The Business Times, 30 September 1993

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  • 14 1 Business Times W E KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Thursday September 30 1993 75'
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 77 1 AP WASHINGTON (AP) Two Republican lawmakers asked President Bill Clinton yesterday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown accepted US$7OO,OOO (SSl.l million) from the Vietnamese government. The allegations say the Vietnamese wanted Mr Brown to work towards lifting the
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    • 67 1 Reuter BRIGHTON, England British Labour Party leader John Smith won a big victory yesterday in his battle to put his party back on the road to power by loosening its trade union ties. In a dramatic vote. Labour's annual conference narrowly backed Mr
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    110 1 Stack market indices Wednesday Change STII 1,989.28 +0.14 ICLSE Composite 846.56 -3.36 Nikkei 20,077.41 -95.31 HangSeng 7,551.10 +80.60 SET Index 966.02 -2.48 Jakarta Composite ...419.50 +1.11 CLSA China B 1033.60 4.77 Aust All Ord 1.9514 +9.1 FTSE 100 3.030.1 -6.8 Wednesday Previous midday dose Dow Joaes 3,572.45 3,566.02
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  • 407 1 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government has lowered the equity level which defines an indigenous bumiputra company to facilitate joint ventures with foreign companies. The president of the Federation of Public Listed Companies (FPLC), Naquiyuddin Tuanku Jaafar, said yesterday that the government would
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  • 359 1  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Petronas, Malaysia's state-owned oil company, will make a bid for Petron Corp, the Philippines' largest corporation, when it is privatised late this year. Bemama yesterday quoted Petronas president and chief executive Azizan Zainul Abidin as saying: "We are
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  • 39 1 SINGAPORE President Ong Teng Cheong will be on a private visit to Malaysia from tomorrow to Sunday. He will return on Sunday morning. During his absence, Mr Lim Kim San will act as President.
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  • 363 1  -  From Harish Mehta in PHNOM PENH CAMBODIA has scrapped its restrictive licensing system for foreign trade and lowered tariffs on selected imports. With the scrapping of the licensing system on Sep 16, Cambodian firms are no longer required to apply for import
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  • 289 1  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG HONGKONG'S securities watchdog has given Robert Kuok's Kerry group the go-ahead to buy News Corp's 34.9 per cent stake in the South China Morning Post. Ihe Securities and Futures Commission said in a statement yesterday that Kerry Media would not
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  • 435 1  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG CHINA has threatened to call fresh elections for Hongkong's legislature after it takes over in 1997 if no agreement is reached soon with Britain on the territory's political future. In a no-holds-barred speech
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  • 353 1  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE Eager home buyers have started queucing up again this time for a mid-priced condominium project which could rake in over $200 million in profits for its developer First Capital Corporation (FCC). The Simei project, called Melville Park, was due to be
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 278 2  -  By Sylvia Wong A RECORD number of tourists visited Singapore in August for the second month in a row. There were 608,842 arrivals during the month, outstripping the previous record of 583,347 in July. The number of arrivals in the first eight months of the
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    • 336 2  -  Findings of the Cost Review Committee By Schutz Lee THE Housing and Development Board should focus on basic housing for lowerincome people, says the Cost Review Committee. And the business of providing better homes to satisfy rising aspirations is better left to the
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    • 183 2 THE ANSWER to rising business costs is higher productivity, says the Cost Review Committee. Faced with limited resources and tougher competition, it is vital that the government, workers and employers join forces to lift productivity, it says in its report. "While the
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    • 148 2 The Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research and the Confederation of Indian Industry have signed a pact aimed at strengthening cooperation. The two bodies will work together to enhance their quality-management consultancy and training services. They also intend to introduce programmes
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    • 330 2 THE COST of owning a car has risen faster than inflation but slower than the growth of wages, says the Cost Review Committee. The result: car ownership has gone up. it says in its report. Private transport costs increased 5.2
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    • 292 2 THE CENTRE of the world economy will move to East Asia within the next two decades. says Minister for Information and the Arts George Yeo. High savings, plus a growing middle-class, will mean that an increasing share of the global wealth
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    • 292 2  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE marks a new age in industrial development today when Minister for Trade and Industry S Dhanabalan ofTicially opens Tech Semiconductor in Woodlands, a high-tech chip plant rated among the best in the world. Securing the Tech project was
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    • 131 2 BUSINESS and cultural ties between Singapore and Germany will get a boost from a month-long event which starts on Saturday. The "German in Singapore. October 93" programme follows Chancellor Helmut Kohl's visit in February, when he called on German industry to plug into
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    • 241 2 CHINA'S crackdown on its overheated economy will help foreign investors combat inflation. while a more flexible cur-rency-conversion climate will enable investors to realise better profits. But to benefit, foreign investors must first gain the trust of their Chinese partners, said Tibs Holdings managing
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    • 131 2 A MEETING here next month will bring together some of the biggest international names in countertrade, to lay the ground for forming an Asia-Pacific Countertrade Association. The association is the idea of lawyer David Hew. who said the meeting, on Oct 18, would appoint office bearers.
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  • THE REGION
    • 419 3 Reuter JAKARTA President Suharto has brought into the open a crueial military debate on the future political role of Indonesia's armed forces before an election for the ruling party's leadership. The outcome is seen as a pointer to whether a civilian
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    • 134 3 Reuter BANGKOK Three carriages of the Orient Express, a luxury train which started operations last week, were derailed yesterday near Bangkok. No one was injured when the last three carriages came off the rails about six km east of Bangkok, a Thai railway official
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    • 427 3 Reuter BANGKOK Thai traders have hailed Japan's reported decision to import rice for the first time in almost 10 years, hoping the move will lead to permanent opening of a closed but lucrative market. "This fulfills our long-standing hope after years of
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    • 251 3 AFP MANILA The Philippines must implement financial reforms to boost domestic savings if it hopes to keep pace with South-east Asia's newlyindustrialised economies. (NIEs). Centre for Research and Communication economist Paul Joseph Garcia was quoted by the Philippine Inquirer yesterday as saying the
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    • 525 3 Reuter HANOI A United States computer war broke out in Vietnam yesterday, with rivals IBM and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) jostling for position and IBM claiming the initial high ground. Announcements by the two firms within 24 hours that they had signed
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    • 500 4 Reuter GENEVA Major trading nations on Tuesday criticised China's foreign exchange restrictions at a Gatt working party studying Beijing's application to rejoin the world trade body, trade sources said. Japan, the European Community and the United States were among
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    • 244 4 AFP. Reuter HONGKONG China is considering a series of improved incentives to encourage more multinational corporations to invest in the country, a newspaper quoted officials as saying yesterday. Over the past 15 years, more than 134.000 foreign firms have invested some US$l69
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    • Article, Illustration
      52 4 Reuter SEOUL Thousands of cars lined up bumper-to-bumper on the Seoul-Pusan highway on Tuesday, as South Koreans tried to reach their hometown to celebrate the national Chusok holiday, the Korean version of Thanksgiving. The Seoul government estimates that about 20 million people travel around the country during this
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 112 4 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia may re-evaluate the purchase of US fighter jets from Jordan after a proposed amendment to the US Bill on foreign aid linking human rights issues to arms sales tailed to pass the Senate. "I heard that the amendment did not pass
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      • 84 4 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's capital market supervisory board (Bapepam) yesterday set tighter control on share purchases by foreigners in the stock exchanges in Jakarta and Surabaya, East Java. Bapepam said shares bought by foreign investors should be reported with the shares registry to avoid purchases above
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      • 90 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's commitment to the NonAligned Movement and the Asean Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality concept should not prevent it from active efforts in bilateral defence cooperation with Western powers, a Defence Ministry official suggested here yesterday. Under-Secretary for Policy Azizah
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      • 50 4 Reuter MELBOURNE Australian and Hongkong regulators agreed to formalise an exchange of information and assistance in investigations into corporate wrongdoing. A memorandum of understanding was signed by Australian Securities Commission chairman Alan Cameron and Hongkong Securities and Futures Commission chairman Robert Nottle, the ASC said. Reuter
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      • 61 4 AFP RAROTONGA The Cook Islands government is investigating reports of alleged wrongdoings by Hongkong companies using this country's tax haven status. Justice Minister Tiki Matapo said on Tuesday. Last week, the New Zealand National Business Review quoted Hongkong stock exchange officials as saying
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    • 306 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan plans to convcrt up to 160.000 hectares of farmland, or about 4.5 per cent of its total land area, into industrial and commercial districts under an economic stimulus packagc. local media said. The plan is contained in a recommendation by the
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    • 428 5 FT NEW DELHI India plans to sign bilateral investment protection treaties with the US, UK, Germany and other countries in order to reassure potential foreign investors about the safety of their investments, Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao said on Tuesday.
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    • 286 5 AFP ABU DHABI The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and India will step up coordination to combat drug money laundering under an agreement signed recently, the al-Bayan newspaper reported yesterday. It said the cabinet approved the agreement on Monday, under
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    • 363 5 AP CANBERRA Prime Minister Paul Keating yesterday again called for a new Australian flag that would better represent Australia to the world apparently one without British markings. "The symbols of the nation and its identity ought to be clear
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    • 232 5 Reuter SYDNEY Australian Aborigines plan to lobby African nations to boycott Sydney's 2000 Olympic Games if the government goes ahead with proposed laws on Aboriginal land title, an Aboriginal spokesman said yesterday. Aboriginal leaders from across the
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    • 346 5 Reuter TOKYO Leaders of the scandal-marred Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for 38 years until its recent downfall, urged members yesterday to stay loyal to stop the party falling apart. The LDP. now the main opposition party after
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    • 181 5 AFP SUVA Fiji's multi-million dollar sugar industry ground to a halt yesterday as 200 workers walked off the job at the Labasa sugar factory on Fiji's second largest island of Vanua Levu. Workers at three other mills of the state-owned
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 915 6  -  Hiccups in Australian. New Zealand economies From Florence Chong in SYDNEY THE Australian government has lurched from one crisis to the next since it handed down the Budget for 1993/94 more than six weeks ago. The fiasco has drained Treasurer John Dawkins
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    • 676 6 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON New Zealand exporters are discovering the price of a thriving economy. Their local dollar is appreciating against most world currencies. which in turn makes their wool products and manufactured goods less pricecompetitive abroad. Consider that the4tiHP* dollar.
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  • THE WORLD
    • 343 7 Reuter BRUSSELS EC Trade Commissioner Leon Brittan said on Tuesday there was now no reason for Asian nations to hold ofT making better trade offers. Mr Brittan said that although there was no US-EC agreement on farm trade it was time for other
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    • 222 7 Reuter CAIRO The European Community spelled out yesterday its vision of a singlemarket Middle East linked by highways, power grids and a super oil pipeline from the Gulf to the Mediterranean. As aid donors prepared to meet in Washington tomorrow to coordinate financial backing
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    • 230 7 IHT, Reuter FRANKFURT Going on the offensive to fight wage demands in their embattled industry, western Germany's powerful mctalworking and electrical companies announced on Tuesday that they would unilaterally cancel wage and benefit contracts covering 3.6 million workers. It was the
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    • 131 7 Reuter WASHINGTON British Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke signalled on Tuesday that he intends to concentrate expected tax increases next year on consumers, instead of businesses, and on consumption, instead of income. "I want to see a (British) recovery that is
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    • 409 8  -  From Anthony Rowley in WASHINGTON THIS year's World Bank/ IMF annual meetings have brought fairly sharp remind-' ers that the so-called Third World debt crisis had not gone away despite being overshadowed by other problems of global trade and growth. The
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    • 477 8 AFP. AP WASHINGTON Developing countries have become a powerful force in the world economy, and are projected to contribute about one third of world growth over the next five years. World Bank president Lewis Preston said. Speaking on Tuesday at the opening
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    • 219 8 AP WASHINGTON The Census Bureau predicts radical shifts in the nation s racial and ethnic balance that will change the face of America from the classroom to Congress. A study issued on Tuesday by the agency projects: Hispanics in 2010 will replace blacks as the nation's
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    • 250 8 Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON The industrial world's chances of coming out of its current slump aren't bad despite the many problems facing industrial economies, according to Bundesbank president Helmut Schlesinger. He acknowledged deep employment problems in a speech to the World Bank and the International Monetary
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 431 9  -  By Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE Legislation against share rigging in Singapore is a grey area and the penalty against perpetrators is inadequate. Associate Professor Walter Woon said yesterday. However, a market player who is prosecuted for share rigging has already lost the game for
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    • 367 9  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Net earnings for national carrier Neptune Orient Lines jumped 38 per cent to $30.9 million for the six months to June 30. Bolstered by improved business in its North American services, group turnover rose 23.5 per cent
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    • 319 9 SINGAPORE Can manufacturer Pacific Can Investment Holdings is expanding upstream through a US$lO million (S$ 15.8 million) jointventure agreement to operate a fruit juice canning plant in China. Pacific Can said yesterday that the joint venture was entered into by its wholly-owned
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    • 214 9 SINGAPORE The Singapore stock exchange has engaged a second listings manager to help with the growing workload at the department. Certified public accountant Ho Yew Mun, who is in his mid-30s, joined the exchange in June. This is the first time the SES has two
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    • 639 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Agnes Chen SINGAPORE When Boris Yeltsin thumbed his nose at the Russian Parliament, Acma shareholders several thousand kilometres away trembled and made for the nearest exit. Granted, the electronics counter was ripe for profit-taking,
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    • 269 9 SINGAPORE The Central Provident Fund Board yesterday named 14 banks, 12 insurance companies and 5 fund managers which can ofTer their services to its members under the Enhanced Investment Scheme (EIS), which takes effect tomorrow. The list of CPF-approved agent banks has also
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    • 128 9 SINGAPORE Listed Resources Development Corporation (RDC) yesterday reported lower net earnings of $3.66 million for the half-year ended June 30 down II per cent from before. The group said reduced sales from its granite business, following the closure of the group's Gali Batu
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    • 258 9  -  By Lilian Ang CITY Development's joint venture with US-based Johnson Controls International to provide operations and management services is poised to chalk up about $10 million in sales within the first year. Kwek Leng Joo, chairman of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      279 9 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STll's Index stocks Sep 29 Last St—« latex Stock sak Chat bcttrMWi <$)<*) Avimo I MO -0.010 1.31 -100.00 CAC 7.650 0.400 3.46 4000.0 Ccrctxn 5.950 0.100 4.23 ***** FAN 14.500 -0.300 10.35 -3 00 GF Asia 3 080 2.20 Gen Mac 0.990 -0.030
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 69 10 •SINGAPORE Straits Trading Co said that CW Tresise has ceased to be a member of the group's audit committee following his retirement as a director on May 27. Michael Wong Pakshong and Prof Lim Chong Yah have also ceased to be audit committee members
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        • 160 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Idris Hydraulic (M) Bhd yesterday reported a substantial rise of 20 times in group operating pre-tax profit to M 56.90 million (554.28 million) for the half year ended June 30, from M 5328,000 in the corresponding period last year. Group "turnover expanded
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        • 103 10 Bernama 'KUALA LUMPUR Talam Corporation Bhd and Larut Consolidated Bhd said there will be a postponement in the launch of new lottery tickets for their lottery joint venture in China. The new launch dates had been tentatively fixed between Oct 18 and Oct 28,
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        • 123 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR John Master Industries Bhd yesterday announced a 28 per cent rise in pre-tax consolidated operating profit to M 52.63 million (551.65 million) for the half year ended i June 30, from M 52.06 million in the previous corresponding period. The second-board
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      • 412 10  -  From William Chia in JAKARTA PT BARITO Pacific Timber (BPT), which will be Indonesia's largest listed company when its shares start trading tomorrow, is confident of making a dividend payout in its first year of listing. Barito Pacific Group chairman
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      • 377 10  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK A DRAWN-OUT row over orbital space for two telecommunications satellites was settled yesterday. Thailand's Shinawatra group and a consortium led by Hongkong's Hutchison Whampoa had been involved in an 18-month wrangle which drove potential customers to sign with other
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      • 80 10 SINGAPORE Metal Containers yesterday announced a bleafc set of results, with net losses doubling from $1.7 million to $3.5 million. Turnover for the year to June 30 dropped 8.9 per cent to $128.1 million. The group, however, ex- pects packaging operations to rebound to a higher
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      • 182 10 HONGKONG The Hongkong stock exchange is reviewing a highly critical report into the Allied Group of companies by a government-appointed inspector and will conduct its own probe into alleged breaches of listing rules. The exchange said in a statement yesterday that
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      • 428 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Ml mm prion (S) Sep 30 Tjeppori Unit Tract The Commerce I.JO 1.58 The Sawngs Fund 1.40 1.47 S pore Croi Fund 0.62 0.65xd S pore Sec Fund 0.92 0.97 S'pore Inves Fund 1.09 1.14 S pore Equity Fund 0.72 0.76 Asia Unit Tract Mai Invest Fund
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      • 363 11 Knight-Ridder BOMBAY The bullishness that has prevailed in India's stock exchanges in the past few months has been boosted by growing foreign fund purchases of major blue chips. No official estimates exist on total foreign investments, but market sources estimate
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      • 206 11 Knight-Ridder BOMBAY Forged share certificates of at least two prominent issues and faked company notices are creating problems for brokers and investors in India. Soap and cosmetics giant Hindustan Lever, a subsidiary of Unilever, is the second firm to be hit by forged
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      • 243 11  -  From Nirmal Ghosh in CALCUTTA THE much-awaited showdown at the annual general meeting of Calcutta-based Chloride Industries Ltd fizzled out on Monday when its beleaguered chairman S K' Birla read out a Calcutta High Court order that it be adjourned. The meeting began
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 111 11 Bloomberg News Service TOKYO Nippon Steel Corp, NKK Corp, Kawasaki Steel Corp and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd are considering temporary lay-oflfs of factory workers to cope with the prolonged economic slump, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported. Kawasaki Steel will soon start negotiations with its
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        • 57 11 TOKYO Cesar announced on Tuesday revised earnings estimates. The company says it now expects current profit of 180 million yen (552.7 million) in the year to Sep 30. The company reported a current loss of 6.237 billion yen for the year's earlier period. The company's previous
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        • 89 11 Reuter BOMBAY Brooke Bond Lipton India Ltd, which became the largest Indian foods company after the merger of two Unilever subsidiaries in July this year, is expected to post a nearly 60 per cent jump in net profits for the full year ending December
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      • 135 11 Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON IBM and the FBI have been cooperating since 1991 to conduct a "sting" operation aimed at uncovering large-scale theft and fraud at the troubled computer giant. The Washington Post re- ported yesterday that the theft and fraud might have
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      • 273 11 Reuter SIALKOT, Pakistan Outside the factory, bullocks stroll in the road and electricity wires dangle in the dust; inside, workmen carve state-of-the-art hockey sticks that have made Pakistan's Grays of Cambridge a market leader. Grays' chief executive, Khawar Khawaja, says emphasis on
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      • 267 11 NYT NEW YORK On the New Jersey Palisades overlooking Manhattan, two small companies have brought out an innovative product that for the first time allows stockbrokers to get up-to-date, customised reports on each of Nasdaq's more than 4,000 listed companies
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    • FINANCE
      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 57 12 KnightRidder BANGKOK The Thai Military Bank will cut its prime and top lending rates by 0.25 percentage point tomorrow to 11.50 and 15.75 per cent, respectively, a bank official said yesterday. The cut announcement follows moves by other Thai commercial banks to cut their top
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        • 79 12 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japan's brokerages are reportedly to be given more freedom bv the Ministry of Finance to expand the range of issues they offer individuals under the new cumulative investment system. The system, introduced in February, allows individual investors to buy equities after accumulating funds
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        • 103 12 AFP ABU DHABI Gulf Arab states have re-admitted the Kuwaiti dinar into their currency system after a suspension of nearly three years because of the Iraqi invasion, officials said on Tuesday. Bankers said the move indicated the dinar had stabilised and Kuwait's war-wrecked economy was
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        • 115 12 Knight-Ridder MANILA The state-owned Philippine National Oil Co will increase its Eurobond offering to USS9O million (SSI43 billion) from USS7S million due to expected strong demand. Delfin Lazaro, the energv secretary and company chairman, said yesterday. PNOC President Monico Jacob had asked for a larger issue
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      • 436 12 JAKARTA Problems stemming from increasing bad debts and a lack of capital will continue to hamper credit expansion of state-owned banks in Indonesia, the Jakarta Post quoted Priasmoro Prawiroardjo, a senior analyst, as saying. He said the recent interestrate cut was
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      • 233 12 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japanese investors are wary of taking currency or equity risk when buying private placements but they remain willing to use leverage to capitalise on yen interest rate movements, structured finance sources said. Japanese life insurers continue to show interest in so-called "constant maturity"
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      • 414 12 KnightRidder WASHINGTON Chase Manhattan Bank chairman Tom Labrecque said yesterday that he expected no surprises in Chase's third-quarter earnings. He also said he expected Chase to post continued growth in foreign exchange and the derivatives business. "You won't be surprised." Mr
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      • 354 12 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Even with three months to go. the 37 new bond issues worth a total of 1.26 trillion yen (5518.9 billion) already issued in 1993 have made it a record year for primary activity in Japan's samurai bond market, despite
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      • 149 12 Knight-Ridder PARIS The French government is planning to launch its privatisation sale of state-con-trolled Banque Nationale de Paris next Tuesday, Paris daily Le Figaro said yesterday. The newspaper quoted no sources, but said the govern-ment-appointed commission overseeing the privatisation programme would announce
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      • 349 12 NYT WASHINGTON Federal regulators said on Tucsday that they had reached a US$45 million (Ss72 million) settlement with the New York law firm of Paul. Weiss. Rifkind. Wharton Garrison involving its role in junk bond investments that
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      • 355 14 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Salomon Brothers Inc expects all 50 bank holding companies it covers to raise or reinstate dividends next year. The outlook for payouts reflects strong earnings and capital at the banks, the securities firm says. So far this year, 28
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      • 606 14 FT LONDON The sentencing on Tuesday of Syed Ali Akbar, former head of treasury at the collapsed Bank of Credit and Commerce International, represents one of the first prosecution victories in a series of criminal and civil court cases
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      • 389 14 FT LONDON Imro. the self-regulatory body for the fund management industry, is considering possible disciplinary action against Hill Samuel Investment Management (HSIM) for overstating the performance record in marketing literature for one of its most successful products. The literature relates
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        1511 14 7raJe-trifhinJ index lakulaled ajtaini S pore s lop 14 Iradin* partners Base year I9B< US$/S$ forward rates Noon Sep 29 a Bid Offtr 1-month I 58*3 ***** 2-month ***** I 5«97 3-month ***** ***** 6-month 1.5873 l.5S?3_ Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 10m-S*2S:-Singapore dollars to om unit
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      • 168 14 THE US$ moved lower against most major currcncies yesterday as the Russian unrest receded into the background. Over in the regional markets, the US$ moved higher against the Ss, M$ and baht and traded unchanged in the US$/rupiah market. The USS/SS market saw the US$
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      • 167 14 Reuter LONDON The dollar ceded a pfennig to the mark yesterday as players' attention was diverted from events in Russia back to some nagging economic issues. The sluggish US economic recovery and the measured pace of German interest rate reductions returned to the forefront of market considerations during a
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      • 92 14 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was mixed yesterday against the major currencies, approaching levels that prevailed before the crisis in Russia. Around 1345 GMT. the dollar was trading at 1.600 German marks, against 1.6085 several hours earlier in London and at 1.6120. Against the yen, the dollar traded
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    • COMMODITIES
      • 503 15 AFP KUALA LUMPUR USbased oil giant Mobil won Malaysia's maiden contract yesterday for deep-sea exploration and production of oil and gas off eastern Sarawak state reputed to be one of Asia's largest untapped locations. "The two areas to be explored, located 280
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      • 431 15 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Oil prices rose on a largcr-than-cxpectcd fall in US crudc oil supplies, and traders switched their focus away from the Opcc conference in Geneva, brokers said. Futures prices were boosted after the industry-funded American Petroleum Institute
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      • 356 15 Knight-Ridder TAIPEI Trading by Taiwan firms on the London Metals Exchange is expected to get off to a slow start once legal overseas futures trading is launched in Taiwan next year, market sources say. The government, which is undertaking a broad liberalisation
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      • 246 15 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japan will ask the United States to change its decision to leave the International Coffee Organisation, a ministry of foreign affairs official said yesterday. Japan's delegate to the current ICO meetings in London will stress to US delegates
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      • 187 15 Knight-Ridder KUALA LUMPUR Indonesia's state-controlled P T Tambang Timah will continue to search for new tin deposits even though the market is depressed. an official at the firm said. PT Tambang will continue to explore, mine, smelt and market tin. he said in
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1414 16 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar interest rate futures contracts ended steady as the absence of fresh factors kept the contract moving within a confined range, traders said. "It was a pretty quiet market." said one dealer. "There was some nervousness early today when the
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      • 615 16 COMMODfTY REPORTS Tin TIN closed unchanged at MSI 1.12 per kg but trading was brief after buyers and sellers were matched at the opening call, traders said. Initial bids and ofTers were 85 tonnes each. Volume settled at 85 tonnes against 81 previously. European
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        • 43 16 BANGKOK Iraq has bought 20,000 tonnes of Thai bagged 100 per cent grade B white rice for January shipment, a Thai trader said. The rice was bought on Monday at US$22O per tonne fob, the trader said.
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        • 115 16 TOKYO Japan's demand for copper is slowing from already weak levels, and traders see few signs of a change in the declining trend as Japan struggles to revive its economy. Traders said Japan's consumers now appear to have virtually covered needs through November shipment. The
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        • 88 16 TOKYO China imported 10,000 tonnes of edible vegetable oil in July, leaving January-July imports at 120,000 tonnes, down 45.4 per cent from January-July 1992. according to China's official external trade statistics. Edible oil exports in July were 5,863 tonnes, sharply down from June's 23,691 tonnes,
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        • 73 16 NEW DELHI India is aiming to harvest 82.5 million tonnes of wheat, rice, coarse cereals and oilseeds in the forthcoming winter season, up front 78.0 million the previous year, according to a government statement. Agriculture officials have set the wheat output target at 58.5 million
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    • 1658 16 Rubber Scp29 HAS Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at lpa) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Oct 93 OOO OOO 123.00 0 525~ Nov 124 00 123.00 123.50 825 3.025 Dec 123.00 122.75 123.50 175 3.525 Jan/Mar 94 124.00 124.00
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1248 17 +9.1 After a slow start to the day, Australian shares ended at their highs dragged up by end-of-quarter window dressing. Brokers said further gains by BHP and News Corp also lent the market support. "The market has gone for a bit of a run with the end of the
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      • 619 17 +21.29 Share prices surged at the close by over 20 points as punters flocked to Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT) and Philippine National Bank (PNB) after the sharp fall of the peso against the US dollar. The rise is seen having a spillover effect on trading before stabilising
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      • 382 17 Closed The Seoul stock market will be closed today and tomorrow for the Chusok holidays. It will reopen on Saturday. On Tuesday, the index recouped early losses to close the day 1.04 points up at 718.87 and increasing investor confidence prompted brokers to forecast a post-holiday rally. Seoul Sep
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      • 606 17 -15.77 Share prices finished lower on selling in speculative stocks and pessimism over a lack of positive news, brokers said. The Weighted Index ended 15.77 points down at 3.832.69. off a low of 3,813. in slow turnover of TS 11.27 billion. The market is closed today for a holiday
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      • 282 17 -3.27 The New Zealand share market finished another dull day of consolidation slightly lower. Brokers expect the current quiet phase to continue up until the November 6 election although turnover was boosted today by reasonable volumes in Lion and Telecom. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 3.27 points
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      • 92 17 -53.59 Bombay stocks closed lower as fears over the proxy-held shares crisis continued, brokers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) 30-Share Index fell below the 2,700 mark to close at 2,696.45, down 53.59 points from the previous close. The 100-share National Index closed at a provisional 1,298.65, down 11.97
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 851 17 Britannia Funds Sterling CisJi M Offer Mim Cap Drpoul 38 6400 J* 6500 Mim knty ut. jO.1193 0.1992 Mim Ma* Income ****** ****** L'SS C«>h Income Plus Fund I06T00 *****0 PS Reserve Fund _...J.2IOO 5 2200 Strrliac Equity Euro Performance ***** 0 49 U Far EM Fund _...*2 7650 *2.9710
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      • 598 17 -6.8 Equities closed easier in quiet trading with earlier losses on the FTSE 100 index cut by modest buying, helped by a steady Wall Street and a relatively resilient FTSE futures market. But after-hours trading in the FTSE 100 derivative pointed to the possibility of further cash market weakness
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      • 101 17 +0.32pc Shares shed their losses during the afternoon as Elf Aquitaine extended the morning's gains on anticipation of an Opec output agreement, dealers said. The CAC-40 Index ended up 0.32 per cent at 2.126.80. Paris Vp 28 Fr A.r-Uquide ***** 100 Aloud Anuhom ***** +2 00 Elf-Aquil 407 50
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      • 217 17 +0.14 Shares were little changed. Dealers said the market lacked impetus to go higher, while some players stayed sidelined due to uncertainty in Russia. Bearers in watchmaker SMH. two Swiss francs lower at 1.071, topped the active list. The Broad SPI was up 0.14 point at 1,561.77. Zurich Sep
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      • 262 17 -0.88 Stocks closed little changed as investors locked in recent gains, traders said. The EOE Index of the leading 25 Dutch shares closed 0.88 point lower at 347.31. "Here and there people are taking profits," said Agatho van Hilst, head of institutional domestic share trading at Amstgeld. "The market
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      • 144 17 +0.78 Stocks continued to edge higher amid signs that earnings could start to pick up next year because of sharp cut-backs in costs undertaken by several Belgian companies, analysts said. The Bel-20 Index rose 0.78 point, or by 0.06 per cent, to 1288.79. The index has climbed 1.2 per
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      • 139 17 -7.04 Shares fell in dull trading as the volatile fixed-income market kept investors wary of future interest-rate trends. "It's been unstable on the fixed-income market and in the currency market and that is reflected on shares." said a trader at Oh man Fondkom mission. The Central Bank was buying
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      • 209 17 -5.92 Share prices are still bound into narrow ranges, and traders said things are likeIv to stav this way until events in Russia allow the market to remove its shroud of uncertainty. The DAX ended the session 5.92 points lower at 1.907.69, amid low trading volumes. Flayers cited various
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      • 333 17 +38 Shares ended firmer in generally optimistic trade as the market looked to international investors for direction after indifferent interest from local investors. dealer said. They said local share performances in US trade overnight were likely to determine short term direction. The Gold Index was six points softer at
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      • 322 17 -4.99 Stocks opened lower on slumping gold shares and uncertainty over Canada's federal election and political turmoil in Russia, traders said. "We're still in a stall position. I don't think we'll see a lot of momentum to the upside," one dealer said. The TSE 300 Composite Index opened down
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      • 825 17 -1.68 Blue chip prices on Wall Street rose at midday after the Commerce Department revised its figures for US growth in the second quarter. The Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials rose 6.43 points to 3.572.45. Trading was heavy with some 88 million shares changing hands. The
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      2895 18 Reuter STOCKS finished sharply higher, with the main index rising 1.08 per cent, buoyed by a late round of buy ing by overseas funds, brokers said. The blue chip Hang Seng Index jumped 80.60 points to close the day at 7.551.10. adding 44 points to the midsession finish. "The
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      517 18 SHARE PRICES on the Shanghai 'B' market closed mostly down with the CLSA Shanghai 'B* Index ending 2.20 points lower. Tyre and Rubber was the most actively traded stock, gaining 1.2 per cent while Lian Hua. listed on Tuesday, was the biggest climber closing 2.17 per cent higher. In
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      2528 18 Reuter STOCKS were pulled down by futures to end lower but off intraday lows. They were supported by index-linked buying in the afternoon, brokers said. The Nikkei average temporarily plunged below the 20.000 level, but rebounded later. "The Nikkei's fall below 20.000 is not very significant, as investors arc
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      1834 18 Reuter SHARE PRICES slid further in the afternoon but buying on some major capitalisation issues just before the close edged the index up. brokers said. The SET Index lost 2.48 points to close at 966.02 on small turnover of 3.48 billion baht. Losers almost doubled winners. 151 to 81.
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      1081 18 Reuter SHARE prices closed mixed after moderate trading, with some counters showing signs of recovery. brokers said. The Official Index ended 1.10 points higher to 419.50. "There were signs of rebounds on oversold counters. Market sentiment improved during the second session." a foreign brokerage dealer said. Indah kiat rebounded
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    • 2319 19 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info Gr Gr L«, Vol Day LM Quote Dh- Dh VM Nil M Cap High Low (omptn Sale ("000) Hifh lxw Bayer Seller CVf P/E Jarfl MALAYSIAN STOCKS 204 IM AKBSOc 178 xd -J 3 178 178 173 1*1 5.0 0.8 09 1900
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        5234 19 Source: Bridge Info Cine Previous Chance KLSE Composite ...846.56 849.92 -3.36 NST Industrial 4553.06 4566.05 -12.99 NST Finance 6486.53 6502.37 -15.84 NST Properties 1781 .79 1748.23 +33.56 NST Plantation ....6955 68 7017.89 -62.21 NST Mining 1488.16 1474.01 +14.15 Turnover ("000) Total volume 621.373 603.552 +17.821 Total value (MS) .2.574.2*7 2.4*8.*86
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      • 259 19 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News SHARE PRICES closed steadier on active retail interest in situational stocks and institutional support for blue chips. The weighted CI, which opened stronger at 850.63 and touched 853.99 in the morning, dipped in late trading to close 3.36
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 1103 20  -  By R Sivanithy WHILE Malaysian stocks enjoyed speculative fervour, it was Singapore shares which turned out to be the quiet achievers in the local stock market yesterday. As a result of selective buying interest, Singapore counters dominated the day's top gainers and helped all
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      • 6285 20 I,r |Mi Imt Vai Dn LaM Om* Dh DhVM N* M C« High Low Caapuqr Sri. d») Hi«h Lorn Bmyrr SeEr Cn P/E l-fl industrial and commercial 1350 260 Acma 1050 *d +40 116 1070 1010 1030 1050 115 2.1 1.2 45.5 723.7 270 220 Alex Hide 50c 270 6.0
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      • 68 20  -  Quak Hiang Whai LUM Chang Holdings has gone up very quickly in the last three months which means some consolidation will take place. Bearish divergence is also seen in its daily RSI which is heading downwards while the price line is moving up. The stock is, however,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 537 9 A The Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, Ltd. (Incorporated in Japan) BALANCE SHEET STATEMENTS OF INCOME (Non-Consolidated) (N on-Como I idated) «oo?\ As of March 31, 1993 and 1992 (For the year* ended March 31, 1993 and 1992) Millions of yen Millions ci yen 1993 1992 1993 1992 Assets Income Cash and
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    • 181 10 muted tapestries, wood panelling and top-class restaurants. Located in the heart of Singapore's embassy district yet close to the business centre. Many year s experience in rejuvenating tired and exhausted executives travelling to Singapore on business. C3therwise known as the ANA Hotel. A ANA HOTEL SINCAPORE 16 Nagsim Hill, Singapore
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    • 826 10 Dividends table has been held over ©ltcb The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Lid. Non-Consolidated Balance Sheets Non-Consolidated Statements pf Income 31st March, 1992 and 1993 For the Years Ended 31st March, 1992 and 1993 Millions of Yen Mflltan of Yen 1992 1993 1992 1993 ASSETS INCOME Cash and Due
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    • 252 11 THE TRUSTS TO TRUST ;*'W If you had invested in our unit trusts, you would probably have seen your savings grow. Because an investment in our Union Investment Fund would have yielded you a compound annual return of 18%*. This CPF-approved unit trust has been a top performer for the
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    • 1057 12 Den norske Bank as BALANCE SHEETS PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNTS Amounts tn NOK million Amounts 1m WOK mHHon 31 Dec I|an ASSETS 1992 1992 IW2 !**l Cash. Postgiro and deposits with Norges bank 1 113 1 082 Interest and credit commissions on Joans, etc 15 832 16 046 Restricted deposits
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    • 143 13 Why 1 Our Name Is Being Seen I In All The World's Most Fashionable Places. mm JL far LJgi^fc.^iMJ-gBIMi alHHt'i IsfeJSHHH I jsMBKHH., g f B -c i Fom the urgent shipment of initial designs and samples to the economical distribution of finished product, UPS is becoming a fashionable choice
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    • 769 14 j||] PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK ImIL/ STATEMENTS OF CONDITIONS STATEMENTS OF INCOME December 31,1992 and 1991 (in Thousand Pesos) FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,1992 and 1991 (in Thousand Pasos, Except Par Share Amount) 1992 IMI 1992 1991 RESOURCES Interest Income Cash and other cash items 1,906,578 1,461,846 On loans 6,017,791
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    • 1006 15 THE TOKAI BANK LIMITED (Incorporated with limited liability in Japan) Head Office: 21-24, Nishiki 3-chome, Naka-ku, Nagoya NON-CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS March 31, 1992 and 1993 i»2 tMi mi (In millions off yen) (Thousands of U.S. dollars) (Note 1) ASSETS Cash and Due from Banks (Note 3) 4,425,507 1,614,702 S 11,060,842
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  • SPORTS
    • 304 21 Golf Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Developers should choose areas which affect the environment less when building golf courses, said the director-general of the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia. Salleh Mohamad Nor said that former mining land and lowland areas were more suitable for golf
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    • 383 21 AP SAN FRANCISCO Even if the resurgent San Francisco Giants do not win the National League West, they certainly are experiencing the high that players get from a tight race to the end. "We've got two great teams fighting it
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    • 384 21 AP CHICAGO An artificial hip. a deathbed promise to his mother and a season-opening home run set the stage for Bo Jackson's latest larger-than-life feat. It was a big. slow rainbow of a homer that won the division-clinching game for the Chicago
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        83 21 Reuter NEW YORK National league Tuesday: Montreal 3 Florida 2: Philadelphia 10 Pittsburgh 7; Houston 5 Atlanta 2; NY 6 St Louis I; San Diego II Cincinnati 4; LA 6 Chicago 5: SF 6 Colorado 4. American: Boston 11 Detroit 6 (Ist game): Detroit 7 Boston 6 (2nd. in
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        87 21 AP PHOENIX AC Green, a durable power forward with championship experience, signed with Phoenix on Tuesday, helping the Suns offset the loss of Richard Dumas to drug rehabilitation. Green, wooed by the Suns for nearly three months, joins the Western Conference champions after eight years with the Los Angeles
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        125 21 AP CARDIFF, Wales Rock Newman. manager of WBA and IBF world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe. on Tuesdav dubbed tomorrow's WBC title fight between Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno as The Coward against The Has-Been. In a telephone interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation from Nevada. Newman predicted Lewis would
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        147 21 Reuter LONDON Challenger Nigel Short of Britain drew the 10th game of his London world title chess challenge on Tuesday against champion Garry Kasparov of Russia. who now leads the 24-game series 7-1/2 to 2-1/2. Experts were stunned by the result. which came after Short had mounted what seemed
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        96 21 Reuter WELLINGTON Most golfers never do it in a lifetime, but a left-handed New Zealand golfer hit a hole-in-one 13 years after scoring a hole-in-one on the same hole playing right-handed. Lou Holloway accomplished the unusual feat at the Mount Denby course. Whangarei. in the far north of New
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        90 21 RIO DF. JANEIRO Football legend Pele is set to earn tens of millions of dollars in marketing deals from next year's World Cup finals in the United States. Helio Vianna. a director of the Brazilian's company Pele Sports and Marketing, detailed five contracts which would earn him seven and
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    • 848 21 businj^.S^T^mes TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-741-1883 FAX:74I-1298 CIVIL SERVICE PHONENET (CSP) NOTICE OF CHANGE IN TELEPHONE NUMBERS [DIRECT INWARD DIALLING (DID)] The Civil Service Telephone Network linking 49 Government ministries, departments and organs of state will be replaced by a new network in phases beginning October 1993. The new network will
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 737 23  -  Jude Narita's one-woman play is about women of different ages and societies Claire Leow discovers a master story-teller with a searing commentary Claire Leow THE STAGE set is simple but dramatic. A screen of sheer black on a skeleton of black stilts. It is a
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    • 83 23 today's fast-paced, one of its kind, it signposts the directions you can take to enhance your business YES! I would like to subscibe to Economic Business Review Indonesia for 'V 3 months at $52/- (please pay before subscription starts) Name: Address Occupation "Tel I enclose SS cheque/money order Please charge
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    • 88 23 To help cure a bad back, take 200 litres of water. V v V, TT -r—l i Uy Then Sleep On It. FANTASY WATERBEDS PTE LTD 15 Enggor Street (off Anson Rd) *01-03 Realty Centre Singapore 0207 Tel 226 1055 Fax: 226 1054 Mon-Sat: 1 lam Bpm Sun PuPlic Holidays
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 1306 23 I TV RADIO W~ v' 2L Mad Max: Beyond Tbunderdome, Mad Max is back and he's angrier than ever. The third J episode of the Mad Max trilo- ,4 *4 gy has the resourceful futuristic "O A warrior (Mel Gibson) dealing with the cutthroats of Barter- cSSi *4B& i town,
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
    • 875 24  -  Claire Leow looks at a USs33om venture that specialises in sub-micron wafer fabrication technology Claire Leow NO, wafer fabrication has nothing to do with making chocolatc wafers. And everything to do with high-tech, high yield, and if successful, high fives. The term refers to the capi-tal-intensive,
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    • 653 24 WITH nine-digit price tags and in US dollars at that wafer fabrication plants arc not cheap. And as technology advances, it is getting increasingly difficult to make complex yet reliable chips which are smaller and yet pack in more features and more information. Take
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    • IN TAKES
      • 67 24 AP TOKYO Mazda Motor Corp has developed a new col-lision-avoidance system using a scanning laser radar that can detect vehicles and pedestrians in front of the car and brake automatically. It is the first such system that can also detect pedestrians from a distance, said Mazda
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      • 80 24 SINGAPORE Among thd, exhibits at Catalyst, the British design exhibition now on at the Design Centre, is the world's first motorised robotic light (MRL). The remote-con-trolled light, low-voltage with built-in reflectors, crawls across the ceiling moving back and forth along two horizontal conductive cables.
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      • 86 24 NYT SANTA BARBARA, California Peering through a microscope may be a good way to see things invisible to the naked eye, but the image offers no depth. What if you needed a topographical rendering of minute materials? You might turn to Digital Instruments Inc in
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      • 67 24 BOSTON Hot pepper cream can help stop the itching that comes from the skin disease psoriasis. Researchers writing in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology say a cream containing a small amount of capsaicin found in hot peppers helped two-thirds of patients during
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  • THE LAW PAGE
    • 1087 25  -  David Margolick discusses the Lani Guinier case and its lessons for public office aspirants David Margolick NYT Historically. most law review articles are neither little noted nor long remembered, except by the professors who wrote them and the committees who control their futures. But
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    • 251 25 AT THE THE days of fresh law graduates setting up their own practice might be coming to an end. some lawyers say. Talk is rife in legal circles that there might be a requirement for aspiring solo practitioners to have at least three years
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    • 165 25  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan EIGHT seats on the Law Society of Singapore's council will be up for grabs during its coming annual elections. The eight vacancies came about because of the expiry of council members' office. There are three seats available in the senior category, where candidates
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  • 521 26 EDITORIAL MORE THAN 50 years after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan has begun to rethink its security role and its place in the emerging new world order. This week, for example, Terumasa Nakanishi, a professor of international politics at Shizuoka Prcfectural University,
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 293 26 THE POLITICAL import of the Cost Review Committee's report on cost-of-living is that it has cleared the air over what might have developed into a charged issue. Between impressions ("prices arc out of control") and the evidence (inflation of 3.4 per cent in 1990 and 1991, down
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    • 163 26 LEGALLY, apartheid is dead in South Africa. But the problem of racial segregation still exists. Yet the international community is pleased to accept South Africa back into its fold. The tide of democracy is unstoppable. The whites have to give in to the blacks to allow South
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    • 245 26 THE GOVERNMENT has shown concern for the people's daily living costs by setting up the Cost Review Committee (CRC) to study cost issues. The government has accepted most of the proposals by the committee and will be implementing those that arc feasible. Prime
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    • 175 26 EVEN IF pcacc were to return to South Africa, it would come at a heavy, bloody price. But with both black and white leaders sounding so earnest in their desire to build a new South Africa, it is not difficult to see why the world
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    • 162 26 RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin should have dissolved parliament and called for fresh elections for the Congress of People's Deputies immediately after the victory over the August coup plotters in 1991. At the time, it would have been the most logical conclusion of a popular movement
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  • 1083 26  -  The question of who will head Indonesia's largest political organisation. Golongan Karya. or Golkar, is in the air as the government-backed body prepares for its national congress next month. Amir Santoso explains why the issue is inappropriate Amir Santoso The writer
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    • 73 26 continues its House Hunt How much is private property really going for? Should you buy now, or later? House Hunt gives you the actual transacted prices of all private property sold in Singapore each month. From that, you'll have a clear view of the market. And a clear lead. Singapore
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    • 1577 27  -  Manila Correspondent A 1 Labita looks at the reforms which await the merger of the Manila and Makati stock exchanges Al Labita NEXT month's merger g of the Manila and p Makati bourses is ex- t pected to trigger t sweeping reforms in the Philippines'
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    • 545 27  -  The Philippine government s probe into the assets of Chinese tycoons is scaring the community, writes Ruben Alabastro Ruben Alabastro Reuter A STATE crackdown on tobacco tycoon Lucio Tan has focused renewed attention on the economic might of ethnic Chinese in the Philippines, for
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    • 435 27 THE MANILA and Makati bourses, torn apart by three decades of rivalry over a thin market, will be finally merged on Oct 29 thanks to former President Corazon Aquino. Mrs Aquino, the most unlikely person to be dragged into a quarrel among brokers, helped mediate the
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  • 491 28 Reuter WASHINGTON The US economy grew slowly during the second quarter at a revised 1.9 per cent annual rate, the Commerce Department said yesterday, completing a sluggish first half that is expected to pick up momentum during the rest of the year.
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  • 446 28 Reuter, AP, AFP MOSCOW The Russian government issued a new deadline last night for deputies to quit the blockaded Parliament as the death of a traffic policeman and a new threat of violence kept tensions high. A government statement said the
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  • 360 28  -  World Bank/IMF meeting Reports by Anthony Rowley in WASHINGTON CHINA'S finance ministry will launch a 30-billion yen Euroyen bond issue in the London market in a few days time, marking what promises to be a major new foray into international capital
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  • 267 28 CHINA'S economic reforms are now irreversible and its "open door" will never close again, declared Chinese Finance Minister Liu Zhongli on Tuesday, in a clear attempt to set investors' hearts at ease. "The policies of reform and opening to the outside world
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  • 727 28  -  The Bottom Line REGINALD DALE REGINALD DALE Reginald Dale is a staff writer at the International Herald Tribune, where this commentary first appeared SUPPOSE, heaven forbid, there were a Mexican multi-millionaire called Rosso Peroto who wanted to lead a populist crusade against the North
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  • 277 28 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton and the chairmen of the Big Three carmakers said yesterday they will form a public-private partnership to build fucl-cfTicicnt cars. Engineers from Chrysler Corp, Ford Motor Co and General Motors Corp
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  • Shipping Times
    • 526 29  -  Ramesh Divyanathan By SINGAPORE Lax state control on ships has prompted the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to consider a new safety code. The code outlining the duties of shipping companies to ensure safety is expected to become mandatory next year, said
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    • 289 29 Reuter GENEVA The International Labour Organisation (ILO) said on Tuesday many merchant seamen were living and working in disgraceful conditions that often led to accidents in the maritime industry. The United Nations body's deputy director-general Hcribert Maier issued the charge at
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    • 845 29 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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    • 231 29 Reuter BOMBAY India's Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd's net profit for the halfyear ending September is expected to be 30 per cent higher than the year ago period, share analysts said. According to a poll of leading Bombay brokers and analysts. Great Eastern's
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    • 428 29  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Indonesian logistics contractor Petrolog lndah is courting Japanese freight forwarder Naigai Nitto to take a stake in a subsidiary that operates a barge service between Singapore and Batam. The subsidiary' is Van Ommeren Petrolog (S) Pte Ltd. Majority shareholder
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    • 278 29 AP HANOI, Vietnam South Korea has agreed to help improve a road leading to a new seaport planned to be the biggest in northern Vietnam, a senior South Korean diplomat said yesterday. The Korea International Cooperation Agency and Vietnam's Ministry of Transport and Communications
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 660 30 <WMl Voy No B«rth Annul Departure^ Jurong Port Gasman I ***** 116/17 alongside 30.09/0200 lycatetus 9301 115/16 atongsA 30 09/2300 Adventure Queen 8 M/5 30.09/1300 01 10/2300 Aftts Band 9306 18 30.09/1000 01 10/0700 BkssJul Reefer H9318 J2 3009/1500 01 10/2300 De» Fortuna 21/93 11 30 09/0900
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      • 1330 30 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookmj/Balance RsJts Slap Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From to L* 41B 01/2000 1 29/1500 29/1659 29/1900 3 30/0700 30/1159 30/1400 4 30/1200 30/1459 30/1700 Ad Goncftaro. 47A093 02/0900 3
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    • 11031 38 This is a list ot' ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination. J the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from J the Port of Singapore. < LEGEND
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    • 3344 43 Containerline NV: Bclsin Shpg Agencics Pte Lid (SVMannc Handling |)n Bhd (PK/PN). Arard Group: Accord Shpg Ptc Ltd (ivAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine faisource Shpg Trdg Ptc Ltd (S) Liner Service: Kim Shpg JTrdg(S). \lbatros Sen-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte £td (S). Alfred C Toepfer
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    • 274 43 Abacus Couriers Td: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898. Air Express Travel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144. Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 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 A Services
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    • 1475 43 Abex Express Freight Td: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Td 542-7812: Fax: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Td: 545-8033 Fax: *****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
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    • 2469 44 ALBANIA Duress: Seven vessels in port of which 1 discharging cement, 1 loading pig iron, 3 discharging bagged flour, 1 discharging bulk wheat. 1 discharging general cargo, vessels in roads awaiting berth: 3 bagged flour, I cement, 1 coke. ANGOLA Luanda: Port working normally. Water available throughout city
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    • 870 44 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES AFP ALTHOUGH there is still a positive tone to the market, fewer sales have come to light this week, having said that, some of these deals are very interesting. On the dry side we have again seen 1980's buil panamax bulkers featuring. Clients of Pappadakis are
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    • 564 44 ARRIVALS Op Might Type ETA T From TODAY KAL KE697 B747F 0150 I SEL SI A SQ827 B747F 1730 2 CPH/DXB CLX CV794 B747F 1845 I LUX/DXB NCA KZ203 B747F 1930 1 NRT KAL KE685 A30F 2345 I SEL/MNL TOMORROW JAL JL6IS B747F 0240 I TYO NWA
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    • 150 44 REGIONAL FERRIES Port of Call Name of Vessel Agent telephone No Sekupang (Batam) Palm Spring Indo Falcon Shipping *****78 Sckupang (Batam) Bahtcra Pnnccss Sekupang (Batam) Bahtcra Express Sekupang/Tg Pinang Penguin Success Sekupang (Batam) Penguin Progress Sekupang/Tg Pinang Penguin Express Kukup (W Malaysia) Penguin Mcrlimau Batu Ampar (Batam) Mirangga
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    • 900 45 THE BALTIC Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,419 on Tuesday from 1,424 on Sep 27. Rates appeared to be easing for handymax bulk carriers fixing from the northwest Europe, brokers said. There were rumors that a couple of 39.000- to 40.000 tonners have
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    • 796 45 THIS twice wccklv report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown arc based on average-sized stem. Market movements arc indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 173 45 COURSES 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 Id: 278-3464 or fax: 274-5079 I itle: Principles of Shipping Operations and Practices (SDF 70%) Duration:
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    • 870 46  -  The Russians are eager and determined to sell their awesome flying machines, as Ramesn Divyanathan discovers at the Thai Air Show Ramesh Divyanathan NOTHING exemplified the Russian hard sell at the recently concluded Thai Air Show more than the glossy pictures of aircraft captioned: "Olfered for delivery". On
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 645 48 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines should consider operating more non-stop serv ices for its long-haul sectors in line with the current trend, a McDonnell Douglas Corp (MDC) official said. Forecasting high demand for this service, Miko Masters said the trend now was towards
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      • 62 48 Reuter CARACAS, Venezuela Rescue workers picking through the wreckage of a bus which was incinerated by a natural gas explosion as it waited in rush-hour traffic on Tuesday. An excavation machine punctuated a gas pipeline, igniting the explosion. At least people were
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      • 410 48 Bloomberg Business News BRUSSELS The Transport Council of the European Commission on Tuesday agreed on rules that will require American Airlines to separate its internal ticketing information from that of competitors carried on its Sabre computer reservation system. The measures are
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      • 250 48 NYT PARIS Europe's three major aerospace companies on Tuesday called for a separate Gatt agreement on aircraft, warning that the trade liberalisation package as it now stands could put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk. Aerospatiale of France, Daimler-Benz AG's Deutsche Aerospace
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      • LOG BOOK
        • 99 48 AFP TOKYO China is likely to join a Japanese project to develop a next-generation small passenger aircraft, news reports said yesterday. A delegation of the Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies (SJAC) has agreed with the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corp to hold a
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        • 120 48 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK Transportacion Martima Mexicana (TMM) on Tuesday announced it has been awarded two more contracts by Pemex, Mexico's state-owned oil company, for the transport of refined petroleum products between Mexican ports. These contracts, each of which will generate US$42.l million (SS66.S million) in
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        • 89 48 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT Dutch aerospace company Fokker Vliegtuifenfabriek NV said it is confident sales will begin to pick up in the future despite the current difficulties in the aircraft sector, Handelsblatt reported on Tuesday. Harsher noise pollution regulations will mean older planes will have to
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        • 63 48 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Mazda Motor Corp,a major automaker noted for its rotary engines, and NEC Corp, a leading electronics producer, have jointly developed a system that enables drivers to detect pedestrians with the use of laser beams, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said yesterday. The
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      • 306 48 SINGAPORE Aerospace companies are beginning to feel the pinch of appearing in air shows, even as the number of such events continue to grow. Executives of western aerospace companies told BT at last week's Thai Air Show '93 that the days when deals
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      • 426 48 FT FRANKFURT Seat, the loss-incurring Spanish automotive group, may have to sacrifice one of its three factories and more than a third of its workforce if it is to meet tough restructuring demands from Volkswagen, its German parent. The threat emerged on
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