a food group to be reckoned with", says group managing director Wong Fong Fui. Page 4
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      Astra profit down
      48 1 THE Indonesian Soeryadjaya family's Astra car distribution business reported a sharp fall in profit for the first nine months of this year. Net profit for January-September slipped to 52.9 billion rupiah (5546.7 million), against 188.6 billion rupiah in the same period last year Page 5
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      STOCK INDICES
      29 1 Wednesday Change BT-MGA 689.55 -0.92 Kuala Lumpur 641.51 +4.28 Tokyo 17,393.68 +80.64 Hongkong 5,411.65 -90.06 Sydney 1,438.5 -5.8 Tuesday Change New York 3,294.36 -10.8 London 2.792.0 +13.2
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      CURRENCIES
      23 1 Exchange rates USS SS 1.6340 100 Yen SS 1.3151 MS SS 0.6434 Money market rates Overnight 1/4% +1/8 3-month 2 1/8% -3/16
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      COMMODITIES
      36 1 London Gold AM fix USS335.10 US$0.50 ffidihw S'pore Dec 146.00«/kg +1.25 M'sia Jan 223.00'/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 16tonnes -29 Spot MS 14.07/kg +0.05 Crude palm ofl Turnover 954 lots -767 Dec MS935 /tonne 3
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    PM calls by-election in his own ward
    569 1  -  Poll on Dec 19; Goh stays on as PM in interim By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE The muchawaited by-election, Singapore's first since the 1981 poll in Anson, will be held on Dec 19 at Marine Parade GRC the Prime Minister's constituency. Goh Chok
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    SPC in talks to open petrol stations in Thailand
    514 1  -  Joint venture with Thai Petrochem being firmed up By Loh Hui Yin SINGAPORE Cash-rich Singapore Petroleum Company, which has been on the lookout for business opportunities in the region, is firming up a joint venture in Thailand. One of the projects
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    Don't underestimate us, China warns Patten
    430 1 Compiled by staff from agency reports HONGKONG China warned Hongkong Governor Chris Patten yesterday against underestimating its might as he pressed on with democratic reform plans in spite of Beijing's stern disapproval. A local Beijing-controlled newspaper demanded that Mr Patten drop his plans and
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    Beri sees 6.5pc growth for S'pore next year
    148 1 SINGAPORE The Singapore economy will do better next year with growth exceeding 6JS per cent —if there is sufficient global economic recovery, according to the Washington-based consultancy Business Environment Risk Intelligence (Beri). In its Nov 25 country report on Singapore, Beri predicted
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    Lock icon China and Vietnam agree on economic cooperation
    426 1 AFP, Reuter. HANOI China signed four accords with Vietnam yesterday and pledged to provide Vietnam with a US$l4 million (5522.8 million) soft loan in the first economic aid from China to its smaller communist neighbour since the Vietnam War. The modest loan came
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      14 1 Editorial: High noon in Hongkong, Pg 10 Analysis: When public opinion falters, Pg 11
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
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      S'pore investors still buying Aussie properties: agent
      507 2  -  By Colin Tan SINGAPORE While some local investors have halted their search for property bargains Down Under, others are pressing ahead. Cecilia Wee, the wife of Singapore's former Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin, has signed a deal to buy a historical hotel on
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      Stiffer standards for ROY car inspection
      399 2  -  New requirements to be effective from June next year By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Car owners will have to satisfy stiffer requirements when they send in their cars for inspection from June 1 next year. The Registry of Vehicles (ROV) announced yesterday that the stiffer
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      Indiana explosion may cost insurers about $1.5m
      287 2  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Insurers face about $1.5 million in claims from last week's Sembawang Shipyard tanker fire which killed five Malaysians and injured 17 other foreign workers. Most of the money about $1.24 million will be claimed through workers' compensation, insurance
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      Corrections & clarifications
      32 2 Corrections clarifications IN yesterday's BT report "Telecom launches new services", numbers in the revised Local Toll-Free System will start with 1800 and not 800 as reported. We are sorry for the error.
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      Lock icon A magical, mystery tour
      113 2 Photo by Arthur Lee SINGAPORE One may ask what ballerinas, winged horses and mythical mist-breath-ing beasts have to do with Christmas. But they landed Paragon by Sogo the top prize in this year's Best Decorated Building Contest. Local artist Ong Kim Seng, who was the judge
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      Klang Valley expected to be economic hub by 2000
      398 3  -  Reports by Yang Razali Kassim in BANGKOK AN economic triangle is shaping up in Malaysia's Klang Valley which, when fully developed by the end of the decade, could be one of the most robust areas in the region. Dr Lee Boon
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      Call for body to manage growth triangle
      451 3 BANGKOK A tripartite agency involving Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia must be formed to manage the Sijori; growth triangle and steer it against competition from the.tast-emerging economic in Southern China. This proposal was made at the International Conference on Managing the MegaUrban Regions of
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      Lock icon Alcatel lands M$450m M'sian phone deal
      271 3 AP, AFP KUALA LUMPUR Alcatel of France has won a Ms4so million (about Ss29o million) contract to install 800,000 telephone lines for Telekom Malaysia. The French Minister of Industrial and External Trade, Dominique StraussKahn, said at the end of a three-day visit here yesterday
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      Little India shophouses draw million-dollar bids
      430 3  -  By Colin Tan SINGAPORE Though Little India shopkeepers have claimed that business is slack, 28 unrestored shophouses there attracted a record 364 bids or an average of 13 bids per unit when a tender for them closed yesterday. Figures released by the Urban Redevelopment
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      Sanyo to spend $4m to beef up Batam battery plant
      320 3  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Electronics giant Sanyo Electric Co intends to pump another $4 million into its 10-month-old battery-making subsidiary in Batam. Two-thirds of the money will be used to expand Sanyo Energy Batam Corporate's capacity to produce nickelcadmium
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Mega First's property project
        65 4 KUALA LUMPUR The construction cost of Mega First Corporation Bhd's development project in Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi has been estimated to be MS22O million (S$ 141.5 million) over a period of seven years. In replying to a Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange query, the company said the
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        RHB appoints new director
        42 4 SINGAPORE Rashid Hussain Bhd has appointed Ooi Sang Kuang as a director. Mr Ooi, formerly the head of research and executive vice-president of research at the Malaysian stockbroking firm, had previously worked at Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara.
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        Chin Teck profit up 81pc
        71 4 KUALA LUMPUR Chin Teck Plantations Bhd yesterday announced an 81.1 per cent jump in pre-tax profit to M$ 12.86 million (SsB.3 million) for the year ended Aug 31, 1992, from M 57.10 million previously, thanks to improved palm oil prices. Releasing its unaudited results, it
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        Concrete Engrg in share deal
        88 4 KUALA LUMPUR Concrete Engineering Products Bhd has entered into an agreement to subscribe for 2.8 million new ordinary shares of Msl.oo each or 28 per cent of the proposed enlarged issued and paid-up capital of Toroya Sdn Bhd for a cash consideration of MS2.B million
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      Lock icon MIDF interim profit rises, set to exceed full-year forecast
      246 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Bhd (MIDF) group turned in impressive results for the half-year to Sep 30, 1992, with pre-tax profit jumping 37 per cent to M 548.9 million (5531.3 million). The pre-tax profit, which is 66.8
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      Salim and Kuok groups buy into Van Der Horst
      336 4  -  Combined stake of 24.78 pc acquired By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The Salim and Kuok groups have emerged as the backers behind two companies which last week bought a combined stake of 24.78 per cent in marine engineering company Van Der Horst
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      Lock icon 311 bumi firms dropped from share list
      206 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR A total of 311 bumiputra firms have been dropped from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry's list of companies eligible for shares offered by companies going public, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Deputy Minister Chua Jui Meng said
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      L&M names new director
      276 4  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE L&M Group Investments Ltd, which is going through a restructuring under its new management, has named Liew Mun Leong, former chief executive of Sisir, a director of the company. His appointment follows that of Kuik See Juan, a former director of Bonvest
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      Powermatic share allotment favours small investors
      328 4  -  Only 300-odd applicants not successful By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE All but 300 applicants for shares of Powermatic Data Systems have been successful. Underwriter ABN Amro (Asia) has distributed 78 per cent of the 10 million shares offered to 3,385 investors each getting 10,000
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      Lock icon Lion Land in M$280m project
      106 4 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Lion Land Bbd (LLB) will be developing a comprehensive residential and commercial project costing ofer Ms2Bo million (SslBoi million) in Kbmg. This wUI be'ljjLß's first jmmnerdal devekjjtnent as it R currently invofned only in residential and property projects.*^ The proposed commercial complex
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      QAF singles out China in aggressive expansion plans
      563 4  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Bruneibacked QAF Ltd will push its regional and international food and retail businesses in a strategy to make it "a food group to be reckoned with", says group managing director Wong Fong Fui. Mr Wong said the group
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      Fake KL scrip: A little prudence would have gone a long way
      562 4  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By, Amy Balan SINGAPORE The Malaysian authorities must have have heaved sighs of relief. Six hundred forged share certificates that surfaced were traded not through the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange but through Clob
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      Indonesia's Astra suffers sharp drop in profit
      392 5 Jan-Sep profit fell to 59b rupiah from 188b last year SINGAPORE Indonesia's Soeryadjaya family received more bad news yesterday its Astra car distribution business reported a sharp fall in profit for the first nine months of this year. Net profit for JanuarySeptember slipped
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      Lock icon Smith Barney to buy into brokerage HG Asia
      251 5 Reuter NEW YORK Smith Barney, Harris Upham Co said on Tuesday that it will buy a 20 per cent stake in Asian brokerage HG Asia Holding Ltd. Smith Barney, a subsidiary of financial services company Primerica Corp, r said it will issue
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      Lock icon Henderson Land to develop telecoms systems in Beijing
      243 5 South China Morning Post HONGKONG Henderson Land Development, the listed flagship of Hongkong tycoon Lee Shau-kee, has taken a 55 per cent stake in a US$l5O million (*****.5 million) joint venture to develop telecommunications systems in Beijing. The project is the company's
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      Lock icon Dell launches new cheaper PCs and predicts US$1b sales
      420 6 Reuter AUSTIN, Texas Dell Computer Corp has launched a fully upgraded line of topperforming personal computers, saying the new products' sales could top USSI billion (551.64 billion) next year in the US alone. In what the company described as its biggest
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      Lock icon IBM, Sears launch new venture in computer-networking
      204 6 Reuter NEW YORK International Business Machines Corp and Sears, Roebuck A Co launched a new venture in the computer-networking business on Tuesday that promises to generate US$l billion (551.64 billion) of new sales within a year. Advantis, a partnership controlled by IBM's subsidiary.
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      Lock icon Execs exercise options worth US$252m to beat Clinton's taxes
      387 6 NYT NEW YORK This could be-*! banner-vear Jar exeatTo avoid the higher taxes that Mr Clinton has vowed to slap on their multi-mil-lion-dollar pay packages, corporate executives are figuring ways to reap pay and benefits this year instead of next, said
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      Lock icon Smith & Nephew sells Nivea to Beiersdorf
      178 6 Smith Nephew sells Nivea to Beiersdorf Reuter LONDON British healthcare and household group Smith Nephew pic said it had agreed to sell its Nivea hand cream business to German group Beiersdorf AG for £46.5 million (Ssl 14.8 million) cash. Smith Nephew and Beiersdorf said they believed the success of Nivea
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      Lock icon US stocks not in danger of major correction yet: analysts
      353 6 MARKET WATCH Reuter NEW YORK The recent rally in US stocks is getting over-extended, but technical analysts said it was not in danger of a major correction in the near-term. Solid breadth and volume statistics, combined with favourable interest rates,
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      326 4 KLSE: Confidence returns 23 Thai shares rally 25 r iMPI POWERMATIC DATA SYSTEMS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 17,000,000 NEW SHARES OF Sso.lo EACH COMPRISING 10,000,000 OFFER SHARES AT 550.45 PER OFFER SHARE BY WAY OF PUBLIC OFFER AND 7,000,000 PLACEMENT SHARES AT 550.47
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      135 5 Make Impressions Create Expressions I I -:4f- f^L*. OUR NEW REGIONAL FREIGHTER SERVICES TAKE IN MORE OF ASIA. f-l Singapore Airlines Cargo now has a 8737 freighter that is exclusively dedicated to serving Asia. With this regional freighter we offer capacity to Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh, Hong Kong,
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      192 6 i| Step into the future at Empire JO Tower. A unique 61-storey office n tower which forms part of City rj I Square Centre. Within a metro- polis that also integrates City Square Shopping Complex and Crown Princess Kuala Lumpur. :'M|P A high-powered address that provides every conceivable convenience to
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
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      GE Capital, UMW in regional financial venture
      292 7  -  By Shoeb Kagda SINGAPORE In its second regional joint venture in eight months, GE Capital Corporation has teamed up with Malaysia's UMW group to form a financial services company. GE Capital will take a 49 per cent stake in the company's existing financial
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      Simex, TSE put off talks on Nikkei futures trading
      454 7  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE A new round of talks between the Singapore International Monetary Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange on tighter control of Nikkei futures trading has been put off to early next year. The talks were originally scheduled
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    • SMALL CHANGE
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        Call for public funds to help Japanese banks
        72 7 TOKYO A senior Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) official said the use of public funds is necessary to help financial institutions dispose of their huge volume of problem loans, Japanese newspapers reported. The Miti official said on Tuesday that the
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        Manila to ease monetary policies
        52 7 MANILA The Philippine Central Bank will ease monetary policies slightly next year. Bank governor Jose Cuisia told a press forum yesterday that preliminary estimates indicated that a 13.8 per cent expansion in money supply would be needed to attain the targeted growth rate of 4.0-4.5
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        Citibank's venture in Pakistan
        52 7 KARACHI Citibank has set up the first private sector finance company in Pakistan to tackle the country's housing problem, bank officials here said yesterday. The Citibank Housing Finance Company, with a capital base of about US$4 million (556.4 million), will formally start its operation in Lahore
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        Taiwanese bank eyes Vietnam
        53 7 TAIPEI Taiwan's International Commercial Bank of China (1CBC) has obtained Taiwanese government approval to establish a representative office in Vietnam, the Monetary Affairs Bureau said yesterday. ICBC vice-president James Yuan said the bank would apply to the Vietnamese government to set up the office in Ho
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      Lock icon China to set up world's 4th oil futures exchange
      346 7 South China Morning Post HONGKONG China's four biggest oil ministries have joined forces to set up in oil exchange in Nanjing that, for the first time, involves futures trading. When it begins trading in March, the Nanjing Petroleum Exchange (Nanpex), based
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      Lock icon Bank of Korea against rate cuts
      137 7 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's central bank, the Bank of Korea, has said it opposes widely expected cuts in the rediscount rate and some stateregulated interest rates. "We are against any move to artificially lower interest rates," a senior bank official said on Tuesday. He
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      Lock icon German banker says rate cut unlikely before March
      255 7 Reuter LONDON Germany is unlikely to cut interest rates before March and would only do so if it considered wage levels and public spending sufficiently low, according to Helmut Geiger, president of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association. "By March at
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      165 7 L TT *ffir^' a Sl.Cn»-- J H H^Bk. > T*',sv R||l^_ He grew up on beluga caviar and Bizet's Carmen. He had a champion King Charles spaniel and a '52 roadster named Wanda. He had Europe at his feet and the world at his door. But he never had a
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  • THE REGION
    • NOTE BOOK
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        Thailand expects to conclude oil deal soon
        90 8 SINGAPORE The Thailand government's oil exploration arm expects to conclude a production sharing agreement early next year to begin exploring in an offshore area jointly administered with Malaysia. "We are going to conclude PSC terms in a few months," Viset Choopiban, president of
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        Keating calls for further growth
        95 8 CANBERRA Prime Minister Paul Keating yesterday said Australia's economic growth must be increased further. "The national accounts figures showed recovery is well underway in Australia and we have been growing at an annual rate of around 2 per cent for four quarters," he said. "However,
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        Manila seeks American support
        69 8 MANILA The Philippines yesterday urged the US to declare its support for a dialogue on the disputed Spratly islands, and assist in their joint exploration to help a settlement among the six claimants. Foreign Secretary Roberto Romulo also said Washington should clarify whether it would come
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        Govt agencies told to save power
        85 8 MANILA President Fidel Ramos yesterday ordered all government agencies to immediately reduce electricity consumption as six-hour daily outages continued to cripple the country's main island, Luzon. Mr Ramos issued a memorandum ordering all government offices to cut power consumption by 10 per cent and
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      Lock icon Khmer Rouge takes UN peacekeepers hostage
      353 8 Thais vow to protect trade from Cambodian sanctions AFP, Reuter PHNOM PENH Khmer Rouge guerillas took six United Nations peacekeepers, including three Britons, hostage in central Cambodia yesterday, a UN spokesman said. The peacekeepers were travelling aboard a boat from the disputed provincial capital
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      US delays action against Thai exporters
      282 8 BANGKOK The US will not impose punitive trade measures against Thai exporters over the next six months, pending action by the Bangkok government on solving human rights issues at home, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday. The Nation quoted an official from the Commerce
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      Lock icon Australia risks missing out on Asian boom: Evans
      216 8 Reuter SYDNEY Australia is in danger of missing out on a multi-billion-dollar wave of growth in South-east Asia unless it moves fast to boost investment in the region, Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Gareth Evans said yesterday. "Although our exports to this
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      Lock icon Filipino businessmen back Lee's call for discipline
      264 8 Poll shows lack of faith in structure of govt Reuter MANILA Most Filipino businessmen agree with Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew that the country needs discipline more than democracy, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry said yesterday. A survey of delegates
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon US accuses China, Taiwan of manipulating currencies
      491 9 AP WASHINGTON In parting shots on foreign trade, the Bush Administration has accused China and Taiwan of manipulating their currencies to gain unfair advantage. The administration predicted on Tuesday that a -sluggish world economy •would send America's trade rising rapidly this year Tsnd
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      Lock icon UK Euro-sceptics could force treaty referendum
      263 9 AFP LONDON British Eurosceptics looked as though they could force a national referendum on the Maastricht Treaty on Tuesday, after fierce debating on the first day of the Maastricht Bill's second House of Commons reading. Deputy Commons Speaker Michael Morris told Eurosceptics demanding a
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      Lock icon German Parliament pushing for bigger say in EC policy
      259 9 Reuter BONN German parliamentarians, who were scheduled to ratify the Maastricht Treaty yesterday, are imposing parliamentary controls on German policy towards the European Community. The treaty on European political and economic union was certain to be passed in the Lower House,
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      Lock icon Crop glut forcing rise in US farm subsidies
      306 9 Reuter WASHINGTON The US, which last month threatened a trade war to get Europe to pledge to trim its farm subsidies, will spend more on subsidies next year to offset a price-depressing crop glut, officials said on Tuesday. At their annual Outlook
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        British Army shares warmth
        48 9 PAZARIC, Bosnia-Herzegovina A 10-year-old autistic boy at a mental hospital three kilometres from Serb frontlines huddling in a blanket against the chill of his room. The British Army UN contingent sent blankets, heaters and cooking equipment to the almost unheated asylum on Nov 29.
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        Foreign investment in Pakistan up
        42 9 KARACHI, Pakistan A senior Pakistan trade official said foreign investment has risen sharply. The net inflow of direct foreign investment increased to US$343 million (Sss6i .5 million) in fiscal 1991/92 (July/June), compared with US$246 million in 1990/91.
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        S Korea's November CPI up 4.4pc on year
        70 9 $EOUL South Korea's Consumer Price Index was 4.4 per -cent up on the year in November compared with a year-on-year rise of 9.7 per cent in November 1991, preliminary figures released by the government's Economic Planning Board (EPB) showed. But the CPI
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      Lock icon US accused of flouting trade rules in steel market
      246 9 NYT 'BRUSSELS The European Commission said yester- day it was "shocked" at Monday's imposition by the US of provisional countervailing duties on flat-rolled steel from six EC countries, accusing Washington of flouting international trade rules to protect its steel market. But
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      220 9 f THE ART OF PERFORMANCE L* v \w j <' i Singapore Dance Theatre brings the magic and wonder of 'The Nutcracker' to Singapore this Christmas by staging this much-loved ballet, as its first full-length production. Staged from 3-6 December 1992, B.oopm, Kallang Theatre, SDT's 'The Nutcracker' begins a Christmas
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    High noon in Hongkong
    491 10 EDITORIAL THE stand-off between Hongkong Governor Chris Patten and the Government of China is threatening to become dangerous as in the Wild West, with two antagonists facing each other, hands on holsters. The threatened showdown has already shaken business confidence in the colony and investors have
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      North Asia a new bloc?
      273 10 THE Soviet Union, East Germany, Yugoslavia and, by New Year's eve, Czechoslovakia. All gone dispersal effects of an end to an epoch, the Cold War. The subsuming of North Korea in another political unification within this decade is possible as China, a patron, is keeping
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      Boost to health
      99 10 THE unveiling of three new, large hospitals with state-of-the-art technology, Tan Tock Seng, Kandang Kerbau and Eastern, is a boost to Singapore's health care system. It would also enhance Singapore's reputation as the region's top health care centre. From the outset, the government has made it crystal
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      A virus called neo-Nazism
      99 10 NEONAZISM and fascism may be an averse political current encouraged by a small group of people in Europe, but these elements may spread like a fierce virus if left unchecked. The German government has vowed that it will take strong action against neo-Nazi activities and it
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      A lack of drive
      158 10 HOW much of the government's answers and explanations were persuasive in the eye of the public? Not surprisingly, the interim report on the Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin scandal and the intensive discussion on the case at the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives have shown that
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      Deteriorating relations
      176 10 IN A sharp escalation of its diplomatic offensive against Governor Chris Patten, China yesterday warned that all leases, contracts and agreements signed by the Hongkong government would cease to be valid after June 30, 1997. By far the strongest statement since Hongkong and Macau Affairs Office director Lu
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      Dealing with Aids
      173 10 GIVEN the comparatively low incidence of full-blown Aids cases and HIV carriers in Malaysia, the question could well be whether the Malaysian government is overreacting to the situation. Statistics show that a growing number of Malaysians are contracting Aids and HIV, the precursor to Aids. To date,
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    Lock icon A message of democracy
    793 10  -  Andrew B Brick focuses on the signals that the United States is sending out this week to both Taiwan and China Andrew B Brick The writer is senior analyst for Asian Affairs at the Heritage Foundation IHT US TRADE Representative Carla Hills arrived in Taipei on
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      34 10 POONESBURY garry trudeau T APfW&my. HI, JOAN/3. AFftAIP NOT. I 7H&&ANY UNPO&C&WV. lOOUL H&6PMEON& serine CALL. NOP&. icAtrruN&R- I MJ&AP- thzpckep FROM Hen OF AN 16T* PIP iOU, STANPfT. I Poff{TM&f7s UHU&LFROM ACCOUNT- INTEW£*J._
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      When public opinion falters
      1114 11  -  Stephen Vines analyses the dwindling support for Hongkong Governor Chris Patten's reform package Stephen Vines The writer is a Hongkong-based journalist whd contributes to BT HAS Hongkong Governor Chris Patten become a shooting star, burning bright for a few glorious moments before dissolving into thin air?
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      Lock icon Worrying about China
      706 11  -  An economically and militarily stronger China is making its neighbours uneasy, writes Michael Richardson Michael Richardson IHT THE acquisition by China of modern weapons that will enable it to project power deep into South-east Asia is causing increasing unease in the region, prompting calls for Beijing to
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      311 12 WHERE TO WINE, DINE... JOM THE WSHEKS AND HAVE A Mil Only at Subway can you play old English pub games like Push Penny, Table Skittles, Backgammon and Electronic Darts. What's more, our Happy Hour beer prices at $3 a glass and $12 a jug are about the best offers
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      685 12 TELEVISION AND RADIO for»fc SBCI2 lMt Sj# 2sr BUS.NESS ON RADIO I J/jl G La 7.25 PM Opening followed by la- Revealing Evidence (Stereo, 6.45 Asuhan Budi (Religious pro- gS.9 mHz In VHF Band II 13 in aii KinH knnsi 704 S'd hm 7.oSmi 1.30pm, 5.05pm, 1.05 am: g.OO Chinese
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      A legend sings the blues
      859 13  -  Dawn Tan meets blues great BB King in the flesh and finds the man's offstage modesty a humbling experience for her Dawn Tan The history of American music has always numbered a host of legendary blues artists among its residents, and no single person has
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      663 13 NYT Nothing about wine is so widely misunderstood as the mystique of old wine. "We had dinner with friends," someone will say. "They served the 1961 Lafite." "Ahhh," respond the listeners in a collective sigh of awe. Everyone smiles knowingly, and no one would
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      Diana asks for own copy of Pallas 2
      365 13 CHATTERBOX" PRINCESS DIANA has asked a TV station for a vid-eo-tape of a Christmas show that mocks the royal family since she won't be able to watch it while spending the holiday with her in-laws, a newspaper said on Tuesday. The Daily
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      Tying up Lennon's art
      45 13 Yoko Ono showing a tie with the art work of her late husband, John Lennon, on it at a fund-taisiag gala lor the American Foundation for Aids Research. The event in New York was held in observance of World Aids Day.
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      715 14  -  Paul Lewis examines the world body's difficulties as a global policeman Paul Lewis NYT A YEAR AGO, after communism's collapse, the United Nations seemed to be carving out a major new role for itself. It began ambitious peace initiatives in trouble
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      48 14 JL A BflSlJ?fe 5 4 ?> HI #®%:.Wk§r> t#J\ a-; HMIP ->•-., ,i 1 il Ml 111 I I Il *M kT'i hH*! l M. nLHvlliliil' llll* s4r S/NGA PO HE T SELIEVE.^Wt^\ //VTR/CATE SOFIMAWKt, sophis ***** B£SSj COMPLEX MACH\Ut«\, ES9 F/BRE OPTICS PvWVk H ///GH rECHNQV.^H ARE IN. Eg
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      272 15 From This Point, MDD-?b01 hfIDS PHCKAOEmfiCNNOHMmBR 400-*****802 imiy 11 mi i r I i That's crucial when you need to know specific details, even while your shipment is en route. Call us and we'll give you its current *W "W" 1 "W T status, there and then. And our I
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        Dickson to back China's Olympic bid
        93 16 HONGKONG Dickson Concepts Ltd, an upmarket retail chain, will throw its weight behind China's bid to host the 27th Olympic Games in Beijing. Dickson Poon, the company's president, said one per cent of the company's income from every sale in the chain's 110 department
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        Tequila account changes hands
        131 16 NEW YORK Heublein Inc has moved its estimated US$6 l million to US$B million (SS9.B million to SSI3 million) Jose Cuervo tequila account to Grybauskas Partners in New York after almost two and a half years at Goodby, Berlin f Silverstein in San Francisco. The account
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        Tokyo firm apologises for ads
        120 16 TOKYO Major apparel maker Onward Kashiyama Co if apologised recently for its advertisements for men's clothing j that had been criticised as sexist and suggestive of rape. Some of the ads for Onward's new Go-tairiku (Five Continents) brand show a presumably dead woman in a
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        Big push by Pepsi
        105 16 MOSCOW Pepsi-Cola International has recently un'■j' leashed its biggest marketing effort ever in the former Soviet Union, where the soft-drink company has always been king. According to the trade magazine Advertising Age. Pepsi is fighting hard to retain its lead as Coca-Cola spends aggressively to build
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        Marcus the Mole arrives
        84 16 LONDON Move over, Mickey Mouse. Marcus the Mole has arrived, reports Advertising Age. The cuddly underground character is created by Creative Co and is Eurotunnel's way of putting a friendly face on the undersea rail link between the UK and France expected to open late next
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      HK railway ad gets spirited response
      250 16 SOMETIMES advertising can be a scary business. A television commercial for Hongkong's Kowloon Canton Railway Corp set off a wave of rumours after it stopped airing early last month. International trade magazine Advertising Age said no one was sure how the rumours were started.
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      Lock icon The going gets tough in M'sia
      526 16  -  M Hafidz Mahpar talks to a market research firm's chief to find out how the Malaysian ad industry will shape up next year M Hafidz Mahpar Advertising expenditure in the Malaysian media is projected to grow by 12 per cent next year, compared with
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      Indonesian ad spending seen surpassing earlier farecasts
      390 16 Advertisers getting more demanding about the quality of promotional materials, says the Association of Indonesian Advertising Agencies' chief BATY SUBAKTY, chairman of the honorary council of the Association of Indonesian Advertising Agencies, estimated recently that advertising expenditures would reach 1.03 trillion rupiah (*****.4
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      New campaign sells JLW's softer side
      469 17  -  Colin Tan talks to Spenser Chan, who heads the agency that has been told to humanise the real estate giant Colin Tan Estate agent Jones Lang Wootton handled local property transactions worth $780 million last year. And who got the most out of it?
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      Lock icon Getting the right formula to sell carbonated water
      218 17 NYT TARING'S first stint on the American V T Perrier account, from 1981 to 1986, a humorous, low-key campaign calling Perrier "Earth's first son drink", helped to popularise the mineral water. In 1986, when Hal Riney A Partners in San Francisco was
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      A daring ad? Or is it just sour grapes?
      588 17  -  Hong Lee Tiam puts out feelers for reactions to the Hyundai Elantra advertisement Hong Lee Tiam A CHEEKY ad by a car distributor controlled by Ong Beng Seng has set tongues wagging in the advertising industry. The advertiser in Monday's The
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      90 16 /X\ C :-y// I BUNZ At the centre the sapphire glass a 0 25 carat diamond, mounted without i visible setting This freely suspended diamond is made possible by a newly developed laser cutting technique with a one upon a million precision, a worldwide patent of Bunz The dial of
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      31 16 GRANT OF ARMS TO AQUASCUTUM LTD J. OF LONDON Shop: Raffles, 328 North Bridge Road, #01-14, Singapore 0718. Tel: 334 3248. Also available in department stores: Daimaru, New Isetan Orchard, Tokyu.
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      203 17 ]lIIIMII I I I I I I I T 1 lIBA >t BEFORE IT GETS LONELY AT THE TOP, ON TOP OFFERS THE SAVER'S KIT j 1 If life at the top is not doing very The Saver's Kit Your lifeline from much for your hair, there's something you the
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        Arrest warrant issued for Camacho
        84 18 SEBRING, Ohio A warrant for the arrest of Hector "Macho" Camacho, the former world junior welterweight boxing champion, was issued on Tuesday. The Puerto Rican was accused of giving false information in applying for a driving licence in October, a prosecutor's office spokesman said. He
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        Relief for flood victims
        67 18 HUERTH, Germany Germany, field hockey gold medallist at the Barcelona Olympics, has raised U556,900 for victims of a Pakistan flood disaster. The players raised the money in conjunction with the German Red Cross at several indoor matches and also donated US$6OO out of the team's purse.
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        Mystery virus hits Zell
        104 18 STOCKHOLM Swedish women's world champion Annika Zell has been prevented from competing this year because of a mysterious disease which has killed at least 11 Swedish orienteers runners in the past 10 years. Zell, who won her world title in France last year, is the victim
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        Boxer seeks asylum
        80 18 COPENHAGEN Cuban middleweight boxer Ivan Abreus Camacho has requested political asylum in Denmark and his team went home without him. Police and boxing officials said on Tuesday that the 26-year-old amateur boxer took part in the Copenhagen Boxing Cup tournament, which ended on Sunday. Camacho disappeared Monday
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        Yamaguchi may not defend title
        73 18 WASHINGTON Kristi Yamaguchi may go back on a decision to defend her Olympic skating title at Lillehammer in 1994. Yamaguchi is to start professional skating at Landover, Maryland, on Dec 12. But under new International Skating Union rules she can still return to amateur ranks
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        Star-studded field
        89 18 CHELTENHAM, England The men's Olympic gold, silver and bronze medallists and the women's gold medallist will all be in action in the World Grand Prix finals starting on Dec 16 in Kuala Lumpur. Gold medallist Alan Budi Kusuma will face his fellow Indonesians Ardy Wiranata, silver medallist; and
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      Lock icon Underdogs Swiss hoping to be first-time lucky
      527 18 Davis Cup AFP FORT WORTH, Texas The Swiss Davis Cup squad, far from home and with half the proven players of their opponents, were relaxed and confident on Tuesday as they prepared to take on America in the 1992 final. "We are the
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      Lock icon Jahangir wins easily, Nancarrow concedes
      288 18 Reuter KARACHI Jahangir Khan, the unseeded defending champion, showed no signs of the back injury that has plagued him for the last 11 months as he disposed of fourth seed Sami Eluporo of Finland in Tuesday's opening round of the Pakistan Open. The Pakistani, winner
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      Lock icon Nieminen out of World Cup ski team
      239 18 AFP, UPI HELSINKI Toni Nieminen, the 17-year-old double Olympic gold medallist from Finland, will not compete in the first round of the ski-jumping World Cup at Falun, Sweden, this weekend. He has surprisingly been left out of his country's ski-jump-ing team for the
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      407 18 So You Want A R Ihis p^.^EST P6 ono 1 ""Py"' We hove about 176 possesion of fuillw is mokes us about the largest golfer will call his own. He a r nii 9 retail outlet tor putters. can nave a borrowed -h l driver, but not a putter. But
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      1026 19 a* Singapore's pioneer in Direct Mail celebrates 1 its 30thAnniversary "V ;^SH^ ,jWI^ v, &>&> flit :,<: 1 y£V \we^' HHH|H|H|[HH||||HriMH| VAI Hi IH On 6 December 1962, exactly annual billings In addition, in the ASEAN region, East Asia 30 yeare ago, OH's International Direct for direct mail a new
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
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      3688 20  -  By Shoeb Kagda INVESTORS shifted their attention to Malaysian counters yesterday on news that the forgery scam involving Malaysian scrip had been nipped in the bud. Brokers said that until there were more positive signals, Singapore shares were expected to trade sideways. The benchmark
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      HOTSTOCK
      82 20  -  -By Anthony Pang QAF has finally conquered the 65-cent resistance which it failed to break no less than 10 times in the past decade. Volume has surged and profit-taking has been well absorbed, with the stock closing at or near the day's high three days in a row. While
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      57 20 CALL MILANO'S HOT DELIVERY HOTLINE NOW! j 468-2222 i I for mouth-watering Italian pasta, pizza, BBQ ribs, salads and more! Office/Home Delivery Hours: Daily from 11.00 am onwards (including Public Holidays). I FREE delivery for a minimum order of $10.00 m $3.00 surcharge for delivery after 11.00 pm. g Milano
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    3209 21 Asia Pacific 1120 +20 +1.8% Jurong Ship 50c 800 20 2.6% Sun Corpn 290 20 7.4% Keppel C Wt 352 +16 +4.8% Keppel Corpn 630 +15 +2.4% City Dev 50c 388 +10 2.6% SPH Foreign 1520 +10 0.7% Metro Hldgs 480 +8 +1.7% Amtek Eng
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    3327 22 Magnum Corp 50c 665 +40 +6.4% Dunlop Est 565 +25 +4.6% Gentings 50c 920 +10 +1.1% KL Industries 119 +10 +9.2% M Banking 655 +10 +1.6% MISC Foreign 474 f 10 +2.2% Multi-Purpose 172 +10 +6.2% Sel Properties 144 +9 +6.7% Samanda Hldgs 220 +8
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      290 22 ITUSINESST^IM^ES Toll free Tel No 737-0043 Fax No: 734 3698 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF SCL TRADING PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the creditors of the abovenamed company, which is being voluntarily wound up, are
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      183 22 WING TAI HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT RIGHTS ISSUE (THE "RIGHTS ISSUE") OF 48,400,187 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.25 EACH (THE "RIGHTS SHARES") AT $1.05 PER RIGHTS SHARE PAYABLE IN FULL ON ACCEPTANCE OR APPLICATION AND ON THE BASIS OF ONE RIGHTS SHARE FOR EVERY FOUR
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      116 22 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO AND IN THE MATTER Of MHO KIEW A COMPANY (PRIVATE) UNITED At the Extraordinary General Meeting of SENG KIEW A COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED duty convened and held at 20 Tanglm Halt Close •03-00. Daiwa Building, Singapore 0314 on 271h November 1992. the Special Resolution set
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      153 22 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 90 AND IN THE MATTER OF HIM KIEW A COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the creditors of the abovenamed company, which is being voluntarily wound up. are required on or before 3rd January 1993 to send their names and
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
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      5423 23 Bernama THE QUICK RETURN of market confidence following the early detection of the falsified share scrips led share prices here to a higher close yesterday. The KLSE Composite Index at the close firmed 4.28 points to 641.51, the Industrial Index was 9.43 points higher
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
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      AUDITED RESULTS
      262 24 Company Date Year Group Net Hat earnings Gross ana to profit/toss par share dividend (•000) (coots) QAF Ltd Nov 28 Mar 92 $7.034($2.096) 2.2(04) 2.5(-) Goodwood Park Nov 28 Sep 92 $22.110($22.137) 49(49) 80(80) H Msia Nov 28 Sep 92 $7.523($429) 45.6(26) 50(15) Metal Ctarners Nov 25 Jun
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      PRELIMINARY RESULTS
      131 24 Cwpawy Data Year Croup Net Wat earnings 6ms mm to prefit/toss par share dividend COM) (cants) Times Pub Nov 20 Aug 92 $24.168(S35.903) 199(29.5) 10(10) MSB Nov 14 Jun 92 MJ334L(SI 1.495) —(22.4) 5(12) NST Nov 16 Aug 92 MS68,894(555,298) 38(31) 20(10) Kemayan Nov 16 May 92 MS23.461L($457L)
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      INTERIM RESULTS
      329 24 c—»any Date Half-year Group Net Interim am to prellt/less dividend COM) G8 Hdgs Nov 30 Sep 92 $1,825($1.108) 2.5TE(2.5) M Credit Dec 1 Sep 92 (2.0421(16.249) 1(6.25) Metro HWgs Nov 27 Sep 92 13.661 ($1,938) —<-) Transmarco Nov 27 Sep 92 $2,243 ($2,207) PMRI Nov 27 Sep 92
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      CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS
      89 24 Nov 25 Sembawang Group has signed a memorandum of understanding witn Bechtel Enterprises to cooperate in infrastructure development projects in the Asia-Pacific. Nov 24 OUE is to set up a joint-venture company to acquire a Beijing hotel. Parkway Hklgs will build a hospital and medical centre in Kuala
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1021 24 Current Ex Books Date Total lor Total for payment data doso payable the year last year MSB 5%<b) Jan 8 Jan 22 ian 29 5% 12% Amal Steel 50c 12%(b) Nov 19 Dec 3 Jan 2 12% 12% Amtek Ei* 20c 6%TE Oec 4 Dec 10 Dec 30
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      APPROVED ISSUES
      580 24 Company Rights Issue Mbnce Tedi Three tot frve (s, $100 per share Ex-date Dec 10 64s Close Dec 22 Acceptance and Payment: NYA Berjaya Gron> R«hts issue ot S89.658.823 7.5% ICUIS at 100% of the nomnai value on the basis of $100 nominal amt ot CHS tor every
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      COMPANY MEETINGS
      162 24 Ktmdunf Tanhjonf Pai Bhd: EGM at the MIDF Theatrette, Ground Floor, Bangunan MIOF, No 195-A, Jalan Tun Razak, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Thursday, December 3, at 10.00 am PT Gadjah Tuny at EGM at the Grand Ballroom, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Jalan MH Thamnn, Jakarta, on Thursday, December 3,
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      MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
      348 24 In local curr la SS la USS dy >t dy yr dy jt Pec I Index chge cfage chge chgt chge chge World 389.6 -0.5 -4.6 -0.5 -7.1 -0.4 -8.1 tEAFE 454.1 -0.9 -9.6 -0.6 -13.8 -0.6 -14.7 Europe 425.7 0.2 3.5 0.8 -7.5 0.9
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    610 24 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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      426 25 CLSA THE Shanghai A Index managed a 0.87 per cent gain yesterday to close at 4,743.97, while turnover of the A shares dropped significantly to below 2.5 million shares, including the extra shares floating in the market from Tuesday's share splits. The Shanghai B
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      Depressed sentiment brings prices down
      1045 25 STOCKS closed lower yesterday, with automobile assembling giant PT Astra International and favoured Bank Bali succumbing to the market's depression, brokers said. Astra International, which announced a 65 per cent drop in net profits in the first nine months, fell 100 rupiah to 8,600 on
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      Lock icon Bank shares lead 13-point rise in index
      1972 25 Reuter V BANKS extended their gains in the afternoon session yes- < terday as long-term investors started to buy good-funda-mental shares, brokers said. The SET Index rose 13.42 points, or 1.56 per cent, to 874.75 on turnover of 4.74 billion baht. Winners led
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
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      Lock icon Small-lot buying leads to firmer close
      2547 26 Reuter STOCKS closed moderately firmer yesterday on small-lot bargain-hunting following Tuesday's drop. Sentiment was helped by the supplementary budget's passage in Parliament's Lower House, brokers said. But activity was thin with investors unsure if the recent rally could be restarted, they added. "Public pension
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      Lock icon Market continues slide amid jitters
      2400 26 AP SHARE PRICES on the Hongkong stock exchange continued to slide in active trading yesterday in reaction to the escalating dispute between China and Hongkong over the British colony's future. The Hang Seng Index, the market's key indicator of blue chips, sank 90.06 points, or
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  • AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
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      Lock icon Stocks close lower in lacklustre trade
      2036 27 Reuter SHARE PRICES drifted lower in most sectors yesterday, with investors taking to the wings, leaving the market to consolidate after recent gains. Brokers said a lack of offshore leads and nagging doubts over the state of the economy removed the bulls from trade
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Seoul stocks decline as rate cut hopes recede
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        49 27 Clow Prrrioa* Dec 2 NEW ZEALAND NZSE-40 Capital 1.525.56 1.539.34 -13.78 MANILA Composite Index 1.273.40 1.266.48 +6.92 Turnover (mil pesos) 244.39 168.6 +75.79 TAIPEI Weighted Price Index 3.635.70 3.646.76 -11.06 Turnover (NTS billion) 4.3 6.34 -2.04 SEOUL Composite Stock Index 650.20 659.93 -9.73 Turnover (billion won) 522.92 545.81 -22.89
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        SEOUL
        872 27 GOVERNMENT decision not to cut (he rediscount rate pressured large-cap, particularly financial, shares yesterday, pushing the stock index to a lower Close, brokers said. J They expected the index would show a downward trend for the time being with no market-boosting factors in sight. Economic ministers held a meeting
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        TAIPEI
        486 27 STOCKS ended lower in sluggish trade yesterday as most players stayed sidelined, brokers said. The Weighted Index ended 11.06 points down at 3,635.70. Turnover fell to NTS 4.3 billion from Tuesday's NT56.34 billion. The financial and paper sectors rose slightly but others fell. Brokers said the plunge in the
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        MANILA
        532 27 SHARE PRICES rose steadily yesterday over news that drilling for oil off the south-western Philippine island of Palawan would go ahead as scheduled in 1993, brokers said. The Composite Index rose 6.92 points to end at 1,273.40. Patrick Garcia, an analyst for LM Garcia and Associates, said investors took
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        NEW ZEALAND
        275 27 THE New Zealand share market closed down but off its lows in thin trading yesterday as the correction to last week's bull run continued. The NZSE-40 Capital Index eased 13.78 at 1,525.56 but was off its low for the day of 1,517.04. Volume was a modest NZ$22 million,
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        BOMBAY
        89 27 INDIAN STOCKS rose yesterday on short covering, but brokers said the new level may be difficult to sustain because investor interest is still lacking. They said prices could fall marginal- ly today and noted that selling pressuil from investors wanting to subscribe U) rights issues had eased because of
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • New York shares ease in heavy trading
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        NEW YORK
        1293 28 STOCKS retreated in heavy trading on Tuesday as profit-taking and computerdriven sell programs halted the market's four-day rally in spite of a string of positive economic reports. But the over-the-counter market fared better than the blue-chip sector in weathering rounds of widely anticipated profit-taking to extend its recordbreaking
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        LONDON
        890 28 CONTINUED confidence in a US economic recovery drove UK shares higher on Tuesday, pushing the FTSE 100 index to new trading and closing highs, dealers said. The FTSE 100 closed 13.2 points up at 2,792.0 with a healthy turnover of 629.3 million shares. The FT-30 share index rose 10.6
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        FRANKFURT
        312 28 GERMAN SHARES ended a quiet bourse session of range-trading narrowly mixed on Tuesday with hardline comments from Bundesbank president Helmut Schlesinger and a weaker dollar having no distinguishable impact, dealers said. The 30-share DAX Index took a breather after recent gains, ending up 0.55 point at 1,544.89. The barometer
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        AMSTERDAM
        272 28 DUTCH SHARE& started mixed on Tuesday but gradually built gains on covering of short positions, dealers said. Wall Street's weakness at the opening trimmed gains in the afternoon. The EOE Index closing calculation was 279.64, up 1.48, running into the top of the 274-280 trading range at one point.
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        PARIS
        186 28 FRENCH share prices advanced for the sixth consecutive day on Tuesday as investors speculated that the franc would eventually be devalued, setting the stage for a year-end rally. The CAC-40 stock price index ended up 20.92 points, or 1.18 per cent, at 1,792.29. In spite of French authorities' insistence
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        MILAN
        184 28 ITALIAN share prices rose early in the day on Tuesday and then fell back in the afternoon on renewed currency worries, traders said. The MIB AllShare Index ended eight points higher at 863 with the rise partly reflecting gains in Monday's aftermarket. "There was some good demand at the
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        ZURICH
        254 28 SWISS SHARES closed a quiet day of trading on Tuesday mixed with a lower bias. The SPI Index rose 0.9 point to a final 1,152.1 points, while the SMI Index lost two to close at 1,929.2. Dealers said Sunday's referendum on Switzerland's membership of the European Economic Area (EEA)
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        BRUSSELS
        181 28 RETAILER Delhaize featured at a lower Brussels share market close on Tuesday on position squaring and gloom about profit growth at Delhaize's Food Lion unit, dealers said. The Bel-20 Index of leading shares closed 1.77 points lower at 1,126.28 points. A total of 1.102 billion francs worth of Belgian
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        JOHANNESBURG
        407 28 SOUTH AFRICAN shares found support on Tuesday from a stronger overnight Wall Street and expected further gains in the US market overnight as well as a sharp weakening in the financial rand foreign investment unit, dealers said. The trend of the market, as mirrored by De Beers, was mixed
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        TORONTO
        279 28 STOCKS finished lower on Tuesday after a heavy trading session with most indices losing ground. "Not much is happening here. The bank rate (Bank of Canada rate reduction) was pretty much factored in," said John Ing, president of Maison Placements Canada. The TSE 300 slipped 9.1 to 3,273.7 on
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        151 28 Dec I Close Previous NEW YORK Dow Jones 3.294.36 3.305.16 -10.8 SAP 500 430.78 431.35 -0.57 Turnover (million) 263.76 237.62 -*-26.14 LONDON FTSE 100 2.792.0 2.778.8 +13.2 FT-30 2.106.5 2.095.9 +10.6 Turnover (million) 629.3 633.3 -4.0 FRANKFURT DAX Index 1.544.89 1.544.34 +0.55 AMSTERDAM EOE Index 279.64 278.16 +1 48 PARIS
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • Article
      US dollar ends unchanged in thin Tokyo trading
      1132 29 REPORTS ASM Tokyo: The US dollar yesterday ended barely changed against the mark and the yen in thin trading. Some interbank dollar buying emerged after an overnight drop, but dealing interest was modest and failed to push the US currency either way,
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      INTERBANK FOREX RATES
      402 29 Cross rates 0^2 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr A$ NZS USS 1.6360 2.5340 1.5750 124.40 0.6472 1.4070 1.4620 1.9455 SS 0.6112 1.5489 0.9627 76.0391 0.3956 ***** 0.8936 1.1892 MS 0.3946 0.65 0.6215 49.0923 0.2554 0.5552 0.5769 0.7678 Dm 0.6349 1.0387 1.6089 78.98 0.4110 0.8933 0.9282 1.2353
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      MONEY MARKET
      605 29 Interbank rates SS Bid Offer Overnight 1/4 1/2 1-month I 3/4 1 7/8 2-month I IS/16 2 1/16 3-month 2 1/8 2 1/4 Owmiglil mode: 7/16 US$ Bid Offer 7 days 3 1/16 3 3/16 1 month 4 1/4 4 3/8 2 months 4 4 1/8 3 months
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      Lock icon ERM boosts speculation, warns Schlesinger
      282 29 FT LONDON Fresh uncertainty was cast over the future of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Monday after Helmut Schlesinger, president of the Bundesbank, said one of the system's key mechanisms was "a powerful incentive for speculation". In a development likely to put further strains
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      FINANCIAL FUTURES
      1544 29 SljjEX EIWOOOUAH Open High Low Sett Est Vol Act/Vol Op/lnt Dec 92 96.03 96.05 96.02 96.04 3867 3258 ***** Mar 93 96.03 96.08 96.03 96.06 7489 6982 ***** Jun 93 95.54 95.58 95.54 95.55 5564 3838 ***** Sep 93 95.05 95.09 95.05 95.06 3300 2869 6270 Dec 93
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  • COMMODITIES
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      Lock icon ICO council extends deadline for coffee price pact
      414 30 AP LONDON The 57-nation governing council of the International Coffee Organisation has extended the deadline for drawing up a new international pricestabilisation agreement from Dec 31 to March 31. The council's decision at its meeting in London on Tuesday was recommended by
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      Lock icon Russian gold industry set to face severe crisis: expert
      216 30 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO The Russian gold industry will undergo a severe crisis over the next three years, a leading Russian authority on gold mining has predicted. Natalya Zubareva, Russian representative for RTZ Corp pic, said on Tuesday that the industry had
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    • Article
      Tin gains five sen on Kuala Lumpur market
      737 30 REPORTS THE PRICE of tin on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market added five sen to close at M$ 14.07 per kg on some covering and book squaring activity yesterday. Dealers said the market gained strength from the slightly firmer London Metal Exchange,
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    PRICES
    1482 30 Rubber HAS Commodity Exchango (futures closing it at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jan 93 145.75 145.50 145.50 425 3.800 Feb 145.50 145.50 145.50 100 4.650 Mar 145.25 145.25 145.75 100 4,925 Apr/Jun 146.50 145.50 146.50 3,750 21.300 Jul/Sep
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      331 30 BUSINESS T I M-E S Toll tree Tel No: 737 0043 -Fax No: 734- 3608 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. SO AND M THE MATTER OF SPRAQUE ELECTRIC PTE LTD At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on 26 November 1992 at 450/452 Alexandra Road.
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    AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
    1193 31 n** ETA FMgtrt no Ctty ftlrt ETA FH* ETD QF81 1935 QF82 2050 SQ107 1305 MH641 1315 S0228 2040 SO 109 1405 MH610 1415 MH609 1455 SQ110 1445 SQ319 0610 KL838 0040 MH6 11 1555 BR215 1450 KL837 1515 MH613 i 625 SQ112 1530 Atkm SQ347
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      Mickey Mouse takes a back seat
      518 31  -  POSTCARD FROM PARIS By Anna Kisselgoff Driving up to Euro Disney, the Walt Disney Co's resort and theme park 32 km east of Paris, I suddenly realised that I was approaching not the magic but the mythic kingdom. Like a pink version of the
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      Lock icon FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES
      150 31 As at 10am yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.1138 1.1295 Canadian dollar 1.2622 1.2880 NZ dollar 0.8316 0.8485 Sterling pound 2.5143 2.5500 US dollar 1.6310 1.6390 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14.46
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      WORLD TRADE EXHIBITIONS
      71 31 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Jan 7-10 Autosports Birmingham Haymarket 071-*****20 Jan 20-23 British Education Barbican EMAP Intl 071-*****47 International Exhibitions. (fax) Training Centre. Exhibitions Ltd. Teddington TWII Technology London London Jan 7-10 London Earls Court. National Boat 0784-*****8 Jan 19-24 International
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      297 31 1 The odd pie calls for ad- ded seasoning 5 Becoming a supporter with evident hesitation (6) 1 I I I I I 1 1 Pass several, being liberal 11 When marginal land expe- ""[■J"—'""■J riences the least ups and downs (4,4) i 12 They're prepared to fight for a
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      163 31 Singapore Outlook: Windy with occasional showers. Report Maximum temperature 29.9 Assoc humidity 70% Minimum temperature 23.2 Assoc humidity 97% Hours of sunshine 4.70 Rainfall in mm 5.1 Rainfall this month 5.4 Rainy days this month 2 World report Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 23/16 Rain Bangkok 28/18 Clear Beijing 08/-5 Clear
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      48 31 I u\*r PLT>HF-.NO FpiMl7 PvS LOG PS ep^N6K3UGH gO TV*e>Fitters TOP V CoromiTHEKTS... H0 TCS. J TV^C^SPk^OTHC^ ft tOT PPFGCXeJD THE- J \r T P*C STRING. secession P j \oP ft* o VTROTH 1 POTT NIOEP ft LOT... J M 1 M2O o ASSOCIATED newspapers LTD.. IM2-IM2 TfrAnr.«
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    Lock icon China leads Asia in attracting foreign investors
    574 32 Huge pools of cheap labour tempting to investors Reuter JAKARTA China is catching up in the race among Asian economies to attract foreign investment, and leaving some of its competitors lagging behind, a Reuter survey shows. "A big reason why Asia's going to
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    Lock icon Tokyo Cabinet reshuffle expected after parliamentary session ends
    283 32 AFP, Reuter TOK.YO Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa will reshuffle his Cabinet soon after the current parliamentary session ends on Dec 11 or 12, Japanese newspapers reported yesterday. The reports appeared one day after the passage of a supplementary Budget for the current
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    Lock icon Fed may lower key money supply targets: Greenspan
    330 32 Reuter WASHINGTON Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan jolted the US bond market on Tuesday, saying that the US central bank may lower its key money supply targets. Traders read the remark as a suggestion of tighter credit, since higher interest rates tend
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    Lock icon Hopes for turnaround despite poor job outlook
    255 32 Reuter, NYT LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas President-elect Bill Clinton is hoping the US economy is finally turning around, but so far there are few signs that enough jobs are being created to ensure a sustained expansion. "We've had false dawns before," said Robert Reich,
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    The rocky road to European unity
    833 32  -  The Bottom Line RAY HEATH RAY HEATH The writer is a London-based journalist who contributed this commentary to BT. NEXT WEEK, the ministers of Europe will gather in the stately Scottish city of Edinburgh to discuss the run-up to the proposed single European market
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    Speaker rejects Yeltsin's Cabinet proposals
    393 32  -  From John Helmer in MOSCOW THE SPEAKER of the Russian Congress of People's Deputies, Dr Ruslan Khasbulatov, has rejected proposals from President Boris Yeltsin on the appointment of a new prime minister and Cabinet. This has been confirmed by Anatoliy Milyukov, the Speaker's adviser, who
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    Lock icon Hills calls for signing of trade accord with Taiwan
    166 32 AFP AP TAIPEI US Trade Representative Carla Hills yesterday called on Taiwan to sign a bilateral trade accord with the US to widen access to each other's markets even as Taipei showed signs of difrsatisfaction over the deal. "1 welcome the
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  • Shipping Times
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      Eata to cap Europe-Far East capacity by up to 10pc
      453 33  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Members of the Europe Asia Trades Agreement (Eata) have taken a tentative first step towards easing the over-capacity problem on the eastbound Europe-Far East trade. Following a meeting in London last week, the carrier grouping said
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      Lock icon Kvaerner delivers catamaran to HK owner
      254 33  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Shipbuilder Kvaerner Fjellstrand (S) Pte Ltd delivered the first of three high-speed catamarans to its Hongkong owners yesterday. At a christening ceremony held in Kvaemer's Tuas yard, owner Universal Boss Ferry Services Ltd christened the $10 million passenger ferry Universal
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      Lock icon Port's restructure of bonds blocked
      488 33 Move ordered by bondholders of St Paul Port Authority Bloomberg ST PAUL, Minnesota Investors in US$25B million (SS4I3 million) St Paul Port Authority, Minnesota, bonds have blocked the authority's attempt to restructure payment of the bonds, which are expected to default in eight years, the
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      846 33 Page Col ABC Containerline 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 APL 5 3-5 Alpha Feeders 6 1 ANL 3 1/2 Asia Cont Lines 14 5 ASCL 5 5 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Avia Airways 9 4 Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 Bangladesh Shpg
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      Sembeth acquires rights to Swedish concept
      264 33 Deal gives firm access to new conversion technology SINGAPORE Sembawang Bethlehem, a subsidiary of listed Sembawang Shipyard, has acquired exclusive rights in the Asia-Pacific region to a Swedish offshore conversion technology, which is expected to result in savings in capital costs and time. The
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      Lock icon Norwegian crewmen strike hits oil delivery, ferry services
      237 33 AP OSLO, Norway Ships' officers went on strike early on Tuesday, disrupting delivery of North Sea oil and forcing passenger ferries laden with Christmas shoppers to return to port. Three seamen's unions failed to settle a new contract for more than 4,000
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        Two M'sian ships sink in South China Sea
        90 34 KUALA LUMPUR Two Malaysian ships sank on Tuesday in the South China Sea because of rough weather, maritime officials said. Harbour master Hamzah Mohamed Noor said the Malaysian-registered 587-ton Luconia sank at 6.30pm (1030GMT) on Tuesday about 27 nautical miles off the
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        Drugs smuggled into Manila
        81 34 MANILA Hundreds of kilos of drugs are smuggled here from Hongkong and Taiwan every week, apparently with the help of corrupt officials at Manila's airport, the police antinarcotics chief says. Senior Police Supt Dictador Alqueza said on Tuesday that virtually every flight from Hongkong and Taipei
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        US cars safer than Japanese
        118 34 WASHINGTON US cars are safer than those made by Japan and their general quality has improved, according to the latest issue of the consumer guide "Car Book" published on Tuesday. The author of the annual guide, Jack Gillis, said the 1993 model cars produced in
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        Seoul's ladies-only coaches a flop
        62 34 SEOUL The first day of operating ladies-only coaches on subways flopped because male commuters didn't take seriously the efforts to protect women from sexual harassment, the Korea National Railroad said yesterday. Subway coaches marked "exclusive use for women" were crammed with male commuters during the
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        Venezuelan jet in bomb scare
        75 34 CARACAS, Venezuela A Venezuelan airliner en route from Venezuela to Miami made an emergency landing in <£üba on Tuesday after a bomb was reported on board, aviation authorities said. General Tulio Prado Fernandez, director of air transport for Venezuela's Transportation Ministry, said the plane carried
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        UK's largest containership named
        78 34 SINGAPORE Britain's largest containership, P&O Containers' Repulse Bay, was named by Mrs Lavendar Patten, wife of Hongkong's governor last month. Built in Kure by hhikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, the ship was delivered on Oct 30. Repulse Bay is the second of four containeriips currently being built in
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      Lock icon An agile tortoise on the track
      1293 34  -  Amtrak has begun testing the Swedish-built X-2000 train, which will be using old-fashioned railroad tracks, in a bid to cut time on its New York-Boston run. Agis Salpukas reports Agis Salpukas NYT IN a tortoise-and-hare plot twist, a train using old-fashioned railroad tracks may
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      COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
      813 34 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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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      9020 42 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around i 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
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      SHIPPING AGENTS
      3287 47 Containerline NV: Bclsin Shpg Agencies Pie Ltd (SVManne Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pre Ltd (SyAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkrts Business Corporation Philippine Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Albntroa Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Ptc Ud (S). Alfred
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      COURIER SERVICES
      261 47 Abacus Couriers Td: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898. Air Express Travel I Td: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144. Airborne Freight Corporation Td: 542-8844. Fax: 542-3716. *****80. I Airswift Worldwide Courier Td: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplies Td: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. City-Link International Td: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Custer Link Supplies
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      AIR FORWARDERS
      1474 47 Abex Express Freight Td: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Td: 542-7821 Fax: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Td: 545-8033. Fax: *****05. TeT 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Td: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express International Tel: 542-7666. Fax: *****74. *****50. Air Market
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      PORT CONDITIONS
      3188 48 ARGENTINA Buenos Aires: All berths occupied, no vessels in road; no congestion. San Lorenza: Port busy. Rosario: Port busy. AUSTRALIA Queensland Hay Point Coal: One vessel loading; 8 vessels due by Dec 6; no delays expected. Dairym pie Bay: Coal: berth vacant; no delays ecpected. 'Gladstone: 19 vessels
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      AIR FREIGHT SCHEDULE
      555 48 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op FUght Type ETA T From Op Flight Type ETD T To TODAY TODAY KAL KE697 B747F 0150 1 SEL KAL KE697 B747F .0440 I BKK SIA SQ827 B747F 1730 2 CPH/DXB S1A SQ/ B747F 0715 2 DXB/LON CLX CV794 B747F 1845 1 LUX/DXB BA822
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      SHIP SALES & TANKER RATES
      955 48 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES THE present improvement in the prices of Panamax bulkers has been maintained with the reported sales of the Continental Reliance (built 1983) at around USS 15.25 million combined with three years charter back at about USS 12,000 to clients of Ropner, UK. and the Nichibu Maru
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      CRUISE & FERRY SCHEDULES
      632 48 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Arr Pep Niw of Vessel ETA ETD Ports of Calls Port Ay t Telephone No DECEMBER 05 05 Sea Goddess 2 0800 1800 Far East Thoresen&Co 220-1051 06 06 Fantasy World 1000 2000 S porc-PK Lauw Sons 227-8284 07 07 Seabourn Spirit 0600 1900 S-E-Asia
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        563 49 toy* Bar* fciM hprtit tend Berth fcW Deprtu Jartag Port Chengyun/l ****** P01A 02.12/1600 02.12/1800 Ctan I No 1 ***** J2 atone* 03.12/2030 Dasa Duabeta 203 P03 02.12/1100 03.12/1100 Continental Taiga ST116 J12 atongs* 03.12/1200 Etona Sc264c 02/12* P01A 0112/1100 02.12/1900 Effwa J8/9 atone* 03.12/1830 Etona Sc264c
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        MALAYSIAN PORTS
        224 49 Johcre Port Boric 1: Johan; 2: Silver Dragon; 3: nit 4; SOL; 5; King Sailor 6: Bunga Kemunmg Barge ET Offshore VI 01 jetty: Bum k Lodestar Prince. DCJb Castor Gas. Dm on Dec Sobre World, Gloria, Juta Jaya, Gma. An Xin Ci> nn P.Lrim i rlrLwinh Infrnn
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1560 49 DELIVERY OF FCL IMPORT CONTAINERS IN PROGRESS (U. w-.. <»-»»- «-Li- I u— M. Ivy W UNKMItn IVHHW fOy ID MmMn SvlBSOM Kota Panpig KPJ34N 01.1292 0810 DNgen Cont DC206N COD(EST) 02.12.92 1500 Dragon Bran S7S 01.1292 1000 N Amber 09E COO(EST) 02.12.92 0700 Arwana I 909A 01.12.92
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1240 50 THE DRY cargo freight market remained steady on Tuesday, but some panamax routes in the Pacific were marked down amid a general rise in the Baltic Freight Index (BF1) to 1,322 points, up two. US Gulf/Japan was fixed at US$22 against the new BFI level of U5524.69, down
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