The Business Times, 23 February 1993

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  • 13 1 Business Times MITA (P) 552/12/92 Tuesday February 23 1993 WE KNOW ASIA 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 71 1 AP JOHANNESBURG The ANC and allied groups have called for nominally independent black homelands to be reincorporated into South Africa immediately after multi-ra-cial elections. The groups say they would urge the militant black Fan Africanist Congress to take part in multi-party negotiations when they
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    • 56 1 Reuter UNITED NATIONS The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to create an international tribunal to prosecute those allegedly responsible for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia since 1991. It will be the first international warcrimes tribunal siy:e the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials at
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  • Article, Illustration
    111 1 Stock market indices Monday Change STII 1.639.87 +0.83 KLSE Composite 635.59 +6.16 Nikkei 16.820.61 -189.42 Hang Seng 6,231.88 +61.79 SET Index 945.62 -17.18 Jakarta Composite ...301.22 +0.78 CLSA China B 1,604.53 -13.63 Aust All Ord 1,604 9 +10.2 FTSE 100 2,838.3 -1.7 Monday Previous I lam close Dow
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  • 118 1 Reuter MOUNTAIN VIEW, California President Bill Clinton said yesterday that linking the nation's businesses, schools, libraries, hospitals and government agencies by computerised "information highways" will be a major priority of his administration. "In order to revitalise our economy, it is time for a
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  • 684 1  -  By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE In a dramatic day in the currency markets, the yen touched an all-time high against the US dollar on speculation that G-7 nations had reached broad agreement to allow the Japanese unit to appreciate against the greenback.
    Source: Bloomberg  -  684 words
  • 96 1 SINGAPORE The Singapore dollar finished at a four-year low against the yen in the foreign exchange market here yesterday. At 71.1 yen to the dollar, it represented a fall of 1.93 per cent from last Friday's finish of 72.5 yen. At the Singapore International
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  • 605 1  -  By SN Vasuki SINGAPORE Singaporebased businessman Rajan Pillai has resigned from the board of his Indian flagship, Britannia Industries, following a suit filed in Bombay by Mr Pillai's partner in the company, the French food giant Groupe BSN. Britannia was the
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  • 308 1 AFP SYDNEY Skilled Australians arc leaving home in greater numbers than ever for jobs in the fast-growing Asian economics such as Hongkong, Singapore and Malaysia, according to official data released yesterday. At the same time, emigration from this country
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  • 395 1 AFP, Reuter BEIJING Chinese President Yang Shangkun is set to be replaced when Parliament meets next month, a Beijingcontrolled newspaper said yesterday. Quoting sources in Beijing, H en Wei Po said Mr Yang, 86, who has reportedly fallen out with paramount
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  • 137 1 SINGAPORE German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrived here last night from New Delhi on a state visit, the sec-ond-leg of an Asian swing that will also take him to Indonesia, Japan and South Korea. Greeted upon his arrival at Changi Airport
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 350 2  -  By Anna Teo AFTER A two-year downtrend, is a pickup in wholesale prices in sight this year? To be sure, the wholesale price indices (pegged at 100 in 1985), especially the export index, continued to head down in January. But the slide this time is
        Source: Dept of Statistics  -  350 words
    • 311 2  -  Bigger one to be opened at junction of Scotts and Orchard roads By Sylvia Wong ISETAN will close its store at the Apollo Hotel, Havelock Road, by the end of March and open a new one three times as big in
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    • 440 2 py IRAS |c Goods and Services Tax This is a daily column of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore to promote understanding and discussion of the GST THE Feb 17 edition of BT lists as "still unsure" the issue of "the treatment of input tax for
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    • 106 2 THE Urban Redevelopment Authority plans to sell another 60 shophouses in the Serangoon Road conservation area this year after an "overwhelming response" to its first sale of unrestored units. Announcing the results of that sale yesterday, the URA said it received 364 bids
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    • 316 2  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services (Sats) clinched its first joint venture in China yesterday with a deal to develop an inflight kitchen in Beijing. Under the contract. Sats will take a 40 per cent stake in Beijing Airport Inflight
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    • 484 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling A PRECISION engineering and tooling company, Kinergy. is looking for equity partners to expand its business and hopes to get a listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore by 1995. Founder and chairman Leslie Lim told BT recently
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    • 74 2 Corrections clarifications IN OUR report "Call for review of safety measures in Malacca Straits" on Feb 17 in Shipping Times, we said that a collision involving the supertanker Maersk Navigator occurred in the Malacca Straits. It has been pointed out to us that the accident took place in the Bay
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  • THE REGION
    • 465 3  -  Ramos shrugs off threats to halt loans From Al Labita in MANILA THE Philippine government will not bow to International Monetary Fund demands that would restrict growth even if it means foregoing IMF loans President Fidel Ramos said yesterday. "We
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    • 540 3  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Cambodia's oil exploration sector has seen a shakeout with a Hungarian firm being asked to quit and a Taiwanese explorer abandoning the search for oil. But, on the positive side, two Dutch firms have recently signed production-sharing contracts to explore for
      Source: of Industry  -  540 words
    • 189 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Usno president Amir Kahar Tun Datu Mustapha is expected to meet Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad at his office here today. Sources said yesterday the meeting was requested by Mr Amir Kahar most probably to explain Usno's stand in
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    • 323 3 Forum on South-east Asia in the 21st century AFP BANGKOK South-east Asia must stop being defensive over human rights issues and come up with its own set of guidelines. Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, in his opening address yesterday to a
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    • 296 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday said South-east Asia is destined to be an important grid in the global marketplace in view of its geographic position and dynamic economies. As such, cooperation and interaction among countries in the region was vital
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    • 280 3 AFP BANGKOK Thailand yesterday unequivocally pledged cooperation with Myanmar's ruling junta in spite of hosting last week's visit by a group of Nobel laureates who advocated that Yangon be kicked out of the United Nations for human rights abuses. "I
      AFP  -  280 words
    • 488 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday blamed baseless accusations of government or people in government having vested interests in privatised electricity projects for the current energy crisis. He also dismissed claims of poor planning and the absence of an
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 94 3 Reuter BEIJING China has agreed to build two 300-megawatt nuclear power stations for Iran, and both sides are at pains to assert that the plants are for peaceful purposes. The issue of nuclear cooperation between China and Iran has raised fears in the
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      • 83 3 AP KUALA LUMPUR International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz told a Japanese trade delegation yesterday that Malaysia would allow 100 per cent foreign ownership of factories here if no local partner could be found. She was responding to a complaint by an executive of
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      • 97 3 AFP BEIJING A young woman dancer was Mao Zedong's companion in his final years, chatting with China's "Great Helmsman" in his bedroom. Meng Jinyun was brought in as a nurse for Mao prior to his death on Sep 9, 1976, and lived in
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      • 87 3 AP KUALA LUMPUR Ten Australian companies have expressed interest in investing a total of U5591.89 million in Malacca, said its chief minister, Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik, yesterday. He had led a Malaccan trade mission to Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Hongkong earlier this
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    • 437 4 AP SEOUL President-elect Kim Young Sam yesterday appointed Hwang in Sung, an economics expert and the ruling party's chief policy-maker, as prime minister as part of an effort to revive the nation's troubled economy. The new administration will be formally inaugurated
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    • 330 4 Reuter HONGKONG The colony's inflation rate, almost its only problem indicator, pushed back into double digits in January for the first time in nearly a year, the Census and Statistics Department said yesterday. But the government blamed the rise in the consumer price index
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    • 35 4 SEOUL A South Korean student giving his father a piggyback ride at a Seoul campus after his graduation. This is the month of graduation for South Korean college students.
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    • 221 4 Reuter TAIPEI Outgoing Taiwanese Premier Hau Pei Tsun. calling for unity in the ruling Nationalist Party after a fierce power struggle, yesterday endorsed the nomination of provincial governor Lien Chan as premier. "I urge ruling party legislators to support the president's nomination of
      Reuter  -  221 words
    • 287 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan-China trade surged 27.9 per cent to a record US$7.4 billion (S$ 12.1 billion) last year from US$5.B billion in 1991. boosted by Taiwanese investment in the Chinese mainland. The Board of Foreign Trade said yesterday that trade was forecast
      Reuter  -  287 words
    • 581 5 AFP SYDNEY Previous governments of Australia have been doing little to stop cheats, corporate thieves and organised criminals defrauding the country's taxpayers of Asl3 billion (5514.3 billion) a year, a police union claimed yesterday. In an election advertisement urging
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    • 356 5 Reuter SYDNEY Australia's net foreign debt will rise to more than As2oo billion (Ss22o billion) in the 1994-95 financial year to June, economic forecaster BIS Shrapnel said yesterday. It also warned in a halfyearly update of its long-term economic forecasts
      Reuter  -  356 words
    • 553 5 AFP TOKYO Japan reacted with embarrassment yesterday to last week's diplomatic row between United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and UN Secretary General Boutros BoutrosGhali, the latest episode in a string of criticisms of highranking Japanese UN officials. "It's just
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    • 300 5 Reuter NEW DELHI The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it may provide India with a US$5OO million (SSBOO million) quick-disbursing loan in the fiscal year that begins on April 1 to support industrial restructuring and capital market reforms. A spokesman for the bank said
      Reuter  -  300 words
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 1868 6 Military spending and the arms trade are booming in Asia despite the relative peace it enjoys The Economist LONDON In Europe the end of the cold war has led both to instability and to quickly shrinking defence budgets. In Asia it has brought perhaps
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 101 8 AFP MOSCOW Russian President Boris Yeltsin has issued a decree stating that the president alone holds the authority to decide on arms embargoes, Interfax reported yesterday. The decree, signed on Feb 18. states that Russia's stand, "which will guide her voting" at the United Nations
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      • 51 8 AFP LONDON Britain's gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of 1992 but fell by 0.1 per cent on a 12-monthly basis, the central statistical office said yesterday. Excluding oil output, GDP fell by 0.1 per cent in the
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      • 85 8 AFP SARAJEVO The United Nations Protection Force will try to secure a lifting of the Serb siege of Sarajevo, the commander of the UN force said here yesterday. General Philippe Morillon said he would convene a meeting of military chiefs of the three Bosnian warring
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      • 62 8 UPI TOKYO Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa is likely to pay a four-day visit to Washington in April for his first meeting with US President Bill Clinton, government sources said yesterday. Kyodo new service also reported the sources as saying that the foreign ministry hoped
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    • 606 8 Republicans vow to make changes to plan AFP. Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON US Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen has predicted that President Bill Clinton's economic package will be approved by Congress in July but Republicans warned that they would succeed in altering the plan. Mr Bentsen
      AFP.; Knight-Ridder  -  606 words
    • 208 8 Reuter PARIS President Francois Mitterrand's fading magic has failed to sway voters just one month before French parliamentary elections, with all opinion polls pointing to a Conservative landslide crushing his Socialist Party. Mr Mitterrand, 76. tried to turn the tide with two
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    • 73 8 Reuter DUSHANBE, Tajikistan This officer (right) of the 21st Division of the Russian army seems to be checking if the Tajik conscript has brushed his teeth. He was, in fact, teaching the man the proper technique of saluting senior officers at a
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    • 378 8 Reuter MINSK, Belarus The former Soviet republic of Belarus is hedging its bets on economic reform with a mixture of market moves and old-style administrative measures that makes Western analysts sceptical. Government officials want to reform the economy gradually and shield the country's 10 million
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    • 537 8 NYT RIYADH. Saudi Arabia In an unusually conciliatory gesture to the Clinton administration, Syria said on Sunday that it would not link the return of nearly 400 Palestinians deported by Israel to the resumption of the stalled Middle East peace talks.
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    • 412 8 Reuter MILAN A Cabinet reshuffle last Sunday lifted the immediate threat to Italy's 51st postwar government but also highlighted how little room for political manoeuvre Prime Minister Giuliano Amato has. Difficulties in pushing through change in a key post in
      Reuter  -  412 words
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 456 9  -  Long-term loans more than doubled to $11 Om last year By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE The Wearne Brothers group quietly pumped more than $120 million into its loss-incurring technology subsidiary last year, its latest annual report showed. Released yesterday, the report showed that
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    • 448 9  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE United Engineers Ltd (UE) plans to partner the international business arm of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation of Japan to offer consultancy on intelli-gent-building projects in the region. For a start, the diversified Singapore group, with
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    • 652 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By William Chia SINGAPORE Indonesian companies will find it increasingly difficult to source for offshore investments or borrowings to meet their financing requirements. On the demand side, there is greater competition for the foreign investor's
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    • 383 9  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Smith Barney, Harris Upham International and Hoare Govett could operate under one roof in Singapore from as early as June. The tie-up is part of a move by the American broking house to expand its securities
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    • 93 9 Bernama JOHOR BARU The Johor government has given Syarikat Mega Steel Sdn Bhd two weeks to decide whether it wants to proceed with its proposed MsB billion (Sss billion) steel mill in Tanjung Langsat, about 100 km from here. Menteri Besar Muhyiddin Yassin said
      Bernama  -  93 words
    • 287 9 Payment Ex Books Pay date close date Asia Pacific F 16 Feb 4 Feb 16 Feb 24 Avimo 20* F I2.5TE Feb 17 Marl Apr 15 Beriaya Group I 4 Mar 18 Apr 2 Apr 15 Berjaya Ind I 3 Mar 4 Mar 18 Apr 8 Beriaya Leisure
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    • Article, Illustration
      329 9 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STll's index stocks Feb 22 l.ast Seas* Ia4c\ Stork sale Chfe factor no vers <*> (V) Avimo 1 870 1.58 t AC 7. ISO 0050 6.03 83.33 Ccrcbos 4920 4.15 FAN 11 400 9.62 GF Asia 3400 -0 040 2.17 -66.67 C icnMag 1.140
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 127 10 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Hume Industries (Malaysia) Bhd's (HIMB) recent proposal to acquire five buildings will not have any effect on the net tangible assets and earnings per stock unit of the HIMB Group for the financial year ending June 30, 1993. On Feb 11,
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        • 117 10 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Time Engineering Bhd and Digital Equipment (M) Sdn Bhd have entered into a tripartite jointventure agreement with Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT) for LTAT to purchase 1.88 million shares in Time Systems Integrators Sdn Bhd (TSI) from Time for cash at Msl
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        • 92 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Technology Resources Industries Bhd said the number of Malaysian Helicopter Services Bhd shares it will hold after the demerger scheme is 19.42 million shares valued at M 52.20 per share. In a reply to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, it also said
          Bernama  -  92 words
        • 114 10 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Tasek Cement has reported a 20.7 per cent drop in pre-tax profit to M 522.21 million (S$ 13.77 million) for the six months ended Dec 31, 1992. The lower earnings came despite a 3.1 per cent improvement in turnover to M$ 105.36
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        • 68 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Bhd has restructured its information technology (IT) activities, previously conducted by Berita Information Systems Sdn Bhd, to come under one holding company with five subsidiaries. In a statement yesterday, it said that the holding company, New Straits
          Bernama  -  68 words
      • 473 10 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Proton Saga could be on the road in Taiwan after May, when the first export shipment to that country will be made. Targeted sales of about 5,000 units a year would make Taiwan the largest export
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      • 222 10 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Export Cars Corp plans to begin exporting the Proton Saga to Hongkong and China before the end of this year. Export Cars Corp chairman Ramli Kushairi said yesterday that the company had completed a detailed study of the markets
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      • 341 10  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC), the national shipping line, is in the market for a loan of about US$lOO million (SSI64 million). It follows the early retirement of a loan of a similar amount last October just months
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      • 32 10 Reuter Y ANT AX, China Workmen scraping barnacles yesterday off the hull of a fishing boat in for repairs at a Yantai shipyard on China's eastern coast. Renter
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      • 199 10 AFP MANILA Beer-based Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Corp (SMC) is expanding its global operations, but is being tapped dry by domestic taxes on its popular brew. Chairman Andres Soriano said yesterday that things were looking up overseas for SMC, which
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      • 508 10  -  From Al Labita in MANILA PHILIPPINE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Rosario Lopez yesterday said she would revoke the licences of those Makati Stock Exchange (MkSE) brokers who fail to merge with their Manila counterparts by Feb 28. "We have remained
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      • 423 11  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG SPEC'U LATORS who borrowed heavily to stag the Denway Investment issue the most oversubscribed new listing on the Hongkong bourse could have had their fingers burned in its less-than-dramat-ic debut yesterday. Denway shares, offered
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      • 267 11  -  From Stephen Vines in HONGKONG SI ME DARBY Hongkong Ltd has confirmed its position as the top money spinner among the Malaysian-based diversified group of companies. Yesterday, it reported a 23.9 per cent rise in after-tax profits for the half-year ended Dec
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      • 201 11 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Sun Hung Kai Properties has bought the World Trade Centre building for HK52.215 billion (about SS47O million) in a lightning quick deal. A Chinese consortium had tried to buy the building in November, but at the lastminute the
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      • 203 11 South China Morning Post LONDON ing lai, one of Hongkong's largest textile companies. has quietly raised its stake in British tailoring group Gieves through the purchase by subsidian LSI of a 5 per cent holding from Sir Ron Brierlev. Wing lai took
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      • 289 11 Reuter TAIPEI The Taiwan provincial government will decide soon on proposals for stock dividends by the Big Three commercial banks, a provincial official said. "We are still reviewing the proposals, but will have a final decision in one or two weeks," she
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    • FINANCE
      • 455 12  -  1993 Asia-Pacific Fund Management Conference Reports by Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE The Singapore unit trust industry is expected to grow at a stronger pace given the surplus cash in Central Provident Fund accounts and investors' desire to diversify their investments, a prominent local
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      • 282 12 SINGAPORE Governments of emerging nations must liberalise their markets for indirect investments and provide adequate infrastructure to attract funds for their growing companies, market guru Mark Mobius said yesterday. In his presentation at the 1993 Asia-Pacific Fund Management Conference, Mr Mobius said these governments
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      • 347 12  -  By Shoeb Kagda SINGAPORE The Thai central bank will grant a waiver on the 15 per cent withholding tax payable on out-in foreign exchange transactions in a move to help Bangkok compete with Singapore as a regional financial hub. And
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      • 35 12 Reuter TOKYO A Tokyo foreign exchange dealer stretching in relief after volatile dollar trading yesterday. The US currency nosedived to its all-time closing low of 116.85 yen. Reuter
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 161 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Public Bank Bhd said yesterday its current base lending rate (BLR) of 9.25 per cent will be reduced to 9.00 per cent today. The move by the bank was in line with the general decline in the BLRs of commercial
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        • 61 12 Reuter ISLAMABAD The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has extended a US$l5 million (5524.6 million) credit line to Pakistan's recently privatised Muslim Commercial Bank (MCB). The money will be used by MCB to provide loans to small and medium-sized Pakistani companies to support export-oriented initiatives,
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        • 59 12 KnightRidder TAIPEI Taiwan's Finance Ministry has approved applications from two US-based insurance companies to establish branch offices here, a spokesman said yesterday. Under a quota system. Taiwan allows up to six US-based insurers three life and three non-life to set up branches here each
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        • 65 12 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Hongkong Bank of Canada yesterday reported a net profit of C 511.83 million (S$ 15.38 million) for the three months to Jan 31, compared with a net profit of C 512.72 million a year earlier. Net interest income, however, rose to C
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        • 67 12 Keuter KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan has no plans to devalue its rupee, Imtiaz Alam Hanfi, governor of the State (central) Bank of Pakistan, said yesterday. The rupee has fallen 2.17 per cent to 26.32 against the dollar, from 25.76 on Jan 1. It has slid
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 638 13 Sales of grain, other commodities to region up Knight-Ridder BUENOS AIRES Argentina's decision several years ago to strengthen political and economic ties with Asia has begun to pay off with sales of grain and other farm commodities, say traders and government officials. While
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      • 236 13 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE Western Mining Corp (WMC), one of Australia's major gold and nickel producers, said yesterday it had agreed to buy out the Mt Keith nickel project in Western Australia from joint owner Outokumpu Metals and Resources Oy of
        Bloomberg Business News  -  236 words
      • 748 13 Proposal to remove ceiling on corporate bond issues Bloomberg Business News TOKYO In a move that could represent a sea of change within Japanese finance, policymakers here are backing a plan to give the country's corporations vast new freedom to raise money in
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      • 433 13 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Oil futures prices in London and New York rose yesterday because of colder weather, perceptions that the new US energy tax will raise prices, and evidence that Opec is adhering to its production cut. Opec members agreed last week
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      • 131 13 The US dollar opened lower against the Singapore dollar yesterday at 1.6435/40 and continued to drift lower for the rest of the day towards the day's low of 1.6405 in tandem with the sell-ofT in US$/yen. Support for the US$/S$ was provided by local corpo-
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      • 193 13 Reuter LONDON The yen soared to new highs against the dollar in European business yesterday as rumours persisted that the world's leading industrial nations would push for a strengthening of the Japanese currency. Dealers said the yen was quoted during the day at 115.85 to the dollar but traded
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      • 88 13 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK The US dollar was mostly lower in early trading here compared with late Friday levels, although it was gradually recovering after hitting a record low against the Japanese yen. At 0940 ET, the dollar was bid at 1.6250 deutschemarks, down from 1.6385 on late Friday
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      • Article, Illustration
        1615 13 limit- MrtfhifJ inj> < iuA uLihti ana:n\i Spire's hip 14 trading part mis Bjv ><nir m< US$/S$ forward rates Noon Feb 2; s$ Bid Offer 1-month I 6388 ***** 2-month I 6376 1.6391 3-month I 6364 1.6379 6-month 1.6333 1.6353 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 10am yesterday:
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1468 14 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar interest rate futures ended moderately weaker on liquidation sales yesterday. Contracts drifted lower on profittaking after recent strong gains following US President Bill Clinton's economic package. Lack of news about credit-easing from Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan after his
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      • 993 14 COMMODITIES REPORT Tin THE PRICE of tin on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market dropped eight sen to close at MS 14.91 per kg on lack of fresh leads yesterday. Dealers said the US$2O fall on the London Metal Exchange last
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    • 1679 14 Rubber MS Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Feb 93 Mar 93 143.00 140.50 140.50 375 1.025 Apr 144.00 141.50 142.75 2,375 8.100 May 145.00 144.25 145.25 1.800 6.825 Jun 146.50 146.25 147.25
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      • 1064 15 10.2 THE share market closed near its highs as the futures market inspired solid gains. Gains on Wall Street and a bullish banking sector also helped lift the All Ordinaries Index back above the 1,600 mark after Friday's sharp fall to 1,594.7. It closed 10.2 points up at 1.604.9.
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      • 513 15 -1.37 Share prices eased on profittaking but the market will bounce back by mid-week because of strong support from selected blue chips and oil issues, brokers said. The Manila Composite Index shed 1.37 points to close at 1,471.87. "The market went through a correction because it is in an
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      • 607 15 +42.79 Stocks closed higher in hectic trade. Financials soared on expectations that the Big Three banks would issue big stock dividends next fiscal year but industrials were mixed on heavy profit-taking, brokers said. The Weighted Index closed up 42.79 points at a six-month high of 4,098.44. Turnover rose to
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      • 383 15 +22.64 Active institutional support and anticipation of a bull market ahead of Thursday's presidential inauguration fuelled sharp stock rises. Brokers said the market would sustain the upbeat today but said profit-taking would emerge later this week. The Composite Index added 22.64 points to 674.71. "Today's steep gains were attributed
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      • 291 15 -9.32 The share market finished a dull day softer, falling for the fourth consecutive trading day. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 9.32 points at 1,563.20 on a volume of NZ$l4.3 million. Fletcher Challenge closed down eight cents at NZS2.4O having shed 21 since their interim result last
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      • 72 15 +36.97 Share prices rose on selective buying in early trading but lost some gains later on profit-taking yesterday, brokers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) index closed at 2,708.34, up 36.97 from last Thursday's close but below a high of 2,725.25 reached at the beginning of the session. Friday
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      • 930 15 Britannia Funds sterling Cash Bid Ojfcr Mim t ap Deposit 3» 364X) 3* 3700 Mim Jer*> Gill *01*79 -0 IV78 Mim Ma» Income 1 0100 ***** US$ Cash Income Plus Fund *9 7700 *10 2900 PS Reserve Fund 5 1900 5 2000 Sterling Iquil) Euro Performance 0 4<>l J 0
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      • 733 15 -1.7 London shares fell fractionally in trading on the London Stock Exchange yesterday as fear of a major rights issue discouraged investors, dealers said. Speculation about a possible rights issue of £1 billion from Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) dominated sentiment. Investors were largely keeping out of the market ahead
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      • 154 15 +22.06 French shares finished sharply higher yesterday, helped by buying in the morning at the start of the March bourse account, but the afternoon was quiet, dealers said. The market is well underpinned by hopes for lower interest rates, but trade will probably be thin for much of the
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      • 134 15 +o.4pc Shares of drug company Astra fell sharply despite its positive 1992 full-year results, dragging the bourse down to a mixed close from the morning gains. The all-share index rose 0.4 per cent to 991.88 in strong turnover of 1.02 bil- lion crowns including 278 million crowns for Astra
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      • 188 15 +02pc Shares traded sluggishly here yesterday, with the DAX Index gaining 0.20 per cent to 1,680.74 on the strength of financial issues. Dealers said investors were showed little interest in the midst of pre-Lenten carnival celebrations. But financial houses, spurred by hopes of lower interest rates, closed higher. Deutsche
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      • 159 15 -2.09 Belgian shares closed fractionally lower in thin range trading yesterday and business was mainly concentrated in retailer Delhaize. Traders blamed the weaker dollar and the Carnival holiday period for the turnover regression. The Bel-20 Index of leading shares closed 2.09 points, or 0.17 per cent, lower at 1.210.85.
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      • 171 15 -0.36 Bargain-hunting lifted Italian shares off session lows they touched on news of the arrest of two senior Fiat executives in Italy's political corruption probe. Dealers said Fiat shares had already fixed 50 lire down at 5.350 when news of the arrest of Fiat finance director Paolo Francesco Mattioli
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      • 243 15 -8.1 Heavy selling in pharmaceu- tical stocks, which are seen as potentially suffering from a US health care reform, took Swiss shares lower yesterday. A firm bond market and a new round of cuts in cash bond rates gave some support to banks and insurers but was not enough
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      • 310 15 -25 South African shares were lower at the close yesterday as a general lack of interest amid lacklustre world markets stifled hopes of continuing last week's steady gains. The JSE Industrial Index lost 25 to 4,512. The gold index was off lows, ending 12 points lower at 1,014. Dealers
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      • 247 15 +14.83 Toronto stocks opened higher yesterday as shares recovered from the stress of options expiry and reacted positively to last week's prime rate cuts. "In our case, (the rise) is a leftover from Friday's (prime) rate cuts. Today is also an offset of Friday, which was expiry," one dealer
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      • 760 15 11.6 Wall Street share prices rose yesterday, boosted by bar-gain-hunting in the wake of last week's rollercoaster performance which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Index shed 70 points. At II am (1600 GMT) the Dow was up 11.60 points at 3,333.78 in veiy heavy trading, with 93 million
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      3021 16 Reuter SHARbS ended higher yesterday on reports ot behind-the-scenes progress towards new SinoBritish talks on Hongkong's plans for political reform, brokers said. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index closed up 61.79 points at 6.231.88. The broader All Ordinaries Index gained 31.41 points at 3,305.66. Turnover was HK.52.9 billion. Trading was
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      469 16 THE Shanghai B market's turnover exceeded USSII million yesterday. The index shed 21.19 points, or 1.82 per cent, to close at 1.143.14. on the appreciation of the renminbi which lopped 5 per cent oIY the B Index. If the foreign exchange effect was taken out. the index should have
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      2501 16 Reuter STOCKS ended easier in slow trade. Investors were mostly sidelined, watching the rising yen. brokers said. The Nikkei Average seesawed on small-lot selling and futures-linked buying, with the bottom limited by public funds buying, they added. "Stocks are not reacting despite a handful of unfavourable factors but the
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      1782 16 Reuter STOCKS fell across the board in thin trade yesterday as investors remained uncertain about the fate of other finance companies after First City Investment told the government last week it had run out of cash to repay debts, and was being investigated by authorities. The SET Index dropped
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      828 16 Reuter SHARES closed mixed yesterday. with the fasting month dampening enthusiasm. The Official Index closed at 301.22 points, up 0.78 from Friday. Bank International Indonesia gained 50 rupiah to 3.475 on a turnover of 398.000 shares and Kalbe Farma was unchanged at 9. MX) with 248.000 shares traded. Japfa
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    • 2568 17 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume M ull i-Purpose IK.l5S.iHH) kamunting 50c 8. if. .1.000 Tccti Resources A.SM.000 Mclroplcx 30c 6.312.000 Bcdiord MX S 465 001) KiB Corps 50c $.408,000 4.919.000 Kcnong Bhd MX .1 98S.IHH) 1 ongkah Hldgs 2.*»l 1.01 H) l mphocnix 2
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5034 17 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Profit-taking in late afternoon led share prices here to close off earlier highs in hectic trading activity yesterday, dealers said. The KLSE Composite Index retreated from its intra-day best of 635.68 to close at 635.59, up 6.16 points from last
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 1148 18  -  B> Paul Leo SINGAPORE Investors continued to focus on Malaysian stocks yesterday, leaving Singapore shares on the shelf ahead of this Friday's Budget announcement. With interest in blue chips subdued, the benchmark Straits Times Industrials Index edged up only 0.83 of a point to 1,639.87.
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      • 67 18  -  HOT STOCK Paul Leo TECHNOLOGY Resources at 51.96 is poised for a correction back to $1.55. Daily and weekly RSIs above 80 indicate an overbought situation. Daily and weekly stochastics near 100 also indicate an overbought condition. Resistance at 52.00 should cap the current advance. Buy on the
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      • 6016 18 MAIN BOARD Gr Gr 1992/93 Last Vol Day Last Qaoto Di» Dir \ld Net M t ap High Low Company Salt (*(«0) High Low Bayer Srlier CV P/E Sail INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 306 170 Aetna 306 +17 1882 306 290 304 306 12.2 2.1 4.0 17.7 1890 210 210 s
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    • 361 10 WINDOWS M I EXPO '93 21 23 June 1993 Raffles City Convention Centre Singapore Corporations are migrating to Graphical User Interfaces in record numbers |^H Don't miss your chance to I stay ahead of the pack I WINDOWS EXPO '93 THE EXHIBITION Come to Windows Expo '93 a world class
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    • 27 15 KOJI KAKIZAWA on new directions in Japan's foreign policy on Japan's new regional role All In REGIONAL ANALYSIS tomorrow ML Ihe Amsterdam closing report was not available
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  • SPORTS
    • 691 19 Basketball NYT SALT LAKE CITY Usually, as these National Basketball Association All-Stars games go, there is more of a jov ial atmosphere than an intense one. Seriously, how intense can a game be when one team scores 153 points, as the West team
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    • 341 19 Golf AFP LA JOLLA, California Local boy Phil Mickelson scored the first victory of his professional career here on Sunday, a four-shot triumph in the Buick Invitational golf tournament. Mickelson, 22, carded a seven-under 65 that included a 31 on his
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    • 438 19  - A weekend of excitement and a month's quota of eggs Rugby By Shahiron Sahari SINGAPORE It was halfway through Randwick's Singapore Cricket Club Rugby Sevens semi-final against Durban Hartlequins, with the South Africans, behind 7-28, pressuring the Australians' line. From the scrum, Randwick's Lloyd Walker received the ball on his
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 107 19 AFP AGADIR. Morocco David Gilford won a final round battle with Trinidad's Stephen Ames and fellow Englishman Jamie Spence to retain the Moroccan Open golf title here on Sunday. Gilford hit 71 for a nine-under par total of 279. Ames and Spence managed 72s to
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      • 50 19 Reuter TOKYO Seeing-eye dog Kanna leading its owner. Sayri Kan (abow). in the women's 10-km race in the Oume International Citizens' Marathon here on Sunday. The blind runner completed the marathon course with a time of one hour, three minutes and 17 seconds, accompanied by her dog. Reuter
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      • 110 19 Reuter NAIROBI Kenya's five-times world cross country champion John Ngugi faces a four-year ban by the International Amateur Athletic Federation (lAAF) for refusing a random dope test, a senior lAAF official said on Monday. Ngugi. winner of the 1988 Olympics 5.000 metres, said he had declined
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    • SCORE CARD
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        45 19 Reuter BOMBAY England. 244 runs behind India on first innings, were 108 for three in their second innings at the close of the fourth day of the third and final cricket test on Monday. Scores: England 347 and 108 for three. India 591. Reuter
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        191 19 Reuter AFP AP LA JOLI.A, California leading scores after the final round at the US$l million Buick Invitational of California tournament Sunday (players US unless noted): 278 Phil Mickclson 282 Dave Rummells 283 Payne Stewart 285 Jay Don Blake. Jay Haas. Greg Twiggs 286 Keith Clearwater. Joey Sindelar 287
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        52 19 Reuter NEW YORK Results of NHL games played Sunday: Montreal Canadiens 4 Edmonton Oilers 3; Quebec Nordiqucs 6 New Jersey Devils 3; Washington Capitals 5 St Louis Blues 2; Pittsburgh Penguins 4 Hartford Whalers 3; Detroit Red Wings 4 Minnesota North Stars I; Chicago Blackhawks 4 Calgary Flames
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        104 19 AFP MADRID Weekend Spanish results: Sporting Gijon I Tenerife 2; Deportivo La Coruna 5 Real Socicdad I; Burgos 0 Barcelona I; Atlctico Madrid 2 Cadi/ 0; Logrones 2 Sevilla 0: Espanol 2 Oviedo 0; Real Zarago/a 2 Rayo Vallecano 0; Athletic Bilbao 0 Cclta Vigo I. Standings (played, won,
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        167 19 Reuter AFP AFP AP Reuter PHILADELPHIA US$7OO,OOO US Indoor men's tournament final Sunday (prefix number denotes seeding): Mark Woodforde (Aus) b 4-lvan Lend! (US) 5-4 0-15 retired. PARIS Einal of the U*****.000 Paris Indoor Open women's tournament Sunday: Martina Navratilova (US) b Monica Seles (Yug 1) 6-3. 4_6. 7-6.
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    • 326 19 NOTICES THE COMPANIES ACT CAP. 5* FOO INVESTMENTS PRIVATE LIMITED (In Voluntary Liquidation At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed company duly convened and held at 10 Anson Road. #13-12 International Plaza. Singapore 0207 on the 19th day of February, 1993, the special resolution set out
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    • 406 19 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER SO) ANO IN THE MATTER OF GALLERY ASIA PTE LTD (Incorporated In the Republic ot Singapore) (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 306 of the Companies Act. Cap 50 that the Final General Meeting of the Members of
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    • 239 19 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF LIAN TECK TIMBER PRODUCTS PTE LTD < IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308(2) of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 that the Final Meeting of the Members of the above-named Company
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    • 208 19 THE COMPANIES ACT CAP. SO otiti iNvtfTMCMn mrvATi umtio (la VoJaatary lufatlolioa) FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Final Meeting of the Memben of the abovenamed Company will b* be Id at the office ofMoore, Iyer 8C Co., at 70 Shenton Way #14-01, Marina Howie, Singapore 0207, on
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    • 210 19 THE COMPANIES ACT CAP. SO MSKIYA CREATION a DUtCN rTt LTD (la Vdaatary 1 iq sideline) FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Final Meeting of tbe Memben of the above named Company will be held at the office of Moore, Iyer fc Co., at 70 Sbenton Way #14-01,
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    • 576 20 Nothing Beats A Bud. OF BUD LIGHT KOREAN BBQ BUFFET P*!9fIMHySLL^^SSBHISI Undecided about whether to have a piping hot steamboat or a sizzling Korean BBQ Buffet? Now. you can enjoy both tor the price of one at our Poolside. on Level 6. OIfHAID PARADE HQTII SINGAPORE 1 Tangfin Road. Singapore
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    • 299 20 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN "PLAY IT AGAIN, SUM." Now we've reopened our doors. Club S is playing all your old favourites once again. The new loofc Club 5. For good old fashioned fun. The "Sunbard' ffl attendance Mon Thu spm I am •Fn Eves of Pubbc Holidays spm-
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    • 274 20 Fancy Beijing? Then, we're delighted to suggest the Pine Court for a jflrar memorable dining experience. Try our Beijing specialities such as Baked Tench, Beijing Duck and Marinated Lamb and our lunch menu of Beijing dian xin. m,n'| To add to your enjoyment, yfllQ all these are well within your
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 1276 21  -  What does Richard Pryor joke about now? Craig Wolff catches up with the comedian who is stricken by multiple sclerosis Craig Wolff NYT ALL night long Richard Pryor could not sleep. A few dreams crashed over him but left him jarred and jangled as they departed.
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    • 331 21 CHATTERBOX ISRAEL is inviting Michael Jackson to take a dip in the salty Dead Sea in the hope that the water's supposed healing powers can cure the pop superstar's skin condition. Stung by rumours that he was bleaching his skin in
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    • 40 21 The Achfever seeks results in the right media and the right company. Classified the people finder. THE STRAITS T¥*ES THE SUNDAY TKAES BUSINESS TIMES THE NEW PAPER UANHE ZAOftAO UANHE WAN RAO SHINMIN DAILY NEWS BERITA HARIAN BERIT A MINGGU
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 1179 21 TV RADIO I (wife of Charles Bronson). Fac- jSB j ing death by cancer, she has to R cope with an adopted son who fl got into his head that be- ff* cause his natural father was j WP* hooked on heroin, the habit is F y K tL Earthvisions:
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
    • 892 22  -  Singapore and Hongkong are among the leaders, reports David Bayley David Bayley The writer is executive director of Bayleys Real Estate Ltd and Bayleys Asia Ltd. Bayleys is Ne>t Zealand's largest commercial and industrial real estate company ASIANS still dominate investment in high-value commercial
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    • 272 22  -  ATYOUR By Sylvia Wong MALAYSIA'S Reka Cantik group plans to open a chain of resorts across the Asia Pacific to cater to the region's growing middle class. It is now looking for resorts to buy in China. Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines. Fiji,
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    • 808 23  -  Harish Mehta turns a few pages in the project's little-known beginnings Harish Mehta THERE'S a littleknown story about how a former Australian politician backed out of a project to build the first modern office building in Hanoi, and how that
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    • 165 23 THE Central Expressway (CTE) Control Centre in River Valley Road is getting a facelift. Aluminium louvres will be installed between the frame-like cement pillars that crown the $5 million centre as part of a Public Works Department plan to enhance the aesthetics of the building.
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    • 89 23 Retail projects to be completed this year ratal projects Net(eqm) Apollo Centre Havekxk Road 5,167 The Concourse Beach Road 10.300 Ngee Ann City Orchard Road 66,000 Pacific Plaza ScottsRoad 3,252 Shaw Houm Redevelopment Orchard Road 16,215 STPB site development TanglinRoad 13,777 Four Seasons Hotel Orchard Boulevard 4,367 Lane
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    • REGIONAL SKYLINE
      • 79 23 Nihon Keizai TOKYO More than 10 major Japanese real estate firms are expected to put up 100 million yen (Ssl.4 million) each to form a new joint venture. The venture will buy devalued real estate assets from another joint venture set up
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      • 78 23 South China Morning Post HONGKONG The local government in Tianjin, China, has signed the city's largest land development deal with Hongkong's Safer Holdings. Safer Holdings will invest HKSI.S billion (Ss3l9 million) in the Fu Yu Square development, an office, retail and residential project on
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      • 75 23 South China Morning Post HONGKONG The number of sales and purchase agreements registered with the Hongkong Land Office plummeted by 58.4 per cent last month from a year earlier. The drop was generally attributed to political uncertainties about the colony's future and restrictive mortgage policies.
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      • 79 23 Bangkok Post BANGKOK First Pacific Land is preparing to move into the middle income housing market of Bangkok and its surrounding areas this year. The company is said to be seeking a suitable site for a housing development in the Thai capital. First Pacific
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      • 72 23 Bangkok Post BANGKOK Thai investments in Vietnam are expected to increase in the next two years, especially in hotel and office projects, said Yap Kioe Seng, an urban land development lecturer at the Asian Institute of Technology. However, Mr Yap said, opportunities in
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      • 71 23 South China Morning Post HONGKONG Potential buyers of the Ritz Carlton Hongkong may tear down the luxury hotel even before it has officially taken in any guests. This is because the hotel, which is located in Central, has tremendous potential as an office development. The 25-storey,
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    • 311 22 CALCUTTA City of joy. Centre of the arts. i A h&k One of India's most exciting And if all that's not quite your to innumerable temples some dating cities Calcutta has given the world the cup of tea then perhaps a visit to from the 12th Century. Further afield, 7
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    • 218 23 CORPORATE BROCHURES PRODUCT LEAFLETS PROMOTIONAL FLYERS ANNUAL YOU WOULDN'T LET YOUR GP I Drill Your Teeth... z o 0 0 0 Need to produce a brochure? /t J 0 0 Consult a specialist. I S Brochures is a specialist in the ,'~v fc (y>Xa field of creating annual reports, corporate
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    • 221 23 SEEING THE BEST IN JEWFT T FRY HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY SHOW *93 MARCH 18-21,1993 HONG KONG CONVENTION EXHIBITION CENTRE If you're in the jewellery business, the Hong Kong International Jewellery Show is an event you cannot afford to miss. Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and the
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  • 470 24 EDITORIAL THE assent by Malaysia's King, Sultan Azlan Shah, to constitutional amendments passed by Parliament to curb some of the privileges of the country's nine hereditary rulers camc as a relief not just to Malaysians but also to many of Malaysia's well-wishers in the region. The
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 176 24 IN Cambodia remains a pipe-dream. The Khmer Rouge's repeated refusal to disarm or participate in the general election scheduled for May, as well as other disruptive actions, have endangered the UNsponsored peace process. The hope that other political forces would pull together, go through the election
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    • 191 24 LAST WEEK, the government announced an increase of between $25 and $125 per month for about 2,300 nurses and for nursing recruits. The revision, the first in five years, is part of the move by the Ministry of Health to reduce the attrition rate and
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    • 168 24 ACCORDING TO a survey published by NIE lecturer Loh Shoou Ai on how to enhance the ability of students in learning two languages, the learning of Chi- nese is not at the expense of the learning of English. In fact, according to the results of Chinese
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    • 116 24 DEVELOPING COUNTRIES have one advantage over developed ones. They can leam from past mistakes. This is especially true when it comes to the environment. Thailand has chosen to ignore such a lesson. As a result, we are suffering from a plague of severe environmental crises. To solve
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    • 133 24 CLAIMS OF police brutality are nothing new. Both here in Hongkong and elsewhere in the world, offenders regularly resort to allegations of beating and intimidation as a first line of defence when cornered and accused of crime. Last week's accusations that officers charged with protecting the public
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  • 918 24  -  The European Community is being viewed increasingly by East Asia as a declining global player, writes Michael Ricnardson Michael Richardson IHT WHEN Mahathir Mohamed, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, thinks of Europe these days, he professes to see a continent handicapped by a high cost structure that
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    • 154 24 rri Business Times WE KNOW ASIA l imes House, 390 Kim Seng Road (0923). Phone: *****11. Telex: RS *****. Fax:733-5271 Chief Operating Officer: Denis Tay Editor: Patrick Daniel Group General Manager (Production): Chew Keng Juea Associate Editor: Margaret Thomas Group General Manager (Marketing): Tham Khai Wor Nens Editor: Alvin lay
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 666 25  -  The issue of possible economic espionage by US intelligence agencies is fraught with complexities. Ruth Sinai reports Ruth Sinai AP SEVERAL years ago, IBM advertised in France for computer specialists. Among the respondents hired were three people who also happened to work for French intelligence and began
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    • 1294 25  -  Western analysts say the only way Japan can cut its rising trade surpluses is by allowing the yen to appreciate sharply. S N Vasuki reports S N Vasuki The writer is a BT correspondent specialising in Japanese and S Korean affairs THE STEEP appreciation of
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    • 1209 25  -  Japan's efforts at "recycling' its huge trade surpluses by investing abroad have waned, writes James Siterngold James Sterngold NYT EVEN AS Japan racks up the largest trade surpluses in history, the flood of international investments the surpluses were supposed to finance have declined sharply
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  • 458 26 EC ready to pursue European unity with 10 nations Reuter NEW DELHI German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has said that at least 10 European countries would go ahead with their unity plans if either Britain or Denmark failed to endorse the Maastricht Treaty within
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  • 432 26 AFP BRUSSELS The European Community yesterday accuscd United States trade negotiators of distorting a dispute between the two sides over barriers to deter foreigners from the massive public procurement market. EC officials said that the US negotiators had issued figures giving the false
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  • 220 26 AFP BEIJING Parliament yesterday passed China's first national security law, which authorises the suppression of any threat to the Communist Party or to economic reforms, a report said. The State Security Law was approved by the standing committee of the National People's Congress (NPC),
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  • 416 26 Russian President appeals to military to act as guarantors of stability AFP, Reuter MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin said yesterday that there were forces in Russia hoping to drag the military into politics and appealed to the armed services to act as guarantors of
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  • 882 26  -  The Bottom Line HARISH MEHTA HARISH MEHTA The writer is a BT correspondent specialising in Indochinese affairs OUT in the Cambodian countryside, walk softly and carry a big stick. Better still, carry an artillery arsenal. But when in the cities, carry a fat
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  • 484 26 Reuter KUWAIT United States Secretary of State Warren Christopher, landing in Kuwait two years after a US-led coalition drove out Iraqi troops, said yesterday that President Bill Clinton would maintain a tough stance against Baghdad. Mr Christopher, on his first foreign mission
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    • 422 27  -  From Al Labita in MANILA PROSPECTS look bright for Manila's shipbuilding industry, an area which had been overlooked by the government in the overall policy framework. Congress is set to act on a bill seeking to extend sweeping incentives to shipbuilding to
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    • 363 27 19 men feared trapped inside capsized trawler UPI NAGASAKI. Japan Strong winds and rough seas hampered the search on Sunday for 19 missing crew members of a Japanese fishing trawler that sank in the East China Sea, maritime safety
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    • 535 27 Ships at HK told to go at full speed, be on pirate alert Bloomberg Business News. South China Morning Post KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is setting up four new antipiracy commando units to patrol its busy sea lanes. The Star newspaper reported
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    • 253 27 International Transport Journal BASLE. Switzerland A tendency to decentralise responsibility seems to be developing among the liners with worldwide operations. Lines such as A P Moller (Maersk) in Copenhagen or Hapag-Lloyd in Hamburg have begun to divide up control of their
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    • 1340 28  -  The UK offshore union is only a baby, but it is growing fast, its general-secretary tells Bob Gibb Bob Gibb Lloyd's List IT WAS after his son had been arrested for the third time during an an-ti-nuclear demonstration at Holy Loch that
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    • 342 28 THE BALTIC Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,369 on Friday from 1,362 on Thursday, with the base being Jan 4 1985 equals 1,000. FIXTURES Ore: Sindia (Built 1988) 69,347 tonnes dw intention iron ore and probably coal delivery Bin Qasim Feb 25-Mar 10
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    • 1109 28 COURSES Feb 25: Maritime Arbitration In Singapore Singapore Bunker Claims Procedure organised by Singapore National Shipping Association in a luncheon talk at Harbour View Dai-lchi Hotel. For more details, please call tel: 278-3464 or fax: 274-5079. March 3-4: Aviation Safety Investigation Conference Singapore jointly organised by the Singapore
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    • 11190 36 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 I'enang after
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    • 1464 41 Abex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7821 Fax: *****20. Aerotink Freight International Tel: 545-8031 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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    • 2125 42 ALBANIA Durres: Seven vessels in port of which 2 discharging general cargo, 1 flour, 1 potatoes, 2 wheat, 1 loading general cargo. ANGOLA Soyo: Kwanda base and Quinfuquena terminal remain occupied by Unita forces. Loading according to programme at Palanca. there is a posssibility that loading will resume
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    • 770 42 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES The in formation was contributed by Simpson Spence Young AFP GREEK buyers continue to dominate the tanker market with Thernamaris purchasing on a subs basis the coated product tanker Beron Mette 58.000 dwt and built 1977 Kaldnes at USS7.S million and Tsakos are rumoured to be
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    • 558 42 ARRIVALS Op Flight Type ETA T From TODAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 1 NRT KAL KE697 B747F 0150 1 SEL JAL JL617 B747F 0345 1 TYO SIA SQ835 B747F 1125 2 BSL/DXB RJA RJ024 B707F 1900 1 AMM/DXB C'LX CV796 B747F 2115 1 LUX/AUH/KUL TOMORROW AZA AZ997
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      • 1556 43 DELIVERY Of FCL IMPORT CONTAINERS IN PROGRESS Voy No Container avafabte Voy No Canbiww avalabte Elbe Star 923A COO(EST) 22.0293 1500 CGM Rabefars PR0033 21.02.93 0725 Hayakawa M 8666G COO(EST) 22.02.93 1500 Swadaya 718 21.02.93 0923 figer Shark 308 COO(EST) 22.0293 0700 Ming Star 70C 21.02.93 0940 Arktrs
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      • 534 46 AFP SANTA MONICA, California President Bill Clinton laid the groundwork for government aid to US aeronautics firms so they can better compete with Europe's Airbus, while here on Sunday to pitch his economic plan. "We find a lot of the areas that
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      • 505 46 Reuter TOKYO Japan's biggest aircraft maker, Mitsubishi Heavy, is being squeezed by a drop in orders for both its military and civilian products and appears to have no clear strategy to see it through the expected business drought. "It is tough. We want to keep
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      • 442 46 AFP SYDNEY Australia's multinational transport group TNT Ltd yesterday announced an interim net loss of A 574.5 million (5584.2 million) mainly due to provisions associated with its express freight venture and foreign exchange losses. The result, for the six months to Dec 31,
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        • 56 46 Reuter QUEITA Pakistan's ship-breaking industry has become the biggest in the world in terms of tonnage after Taiwan, a government official said yesterday. Pakistan has broken 25 ships since last October and 30 are to reach the Gadani ship-breaking yard, 50 km west of Karachi,
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        • 107 46 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's two largest airline companies, flag carrier Japan Airlines Co and number two All Nippon Airways Co* will increase the number of aircraft they lease to up to 30 per cent of total fleets by 1997, the Sihon Keizai newspaper
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        • 53 46 Reuter TALINN, Estonia An Aeroflot crew member pulling a ladder up from the ground after a refuelling stop in Tallinin on Saturday during a hijacking of an Aeroflot TU-133 aircraft. An Azeri hijacker later directed the plane to Stockholm where some of the passengers
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        • 100 46 Reuter LONDON Helicopters rescued nearly 400 workers on Sunday from a floating accommodation platform which cut its anchors from a gas rig in the North Sea after being hit by storms, the US oil company Amoco said. A spokesman said 14 helicopters shuttled to and
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      • 471 46 IHT PARIS A dramatic nationwide awareness campaign has generally succeeded in turning xenophobia into an expletive, but Bonn is unrepentant in the latest example of official discrimination against foreigners. Indeed, one of the government's strongest arguments for imposing a new tax
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      • 380 46 Obituary NYT ROME The luxury cars that bore Ferruccio Lamborghini's name achieved renown for chic and speed in the late *****, when customised models were ordered by people like Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra. He founded the industrial company that vied with
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