The Business Times, 28 September 1993

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  • 14 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Tuesday September 28 1993 15 c
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 83 1 Reuter WASHINGTON The United States may soon send about 600 military troops to Haiti under a United Nations plan to help in the peaceful restoration of democracy in that Caribbean nation, US defence officials who refused to be identified said yesterday. The American troops
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    • 63 1 Reuter ISLAMABAD The Cabinet of Pakistani caretaker Prime Minister Moeen Qureshi yesterday approved a draft bill calling for a constitutional amendment to restore special parliamentary seats for women abolished in 1990. A constitutional provision since 1973 reserving special seats for women expired in 1990
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    116 1 Stock market indices Monday Change STII ...1.989.35 +6.10 KLSE Composite 843.32 5.45 Nikkei 20.094 11 -213 42 Hang Seng 7.452 09 -72.96 SET Index 964.90 -14.68 Jakarta Composite ...420.90 -0.14 CLSA China B 1.035.11 +12 16 Aust All Ord 1.943.0 -3.5 FTSE 100 3.026.3 +21.1 Monda) Previous midday
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  • 168 1  -  By Helen Chang SINGAPORE The Singapore government will lift economic sanctions against South Africa, following a call by African National Congress (ANC) president Nelson Mandela at a special United Nations hearing last week. Mr Mandela made the speech at a UN apartheid
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  • 509 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Engineering graduates still command the top starting pay in Singapore, with annual compensation packages ranging from 525,238 to $28,300. says a survey by Geneva-based Corporate Resources Group (CRG). If increments for National Service (NS) stints are
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  • 380 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Malayan Credit and Hotel Properties are joining hands to buy over the once-controversial piece of property at Scotts Road from family members of hotel tycoon Khoo Teck Puat. In a statement yesterday. MCL said
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  • 242 1 Reuter, AP. AFP BEIJING China yesterday executed eight young financial workers in what officials called the biggest cases of public embezzlement since the 1949 communist revolution. State radio and television reported that the defendants, said to be in their 20s and 30s. were
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  • 335 1  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG A FORMER Singapore Telecom vice-president, Khoo Chek Ngee. has been appointed group managing director of Hutchison Telecommunications. a subsidiary' of listed Hutchison Whampoa. Mr Khoo. 50. was most recently vice-president of mobile communications for Singapore Telecom,
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  • 842 1  -  By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Various factors led to a steep rise in the cost of housing, healthcare, education and transport in recent years, but Singapore's overall living cost increase as reflected in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has been low, says
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 301 2  -  By Paul Leo GROWTH in money supply M 2 fell to 3.4 per cent in July, indicating continuing reluctance to put cash in bank deposit accounts. M 2 comprises currency in active circulation, plus demand deposits (or Ml) and what is known as quasi-mon-ey.
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    • 484 2  -  Findings of the Cost Review Committee By Anna Teo THE Singaporean notion of the "good life" will need to change in the coming years, the Cost Review Committee says. The "good life" here would have to be seen as a total package. While a
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    • 253 2  -  By Schutz Lee THE biggest-spending households in Singapore faeed the highest inflation between 1985 and 1992, except in 1991, according to the Department of Statistics. Based on Consumer Price Indices (CPIs) for different expenditure groups, households which spent $3,000 to $5,999 a month experienced inflation rates
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    • 320 2 THE imputed rentals indicator based on Housing Board rents understates housing costs, but the impact on the Consumer Price Index is minimal, the Cost Review Committee found. The housing cost indicator in the CPI based on rentals under the Public Scheme, covering mainly one
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    • 376 2 UNLESS the government is willing to ofTset the trend of rising costs by raising public spending in affected areas, the cost of living in Singapore will continue to rise, said opposition MP for Hougang Low Thia Kiang. This will help curb the
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    • 385 2 SINGAPORE The Ministry of Defence (Mindef) has lifted ownership controls on the Normanton Park condominium, resulting in sharp increases in the prices of apartments in the estate. In the two weeks since the controls were lifted, the property market has been flooded
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 146 2 THE Malaysian and Singapore tourism boards have decided to extend and expand their joint marketing efforts to sell the two countries as a single holiday destination. The existing three-year campaign ending this year will be renewed for another three years from 1994 to 1997, and
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      • 157 2 A BRITISH company which has spent $25 million developing and producing a condom for women launched the product in Singapore yesterday. Femidom will cost $8.90 for a pack of three about three times more than male condoms. But maker Chartex International still expects healthy sales of
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      • 160 2 THE Information Technology Institute (ITI), the National Computer Board's research and development arm, has set up ITI Holdings Pte Ltd (ITIH) to hold equity in companies which commercialise ITl's R&D spin-ofls. ITI director Christopher Chia said yesterday at a press conference that the new company
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  • THE REGION
    • 358 3 JAKARTA Monthly commitments of foreign investments, which plunged by 75.3 per cent in the July 16-Aug 15 period, declined further by 19 per cent to U*****.84 million (*****.7 million) in the Aug 16-Sep 15 period. The Jakarta Post reported yesterday that domestic
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    • 471 3  -  From Harish Mehta A MULTI-million-dollar loan to Cambodia is likely to be approved during a visit by the chief of the International Monetary Fund to Phnom Penh on Oct 6. During his visit, IMF managing director Michel Camdessus is expected
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    • 174 3 AFP BANGKOK Thailand, in what is seen as another signal to the Khmer Rouge that it should come to terms with the new Cambodian government, is disbanding a special military unit dealing with Pol Pot and the group's other top leaders. The unit,
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    • 376 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia expressed relief yesterday at a reported decision by the US Senate to drop an amendment to its foreign aid Bill barring some arms sales to Jakarta. "The foreign ministry felt relief upon receiving information from the
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    • 201 3 Reuter BANGKOK The Thai contractor chosen to install one million telephone lines in rural areas says a first batch of 61,000 lines will be operational next month. Thai Telephone Telecommunication Co Ltd said yesterday that Chiang Mai province would get 18,000 lines, Chiang
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    • 262 3 AP BANGKOK The use of child labourers in mines, factories and other workplaces is growing in some parts of Asia and Africa, a United Nations official said yesterday. H Ghosh of the UN International Labour OfTicc in Geneva said
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    • 257 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian security forces shot dead three people and wounded one during a protest against the building of a dam on the island of Madura off eastern Java. A military spokesman said yesterday that 20 security guards opened fire on a group
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    • Article, Illustration
      36 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPL'R An aircraft parked on a driveway of a house in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur. The house-owner, an aircraft enthusiast, bought the body-frame of the plane from the Malaysian government. Reuter
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    • 296 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Deputy Premier Ghafar Baba. whose political future hangs in the balance, will resume official duties on Friday and leave for China and South Korea next month. "Mr Ghafar's leave ends on Thursday." his press secretary. Alias Mohamcd.
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    • 496 4 Reuter. AFP BEIJING China has ordered officials to ensure sufficient funds for harvest purchases in order to prevent further protests by angry farmers, calling this a "matter of national importance", it was reported yesterday. "We should learn from the summer's
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    • 244 4 AFP BEIJING The Chinese capital awoke to a new batch of slogans yesterday after gangs of workers spent the weekend removing thousands of "Beijing 2000" placards and replacing them with new ones promoting a fresh tack "Taking part is the
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    • 202 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan is drafting plans to conditionally open direct sea links with the mainland. a mainland affairs official said. The plans, as well as other guidelines governing future relations across the Taiwan Strait, will be included in Taiwan's mainland policy White Paper
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    • 350 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan yesterday officially announced government elections for Nov 27, which should result in a heated campaign between the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and two other parties. "The 21 city and county governments, including those in the offshore islands of Penghu,
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    • 297 4 AFP SEOUL The owner of a South Korean business group forcibly disbanded by former authoritarian president Chun Doo Hwan yesterday filed a complaint against Mr Chun and three businessmen for "collective robbery." a spokesman said. Yang Chung Mo, chairman of the defunct Kukje business
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    • 184 4 AP SEOUL Trade between North Korea and China in the first half jumped 39 per cent from a year earlier to US$43l million (Ss6Bs million), a South Korean government report said yesterday. The report, submitted by the Unification Board to the National Assembly,
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    • 434 5 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Gaishi Hiraiwa. head of Keidanren. Japan s top business lobby, said yesterday that the yen should fall further against the US dollar in order to support the nation's manufacturing sector. He said that the yen's current levels against the US
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    • 234 5 AFP TOKYO The Japanese government has decided to import 150,000 tonnes of rice this year mainly from Thailand marking its first import of the crop in almost a decade, the Asahi Shimbun said yesterday. The daily said in its evening
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    • 219 5 AFP SYDNEY The Australian government will actively encourage multinational companies to base their Asia-Pacific operations in Australia, but no tax incentives will be olTered as an inducement. Special Minister of State Frank Walker said yesterday. Releasing the government's new policy, Mr
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    • 277 5 Bloomberg Business News CANBERRA Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating was scheduled to meet his Cabinet yesterday to form a strategy that will get the government's six-week-old Budget plan passed in the Senate. Mr Keating, just returned from a two-week trip abroad which culminated in
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    • 175 5 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japan has denied a reported agreement with Russia that it would drop any reference to the return of two of four Russian-held islands in a joint communique expected during Russian President Boris Yeltsin's October visit to Japan, Kyodo news wire reported
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 74 5 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's index of leading indicators, which forecasts peaks and troughs in the business cycle, dropped 0.3 per cent from a month earlier to 113.1 in August, the Council for Economic Planning and Development said. But the index of coincident indicators rose 0.4 per
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      • 65 5 Reuter SEOUL China's Vice-Premier Li Lanqing arrived here yesterday for a six-day visit to discuss ways to expand trade. Foreign ministry officials said economic cooperation would be high on the agenda when Mr Li meets President Kim Young Sam. "Li is basically an
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      • 50 5 AFP WELLINGTON Chinese Minister of Foreign Trade Wu Yi will visit New Zealand on Oct 21, Foreign Minister Don McKinnon said in a statement yesterday. China is New Zealand's 10th largest export market and is No 6 as a source of New Zealand imports. AFP
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      • 57 5 AFP TOKYO Japanese companies arc to suffer an average 14.4 per cent fall in profits for the current fiscal year to March 1994, an economic research centre said yesterday in its monthly report. The Nikko Research Centre said economic results were worse than forecast
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      • 35 5 AFP HONGKONG China has banned recruiting women to work in overseas bars, nightclubs and karaoke lounges and warned recruitment agencies of stiff punishment, the Beijing-controlled Ta Kuni* Pao said yesterday. AFP
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    • 169 4 The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Is Usually Via Seoul. It is our good fortune that Seoul happens to be located almost precisely half-way between the centers of trade in the Eastern and the Western hemis ph eres. But what is no lucky chance is the carefully planned timetable of
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    • 7 5 REGIONAL ANALYSIS Every Wednesday, in Business Times
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    • 1006 5 I Clipsal Industries (Holdings) Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT OF UNAUDITED INTERIM RESULTS AND DIVIDEND FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 JUNE 1993 The Board of Directors of Clipsal Industries (Holdings) Limited is pleased to announce the unaudited interim results of the Group and the Company for
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  • THE WORLD
    • 475 6 Reuter GENEVA Opec ministers agreed yesterda> to set a new oil output ceiling for the fourth quarter designed to boost crude prices off three-year lows. Secretary General Subroto of Indonesia told reporters. But he added that the trickier task of allocating production quotas
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    • 468 6 Bloomberg Business News NYT, WASHINGTON Even before President Bill Clinton sends a formal legislative proposal to Congress, the administration is preparing for a flood of constitutional and civil rights challenges to his health care plan. Officials at the Justice Department and
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    • 292 6 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Economic recovery in Europe can't be counted on to create enough new jobs to reverse unemployment levels across the continent, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke said yesterday. Unemployment, expected to reach 32 million in
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    • 279 6 Reuter BRIGHTON British Labour leader John Smith fought on yesterday for the trade union support he needs to push through party reforms in what promises to be a clifThanger vote. "The arithmetic is moving towards him and when the vote is
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 90 6 AFP TBILISI, Georgia The western city of Sukhumi fell yesterday to Abkhazian separatist forces following two weeks of bloody Fighting with Georgian troops, Georgian government sources said. The report was confirmed by a spokesman for Russian military forces in Abkhazia, who said the city was taken
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      • 66 6 Reuter MANAMA More than 50 United Nations weapons inspectors are heading for Baghdad for what could be a decisive mission to verify Iraq's compliance with UN resolutions. UN officials said yesterday. Senior UN inspector Nikita Smidovich of Russia said he was heading the team of
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      • 88 6 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Average annual wage rises in Britain may climb to 4 per cent by early 1994, according to Incomes Data Services, the Financial Times said. IDS. an independent research company, said retail prices arc likely to climb by about
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 324 7  -  By Agnes Chen SINGAPORE Econ International Pte Ltd, whose flagship company is civil engineering contractor Econ Piling, has received approval for a listing on the main board of the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The group was likely to launch its public
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    • 246 7 SINGAPORE Newly listed Hwa Tat Lee Holdings closed yesterday at almost double its issue price of 60 cents. The furniture maker's shares opened at $1.10 and hit an intra-day high of $1.15 before closing at 1.11 on a volume of
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    • 244 7 SINGAPORE Parkway Holdings has bought five office units in the Parkway Parade shopping and office complex for a total of $4.17 million. The units, located at 80 Marine Parade Road, have a total floor space of 5,963 sq ft and
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    • 189 7 SINGAPORE Listed Ssangyong Cement has reported an 11 per cent rise in net earnings to $7.46 million for the halfyear to June 30. The group's improved results were achieved with the help of a 12 per cent increase in turnover to $66.62
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    • 256 7 SINGAPORE Amtek Engineering has posted a 20.9 per cent jump in group net earnings to $11.16 million for the year ended June 30, boosted by strong growth from its Malaysian subsidiaries. The precision metal parts maker said yesterday that group
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    • 846 7  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE Even before the dust has settled from the flap over the lengthening of trading time on the Singapore bourse, it appears that there's more controversy on the way this time a possible cut in
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    • 322 7  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE DBS Land will today market its Bukit Sedap bungalow project, which could yield profits of $60 million for the property group given the booming residential property market. A company spokesman told BT yesterday there is a waiting list of
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    • 148 7 SINGAPORE Causeway Investment yesterday unveiled a poor set of interim results as it dipped into the red with net losses of $3 million, compared to earnings of $215,000 previously. Turnover dropped 32 per cent to $12.78 million while investment income came to just $23,000.
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      304 7 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Sep 27 Last Sease Ia4ex Slock tale Ckft (actor Borers ($)<*) Avimo 1.830 -0.040 1.31 -9.30 CAC 7 300 5.21 Cercbos 5 900 4.21 FAN 14 500 0.100 10.35 23.26 GF Asia 3.160 0 160 2.26 37.21 Gen Mag 1.010 -0
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 79 8 SINGAPORE The Singapore stock exchange yesterday asked Heshe Holdings, which recently registered a pre-tax loss of $4.67 million on a turnover of Si 54 million, to explain why it said in its interim report that it expects the group's performance to be satisfactory for the
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        • 81 8 SINGAPORE United Overseas Bank has agreed to buy a 13-level building from the Australian Mutual Provident Society for A 521.75 million (5522.6 million). It said yesterday that the purchase of the building at 32-36 Martin Place, Central Sydney, will be settled in cash. It
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        • 73 8 SINGAPORE The Berjaya Leisure counter on Clob International was split into two separate quotations yesterday. Existing shares entitled to the gross final dividend of 12 per cent and the proposed rights issue of MS 150 million (SS9S million) 5 per cent bonds with warrants will
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        • 57 8 SINGAPORE Dr Chua Yong Hai. group general manager of Suntec City Development, was recently appointed to the board of Goodman Fielder Asia Holdings. Goodman Fielder said Dr Chua's appointment, which took effect last Thursday, is nonexecutive. Dr Chua, an engineer, was formerly with the Singapore Government
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        • 43 8 SINGAPORE Sime Singapore said over the weekend that associate AXA Sime Investment Holdings last Tuesday completed the sale of its entire stake of 2.44 million shares in The Safety Insurance Company in Thailand for 5568.66 million.
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        • 80 8 SINGAPORE DBS Bank said shareholders' approval of its bonus issue on Sep 18 has led to the adjustment of the conversion price of its non-redeemable convertible preference shares. The conversion price is now 512.90 per ordinary share, compared with $10.32 previously. Based on the adjusted
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        • 104 8 SINGAPORE SES-listed Clipsal Industries has posted a 27.7 per cent rise in group net earnings to 556.31 million for the half-year to June 30. The maker of electrical products attributed its fine results to the strength of the building industry and growth in the replacement
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        • 136 8 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed Material Handling Engineering (MHE) yesterday announced dismal year-end results as it plunged deeper into the red. The group's net loss ballooned from the previous $600,000 to $4.2 million. After accounting for an extraordinary gain of $161,000 on the sale of subsidiary M
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      • 367 8 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Metroplex Bhd has entered into a joint venture with a Chinese high technology company to tap the booming market in China for wireless communication particularly paging. It said in a statement here yesterday that the two partners will also cooperate
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      • 249 8  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Listed Keppcl Integrated Engineering, through a Malaysian associate, has clinched a MS6 milllion (553.7 million) turnkey project to build storage tanks in Malaysia. Under the deal, the associate, Mechmar Kcppel Engineering Sdn Bhd, will construct two distillate fuel oil storage tanks
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      • 288 8 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR KFC Holdings (Malaysia) Bhd said it had through three other parties entered into a shareholders agreement to promote Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurants in Brunei through a joint-venture company KFCBSB. KFCBSB was incorporated in Brunei on Nov 27, 1990, with an authorised capital
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      • 246 8 AFP MANILA The Philippines' main telecommunications firm plans to wipe out a backlog of applications for more than 700,000 telephone lines by 1996 with financing from a Eurobond flotation next year. The "fast-track" Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT) programme is expected to cost
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      • 276 8  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG CHINA Strategic Investments (CSI). a company controlled by Indonesia-born tycoon Oei Hong Leong. has reported a four-fold increase in interim net profit on strong contributions from its China joint ventures. Net profit before extraordinary items for the
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      • 480 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS II GEM) Sep 24 prices 1 Trustee hinds under Cff Investments Scheme deatog days Friday and Saturdays orty yesterday s pnet: a sptt mfcatrve price fcjfeng prices determined at the end ofeadi day Manager*' pricM Sep 28 InSUTMCC Fund Singapore Unit Trust Income Bond Policy 3.62 3.76
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      • 142 8 HONGKONG China will not collect the 20 per cent withholding tax on dividends from "H" share investors for the time being, the Hongkong Stock Exchange assistant director Kenneth Koo said last Friday. The move is seen to stimulate investor interest in mainland enterprises
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      • 460 9 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Brent Walker Group pic said its pre-tax loss widened in the first half as its results were "overshadowed" by heavy interest payments on its debt. In a statement, the troubled United Kingdom betting office and public
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      • 173 9 FT LONDON A chief executive is being sought for Amstrad, the consumer electronics group which led the UK personal computer boom in the 1980s before slipping into loss. The move is designed to strengthen the company's day-to-day management and give Alan Sugar, the Amstrad founder
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      • 424 9 NYT NEW YORK The rapid-fire succession of spinoffs, acquisitions or restructurings last week in the chemical industry reinforced what many Wall Street analysts had already concluded: chemicals are having another bad year, and will probably endure several more before the business
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      • 273 9 Reuter LONDON Arab-backed investment bank Investcorp said yesterday it had bought Italian luxury goods group Gucci by buying out the 50 per cent coowner and chief executive, Maurizio Gucci, for an undisclosed sum. The bank has been battling for control of the troubled leather
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      • 268 9 Bloomberg Business News SANTA CLARA, California International Business Machines Corp will, for the first time, manufacture computers for the burgeoning US$lO.4 billion (5516.6 billion) mail-order market Starting this week, IBM will supply desktop machines on a customised basis for Inmac Corp, a Santa
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 71 9 TOKYO Benetton Group of Italy plans to launeh its shares on the foreign section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, while Toyama Bank will launch its stocks on the Nagoya Stock Exchange as early as November, the Nikkei Financial Daily reported yesterday. The newspaper quoted Benetton as
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        • 47 9 Reuter LONDON Matthew Clark pic said yesterday that it had requested the suspension of its shares here because it is negotiating the possible acquisition of certain businesses. The shares of the wine and spirits company were at 470 pence before the suspension. Reuter
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        • 70 9 Reuter LONDON Engineering firm Metalrax Group pic yesterday said it was considering expanding through acquisitions and could announce a purchase shortly. Company chairman John Ward said it was talking to a number of parties about buying their businesses and there could be an announcement before
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        • 72 9 Reuter TOKYO The Tokyo District Court ruled that a sales unit of cosmetics firm Shiseido Co Ltd may have violated the AntiMonopoly Law. a Shiseido spokesman said yesterday. The court ordered Shiseido Tokyo Sales Co Ltd to resume shipments to Fujiki Honten which it stopped
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        • 73 9 LONDON Shares in plant hire company Andrews Sykes Group pic yesterday dived 29 pence, or 27.6 per cent, to 76 pence after the company gave a profit warning and said it would pass its interim dividend. Sykes said its experience in the second
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      • 382 9 NYT WASHINGTON Get ready for the biggest burst of arbitrage and speculation since before Ivan Boesky went to jail. Even before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced its plan last Thursday to auction oft" a huge swath of the United States'
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 294 11  -  By I Agnes Chen SINGAPORE Singapore can clfum to have three toprated global custodian banks for the first time in the five years that a leading US-based industry journal has carried out annual ratings. The hat-trick came about when DBS Bank improved
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      • 478 11 FT LONDON Asia's dragon bond market has finally got off the ground, two years after it was set up by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in an effort to develop the capital markets in this part of the world.
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      • 278 11 Reuter LONDON UK insurance broker Sedgwick Group pic has invited offers to buy shares in the first investment vehicle giving limited liability access to the Lloyd's of London insurance market. The minimum investment in CLM Insurance Fund pic, which will be listed on the London
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      • 442 11  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON CHINA has considerably reduced its reliance on international wheat markets, according to the International Wheat Council (IWC). The inter-governmental body, which monitors world grain trade, estimates that China's wheat production has grown to 103 million tonnes this year from
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 76 11 AFP TOKYO The Export-Import Bank of Japan announced yesterday the signing of a 10-year Eurobond issue raising 75 billion yen (SSI. 12 billion), its first offering denominated in the Japanese currency. The issue, lead managed by Nomura International pic and IBJ International pic, carries
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        • 90 11 Reuter DHAKA Bangladeshi banks are likely to cut their lending rates to 15 per cent from 18 per cent on Oct 1, banking sources said. The central bank recently reduced the bank rate to 5.5 per cent from 6 per cent, effective from Sep
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        • 98 11 AFP TOKYO Six Japanese banks said yesterday they would cut their long-term prime lending rate by three-tenths of a percentage point to a new record low of 4.5 per cent effective Friday. The cut in the rate, charged on loans of more than one
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        • 113 11 Reuter TOKYO Mitsui Trust and Banking Co Ltd has seized 45,058,000 shares in auto parts maker Koito Manufacturing Co Ltd, which the bank holds as collateral for bad loans to financially troubled Azabu Building Co Ltd. a Mitsui spokesman said. The shares are equivalent to
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      • 330 11 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The depressed tin industry is dying and Malaysia, once the world's biggest producer, should just let it rest in peace, Primary Industries Minister Lim Kcng Yaik said. "I've given up on tin. Forget about tin. Go into something
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      • 408 11 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Oil futures priccs surged 50 cents a barrel yesterday as Opec oil ministers meeting in Geneva since Saturday, announced planned production of 24.5 million barrels a day for the fourth quarter, brokers said. Priccs subsequently lost half the earlier
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      • 148 11 RUMOURS of a UK rate cut perpetuated in the currencies market yesterday and traders sold sterling for US and related crosses. Trading was otherwise confined to ranges in the other US/majors as the interest in the Russian unrest waned. The USS traded mixed against the
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      • 209 11 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar, down 1.7 pfennigs from the close of trading last week, ended little changed yesterday in Europe as political tensions in Russia faded into the background. The dollar held in a 0.6 pfennig range during European trading hours as President Boris Yeltsin showed he's
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      • 88 11 AFP NEW YORK The dollar slipped yesterday as traders waited for US President Bill Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa to address the UN General Assembly. The greenback traded at 1.626S German marks against 1.6300 earlier in London and 1.6385 Friday in New York. The dollar traded
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1512 14 SiMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar interest rate futures ended firmer on steady buying following late Friday news that the US Federal Reserve is adopting a neutral bias on monetary policy, dealers said. "The Euros opened three to four ticks higher due to the
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      • 625 14 COMMOOITY REPORTS Tin Tin surged further to end sharply higher on strong covering interest, dealers said. The market was boosted by London advances which were helped by last week's news that Malaysian producers are cutting back by 25 per cent. Tin settled at MS 11.29
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        • 114 14 TOKYO Japanese demand for all oil-based fuels in the second half of the 1993-1994 (April-March) fiscal year will be only 98.4 per cent of the demand in the same period in 1992-93, according to a draft of a Ministry of International Trade and
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        • 68 14 TOKYO Japan's copper products and alloys demand forecast for October-March period was revised downward by 5.1 per cent to 533,100 tonnes from 561,550 tonnes forecast in March, according to figures released by the Japan Brass Makers Association. Demand for copper products and alloys in April-September
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        • 60 14 TAIPEI Taiwan's Hui Shung group said it would re-tender to buy 23,000 tonnes of US No 2 yellow corn, traders said. Shipment is for Oct 22Nov 5 from the Gulf of Mexico or Nov 6-20 from the Pacific Northwest. The tender is a combination
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        • 108 14 SINGAPORE Small tonnages of new-crop Vietnamese corn are now arriving in Malaysia, mainly in the eastern part of the country, according to dealers. About 15,000 tonnes of com have Jeft Vietnam since August, and some 12,000 tonnes went to Malaysia and 3,000 to Indonesia, traders
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1242 15 -3.5 Shares ended weaker as the spending spree unleashed after Friday's Olympic announcement came to an end. Brokers said there was selective offshore buying in some stocks that could benefit immediately from Sydney playing host to the 2000 Olympics, but overall turnover was light. "After the flurry of activity
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      • 543 15 -28.99 Share prices ended lower after nervous investors, seeing no signs of recovery from early losses, intensified selling in late trade. The Weighted Index closed 28.99 points down at 3.848.46 in thin turnover of T$ 12.89 billion. Brokers said the market was technically in a downtrend and sentiment was
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      • 561 15 +2.65 Share prices closed marginally higher in narrow trading with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT) leading the gainers, brokers said. PLDT ended 20 pesos higher at 1,370 following a slight rise on Wall Street. Abacus Securities vice-presi- dent Charles Ngan said interest shifted back to PLDT because of
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      • 409 15 14.28 Healthy across-the-board interest pushed the market higher but brokers forecast that rampant profit-taking in reaction to sudden steep advances would pressure the market today. "Advance buving, predicting a bull market alter the Chusok holiday, prevailed in the market," said SC Woo of Tongyang Securities. "Institutional buvers, who have
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      • 260 15 -8.45 The New Zealand share market finished one if its quietest days in recent memory slightly lower. Brokers said there was little direction from offshore markets and local institutions are transacting little business ahead of the quarter end. The domestic economic news diary is also light this week.
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      • 82 15 +22.63 Stocks closed higher on a late rally fuelled by institutional buying, brokers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) 30-Share Index closed at a provisional 2,745.15, up 22.63 points from the previous close. The 100-share National Index closed at a provisional 1,306.59, up 1.84 points from the previous close.
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      • 632 15 +21.1 Stocks rose for the second session running, led by oil "stocks and hopes for interest* rate cuts in Continental Europe, traders and analysts said. Denmark cut three official interest rates by half-a-point on Friday and US Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, speaking at the weekend meeting of the Group
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      • 145 15 +o.Bpc Shares suffered a minor setback during the midsession, slipping off the day's highs, amid disappointment that the Bank of France left its key intervention rate unchanged at 6.75 percent at its money market tender. Some traders pushed the market higher on rate cut hopes which built up last
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      • 109 15 10.48 Shares ended higher as market interest rates were steady to lower and earnings figures from Procordia encouraged investors, traders said. "It was quiet. Nevertheless, the market proved to be strong," a trader at Ostgota Enskilda Bank said. After a brief dip in early trading, shares climbed steadily throughout
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      • 126 15 +2.56pc The index gained strongly in the second half of the session, with telecommunications stocks, Pirelli and some Fiat group companies seen ripe for sale leading the way. Brokers said the market is rebounding from recent lows which saw BCI index touch 586.5 on Friday. But caution remains. The
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      • 226 15 +26.32 Equities prices made a clear recovery in yesterday's session from last week on a view that the situation in Russia was now less precarious, dealers said. But shares had limited room to rise as long as there was still a chance that the Moscow power struggle could escalate.
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      • 256 15 16.03 Shares ended sharply higher, but profit taking and position squaring in the last hour of trading eroded some of their earlier gains. The blue-chip SMI Index rose as high as 2,496.8, but eased back when it became clear that resistance at 2,500 would hold for the moment, dealers
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      • 253 15 +2.65 Shares stumbled lethargically higher, impelled by stronger bourses elsewhere and firm bonds but no real demand. The weaker dollar was shrugged ofT, with the market aided by easing tension in Moscow. "Despite the fact we went up a fair bit we don't see any business," said one dealer.
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      • 770 15 Britannia Funds Stcrliat Cash Bid Offer Mim Cap Drpoui M 6400 it 6500 Mim JenryGiK JLIS9J 0 1992 MimMai laconic ****** *1 0600 LSS Cash lacomc Plin Fund *****0 *****0 PS t Roerve Fund 5 2100 5 2200 0 4592 0 44)1 Far Eatt Fund *2 7650 *2 97J0 Man
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      • 338 15 +77 Shares soared to end substantially higher in the wake of the planned lifting of sanctions by leading economies. Dealers said that, and hopes for an early merging of the financial and commercial rands, had given shares a psychological boost but gains were mainly driven by speculative buyers. The
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      • 254 15 +4.43 Stocks firmed early as investors gained confidence from the apparent calming of the political situation in Russia, traders said. "Everything's wonderful because war didn't break out on the weekend and likely won't break out," one dealer said. The TSE 300 composite gained 4.43 points to 3986.79 in turnover
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      • 726 15 18 Wall Street stocks, drawing strength from a bond market sent surging by good news from the Federal Reserve, continued to trade higher at midday but had slipped off their earlier peaks. The Dow was up 18 at 3562, after climbing to 3572, while advances led declines by
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      2817 16 Reuter STOCKS closed sharply lower on news that SinoBritish talks on Hongkong ended with the British saying the two sides were still far apart, brokers said. The blue chip Hang Seng Index ended down 72.96 points, or 0.97 per cent, at 7,452.09. having lagged 40 points at the midsession
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      519 16 ALL SHARE prices closed higher on the Shanghai 'B' market with the CLSA Shanghai B Index ending 43.21 points higher to close at 830.88. Trading was active than as seen over the past weeks. The biggest mover was Tyre and Rubber, closing 9.1 per cent higher on a turnover
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      2520 16 STOCKS ended lower after shedding early gains and the Nikkei trembled on the brink of 20,000 as small-lot selling hit prices in thin trade, brokers said. Major investors remained sidelined, with no fresh factors to support the market, they said. "Today's falls were caused by unwinding of arbitrage-linked trade
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      1770 16 Reuter STOCKS continued to dive in the afternoon on technical worries continuing from last week while investors were sidelined by the impending enforcement of stricter rules on margin requirements, brokers said. The SET Index plunged 14.68 points, or 1.50 per cent, to close at 964.90 on thin turnover of
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      1082 16 Reuter SHARE PRICES closed weaker in slow trading, with corrections on major capitalised stocks dampening overall sentiment, brokers said. The Official Index edged down 0.14 points to 420.90. "The market is consolidating as share prices are fully valued. New issues which are offered at lower price earnings absorbed the
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    • 2590 17 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE vdum> Mtlropte* 50c 46.184.000 Mulli-Purpose 32.238.000 kjmuniing MX 24.5JO.OOO (•anda HIoIb 16.08' 000 Idns H>tl 50c I2.JT9.000 MBICapttaJ 12.318.000 FACB 50c 8.150.000 lira Bhd 8.055.000 Kemayan 50c 6.690 000 Mcnang Corp 6.390.000 Kenong Bhd 50c 5.623.000 Promet 5.248.000 M Mosaics
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
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        5404 17 Source: Bridge Info WfltCES ft TURNOVER Clow Previous Chang* KLSE Composite 843.32 837 87 *5 45 NST Industrial 4538.12 4490 70 *47 42 NST Finance 6545 13 6469 10 +76.03 NST Properties .1733 02 1676 92 +56 10 NST Plantation 6897 47 6494 44 +***** NST Mining 1492 36 1361
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      • 217 17 Bernama SHARE PRICES closed higher as retail players focused on second-line stocks led by Multi-Purpose Holdings, but profit-tak-ing dragged stocks down from earlier highs, brokers said. "Players are rotating play among sec-ond-liners," said a dealer. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index closed
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 1087 18  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The French have a saying plus ca change, plus ce la meme chose the more that things change, the more they stay the same. The day, week and month may be different, but yesterday's trading in the stock market
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        74 18  -  I HOT STOCK Paul Leo BUY Metro Holdings at $4.94 as the downside is limited to $4.80. The daily MACD is about to give a buy signal. And the daily chart shows a divergent or bullish pattern a rising RSI with Tailing prices. Any further price weakness will
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      • 6513 18 Cr Gf 1993 La» Vol Day Last OM Dh Die YW Nat M Cap High Law "I -J Sale CMC) High Low Bayer Setter Or P/E Sail INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1350 260 Acme 965 id -55 466 1000 960 965 973 12.3 2.1 I.) 41 8 665.1 270 220 s
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    • 133 15 NEW YORK GOLD SHY TELEVIEW -THE NEW YORK GOLD MARKET IS VERY SENSITIVE TO RUMOURS AND THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA. COMEX GOLD ENDED HIGHER AS |H J RUSSIAN TENSION REMAINED. To make profitable and timely decisions you need to have your finger on the pulse of the world. Only Teleview
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  • SPORTS
    • 646 19 Ryder Cup Golf Reuter SUTTON COLDFIELD, England Tom Watson outfoxed Bernard Gallacher and found the right moves to keep the Cup in American hands on Sunday. Watson's inspired captaincy produced masterstrokes his European counterpart could not match as the US won 15-13 to return home with the
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    • 826 19 NYT NEW YORK The four down-to-the-last-weekend division races that appeared possible earlier this month have withered to one, but the cham-pions-in-waiting in the three other divisions had to pull off critical winning streaks to fend off their pursuers. Barring a week-long winning
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    • SPORT SHORTS
      • 276 19 Reuter NEW YORK National Football league Sunday: Miami 22 Buffalo 13; Chicago 47 Tampa Bay 17; Detroit 26 Phoenix 20; LA Rams 28 Houston 13; Indianapolis 23 Cleveland 10; Minnesota 15 Green Bay 13; Seattle 19 Cincinnati 10; New Orleans 16 San Francisco 13; NY Jets 45 New
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        46 19 Reuter IX>S ANGEIJCS US Open singles finals Sunday (prefix denotes seeding; seeds five through eight are not differentiated and are indicated by x) Men: x-Marlevc Mainkay (Indo) b 2-Fung Permadi (Indo) 15-8 15-8. Women: 1-Lim Xiao Qing (Swe) b 2-Christine Magnusson (Swc) 11-5 11-0. Rcuter
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        279 19 Reuter. AFP WASHINGTON American league Sunday: Chicago 5 Texas 3 (Ist game); Texas 3 Chicago 2 (2nd game): Detroit 9 Baltimore 4 (Ist game): Detroit 6 Baltimore 5 (2nd game): Minnesota 5 Boston 2; Cleveland 6 Milwaukee 4; NY 7 Toronto 3; Kansas 9 California 8 (in 10): Oakland
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        231 19 Reuter Reuter ENDICOTT, New York I SSBOO.OOO B C Open leading final round scores Sunda> (US unless stated): 271 Blaine McCallister 68 71 65 6 7 272 Denis Watson (SA) 69 70 68 65 273 Bill Glasson 66 72 68 67 275 Greg Kraft 70 70 68 67, Mark
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    • 412 19 AP SUTTON COLDFIELD, England Far from wondering why they lost this time, Europe's Ryder Cup golfers are into semi-serious discussion about who should lead them into the next event in 1995. Even before Sunday's 15-13 loss to the United States at
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    • 149 19 HOURS BEFORE he went out to beat Corey Pavin on Sunday, Peter Baker was rushing his 11-month-old daughter Georgina to hospital with suspected meningitis. The 25-year-old English golfer and his wife Helen took Georgina to hospital on Saturday night. Baker returned to the team
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    • 125 19 TOM KITE LED the eagle count on the final day of play while Seve Ballcsteros snagged the most bogeys. Kite overwhelmed Bemhard Langer 5 and 3 in the day's biggest victory, helped by eagles at the 10th and 15th where Langer conceded. At the
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    • 91 19 AP PAUL AZINGER BIRDIED three of the last five holes to earn a half against Nick Faldo. Ray Floyd, who became the oldest Ryder Cup player at age SI, birdied 12, 13 and 14 to go 3 up against Jose-Maria Olazabal and win 2 holes. On the
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    • 425 19 AFP NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana As usual, the Saints-49ers game was close, but unusually it was the Saints who won lo emerge as the only National Football League team with a 4-0 record four weeks into the season. New Orleans won 16-13 on Sunday
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    • 767 21  -  When a British home is disturbed, there's no telling what its inhabitants may resort to Shahiron Sahari has seen what might happen in Lloyd George Knew My Father Shahiron Sahari THE title of the play. Lloyd George Knew My Father, refers to a song in the
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    • 496 21 NYT DANNY Glover daydreamed aloud as he took time out from his whirlwind schedule of promoting his new Paramount film, Bopha!, about a black family in South Africa. He was talking about another kind of film. He envisioned a gentle love story, something like
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    • 468 21 CHATTERBOX AP Reuter AP AP AP AUDREY HEPBURN, the late actress-turned-philanthro-pist. is being honoured with a statue in Arnhem. the city where she spent her wartime childhood. "People love her here." city spokesman Wouter Tetrode said of the Oscar-win-ning actress who starred in /?*>- man Holiday.
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
    • 918 22  - Hainan A promising haven for investment The island's highly speculative property market has been tamed and is now attractive for investors, says Amos Koh Amos Koh Hainan is more often in the news than other China provinces because of its highly speculative land market. In just five years, the island's
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    • 561 22  -  The 2000 Olympics has boosted hotel values, reports Sylvia Wong Sylvia Wong THE value of Australian hotels has jumped overnight on news that Sydney has clinched the deal to host the Olympic Games in the year 2000. said property consultancy Colliers Jardine. It said in a
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    • 787 23  -  Thailand's biggest developer faces problems in accounting and sales. Alan Boyd reports Alan Boyd B angkok land is fending off questions over its accounting procedures and a spate of unfavourable publicity from home buyers after posting a huge increase in profit in the second quarter.
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    • 398 23  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY TH E Singapore-based Lian Huat group of companies has unveiled an As6o million (Ss6l million) property development in Sydney timed to capitalise on the city's win to host Olympics 2000. The group, which is controlled by Kho Beng Kang.
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    • 319 23 Selected ERA transactions In the past week aa—»»c "tar l»-l °vr PfflVATE T Sep 20,1993 0922 Sophia Court T Condo T 1,732 FH T_ 725,000 418 Sep 22,1993 1025 Botanic Gdns Mansion Condo 1.750 j FH 680,000 388 Sep 23,1993 1025 Hdlandia Condo I 1,969 FH 780,000 396
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      • 75 23 SYDNEY The CBD office market should turn the corner in 1997, with vacancies falling to 14.2 per cent and rents starting to rise, says Colliers Jardine. But before the good times roll, vacancies will peak at 23.8 per cent about the end of this
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      • 74 23 SINGAPORE Australian developer Leda Holdings will launch a 240-unit central Sydney residential project in Singapore this weekend. Marketing agent Richard Ellis says the Asloo million (SSIO3 million) Victoria Tower development will be ready for occupation by mid-1995. Typical prices are: AS 140.000 for a 420
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      • 54 23 SINGAPORE Robert Yeoh, a former director of Morgan Grenfell Asia (Hongkong) and head of MGA's real estate advisory group, has been been appointed executive director of Bintan Resort Management. The island of Bintan is being developed by a consortium of Indonesian and Singapore companies into
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    • 788 22 Bank UrnitecT^ INCORPORATED IN JAPAN Non-consolidated Balance Sheets Non-consolidated Statements of Income and 31st March, 1993 and 1992 Retained Earnings Millions of Yen For the years ended 31st March, 1993 and 1992 1993 1992 Millions of Yen ASSETS 1993 1992 Cash and Due from Banks 6,701,134 8.124,226 Call Loans 317,977
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    • 766 22 IXI The Nippon Credit Bank, Ltd. (Incorporated in Japan) Haad Office: 13-10, Kudan-kito 1-chome, Chiyodo-ku Tokyo 102, Japan. BALANCE SHEETS I STATEMENTS Of INCOME March 31, 1993 and 1992 Years ended March 31, 1993 and 1992 Millions of Von Million* of Yen ,WJ IW IWI 1992 ASSETS INCOME Cash and
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  • 485 24 EDITORIAL DERIVATIVES, the shadowy and esoteric world of futures, options, swaps and other variations, continues to worry regulatory institutions worldwide. Curiously enough, the latest attack on this blossoming multi-trillion dollar industry comes from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a body that usually concerns itself with the structural
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 285 24 THE THREAT by the United States to withdraw its trade privileges to Indonesia might have made sense if the move really promised to rescue 2.4 million Indonesian children, aged between 10 and 14, from the work force. Actually, there is little guarantee that these children
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    • 194 24 AFTER serious campaigning that involved millions of dollars and marred by politics, Sydney has finally been chosen as the venue for the Olympics 2000. While Australians celebrate the news of the decision by the IOC members, other competing countries surely feel disappointed. China is disappointed
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    • 221 24 SINGAPOREANS were clearly disappointed with the news that China failed in its bid to host the 2000 Olympics. Such widespread sentiment has transcended language and racial factors, for the disappointment is felt not only by both English-educated and Chinese-ed-ucated Chinese, but is also reflected in the
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    • 168 24 THE GRACE with which Beijing has conceded defeat to Sydney for the Olympic Games in the year 2000 is test of its maturity as a nation. Its response to the International Olympic Committee decision, in the official People's Daily, headlined "Congratulations, Sydney" appears to give the lie,
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    • 162 24 POST-APARTHEID South Africa has finally started to take concrete and irreversible form after months of a wavering, violence-racked transition process. Cobbling together a consensus for a democratic political structure has been taken as a litmus test of the future viability of majority rule: a test which
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  • 1115 24  -  US President Bill Clinton's decision to allow American companies to compete for Vietnam's development projects has disappointed the business community and angered veterans. Leon Hadar reports Leon Hadar HERE he goes again, say American business people who have been pushing for normalising relations
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    • 1739 25  -  John Lloyd and Leyla Boulton examine the reasons for and the consequences of last week's disbanding of the Russian parliament John Lloyd,Leyla Boulton FT Handsome, bluff and straight, greyhaired but young for a politician, acting President Alexander Rutskoi played his part well. Late on Thursday night
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    • 926 25  -  Russian workers are not going along with strike calls issued by the speaker of parliament and a union chief, writes Moscow Correspondent John Helmer John Helmer RUSSIAN labour leaders prefer to sit out the political battle between President Boris Yeltsin and the Congress of People's
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    • 77 25 I SHARES RIGGING^ W '> t I here do you draw the line? H Wo vc heard ol syndicates moving the 1 II market and people talking shares pnees up or down. ould they he iiuiltv ol share riiiiiinii? Are Singapore s sec urities laws stringent enough? Join us lor
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  • 448 26 Call to heed international moratorium on nuclear weapons Reuter, AP, AFP UNITED NATIONS President Bill Clinton yesterday promised that the US would remain engaged in world affairs despite a focus on domestic renewal, and laid out a new policy for controlling the
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  • 483 26  -  From Anthony Rowley in WASHINGTON THE HEADS of the world's three most powerful multilateral institutions made a joint plea yesterday morning for a successful conclusion of Gatt's long-delayed and trou-ble-plagued Uruguay Round of trade talks. The powerful plea from General Agreement
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  • 239 26 Reuter WASHINGTON Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa says Japan will not set a numerical target to cut Japan's trade surplus with the US. In an interview on ABCs Good Morning America, yesterday, Mr Hosokawa also said that Japan did not intend
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  • 806 26  -  The Bottom Line PAUL SAMUELSON PAUL SAMUELSON The writer is an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This commentary first appeared in the Los Angeles Times. THE American economic locomotive is now the only source of global stimulus. The Japanese
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  • 392 26 AP, AFP. Reuter. NYT MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin ruled out compromise yesterday with his hardline opponents, saying he would not accept calls for simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections to end Russia's political crisis. Mr Yeltsin, who like chief opponent Ruslan Khasbulatov is rejecting
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  • 257 26 AFP, AP TOKYO North Korea, which is believed to be developing nuclear arms, is strengthening its military forces along the border with South Korea. The Sankci Shimbun said yesterday that the hardline communist state had deployed equipment including multiple rocket
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  • 255 26 Reuter LONDON The US formally announced yesterday that it was withdrawing from a Lon-don-based forum of coffee consuming and producing countries, driving one more nail into the coffin of pricesupporting commodity pacts. "Given our decades of commitment to international cooperation in coffee,
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  • Shipping Times
    • 425 27  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE UK-based MRC Business Information Group Ltd, which runs a data bank on marine-related companies, is raising its profile in the international shipping industry. The company recently appointed an agent in Singapore the first in South-east Asia to
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    • 221 27 SINGAPORE World-Wide Shipping's newest very large crude carrier was recently christened at South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd. The vessel, Sylt, was the last in an order of six motor tankers each of almost 300,000 deadweight tonnes WorldWide had ordered from the
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    • 363 27 MBT KUALA LUMPUR THE Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement (TWRA) has reaffirmed its schedule of planned rate adjustments for the rest of 1993. The agreement at the owners' level meeting in Taipei last week said member lines will adopt modifications to Taiwan and Hongkong destination
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    • 845 27 Page Col ABC Containcrlinc 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 •APL 5 3-5 Appenship 18 1/2 Alpha Feeders 6 1 •ANL 3 1/2 •ASCL 5 5 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 •Bank Line. The 9
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    • 574 27  -  Essnmn ifu Admiralty Casebook is a monthly column that highlights important shipping court cases By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE A recent Appeal Court judgment on ship arrests has made it easier for creditors to haul shipowners to court. In Pacific Navigation v the owners of OHM
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    • 264 27 International Transport Journal BASLE On Sep 13 the members of the Trans-Atlantic Agreement presented their business plan for 1994. It continues the policies introduced last year, and has to be seen in the context of a three-year plan (1993-95). Any new features are. therefore, extremely
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      • 747 28 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival D^partwe Jurong Port KM Wxhrw WW TO7 alongside 2809 1SOO ASl 25 8 193 M S alongside 2809 2300 Nusa laya I *****" P01 alongside 2709 2300 Bobcat 12 alongside 2809/1500 Pioneer Wave 26 P01 alongside
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      • 1870 28 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Ac. Swan 85A 291 500 2 27/1700 28/0659 28 0900 3 28/0700 28/1159 28,1400 4 28/1200 28/1459 28,1700 AMws Bree; 966
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    • 9901 36 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls
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    • 3313 41 i! m.B( Containerline NV: Bclsin Shpg xjfcviv, Pte Ltd (SyMannc Handling Sdßtid (PK/PN). Uxjft Group: Accord Shpg Ptc Ltd (SVftccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Vdkris Business t corporation Philippine Calipurcc Shpg Trdg Ptc Ltd (S) \hr?nkiel Liner Sen-ice: Kim Shpg Trdg (S) VUtttros Sen-Air Sen ice: Frata Shpg Ptc
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    • 272 41 Abacus Couriers Td: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898. Air Express Travel Td: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144. Airborne Freight Corporation Td: 542-8844. Fax: 542-3716. *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Td: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplies Td: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. City-link International Td: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Cluster Link Supplies Services Td:
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    • 1475 41 Abex Express Freight Td: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7821 Fax: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Td: 545-803lFax: *****05. Aerospeed Td: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Td: 542-5454 Fax: *****06 Air Express International Td: 542-7666. Fax: *****74. *****50 Air Market
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    • 2468 42 ALBANIA Duress: Seven vessels in port of which 1 discharging cemcnt. 1 loading pig iron. 3 discharging bagged flour, 1 discharging bulk wheat, 1 discharging general cargo, vessels in roads awaiting berth: 3 bagged Hour, 1 cement, 1 coke. ANGOLA Luanda: Port working normally. Water available throughout city
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    • 1000 42 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES The information was contributed by Simpson Spence Young AFP THE POSITIVE attitude from buyers, especially in the Greek sector, remains a major feature of the market which has again seen some significant sales being concluded. Perhaps the most surprising was the price level achieved by Shell
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    • 566 42 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op flight |\pe ETA T From Op Flight Type ETD T To TODAY TODAY NC\ KZ203 B747F 0145 I NRT SIA SQ802 B747F 0230 2 SYD/AKL K\L KE697 B747F 0150 1 SEL NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 I BKK/NRT JAL JL6I7 B747F 0345 I TYO KAL
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    • 178 42 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS \rr Dep Name of Vessel ETA EID Ports of Calk Port Agent Telephone No SEPTEMBER 24 01 Mikhail Sholokho\ 1600 1100 Sin-Hongkong Jardinc Shpg Agcncics 224-1051 REGIONAL FERRIES Port of Cmll Name of cssgl Agent telephone Sckupang (Batam) Palm Spring Indo Falcon Shipping *****78 Sekupang
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    • 1152 43 THE BALTIC Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,426 on Friday from 1.424 on Sep 23. Trading has been sluggish in most areas of the freight market, brokers said. There has been little activity on the key US Gulf grain routes, although Continental Grain
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    • 634 43 Title: Marine Legislation, Administrative Procedures Practices in Singapore (SDF case-by-case basis) Duration: Oct 4-25 (4 evenings) Organiser: Singapore National Shipping Association Tel: For further details and application forms contact SNSA at tel: 278-3464 or fax: 274-5079 Title: Principles of Shipping Operations and Practices (SDF 70%) Duration: Oct 5
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    • 1014 44 Ship financing in the Mediterranean archipelago is booming with steady growth in shipping Lloyd's List Reports or the steady expansion of Greek shipping in the last few years may have given outsiders the impression that there is a cash-filled balloon permanently moored over Piraeus. Not
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 340 46  -  Thai Air Show By Ramesh Divyanathan BANGKOK Indonesian aircraft maker Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara made a conspicuous appearance at last week's Thai Air Show. It was the only regional aircraft maker to bring its hardware to the show a
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      • 472 46 AFP MANILA After years of false starts, the Philippines' aviation industry is finally showing signs of getting off the ground, although industry veterans still see much turbulence ahead. President Fidel Ramos himself ordered last month the defence and transportation departments to draw
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        • 110 46 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's state shipping company PT Pelni plans to expand its fleet by 17 passenger liners between now and the year 2000, a company spokesman said yesterday. One 2,000-pas-senger capacity liner will arrive here in November to join Pelni's current fleet of
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        • 92 46 Reuter MELBOURNE A 48-hour strike against Australian stevedoring companies has ended at all the companies except Australian Stevedores Ltd. company officials said yesterday. A spokeswoman for Australian Stevedores said the strike by 1,800 Maritime Union of Australia members, which began on Friday night, was
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        • 84 46 Reuter CANBERRA Ansett Australia, jointly owned by TNT Ltd and News Corporation Ltd. will fly to and from Hongkong next year after being allocated air capacity between the British colony and Australia. The International Air Services Commission said it has allocated to Ansett
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        • 110 46 AP MANAMA, Bahrain Gulf Air and Kuwait Airways have signed a joint venture agreement with Jet Airways, one of the new private airlines flying in India, Gulf Air said in a statement on Sunday. Gulf Air and Kuwait Airways have each taken a 20
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        • 38 46 IN LAST Friday's Shipping Times, the feature "NOL savours the pleasures of partnership" attributed Fairplay as the publication source. This is incorrect. The source was actually Lloyd's List Maritime Asia. We apologise for the error.
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      • 242 46 SINGAPORE Over 1,000 people recently got together for the shipping industry's Bash of the Year. Last Monday, the shipping fraternity and its friends gathered at the Raffles City Convention Centre to celebrate the Singapore National Shipping Association's eighth anniversary. Joining the festivities
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    • 603 39 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 4/10 ROTTERDAM 2/10 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 4/10 HAMBURG/BREMEN 4/10 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 30/09 FELIXSTOWE/UK 4/10 BARCELONA/SPAIN 3/10 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 4/10 GENOA/ITALY 2715 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 4/10 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 3/10 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 30/09 NEW YORK/EC 3/10 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 1/10 VANCOUVER 1/10 BRISBANE
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