The Business Times, 23 August 1993

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  • 13 1 BUSINESS TIMES WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Monday August 23 1993 75'
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 71 1 Reuter LOS ANGELES US spacc agency engineers have lost all communications with the Mars Observer probe only three days before it was due to settle into orbit around the Red Planet, officials said yesterday. The failure to re-estab-lish contact with the spacecraft could
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    • 60 1 Reuter DUESSELDORF, Germany Cement producers in Europe face heavy EC Commission fines for alleged cartel arrangements, said a report by German daily llandelsblatt yesterday. The investigation has been going on sincc 1989 and should be completed this fall. The report quoted a spokesman for
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    109 1 Stock mrtet radices Friday Change STII 1.972.27 +23.49 KLSE Composite 805.51 t 6.69 Nikkei 20,607.26 -80.21 Hans Seng 7,545.36 -59.90 SET Index 958.68 3.33 Jakarta Composite ...387.91 +3.09 CLSA China B unav Ausl All Ord 1.927.1 +0.8 FTSE 100 3,057.6 -7.9 Friday Prtrton close Dow Jones 3,615.48 3,612.13
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  • 545 1 SINGAPORE A Hongkong news report alleging a US$2B billion (about Ss4s billion) banking fraud in China by mainland banking officials has left analysts in Hongkong and Beijing stumped by its sheer scale. The Sunday Morning Post yesterday claimed in a
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  • 421 1  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE The local cruise market is not cruising along as smoothly as expected. Last year, the number of cruise passengers visiting the Singapore Cruise Centre surge 45 per cent to 190,031 people, with 40 ships making 350 calls. The Port
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  • 208 1 AFP BEIJING China has recovered billions of dollars in irregular inter-bank loans used for speculation, but appears to have failed to enforce an Aug IS deadline on recalling all such loans. A failure to meet the deadline would be a serious blow
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  • 516 1 Ruling caps 8-year dispute over Carte Blanche S'pore NYT Bloomberg NEW YORK A US federal appeals court in New York has ordered Citicorp's Diners Gub unit to pay US$l4 million (5522.5 million) to a Malaysian company for driving its own Carte
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  • 652 1 Reuter TOKYO Japan's new trade minister warned the country yesterday that it must slash its huge trade surplus or risk destroying the world economy. "If Japan's trade surplus continues, it will be one factor leading to the destruction of the
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  • 184 1 AFP BEIJING China's first national securities law is expected to be announced by year-end or early next year, the China Daily reported yesterday. It said the law had already been rewritten five times, and added that at least nine other securities-related regulations were being drafted.
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 383 2  -  By Magdalene Ng DOMESTIC interest rates have stabilised and the trend is likely to continue this year despite a possible spike during the launch of the Singapore Telecom share offering in October. Money market rates were steady in the last three months, with the threemonth
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    • 623 2  -  By Sylvia Wong PRESIDENTIAL candidate Chua Kim Yeow last night assured Singaporeans that he was not taking them for granted by not canvassing for their votes. Speaking during his first televised broadcast, he said the reason he did not campaign like
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    • 218 2  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE Precision Industries Pte Ltd (SPI) is leading its vendors on a five-day mission to China to look for investment opportunities, the Economic Development Board (EDB) said over the weekend. SPI is the precision engineering arm of the listed Singapore
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    • 368 2  -  By Joseph Rajendran TWO LOCAL venture capital firms have exchanged their stakes in Singapore-based Alpha Pharmaceutical for shares in Nasdaq-listed Sciclone Pharmaceuticals Inc. Alpha was set up last year to sell a drug for Hepatitis-B. an infectious viral disease, in South-east
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 100 2 IN A pilot programme to privatise hawker stalls, stalls will be sold with 20-year leases and at a discount of between 20 per cent and 30 per cent on market value, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said on Saturday. The hawker stall sale scheme
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      • 118 2 CHIAM SEE TONG said yesterday he remains Member of Parliament for Potong Pasir as long as the Singapore Democratic Party's central executive committee refuses to call a party conference. The necessary number of SDP cadres has already petitioned the CfiC for a re-election
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      • 75 2 SINGAPOREANS have lived in social harmony despite its racial and ethnic diversity because Singapore is a "society whose historical development has been based upon welcoming and being open to such a diversity of peoples and culture", said Commodore Teo Chee Hean yesterday. Speaking at
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  • THE REGION
    • 439 3 Reuter AFP MANILA The Philippine government cut spending sharply by 27.74 billion pesos (about SSI.6 billion) in the first seven months of 1993 to cover a decline in revenues and keep budget deficit in control, a budget official said. Spending in January to July
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    • 286 3 President confident threat of nearby Pinatubo volcano will subside AFP MANILA President Fidel Ramos wants a former US air base north of the Philippine capital to eventually replace the Manila airport, despite the continuing threat of nearby Pinatubo volcano. US servicemen abandoned
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    • 266 3  -  Frsm Nirmal Ghosh in YANGON A DELEGATION of Singaporean businessmen was given a dose of straight talk by Ko Ko Gyi, president of the Myanmar Chamber of Commerce and Industry, during their visit here last week. "Myanmar has lost a whole
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    • 357 3 AFP SURABAYA Representatives from 10 countries, including China and Taiwan, are to meet for a fourth round of informal talks aimed at trying to resolve territorial disputes over the Spratly islands an area of potential conflict in the region. The Fourth
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    • 358 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR After 13 years as the government's chief legal adviser, AttorneyGeneral Abu Talib Othman will call it quits on Oct 31 the day he turns SS. Born in Malacca in 1938, Mr Abu Talib was appointed to the post
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    • 338 4 Reuter SHANGHAI Factories in Shanghai, China's largest industrial city, have been instructed to tighten their belts as national measures to cool an overheated economy take effect, the Shanghai Star reported. "Enterprises have been warned to brace themselves for a shortage of funds and
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    • 312 4 UPI BEIJING A senior Chinese trade oflicial claims there is "euphoria" over improving economic relations with the United States despite nagging conflicts between Beijing and Washington, a state-run newspaper reported yesterday. The characterisation reported by the oflicial China Daily was
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 49 4 UPI YANGON The Myanmar government has offered four econo-my-class state-owned hotels for operation by private enterpreneurs on lease. State-owned radio said on Saturday night that the offer was aimed at developing the private-sector hotel industry in line with the government's market economy policy. UPI
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      • 44 4 Reuter MANILA Philippine President Fidel Ramos hugs Aurora Aquino, mother-in-law of former president Corazon Aquino (left), during a mass at Manila Church on Saturday to mark the 10th anniversary of the assasination of her son. former senator Benigno Aquino. Reuter
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      • 64 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan is stepping up its search for a tiny capsule containing radioactive material that disappeared from a steel mill two weeks ago, officials of the Atomic Energy Council said yesterday. The council is searching the Lienchang Iron Works and ordered it to keep all
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      • 55 4 AFP BEIJING China has started to close down illegal casinos that have sprung up under the guise of entertainment centres. In the latest move, police raided a casino in Wuhan, the capital of central Hubei province, and detained 95 people and confiscated 200,000 yuan (5555.600),
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      • 105 4 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysians will be allowed to view at least three uncensored satellite television stations from next year, but the programmes will be confined to news and sports, local newspapers reported yesterday. The government has approved broadcasts by the American Cable News Network
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    • 313 4 SCMP HONGKONG Cash and gifts paid to mainland Chinese to facilitate business transactions in China add between 3 and 5 per cent to business operating costs, according to a 1991 survey by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). Legislative Councillor
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    • 262 4 Reuter AFP TAIPEI Taiwan and China will hold talks in Beijing from Aug 50 on ways to improve relations and resolve several thorny bilateral issues, officials said. The talks, lasting about five days, will be the first formal
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    • 380 5 AFP NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao's attempt to clip the wings of Hindu revivalists by arranging a constitutional divorce between God and politics has run into trouble. To scathing opposition criticism that he was acting in "indecent
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    • 249 5 AFP NEW DELHI A scheduled visit by Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao to Seoul next month is expected to boost trade between India and South Korea and firm up ties between the two Asian nations, officials said on
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    • 248 5 Reuter SYDNEY Australian Finance Minister Ralph Willis said he expected no substantial changes to the country's 1993/94 budget, released last week, if opposition parties attempt to block the budget bills in Senate. "We didn't put some numbers out in the ring with
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    • 51 5 Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistani police bundling an activist of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front onto a track on Saturday during a protest outside the Indian High Commission. A group of Kashmiris living in Pakistan staged the protest against the arrest of JKLF activists in Indian-ruled Kashmir.
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    • 320 5 AFP TOKYO Japan will maintain close ties with the United States and will not cut its military strength, defence chief Keisuke Nakanishi said in an interview published here yesterday. "It is short-circuit thinking to cut defence forces only because of the
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    • 117 5 Reuter KARACHI, Pakistan Caretaker Prime Minister Moeen Qureshi said Pakistan would open insurance to foreign investors. "We will open up the insurance sector to private investment including foreign investment," he told a news conference on Saturday. "We believe there are important technologies in the insurance
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 1436 6  -  Run-up to Umno party elections From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR AFTER a relatively smooth and meteoric political career, Malaysia's Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim is set to take his biggest gamble. According to close aides of the minister, Mr Anwar will declare his
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  • THE WORLD
    • 337 7 Reuter WASHINGTON Environmentalists get their day in court tomorrow when President Ginton's administration fights their challenge to the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). A decision in the federal appeals court case is not due for weeks, but legal and
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    • 376 7 Reagan era exchange-rate tactics repeated to deal with Tokyo Reuter WASHINGTON The Clinton administration appears to have resurrected the currency tactics of the Reagan era in dealing with Japan as it manipulates the dollar up and down to win trade concessions from Tokyo, analysts
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    • 219 7 NYT WASHINGTON Construction, normally an important engine in America's economic recoveries and a big creator of jobs, is continuing its slump and acting as a drag on the rebound, economists say. In every other business cycle over the past 20 years, real
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    • 54 7 Reuter WASHINGTON The US has begun advertising rewards of up to US$2 million (553.2 million) for tips on suspects in the Pan Am 103 and World Trade Centre bombings. The State Department said it was targeting specific individuals for the first time since it began advertising counter-terrorism rewards
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    • 206 7 Reuter MOSCOW Russia's Foreign Economic Relations Minister Sergei Glazyev resigned on Saturday amid a growing scandal over corruption at the heart of the country's politics. Mr Glazyev, 32, in tum blamed criminal gangs trying to thwart his attempts to tighten state controls on
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 86 7 Reuter WASHINGTON Nine US farm groups have written to the White House to warn against any weakening of the so-called Blair House accord at world trade talks. "We respectfully urge the administration to make clear to the European Community that the commitments made by
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      • 72 7 AP WASHINGTON The Clinton administration is pushing the trustees of the Exxon Valdez oil spill fund to change direction and spend more money to buy land and protect it from development rather than restore damaged areas. President Clinton and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt
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      • 70 7 Reuter LONDON A senior British finance ministry official left the door open on Sunday for fresh tax rises to help curb booming public borrowing. "I cannot say now that come November, we will not need to see the rate of public borrowing falling faster
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      • 47 7 AFP LONDON Preparatory talks in Moscow ahead of a meeting today between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas on Russian troops stationed in the Baltic republic failed to achieve a mutual understanding, Lithuanian radio, monitored by the BBC, reported late Saturday.
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      • 76 7 Reuter MEXICO CITY The Mexican economy expanded by 0.3 per cent in the second quarter over the same period a year earlier, the finance ministry said. The ministry, Hacienda, said that economic growth was 1.3 per cent for the first six months of
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      • 62 7 AP ALGIERS Former Prime Minister Kasdi Meibah, who once headed the powerful political police, was assassinated on Saturday in an ambush that also killed his son, brother, chauffeur and body guard, state-run radio reported. Mr Merbah and his entourage were killed while driving in a car
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      • 72 7 AFP LIMA A criminal court issued arrest warrants for five Peruvian ambassadors and 12 foreign ministiy officials suspected of embezzling a total US$2.B5 million (554.57 million), a court spokesman said on Saturday. The court froze the assets of the suspect officials. Judge Nancy Quinteros
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    • 643 8 "The Key to Success in the Twenty-first Century Will Be Old-fashioned Entrepreneurism, Not Management Science" Larry Farrell Searching for the Spirit of Enterprise. 13th October 1993 Wednesday 14th October 1993 Thursday Marina Mandarin Singapore 9.00 a.m. 5.30 p.m. Hear for yourself the fundamental practices of entrepreneurs such as Matsushita, Honda,
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 491 9  -  By Sylvia Wong SOFT drink bottler Coca Cola Indochina signed over the weekend its second Vietnamese joint venture in four weeks, this time to start a state-of-the-art bottling plant in Hanoi. The company, a joint venture between Singapore's F&N Coca Cola
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    • 444 9 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Guinness Anchor Bhd (GAB) has registered a 68.9 per cent fall in pre-tax profit to M 515.7 million (559.9 million) for the first six months ended June 30, 1993. This followed a 23.2 per cent decline
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    • 142 9 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR MBf Finance Berhad, which now offers an interest-free banking scheme, will open two more branches in the east coast of the peninsular, bringing the total number of its branches to 107 throughout Malaysia offering the new scheme. MBf, which claims to
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    • 804 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE Creeping control of listed companies has been gaining momentum since last year when United Overseas Bank (UOB) chairman Wee Cho Yaw became United Industrial Corporation chairman with a less than 10 per cent stake. Creeping control
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    • 409 9 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The reclassification of counters in the Industrials sector into four new sectors was based on the main activities of the companies and their contribution to the financial performance of the companies. Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange general manager Mohd Salleh Abdul
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    • 339 9 MBT BANGKOK Malaysian National car manufacturer Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Bhd (Proton) is believed to be looking at southern Thailand as its introductory market should it decide to export completely built-up (CBU) units to this country. Proton, it is learnt, is continuing
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    • Article, Illustration
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 97 10 Reuter MANILA Kepphil Shipyard Inc, a ship repair and building unit of Singapore's Keppel Corp Ltd, plans to raise some 500 million pesos (5528.8 million) from the domestic market to finance its expansion programme. In a statement submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Kepphil
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        • 83 10 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Two Thai companies have purchased a majority stake in the company that produces Pepsi-Cola and 7-Up in Laos, a Pepsi executive said on Friday. Loxley pic, primarily a telecommunications equipment trading firm, and Italthai Development Corp, Thailand's largest construction
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        • 62 10 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Aerospace pic said it's not selling its 30 per cent stake in Hongkong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa's UK telecommunications division. British Aerospace spokesman Andy Wrathall said the company had reviewed its strategy and "telecoms haven't been classed as core businesses. But
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        • 74 10 Bloomberg Business News CLEVELAND British Petroleum pic said it will invest in a joint venture with Korean and Japanese partners to build an ethyl acetate plant in Ulsan, South Korea. The plant, to be completed in early 1995, is expected to produce
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      • 434 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS m«.«iir prk« (S) Aug 21 23 Insurance Fund Singapore Unit Trust !TT The Commerce 1.45 1.52 rTHWIH The Savings Fund 1.34 1.41 PruLink Mgd Fund 1.20 1.27 S'porc Proa Fund 0.62 0.65 yi>> n««iiiiml< Spore Sec Fund 0.95 I.OOxd S-pore Invest Fund 1.10 1.16 Firs! B putra
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      • 358 10 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE), privatised last year, will implement various reforms including human resource development to realise its aim of becoming the largest capitalised market in the region within the next 5 years. President director Hasan Zein
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      • 455 10  -  From Stephen Vines in SHANGHAI THE Shanghai Dazhong Taxi Company says it has pulled off the first successful rights issue of foreign or "B" shares in the Shanghai market. Dazhong's apparent success is in sharp contrast to the attempt
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      • 197 10 South China Morning Post HONGKONG Liberal legislators here have stepped into the debate over remuneration for company directors, demanding better protection for minority shareholders' interests. At a meeting with the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), United Democrat legislators Huang Chen-ya and James
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      • 505 10 South China Morning Post HONGKONG B-share turnover on the Shenzhen stock market soared 14-fold last Friday, the first day of direct trade by eight foreign broking houses with special seats at the exchange. Total B-share turnover jumped to HKSI 12.9 million (about SS23.S
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      • 416 10 Reuter HONGKONG The Stone group, whose subsidiary Stone Electronic Holdings recently listed on the Hongkong market, has many of the same quirks as China's economy fast growth, a murky political past and occupying a grey zone between the state and
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      • 403 11 Move comes after Federal Trade Commission drops its own investigation Reuter REDMOND, Washington Microsoft Corp has confirmed that the US Department of Justice has begun its own inquiry into alleged anti-competi-tive behaviour after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) elected to drop its own investigation. Microsoft
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      • 357 11 Bloomberg NEW YORK Moody's Investors Service has lowered its rating on International Business Machines Corp's shortand long-term debt and preferred stock, citing increased risk that revenues will decline as the costs of IBM's restructuring soar. This is the second time Moody's
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      • 202 11 FT BERLIN AN Anglo-Ameri-can utilities consortium is poised to buy eastern Germany's large brown coal fields, as well as a crucial stake in a power generating plant, the Treuhand, the agency charged with privatising eastern German industry, has confirmed. Once completed, the
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      • 382 11 FT LONDON Cadbury Schweppes' £154.2 million (*****.6 million) acquisition of a further 20.2 per cent stake in Dr Pepper/Seven-Up is widely regarded as only a preliminary move towards strengthening its position in the USS47 billion (5575.7 billion) US soft drinks market.
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 405 12 Committee voted 11 to one in July to keep policy unchanged Reuter NEW YORK The policymaking arm of the Federal Reserve leaned towards raising interest rates in July, minutes of a meeting showed last Friday. At its July 6-7 meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee voted
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      • 258 12 Reuter PARIS Credit Lyonnais will show a loss in the first half of 1993 but this will be much lower that the loss in the second half of last year, managing director Francois Gilles told Le Figaro newspaper. The state-owned bank had
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      • 281 12 BANGKOK With low foreign interest rates and domestic demand for loans outstripping savings, Thai banks are increasingly tapping offshore funds, The Nation newspaper reported on Friday. The paper reported that First Bangkok City Bank is to issue a US$llO million (S$ 177.4
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      • 414 12 Reuter NEW YORK The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) said a decision on whether it will finally merge with the Commodity Exchange (Comex) after 17 years of onagain. ofT-again talks should be made in about 60 days. Daniel Rappaport,
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      • 270 12 Reuter BEIJING A Chinese viceminister of Metals called for a cooling of the nation's gold fever, which has made the country the world's biggest consumer of the precious metal. The People's Daily on Saturday quoted Xu Daquan as saying in an interview that
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      • 225 12 1 HE major issues of the week evolve around the Japanese economy with its elated trade surplus and rising yen scenario and the promotion of global economic stability. In the currencies market, the US$/yen market was very volatile and choppy throughout the week. The
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 721 13  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By James Foo MMS International THE dollar-mark headed lower for most of the week, hitting a low of 1.6755 on news that the June US trade deficit widened to USSI2.I billion. However, when the Fed intervened in dollar-yen buying US$6OO
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      • 778 13 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Coffee prices leapt in London this week as dealers welcomed the agreement reached in Kampala. Uganda, between the main coffee-producing countries to withhold exports and boost prices. The decision of the African countries to agree to
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    • 1496 13 Rubber MS CMiawdity Excfcanga (futures closing as at lp«) RSS 1 CMitract (S ccnts/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Sep 93 133.25 133.25 133.00 400 M25 Oct 0.00 0.00 133.25 300 3.875 Nov 133.50 133.50 133.50 175 4.675 Dec 134.25 134.00 134.00 675 5.975
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    • 4759 14 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Earn EPS Dale TV LY IV LY Company u> (Sm) (Sai) (ct») (cts) Vnu Jun 16 F 14.268 10.647 23.1 17.3 Alcorn* Aug 3 I 7.905 6 493 6 40 5.31 Ale* Hldgs Aug 17 F I 479 I 050 7 39 5.25
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    • 750 14 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
      • 670 15 NYT New York IN NORMAL times, the global perspective of US investors is pretty narrow. Events overseas rarely have much of an impact on the financial markets at home, which keep their focus on domestic economic
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      • 216 15 Reuter AFP Hongkong STOCKS in Hongkong soared to record highs last week on good political and economic news with the key Hang Seng Index gaining 153.11 points, or 2.1 per cent to close at 7,545.36. Average daily turnover stood at
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 145 15 THE bourse enjoyed buoyant levels last week, with the key market indicator shooting to its highest mark since the 1987 crash. Riding on the back of surging world markets and higher gold prices, the All Ordinaries Index broke the 1,900 barrier on Thursday and closed the week at 1,927.1.
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        • 112 15 The SET Index closed on Friday at 958.68, down 5.94 points over its close a week earlier. The average daily volume during the week was 132 million shares, down from 164.2 million shares the previous week. The average daily value of shares traded was 7.0 billion baht. also down
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        • 70 15 Share prices edged up further as good trading prevailed for the second consecutive week, pushing the index to its highest point in the last two years. Continuing the bullish mood of the previous week, transactions jacked up the market index by eight points to end on Friday at a
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        • 111 15 The stock markets rose slightly last week despite corrections in the middle of the week. The Manila index rose to 1,775.76 points Friday, up from the 1,759.65 posted on Aug 13 while the index at Makati rose to 1,826.09, up from the 1,805.56 points on Aug 13. Average daily
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        • 76 15 Share prices reversed two successive weekly wins and posted losses last week, amid cautious sentiment over the ruling Kuomintang party's national congress. Eroding a 2.4-per cent advance the previous week, the 339-issue Weighted Price Index slid 76.51 points to finish at 4,045.61 points Friday. Average daily turnover thinned to
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        • 109 15 Share prices rose sharply last week, increasing the market's value by 10 per cent as idle money flowed into the stock market after the use of aliases in financial transactions was banned. The Composite Index closed Saturday's halfday session at 734.39 points, up 67.72 points from the previous week's
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        • 52 15 Share prices rose for the third successive week as investors and speculators edged out the sellers. The BSE Index closed on Friday at 2,742.37 points, up by 220 over the previous close of 2,522.48. The 100-share National Index closed on Friday at 1,288.17 up 116 over the previous close
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      • 312 15 AFP London SHARE prices reached new record highs in trading on the London stock exchange over the week, boosted by hopes of autumn rate cuts and by a jump in pharmaceuticals shares. Profit-taking reduced the rise at the end of the
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      • 394 15 AFP Tokyo SHARE prices lost ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week on a rapid appreciation of the yen and the failure of the new government to present concrete economic remedies, dealers said. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues, a 387.23-point gainer
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        • 2224 15 London Aug 20 Peat* Industrials A. A. Corp Adr 31 -700 Abbey National 396 +2 Allied Lyons 615 7 Amec 96 -2 Asda Group M 4 I BAT lad 4*: BICC 397 2 BOC Group 652 4 I BOC Group 652 4 I BR Petroleum 298 4/8 -3 4J* BTR
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        • 843 15 +3.35 STOCKS closed mostly higher in heavy trading on Friday as last-minute com-puter-guided buy programs tied to "double-witching hour" helped the market recover from sell programs and profit-taking, pushing the Dow to its fourthstraight record close. The Dow Jones edged up 3.35 points after spending most of the
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        • 311 15 +7.59 STOCKS closed higher to recoup earlier losses and build momentum to perhaps reach the market's all-time high next week, dealers said. "The momentum is there. The sentiment is still pretty bullish here," one trader said. The market regained earlier losses due mostly to strengthening gold stocks and a
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5255 16 AFP Bernama MALAYSIAN stock prices ended the week sharply higher as foreign and institutional buyers scrambled for blue chip shares on expectations of better corporate earnings. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) Composite Index, the 85-stock market barometer, soared to a
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 7744 17  -  By Sylvia Wong THE market continued to soar to new heights last week, buoyed by continued optimism over the strong second-quarter economic performance and a good set of financial results from local banks. By the end of the week, the Straits Times
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  • SPORTS
    • 850 19 4th ,World Athletics Championship AP Reuter STUTTGART The championships came to an appropriate climax when the United States men's team shattered their own world 4x400m record. It was the fifth world record of the meet. Anchored by world champion Michael Johnson, the Americans reduced
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    • 336 19 Golf Reuter CASTLE ROCK, Colorado Left-handed Phil Mickelson remained patient through two long lightning delays to take the lead aAer the third round at The International tournament last Saturday. Mickelson, 23, a former US amateur champion who won on the PGA Tour
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    • SCORE CARD
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        303 19 AFP STUTTGART Yesterday's finals at the World Championships: MEN 4xloom relay: 1 US 37.48 (Drummond. Cason. Mitchell. Burred) 2 Britain (European Record) 37.77 (Jackson. Jarrett, Regis. Christie) 3 Canada 37.83 (Esmie. Gilbert. Surin. Mahom). 10,000 m: 1 Haile Gebresilasie (Eth) 27:46.02 2 Moses Tanui (Ken) 27:46.54 3 Richard Chelimo
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        95 19 Reuter Reuter Reuter INDIANAPOLIS RCA hardcourt Championships semifinals Saturday: Boris Becker (Oct) b Patrick Rafter (Aust) 6-4 3-6 6-4; Jim Courier (US) b Luiz Mattar (Bra) 6-3 6-2. Reuter NEW HAVEN, Connecticut Volvo International tournament Saturday Quarterfinal: Andre Agassi (US) b Ivan Lendl (US) 6-3 6-4. Semifinals: Petr Korda
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        71 19 Reuter NEW YORK American League Saturday: Cleveland 10 Boston 5; Detroit 4 Oakland 3: NY 3 Kansas 2; Seattle 5 Toronto 2; Baltimore 6 Texas 5(12); Chicago 9 Minnesota 4; California 7 Milwaukee 6. National: Atlanta 6 Chicago 3; SF 7 Florida 4; Colorado 4 NY 3 (Ist game);
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        99 19 Reuter AFP TOKYO Leading final round scores in the 120 million yen (551.84 million) Maruman Open oa Sunday (Japanese unless stated): 272 Frankie Minoza (Phi) 66 71 66 69, Chen Tze-chung (Tai) 67 70 67 68 (Minoza won by playoff)- Abo: 288 Samson Gimson (Sin) 72 71 69 76.
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    • 302 19 NOTICE IS HEREBY given that Mr James Low Oon Eng NRIC No. *****327H is no longer in our employment w.e.f. 18th August 1993 In view of the above, he is not authorised to transact any business on our behalf. A ntrr DE-FI Aiiuw*;in hi- 1.111 J shippingrnilid IN THE MATTER
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    • 212 19 r M THE MATTER OF THE 1 COMPANIES ACT, CAP 90 ANO M THE MATTER Of PTI LTD (In M*iwb*r*' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FIMAIMttTWQ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant lo Section 306 of the Companies Act. Cap SO mat a Final Meeting of the Members ot tt>e abovenamed Company
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 1853 20  -  Women have many positive attributes in leadership styles to offer the corporate world, reports Barbara Presley Noble Barbara Presley Noble NYT A WOMAN who makes it to the top of a company is likely to act more like the men who reach
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    • 1436 21  -  How important is image for the global company? A J Leow looks at what a new book has to say about global communications A J Leow Mil/;:: m/m name W W anyT T way?" The Roman general Mark Anthony purportedly made that remark
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    • 511 21 AMOS KOH is now principal consultant of Amos Koh Property Consultants Pte Ltd. Dr Koh has 17 years of experience in practising and also teaching real estate. Prior to this, he was a director of consultancy research at Knight Frank Cheong Hock Chye Baillieu (Singapore), managing director of
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    • 704 22 Nothing Beats ABuLWH^fl o or [mgaaail In August, visit Cafe Carousel for the most I delicious local food prepared hawker-style! I Mouthwatering favourites include: I Bak Kut Teh IVOTnißnni Ko-10-mee lUttlillULlul Nonya Popiah («Uf) :^sr Ro,lk $iojo++(cwk# 1 Over 18 varieties of i dM^For J $l&Bof+axMD j r $i2Jo«-»-fchico I
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  • THE ARTS
    • 845 23  -  Robert Tanitch on why, despite an overkill of West End musicals, the serious theatregoer in London has much to be thankful for Robert Tanitch FT OF LATE there have been so many complaints about the West End being overrun by musicals, and there being very little
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    • 396 23  -  Benjamin Loh reviews the Hanoi Quartet and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Loh ALACK of adequate preparation was probably the most plausible reason for the lacklustre performance by the Hanoi Quartet at the Victoria Concert Hall last Thursday evening. The quartet was made up of Ngo Van
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    • 285 23 PERHAPS one of the most engaging qualities about the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's Familiar Favourites concerts is that the orchestra plays with so much more enthusiasm than during the regular series. Last Friday's performance at the Victoria Concert Hall was no exception. John Adams' The
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    • 1369 23 TV RADIO Superman 111, 8.30pm, TV 2 the parodic the series. The Man m undergoes a psychotic ..J^ H and becomes a comes up a hamcomputer weighs down the J Yellowstone: Four Seasons Alter flP9H|i^ > Fire, 9.30pm, SBC 12 |g In 1988 the Yellowstone for- djy M^&>*-.—■ ests blazed,
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  • 438 24 UPI TOKYO Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa will deliver a policy speech to Parliament today, with electoral reform likely to top the agenda as his newly elected government tries to root out corruption and reward voters grown weary of graft. Mr Hosokawa leads
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  • 462 24 Nationalist congress approves reforms but fails to satisfy rebel faction Reuter TAIPEI Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui closed a key congress of his strife-torn Nationalist Party yesterday after averting a major split in its ranks but failing to quell growing dissent. Mr Lee, who survived a
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  • 348 24 Reuter AMMAN The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is selling some of its prime real estate to help raise the US$l25 million (SS2OI million) it needs to cover unpaid salaries, pensions and welfare benefits. Some Palestinian guerillas, in Iraq for example, have not been
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  • 944 24  -  The Bottom Line KEVIN CLARKE KEVIN CLARKE The writer is a BT copy editor TWO important men made important speeches last week. One was Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who delivered his National Day address at Kallang Theatre on Sunday. The
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  • 447 24 Reuter BEIJING China's reclusive leader Deng Xiaoping celebrated his 89th birthday yesterday with tributes from the military while national newspapers carried front-page pictures of the man chosen to succeed him. Military publishing houses have printed more than 15 million books on Mr
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • 517 25  -  US giant is latest to take on Intel, reports Kenneth James Kenneth James WHILE relative minnows AMD and Cyrix Corp have been winning attention as busters of Intel's monopoly on the 486 central processing unit (CPU), US high-tech giant Texas Instruments
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    • 600 25  -  The Clinton administration plans to give aid, not protection, for chips. Keith Bradsher reports Keith Bradsher NYT IN A closely watched test of the Clinton administration's approach to strategic industries, the US Commerce Department has drafted a plan to subsidise research on certain computer
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    • 826 25  -  Joseph Rajendran checks out a new trend of top IT firms taking the consumer retail route to sell their products Joseph Rajendran COMPUTER multinationals, selling both hardware and software, are trying innovative new methods to tap the Singapore retail market. On the hardware side, the
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    • 491 25  -  S N Vasuki, who visited Bangalore recently, reports on its special attraction for IT companies S N Vasuki Multinational software firms continue to make a beeline to the southern Indian city of Bangalore, India's "Silicon Valley", which is fast developing a niche as one
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 101 26 SINGAPORE Digital Equipment Singapore has set up a new service centre called PC Servicecentre Plus. The centre, which is located at Tong Nam Building, is aimed at servicing the needs of both homes as well as small- and medium-sized enterprises. The centre offers both hardware
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      • 74 26 SINGAPORE Elixir Technology, a spin-off from the applied R&D arm of the National Computer Board, is going to maiket its Lore object-oriented technology worldwide. For a start, Elixir director Jonathon Priddey will speak at a renowned international conference on object-oriented technology in Sydney next month.
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      • 60 26 SINGAPORE A new data networking firm called Cray Communications has been set up in Singapore following the merger between Dowty Communications and Cray Electronics in the UK late last year. Cray Communications will now offer an integrated data communications and software platform. The solutions
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      • 65 26 SINGAPORE US-based Cyborg Systems, which specialises in software for client/server computers, has set up its Asian headquarters in Singapore. The company will initially focus on Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hongkong, Indonesia, Thailand and a few other neighbouring countries. The company will sell its human management resource
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      • 103 26 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Taiwan Liton Electronic Co, one of the country's largest makers of electrical components, plans to raise production at a Malaysian plant by about 42 per cent between now and the end of the year, the company said last week.
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      • 64 26  -  Compiled by Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Microsoft says that it is offering a one-day training course on MS-DOS 6 at Ssso for purchasers of its MS-DOS 6 operating system. The product is currently being sold at an introductory price of 5599.95. Microsoft adds that it is
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    • 214 26 EDS HAS just launched version 10 of its Unigraphics computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) software, which, the company claims, goes beyond traditional CAD/CAM operations to a "total development environment". EDS' CAD/CAM account manager Lim Chee Leong explained that the new version of the Unigraphics
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    • 253 26 NYT AFTER decades of predictions by publishing executives and futurists, electronic newspapers are finally arriving on personal computer, screens across the country. On-line editions of major papers recently blinked into existence in St Louis, Chicago, San Jose, California, and elsewhere, and they are
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    • It's happenin'
      • 106 26 SINGAPORE SiS Technologies is celebrating SiS-Novell day on Aug 26 and will be holding a series of four talks on Novell networking products at the Padang Room, fourth floor, Westin Stamford. TTie first, on Novell's Netware 4.0 network operating system, will be held from 9.30-10.30 am. This
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      • 85 26 SINGAPORE Temperatures in Singapore will rise from Sep 1-3 when sunseekers converge in Singapore for the Sunworld Asean summit which will be held at the Pan Pacific Hotel. Organised on the theme of "The new world of computing", the summit is a major regional technology
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      • 45 26 SINGAPORE Tandem Computers has announced that it will launch its Himalaya range of low-cost network servers on Sep 13 in Singapore. This will be held at 2.45 pm at the Pacific Ballroom, Pan Pacific Hotel. Contact: Lena Tan on 296-0669.
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      • 99 26 SINGAPORE The Economic Development Board, the National Computer Board and the Institute of System Science are jointly launching a new series of seminars to meet the growing interest of local companies who wish to computerise their operations. This series of six half-day seminars, which will be held
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    • 102 26  -  Compiled try Bernard Chew LEADING semiconductor manufacturer, Texas Instruments of Austin, Texas, has appointed A 1 Leadaman as the general manager of its Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) memory operations in Singapore. Mr Leadaman has been with Texas Instruments for the past 25 years. LOTUS Development B V also
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    • 564 26  -  Microsoft Corp's long-awaited Windows NT operating system will be available in Singapore this week, writes Bernard Chew Bernard Chew FINALLY! After several non-starts and pre-announcements, Microsoft Corp's Windows NT operating system has started selling in the US with little fanfare. And the local Microsoft office
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    • 776 27  -  CONNECTIONS COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH CONNECTIVITY Tommi Chen outlines the key decisions involved in this very complex exercise Tommi Chen The writer is a partner of Net Centre. which specialises in network services. He has managed for many years one of the largest enterprise networks in the
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    • 796 27  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Lau Eng Boon outlines what it takes to successfully implement integrated logistics management Lau Eng Boon The writer, a manager with Andersen Consulting, ii currently helping clients ir\ various industries reexamine their logistics management systems I HAVE explained the importance of
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    • 704 28  -  Bernard Chew is wowed by Indy, Silicon Graphics' new multimedia computer Bernard Chew SILICON Graphics, the company whose computer-generated special effects are seen in movies like Jurassic Park and Terminator 2. has just launched a multimedia computer called "Indy". Indy promises to put some of
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    • 741 28  -  I mnimrmri AT DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (US), a management consulting and software development firm, and also writes on IT issues MUCH like carbonbased life forms, the silicon-based "life forms" of the computer industry enjoy a Darwinian existence, where they
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    • 476 29  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE New Century Tours yesterday relaunched the Leisure World in a bid to shake the mass market cruise ship's reputation as a floating casino. Kathleen Tan, manager of cruise development for the Fort of Singapore Authority, said: "They have
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    • 81 29 Reuter VALDEZ, Alaska Some 75 Prince William Sound fishing boats joining to block the Valdez Narrows on Saturday, disrupting oil tanker traffic travelling to and from the Alyeska Pipeline terminal in Valdez. The fisherman were frustrated by a second year of weak pink salmon
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    • 274 29 Reuter DUBAI US Navy warships will not inspect the cargo of a Chinese vessel said to be carrying chemical weapons materials for Iran unless invited to do so, a navy spokesman said last Saturday. Lieutenant-Commander Bruce Cole, US Navy spokesman in the Gulf,
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    • 1086 29 Pace Col ABC Containeriine 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Africa Container IS 3 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 Alpha Feeders 6 1 Anchor Orient Line 16 3 ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Appenship 18 3/4 Arabian Express IS 4 ASCL 5 5
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    • 234 29 Bernama MALACCA The Malaysian government has set up the Malaysian Institute of Maritime Affairs (Mima) to get ideas and proposals to plan a balanced national maritime policy, Chief Secretary to the government Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid said last Saturday. He
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    • 398 29 Lloyd's List LONDON Member lines of the Trans-Atlantic Agreement have escaped being restrained by the European Commission despite an EC finding that the TAA contravenes EC law. EC competition commissioner Karel van Miert said last week that on the basis of investigations
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    • 221 29 Reuter MANAMA A subsidiary of Saudi Aramco will begin talcing delivery from Sep of 15 new crude carriers it has ordered from Japan, South Korea and Denmark, making it one of the biggest shipping firms in the
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      • 530 30 VmmI Voy No Arrival Departure <«nl fg No Barth Arrival Daparturt Jurong Part Batam km n« poib 23 08 0900 24 08/2300 Artte Oawn 300 31A B XxyxX 23.08/0730 Batam Sayang *****3 P01B 2308/1000 24 08/2300 Haiat 7/93 118/19 *x*s«fe 2308/0600 Brasbv 1 33/93 P03 2308/0800 2308/2300
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      • 988 30 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookinc/Baianci Rsits Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Ac* Contort 33E 24/0300 1 22/1500 22/1659 22/1900 3 23/0/00 23/1159 23/1*00 Aa UlK 21A 24/0600 2 22/1700 23/0659 23/0900 3
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    • 8299 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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    • 790 45 SURGING freight rales for (he shipment of non-oil commodities may indicate the market is due for a rebound lasting into the fourth quarter, brokers said Grain freight rates have been racing ahead this week. buosed by grain cargoes seeking delayed shipment from the US Gulf to the Far
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    • 855 45 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Coekett Marine Oil Lid. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices lor a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements arc indicated. The Cocketi Bunker Pnce Index change and
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    • 1186 46  -  Undaunted by seasonal demands, cruise operators are still dropping anchor here, reports Juliette Walker Juliette Walker Fledgling cruise ship operators are finding it tough to swim in Singapore waters. Some have even gotten out if only temporarily. But the waters remain attractive. More experienced swimmers
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 440 48 NYT NEW YORK The General Electric Co said last Friday that it would trim 4,000 jobs from its jet engine division to help it weather a slump in orders from military and commercial aircraft manufacturers. At least half the cutbacks will
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      • 383 48 AFP TOKYO Japan's famous bullet-train failed to serve as a model for South Korea's new high-speed railway for questionable technical reasons but the real motive was political, a government official said here last Friday. "It's a very political decision," he
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      • 350 48 AFP SEOUL GEC-Alsthom, builder of France's Train a Grand Vitesse (TGV), prides itself on a flawless safety record and TGV's ability to reach unmatched speeds. TGV, which means "the train of great speed", has never had an accident with a
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      • 235 48 Reuter DUBAI Saudi Arabia was still negotiating an aircraft order by the kingdom's national carrier Saudia with American and French jet manufacturers, Western diplomats in the Gulf said last Saturday. "Everything is still in a negotiating stage," said a wellplaced diplomat
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      • 297 48 UPI TAIPEI The fate of a proposed joint venture between British Aerospace pic and the Taiwan Aerospace Corporation will likely be decided today when executives from the British aircraft giant meet bankers backing Taiwan's fledgling enterprise, the United Evening Ne* s
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      • 331 48 Bernama PETALING JAYA, Selangor A Malacca-based computer component parts producer has alleged that Msl.7 million (Ssl.l million) worth of its products were stolen while being shipped to a sister company in the US. Petaling Jaya police chief ACP Hanif
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      • LOG BOOK
        • 96 48 AFP BANGKOK The Thai navy has launched a massive search with aircraft and ships following the shipwreck of a Thai freighter in the Gulf of Thailand in which six crewmen went missing, naval officers from the navy base at Songkhla said yesterday. The freighter Taveechai
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        • 127 48 Bernama SEREMBAN The high-speed electric trains, proposed to be launched in the Seremban-Rawang and Kuala Lumpur-Port Klang sectors, are expected to carry more than 120,000 people daily. Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik said. The service would be fast and comfortable as the trains would depart at
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        • 42 48 Reuter MARSEILLES Fire raged on aboard an Algerian vessel moored in the Marseilles harbour last Saturday. The tanker, Hassi Ha-Melr, had been undergoing repairs for the last fortnight No one was injured in the blaze. Reuter
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        • 86 48 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia plans to enlarge its shipbuilding capability for container and passenger vessels, the official Antara news agency said last Saturday. This is in line with increased inter-island cargo shipments in the world's biggest archipelago straddling the equator, foreign trade needs and calls for more
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        • 96 48 Reuter HONGKONG All 21 crew members of a distressed Malay-sian-registered cargo ship, the Interhill King, have been rescued by other vessels. Hongkong's Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre said last Saturday. The centre answered a distress a call early on Saturday morning from the Interhill King
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        • 90 48 AFP DUBAI Dubai's two ports, Mina Rashid and Jebel Ali, are among the 20 biggest ports in the world. Official figures showed that the two ports and other small harbours in the emirate handled 7.8 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 1993,
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    • 1622 32 AQABA R'DAM/ [I ALSO ACCEPTB4G FROM VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEOOAH (VIA JED) S TON H'BURG A WERP HAVRE V»E3T MALAYSIA TOKIO EXPRESS 12/133 25/8 11/9 14/9 12/9 Port Ketang. Penang DANUBE 09/333 28/8 6/9 12/9 15/9 18/9 20/9 22/9 Paslr Gudang KAMAKURA 30/134 1/9 18/9 21/9 19/9 9 EAST
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    • 2269 35 U PLEASE DIAL 1-800-*****00 (TOLL-FREE) II H II FOR all bookings (nol services) II EXPORT TO: PSW/PNW SINGAPORE CALIFORNIA EXPRESS (SCX) TOt USWO W W MBWHT WTO CANADA VOY r^TT"LOS OAK VAN MT 4TL CCG CLE CLB P.4L PET HOC MPH VP* MA PLP TOR WON CALIFORNIA LUNA ~~59E~ 25/08
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