The Business Times, 31 May 1993

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  • 13 1 Business Times MITA (P) 552/12/92 Monday May 31 1993 WE KNOW ASIA 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 76 1 AFP WASHINGTON The chanccs of the US Senate passing President Bill Clinton's battle-scarred economic plan have vastly improved in the past three days, a leading Democrat, David Borcn, said yesterday. Mr Clinton's selection of a former Republican aide to head his White Mouse communications
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    • 58 1 AFP BIIIAC, Bosnia-Hcrccgovina Defiant Muslim authorities in Bihae yesterday bitterly rejected their status as a UN safe area and vowed to defend it despite a tightening Serb stranglehold. Ramiz Drckovic, commander of the Bosnian Army sth Corps defending the pocket, dismissed as "unacceptable" a May 22
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  • Article, Illustration
    107 1 Stock market indices Friday We«li change STII 1.905.34 *43.48 KLSE Composite 735.25 +5.90 Nikkei 20.843.69 +286.22 Hang Seng 7.397.91 +227.95 SET Index 836.03 -22.34 Jakarta Composite ...337.37 10.93 CLSA China B 1,147.93 -10.21 Aust All Ord 1.760.40 64.8 FTSE 100 2.840.70 -28.5 Do* Jones 3.527.43 +34.6 Exchange rates
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  • 567 1  -  Amid backdoor listings and takeovers. Red Chips making big gains From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG STOCKS controlled by mainland shareholders, popularly referred to as "Red Chips', are riding the crest of one of the biggest bull runs on the Hongkong stock exchange
    Source: Wardley James Capel  -  567 words
  • 374 1  -  From John Helmer, William Chia SINGAPORE electronics conglomerate Acma has sent a 13man team to Russia to drum up new business and find new products and processes for future development. The team is reported to be visiting numerous Russian
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  • 109 1 Reuter BEIJING China s Communist Party, the last major ruling communist club on earth, is urging its staff to forget their political scruples and get jobs in the private sector to promote economic growth. The State Administration of Industry and Commerce had
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  • 234 1 Reuter TOKYO Japan and the US have agreed to an all-out effort to stop further dollar declines, the English-language Japan Times said, quoting a source in international monetary circles. The source said on Saturday that monetary authorities in the
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  • 330 1 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Too much democracy leads to homosexuality, moral decay, racial intolerance, economic decline and single-parent families, says Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. "We should not be the slave of democracy." Dr Mahathir told a political gathering in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday
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  • 365 1  -  Cambodian elections Reports from Harish Mehta in Phnom Penh PRIME MINISTER Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) has seized the lead in Cambodia's first free and fair elections in over 20 years. The CPP had trailed Prince Norodom Ranariddh's Funcinpec
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  • 233 1 THE two front-running political parties in Cambodia have complained to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (Untac) about alleged foul play in the elections, and have blamed Untac for other grievances. Prime Minister Hun Sen of the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) complained last Saturday
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 345 2  -  By Anna Teo GROWTH in the construction sector will not only slow down in the second halt of this year, it could declinc further next year. And. for the private construction sector in particular, a recession could come around by the second half of next year.
        Source: Transearch Consultants  -  345 words
    • 221 2 MORE THAN 60 companies have shown interest in an industrial park development in Beijing being promoted by Beijing Vantone Industry Co Ltd. Named the Beijing Telecommunication Industrial Park, it is situated 45km north of the capital. The park, which will have facilities for
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    • 427 2  -  Better quality can offset higher costs, says minister By Kooi Cho Teng SINGAPORE Addressing concerns of local businessmen that Singapore's manufacturing sector was hollowing-out due to high costs. Minister lor Trade and Industry S Dhanabalan said yesterday that this need not occur "if we
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 96 2 A TOTAL of 11.150 certificates of entitlement (COEs) will be up for bidding in June. The quotas for different categories of vehicles are as follows: 216 for cars I.OOOcc and below; 1,718 for cars between I,ooloc and 1,600 cc and taxis; 316 for cars between
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      • 65 2 THE SINGAPORE Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called for a moderate wage increase this year in response to the National Wages Council's recommendation that the total wage rise can reflect the expected improved economic and business performance in 1993. In a statement
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      • 62 2 MOUNT ELIZABETH Hospital will now organise and sponsor a course on heart disease for general practitioners every year following the success of its pilot project recently. Mount E said in a statement yesterday that 36 family doctors took part in the three-month pilot
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      • 73 2 THE National University of Singapore is organising a workshop and a symposium next month. In a statement last Saturday, the university said it will hold its Far East Workshop on Geographic Information Systems at the Oriental Hotel on June 21 and June 22. This
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    • 411 2  -  By Helen Chang THE HUMBLE Old Chang Kee curry puff, which has made millions for its owners, is now set to win over consumers in the region. The company, also known as "Rex curry puff', opened its first franchise outlets in Malaysia this
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  • THE REGION
    • 535 3  -  By Loh Hui Yin SINGAPORE It would take another two to three years before the tourism industry in Thailand, the country's largest money spinner, re-experiences the double-dig-it growth it enjoyed in the late-1980s, said Virakiart Angkatavanich. deputy governor for marketing at
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    • 183 3 AFP MANILA The Philippines may be forced to downscale its 1993 economic growth target for the second time due to a continued weak fiscal performance. Central Bank Governor Jose Cuisia said yesterday. President Fidel Ramos' economic advisers are to meet today to discuss
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    • 575 3  -  From Alan Boyd in BANGKOK THAI transport authorities have ordered a feasibility study on plans for a 121-billion-baht (557.7 billion) underground rail network in Bangkok the city's third mass rapid transit project. The subway was proposed by a Thai-German consortium after
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    • 243 3 Reuter BANGKOK A desperatelyneeded new Bangkok expressway that has been plagued by disputes between the two partners hit a new snag over the weekend after the two failed to agree on terms for opening part of the road early. Bangkok Expressway Co Ltd (BECL) said
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    • 313 3 Bernama KOTA K1 NAB ALL Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed yesterday gave the undertaking that the federal government would make Sabah the richest state in Malaysia again if the Barisan Nasional was returned to power there. The prime minister said
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 102 4 AFP PHNOM PENH A group of US Congressional leaders travels today to Vietnam in a new attempt to taekle the MIA issue, as pressure builds at home and abroad for the lifting ot the US eeonomic embargo. Senator John MeCain. a member ol
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      • 92 4 AFP HANOI China has opened a consulate in Ho Chi Minh C ity, site of Vietnam's largest community of Hoa, or ethnic Chinese, diplomatic sources said here on Saturday. China's ambassador to Vietnam, Zhang Qing, and Ho Chi Minh City mayor Truong Tan Sang attended
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      • 62 4 Reuter CHIBA, Japan THe world's largest indoor all-year-round ski slope SSAWS (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter Snow) towers over vehicles in Chiba outside Tokyo. The indoor slope is 490 metres long and up to 100 metres wide, has grades as steep as 20 degrees and drops skiers
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      • 71 4 AP YANGON Myanmar and China have opened a bridge linking the two countries along the route of World War ll's famous "Burma Road", a government newspaper reported yesterday. Officials from the two countries opened the bridge on Friday to link the Myanmar town of Kyukok,
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    • 538 4  -  Seoul sees action as cover for protectionism From Florence Chong in SEOUL SECTIONS of the Korean business community have accused Australia of "abusing" its anti-dumping laws by using it as a mechanism to protect Australian industry. Senior South Korean government officials have been
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    • 317 4 AFP BEIJING If the run-up to the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement is any indication, China appears headed for another crisis. In late-1988, China's overheated economy and runaway inflation led to widespread social unrest. The economy is bubbling again and with inflation on
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    • 523 4 Reuter BEIJING China's angry posturing over its US Most Favoured Nation (MFN) trade status reflects worries in Beijing that its overall trade situation is being undercut by fast growth at home. From January to April, China logged a trade deficit of US$l.7
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    • 26 4 Reuter SEOUL Students attacking riot police with iron pipes during an anti-government protest at the weekend near the homes of two former presidents.
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    • 297 4 AFP TOKYO Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen yesterday reiterated a warning against isolating North Korea over its withdrawal from a nuclear inspection treaty, Japanese officials said. Mr Qian told former foreign minister Michio Watanabc that international concern about North Korea's suspected nuclear
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    • 425 5 Fallout from latest political upheaval seen forcing govt's hand AFP KARACHI As Pakistan begins to deal with the fallout from its latest political upheaval, the business community here says the country's economic woes may compel the government to resort to heavy taxation. Pakistan had
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    • 119 5 Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has offered to make a "fresh beginning" in relations with India and called for a resumption of talks to settle core issnes between the two neighbours. He made the offer in a reply to a
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    • 280 5 Reuter CANBERRA Australian Employment Minister Kim Beazley has said the federal government will succeed in creating 500.000 jobs by 1996, but that any dramatic declines in the level of unemployment are unlikely. "I think that 500,000 target can be achieved," he said
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    • 240 5 Reuter TOKYO Japan may have an equal employment law but many women still face hurdles finding jobs let alone rising up the corporate ladder, according to a Labour Ministry survey published yesterday. Over 40 per cent of the 5,400 companies responding to
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    • 557 5 AFP SYDNEY Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet left here yesterday after a historic Australian visit which underscored growing economic links between the two countries, but emphasised a gulf between them on human rights. While both sides saw the visit
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 1264 6  -  The Cambodian elections Reports from Harish Mehta in KOMPONG CHAM PRIME MINISTER Hun Sen and Kompong Cham Governor Hun Neng are not just siblings. They are brothers-in-poli-ties too. and are waging a tough eleetoral battle to keep their ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) in
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    • 747 6 EARLY election results had turfed out Prime Minister Hun Sen from four Cambodian provinces. But by midday Sunday, Mr Hun Sen had regained lost ground and led Funcinpec in seven constituencies, while Funcinpec was ahead in five. If Prince Norodom Ranariddh's
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    • 667 6 The Bank of East Asia, Limited VrtJ 10 Des Voeux Road, Central Hong Kong CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 1992 CONSOLIDATED PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1992 1992 1991 HKS'OOO HKS'OOO '"2 1991 SHARE CAPITAL HKSOOO HKS'OOO Authorised: 600,000.000(1991-400.000.000) 1.500.000 1.000.000 Profit for
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  • THE WORLD
    • 467 7 Reuter PARIS Emotional scenes such as the one in France of sacked workers at the Swedish ball-bearing company SKF being sent away in taxis have helped push unemployment to the very top of Europe's political agenda. European Community leaders, scared by the
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    • 376 7 AFP PARIS New French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur and President Francois Mitterrand will bury their ideological differences to speak with one voice at Franco-German summit talks on key international issues this week. The Socialist president and his neo-Gaullist prime minister who took office
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    • 366 7 AP BELGRADE A corruption charge against its commander has thrown the secretive world of the Yugoslav military into turmoil and exposed a power struggle between extreme Serb nationalists and strongman Slobodan Milosevic. At stake is control over the formidable firepower of the
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 74 7 Reuter TOKYO Japan, under pressure to improve relations with Moscow, will not push its demands for the return of four Rus-sian-held islands at this year's Group of Seven (G-7) summit meeting, news reports said on Saturday. Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa told Parliament on
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      • 65 7 Reuter MADRID Spain's opposition Popular Party (PP) holds a narrow lead over the ruling Socialists a week before elections on June 6, according to opinion polls yesterday. A poll in the influential newspaper El Pais gave the conservatives 34.8 per cent of the probable vote
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      • 55 7 AFP BONN The ambassador from Ankara has called for better protection for Turks living in Germany after a suspected neo-Nazi arson attack killed five of them. "Turks living in Germany are more and more afraid," ambassador Onur Oymen said in an interview published yesterday in
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      • 64 7 AFP LONDON British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd will meet his French counterpart, Alain Juppe, in Paris tomorrow to discuss the Yugoslav conflict before heading on to Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia, his office said yesterday. The two leaders are expected to focus their discussion of
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    • 349 8 FT WASHINGTON US President Bill Clinton's celebration of his vital budget Bill victory in Congress on Thursday was tempered by new figures which cast fresh doubts on the US economic recovery. They showed much reduced economic growth as US consumers stopped spending and
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    • 214 8 Reuter NEW YORK The Pentagon is moving towards a new strategy in whieh the US military would no longer plan on fighting two major wars at onee but would handle them in turn. The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions. Under
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    • 309 8 NYT WASHINGTON The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has said that the Clinton administration and the Senate will scale back the size of the proposed energy tax to ease the burden on business, perhaps by exempting whole industries. New York
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    • 76 8 Reuter WASHINGTON Outgoing White House Director of Communications George Stephanopoulos, 32. hanging his head as he listens to President Bill Clinton's comments about his service to the administration during a press conference on Saturday. Chief of StatT Thomas McLarty is in the foreground. Mr Clinton, scarred by public
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    • 454 8 Reuter CAIRO Egypt's sell-off of two state firms that make Co-ca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola under licence has caused nationalist resentment to bubble beneath the country's bright, breezy free-market surface. The world-famous brands, often seen in the developing world as the missionaries of
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    • 394 8 Reuter CAPE TOWN Zambia is steaming ahead with reforms, including privatisation, to liberalise its economy, but galloping inflation and hefty foreign debt remain major headaches. Finance Minister Ronald Penza said. Interviewed on Saturday, he reiterated his government's commitment to dismantle the state's
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 387 9  -  Ipco, with smallest offering, makes biggest gain By Paul Leo SINGAPORE The three newly-listed shares on the Stock Exchange of Singapore have all performed well to yield price-earnings ratios close to the average in their respective markets. On its May 20
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    • 207 9 MBT, NST KUALA LUMPUR Associated Kaolin Industries (AKI), which will be listed soon on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, expects its jointventure property project on Hainan island in China to start by the end of the year. According to executive chairman
      MBT,; NST  -  207 words
    • 200 9 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Uniphoenix Corp Bhd said its subsidiary. Rubfil Sdn Bhd, had entered into an agreement with Kerala State Industrial Development Corp (KSIDC) of India to set up a joint venture company, Rubfila International Ltd, to produce extruded heat
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    • 729 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE How things can change in just 12 months. This time last year. Cycle Carriage Ltd was the corporate predator which stalked and captured property firm Malayan Credit Ltd. Now. CCL itself is
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    • 280 9 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Nansang Press (Malaya) Berhad has proposed a bonus issue, a bond issue and a restrieted offer for sale of its transferable subscription rights. The bond issue is to enable Nanyang Press to raise funds to finance its activity, Asian International
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    • 377 9 Reuter HONGKONG Shangri-La Asia Ltd. the hotel arm of Malaysia's Kuok Group, is floating 150 million new shares to the public to raise HKS73S million (SSIS3 million), the first hotel issue here since 1989. The shares, amounting to 15 per cent
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    • 93 9 HOW MUCH of my CPF money can I invest in shares? Can 1 keep the capital gains and dividends? Can my wife or children become beneficiaries of my investments under the CPF Investment Scheme? Business limes invites readers with these and other questions on how the
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    • Article, Illustration
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 100 10 AP BEIJING Shanghai's stock exchange will list a new B-share today, bringing its total B-share listings to 11. an official report said yesterday. The shares offered by the Jinqiao Export Processing Area Development Corp would have a face value of one yuan but would be
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        • 96 10 Bloomberg Business News Tokyo Major Japanese electronics maker Mitsubishi Electric will reorganise its audio and visual equipment manufacturing operations in a bid to shore up falling profits caused by the yen's appreciation, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said. The company would shift production of all products
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        • 103 10 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's state electricity company, PLN, plans to issue bonds worth almost US$435 million (***** million) this year to fund the development of a national transmission network, the Antara news agency said yesterday. Antara quoted PLN director Zuhal as saying that the
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        • 88 10 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand media group Wilson and Horton Ltd has said recent acquisitions contributed to its annual results and that their prospects are very encouraging. The company reported an 18.2 per cent rise in trading profit to NZ549.16 million (Ss43 million) in the
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        • 130 10 NYT NEW YORK In one of the largest antitrust judgments in the US, a federal court has ruled that USX Corp must pay about US$63O million (SSI.OI billion) to several steel companies that brought a price-fixing suit against a former USX subsidiary, Bessemer Lake
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      • 313 10 UPI BEIJING China's biggest weapons manufacturer, already diversifying into civilian production and joint ventures, is seeking to boost its nonweapons business with a large injection of foreign capital, an official newspaper reported yesterday. The China Daily said the company, the China
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      • 601 10  -  Exclusive interview with Bimantara Citra's group corporate secretary Move to offer investing public a stake in conglomerate By William Chia JAKARTA Indonesia's diversified Bimantara Citra group is likely to list its two Bali hotels and telecommunications business next. Group corporate
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      • 453 10 Reuter SYDNEY Australia's Polartechnics Ltd, founded by university researchers and run by a physicist and a former uranium mining chief, believes it is on to a winner. The medical instrumentation company, whose shares hit a low of two Australian
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      • 362 10 FT HONGKONG Jardine Matheson's quest to insulate itself from possible interference by China after Hongkong reverts to the mainland in 1997 took a bizarre turn last Friday. The company said the government of Bermuda had agreed to pass a law which would bring
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      • 514 10 AFP BOMBAY Bombay stockbrokers are at war again with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), the market watchdog body. The latest battle in the longrunning conflict was triggered by a Sebi circular giving brokers 30 days to pay registration fees
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      • 1093 10  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG AS CHINA'S economy becomes overheated and a credit squeeze gets underway, many state and provincial enterprises have resorted to tapping Hongkong capital markets to secure badly-needed funds to internationalise their operations. Analysts say one popular method
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 441 11 Reuter SINGAPORE India will set up a watchdog body to guard against irregularity and fraud in its multi-billion-dollar banking industry, hit by last year's securities scandal, says a senior Indian bank official. "The Board for Financial Supervision being constituted under
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      • 275 11 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China will crack down on unregulated currency trading companies in the freewheeling southern province of Guangdong following widespread swindling of gullible investors, the China Daily reported yesterday. Early this month, a currency futures trading company
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      • 169 11 Reuter BEIJING The Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, China's first market for futures trading in farm products, opened last Friday in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, Xinhua news service said. During the first session, the exchange traded 18,540 tonnes of grain and edible oil. The exchange
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 88 11 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bank Negara's gold, foreign exchange and other reserves, including special drawing rights, rose to M 551,910.33 million (5532,672.36 million) as at March 15, 1993 from M 551,108.71 million a fortnight earlier. A statement from the central bank on Saturday said its total assets
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        • 49 11 Reuter BELGRADE This foreign currency street dealer, grabbing a fistful of money, had every reason to be cheeful on Saturday. Hyperinflation and the appearance of new five million-dinar notes have caused an enormous increase in foreign currency exchange rates on the black markets. Reuter
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        • 114 11 Reuter LONDON HSBC Holdings pic, the parent of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp and Midland Bank pic, said it made progress in all its major markets in early-1993, but the world economic picture remained mixed. Chairman William Purves said Hongkong was strong and
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      • 259 11 Appeal court rules in Lloyds 9 favour on stop-loss recoveries Bloomberg Business News LONDON Lloyds of London won an important victory last Friday when Britain's Appeal Court voided a lower court verdict by ruling recoveries made under stop-loss policies must be given to the insurance syndicate and not to individual
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      • 254 11 Reuter LONDON Campaigners seeking compensation over the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) last Friday sought help from new British finance minister Kenneth Clarke. Opposition Labour Party politician Keith Vaz wrote to Mr Clarke seeking an early
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      • 448 11 AP HONGKONG Most Asian currencies, led by the yen, gained against the dollar last week in the wake of a US Treasury Department report favouring a stronger Japanese currency to help reduce the US trade deficit with Japan. The yen kept rewriting its all-time
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 661 12  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By. James Foo, MMS International SINGAPORE The dollar had a roller-coaster week against the deutschemark. It moved to 1.6422 marks on expectations of a hike in US interest rates and an easing in German interest rates. But on Tuesday, a semiannual Treasury report
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      • 756 12 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Coffee prices fell last week on profit-taking after the announcement of an agreement among South and Central American countries on plans to coordinate their production. Brazil. Colombia and the five Central American coffee producing countries
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    • 1521 12 Rubber MS Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest OOO (Too 132 00 0 Toso Jul 132.50 132.25 132.25 500 2.800 Aug 133.75 133.50 133 00 300 5.275 Sep 134.00 133.50 133.75 425 8.125
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    • 5184 13 CORPORATE RESULTS Nel t urn KPN l>ate IV l.\ n l-V Compun> ann iSm) (Sml |ct*l (itsI Mliance Tech Ma> JO F I 0 7 9L 0 962L \iu Hotels Max 12 I 1.67.1 2 'ithl 1 66 CAC Max 19 I 18.439 38.659 17.8 21.4
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    • 750 13 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 756 14 FT New York PRESIDENT CLINTON scored a rare triumph on Capitol Hill last week. His deficit reduction programme squeaked through the House of Representatives on Thursday night and Wall Street, whatever its own political views on the new administration's economic
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      • 305 14 AFP Tokyo SHARE PRICES rose on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week, with the key indicator temporarily breaching the 21.000 marie to hit a 14-month high in spite of the yen's surge against the dollar. The Nikkei Stock Average of
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      • 601 14 Hongkong SUPPORTED by positive news, the market once again marched into uncharted territory. US President Bill Clinton announced the renewal of the Most Favoured Nation trading status for Beijing while China and Britain are to resume the airport committee meeting on June 4.
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      • 245 14 AFP London THE MARKET consolidated last week and prices rose slightly, helped by some vim on Wall Street and a few good company reports, analysts said. The Footsie 100-Share Index closed on Friday at 2.840.7 points, up 28.5 points or one per
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 116 14 The Australian sharemarket surged during the week on the back of rising gold prices, with most sectors attracting keen investor interest. brokers said. "The whole market traded well on the back of gold it has been leading the way all week." one broker said. The market-indicator All-Ordinaries Index closed
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        • 88 14 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index closed on Friday at 836.03. down 22.34 points 2.26 per cent for the week despite a 8.12 points rise during the day. The average daily volume traded during the week was a thin 43.8 million shares, down from 58.4 million shares the
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        • 89 14 Share prices edged up on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) as a bull run continued for a second week, pushing the index to its highest level in 11 months. On Wednesday, the JSE index reached 331.913 and was gradually pushed to reach 337.372 at Friday's close, from the previous
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        • 127 14 The Philippine stock market ended the week higher although trade remained slow as profit-taking late in the week brought the index down slightly. The Manila Stock Exchange Composite rose 1.6 per cent to 1,597.45 points on the week to Friday's close from 1,572.1 points a week earlier while the
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        • 64 14 Seoul stocks hit their highest level so far this year, after rising moderately during the week. The broad-based Composite Stocks Price closed at 738.75 points on Saturday, up 5.41 points, or 0.7 per cent, from 733.34 a week earlier. Daily turnover averaged 49.3 million shares worth U*****.6 million, higher
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        • 83 14 Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange staged a modest comeback last week despite fears of an economic slowdown on the island. Following a six-per cent slump the previous week, the 337-issue Weighted Price Index bounced 55.85 points or 1.3 per cent to finish at 4.356.1 points on Friday.
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        • 60 14 Share prices plummeted on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) last week under heavy selling pressure by public financial institutions and profit-taking. The Bombay Sensitivity Index, which tracks the fortunes of 30 blue-chip scrips, lost nearly 200 points during the week to close at 2.164.9 points on Friday. The National
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        • 767 14 -27.40 Stocks retreated from record levels in lacklustre pre-holi-day trading on Friday as a sinking dollar which heightened inflation worries and rising interest rates prompted investors to take profits ahead of a long weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which added 14.67 points on Thursday, dropped 27.40 points
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        • 328 14 -3.28 Stocks ended mixed as a recovery in gold issues otTset weakness in financial services issues, traders said. "It was pretty dull. Golds took a break and banks were weaker." one trader said. The TSE 300 finished 3.28 points lower at 3.866.44 on turnover of 59.09 million shares valued
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      • 5517 15 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Retail buying support for second-liner stocks absorbed much of the week's profit-taking to take share prices to a slightly higher finish last week. The KLSE Composite Index closed at 735.25, up 5.90 points over the week and the Emas Index added 3.00
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      • 1276 16  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE The market must be really hotting up, judging by the heavy foreign institutional interest in local blue chips last week. Analysts' warnings that the Singapore bourse is overbought fell on deaf ears. American institutional funds descended on the market with a
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  • SPORTS
    • 625 17 NBA play-offs NYT CHICAGO It was a happy homecoming in Chicago last Saturday when the Bulls routed the New York Knicks 103-83 to climb back into the Eastern Conference finals. Scott ie Pippen scored 29 points and Michael Jordan had 22 as the two-time defending
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    • 625 17 French Open AFP PARIS The favourites were forced to pull out all the stops at the French Open Tennis Championships yesterday to survive on a day of "stopstart" tennis. Sunshine and regular showers kept the ground staff ultrafit as they constantly
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    • 518 17 NYT PARIS Three-time French Open champion Monica Seles, omnipresent in Paris even in her absence, has alerted her tennis peers that rumours of her impending retirement due to the stab wound she sutYered on April 30, along with rumours that the knifing created a merely superficial
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    • 265 17 Golf AP. AFP OARAI. Japan Chen Tzechung of Taiwan shot a sizzling four-under-par 68 for a fourround total of 277 here yesterday to win the U*****,000 (SSI.S million) Mitsubishi Galant golf tournament. Starting the day one stroke behind overnight leader Masashi Ozaki. Chen
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        73 17 Reuter NEW YORK American league Saturday New York 8 Chicago 2; Boston 15 Texas I; Toronto 5 Oakland 3; Kansas City 6 Milwaukee 5 (in 13); Minnesota 9 Cleveland 3; California 6 Baltimore 3; Detroit 3 Seattle 2. National: Montreal S Chicago 4; San Francisco 6 Atlanta 3; New
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        194 17 AFP Reuter Reuter WF.NTWORIH. England Nick Faldo and Scve Ballesteros missed the halfway cut at the British PGA championship on Saturday lor the first time in the same European event since 1979. leading second round scores (GB unless stated): 136 Mark James 68 68 137 Ronan Rafferty (Nl) 68
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        95 17 AFP Reuter ROME AC Milan drew 1-1 with Brescia on Sunday to secure its 13th Italian title. With one match to go Milan, beaten by Olympique Marseille in the European Champions Cup final last week, has a five point lead over city rival Internationale who was beaten 2-0 at
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        46 17 Reuter TORONTO NHL all-time scoring leader Wayne Grctzky scored a record eighth playoff hat trick to lead the Los Angeles Kings to a thrilling 5-4 win over the Toronto Maple 1-cafs on Saturday and their first trip ever to the Stanley Cup finals. Rcuter
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        48 17 Reuter JOHANNESBURG Western Province wing Chester Williams on Saturday became the first black player picked by South Africa, since Errol Tobias played for the Springboks against the South American Jaguars in 1984. when he was named in their 25-nian squad for France's two-test tour next month. Rcuter
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        195 17 AFP PARIS French Open Sunday (x--seed) Men Singles 4th round: Karcl Novacck (Czc *13) b Ctislav IXxcdel (C/e) 7-5 6-4 7-5: Richard Krajicck (Neth xl 2) b Carlos Costa (Spn) 7-5 3-6 6-3 5-7 10-8. Doubles 3rd round: Goran Ivanisevic (Cro)/Hcnri Lccontc (Era) b John EiUgcrald (Aus)ZAnders Jarryd (Swe
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  • THE ARTS
    • 651 19 A decade short of being a centenarian, comedian Bob Hope looks forward to more good years Reuter Bob hope looks back over 90 years, most of which have been spent entertaining others, and says: "You know, 1 happen to have been damned lucky." Sitting in his
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    • 513 19 silence is golden Holly Hunter's triumph at Cannes is proof that... Reuter ITS NOT often an actress will fight tooth and nail for a part without any dialogue. But then there's nothing particularly usual about Holly Hunter's role in The Piano. which earned her the Best Actress award at this
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    • 1328 19 TV RADIO Actor Ted Danson of Cheers. and Three Men and a Baby travels round the coasts of America, exploring environ-environmentally-friendly Swiss k 1 inventor. Looks at the early it x. I X When their in- on watching a porn movis the start of a hard time y *CTT *m
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    • 141 20 From Firm Foundations To New Frontiers. J TC Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) has come a long way both within and beyond Singapore. Central to JTC's mission is in twenty-five years. To commemorate this anniversary, it has our commitment to providing higher product and service quality, launched a new logo that
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 994 21  -  What makes Time successful? Chairman and CEO Reginald Brack talks to S N Vasuki about the company's plans for pushing ahead S N Vasuki Reginald BRACK ardently believes in the power of the printed word or "the permanence of print", as he describes it. True, Mr
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    • 537 21  -  Tim Weiner on why big companies no longer talk about former employees Tim Weiner NYT ADD this to the annals of America's litigious society: Fearing lawsuits, some companies have stopped giving job references, leaving employers in the dark about their prospective employees.
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  • 581 21 BLUE HARVEST Consultants announced the appointment of Irene LK Lee as their executive director. In her new capacity. Ms Lee's responsibilities include the company's financial management, activitybased cost management education and also the implementation consultancy. Ms Lee has many years of corporate financial and business experience with larger
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  • 490 22 More countries following in Germany's footsteps AFP PARIS Western European states, mired in recession and rising unemployment, are all with varying degrees moving to curb immigration and restrict asylum rights as Germany has just done. On Tuesday and Wednesday, European Community interior
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  • 305 22 AFP LONDON Cabinet ministers, newspapers and leaders of the Asian community yesterday condemned the call by Winston Churchill, grandson of the wartime premier, for a halt to immigration to "preserve the British way of life". "I condemn any intervention which could have the effect of
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  • 236 22 AFP TAIPEI A sharp increase in spending by Taiwanese travellers has triggered fears here among banking officials that it might offset the island's 1993 trade surplus. In the first four months of the year, spending soared by 20 per cent compared with the
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  • 242 22 Reuter. AP BEIJING China and Britain will hold a fifth round of talks aimed at resolving differences over the political future ot Hongkong from June 14-16, the British embassy and the Xinhua News Agency said yesterday. The two sides have been
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  • 44 22 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwanese aborigines from Orchid Island off Taiwan's southeast coast marching through Taipei yesterday demanding the government stop the construction of the country's fourth nuclear plant. Nuclear waste from three existing nuclear plants are currently dumped on Orchid Island. Reuter
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  • 335 22 Reuter KRAKOLYE, Russia Russian millionaire Ilya Baskin yesterday laid the foundation stone of a US$2 billion (553.2 billion) port project that will widen Russia's window on the West. Russia's first privatelyfinanced port, which will take shape at
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  • 896 22  -  The Bottom Line KARIM RASLAN KARIM RASLAN The writer is a Kuala Lumpur-based journalist who contributed this commentary to BT MID-THRM by-election and country council elections in Britain have always been and always will be an opportunity for opposition candidates to win unwinnable seats,
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  • 468 22 Failure to stop war threatens alliance Reuter BRUSSELS Nato may be heading for a major crisis because the US and its allies cannot agree on how to tackle the war in Bosnia and Washington's traditional authority is fading, diplomats say. In
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  • 278 22 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan plunged into political crisis yesterday with the dissolution of two provincial assemblies by governors siding with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in his power struggle with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Assemblies in the Punjab and the North West Frontier Province
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  • Business IT
    • 632 23  -  Firms are rushing into S'pore in anticipation of bigger demand, reports Joseph Rajendran Joseph Rajendran Judging by the pace at which companies like PictureTel. AT&T and newcomers like Creative Technology and Nuts Technologies are expanding in the region, it would appear that
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    • 1087 23  -  What do fast cars and first-rate drivers need to be even better? Computers feeding precise data to engineers and technicians, reports David Welcher for BusinesslT David Welcher THE VEHICLE is almost a blur as it flashes by. Its on-board transponder
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    • 694 23  -  This year's Comdex/Spring marked a changing of the guard, says Kenneth James, reporting on-site from the just-concluded computer super-show in Atlanta, Georgia Kenneth James AT LAST week's Comdex/Spring "93. Microsoft's Bill Gates, dressed in formal business attire, launched what he called "the first complete, commercial operating system
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    • It's happenin'
      • 94 24 SINGAPORE The Institute of Systems Science will be organising CASE '93, the Sixth International Workshop on ComputerAided Software Engineering (CASE) from July 19 to 23. This workshop gives software developers and CASE users an opportunity to share experience, ideas and solutions with international experts in
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      • 69 24 SINGAPORE Dun Bradstrret Software will be holding a seminar on "Workflow Automation and Technology at the Rallies Hotel's Casuarina Room on June 4. Speakers include Professor Chris Edwards of the Cranfield School of Management in England. The seminar will consist of four sessions: a Workflow seminar, an
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      • 104 24 SINGAPORE The National Computer Board (NCB) is holding a series of six half-day seminars to help local entrepreneurs acquire practical knowledge about computers and computerisation. These seminars are for key decision-makers who lay the groundwork for exploiting IT in their businesses. The seminars cover the
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      • 72 24  -  Compiled by Bernard Chew SINGAPORE Singapore will be hosting the 3rd Asia Pacific Imaging and Information Management Exhibition and Conference (AIM' 93) from June 14 to 18. AIM' 93 will be held at the Raflles City Convention Centre and will consist of a tutorial on June
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    • 553 24  -  Bernard Chew finds out why the certification is almost a must now for IT companies Bernard Chew Another five Singapore IT companies Andersen Consulting, ECS Healthcare Systems, Singapore Computer Systems, Singapore Engineering Software and SW International have received the ISO 9000 quality
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    • 427 24 WITH the computer industry turning more attention to operating and applications software. Sun Microsystems of California is wasting no time to get ahead in the game. Sun's software unit, SunSoft, is beefing up its regional presence and intends to take an aggressive
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    • 295 24 ICL will soon introduce a direct mail programme to peddle its personal computers (PCs) in Singapore. ICL Singapore's marketing manager Nigel Pitcher said this would be part of a strategy to raise awareness of lCL's name. The Britain-based company, which is 80 per cent owned
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 64 26 ATLANTA Advanced Logic Research has won Byte magazine's coveted "Best of Comdex Spring '93" award for its new personal computers, which are based on Intel's latest and most powerful microprocessor, the Pentium. ALR s EVOLUTION V (above) and EVOLUTION V-Q edged out rival machines
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      • 49 26 SINGAPORE Epson Singapore has announced that its newly launched EPL-5000 laser printer will be sold at a special price ot $999. A more advanced model, EPL-5200. is also available at $1,299. Both printers deliver high-quality 300 dots-per-inch documents at six pages per minute.
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      • 51 26 SINGAPORE Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Microsoft have signed an agreement under which HP will provide worldwide support services for users of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. Through this arrangement, Microsoft hopes to capitalise on HP's strong presence in the reseller community to build support for Windows
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      • 51 26 KUALA LUMPUR Ingress, a world leader in relational database management software, is opening a Malaysian office. The new office. Ingress Malaysia Sdn Bhd, will be based in Kuala Lumpur. Through its new office. Ingress hopes to capture key segments of the expanding Malaysian database products
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      • 53 26 BRUNEI American telecommunications giant AT&T has secured a US$2O million deal to supply the government of Brunei Darussalam with a modern digital switching network. The network has features such as Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), which allows simultaneous transmission of voice, data and images
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      • 108 26  -  Compiled by Bernard Chew SANTA CLARA 3Com Corporation, the market leader in data communications and networking, recently broke the local area network speed record by successfully demonstrating an ethernet local area network (LAN) capable of transmitting data at 100 million bits per second (Mbps). Current LANs
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    • 1021 26  -  Comdex/Spring '93 Technology Editor Kenneth James, writing from Atlanta, Georgia, sums up the key issues that emerged at the computer world's latest get-together Kenneth James. COMPUTING entered a new era last week at Comdex/Spring *93, with the coming together of powerful new hardware and software capable
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    • 708 26  -  Image. That's the reason. Big Blue tells David Welcher David Welcher WHAT looks like a converted garage serves as the IBM office at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In one corner, a television monitor shows the main straightaway of the
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      280 26  -  Compiled by Bernard Chen JEFFREY WEITZEN has been appointed president and managing director of telecommunication giant AT&T's Communications Services Group for the Asia-Pacific region. Mr Weitzen joined AT&T in 1980. and has held a number of marketing, sales and network engineering positions. In 1991. he was asked to
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    • 1080 27  -  CONNECTIONS COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH CONNECTIVITY Tommi Chen looks at how non-researchers have been tapping into the rich resource of information on Internet Tommi Chen The writer is deputy director of the National University of Singapore's Computer Centre. He manages the campus' network the largest in
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    • 729 27  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS An effective Enterprise Information System is one designed with the end in mind. Stephen Yeap examines why Stephen Yeap The writer heads Andersen Consulting's Software Division. which provides packaged software and support solutions for clients in various industries Enterprise
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    • 585 28  -  Joseph Rajendran finds out what a fish that swims from one PC screen to another has to do with how computers can interact Joseph Rajendran IBM opened its US$B million (5512.9 million) Open Centre in an unusual manner. It lined up computers from
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    • 203 28  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Francis Casperan Singapore 1458 I REFER to the article "Are you a victim of the software terrorists?" (BT, May 17). I note that the commentary on the MS-DOS version 6.0 criticised the Disk Doubling function, and rightly so.
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    • 427 28  -  Its early appeal may, however, be dampened by the high initial price, writes Jonathan Yenkin Jonathan Yenkin AP DIGITAL Equipment Corp has unveiled what it calls the fastest personal computer in the world. But the high initial price of the machine is expected
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    • 582 28  -  Paper pushers are expected to fall head-over-heels for Acrobat documents, says John Markon John Markoff NYT ADOBE Systems Inc is dramatically silencing its doubters. The creator of the software technology called Postscript, which has enabled high-quality printing in the personal computer market, recently
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    • 912 28  -  WltiDOWSiOl OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics f (USA), a Brooklyn-based management consulting and softw are development firm, and also w rites on IT issues. He contributed this commentary to BusinesslT. < WELL, back to college again. This time we look
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    • 559 28 Cyrix's new set of chips are compatible with Intel's but cost less than half their prices Bloomberg Business News CYRIX CORP, the microprocessor design company that came into the limelight by developing cheaper clones of Intel Corp's popular computer chips, last
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    • 297 29 SINGAPORE The Baltic and International Maritime Council (Bimco) started its 1993 general meeting at the Westin Stamford here yesterday the first time it is held outside of Europe. In a statement yesterday, Bimco president lan Denholm said: "Bimco is meeting in Singapore because we would
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    • 304 29  -  From Al Labita in MANILA MANILA The Manila affiliate of transport firm P&O Australia will begin building a US$27-million (5543.5 million) bulk grain terminal outside Manila next month. The terminal the first of its kind in the Philippines will be run
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    • 480 29 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kelang Container Terminal Bhd (KCT) will be spending between Ms9o million (5556.6 million) and MS9S million to upgrade its operations in the next three years beginning 1994, its chief executive. Abdul Samad Mohamed, said here last Friday. Speaking to reporters after the
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      • 570 30 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy Wo Berth Arrival Departure Jurong Port SlmWot Gol 08 9X P06 alongside 31 OS, I MO CPC Galka 9301 ft 3105,0800 Str Venture 121 P03 alongside 3105,0200 Roda Perkasa 8 93 111 alongside 31 OS/ 2359 ANNA 1A 93
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    • 11115 38 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. UfIKNO PN: ship calls at Penang after
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    • 886 45 Itlt hKbIGHI futures market was Mild down on the first fall in the Baltie freight Index (BID in V) da vs. as summer grain freights began to ease, dealers said. The panel of Baltie brokers marked the BH down 14 points to 1.628 on Mas 27. showing most
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    • 840 45 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead ot single prices lor a more comprehensive description ot 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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    • 956 46  -  Overall growth in 1992 for Asia-Pacific ports was slower but there were some fast movers too, reports Kevin Chinnery Kevin Chinnery Lloyd's List Maritime Asia LAST YEAR was not wholly a vintage year for Asian port growth rates. Average growth rates
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      • 603 48 Parent company offers 30pc of stake in airline Bloomberg Business News, NYT MINNEAPOLIS Northwest Airlines' pilots and three smaller unions gave a cool reception to a concessions package proposed last Thursday by the financially troubled carrier. "Due to their complexity, it will be
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      • 84 48 Reuter TOKYO IZA, which is claimed by its maker Tokyo Electric Power Corp to be the world's fastest electric-powered vehicle permitted to run on public roads, drawing attention at an exhibition of low-pollution vehicles on Saturday. The car has a carbon fibre reinforced plastic body with an
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      • 372 48 NYT NEW YORK In one of the largest antitrust judgments, a federal court has ruled that USX Corp must pay roughly US$63O million (SSI billion) to several steel companies that brought a price-fixing suit against a former USX subsidiary, Bessemer Lake Erie Railroad
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      • 341 48 Cargolines LUXEMBOURG Kuwait is repairing its cargo terminal and by year-end most airfreight services should return to normal. The Gulf War damaged many of the Emirate's aviation facilities and infrastructure. Invaders burned the import and export warehouses and stole the aircraft loading apparatus. Kuwaitis
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      • 195 48 KnightRidder NEW YORK Toyota Motor Corp once again dominated the widely watched J D Power and Associates quality survey for 1993 cars, despite claims by US automakers that they have closed the quality gap with Japan. The Wall Street Journal reported last Friday. There
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        • 104 48 AFP BEIJING The government is to lift an air travel restriction requiring Chinese passengers to present letters of introduction from their work units when buying tickets, official newspapers said last Saturday. The regulation, which is to end on June 10, had been intended to
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        • 100 48 Reuter ROTTERDAM Stevedoring and shipping group HES Beheer said it reached an agreement in principle to sell its fully-owned Irish subsidiary Bell Lines Ltd. The company will be sold to a consortium, consisting of Bell Lines' management, Citicorp Venture Capital. Nat West Ventures
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        • 69 48 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's private airline. Mandala, will lease 10 Boeing 737s from the British De Havilland Investment Ltd to serve its domestic routes. An official said last Friday the company will lease five Boeing 737-300s and five 737-200s. Two of the 737-200s have
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        • 59 48 Knight-Ridder JOHANNESBURG South Africa's port authority Portnet handled 8.865 million tonnes of cargo through the country's seven ports in April, the authority said last Friday. Imports totalled 1.093 million tonnes and exports 7.530 million tonnes. Transshipments and cargo taken between South African ports
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    • 142 29 The box league, Page 18 MARITIME m CHALLENGESCTJ A Special Business Times Supplement June 29, 1993 The maritime industry is a key element of the Singapore and regional economies. But maritime companies face stormy seas. Shipping lines are plagued by depressed rates and over-capacity in some markets. At the same
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    • 2005 33 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD fIEiC 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppd Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 MJ'lfJMAlifgl.l'W'Bgl.l'MfJWl'j'illJM NEW GUINEA PACIFIC LINE G±V®B (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) C*»Go' S DUE SAILS RAIAH BROOKE ¥13£ Muaia Lib 29 t3l May 02 Am 03 Am FCL, LCL CONTAINER AND
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    • 1003 37 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I I 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. 1I I SSSBBS>M CR NO **********0 C n«BML VOY dIN JKT «N I VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN BUMOA TERATAI 3323 1/1 4/1 l/l I KOTA SURIA KSR22N 2/8 5/# 9/6 EQUATOR HAWK MM l/l
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    • 321 45 TODAY'S TIDES (height in metres) HOUR 0000 0100 0200 0300 0400 0500 0600 0700 OSOO 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 ISOO 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300 ft i.l 1.0 1.1 1.3 1.0 1.9 2.2 2.4 2.3 2.1 1.0 1.4 1.0 0.9 0.0 1.0 1.3 1.7 2.2
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    • 487 46 NORTH PHILIPPINES FULL CONTAINER SERV CE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MANILA VIGOUR PACMC 19NB 04/06/93 12/06/93 FMMYiND MONDAY VIGOUR PACFIC 19ANB 07/06/93 12/06/93 VIGOUR SINGAPORE HUB 11/06/93 19/06/93 VIGOUR SINGAPORE SSANB 14/06/93 19/06/93. L_ PORT KLANG/PENANG FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE SWGAPORE PORT KLANG PENANG MARWA MAS 9379N8 03/06/93 05/Q6/93 ARKTB
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    • 354 46 MSjyg FREIGHT MANAGEMENT I GENERAL: *****11 BOOKING: *****55 INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT Chittagong, Madras, Calcutta, Bombay, Colombo, Karachi EES FREIGHT SERVICES PTC LTD #01-60 Wallich Building, Singapore 0207 HU 3 ftl Tel: *****66 (10 Lines) Fax: *****69/*****44 AIRPORT OFFICE: *****11 *****13 (FAX) IMPORTING FROM USA WE PROVIDE WEEKLY SAILINGS WITH FAST TRANSIT
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    • 365 46 WOOD LINE SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE SPORE PI OB* CT A VESSEL ***** 15/0 2/7 10/7 20/7 •AISO CJUXS E l AND P£ PK SEAFOt SIMPHNO SON »HO TEL 907 5825TLX. *7740 KJt.: CAPWCORN FREIGHT SERVICES TEL 113 MB TLX. IIMI sfj)L SECIL MARITIMA, U.E.E. Spf Luanda, Angola. FAR EAST/ ANGOLA
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    • 986 47 A HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE VESSELS VOY PNA PKE PGD VESSELS VOY Sil RTM MIT* LET HM «t FEI~ NOR ASIA MALACCA 9320 A 25/05 26/05 27/05 H. PIONEER 303W 30/05 11/06 18/06 19/06 20/06 20/06 22/06 HMM ADVANCE 19A 01/06 02/06 03/06 H. FRONTER 305W
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    • 509 47 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS INBOUND VESSELS ft SSII Nf SP N IN M if »«et tffM 111 SM Ml SM SMI UNTI SM hh SUI MIIM 71 1/1 CttWM TRIM 13 l/l fU MSTIIFRESJ 1 5/1 l/l MSN Ptua I l/l IB— H II I
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    • 76 48 ?jiD?3S7Y a Tomorrow in Business Times kKtiuum > M.V. "DOOYANG OPAL" VOY. 2 Arrived 22nd May 1993 M.V. "FAR EAST PILOT* VOY. 1 Arrived 24th May 1993 Consignees of ill damaged cargoes ex the captioned vessels are hereby notified th* a general survey will be held oo the 2nd June
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    • 147 48 reONSTRUCTIO^ Tomorrow in Business Times palma SHIPYARD, SAG U LUNG/BATAM __T* Tr: PT PALMA PROGRESS SHIPYARD speciallise in barge building, ship-repairing and breaking. We invite your esteemed enquiries for new barges/repairing and also for the following used barges/vessels available for sale. A. FIAT TOP BARGES CLASS YEAR BUILT DOCKING 18ffx5ffx1(r
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