The Business Times, 16 August 1993

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  • 13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Monday August 16 1993 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 62 1 AP DUESSELDORF, Germany An Egyptian claiming to have a bomb hijacked a Dutch jetliner yesterday and forced it to land in Germany. Police said he was demanding freedom for the sheik jailed in the World Trade Centre bombing. The hijacker also demanded to be flown to
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    • 75 1 Reuter CAIRO A military court charged 53 Muslim militants yesterday, including three from the army, with plotting to overthrow the government in the first such case against army personnel since the murder of president Anwar Sadat. Waving the Koran from behind an iron cage
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    107 1 Stock market indices Friday Week change STII 1.917 87 +46.62 KLSE Composite .....771,91 -6.75 Nikkei 20.745.17 +387.23 Hang Seng 7,392.25 -4.52 SET Index 959.86 +1.02 Jakarta Composite ...379.94 +17.33 CLSA China B 905 5 +78.4 AustAUOrd 1,855.9 +13.7 FTSE 100 3.010.1 +40 3 Dow Jones 3,569.65 +9.22 Exchange
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  • 665 1  - Special Telecom shares at 45pc discount over 6 years National Day Rally By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday that the Government will give a generous 45 per cent discount on Singapore Telecom shares for CPF members who are Singapore citizens when the company proceeds with
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  • 139 1 Highlights of Mr Goh's Rally speech Major Challenges: 1. Stronger competition for jobs and investments How to continue wooing investments and creating jobs 2. Relocation of companies and transformation of the Singapore economy How to re-train older workers and re-employ those made jobless 3. Income
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  • 148 1 SINGAPORE Presidential candidate Ong Teng Cheong said he intends to fund his own campaign, which will be a low-key one with no rallies. Mr Ong will probably only have two television broadcasts just like the other declared candidate, banker Chua Kim Yeow, the Singapore
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  • 507 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Overseas Union Bank, the last of the Big Four banks to release its interim results, has surpassed analysts' forecasts with an outstanding 43.8 per cent jump in 1993 interim earnings to 566 million from $45.8 million
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  • 626 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE The government will give education bursaries and annual housing grants to Singapore's poorest families to help them break out of the poverty trap. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said last night. To encourage poor
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  • 299 1 Reuter BEUING The Bank of China will issue its first Hongkong dollars next May, one of its vice-chairmen was quoted as saying yesterday. Initial volume was expected to be in the region of HKS3 billion (***** million) to HKS6 billion, Huang
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    • 194 1 a nB ECOPOWER TO4NS EUROK4RS Tel: 251 6888 CONTENTS Item Ciipwdii S pore New 2 Spore-Msa _9.10 Regional News .._.3.4,5 Financial 11 World News 7J Features Markets Bud HV 000/KLSf. SES .15.16 Enterprise 20.21 Mkt Reviews M Sports 17 Share Wo 13 TV/lifestyle 19 Currencies 11 Regional Focus .6 S*ne«
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    • 9 1 Business IT: Pg i-iv IT industry comes out tops
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    • 9 1 Hock Lock Siew: pg 9 Sapura Telecom's shrewd move
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  • NATIONAL DAY RALLY
    • BRIEFS
      • 98 2 OVER the last five years, Singapore took in an average of 7,000 new citizens each year, or about 15 per cent of the number of babies born. In turn, about 2,800 citizens migrated each year over the period. The net gain is 4,200 citizens
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      • 115 2 HAWKER and market stallholders will soon be able to own their business premises. The prime minister said he has asked the Ministry of Environment to work out a scheme to sell hawker and market stalls, at a discount, to stallholders. The programme will be
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      • 84 2 THE International Procurement Operations (IPOs) of multinational corporations are buying more from neighbouring countries. Last year, IPOs in Singapore spent $3.1 billion on electronic parts and components, down 5 per cent from 1991. But the amount bought from Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines rose
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      • 80 2 GOH CHOK TONG will be visiting India later this year and Vietnam early next year. In the vein of the China visits this year, he hopes to "spark off a mild India fever", he said, by bringing some businessmen with him to explore opportunities
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      • 86 2 US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton is expected to let the Vietnam trade and investment embargo lapse when it expires in November, said Mr Goh Chok Tong. "Once this happens, American corporations will rush into Vietnam for a piece of the action." The US has already
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      • 97 2  -  Reports by Anna Teo,Chuang Peck Ming SOME 400 Singaporeans are eligible to stand for election as president, according to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's estimate. Counting ministers, permanent secretaries, judges and others, there are about 60 possibilities in the public sector, he said. Taking the
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    • 652 2 Singapore's competitive edge is its special social bond, says PM Goh TO STAY on top of the growing competition for jobs and investments, Singapore must keep strengthening its social cohesion, the "something special" it has over other countries, said Prime Minister Goh Chok
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    • 519 2 Singapore's biggest challenge 'We must maintain Singapore's success beyond the founding generation and do even better than the founders did. Then 21st Century Singapore can be even better than 20th Century Singapore. This is our biggest challenge today. I am sure that we will succeed. I can feel it
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    • 949 2 Singapore's First Bilingual Investment Conference in Shanghai "1 |1 T1 i C «1 m m I Please complete and return with payment to Khaw And Sons I Survive the squeeze Profit from the austerity. Yes, please register the following delegated) for Shanghai September 21 22 Shanghai Hilton Conf r c
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  • THE REGION
    • 488 3  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR GROUPS aligned to Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba moved into the offensive over the weekend, staging one of the largest political rallies this year to campaign for his re-election as deputy president of the
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    • 482 3  -  Thailand's hotel disaster From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK THAILAND'S Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai has declared his government will deal firmly with those who flouted building regulations as the death toll from the collapse of the Royal Hotel Plaza mounted to more than
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    • 359 3 AFP, Reuter JAKARTA An Indonesian minister has allayed fears of capital flights to China, saying he was confident the money would return to the country. "That capital will return again, in line with the current trend in business development." the Ja*a
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    • 420 4 AFP, NYT BEIJING China's ailing state-run companies cut payrolls by 762,000 in the first six months of the year, contributing to a drop of 1.13 million people in urban employment, a weekly business journal said yesterday. The number of workers
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    • 348 4 AFP, Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's governing Kuomintang (KMT) opens its 14th Congress here today with a new generation of leaders set to take over just after the defection of several key members of the long-ruling party. Yesterday, President Lee Teng-hui delivered a plea
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    • 310 4 AFP HONGKONG Han Dongfang, a key leader of the 1989 democracy protests in Beijing, entered Hongkong yesterday after Chinese police refused to let him return home to Beijing after lung surgery in the US. Mr Han, 29, spent Saturday night at the
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 53 4 AFP HANOI Nine US congressmen left Vietnam yesterday after their delegation chief backed efforts to normalise ties between the two countries, the Vietnamese News Agency (VNA) said yesterday. Representative Sam Gibbons "expressed his support to bilateral efforts for early normalisation of the two countries' relations'*, the
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      • 71 4 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's trade surplus in May quadrupled to M 5455.2 million (*****.8 million) from M$ll3.S million in April, the Statistics Department said yesterday. The May surplus, with exports amounting to M 59.96 billion and imports M 59.51 billion, was the 13th consecutive monthly surplus.
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      • 57 4 Reuter A South African giraffe peering from its cape at a mobile crane before being transported yesterday from a private Hongkong zoo to the Shenzhen zoo in China. A pair of giraffes and other animals were moved from the colony's oldest zoo after it closed down
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      • 77 4 AP BEIJING A strong earthquake shook a remote region of south-west China's Yunnan province late last Saturday, but an initial report from the official Xinhua News Agency made no mention of casualties. The quake, which registered 5.6 on the Richter scale, hit Yao'an county at
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      • 85 4 Bernama RAUB, Pahang The Malaysian cabinet is expected to make a decision on the fate of the Johor Military Force (JMF) at its meeting this week, Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak said last Saturday. He said the ministry would table a paper on
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    • 504 5 AFP SYDNEY This week's Australian budget should stimulate growth in the economy by 0.5 per cent, Treasurer John Dawkins said in a television interview yesterday. Mr Dawkins repeated Prime Minister Paul Keating's assurance that middle-income wage earners would benefit from
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    • 152 5 AFP TOKYO Japan's International Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshi Kumagai said he wants a new economic programme to boost domestic demand and cut the nation's current account and trade surpluses. Asked about the possibility of the government establishing any specific programme, Mr Kumagai said
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    • 487 5 AFP NEW DELHI India's exports have surged dramatically in a sign that industry is looking increasingly outward as it emerges from a domestic recession, taking advantage of a weaker and free-floating rupee. Trade data for April-June, the first quarter of the fiscal
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    • 366 5 AFP TOKYO Japan's most influential business organisation plans to discontinue political donations to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has lost its 38-year grip on power. The Federation of Economic Organisations (Keidanren) has reportedly provided some 13 billion yen (Ss2o4 million)
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 1072 6  -  The Japanese economy From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO JAPANESE Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's new Cabinet line-up and the emphasis on continuity in economic policies appear to have reassured Tokyo stock market investors. The Nikkei-225 Stock Average rose by around 2.5 per cent
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    • 588 6 TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-737 0043 FAX:734 3698 *1 "ft njU TAT LEE BANK LIMITED (Incorporated in tw flapubic of Singapore) To: All Shareholders The Board of Directors wishes to announce Iht following:THE BANK THEftWOUP 1993 1992 1993 1992 SSTOOs SS'OOOs SJ'OOOs Ss'ooos 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30TH
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    • 271 6 In The Matter Of The Companies Act. Cap. 50 And Wong Kam Engineering (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act. Cap 50 that the Final General Meeting of the Members of the abovenamed Company will be held at 336 Smith Street.
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  • THE WORLD
    • 565 7 AFP. Reuter OTTAWA Doubts about Canadian enthusiasm in the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafla) surfaced on Saturday, just one day after Canadian, Mexican and United States negotiators finalised two side deals covering environmental and labour laws. Although Canada
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    • 391 7 Knight-Ridder LONDON The UK government is likely to show its smallest monthly public sector deficit since last October when it reports its public sector finances for July, according to a survey of UK economists. A Knight-Ridder survey of 21 economist teams
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    • 407 7 NYT, AFP JERUSALEM Israeli officials said that the United States is opposed to an Israeli plan to invest in North Korea as a way of preventing the North Koreans from supplying upgraded long-range missiles to Iran. "The American position
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 115 8 AP VAIL, Colorado US President Bill Clinton began a multi-state vacation with a bipartisan golf match, expressing hopes that his administration can avoid the political polarisation with Republicans that marked the first months of his presidency. Mr Clinton and golf pro Jack Nicklaus teamed up on
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      • 80 8 Reuter FRANKFURT The president of the Federal Labour Office, Bernard Jagoda, said the labour markets in west and east Germany would develop differently in the coming year. In an interview with the Berliner Kurier am Sonntag released yesterday, Mr Jagoda said east German unemployment would average
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      • 43 8 Reuter BELET HUEN, Somalia Private first class Hubert Birkel from the Bavarian town of Koesslarn being taught some local words by Somali children over the weekend. Birkel is one of the 1,700 German troops deployed in the town. Reuter
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      • 97 8 Reuter ASUNCION Paraguay's new president wants to sell off five of the country's 10 state-owned companies in the first phase of a move towards free-market economics. Juan Carlos Wasmosy, who took office yesterday, said he plans to put on the block under a 1992 privatisations law the
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    • 447 8 Reuter, Bernama LONDON The United Nations is wasting around US$4OO million. (SS64O million) a year through mismanagement and corruption and has suppressed a damning report detailing the extent of the financial abuse, a British newspaper said yesterday. The Sunday Times report, coinciding with
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    • 230 8 Rise in Kuwaiti oil exports boosts Arab nations 9 GDP by 4pc: Oapec AFP, Reuter ABU DHABI Rehabilitation. of Kuwait's oil industry boosted the gross domestic product of key Arab oil producers by more than 4 per cent last year, according to the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (Oapec).
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    • 202 8 Reuter FRANKFURT German Finance Minister Theo Waigel said the date for the introduction of currency union in Europe was less important than holding firm to the convergence criteria. "Everyone must qualify for the currency union, we and others too," he said in
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    • 257 8 Reuter PARIS France's Constitutional Council on Saturday rejected key provisions of a controversial law to curb immigration and told the conservative government to rewrite them. The council, which checks that laws conform to the constitution, censured eight of 52 articles, saying they deprived foreigners
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    • 234 8 FT MADRID Spain's minority socialist government last Friday stepped back from a potentially bruising battle with trade unions by withdrawing proposals for a total wage freeze next year. The retreat came less than a month after the idea was first launched and reflects
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    • 524 8 S OVERSEAS UNION BANK LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT The Board of Directors of Overseas Union Bank Limited wishes to announce: 1 UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 JUNE 1993 The Bank The Group Six months ended Six months ended 30-6-93 30-6-92 30-6-93 30-6-92 ss'ooo
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    • 499 8 OVERSEAS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT The Board of Directors of Overseas Union Trust Limited is pleased to announce: UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 JUNE 1993 Six Month* Six Month* Increase/ to 30-6*93 to 30-6-92 (Decrease) srooo ss'ooo Total Operating Revenue 16,241 16,496 (1.6)
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 450 9  -  Subsidiaries Tat Lee Finance, Pan Malayan Holdings also did well By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Tat Lee Bank and its listed subsidiaries, Tat Lee Finance and Pan Malayan Holdings, yesterday reported a strong improvement in profits which reflected the boom in the financial
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    • 442 9 SINGAPORE Local computer group Aztech Systems has restructured itself for a Nasdaq listing. The listing, initially expected to take place next month, has been pushed back by at least three months. The company is believed to have delayed the listing to
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    • 289 9 SINGAPORE Overseas Union Enterprise, the listed hotel and property subsidiary of Overseas Union Bank, released lacklustre interim results over the weekend. Group net earnings for the first six months declined 4.5 per cent to SI 1.83 million compared to the same
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    • 276 9 SINGAPORE Overseas Union Trust, the listed subsidiary of Overseas Union Bank, has announced a marginal rise of 2.9 per cent in earnings to $3.49 million in the six months ended June 30. OUT said it incurred larger expenses in the period under review,
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    • 617 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By William Chia SINGAPORE Investors might be wondering why Sapura Telecommunications Bhd (Sapura Telecom) is paying so much attention to its payphone operations when the company's growth in the past few years has come mainly from its cable
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    • 338 9  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Singapore MRT Ltd. the operator of the Mass Rapid Transit system, is planning appropriate strategies to prepare for a public listing. Going by its record pre-tax profit of $120.6 million last year, SMRT will rank among the
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    • 236 9 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Project Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan Bhd (PLUS), indirectly controlled by Renong Bhd, has raised Ms3.l billion (551.95 billion), including Ms2.l billion in commercial loans, to meet cost overruns on a huge highway project. The Malaysian firm also raised Msl billion
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    • Article, Illustration
      313 9 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Aug 13 Last SCMC IMcx Slock ulc "S (actor i ■overs Avimo 1 860 0020 1.37 1.88 C4C 7.350 -0 050 5.42 -4 69 Ccrebos 6.150 4.54 FAN 14 400 0 300 10.62 28.17 GF Asia 3 100 0.020 2.29 1.88
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    • COMPANIES
      • 461 10 FT LONDON Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch food and consumer products group, lived up to its reputation for dependability yesterday with a 7 per cent rise in pre-tax profits for the second quarter to endJune. The rise was the same as that in
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      • 167 10 Bloomberg Business News HAMBURG German automaker Volkswagen AG is considering dismissing its controversial cost-cutter Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua, contrary to statements by the company, the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel reports. "Secretly, (supervisory board chairman Klaus) Liesen is already thinking about replacing
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      • 38 10 Reuter SHANGHAI, China The Shanghai Securities Exchange roared to life on Friday after months in the doldrums. Traders were swamped with a record turnover amid renewed interest from foreign investors. Renter
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      • 184 10 AP BEIJING China's commercial launch company and the Hughes Space and Communications Co ended a sevenmonth investigation without discovering why a Hughes satellite exploded upon launch in China, the Chinese side said on Saturday. The telecommunications satellite, made by the US-based Hughes, was owned
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      • 200 10 AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand millionaire Robert Jones says he intends suing his former company after a court ruling on Friday upheld charges that he failed to inform the stock exchange of a drop in his own shareholding The High Court
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 68 10 SINGAPORE Keppel Corporation will be delisted from the London Stock Exchange from Sep 1. Keppel said the decision was taken because since its listing on London Stock Exchange, almost all transactions by shareholders in the UK had been carried out through the Stock Exchange
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        • 84 10 SINGAPORE The Stock Exchange of Singapore has given in-principle approval to United Engineers Ltd for the listing and quotation of Si3o million worth of bonds due 1998 at a fixed interest rate of 3 per cent. The bonds come with 77.1 million warrants
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        • 67 10 SINGAPORE The listing and quotation of Parkway Holdings' proposed $50 million 4 per cent unsecured bonds maturing in 1998 and US$4O million (Ss64 million) unsecured floating rate notes due 1998 have been given in-principle approval by the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The issue is subject to
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        • 79 10 Reuter HONGKONG Shenzhen Gintian Industry Co Ltd said its pre-tax profit for the first half-year was 68.5 million yuan, up 15.5 per cent on the same period last year. Total revenue was up 29.6 per cent to 375.4 million yuan (Sslo4 million) and pre-tax earnings
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        • 80 10 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's Halla Group has reached agreement to set up a joint venture with the Hanoi government to build power plants in Vietnam, a spokesman said. Under the agreement signed in Ho Chi Minh City last Friday. Halla will soon send its
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      • 246 10 Bernama-Kyodo JAKARTA Two consortiums, one controlled by a son of Indonesian President Suharto and the other by tycoon Liem Sioe Liong, are competing to manage the satellite communication system service for the oil industry in Indonesia, a newspaper reported
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      • 321 10 Bloomberg Hong Kong Directors of Hong Kong department store group Sincere Co have decided to repay a controversial HK566.7 million (5513.8 million) bonus back to the company. The bonus was granted to the directors, who are members of the
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      • 158 10 AFP HANOI Danish brewer Carlsberg has launched a brewery in Hanoi following a US$l4.5 million (Ss23 million) joint-venture project with local producer Viet Ha, press reports said on Friday. The "South-East Asia" brewery, the result of extensive modernisation of a former Viet
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      • 434 10 ■aapn' prim Aug 14 A 16 IwnMfM StagtpOTV Unit Trust Income Band Policy J.45 3.57 The Commerce 1.42 1 49 The Savinp Fund IJI 131 PraUnk Mfd Fund 1.19 1-25 S pore Prof Fund 0.61 0.64 MiM mS P<*e Sec Fund 0.93 0.98*d WIA*W«»P«ra S pore Iavcii Fund I.M 1.13
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 494 11 Reuter LONDON Gold's bull run is over for now, leaving analysts questioning when they will see the return of the Far East demand that gave the rally initial impetus. "We might be a few months away from finding that equilibrium
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      • 351 11 NYT NEW YORK Lawyers for Prudential Securities told a federal judge on Friday that the brokerage concern is close to settling a class-action suit by investors in a limited partnership put together in the 1980s. Executives and lawyers involved in
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      • 346 11 Reuter LONDON Half-year results this week from leading UK insurance brokers Willis Corroon Group pic and Sedgwick Group pic will show little progress in difficult market conditions, analysts said. Sedgwick's six month figures tomorrow are expected to show pre-tax profits of £48.7
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      • 301 11 Bloomberg Business News NEW ORLEANS In the shrinking world of independent energy producers, the survivors are those that can cheaply replace oil and natural gas reserves, either by drill bit or bank account. No company has shown this to
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      • 177 11 THE market shifted its attention towards the yen and related crosses as the EMS crisis fell into the backdrop. Huge purchases of yen ensured that new all-time lows were created in US$/yen almost daily. Over in the regional markets, trading was on a quieter
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 747 12  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By James Foo. THE dollar-mark started the week sliding to 1.6920 marks on unconfirmed rumours that European central banks were buying marks to pay for the intervention money spent by the Bundesbank during the EMS turmoil. By mid-week, the dollar-mark surged higher
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      • 739 12 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Commodities markets last week saw continued deterioration of prices of precious metals, affected by sales byEuropean central bank's and by slow buying on the part of Asian jewellers. Gold fell as low as USS37O
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    • 1532 12 Rubber Aug 13 HAS Commo dlty Exchange (fat ■rot dm ling as at 1pm) MS (physkar prion*) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) m m a n •■yors Close Volume Open As at iz iooi i O ccntvfcg; Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest RSS 2 Sep 93 130.00
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    • 4583 13 CORPORATE RESULTS Nd tan EPS Da* TV LY TY LY £«■»•■> MM (S«) ($a) (cts) (els) Acma Jun 16 F 14.268 10.647 23.1 17.3 Ale* Hldgs Jun 25 P 1.479 1.050 7.39 5.25 Amcol Jun 10 F 16 038 37.607 6.1 14.2 AMDB* Aug 5 P
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    • 751 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
      • 744 14 FT New York WAITING for the taxman to burst the bubble the day after US Congress approved President Bill Clinton's budget and its hefty tax increases for the rich, a big US mutual fund group placed full-page advertisements in newspapers
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      • 269 14 AFP Tokyo SHARE PRICES ended higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week, reflecting hopes that the new Japanese government would jump start the ailing economy, dealers said. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues, a 22.2 point loser the previous week, gained
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      • 485 14 AFP London HOPES of further interest rate cuts saw the Footsie Index of 100 leading shares soar through the psychologically important 3,000 barrier last week, surprising some analysts. Many had not expected the London stock market to reach such heights until
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      • 180 14 AFP Hongkong HONGKONG stocks rose slightly in lacklustre trading during the week, with the Hang Seng Index gaining a negligible 4.52 points to close at 7,396.77 on Friday. Average daily turnover stood at HK55.435 billion (SS 1.12 billion), against the previous HK54.789 billion. The
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 114 14 Fickle bullion levels trimmed accrued daily gains at the end of the week but the Australian bourse still ended the five-day session higher here Friday. The main market indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, set another post-1987 crash high of 1,876.4 during Thursday, before falling back on gold-induced selling on
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        • 59 14 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) edged up 1.45 points on Friday to finish the week at 964.62 points, 5.78 points (0.6 per cent) up on the previous week's close. The average daily volume of shares traded in the holiday-shortened, four-day week was 164.2 million shares, up sharply on
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        • 121 14 Optimism in the wake of a series of conditions favourable to the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) buoyed most share prices and pushed the index to a new record high this year, analysts said on Saturday. Continuing the bullish mood of the previous weeks, the market index gained more than
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        • 122 14 MANILA The Philippine stock market rebounded last week due to a strong performance by blue chips and surprise trading in the oil sector, bourse analysts said here Saturday. The Manila Stock Exchange composite price index rose to 1,759.65 points Friday, up 15.6 points or 0.1 per cent from the
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        • 91 14 Share prices on the Taiwan stock exchange continued its upward trend last week, mainly spurred by commercial banks cutting interest rates. Extending a 0.8-per cent advance the previous week, the 339-issue Weighted Price Index piled up another 96.19 points or 2.4 per cent to finish at 4,122.12 points on
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        • 74 14 Share prices on South Korea's stock market, already in the doldrums, took a nose-dive, shedding 7 per cent in value following a presidential decree late Thursday banning the use of aliases in financial transactions. In the last two days of the week, the Composite Price Index dropped 59.27 points
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        • 56 14 Share prices posted moderate gains on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), India's largest bourse, on interest from speculative buyers and institutional investors. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index gained 140.30 points during the week to close at 2,522.48 points on Friday. The 100-share National Index added 51.97 points to finish
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        • 868 14 -0.56 What started out as a promising week for stocks ended undramatically on the 11th anniversary of the start of the Great Wall Street Bull Market. Trading faded on Friday, leaving market barometers only slightly higher, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.56 point for the day,
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        • 297 14 +5.7 Stocks closed slightly higher on Friday after a day of sluggish trading expected to continue into this week, dealers said. The TSE 300 Composite Index ended Friday up 5.7 points at 4,014.62 on volume of 47.40 million shares valued at CSSI3 million. Declining issues led advances 348 to
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        • 2215 14 London Avg 13 PMc* inoustruMS V A Corp Adr 29 820 I 480 Abtwv National 405 -4 Allied Lyons 594 -J Amec ICO -I 4/8 Asda Group 41 2/8 2/8 BAT Ind 465 f 7 BKC 413 -IT BOC (.roup *34 -7 BOC Group 434 -7 BR Petroleum J05 4/*
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    • 2576 15 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume Idris Hvd 50c 15 489 000 Promet 11.490.000 FACB 50c 10.929.000 Pub Bk Foreign 8 976 000 Kjmunting 50c 7.184.000 Kenong Bhd 50c 6.455.000 A ma) Sled 50c 5.910.000 Mult i-Purpose 5 091 000 Pcgi Msia 5.018.000 Sime Darby
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5601 15 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur share market took a breather last week after surging to new highs previously. Selected second liners moved on speculative play while several blue chips buckled under selling pressure. Institutional players apparently decided to lie low. especially on Thursday
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 7982 16  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE The Singapore market greeted the better-than-expected second quarter GDP figures and bank results with a bang last week, driving the Straits Times Industrials Index to a record close of 1,917.87. Surprised by the 10.1 per cent GDP
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  • SPORTS
    • 929 17 75th PGA Championship Golf AP Reuter TOLEDO, Ohio The sweetest victory Greg Norman could imagine is in his grasp going into the final round at Inverness, the scene of one of his most heartbreaking losses. His 67 on Saturday gave him a one-stroke
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    • 379 17 4th World Athletics Championship Reuter STUTTGART American champion Andre Cason struck a major psychological blow in the men's 100 m semifinals, running the fastest time of the year and beating defending champion Carl Lewis as well. Cason led out of the blocks and
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        27 17 Reuter STUTTGART, Germany World championships results Sunday Women's marathon: 1 Junko Asari (Jpn) 2hr 30:03 2 Manucla Machado (Por) 2:30:54 3 Tomoe Abe (Jpn) 2:31:01. Reuter
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        68 17 AFP WASHINGTON American league Saturday: Toronto 5 Boston 2; NY 4 Baltimore 2; Minnesota 5 Oakland I (in 12): Chicago 4 Kansas I: Cleveland 8 Texas 5; Detroit 5 Milwaukee 1: Seattle 7 California 2. National: Chicago 3 SF 2: NY 9 Philadelphia 5; Florida 8 Pittsburgh 3; Atlanta
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        71 17 AFP VIENNA Austrian Open leading final scores Sunday (Briton, unless stated): 274 Ronan RafTerty 65 69 72 68. Anders Sorensen (Den) 70 67 68 69. RafTerty won play-off at first extra hole. 275 Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe) 70 67 70 68 276 Sven Struver (Ger) 72 63 72 69. Jamie
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        83 17 AFP BUDAPEST Jinxed Alain Prost made the worst of starts to the Hungarian Grand Prix here yesterday to present rookie teammate Damon Hill his first big-race triumph. But Prost's day was saved when big rival Ayrton Senna was forced out of the race by mechanical failure, virtually ending his
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        78 17 AP BRISBANE Australia have retained an unchanged team for next Saturday's third and deciding test against South Africa in Sydney. The selectors yesterday named the same 15 who beat the Springboks 28-20 at Ballymore on Saturday. Three injured players will have to undergo prematch fitness tests. Ranker Hie Tabua.
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        36 17 AFP SYDNEY World Cap qualifier Australia 2 Canada 1 (3-3 on agg. after extra time). Australia won 4-1 on penalties and meet the run-ner-up in South American Group A (Argentina. Colombia. Paraguay and Peru). AFP
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        58 17 AFP Reuter LOS ANGELES U*****,000 women's tournament semi-finals: Martina Naviatilova (US) b Gabriela Sabatini (Arg) 6-1 6-1: Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spn) b Lori McNeil (US) 7-5 6-1. AFP MASON, Ohio US$l.65 million ATP Championships semi-finals Saturday: Michael Chang (US) b Andre Agassi (US) 7-5 l-o 7-5; Stefan Edberg (Swe)
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  • THE ARTS
    • 1016 19  -  Family squabbles among the heirs of Richard Wagner are beginning to resemble extended episodes of Dallas, reports John Rockwell John Rockwell NYT IN dead earnest, the participants compare it to the House of Atreus or, closer to home, Wotan and his extended family of Germanic gods.
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    • 598 19  -  Liege is trying to lure visitors with a warts-and-all exhibition on the writer. Sue Fleming reports Sue Pleming Reuter FOR MILLIONS of crime fiction readers throughout the world, Inspector Jules Maigret typifies the gritty realism of a Paris policeman's life. But the dour detective's creator
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    • 1319 19 TV RADIO 1 Private Reconciliation, 10.30pm, sbc 12 Set in the Korean War, this ~J|p a tale of friendship between a South Korean soldier and his Pyii' 3 counterpart from the North. j Kim Hong Jong directs this j£^ml f Wk[) 1982 production. ffi flß c J Wmkh^.J Rocky Maantaia
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 931 20  -  SINGAPORE'S IEMiEREBBMEMBfiI Joseph Rajendran reports on the tie-up between the local firm and the largest ladies' footwear designer in Japan Joseph Rajendran WITH the gove r n m en t urging firms to go into the region, shoemaker Ossia has put its
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    • 905 21  -  Michael S Malone looks at an unconventional job for top US executives Michael S Malone NYT ALITTLE-trod career path bred in the technology industry over the last 10 years may yet offer opportunities for the most independent-minded of America's unemployed managers: joining the
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    • 589 21 BBDO Worldwide has announced the appointment of David Sia as chairman and chief executive officer of BBDO Asia/Pacific. Mr Sia will be replacing Arthur Sturgess. In his new capacity, Mr Sia will be heading a network of agencies in 11 countries throughout Asia. Mr Sia is a veteran
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  • 447 22 Reuter TOKYO Japan's new Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, in a ceremony marking his nation's wartime defeat in 1945, yesterday became the first premier of his country to express sympathy to victims of Japanese militarism. "1 would like to take this opportunity to express
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  • 383 22 Reuter NEW YORK The first major trial growing out of the BCCI scandal ended in an embarrassing defeat for prosecutors last Saturday when a New York jury acquitted Washington lawyer Robert Altman of all charges. The jury's forewoman wept as she
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  • 456 22  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON MARKET sources said that George Soros* US$3O billion (5548.2 billion) Quantum Fund recently sold the gold which it bought earlier in the year. Huge amounts of gold have been sold on Comex, the New York
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  • 227 22 SINGAPORE Newly-pri-vatised Myanmar Airways International (MAI) made its maiden flight to Changi airport yesterday, barely six months after a Singapore-led consortium signed a joint-venture with the Myanmar Transport Ministry. The consortium. Highsonics Enterprise Pte Ltd, led by Mr F F Wong, the airline's
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  • 775 22  -  The Bottom Line HARISH MEHTA HARISH MEHTA The writer is a BT correspondent specialising in Indochinese affairs A REGIONAL firm headquartered in Singapore recently printed calendars with a cartoon of Lenin's statue being torn down somewhere in East Europe. Hundreds of the calendars
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  • 148 22 AFP NEW DELHI India's state-run television, battling an "invasion from the skies" by foreign networks, launched five new channels yesterday to lure back entertainment-hungry viewers. Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao declared the channels open on Independence Day, crediting the broadcasting milestone to Indian
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  • Business IT
    • 837 23  -  Singapore's IT industry was outstanding in the second quarter, and many expect the last two quarters to be equally strong, writes Bernard Chew Bernard Chew THE Information Technology industry performed outstandingly as the Singapore economy powered to 10.1 per cent growth in the second quarter
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    • 349 23 Motorola is said to have bought the rights to Microsoft's new software. NYT Motorola inc has reportedly bought the rights to use Microsoft Corp's new operating system software, Windows NT, with Motorola's PowerPC line of microprocessors. The PowerPC chip, developed jointly by Motorola, International
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    • 840 23  -  A custom program helps brokerage firms track marine fuel markets, and saves shipowners money. David Welcher reports David Welcher The writer heads Computing Dynamics (US). a Brooklyn-based management consulting and software development firm, and also writes on IT issues IN A SCENE familiar to any car driver,
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    • 369 23 A Singapore research firm predicts that hard disks with less than 200 MB capacity will be obsolete by the third quarter of this year PRODUCTION of hard disk drives with storage capacities below 200 million characters, or megabytes (MB), is likely to
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    • 541 24  -  The battle for portables hots up as Big Blue unveils a clutch of new products. Joseph Rajendran reports Joseph Rajendran IBM is coming back with a vengeance into the market for mobile computers and it plans to take on giants like Toshiba, Apple and
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    • 792 24  -  Claire Leow finds out how chip-making giant Texas Instruments is gearing itself to take on the competition Claire Leow TEXAS Instruments, once a world leader in semiconductors in the 1980s, has been re-engineering itself to meet the challenges of the *****. Its pole position
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 60 24 SINGAPORE UK-based Kacal Electronics has appointed Telecom Equipment as its distributor in Singapore. Telecom Equipment will market a range of modems, multiplexers and network management systems in the Republic. Telecom Equipment's network staff will provide technical consultation, as well as identify customer needs. They will also
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      • 73 24 SINGAPORE Canon Marketing Services has introduced an ink-jet printer called the BJ 230. It handles A3-sized paper and is claimed to be quieter than its competitors. The noise level is about 42 decibels, and 40 decibels at super high-quality mode. It prints 248 characters per second
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      • 66 24 SINGAPORE US-based Telematics International has appointed Datacraft Asia as its data communications systems integrator in the region. Datacraft has already been a regional distributor of Telematics' switching solution for the past seven years and the two firms have cooperated on local projects in the past.
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      • 46 24 SINGAPORE J D Edwards Company, a firm specialising in software for mid-range computers, has appointed Ayala Systems Technology Inc as its distributor for the Philippine market. Both parties aim to sell solutions that will meet the enterprise-wide needs of Philippine companies.
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      • 67 24 SINGAPORE The IBM PC Co has launched a family of monitors for major PC platforms. The first four models of the family are immediately available in the US. They are 14 and 15inch monitors that are available in standard (14V and 15V) and
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      • 81 24  -  Compiled by Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Seiko Epson has developed its first credit-card sized product called the Cardio 386 which delivers the functionality of a IBM PC. It is designed to be used by system manufacturers who can incorporate the card into their end-products. Because of the Cardio's
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    • It's happenin'
      • 76 24 SINGAPORE Computer buffs and users will be pleased to know that another computer show will be held this week. Comex *93, organised by ITP Services, will take place at Hall 3 of the World Trade Centre from Aug 19 to 22. Besides the usual discounts
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      • 89 24 Business IT transformation seminar SINGAPORE Digital Equipment Singapore is organising a seminar entitled "The Era of Business IT Transformation" at Ballroom 2 of Sheraton Towers on Aug 20 from 9am to 12 noon. The seminar will focus on computer downsizing, its effect on business and how core business functions can
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      • 56 24 SINGAPORE Singapore Computer Systems invites users of their Powerbuilder network application development tools to a conference featuring Powersoft Corp chairman and CEO Mitchell Kertzman and vice-president Paul MacKay on Aug 25 at 3pm at SCS' Chai Chee Industrial Park office. Those interested can contact Agnes Chen on
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      • 73 24 SINGAPORE Unisys Singapore will be hosting an open systems seminar on how organisations can move smoothly from centralised mainframe computers to systems based on networked PCs. Intel, which makes the industry standard xB6 computer chips used in the majority of PCs, will co-host the seminar, which
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      • 67 24 SINGAPORE UIC Computer Systems and Intel Singapore are jointly organising a seminar on "Taking the work out of networking" on Aug 27 at the Dynasty Hotel Ballroom (Level 3). The seminar will feature previews of the latest Intel products, as well as talks by
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      • 74 24  -  Compiled by Bernard Chew SINGAPORE More than 200 computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) experts from over 40 countries will be at the coming 2nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICCIM '93), which will take place from Sep 6-10 at the Raffles City Convention Centre. The conference
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    • 70 24 LOTUS Development Singapore has appointed George Westwood as its new senior product marketing manager for communication products. Based in Singapore, Mr Westwood is responsible for the marketing of Lotus Notes and cctmail in the Asian region. Mr Westwood was previously with Lotus Australia. He has a strong background
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    • 822 25  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Lau Eng Boon explains the components of effective and integrated logistics management Lau Eng Boon The writer, a manager with Andersen Consulting, helps clients in various industries reexamine their logistics management systems IN HIS book Great Ideas in Management,
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    • 833 25  -  CONNECTIONS COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH CONNECTIVITY Tommi Chen on how an enterprise network can exploit information to the fullest for you Tommi Chen Dr Tommi Chen is a partner of Net Centre. which specialises in network services. He has managed for many years one of
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    • 582 26  -  Bernard Chew checks out a card that brings economical videoconferencing to network users Bernard Chew Australian network specialist, Network Automation (NA), has taken a bold step into the videoconferencing products market with a new device which allows real-time videoconferencing on computers that are linked together in a network.
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    • 1001 26  -  OPPORTUNITY I 1 TOM AMBROSE The writer is president of Ambrose Consulting, a Sacramento, California consulting firm that helps businesses use information technology productively WHILE many people don't particularly care when Microsoft's Windows NT operating system will ship, some of us
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    • 558 26  -  Joe Fasbinder tries out an affordable device that helps prevent repetitive strain Joe Fasbinder UPI Repetitive strain injuries, those painful hand and wrist problems that afflict workers who spend long hours at computer keyboards, are costing US employers millions of dollars every year. As a
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  • Shipping Times
    • 424 27  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE American President Lines (APL) will launch a weekly North China express container service in September. The carrier said in a statement last week that the new service will use APL-operated containerships to link Dalian and Xingang with
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    • 800 27 Reuter BOMBAY India's familyrun Great Eastern Shipping Co Ltd has become the darling of overseas investors, with its share price surging by 80 per cent over the past six months, analysts say. Heightened interest in India's largest private sector shipping
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    • 216 27 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Heavy monsoon rains in India are crippling vessel traffic, leaving some Southeast Asian trading companies unable to ship soymeal out of west coast ports, trade sources in Singapore said last Friday. Traders said the rains, which usually begin in July and last through
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    • 196 27 AP SEOUL The government issued an emergency order last Friday banning labour disputes at the world's largest shipyard, which has been crippled by work stoppages. The Central Labour Committee, an independent government agency, approved the order, which takes effect on Saturday. The order
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    • 51 27 Reuter ALAMEDA, California President Bill Clinton, standing in front of the guided missile cruiser LSS Arkansas, addressing the Bay Area military personnel concerning defence conversion at the Alameda Naval Air Station last Friday. The base is one of many to be closed due to defence cutbacks.
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    • 281 27 Reuter BEIJING China told the US on Friday to stop interfering with a Chinese ship alleged to be carrying chemical weapon materials to Iran and said it would hold Washington responsible for all consequences of the row. Assistant Foreign Minister
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    • 1715 40 CONTAINER LINES ~N=/\~*~H A 9* nts: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) V J\y /C/R No: **********0E PENANG: (04) *****6 SIBU: (084) *****9 KUCHING: (082) *****3 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****32 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 HKG/TWN/BKK I GOTH/UKB/MED PORTS PEN PKL SIN EVERY TUE/THUR/SUN PEN PK SIN 15/8 16/8 17/8 Hong
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