The Business Times, 4 November 1993

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  • 13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Thursday November 4 1993 75«
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 73 1 Reuter NEW YORK US blue chips trimmed some of their losses at midday yesterday, but the market remained plagued by concern about the sustainability of economic recovery. The Dow was down five at 3,693 after sinking to 3,680 and declines continued to lead
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    • 72 1 AP WASHINGTON Strength in consumer spending, especially for cars, is powering a "slow to moderate" economic recovery across much of the US, the Federal Reserve said yesterday. "Consumer spending rose in a majority of districts, with particular strength noted in sales of autos
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    111 1 Stock market indices Wednesday Change STI1 2,127.43 +3.58 KLSE Composite 982.03 +9.67 Nikkei dosed Hang Seng 9.352.11 -290.80 SET Index 1.303 39 -54.36 Jakarta Composite ...484.25 +10.24 CLSA China B 1.081.35 +19.25 AustAUOrd 2.108 4 -16 9 FTSE 100 3,162.3 -1.8 Wednesday Previous 10.30a dose Dow Jones 3.646.18
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  • 499 1  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Yeo Seng Teck, chief executive of the Trade Development Board, was yesterday charged with 22 corruption, forgery and cheating offences involving several million dollars. Some of the offences carry mandatory jail sentences. No plea was taken from Yeo, and his case
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  • 553 1  -  By R Sivanrthy SINGAPORE Burgeoning liquidity in the stock market and the listing of Singapore Telecom will ensure a record year for stockbroking firms this year. For the ten months to October, a phenomenal 47.34 billion units worth about $85 billion were traded,
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  • 376 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Regional bulls withdrew suddenly from the Hongkong and Thai stock markets yesterday, but continued charging in the Philippines. In Hongkong, the blue-chip Hang Seng Index dived 290.80 points, or 3.02 per cent, to 9,352.11 as brokers
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  • 155 1 Reuter WASHINGTON The US Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday proposed a series of regulatory changes that would make it easier for foreign companies to raise capital in the US. Under the plan, which is subject to public comment and a
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  • 72 1 KUALA LUMPUR Melaka Chief Minister Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik (above) was elected Umno Youth chief at the movement's general assembly here yesterday. He defeated Negcri Scmbilan Menteri Bcsar Mohamed Isa Abdul Samad by a 44-vote majority. The post was contested following Defence Minister Najib
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  • 614 1  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Asia-Pacific Breweries is taking control of its troubled New Zealand associate brewery DB Group. In a surprise move, the group yesterday announced a NZ$ll5 million (SSIOI million) manufacturing deal in which it will take over
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 372 2  -  By Anna Teo THE latest movements of a set of construction indicators suggest that the sector will see. not a slump as feared previously, but Hat growth next year. In particular. 1994 will still be a relatively good year for the public construction sector, with
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    • 286 2 FUELLED by the buoyant residential market, the investment sales market for property in Singapore saw total transactions rising by 16 per cent to *****.7 million in the third quarter. According to the latest quarterly report from property consultant Jones Lang Wootton
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    • 285 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi THE local residential property market continues to be firm. A check reveals lhat all 261 apartments at Great World City as well as 90 per cent of Melville Park have been sold. Developer Leo Properties confirmed yesterday that the last
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    • 386 2  -  Dhanabalan in China Reports from Schutz Lee in JINAN, Shandong THE Trade Development Board has signed a pact on information exchange with the Shandong Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Commission, making the Chinese province the first to have a formal link-up with a
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    • 247 2 JINAN. Shandong The Singapore government is promoting broad-based investments in Shandong province, along the lines of "enterprise development" rather than a single large infrastructure! project as in Suzhou city in Jiangsu. In particular, the government believes that projects which centre on
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    • 292 2  -  Arrest of TDB chief By Teh Hoot Ling TRADE Development Board chief Yeo Seng Teck. who faces 22 corruption, fraud and cheating charges relating to the sales and alleged sales of antiques, is noted for his avid interest in art. In
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  • THE REGION
    • 301 3 National Security Council to conduct study on problems caused by workers NST KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Cabinet has suspended hiring of foreign manual workers for an indefinite period, and directed the National Security Council (NSC) to conduct a study on the social and
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    • 128 3 AP JAKARTA Indonesia posted a trade surplus of US$6.l6 billion (559.79 billion) in the first eight months of 1993, up 93.81 per cent from January-August last year. Information Minister Harmoko said yesterday. Mr Harmoko said Indonesia exported U5524.12 billion worth of goods and imported goods
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    • 333 3  -  From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA A TEAM of high-level Indonesian ministers is to fan out to the provinces this week to provide guidance to local government officials and provincial businessmen on issuing permits and licences to foreign investors. The team will include the
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 75 3 Reuter BANGKOK Brunei is not interested in a 40 per eent stake in Philippine oil refiner and marketer Petron, the permanent secretary to Brunei's Prime Minister said yesterday. Oil industry sources had speculated that Brunei was one of several South-east Asian oil producing countries
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      • 39 3 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwanese legislator Lai Ying-fan brandishing toy pistols during a debate in Parliament on Tuesday. Mr Lai called for the toy pistols to be banned because they could be used in robberies. Reuter
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      • 74 3 Reuter BEIJING North China's first oil exchange opened yesterday in Beijing, with turnover of U5527.4 million (5543.8 million) in the inaugural session, the official Xinhua news agency said. About 102.000 tonnes of crude and petroleum products changed hands in the debut session. Xinhua said. The exchange
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      • 90 3 Reuter TOKYO Japanese prosecutors are preparing to question a powerful figure at the country's second-biggest building company in a snowballing bribery scandal, a daily reported yesterday. The prosecutors believed Kajima Corp chairman Rokuro Ishikawa gave advice to company vice-president, Shinji Kioyama, who is suspected of
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    • 447 3 AFP MANILA The six-member Association of South-East Asian Nations plans to present a unified stand at this month's informal Asia-Pacific summit in Seattle, a senior Philippine official said yesterday. "There are still different opinions on how Apec should proceed," Foreign Undersecretary Rodolfo Severino
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    • 478 4 AP, Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Clinton administration has warned China that unless it makes significant progress in removing trade barriers by Dec 31, the United States will retaliate against Chinese products. Deputy US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, who was
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    • 510 4 AFP. BEIJING The Chinese government is softening its four-month-old austerity plan in a bid to wrest consensus from an upcoming communist party meeting that will be asked to back a vital batch of economic reforms, analysts say. Top state
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    • 202 4 Reuter EDINBURGH William Purves. head of the Hongkong Shanghai Bank's UK holding company, HSBC Holdings pic. has warned British firms against isolating themselves from China's booming economy. Mr Purves said that in four decades, Asia had become a global economic powerhouse. Change
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    • 223 4 AFP, AP HONGKONG Foreign businessmen have invested more than US$l5 billion (5523.8 billion) in China so far this year and pledged US$B3 billion more, the trade ministry said yesterday. From January through September, the ministry approved 62,789 new joint ventures, construction projects and
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    • 466 4 Reuter WUHAN, China The local press called it "the snake swallowing the elephant". In September, a private company with just 127 staff in the central Chinese city of Wuhan bought out a failing stateowned match company with 1,800 workers that had
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    • 567 7 Reuter, AP TOKYO United States Defence Secretary Lcs Aspin has warned that the US and its allies would consider imposing sanctions on North Korea if fears over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions were not resolved. "At the moment, we are pursuing the
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    • 287 7 SINGAPORE Australian Deputy Prime Minister Brian Howe and Special Minister of State Frank Walker will be visiting Singapore this week as part of an on-going effort to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries. Mr Howe arrived here last night from Bangkok, after
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    • 269 7 Reuter TOKYO Three in five Japanese believe Japan should open its tightly protected rice markets to foreign grain, according to a newspaper poll published yesterday. The survey, by the daily Asahi Shimbun, appeared as Japan's farm minister held crucial talks in
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    • 364 7 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO A banner hanging from the grey facade of Japan's 59-year-old Finance Ministry says it all: "Buy more imports and make your household international." That exhortation represents the aim of an import promotion campaign by Japanese Prime Minister
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    • 251 7 AFP SYDNEY Disappointing Australian retail trade data for the September quarter could spell bad news for hopes of economic recovery, lower unemployment and a continuing surge on the stock market, economists said yesterday. Analysts are revising their forecasts for gross domestic
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 934 8  -  Changes in Indonesia's Golkar Party From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA INDONESIA'S Minister of Information Harmoko is in for a tough few years. The new chairman of Golkar. the political group which has ruled Indonesia for a generation, is the first civilian to hold the
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    • 547 8 Reuter JAKARTA An Indonesianbased coal company with Australian and Spanish interests says it is ready to help fuel southern China's rocketing demand for electricity. Graeme Robertson, presi-dent-director of PT Adaro Indonesia, said he had signed contracts to export between 20.000 and 30,000
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 76 10 Reuter ROME Olivetti computer tycoon Carlo de Bencdetti was allowed to leave jail on Tuesday after being interrogated for some six hours on corruption charges, his lawyers said. In a brief statement, they confirmed investigators had agreed to his request to be released into
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      • 95 10 AP LONDON A Bill to sell state-owned British Rail among the Conservative government's most controversial privatisation programmes passed its final stage in the House of Commons yesterday. Prime Minister John Major headed off a parliamentary rebellion by agreeing to an amendment that gives British
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      • 66 10 Reuter ROME Prime Minister Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on Tuesday unveiled plans to restructure Italy's scandal-tainted secret services, accused of systematically looting millions of dollars in public money. No details of Mr Ciampi's address to the closed Parliamentary Committee on the Secret Services were released
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    • 393 10 AP BERLIN Germany and France have sought to give a boost to flagging European economies by laying the groundwork for a joint plan to reach the goal of a common European currency. A day after the Maastricht Treaty on European Union went into
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    • 327 10 SINGAPORE Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew will deliver a keynote address "Can Singapore's experience be relevant to Africa?" to 25 African leaders at a three-day conference at a local hotel from Nov 8. The conference, the first of its kind in Asia, is
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    • 167 10 Reuter LONDON The opposition Labour Party yesterday demanded the closure of tax loopholes that it said were costing Britain billions of pounds. Labour's economic spokesman Gordon Brown called for tax reforms and an end to abuses that he said could fetch the
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    • 287 10 Reuter PARIS The US and Canada will enjoy further growth in 1994, while Europe and Japan will struggle to emerge from recession, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said yesterday. OECD chief economist Kumiharu Shigchara told a business conference
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    • 166 10 Reuter. WIESBADEN, Germany Germany recorded a foreign trade surplus of three billion marks (SS2.B billion) in August and 28 billion marks for the first eight months of the year, the federal statistics office said. The monthly figure remained steady compared with July, when
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    • 79 10 AFP, Reuter WASHINGTON A host of familiar faces, including former US President Jimmy Carter (right) and former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger (left) and James Baker, gathered at the White House on Tuesday in a bipartisan show of support for the embattled North
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 574 11  -  Reports by Rahita Elias in MANILA CONGLOMERATE Keppel Corporation, already the largest Singapore investor in the Philippines, plans to further expand its interests in the country. At a press briefing yesterday, chairman Sim Kee Boon said the group was on the lookout
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    • 336 11 MANILA Rig builder Far East Levingston Shipbuilding has secured its second deal to build floating power stations for the Philippines, just one month after commissioning its first US$l2O million (SslBB million) power project. National Power Corporation president (Napocor) Francisco Viray told reporters
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    • 199 11 SINGAPORE Publiclylisted computer maker IPC Corporation has primed itself for a big push into the Australian market, with the setting up of a wholly-owned subsidiary in Melbourne. The new company, IPC Corporation (Australia) Pty Ltd, has a paid-up capital of A 5250,000. It will have
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    • 706 11  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Agnes Chen SINGAPORE Aokam Perdana may finally have made converts of its critics. For two years in a row, controlling shareholder Teh Soon Seng and his management have delivered on their promise of phenomenal earnings
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    • 349 11  -  TCI E TPFKIPi By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE Day 3 of Singapore Telecom (ST) trading turned out to be a rather quiet one. ST, sold in lots of 1,000 shares, was the fifth most active counter sandwiched between Malaysian companies, with a volume of 15.7 million shares
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    • 277 11  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE The share price of Sesdaq-listed Polytek Wearnes shot through the roof in yesterday's morning trading session, closing 78 per cent higher at SI. 19. Its parent, Wearne Brothers (Wearnes), also rose, but not in the same stroke. Wearnes closed 3 per
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    • Article, Illustration
      337 11 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Nov 3 Last Srasc lairs Stock talc Char factor amvm (I) Avirno 1880 -0.020 1.24 -8 16 CAC 7.900 0 200 5.43 81.63 CWT 2.710 -0 090 I 86 -36.73 Cerebos 7 200 0.1 SO 4 95 61.22 FAN 15.700 10.79
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 51 12 SINGAPORE Van der Horst said yesterday that it is not aware of any reasons for the increase in the turnover and prices of its shares and warrants in the past few trading days. It was responding to a query from the Stock Exchange of
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        • 68 12 SINGAPORE Pan Pacific Publications has entered into an in-principle agreement with Beijing Printing House No 3 to form a joint venture company in Beijing to print quality commercial forms, computer forms and coloured receipts for both local and foreign markets. PPP will have a 60
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        • 65 12 SINGAPORE Rotary Engineering will own 51 per cent of a joint venture company it has formed with Sanko Co of Japan. Known as Rotary Sanko Engineering, the joint venture will provide plant engineering, design and construction services. Rotary Sanko will have an authorised capital
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        • 74 12 Reuter BANGKOK The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has put a "designated securities" tag on trade in Siam City Cement Co Ltd to warn the public it is monitoring recent big gains and heavy trading volume in the stock. The stock shot up its
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        • 52 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Trading of Damansara Realty Bhd shares (formerly Kesang Corporation) will resume at 9.30 am next Thursday, the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange said. Trading of Damansara Realty shares has been suspended since July 20, 1992, with the price standing at MB9 cent (555
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        • 64 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Sungeiway Group, which owns the water theme park Sunway Lagoon in Petaling Jaya, expects to finalise the setting up of a second theme park in Penang by next year. Group president Jeffrey Cheah said yesterday that the company had identified a 12 ha
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        • 73 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR OYL Industries Bhd is setting up its operations in China, Indonesia, the Philippines and marketing companies in Singapore and Hongkong in order to take advantage of the growth opportunities in the Asia-Pacific Region. Chairman Omar Yoke Lin Ong said in the company's
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        • 61 12 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Guinness Peat Group pic, the investment vehicle of New Zealand entrepreneur Sir Ron Brierley, said it is dropping its partial takeover bid for Australia's Power Brewing Co. Guinness Peat last month launched an offer of A 44 cents (546 cents) a
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      • 419 12  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Chinesecontrolled Anglang Investment, which is making a general offer for trading and property-based Summa Investments (Summavcst), announced that it plans to carry out a comprehensive review of Summavest's activities, save the Bugis Junction project. In its offer document,
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      • 230 12 Reuter WELLINGTON Fletcher Challenge Ltd chief executive Hugh Fletcher said the New Zealand company plans to list both its ordinary shares and its new forestry shares on the New York Stock Exchange before the end of this year. "We expect to do that
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      • 435 12  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE A new tax measure increasing the levy on sales of stocks on the Philippine stock exchange from one-fourth of one per cent to one-half of one per cent could slow down Manila's high flying stock
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      • 234 12 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR The booming Malaysian stock market now offers fewer bargains than some of its regional competitors but several "boring" companies arc still good values. Mark Mobius, president of Templeton Emerging Markets Fund Inc, said yesterday: "It's basically
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      • 221 12 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON Lion Nathan Ltd, the largest brewer in Australia and New Zealand, said net profit before one-time items in the year ended Aug 31 rose 20 per cent from a year earlier to NZ5140.2 million (S$ 123.3 million). Net profit, after
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      • 360 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR A dualpayee system to expedite the return of application monies of unsuccessful bumiputra applicants in public share issues has been initiated by MIDF Consultancy and Corporate Services Sdn Bhd (Midfccs). Midfccs general manager Ahmad Bin Abu Bakar said yesterday
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      • 161 12 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Burwill Holdings said yesterday its net profit rose 108 per cent to HK572.2 million (5515.1 million) in the fiscal year ended June 30, from HK534.7 million the previous year. The figures are after taxes and minority interests but
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      • 267 13 AFP HONGKONG China's Maanshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd grabbed the spotlight on its debut on the Hongkong stoek exchange yesterday, with its shares closing 60 per cent above their offer price amid heavy trading. Issued at HK52.27, the shares closed at HK53.65,
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      • 174 13 Reuter HONGKONG Industrial and infrastructure enterprises will get priority when the next batch of Chinese firms to list shares in Hongkong is chosen, says the head of China's Securities Regulatory Commission. "Industrial firms will be stressed," Liu Hongru said,
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      • 278 13 AFP SUBIC BAY, Philippines The United States firm Enron Power Corp is setting up its Pacific base operations in Washington's former naval base at Subic Bay, north-west of the Philippine capital. Enron vice-president for Pacific operations William Simpson said yesterday his firm hoped to
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      • 245 13 Reuter DETROIT Kmart Corp is selling most of its Pace membership warehouses to WalMart Stores Inc for more than US$3OO million (***** million), ending its foray into membership warehouse retailing and making its arch-rival Wal-Mart the biggest in the business. The move on Tuesday
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 95 13 Reuter HONGKONG Citic Pacific Ltd managing director Henry Fan has denied rumours that the company or its Chinese state-owned parent would place five million shares in Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd, his office said. Mr Fan was unavailable for comment but an official in his office
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        • 93 13 Reuter LONDON The US cigarette price war, started by Philip Morris Cos in May, helped lop nearly £100 million (***** million) off BAT Industries pic's third quarter profits. But the group, the world's second largest tobacco firm after Philip Morris, said improving insurance markets
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        • 105 13 Reuter SEOUL Oriental Brewery Co Ltd said it would buy an 82 per cent stake in soju maker Kyung Woul Co Ltd for nine billion won (5517.7 million), securing backdoor entry into the lucrative market for South Korea's traditional liquor. The takeover is widely
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      • 384 13 Reuter BURBANK. California Warner Bros has teamed up with a top executive of Fox Television to launch a new broadcasting network in 1994 the second network start-up in the past week. The WB Network will be built around a string of television station
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    • FINANCE
      • 631 14  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Indonesian companies have taken advantage of the buoyant capital market to raise 3,593.29 billion rupiah (552.7 billion) this year. This is nearly double the 1,868.27 billion rupiah raised in the same period last year. Reflecting the impressive
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      • 146 14 AFP HONGKONG Shanghai has taken the first move as part of the country's plans to freely float the Chinese currency by allowing individual depositors to deal in several foreign currencies, a report said yesterday. With approval from the authorities, the Bank of China in
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 79 14 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Thai Farmers Bank, Thailand's second largest commercial bank, posted a net profit for the three months ended Sep 30 of 1.67 billion baht (S$ 104.6 million), up 9.9 per cent from the same period last year. On a per-share basis, earnings
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        • 80 14 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong banks will be required to disclose more financial information in their annual reports over the next few years but will still be able to keep their inner reserves secret. The South China Morning Post yesterday quoted Hongkong Monetary
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        • 75 14 Reutcr LONDON The arbitrage trader expelled on Tuesday from the UK Securities and Futures Authority (SFA) was working for Kleinwort Benson when he secretly opened a US$4OO million (***** million) position in US bonds. The Telegraph newspaper said. Kevin Reed Morgan opened the USS4OO
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      • 321 14  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Baring Securities has appointed Singa-pore-based James Bax as regional managing director moving the group's regional management away from London. In an interview with BT yesterday, Mr Bax said that as regional managing director, he would still
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      • 100 14 SINGAPORE The Life Insurance Association of Singapore yesterday launched the three-month nomination period for the fourth annual LIA awards for volunteer service to the community. Speaking during the launch at the Executive's Club in OCBC Centre, LIA president Andrew Tan appealed to community
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      • 424 14 NYT NEW YORK Deloitte Touche, the big accounting firm, has been found grossly negligent in a tax case involving a limited partnership that could cost the firm more than USS 100 million (SSISB million). Lee Godfrey, a lawyer for about 10,000 investors
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      • 205 14 Reuter LONDON A new investigative unit of the Bank of England is looking into 130 cases of possible criminality in the banking system. Brian Quinn. a BOE executive director, told the parliamentary Treasury select committee yesterday that the central bank was working
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      • 146 14 THE USS/DM traded higher as rumours of Bundesbank intervention to sell USS were denied. Good housing data out of the US also gave the US$ a boost. The regional currencies traded within narrow ranges yesterday. Over in the USS/SS market, good two-way business was seen
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      • 204 14 Reuter LONDON The dollar was looking tired beneath the 1.70 mark level at the European midsession yesterday with operators on the one hand still mildly bullish but on the other looking to take profits. It was well supported at the 1.6970-80 mark level, dealers said. "There are a lot
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      • 192 14 Reuter LONDON Bank of England deputy governor Rupert Pen-nant-Rea said he believed independence for the central bank would improve Britain's record on inflation. "I have no doubt at all that making the Bank of England independent would, over time, improve the
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      • 87 14 NEW YORK The dollar fell against the major currencies yesterday in quiet opening trading under pressure from profit-taking in the absence of US economic statistics. Around 9:15 am. the dollar traded at 1.6950 German marks against 1.7037 on Tuesday and at 107.25 yen against 107.74. In London, the
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        1652 14 lrade-»etxhled index cakiilaied againa Spore's top 14 trading partners Base year l9Sf USS/SS forward rates Noon Nov 3 S$ Bid Oder 1-month ***** ***** 2-month I 5869 ***** J-month 1 5859 1.5874 6-month 1.5847 1.5867 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES At at 10am M Mot 3: Singapore dollars to
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    • COMMODITIES
    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1312 16 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar interest rate futures recovered from their earlier weakness yesterday, helped by price consolidation and shortcovering. But market undertones remained bearish following strong US economic data overnight and anticipation of rises in US nonfarm payroll figures tomorrow. "After consecutive declines,
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 111 16 BANGKOK High-quality Thai export rice prices continued to rise this week on talk that Japan is likely to import 110.000 tonnes of top grade 100-per cent B rice for December loading. Traders said the 100 per cent B offered price rose to between US$29O and
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        • 71 16 NEW YORK Fire destroyed about 2,000 bags of non-exchange coffee on Tuesday at a New Orleans warehouse licensed by the Coffee. Sugar and Cocoa Exchange. Exchange lots stored in another section of the Dupuy Storage and Forwarding Corp's warehouse No 21 were not affected.
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        • 110 16 MELBOURNE London Metal Exchange chief executive David King said yesterday the LME board acted appropriately when it decided to intervene in trading of its flagship copper contract to limit prices. "The fundamental view of the exchange is that it should not intervene in the market."
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        • 58 16 SYDNEY Australia's second largest cotton processing and marketing company said yesterday it expected shipments this year to be slightly down on 1992-93. due partly to US subsidies. Queensland Cotton Holdings Ltd forecasts shipments for the 12 months ending February 1994 to be about 277,800 bales, down
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      • 599 16 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin TIN closed unchanged at MS 12.20 a kg for the second consecutive day after a brief trading session on lack of keen participation yesterday. Both buyers and sellers decided to close deals at the opening level, they said, adding that the steadiness
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    • 1699 16 Rubber HAS Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S ccnts/kg) ("lose Volume Open Month High Low Sell (tonnes) Interest Dec <>3 130 00 130 00 129.75 1.450 2.200 Jan 94 0.00 0.00 130.75 250 4.725 Feb 000 000 131.75 0 5.125 Mar 132.75 132.50
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1170 17 -16.9 THE Australian stock market suffered its second consecutive fall in the absence of foreign buyers yesterday. The All Ordinaries Index was down around 25 points at one stage but recovered slightly to end 16.9 points lower at 2,108.4. Brokers said the strong offshore buying responsible for the market's
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      • 611 17 +95.17 Philippine stocks surged more than 95 points to a record high, spurred by hectic buying and strong foreign interest atter a two-dav holiday. "It's been another extraordinary day, explosive." said Louie Bate of Baring Securities. "The trading is almost insatiable. Everybody wants a bit of the action." Philippine
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      • 433 17 -2.55 Rampant profit-taking and heavy institutional selling eclipsed an early 15-point advance, sending the stock market down to close lower for the sec- ond straight session, brokers said. "Investors continued to be very selective," a Lucky Securities broker said. The composite stock index shed 2.55 points to 756.87. A
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      • 255 17 -6.27 Shares broke a seven-day rally with a small decline triggered by concerns about Saturday's national election and a drop in the Australian market, brokers said. The Top-40 capital stock index closed down 6.27 points to 2.196.82. Brewer Lion Nation lost 3 cents to NZ53.34, despite reporting a
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      • 550 17 +55.49 Stocks closed sharply higher in heavy trade amid bullish sentiment caused by hopes the central bank may decide to ease credit further at its board meeting today, brokers said. The index ended 55.49 points up at 4,283.34, off an earlier high of 4,298.99. It was the highest close
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      • 74 17 18.73 Stock prices rose further in after hours kerb deals on buying by speculators but brokers said there was no clear trend. During the official trading session, speculators wanting to buy found an excuse in reports that a Moslem shrine under siege in Kashmir had been cleared of militants.
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 787 17 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash Bid Offer Mim Cap Deposit 31 6400 38 6500 Mim Jersev Gill 0 1893 OIW Mim Max Income ****** *10(00 LSI Cask Income Plus Fund *****0 *****0 PS Reserve Fund 5 2200 5 2 300 Sterling Equity Euro Performance 0 4592 0 4938 Far East Fund
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      • 632 17 -1.8 STOCKS ended lower yesterday amid signs the UK's food retailing sector is in the initial stage of a price war. The market's "weakness is a so-called price war in food retailing." said Viv Johnson, head of UK equities trading at Robert Fleming Securities Ltd. Sainsbury pic said yesterday
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      • 109 17 1.45 French shares finished a fraction higher with no clear direction. Foreign investors are hesitant becausc of worries about the impact of recent industrial action on the economy, dealers said. The CAC-40 index was up 1.45 at 2,171.16. Paris Nov 2 \ir-l iquide Fr HO 00 -J00 Xkatcl Anslhom
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      • 165 17 -11.22 German share prices closed floor trading with a loss on the day, falling from early highs as investor orders failed to emerge after initial trader enthusiasm. The 30share DAX index ended down 11.22 points at 2,084.36. Frankfurt No* 2 DM Acf 174 50 7 JO BASF 280 50
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      • 159 17 +3.17 Belgian stocks broke another record as the market raced to catch up with the rest of Europe's stock markets. That's despite the current uncertainty over the government's planned economic package, analysts said. "The market looked a bit soggy in the morning, but there was a broad ripple later
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      • 141 17 -88 Italian stocks slumped amid concerns about the government's ability to push the 1994 budget through parliament, traders said. Prices had openedstrongcr, helped by financier Carlo De Benedetti's release from jail on Tuesday night. The Mibtel index, which just tracks blue chips traded on the screen, fell 88 points
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      • 258 17 +4.71 Dutch stocks surged to re-cord-highs as mostly US investors sought Akzo NV shares after the chemical company reported better-than-expected results, traders said. in addition. KLM was rated "outperform" in new coverage at Lehman Brothers, traders said. The EOE index of 24 leading Dutch stocks rallied 4.71 points to
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      • 279 17 +8.75 Swiss shares ended at another record close, although the market was off the day's highs after profit-taking in some blue chips in the afternoon. Dealers said the strong dollar, continuing optimism that interest rates would case further and high bond prices had led the market higher in high
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      • 347 17 +4 South African shares found support from a variety of sources yesterday, with strong interest in selected stocks boosting overall turnover. Dealers said the weaker financial rand, a continued thin supply of scrip and mild gold price gains had all contributed to steady gains. Industrial shares were hampered by
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      • 278 17 +2.29 A late rebound in New York gold futures on Tuesday spurred stocks to a slightly stronger close. A sell-ofT in US bonds on unexpectedly strong housing starts sparked early softness on Wall Street and Toronto. "Basically it ended up with bonds on their rear end and stocks in
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      • 856 17 -11.46 The stock market headed lower on profit-taking in the early going yesterday. After one hour of trading. the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 11.46 points to 3.686.18 at 10.30 am EST. Volume on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange came to a heavy 40.80
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      2779 18 Reuter HONGKONG Stocks ended sharply lower yesterday following waves of late selling, brokers said. The blue chip Hang Seng Index slumped 290.80 points, or 3.02 per cent, to close the day at 9,352.11. It was down 79 points at midsession. "There was quite a number of sell orders from
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      453 18 THE SHANGHAI B market showed an impressive performance yesterday. Most of the counters closed higher on active turnover. Jinjiang Tower was the only loser closing 0.4 per cent lower. The CLSA Shanghai B Index surged 17.31 points to close at 829.50. The Shenzhen B market also performed well with
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      1842 18 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks plunged in the afternoon to end just above 1,300 in spectacularly active rollercoaster trade over a 100-point range yesterday, brokers said. The SET index closed down 54.36 points, or 4 per cent, to 1.303.39. after moving as high as 1.403.10 in the morning. Turnover left all
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      1073 18 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed higher in active late trading yesterday, with Barito Pacific Timber gaining 500 rupiah to close at 12,475. The ofTicial index rose 10.24 points to close at 484.25. "Foreign investors were very aggressive in selective stocks, especially Barito Pacific Timber and Dharmala Intiland." one broker
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    • 2806 19 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume Lien Hoc J7.479.000 Lien Hoc ISK97 21 .*14.000 kamunting 50c 21.507.000 Idris H\J 50c 20.318 000 innovest Bhd 15 284.000 Mclroplcx 50c 11.777.000 FACB 50c 11.346.000 Asia Pac Ld 50c 11.371.000 MBf Hldgs 50c 10.565 000 Faber Group 9.764.000
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5912 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices here closed broadly higher yesterday on unabated support from the outset of trading although light profit-taking was seen in late afternoon. Dealers said market players sought bargains for speculative stocks and selected second liners. Selected blue chips continued to
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 8484 20  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE There was a clear dichotomy in trading yesterday, with careful buying of both local and Malaysian blue chips by institutional funds, while most of the retail activity was concentrated in Malaysian speculativcs. Interest in local blue chips led to
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        76 20  -  hot stock Paul Leo MBf CAPITAL'S failure to maintain its 12-cent gain to end at the low of yesterday's trading at $1.50 is a signal that there is still some selling pressure. The pressure will continue as indicated by the RSI, which is falling despite rising prices. Relief
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    • 337 12 BUSINESS TIM E_S TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-741-1883 FAX:74M29fI IN THE MATTER THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 SMGA-SANKO GOSEI MOULDING PTE LTD MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company deemed to be held on 28 October 1993, the following resolutions were duly passed 1. SPECIAL RESOLUTION WINDING-UP
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    • 152 12 SIME SINGAPORE LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) LOST SHARE CERTIFICATES The undermentioned certificates have been reported lost, mislaid or destroyed Crtißcate No. In Hit 1M No Bt StWM *****7 Chuah Kok Seng 1 1.000 *****9 Goh Ee Stah 1 1,000 *****2 Tang Sau Har I*l.ooo Tang Swee Loot *****1 Fatimah Binte
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    • 130 15 One of The UK's Leading Hotel Agents will be visiting Singapore between 4th December and 9th December 1993 Chairman, David Rugg Deputy Chairman, Kevin Eakin London Hotels Director, Gerard Nolan will be available for confidential discussions about investment in the UK Hotel Market To arrange an appointment please contact Fiona
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    • 212 16 Energy and Resource Services (Pte) Ltd 3 Shenton way •11-08 Shenton House S'pore 0106 is looking to: SELL (on FOB Karachi or C&F Asian Ports basis) Raw cotton from Pakistan and Central Asia Sports goods Surgical instruments BUY (on FOB C&F Karachi basis) Communication and Security equipment, particularly simple handheld
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    • 28 18 The Tokyo market was closed for a public holiday yesterday. HIGH STAKES Don't get shortchanged, go for a coverage you can bank on. Financial News. Everyday. Business Times
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  • SPORTS
    • 352 21 Putra Cup Golf HONGKONG Singapore blazed into the lead on the opening day of the 1993 Southeast Asian Men's amateur team championship for the Abdul Rahman Putra Cup here. Led by Mardan Mamat, the Singapore quartet recorded a tally of 209 in the
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    • 370 21 AP CHICAGO For someone who is supposed to be running from the spotlight. Michael Jordan still casts a very long shadow. On Tuesday, the recently retired basketball supferstar turned up at his restaurant for a news conference promoting publication of the book, Rare Air: Michael
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    • 176 21 AFP LIVERPOOL, England The All Blacks clinched a clean sweep of victories over the four English divisions here on Tuesday but the tourists courted controversy again after being warned for foul play. The New Zealand side scored four tries to nil in their 27-21 win, with
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 116 21 AFP SEWALL'S POINT, Florida An avid sports fan was shot twice by his frustrated wife when he tried to watch one TV football game too many, police said. Marlene Lenick, 60, told her husband as he turned on the Sunday night game that she
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      • 110 21 AFP SOTOGRANDE, Spain Spaniard Seve Ballesteros dropped out of this week's £750,000 (551.76 million) Volvo Masters golf tournament on Tuesday because of back trouble, marking a painful end to a miserable year. By pulling out, Ballesteros ended a 17-year streak in which he won
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      • 92 21 AFP PARIS World No 2 Jim Courier's hopes of recapturing the No 1 crown from fellow-American Pete Sampras before the end of the season nosedived here on Tuesday when he crashed out of the US$2.l5 million (553.38 million) Paris Tennis Open. Courier was soundly beaten 4-6, 3-6
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      • 94 21 Reuter NEW YORK Jack McDowell, who helped lead the Chicago White Sox to their first division title since 1983, was named the winner of the American League Cy Young Award on Tuesday. McDowell, who went 22-10 with a 3.37 earned run average, was an easy
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      • 84 21 Reuter HAVANA Cuba signed an agreement with Vietnam on Tuesday for sporting cooperation next year, including sending of a sports medicine specialist and trainers to the South-east Asian nation. The Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said the sports doctor would advise Vietnam on setting
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      • 67 21 AFP NEW YORK The Toronto Blue Jays won their second straight World Series title this year, and for the second year in a row boast the highest-paid team in major league baseball. Toronto became the first major league club whose payroll broke US$5O million (5578.5
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        152 21 AFP SHARJAH, UAE Prolific opener Saeed Anwar hit a third successive one-day century here on Tuesday to carry World Cup winners Pakistan into the Champions Trophy final. The 25-year-old left-hander cracked a brilliant 111 off 104 balls as injury-plagued Pakistan overtook Sri Lanka's score of 270 for six with
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        61 21 AFP LONDON Latest world ranking released Monday: I Nick Faldo (Eng) 20.97 pts 2 Greg Norman (Aust) 18.71 3 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 17.47 4 Nick Price (Zim) 15.16 5 Paul Azinger (US) 14.87 6 Fred Couples (US) 14.18 7 Ian Woosnam (Wales) 12.18 8 Tom Kite (US) 10.15 9
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        31 21 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Tuesday: Detroit 6 Boston I; Philadelphia 4 Florida 3; Vancouver 2 NY Islanders 1; Quebec 8 Tampa Bay 2; San Jose 3 Pittsburgh 3 (OT).
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        189 21 AFP AFP Reuter TOULON, France A David Campese blunder here on Tuesday ruined the Wallabies' hopes of a badly-needed morale boost as they crashed to their second French tour defeat in a row. Winger Campese. caught on his own line midway through the second half, missed with a clearance
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        93 21 AP KUALA LUMPUR Defending champion China. Malaysia. North Korea and South Korea came out in Group A in the draw on Tuesday for the 9th Asian Women's Championship. Group B for the Dec 3-12 tournament comprises the last tournament's runner-up. Japan, along with the Philippines. Hongkong and Taiwan. China
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        289 21 AFP Reuter AFP PARIS Paris Open Ist rd l uesday: David Wheaton (US) b Ivan Lend! (US) 6-3 7-5. Mark Woodforde (Aust) b Byron Black (Zim) 7-6 (7/2) 6-2; Guillaume Raoux (Fra) b Lionel Roux (Fra) 6-2 6-0: Arnaud Boctsch (Fra) b Javier Sanchez (Spn) 6-4 6-0: Jarcd Palmer
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    • 62 21 goes on a househunt How much are private properties 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. "V Y
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 577 23  -  Bartletfs Familiar Quotations has omitted conservative gems, some critic say. Mike Feinsilber reports Mike Feinsilber AP RONALD Reagan was "the Great Communicator", even his enemies concede, but the former president managed to get into Bartlett's Familiar Quotations with only three quotes, and a conservative editor smells a rat.
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    • 347 23 CHATTERBOX Reuter UPI AP AP THE worst of California's new wildfires, which started on Tuesday, hit the star colony of Malibu, where multi-million-dollar mansions were levelled. An evacuation was ordered for the city's famed Malibu Colony, home to many celebrities. Actor Charles Branson fought to save his house
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 1233 23 TV RADIO The Fabulous Baker Boys, 10.30pm, SBC 5 K A pair of mildly contentious piano-playing brothers (played brothers Jeff and Beau a er (Michelle Pficffer) to her presence pushes age-old regrets to the The Prize, Bpm, SBC 12 hjW With rising power na- *^pk growth was X "^L. the
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
    • IN TAKES
      • 62 24 Reuter SYDNEY Australian scientists said yesterday they had accidentally discovered a new material which absorbs heavy metals and could solve the problem of toxic metal pollution in water. Researchers at the University of Queensland and the Australian National University said in a statement the low-cost material,
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      • 104 24 UPI LOS ANGELES Initial studies show a new technique may slow or stop the spread of kidney cancer a lethal, incurable disorder. UCLA doctors reported in the November issue of the Journal of Urology they removed tumour-infested kidneys from 10 patients, who had been treated
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      • 61 24 Reuter CHICAGO A new, easier, cheaper and more accurate method of testing men for chlamydia, one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, is available and ought to be administered routinely, researchers said Tuesday. A combination of urine-based tests from US$l99 (SS3I6) to US$434 was more
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    • 337 24  -  Claire Leow finds a green route to the data highway Claire Leow FAXING has never been easier nor greener. No paper, no queuing and no jam (at least for the sender). And volumes of facsimiles can be executed in a jiffy. Diskfax, a
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    • 898 24  -  Mary Beth Regan reports on the comeback of renewable energy in the US Mary Beth Regan IN the late *****, alternative energy was nearly as popular in California as alternative lifestyles. Fertilised by state and federal tax incentives, windmills sprouted cast of San
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    • 150 24 OUR RACE BEGAN IN 1949. The national airline of Indonesia that spread its wings and soon became the largest airline in South East Asia. But still we race. Billions invested in new planes. Millions invested in maintenance facilities. A new GfIRDDH language laboratory where flight IniiiEsii crew earn to k
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  • THE LAW PAGE
    • 1638 25  -  The fine print in application forms accompanying some insurance companies" advertisements for medical plans raises several questions. Selva Kumar delves into them Selva Kumar Selva Kumar is a freelance writer on legal matters. AS I turned the pages of a special supplement on rising medical
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    • 363 25 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thai, I, Um Lip Chia Peter Lim of Blk 244 Hougang St 22 #11-119 Singapore 1953, have applied for a Wholesale Beer Shop Licence in respect of premises at M/S Lee Kim Tuan Frozen Food at 488 Changi Road Singapore 1441, and that this application will
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  • 508 26 EDITORIAL THE critics were confounded and Singapore Telecom vindicated. The doubts about whether the timing, the price and size of the mega-flotation of Singapore Telecom would reflect demand from the street vanished last week when the initial public ofler of 1.1 billion shares was subscribed by 4.1 times.
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 301 26 IN SPITE OF its note of justified optimism, the Budget that Malaysia's Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim presented last week may have helped to draw attention to a challenge that looms on the horizon of many developing countries. For, though East Asia is the fastest growing region
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    • 189 26 WITH A TOTAL area size of 16,926 sq km and a population of about six million people, Haiti is a relatively small island. But that little island has now grabbed the world's attention with its power struggle and its defiance of the world body. The crisis began
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    • 182 26 JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER Morihiro Hosokawa announced recently while reviewing his "self-defence" forces that Japan should rethink its basic defence strategy based on the changing circumstances of the post-Cold War global arrangement. He also hinted that Japan may voluntarily cut down its military facilities. Reports said that Mr
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    • 206 26 DIPLOMATS AT THE United Nations seemed to have left their logic at home during an important discussion about the worldwide drugs problem last week. Speaker after speaker at the two-day debate 90 men and women, including many ministers reported progress against drugs and narcotics in their
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    • 126 26 NEGOTIATIONS OVER Bosnia are fumbling towards a forced outcome the weaker side is being knocked over the head with the butt of a gun. They are counterfeit because they are being conducted under a sham ceasefire, with Sarajevo encircled by an artillery live wire, and with
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  • 1084 26  -  Amid fears that North Korea could become an unstable and nasty nuclear power, William Clark Jr suggests using the trade weapon to force it to give up its nuclear programme William Clark Jr The writer, a former US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and
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    • 1270 27  -  Tokyo Correspondent Anthony Rowley looks at how foreign firms can benefit from Japan's reformed public construction market Anthony Rowley JAPAN'S huge public construction market appears finally to have been prised open to foreign contractors, who must now be looking forward to rich pickings in a market
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    • 1355 27  -  William Lewis examines labour productivity in nine representative manufacturing industries in Germany, Japan and the US William Lewis THERE are many reasons offered why industries in one country become internationally competitive. Yet debaters of all stripes seem to agree on one fact: The US
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  • 455 28 Reuter, AFP BRUSSELS A senior US official has said there is no scope for reinterpreting a farm trade accord with the European Community and stressed that a Dec 15 deadline for a linked Gatt world trade deal is final. Joan
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  • 536 28  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR A CANDIDATE backed by Malaysian Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim won the leadership of the Youth Wing of Umno (United Malays National Organisation) at the party's congress yesterday. But analysts say Malacca chief
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  • 348 28 AFP, Reuter BRUSSELS The European Commission is imposing duties of up to nearly 100 per cent on Japanese television cameras and equipment imported into the European Community. The ECs executive European Commission said yesterday the Japanese manufacturers had been exporting their cameras
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  • 311 28 Reuter, AFP, UPI WASHINGTON Republicans have swept the top prizes in Tuesday's elections, winning governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia and the New York City mayoral race, dealing a major blow to President Bill Clinton and his Democratic Party. The defeat
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  • 722 28  -  The Bottom Line HARISH MEHTA HARISH MEHTA The writer is a BT correspondent specialising in Indochinese affairs OIL executives of BHP Petroleum, a subsidiary of Australian resources firm The Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd, had a terrific Halloween last week in Vietnam. An
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  • 330 28 Reuter LONDON Up to 250,000 jobs could be lost in European banking over the next five to seven years, according to a survey of the industry by the Andersen Worldwide Organisation, accountants and management consultants. This would be about
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  • 126 28 Reuter TAIPEI The Taipei city government is suing French engineering group Matra for US$69 million (SSIO9 million) because of delays in building a mass transit rail system. "We are suing Matra of France for violating our contract and are asking for a total of
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    • 393 29  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Yangming Marine Transport will restructure its independent Far East/Europe service to cut the transit time of its fixed-day, weekly express service to Northern Europe from January. The restructuring would also remove the overlap with a new Mediterranean
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    • 220 29 AFP SEOUL Thanks to the strong Japanese yen. South Korea received a record amount of overseas shipbuilding orders this year, doubling the volume garnered by the world's traditional largest shipbuilder, Japan. The Korea Shipbuilding Association (KSA) yesterday said South Korea's nine shipyards received
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    • 349 29 Reuter SEOUL Salvage teams retrieved the last victim from a ferry which sank off South Korea's west coast last month, bringing the final death toll to 292 and confirming original reports of overloading, police said yesterday. "We recovered the last body late on Tuesday, about
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    • 380 29  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Sembawang Shipyard has clinched its biggest conversion contract so far a S2OO-million deal to convert bulk carrier Solitaire into the world's largest pipelaying vessel. The massive job will keep the shipyard busy over the next two years, said Sembawang
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    • 670 44 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES AFP A NUMBER of modem panamaxes were placed on the market for sale during the course of the week. Interest for such tonnage has been very firm over recent weeks and a number of inspections are said to be taking place. Very few trading deals have
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    • 1163 45 THE BALTIC Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,317 on Tuesday from 1.316 on Nov I. In a see-saw day on the freight. Cargill, having pushed the rate for US Gulf to Japan up to U5523.00 with one combination port discharge, is now close
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    • 889 45 THIS twicc weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements arc indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 878 46 A long-time partner sizes up China's bulk shipping industry UA NY HICCUP in China is going to have the most negative effect on the bulk shipping market." says executive director of Hongkong's Jinhui Holdings. Thomas Ng. An obvious truth these days, maybe. But few are better qualified
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      • 571 48 Reuter DALLAS A United States proposal to create a liberal, more competitive world aviation policy came under harsh criticism by small, national carriers who contended that an "open skies" policy would put them out of business. Airlines attending a meeting of an
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      • 222 48 Reuter TOKYO The start-up of Honda Motor Co Ltd's first car plant in Guangzhou, China, has been delayed because local authorities are still awaiting approval from the central government, a company spokesman said. "It might still happen this year, in December." he said
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      • 169 48 Reuter OTTAWA Tough local content provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) may prompt automakers to set up new operations outside Canada so they can tap a larger market, a study by the C D Howe Institute said on Monday. "Other
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      • 470 48 FT KRAKOW Fiat, the Italian carmaker, is to expand its operations in Poland, with the local assembly of its Uno small car set to start early next year. Initially Fiat will carry out the final assembly of the cars at its plant at
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      • 323 48 Reuter LOS ANGELES US airlines are fight last week's US District Court ruling that gave Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) officials the ability to ban air carriers that refuse to pay increased landing fees. The Air Transport Association, an industry
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      • 238 48 BernamaKyodo TOKYO The International Air Transport Association (lata) has dccidcd to reduce standard air fares for transPacific (lights by an average 20 per cent, the Japanese Transport Ministry said on Tuesday. lata, whose member airlines carry 98 per cent of all scheduled
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        • 80 48 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Cheung Kong Holdings has agreed to enter into a USSIOO-million (SSIS7 million) joint venture with the Shantou. China, municipal government to build and operate a container terminal in Shantou. the pro-Beijing Ta Kung Pao newspaper said yesterday. The terminal is
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          41 48 Reuter KARACHI. Pakistan Fishing boats belonging to Pakistani fishermen group together on Monday in Karachi's fishing harbour to protest against fishing by foreign trawlers within Pakistani waters. The fishermen are demanding a ban on all foreign fishing vessels. Reuter
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        • 99 48 AP SEOUL North Korean delegates are to arrive in Seoul on Sunday for talks on jointly developing a major international port in an area that straddles North Korea, China and Russia. North and South Korea, China and Mongolia, together with the UN
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        • 72 48 Reuter LONDON The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) on Tuesday said it received 92.6 per cent acceptance of its enhanced scrip dividend alternative. The election period closed on Oct 29. The company also said merchant bank Barclays de Zocte Wedd is inviting
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