The Business Times, 24 June 1993

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  • 13 1 BUSINESS TIMES WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Thursday June 24 1993 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 63 1 Reuter KARLSRUHE, Germany Germany's highest court has upheld the government's right to keep German United Nations peacekeeping troops in Somalia. The opposition Social Democrats had asked the Constitutional Court to order the government to abandon the Somali mission. The court said the
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    • 72 1 Reuter JOHANNESBURG South Africa's black leaders, African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthclczi, have agreed on measures to end political violence. The two rivals agreed to make joint appearances in strife-torn areas. They said that the fact that they had
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    • 56 1 Reuter VIENNA Islamic states at a world human rights conference are headed for a confrontation with the West over Bosnia, pressing ahead with a hard-hit-ting declaration that the United States has branded a waste of time. US delegate John Shattuck lashed out at what he called a
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  • 110 1 Stock market indices Wednesday (hinge STII 1791.11 +3.43 KLSE Composite 717.96 Nikkei 19.492.52 -45.78 HangSeng 7,062.64 +15.91 SET Index 910.33 +6.79 Jakarta Composite ...358.38 +2.20 CLSA China B 966.33-18.67 Aust All Ord 1.698.8 -17.9 FTSE 100 2.900 7 -6.9 Wednesday Pre»io«s Ham (lose Dow Jones 3,488.12 3.497.53 Exchange
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  • 534 1  -  By Joyce Quek Quak Hung Whai Leslie Lopez NERVOUSNESS over an investigation into alleged share manipulation on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange sent stock prices sharply lower in Singapore and Malaysia in morning trading yesterday, before bargain hunters came in
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  • 370 1  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Airlines in the Asia-Pacific have called for fairer air services agreements with the United States. The Manila-based Orient Airlines Association (OAA), which has 15 members, yesterday said it was "seeking to remove the constraints enforced upon many of
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  • 522 1  -  Japanese politics at the crossroads From S N Vasuki in TOKYO JAPAN'S rising political star, Tsukoma Hata, yesterday formally announced the formation of a new political party and pledged to pursue reforms and rejuvenate the country's scandal-ridden political system. However, enthusiasm
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  • 381 1  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG CHINA has formed a 57membcr body, headed by Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen. which will set up a committee to select the first post-1997 government for Hongkong. Beijing denied, however, that the move is designed to undermine the colonial government's
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  • 656 1  -  By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Reflecting the better 1993 growth prospects. civil servants will get a higher total pay rise of 6 per cent this year, including a 3.4 per cent built-in increment. The 6 per cent total increase. compared to 3.7
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  • 157 1 Reuter BEIJING China has shortened a planned meeting today between Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating and Premier Li Peng, rumoured to have suffered a heart attack earlier this year. The authorities had cut at least half an hour off the twohour meeting
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 349 2  -  By Schutz Lee THE Consumer Price Index rose 2.1 per cent in May from a year ago mainly because of higher prices for housing and miscellaneous items. Compared to April, the index, at 114.8 last month, was 0.2 per cent higher. The biggest jump on
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    • 508 2  -  Growth will be propelled by teleeoms. banking sectors Reports by Genevieve Cua AT LEAST a billion smart cards plastic cards embedded with a microchip are expected to be in use in Asia by the year 2000, from just
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    • 325 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan JEREMY Chia Kay Hua, founder and CEO of Utopiaaire Pte Ltd, was named Entrepreneur of the Year yesterday. Presented annually by the Rotary Club of Singapore and the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME), the award recognises outstanding local
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    • 303 2 SHOPPING at Takashimaya in Orchard Rd will be even more of a novelty as the retailer gears up to launch Asia's first retail smart card next week. Takashimaya's smart card will carry a chip that will track customer's purchases and offer
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    • 510 2  -  By R Sivanithy THE Association of Muslim Professionals yesterday dismissed allegations by its ousted chairman Hussin Mutalib that it had acted improperly. Describing political science lecturer Dr Hussin's claims as "baseless and unfounded". new chairman Ahmad Magad presented documentary evidence to
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    • 320 2  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE and the Netherlands further liberalised their bilateral air services agreement last week. The two countries agreed to expand capacity and exchange more traffic rights between the two countries, a statement by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said
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    • 117 2 A SINGAPORE publishing company is joining hands with Shanghai to publish China National Day annual. Sino-Asia Communications and Publishing, which publishes Singapore Travel Trade and Singapore Tourist Guide, is cooperating with Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House to produce the publication which will be
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 66 2 ERA REALTY Network has instructed its agents to obtain written statements from HDB owners who let out rooms that they will also be staying on their premises. It will terminate the services of those agents who fail to do so, said ERA. The
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      • 53 2 THE Ministry of Education's Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore awarded a SI3 million tender last month to introduce multimedia systems into Singapore schools. Under the tender, the schools will be able to promote teaching using multimedia computer systems. Creative Technology's multimedia systems will be used
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      • 51 2 IN our article headlined "Crealive's unit E-Mu plans to double sales to USSS4m" on Monday, we erroneously reported that E-Mu founder David Rossum had resigned from Creative. Creative Technology has pointed out that the person who resigned was another co-founder. Scott Wedge. We are sorry for the
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  • THE REGION
    • 530 3  -  By Loh Hui Yin SINGAPORE Just a day after insisting that they will stick to their lending rates, Thailand's two leading banks. Bangkok Bank and Krung Thai, have done an aboutturn and are to shave them by a quarter percentage
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    • 388 3 Approval may be only for projects financed by international lending agencies NYT WASHINGTON The Clinton administration is considering allowing American companies to bid on contracts in Vietnam that arc financed by loans from international lending agcncics such as the World Bank
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    • 263 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The United States under President Bill Clinton is no longer hostile to a proposed Asian-only economic grouping that was strongly opposed by the Bush administration. Malaysian Foreign Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday: "The Clinton administration has said
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    • 477 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR A proposed growth triangle linking parts of Indonesia. Malaysia and Thailand hopes to compete for investments with the emerging markets of China and Indochina. Former Malaysian finance minister Daim Zainuddin. who represents his country in the project, said yesterday:
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    • 218 3 Bernama BANGKOK Thailand and Laos agreed to cooperate in building two major roads to spur commerce between the two countries and later lengthen the roads into Cambodia and Vietnam, a Thai official told Kyodo news service yesterday. The
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    • 429 4 Scheme will accept 20 leading figures each year AFP TAIPEI Taiwan will allow 20 leading political figures, intellectuals and athletes from China to immigrate every year, the cabinet's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday. The immigration scheme, established on Tuesday, covers people fleeing
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    • 157 4 Reuter BEIJING China has unveiled a five billior >uan (551.43 billion) package of preferential loans to help its countryside share the cities' prosperity. The loans will boost growth of rural enterprises in poor central and western China, the China Daily said yesterday. The official
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    • 243 4 UPI BEIJING The credit squeeze wrought by heavy borrowing and speculation in China's economic boom has brought back so-called "triangular debt", a pyramid of debt that could cripple industry, an influential official newspaper warned yesterday. The state-run economic daily said enterprises nationwide are
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    • 341 4 AFP Reuter BEIJING China has revised upwards estimates for economic growth, with the State Planning Commission forecasting 13 to 14 per cent growth over the first semester, the People's Daily said yesterday. The planning commission also said that "the rate of
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    • 460 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan will cut its long-term economic growth target because of a weak global economy and cutbacks in state spending, the government's Economic Planning Agency said yesterday. Changes in Taiwan's industrial structure, as it developed from a low-cost export base
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 82 4 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has rejected a proposal by the speaker of parliament to make it easier to amend the country's constitution through a simple majority instead of a two-thirds vote. Dr Mahathir, returning from a 10-day visit to China late Tuesday,
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      • 61 4 Reuter PURI, India A leprosy patient lying on a mattress of thorns at the annual chariot festival in this East Indian town. About 800.000 Hindu devotees took part in the beginning of the 10-day festival signifying Lord Jagannath's escape from the temple routine and his
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      • 85 4 Reuter OLONGAPO. Philippines About 2.000 residents outside the former US Subic naval base yesterday demanded the retention of local mayor Richard Gordon as manager of the Philippines" first free port. They denounced a Supreme Court decision on Tuesday barring Mr Gordon from serving concurrently as
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      • 82 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR MCA president Ling Liong Sik yesterday said he will not campaign for the party elections on Sunday and will leave his fate to the delegates to decide. Dr Ling will be challenged by MCA vice-president Woon See Chin, the member of parliament for
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      • 57 4 Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistan yesterday complained of a massive Indian troop build-up on their common border in Kashmir. But a foreign ministry spokesman could not confirm Indian reports of an exchange of light weapons fire between the Indian and Pakistani troops across a UN-monitored control
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    • 685 5 Japan won't discuss opening rice market; US and Europe at odds over textiles AFP AP TOKYO The United States. Japan, the European Community and Canada ended their first session of ministerial talks on market access here yesterday amid fading hopes ot breathing life into
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    • 182 5 NYT TOKYO Japan's foreign minister, Kabun Muto, said on Tuesday that a Clinton Administration proposal to create a US$4 billion (556.56 billion) fund to help turn Russia's state-owned enterprises into private companies was "preposterous", and added that an agreement had
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    • 245 5 AFP BOMBAY Indian garment exporters are looking for new markets in the face of fierce competition from other Asian nations, companies and export association officials say. Indian garment exporters are turning to Australia, Japan. New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and countries
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    • 1198 4 NollwEs?banks NorwGSt Bsnk Minnesota, N.A. (Incorporated in U.S.A. with limited liability) Consolidated Balance Sheets Consolidated Statements of Income In millions, except shares n millions, except per share amounts At December 31. Year Ende<J December 31. 1992 1991 1992 1991 Assets Interest Income on Cash and due from banks 2.388.2 2,589
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 924 6  -  India's science and technology programme Reports by Yogi Aggarwal in BOMBAY NECESSITY is the mother of invention. In the mid-1980s. India was looking for highorder eomputers for various needs, ineluding weather foreeasting. scientifie research and defence. The United States had just sold to the Indian Meteorological
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    • 790 6 INDIA'S space programme is on the verge of making a quantum leap with the launch in August of a rocket capable of putting a one-tonne satellite into orbit. And scheduled next month is the launch of the second Indian-built multi-purpose satellite which
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  • THE WORLD
    • 544 7 NYT WASHINGTON The US is try ing to block the shipment of rocket-fuel ingredients from Russia to Libya. Officials said on Tuesday the shipment was the latest in a string of exports that had caused major worry in the Clinton Administration.
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    • 184 7 Reuter OTTAWA Canada stands to make small but significant economic gains from the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement, said a report from the C D Howe Institute, a private sector think-tank. "Mexican products already face very low barriers to entry into the
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    • 53 7 Reuter C OPENHAGEN A demonstrator yelling as he sticks his head through a banner reading 'A Divided Bosnia War to the Last!" outside the Bella Centre here, where leaders of the European Community were holding a summit focusing on ex-Yugoslavia on Monday. How's that
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    • 301 7 Reuter PARIS Prime Minister Edouard Balladur said that Europe's economic recovery is on its way, but he warned against those in France who wanted to take quick measures to hurry it along. "The general sentiment is that... Europe now has its worst days
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    • WORLDWATCH
      • 84 8 UPI JUPITER, Florida The alligator attack that killed a 10-year-old boy has prompted do/ens of calls from people asking wildlife trappers to remove gators from nearby ponds and canals, game officials said. "That's something we anticipate when something like this happens." said Lt Jim
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      • 71 8 UPI CAIRO Egypt on Tuesday said African foreign ministers meeting in Cairo to prepare for an African summit next week agreed to a proposal to create a mechanism for conflict-resolution. "The ministerial council approved in its session a proposal by the secretary-general of the Organisation
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      • 91 8 Reuter LONDON Britain's Defence Procurement Minister Jonathan Aitken said negotiations on developing a new frigate were continuing with France and Italy and announced plans to set up a joint project office in London this summer. "I am pleased to be able to announce plans
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      • 87 8 Reuter LONDON The British government was under strong pressure yesterday to announce the winner of a multi-billion dollar contract to refit its Trident nuclear submarine fleet. But there were clear signs Conservative ministers were still dithering over the issue which is certain to cause
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    • 466 8 Reuter LONDON Britain's ruling Conservative Party rejected accusations it was surrounded by corruption, fending off opposition attacks in a debate on funding. The Labour Party lost by 291 votes to 250 a motion calling for a full accounting of Conservative Party funds after a
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    • 363 8 AFP OTTAWA Kim Campbell, who will be sworn in as Canada's first woman prime minister tomorrow, is expected to use the occasion to present a leaner Cabinet with plenty of new faces. If the Progressive Conservative Party is to retain power in a
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    • 664 8 IHT FT FRANKFURT Ihe Deutschemark. for years the European Community's strongest currency and a source of German pride, is inexorably slipping in strength and prestige as economic fundamentals swing to favour the currencies of other nations. Caught between a widening budget deficit in Bonn
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    • 214 8 Reuter ROME Italy yesterday appeared to be heading for a ground-breaking social contract between employers and unions hailed by Prime Minister Carlo Azeglio Ciampi as a possible model for the whole of Europe. Italy had already achieved a major breakthrough in fighting inflation under
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    • 350 8 Reuter JOHANNESBURG South Africa's two main black political rivals. Nelson Mandela and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, met yesterday for a longawaited summit on curbing political violence racking the country. Both the African National Congress (ANC) president and the leader of the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party
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    • 51 8 Reuter WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton (left) running with Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey during his daily jog around Washington on Tuesday. Interestingly, Senator Kerrey, who has an artificial leg due to a V ietnam War injury, ran against Mr Clinton for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
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    • 502 8 NYT WASHINGTON In a move angering European and Asian steelmakers, the Clinton administration announced steep penalties on Tuesday on steel from 19 countries that the Commerce Department said had been sold at less than fair value. The ruling would more
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 481 9  -  KL capital markets conference From William Chia in KUALA LUMPUR BANK Negara Malaysia, the country's central bank, is closely monitoring the high level of financing in the stock market but will not intervene as long as the industry acts responsibly. Bank Negara deputy governor
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    • 455 9  -  From Sylvia Wong in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA's three-month-old Securities Commission (SC). the watchdog body of the booming stock market, said it had been quietly but surely performing its duties, contrary to criticism that it had not been doing enough. The head
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    • 365 9 KUALA LUMPUR Mcrton Miller, a Nobel Prize winner in Economics, has said that no government should be seen by its people to be supporting share prices. The professor, who specialises in financial regulations, told reporters this after delivering the luncheon keynote
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    • 698 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE The Sembawang group's latest addition to its fold warrants a second look. At first glance, the group's purchase of Singapore Offshore Petroleum Services (SOPS) seems to be foolhardy. After all. the purchase once
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    • 642 9  -  From Brian Gomez in SYDNEY BANK of Singapore Stockbroking (BOSS) managing director Harold Shapiro said yesterday he was "very, very sorry" that Singapore's OCBC group had been forced to dispose of its 100 per cent stake in its Sydney-based broking arm.
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    • Article, Illustration
      352 9 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Jun 23 Last Sense Index Slock sale Chae (actor mo'ers (S) (V) S At into 2.300 0050 1.80 20 41 CAC ■»ooo 546 000 Cerehos 5 200 ■0 100 406 -4082 FAN II 500 -0 100' 8 98 -40 82 OF
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    • 172 9 SINGAPORE Listed retailer Metro Holdings yesterday announced that it had bought a company called kingbuild Ltd for nearly US$ll3,OOO (S$185,000). kingbuild, which has an authorised capital of HKS 10,000 (552,100) made up of 10,000 ordinary shares of HK$l par value, owns a leasehold flat
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 62 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Pan Malaysian Industries Bhd reported a lower group pre-tax profit of MS 10.65 million (556.7 million) for the finaneial year ended Mareh 31 compared with MS 17.24 million a year before. Announcing the audited results yesterday. PMI said group sales increased by 28
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        • 78 10 AFP BOMBAY Tata Chemicals Ltd has reported that net profits rose by 25 per cent in fiscal 1992-93 to USS2S million (5540.3 million). Turnover during the financial year which ended March 31 rose to USSI6O million from USSI37 million in fiscal 1991-92. Tata Chemicals chief
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        • 76 10 AFP TOKYO Japan's Toshiba Corp and Motorola Inc of the US announced yesterday an agreement to invest 80 billion yen (SSI.2 billion) on an advanced new semiconductor plant in northern Japan. The new facility, located next to an existing plant in Sendai run by
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      • 485 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' prices Jun 24 Singapore Unit Trust The C "ommerce 1.34 1 41 xd The Savings Fund 1.22 1 28 S'pore Prog Fund 0.56 0.59 S'pore Sec Fund 0.90 0.95 S'pore Invest Fund 0.98 I.O.Vid S'pore Hquitv Fund 0.64 0.6? Asia Unit Trust Mai Invest Fund 1.73
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      • 374 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR MBf Holdings Berhad plans to relocate its glove manufacturing plants from Malaysia to China as the republic offers a vast cheap labour market compared to Malaysia, MBfH group president Loy Hean Heong says. "There will be no loss
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      • 444 10  -  From Alan Boyd in BANGKOK THE Thai stock exchange chalked up its highest volume since January yesterday on increased local and overseas interest. including funds diverted from slower regional markets. Continuing its rebound from weeks of stagnation on the back of
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      • 340 10  -  By Kooi Cho Teng SINGAPORE Listed Malaysian company First Allied Corp Bhd (FACB) will market in Singapore this weekend its most ambitious project so far a MSI billion (***** million) mixed development near a proposed international airport in Kuala Lumpur.
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      • 221 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Golden Hope Plantations Bhd recorded a 38-per cent increase in group pre-tax profit to MS 136.5 million (SSB6 million) for the vear ended March 31. 1993. from M 598.8 million in the previous year. Announcing its unaudited financial
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      • 420 10 Reuter TOKYO After pausing for breath with the collapse of the bubble economy, Japan's mighty brokerages are turning their eyes to the world's fastest growing market, Asia, where they have lagged behind their western rivals, analysts said. "Japanese brokerages are still behind
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      • 238 10 AFP BANGKOK Hongkong's Hopewell Holdings has presented Thailand with plans for the first phase of investment in the construction of a I'SS V 2 billion (555.2 billion) mass transit system for the Thai capital. A Thai official said yesterday that Hopewell
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 524 11  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON LONDON Asia-Pacific investors will be contributing towards the mammoth £2.9 billion (S$7.1 billion) of losses at Lloyd's of London, the highest ever in the 300-year-old market's history. The losses related to the 1990 financial year because Lloyds operates
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      • 447 11  -  By Yong Pow Ang SINGAPORE The Chinese government is taking a twopronged approach to help the renminbi recover lost ground against the US dollar, according to press reports in Hongkong. On the demand side. China is turning the screws on foreign ventures which quote the
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      • 302 11 Reuter LONDON The outgoing governor of the Bank of England said on Tuesday that Britain's central bank should be independent. Robin Leigh-Pemberton said he favoured a bank with greater autonomy in formulating monetary policy. "One must not say an independent central
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      • 327 11 FT NEW YORK Citicorp and Chase Manhattan, two of the largest US banks, have applied for banking licences to operate in Russia. The licences would be the first granted in Russia to US banks, and would follow one given last August to Credit Lyonnais
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      • 258 11 SINGAPORE The United Overseas Bank has received the grecnlight to convert its merchant banking operations in Australia to full branch status. In a statement yesterday, the local banking giant said that UOB Australia will now be known as UOB Sydney. It will offer
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 66 11 SINGAPORE International Factors Group announced a 26 per cent increase in turnover to 60 billion Swiss francs (SS66 billion) during 1992. The factoring chain said in a statement that international import and export turnover increased by 25 per cent to 3.5 billion Swiss francs.
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        • 73 11 Reuter FRANKFURT There is no evidence that a third party is building up a large stake in Commerzbank through purchases on the stock market, according to chief executive Martin Kohlhaussen. The bank's shares have been rising in recent weeks amid rumours of foreign interest. Some
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        • 87 11 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's national mortgage firm Cagamas Bhd said the tender for its MS2OO million (SS 126.6 million) fixed rate bonds and MS3OO million floating rate bonds, issued on Tuesday, attracted bids ot MS 1.52 billion and MSBO7 million respectively. Both the bond issues run
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        • 68 11 Knight-Ridder ROME Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio said yesterday Italian commercial banks, which could now take stakes in nonfinancial firms, should not become shareholders of last resort. Mr Fazio told the annual meeting of the Italian Banking Association the new guidelines developed by monetary authorities
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      • 383 11 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Oil futures prices were weaker in London and New York after the American Petroleum Institute said US crude and product stocks had increased, brokers said. The weekly API report, which provides information on oil inventory and
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      • 122 11 CURRENCY markets were in turmoil yesterday with huge purchases of yen as the US$/ycn tumbled in one quick move. Over the USS/SS. offshore demand for Singapore dollar capped the US$ rise at 1.6389 and the US$ was subsequently sold to its day low at 1.6335
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      • 204 11 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar failed to sustain a rise above 1.70 deutschemarks as traders and investors cashed in profits made on its 7.8 per cent surge against the mark since the beginning of June, traders said. Selling was triggered when the US government said US durable good
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      • 87 11 AFP NEW YORK The dollar traded unevenly early yesterday after dipping briefly on the release of disappointing US economic figures. The dollar fell to 1.6940 German marks after news that US durable goods orders fell 1.6 per cent in May. but then recovered to 1.6965 German marks, said
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        1616 11 /!<*/<• Hi ithrnl imU idlculanil ufuin\i S/**r'< hit 14 iiuJiiik /tanifrs Ba*-y,vr /W< US$/S$ forward rates Noon June 23 Bid Offer 1-month I 6367 1 638? 2-month 1.6367 1.6382 V month 1.6367 1.6382 6-month 1.6360 I 6380 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 10am on June 23: Singapore
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1481 12 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar interest rate futures recovered from early lows, after being battered by active selling triggered by a New York Times report that Federal Reserve policy makers are planning for higher interest rates The benchmark December contract ended at
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      • 632 12 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin I IN PRICE on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market closed unchanged at MS 13.07 per kg with little buying interest yesterday. Dealers said the market was traded thinly with the metal price moving within a narrow hand after opening in line with the
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        • 56 12 TOKYO Japanese zinc smelters say the move by EC smelters to explore downsizing of their industry is encouraging for the market, but they do not sec prices responding by year-end if at all. However, some say restructuring European smelting operations may create consensus to reduce output
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        • 56 12 BRASILIA Brazil's government will not finance a proposed plan to withhold a portion of exportable coffees. Industry and Commerce Minister Jose Andrade Vieira said. "There is no money in the Treasury." Mr Vieira said. "We will appeal to the private sector itself for the
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        • 71 12 LONDON As of July 1. the London Futures and Options Exchange will be renamed the London Commodity Exchange, which is in fact a return to the market's original name, the exchange's executive director Robin Woodhead said. Mr Woodhead said that the exchange was
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        • 71 12 LONDON Massive volume was traded on the London Futures and Options Exchange (FOX) cocoa contract with UK trade house Rayner Brokerage Ltd thought to have crossed nearly 26.000 lots. Traders said the business was transacted on behalf of commodity fund the Mint Fund, which
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        • 69 12 SAO PAULO A partial accord between a mining consortium and independent miners will help boost tin production at Brazil's Bom Futuro mine to near-normal levels this year, officials and market analysts said. Frederico Barbosa. a tin specialist at the official National Minerals Research Department (DNPM)
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    • 1599 12 Rubber June 23 I HAS Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 1pm) MS (physical prices) RSS1 Contract (S cents/kg) Buyers Sellers (lose Volume Open (Scents/kg) Month High Low. Sell (tonnes) Interest RSS 2 July 93 129.00 130 OON Jul 93 129.75 129.25 129 25 375 1.825 *f| !)!m
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1042 13 -17.9 Shares fell below the key 1.700 level in late trade as the market continued volatile ahead of the end of the financial year on June 30. After a weak start inspired by falls on Wall Street overnight. shares continued lower through the day to close 17.9 points down
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      • 607 13 -14.30 Share prices dipped further despite healthy market liquidity and due to a lack of fresh incentives. Analysts said the listing of 170 million shares of Bacnotan Cement on the stock exchanges may spur some activity. "Depending on the outcome of Bacnotan. we will see how strong the market
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      • 435 13 -8.09 Stocks closed sharply lower with rampant profit-taking in blue chip manufacturings and financial shares, and worries about the liquidity constraints of institutional investors prevailing in the market, brokers said. But thev forecast the market would stage a technical rebound following the sharp declines. The Composite Stock Index lost
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      • 279 13 -0.97 Shares ended tlat after a very dull session where both foreign and local interest was lacking. Brokers blamed quarter end balancing, northern hemisphere holidays, uncertainty in major markets, higher local interest rates and a local analysts' meeting for the lack of interest. Volume was a paltry 5i7.6
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      • 98 13 -14.23 Stock prices are expected to move in a narrow range as the market begins to discount continuing political instability, traders said. The stock market received a major blow last week after broker Harshad Mehta. a defendant in last year's multibillion- rupee financial scandal, alleged he paid 10 million
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      • 617 13 +69.68 A technical rebound from recent extended falls pulled Taiwan stocks higher across the board, led by financials and blue chips, brokers said. The Weighted Index opened higher and closed 69.68 points or 1.7 per cent up at its intraday high of 4,132.17. Turnover remained thin but was higher
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 631 13 -6.9 Shares slipped to a slightly weaker close as declines in heavily-weighted drug stocks and a setback on Wall Street pressured the market. The FTSE 100 Index closed down 6.9 points at 2.900.7 just holding the key psychological 2.900 mark. "Anywhere above 2.900 will be pretty difficult to justify
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      • 90 13 7.13 Arbitrage with index futures helped French shares close higher in busy trading on the last day of the monthly account. The CAC-40 closed up 7.13, or 0.37 per cent at 1,942.41. Paris Jm 23 Fr XirLiguMk 'imh uncti Ak-Jlrl Xnslhom t>y 00 -7 flfVjuH WHO JO Culc Or
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      • 118 13 -1.33 pc Shares slumped to a weaker close on higher debt market yields, an upcoming threeday weekend and a weak crown. Lack of interest in blue chips Ericsson and Astra accelerated the trend. "It's been a sluggish day, despite good volume." a dealer said. "It feels like it will
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      • 168 13 1.31 The bourse failed to stayabove the psychologically important 1.7(X) level, and the outlook for stocks is now uncertain, dealers said. The DAX 30 index ended up 1.31 points at 1.699.39. after reaching 1,712.15 midsession and declining steadily from there. DIB players took advantage of the highs to sell
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      • 161 13 1.72pc Gains in telecommunications stocks and Fiat shares provided a further boost to Italian shares, helping to lift the market as a whole by 1.72 per cent to 1.186. Dealers said foreign interest m the telecommunications holding company would continue to remain strong ahead of the publication of the
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      • 293 13 •12.10 Shares closed lower yesterday, as investors cashed in on gains made from Tuesday's record high and retreated to the sidelines to assess their next moves, traders said. The move to take profits affected all sectors, said a senior trader at Bank Vontobel. as investors sought to consolidate positions
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      • 246 13 +0.37 Shares closed unchanged as the dollar slipped from its highs, traders said. The EOE index of the leading 24 Dutch shares closed up 0.37 point at 321.81. Decliners outpaced advancers 12 to 10. Two stocks closed unchanged. The market fell from its intra-day high of 323.81 points also
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      • 334 13 +6 Gold shares were off lows at the close of trade yesterday. but remained down on the day on the back of a softer gold price and generally slow trade. Dealers said golds were likely to track the bullion over the next few days, although medium term bullishness remained
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      • 315 13 13.3 Stocks opened slightly weaker in cautious trade after nervousness over US inflation returned, dealers said. The AVw York limes said the Federal Reserve has discussed the possibility of raising interest rates later this year to keep inflation under check. The TSE 300 was down 3.47 points at 3.932.27
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      • 837 13 -13.29 Wall Street share prices fell back yesterday after publication of disappointing US economic figures. At 11am. the Dow Jones index of leading industrial stocks was down 9.41 points at 3.488.12 in heavy trading with 82 million shares changing hands. The market was depressed by news that the
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      • 805 13 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash Bid Offer Mim ap Deposit >* MOO J* *500 Mim Imn <nit 0 189) 0 1942 Mim Mac Income *0 9*00 1 0200 1JSS Cash Income Plus Fund 10 MOO 10 8900 PS S Reserse fund 5 2000 5.2100 Sterling I-quit» Furu Performance 0 4 592
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      3199 14 Reuter Share prices gave up some of their early gains in the afternoon after the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group communique failed to mention any agreement on infrastructure projects. Britain and China have agreed on a science and technology treaty for Hongkong at the JLG but they have not made
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      466 14 THE "B" share market in Shenzhen yesterday was fractionally more active than in recent days. Chiwan Wharf was up 2.4 per cent but the most movement was in Konka which closed down 3.6 per cent. The most activity was in Southern Glass (its rights issue was rumoured to be
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      2482 14 Router TOKYO Stocks ended mixed in lacklustre trade, in the thinnest volume since early March. Investors were hesitant to move, awaiting for some fresh incentives to buy while political uncertainty and currency market volatility weighed heavily on sentiment, brokers said. "Public pension and insurance funds bought some stock but
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      1883 14 Reuter FOREIGNERS and local funds bought heavily on three major stocks in the construction sector, joining individual investors to drive the market ahead in exuberant trade, brokers said. The SET Index rose 6.79 points to close at 910.33 on turnover of 12.41 billion baht. During the morning trade, the
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      1065 14 Reuter SHARE PRICES closed mixed in moderate trade, brokers said. "Price correction on selective counters constrained market activity while local investors predominantly focused on Panin Bank." a dealer with foreign brokerage said. Losers included kabel Metal. 400 rupiah to 5.800. Petrosea Foreign. 325 rupiah to 7.525. Indocement Foreign. 300
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    • 2672 15 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume Kcnong Bhd SK. IIHIJW fmmi H76I001) IdiiNHvJSk T.HMN Hcimvj (iHHip 7 I $6,000 IVgi Mm UMJH Muhi-tWrnc 4.7SSJH AMOBSOC 4.7SMOO fjtvr (irirnp 4 ""s«mUK) kamunting MK 4.4J5JB0 Mettoplex JQc 4JliW t \< B VK. 4.027.000 MBf Capital l.tmn ImMMe.
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5369 15 Bernama SHARE PRICES closed broadly lower in active trading despite a slight rebound late in the session on bargain-hunting activity. At the close, the weighted K.LSE Composite Index was 7 points lower at 717.96 from Tuesday. The broader All Share Main Board EM AS
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 1113 16  -  By Teh Hooi Ling JITTERS and uncertainties carried over from Tuesday's 30-point plunge sent the Straits Times Industrials Index (STII) down by another 26.4 points in yesterday morning's session. But afternoon bargain-hunting of blue chip stocks lifted the index by 30 points to 1,791.11. giving STII a
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      • Article, Illustration
        68 16  -  HOT STOCK Quak Hiang Whai SHAREHOLDERS of Hitachi Zosen need not be distracted too much by the company's poor results. Its immediate downside appears to be limited to the $1.60 level at which the shortterm indicators comprising the MACDs. RSIs and stochastics would have reached the heavily over-sold
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      • 6451 16 MAIN BOARD Gr Gr 942/93 Val Day Last Qno« Dh Dl» YH Nel M ap lligh Low Company Sale (DOO) High Low Bayer Seller C"<t P/fc Snail INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 770 260 Aetna 685 -15 393 695 660 685 695 12.5 2.1 1 8 29.7 472.1 220 220 s Ale*
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  • SPORTS
    • 640 17 Wimbledon AP WIMBLLDON. England Wimbledon's two defending champions easily won their second-round matches yesterday, Steffi Graf without her heckler and Andre Agassi without most of his body hair. The men's top seed, Pete Sampras, also advanced, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, over Australian Jamie Morgan.
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    • 334 17 AFP LONDON Indonesia's Yayuk Basuki. ranked 40th in the world, yesterday beat American Robin White 7-5, 6-3 for a placc in the third round of the Wimbledon women's competition. White is ranked 86 but is a former Top 20 player, and now that Basuki
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    • 578 17 Keep away women drivers at Teheran course Golf AFP TEHERAN Most Teheranis don't even know it exists and if you do stumble upon the golf course in the Iranian capital, men have a fair chance of being shooed off if it is women's day. "Keep away! No photos." cried a
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        68 17 AFP WASHING lON American league Tuesday: Cleveland 3 Milwaukee 2; Toronto 5 NY 4; Baltimore 12 Detroit 9; Boston 4 Minnesota 1; Chicago 3 Texas 2; Kansas City 5 California 3; Oakland 10 Seattle 3. National: Florida 7 St Louis 5; Philadelphia 5 Atlanta 3: Pittsburgh 7 Chicago 2;
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        82 17 Reuter NEW YORK Sports Illustrated. a Time Warner publication, said its editorial stafT will produce an edition of the magazine for golf enthusiasts. The Sports Illustrated Golf Edition will appear weekly, starting with the Jan 17 issue. It will run through the Aug 29, 1994, issue. The magazine will
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        310 17 AFP Reuter SYDiNEY The rugby world's most celebrated figure. David Campese, acclaimed only this week as the International Player of the Year, was dumped to the reserve team by his Australian club Randwick here on Tuesday night. In a decision that startled the local rugby fraternity, the dazzling winger,
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        199 17 AP TOKYO Popular wrestler Takanohana will be vying to reach sumo's highest rank of yokozuna or grand champion in the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament beginning on July 4. American Akebono, or Chad Rowan from Hawaii, remains the only yokozuna. according to rankings announced on Monday by the Japan
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        311 17 AP LONDON Wimbledon Championships selected results Wednesday (\-seed) Women's singles 2nd rd: Helena Sukova (Cze x 15) b Silvia Farina (Ita) 6-4 6-2: Conchita Martinez (Spn x 6) b Judith Wiesner (Austria) 6-1 4-6 6-1: Brenda Schultz (Hoi) b Chanda Rubin (US) 4-6 6-2 6-2: Naoko Sawamatsu (Jap) b
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    • 314 17 AP LAUSANNE. Switzerland Chinese officials yesterday described the United States-led political opposition to Beijing's bid to stage the 2000 Olympics as "unacceptable" and said human rights should not be an issue in the International Olympic Committee's decision. Resolutions have been introduced in the
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    • 650 17 UPI CHICAGO Hundreds of thousands of joyous basketball fans packed the downtown Grant Park area on Tuesday morning for a rally honouring the city's sports heroes, those three-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls. Two days after becoming only the third team in the
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    • 64 17 YOU'VE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD! Windsurfing, water-skiina, snorkelling, kayak, pedalo, tennis, tpi archery, glass bottomed boat ride, kids' mini club, shopping S '*<$;& jf If (Squash, golf casino, if available at your choice of hote!]~Z-^ j^B Hurryl Only Valid for May, June July. li. jj (Deparivre: Wednesday/Saturday) fflf X
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      1120 19  -  Recent lapses of professionalism have stained Luciano Pavarotti's creditability and have led people to think he is nearing the end of an illustrious career. Hugh Canning reports Hugh Canning NYT American fans of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti may be curious to hear how he comes across in his
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    • 552 19 CHATTERBOX Reuter AP AP Reuter NYT COUNTRY music superstar Conway Twitty, who wrote that love is only make-believe, left his wives out of his will. The bulk of Twitty's estate, believed to be about US$lO million (5516.4 million), was left to his four
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    • 1287 19 TV RADIO HT W m Blood Ties. j fl| Jk^jl struggling to keep lien- VA jjjf J» /Jl tagc and self intact in the modern world. The dracs real- iSj^^^H ise they have fend off a group of Van Hclsincks when an innocent teenage member of jk I the undead
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
    • 906 20  -  A locally listed battery company plans to be ready when the electric car takes off. Joseph Rajendran finds out why it is so hopeful Joseph Rajendran IT'S THE green-con-scious driver's dream: a car with no gas emission, no noise and water pollution, no health hazards and
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    • 40 20 Reuter NEW YORK This painting. Little Green Man by Frank Kelly Freas, is one of approximately 2S paintings that will be recorded on a CD-rom to be sent to Mars in a small space station vehicle. Reuter
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    • 407 20  -  William K Stevens reports on a new way to monitor the effects of gene-altered crops William K Stevens NYT Genetically engineered crops may eventually bring about an agricultural revolution, but they continue to provoke spirited argument about their potential effects on natural ecosystems. Environmentalists fear the transgenic
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    • IN TAKES
      • 94 20 SINGAPORE These days even the screen of the computer is more user-friendly, ofTering reduced glare and protection from radiation. Now 3M Singapore has gone another step further by introducing the first computer screen to ofTer these advantages while also ensuring privacy for the user. When mounted
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      • 82 20 Reuter BORDEAUX People who drink wine in moderation suffer less heart disease than teetotallers or heavy drinkers and tend to live longer, scientists told a French conference on Tuesday. But even small amounts of alcohol can be dangerous to some and drinking imposes heavy
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      • 129 20 Reuter PARIS Blind people will now be able to touch-read the daily French newspaper Le Monde on their personal computers, Le Monde said on Tuesday. The newspaper said it began earlier this month issuing a weekly disk that produces the raised braille script on
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      • 72 20 Reuter LONDON Researchers said they had discovered a possible way to stop cancer cells from producing tumours, which could also be used to immunise the body against cancer. The technique, if found to work on humans, could be a huge breakthrough in cancer research. Detailed in the
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    • 195 20 NYT EVERY year or so, personal computers grow more powerful as manufacturers pack millions of additional transistors into each new integrated circuit. But along with power, the extra transistors generate heat that has to be cooled by stronger fans. More powerful computers, like mainframes and supercomputers,
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  • THE LAW PAGE
    • 1199 21  -  At which point does a property agent become a seller's representative? Ramesh Divyanathan cites a case which may provide the answer Ramesh Divyanathan Few properties are sold these days without real estate agents aeting as intermediaries and charging their agency fees. In most cases, a
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    • 227 21 THE ASIAN WALL STOEET JOURNAL. Limited copies are available for subscription from July Ist. To reserve your subscription, just fill in and return (via fax) this coupon below. Yes, I would like to reserve my copies of The Asian Wall Street Journal for 1 I 1 year at $390-00,1 save
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  • 489 22 EDITORIAL THE TV images three years ago when black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela emerged from behind the gates that had held him captive for so many decades left few unmoved. It was a stirring moment not only for South Africa's disenfranchised black population but
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 242 22 THE MANNER in which the Miyazawa government fell and the splintering of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which events suggest is incomplete, have exploded two assumptions about Japan. The first is that a people accustomed to long periods of prosperity do not seek a change to the
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    • 179 22 ONCE AGAIN, for the fifth time, Singapore has emerged as the top NIE in a survey by two reputable Swiss organisations. The reeord shows the sueeess of the republic's pragmatic mix of policies based on meritocracy. The competitiveness report shows that Singapore may be able to
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    • 166 22 SINCE women can build a career outside the home just like men. the problems of female politicians are not much different from those faced by their male counterparts. Besides, caring for the family cannot be viewed as purely the responsibility of the women nowadays. Erom
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    • 132 22 AS DEVELOPED and developing countries hammer out their perceptions of human rights at the World Conference on Human Rights, they should perhaps pause and consider one cardinal principle in life: that one man's meat may be another person's poison. The Asian countries can accept that the West
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    • 155 22 NOW THAT the dust has settled, it is perhaps proper for us to briefly review Indonesia's achievements in the just-concluded 17th South-east Asian (SEA) Games. After nine days of friendly, if not fiery, competition in Singapore, the region's greatest sporting extravaganza ended on Sunday night in a
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    • 177 22 JAPAN'S caretaker Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa will not go into the Tokyo Economic Summit next month looking, or feeling, like a confident statesman. In toppling his government last Eridav, the youngish Turks of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party voted to ditch the corrupt and
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  • 690 22  -  Robert Goldmann contrasts today's air of apathy with the time the Allies valiantly fought the most powerful 'ethnic cleanser 50 years ago Robert Goldmann IHT L AST WEEK. United Nations "peacekeepers" in Somalia and in Bosnia shot back. Previously, blue-hel-meted UN soldiers
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1526 23  -  All eyes in Japan are on the political star who precipitated the Liberal Democratic Party crisis. From Tokyo, S N Vasuki traces the disenchantment with the ruling party, and reports what analysts say about the prospects of the LDP and the man
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    • 1436 23  -  Neville Stack is optimistic about a settlement of the Northern Ireland issue, thanks to the plucky president of the Irish Republic Neville Stack The writer is a L K-based journalist who contributed this article to HT AFTER a quarter of a century of
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  • 409 24 Reuter WASHINGTON The economy barely crept forward in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said yesterday as it reported that orders for expensive manufactured goods dropped for a third straight month in May. In its final estimate of total goods
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  • 336 24 Reuter BOMBAY The Indian government yesterday launched an economic counter-offensive apparently designed to deflect attention from corruption claims ensnaring reformist Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao. In what seemed to be coordinated moves, the Reserve Bank of India cut the
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  • 176 24 AFP JAKARTA President Suharto yesterday called on importers to limit imports of built-up cars despite the easing of a government ban earlier this month. The official news agency Antara quoted chairman of the Indonesian National Importers Union (Ginsi) Amiruddin Saud as
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  • 489 24  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG CHINA and Britain yesterday blamed each other for the failure of the talks on Hongkong. with a senior British official suggesting that China was putting pressure on London for political concessions. The three days of
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  • 182 24 Reuter BEIJING China's Xinhua news agency, the official voice of Beijing's Communist leadership. yesterday began compiling a national stock index to help investors gauge the country's capitalist-style markets. Li Yining. a famous economist known as China's "Mr Stocks" for his early advocacy of
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  • 70 24 AFP PHNOM PENH A government soldier looking at a map of Cambodia made up of skulls of people tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge in the late *****, at this high school, which was used as a death camp. An estimated 30,000 people, mostly
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  • 277 24 Reuter BEIJING China said yesterday that it has smashed a vast fraud ring which stole more than one billion yuan (SS2BS million) from over 100.000 investors. most of whom will never get their money back. The financial debacle, revolving around a risky pyramid scheme
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  • 935 24  -  The Bottom Line KARIM RASLAN KARIM RASLAN The writer is a KL-based journalist. He contributed this article to BT MALAYSIA'S Federal Constitution has come in for an enormous amount of public scrutiny in recent months. In itself, the attention is no bad thing since
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  • 200 24 Reuter BONN Chancellor Helmut Kohl's cabinet yesterday officially named current deputyBundesbank president Hans Tietmeyer to succeed Helmut Schlesinger as president from Oct I. A government spokesman told a news conference that the cabinet had also named Bundesbank board member Johann Wilhelm Gaddum to
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    • 417 25  -  Multimodal Asia-Pacific '93 Reports by Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Scarce capital resources make it important for countries in the Asia-Pacific to cooperate in the development of the region's transport infrastructure. said Lim Boon Heng, senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry. "While it
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    • 285 25 SINGAPORE Governments in the Asia-Pacific region must recognise the enormous potential of multimodalism and play a key role in it. Karmjit Singh, chairman of the Chartered Institute of Transport Singapore, said this yesterday in his welcome address at the Multimodal AsiaPacific '93 Conference. Mr
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    • 270 25 Reuter OSLO International standards of training for seafarers and better onshore management will be on the agenda when shipowners, governments and maritime organisations discuss safety at sea in Oslo this week. The 200 delegates attending the second Safety at Sea conference will
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    • 864 25 Page Col ABC Containerize 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 •APL 5 3-5 Appenship 18 1/2 Alpha Feeders 6 1 •ANL 3 1/2 •ASCL 5 5 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 Bangladesh Shpg 9 5
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    • 376 25 Or face boycott, Asean shippers warn AFP KUALA LUMPUR Shippers in the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) yesterday demanded an end to arbitrary freight fee hikes by foreign shipping lines and threatened to boycott those who ignored their call. "We hope to avoid
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    • 525 25 Reuter SEOUL Workers at South Korea's two largest shipyards notified management of industrial action yesterday, adding to the growing list of disputes afflicting the economy. Union spokesmen at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd, part of the Hyundai Group, and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 493 26 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vestet Voy Wo Berth Arrival Departure Jurong Port s*ws 95 P05 alongside 2306/2300 Ivan Borrov 14 alongs*)e 24.06,2300 ItMpnavm 2 08/93 P01C alongside 23 06/2359 Ivory Bay 11 16 alongside 2406/2359 ToewmMamg 003 P01C alongside 2306/2300 fe*a 50 04.93 J18/19 ak*«side
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      • 1509 26 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Aci Rose 41B 25/1900 1 23/1500 23/1659 23/1900 2 23/1700 24/0659 24/0900 3 24/0700 24/1159 24/1400 4 24/1200 24/1459 24/1700 Act
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    • 11671 34 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. LI6END PN: ship calls at Penang after
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    • 3358 39 A X*-B< C ontainerline NV: Bclsin Shpg Agencics Pte Ltd (Sy Marine Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SVAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsourcc Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel tjner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Albatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg
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    • 268 39 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898. Air Express Travel Td: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144 Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: 542-3716 *****80. Ail-swift World wide Courier Tel: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines), 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. City-Link International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Cluster Link Supplies A
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    • 1474 39 Abex Express Freight Td: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actiaic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7821 Fax: *****20. Aeroliak Freight International Td: 545-803lFax: *****05 Tel:" 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Td: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Ah Express International Td: 542-7666. Fax: *****74. *****50. Air Mirkrt Express
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    • 1642 40 ALBANIA Duress: Four vessels in port of which 1 loading ferro chrome, 1 Ro/Ro discharging tractors, 1 vessel discharging flour/beans, 1 discharging general cargo. AUSTRALIA Queensland: Abbot Point: t Coal: 1 vessel loading. 1 vessel due by June 28. no delays expected. -j Dalrymple Bay: Coal: 1 vessel
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    • 1624 40 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES Simpson Spence Young AFP THERE has been a certain J amount of activity reported this K week surrounding Shell. They are said to have sold their two sistership capesize bulkers Tri- ciila/Tribulus 127,000 dwt and J built 1981 to clients of Frangos in Greece. Whilst initial
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    • 554 40 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Flight l)pc ETA T From Op Flight Type ETD T To today today KAL KE697 B747F 0150 I SEL KAL KE697 B747F 0440 I BKK SI A SQ827 B747F 1730 2 CPH/DXB SIA SQ/ B747F 0715 2 DXB/LON CLX CV794 B747F 1845 I LUX/DXB
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    • 227 40 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SNIPS Arr Dtp Name of Vessel ETA LTD Ports of Calls Port Agent Telephone No JUNE 24 24 Andaman Princess 1100 1600 Cruise to Nowhere Lines Int'l Holdings 224-2763 25 25 Coral Princess 1700 2030 Cruise to Nowhere Senjon Agencies 227-8284 25 26 Andaman Princess 1400
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    • 910 41 DRY cargo brokers reported further declines in available freight market rates although the volume of fixtures in grain, ore and coal was not unreasonable. The Baltic Freight Index (BF1) droppped six points on June 22 to 1,512 with the key US Gulf/Japan route up at U5524.68 from U5524.53
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    • 862 41 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 159 41 COURSES Title: Multi Modal Asia Pacific '93 Duration: June 23-24 Organiser Chartered Institute of Singapore Tel: For registration enquiries contact Temasek Management Services at 225-0522. Title: Import/Export and Shipping Procedures (SDF 50%) Duration: June 24 (8 evenings) Organiser: Elim Management Services Tel: For course details and application form,
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    • 1137 42  -  How does Hongkong handle so many ships with so little wharf space? Paul Woodward reports on the territory's unique approach Paul Woodward Seatrade Review AS THE aircraft makes its famous final approach to Hongkong's Kai Tak Airport, a passenger with a right-hand window seat gets a fine
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      • 605 44 Bernama DETROIT Chrysler Corp, one of the "Big Three" American motor companies, is expected to have a greater presence in South-east Asia from this September, a company spokesman said yesterday. "We were looking at Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia the three South-east Asian
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      • 368 44 Pratt Whitney hires Boeing exec to head engine division NYT NEW YORK Pratt Whitney, the builder of jet engines for military and civilian aircraft, has reached out to an airplane maker to run its large commercial engine division. Pratt, a division of United Technologies and based in Hartford, Connecticut, said
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      • 252 44 AP WASHINGTON Transportation Secretary Federico Pena said on Tuesday the Japanese are the real target of a Clinton administration "get-tough" policy that led Australia to drop threatened sanctions against Northwest Airlines. In a wide-ranging interview, Mr Pena said the negotiations with Australia over
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      • 476 44 Bloomberg Business News CANBERRA Australia's flagship carrier Qantas Airways has complained to the federal government that it could be locked out of China if a decision is made to revoke its official designation on the route. Australia Air International, a new Sydney-based
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      • 447 44 CHICAGO United Airlines, which has seen a sharp drop in the Japanese leisure market, does not expect an upturn in traffic on its key routes out of Tokyo until the end of 1993. In an interview with Commercial Aviation News, James Goodwin, United's
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        • 79 44 Oana-Yonhap SEOUL Two foreign-flag vessels chartered by a South Korean shipping company have started carrying cargo between South and North Korea amid expectations for resumed inter-Korean economic cooperation following Pyongyang's decision to remain in the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Samsun Shipping Corp operates
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        • 40 44 Reuter ASTRONAUTS (from left) Brian DufTy, Peter Nancy, Jane Sherlock, Commander Ronald Grabe (with microphone), Jenice Voss and David Lov on board space shuttle Endeavour speaking with President Bill Clinton on Tuesdav. Reuter
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        • 102 44 Reuter BANGKOK Iran is negotiating with the Thai government and exporters for its ships originally destined to carry Thai rice to switch to sugar. Five Iranian freighters, with a combined cargo capacity of about 102,500 tonnes, are calling at the Si Chang
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        • 75 44 AFP TOKYO Mitsubishi Motors built its millionth Pajero jeep in May, 11 years and one month after the launch of the four-wheel drive, the Japanese carmaker said on Tuesday. The Pajero, which is known as the Montero in certain countries and which was redesigned in
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      • 1652 44 City Fl*t ETA F*M ETB CN, FHM cn M nD Qf 81 1940 QF82 2055 MI895 2300 SQ228 2120 ■•■w-wn VN743 1045 VN742 1145 DMMmi SQ319 KL837 GA975 0715 1445 1455 KL838 SQ324 2310 2345 CX717 GA951 CI665 1235 1345 1420 CX710 SQ860 SQ862 0840 0915
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      • 305 44 AP NEW DELHI, India In most cities plagued by poor public transportation, people would welcome an additional 3,000 buses. Not in New Delhi. "Red devils" and "speed monsters" are some of the curses aimed at the Red Line buses, which have been blamed for
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    • 119 25 the FAMOUS sim/ptmk I— 224 1833 For more information please refer to Pg. 13 MARITIME m CHALLENGES^] 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
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