The Business Times, 20 December 1993

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  • 12 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Monday December 20 1993 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 63 1 Reuter OSLO Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation held a second day of secret talks in Norway yesterday to try to end a staiemate over how to implement their historic accord on Palestinian self-rule, but there was no news of any breakthrough. Norwegian officials
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    • 67 1 Reuter GRONINGEN. Netherlands The breakaway Professional Chess Association (PCA) yesterday announced plans for its own world championship cycle. World No I Garry Kasparov. who won an unofficial title under the auspices of the PCA in October, will defend his title in 1995 under the
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    110 1 Stock market indices Frida\ Week change STII 2.280.26 +59 86 KLSE Composite .1.109.53 +33 68 Nikkei 18.***** +794 48 Hang Seng 10.568 80 340.70 SET Index 1.513.83 +33.20 Jakarta Composite ...556.95 +28.49 CLSA China B 1.338.59 +24.48 Aust All Ord 2.080.20 +4 7 FTSE 100 3.337.1 +75.80 Dow
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  • 45 1 ONG CO has not put a stop or imposed restrictions on contra trading. The stockbroking firm said this in response to a BT report on Saturday which said that it was among a number of stockbroking firms which have curtailed or restricted contra trading.
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  • 525 1 Bernama, AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has called for measures to prevent the country's buoyant stock market from dragging the economy into recession, as occurred in Japan, local newspapers said yesterday. "This remark is certainly
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  • 830 1  -  By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Two business chambers will be approaching the Ministry of Communications about high COE premiums, particularly for heavy goods vehicles, in the context of rising business costs. Graham Hayward, executive director of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, says
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  • 648 1 AFP BEIJING China's senior leader Deng Xiaoping was seen only once in public this year, but the presence of the 89-year-old patriarch was felt more than ever in the country's political life and economy especially in the absence of an apparent successor. Mr
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  • 217 1 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Taiwan should establish direct trade, mail and aviation links with the Chinese mainland, as new figures show investment flooding across the Taiwan Straits, said An Min, director of Taiwan Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic
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  • 229 1 AFP WASHINGTON Secretary Lloyd Bentsen pre-* dieted yesterday that the United States economy will expand at a rate of 3 per cent next year, with continued low inflation and interest rates. "I think we're headed for long-term sustainable growth," Mr Bentsen
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  • 225 1 Knight-Ridder Washington The US will match "dollar for dollar" if the European Community exceeds its obligations under the new world trade pact to rein back export subsidies. Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy said on Saturday. "I know Congress will not
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 324 2  -  By A J Leow RETAIL SALES totalled 51.605 billion in Octobcr, 9.3 per ccnt higher than the corresponding month last year. The increase was not due entirely to price cficcts; measured in volume terms, the level of retail activity was 3.8 per ccnt higher in Octobcr
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    • 259 2  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPOREANS made 3.74 million trips to Malaysia in 1992 and spent a total of MS 1.7 billion (SSI.OI billion), according to a fact sheet published by Malaysia's Tourism Promotion Board. And if day trippers
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    • 101 2 She US Information Service pointed out that Y C fiheng. managing director of international Garments, has jidT pleaded guilty to cheating US Customs Service. 4*The USIS was referring to story, "S'pore firm charged with cheating US Customs to get around textile quotas", in the Dec 18/19 weekend
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    • 162 2 Singapore Telecom announced yesterday that it is lowering the rates for its international leased circuits (ILCs) and Telepac services with effect from Jan I. ILCs are communication lines used mainly by multinational companies for internal communication with sister companies abroad while Telepac
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    • 414 2  -  Reports by Anna Teo BUSINESS sentiment is fairly strong. Of 125 companies surveyed in late November, 55 per cent expect business to be good next year, and 4 per cent pronounce the prospects "excellent". Of the rest, 40 per cent reckon
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    • 581 2 BUSINESS expectations are good, but that does not mean fatter pay packets for employees next year. While most of the 125 companies surveyed by Remuneration Data Specialists are optimistic about business prospects in 1994. the basic increments or variable bonuses they
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  • THE REGION
    • 400 3 Call for crackdown follows official reports of graft Reuter HANOI Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet has demanded tougher legal penalties against corruption, saying Hanoi must win back the people's confidence as waves of graft and money-worship sweep the country. Mr Kiet
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    • 521 3 AFP YANGON Myanmar's military junta is hoping that islandhopping, golfing and even skiing holidays will attract international tourists, and their much-needed hard currency, back to the country. The State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) is hoping that such delights,
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    • 355 3 AFP HANOI One uncertainty facing foreign investors in Vietnam is the absence of a modem legal system, but somehow business gets done while the government is tackling the problem. Vietnam's legal inadequacies include a lack of laws governing mortgages, insurance, bills of
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    • 154 3 Reuter MANILA The Philippine Congress has approved a budget of 330 billion pesos (5518.58 billion) for 1994, down from the original proposal by President Fidel Ramos of 362 billion pesos. The Senate and the House of Representatives late on Friday approved the final version of
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 83 3 AFP PHNOM PENH Two Cambodian officers and a soldier were arrested on charges of theft of a Land Cruiser and a large sum of money belonging to the UNHCR relief agency, the state news agency AKP reported yesterday. The uniformed men who identified themselves as
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      • 77 3 AFP MANILA President Fidel Ramos yesterday ordered the strict enforcement of a ban on the gathering of nests of the black swift in the western Philippines, saying continued poaching was pushing the bird into extinction. A presidential palace statement said Mr Ramos ordered Environment Secretary
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      • 42 3 Reuter TOKYO Myanmar protesters carrying banners and portraits of Aung San Suu Kyi in a demonstration yesterday against the prolonged incarceration of the Nobel peace prize winner. About 80 Myanmar nationals and Japanese participated in the demonstration. Reuter
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      • 73 3 AFP DHAKA Four businessmen from private pharmaceutical firms were arrested for producing sub-standard medicines under the Special Powers Act (SPA) of 1974, police said yesterday. Police jailed officials of BCI Pharma Bangladesh Ltd, Ad-Flame Pharmaceuticals Ltd and Rex Pharma Bangladesh Ltd. Earlier this year, a large number
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      • 64 3 AFP BANGKOK Thai anti-narcotics police are about to arrest 10 leading local business tycoons whom authorities say are linked to trafficking heroin from the "Golden Triangle", The Nation reported on Saturday. "In the past, we could not arrest them due to lack of evidence,"
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    • 503 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING A top Chinese trade official warns Beijing will scrap its bid to rejoin the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade if the global trade organisation doesn't let China in by 1995, the official China
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    • 259 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan is working to beat China to membership in Gatt as a way of protecting its economic interests and avoiding the possibility of direct trade talks with Beijing before the global trade group is reorganised
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    • 232 4 AFP BEIJING Urban wage increases in China kept marginally ahead of inflation at 21.1 per cent in the first 10 months of 1993. while the burgeoning private sector failed to bring massive pay rises under control. Some 355.5 billion
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    • 277 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's finance ministry has ordered a clampdown on foreign accountants conducting domestic audits without official approval, the official China Daily reported on Saturday. Regulations issued on Friday, which will be effective Jan 1, stipulate that foreign accounting firms must get
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    • 433 4 AFP SEOUL The gloom of 1993 is giving way to rising hopes as South Korea's economy climbs rapidly out of years of slump, thanks to economic reforms and an anti-corruption drive, analysts said. Better than expected yearend results prompted a government
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    • 204 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's planned stock capital gains tax will be levied on individual investors as well as institutions, but only a very small number of individuals will be taxed. Finance Minister Lin Chen-kuo was quoted as saying.
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    • 429 6 Reuter TOKYO Potential layofls. shrinking profits and forecasts of slow growth ahead: the gloomy news seems endless as Japan faces a new year with its economy stalled and its confidence shaken. Compounding the problems is a change in the political map that
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    • 256 6 AFP TOKYO The United States has decided to drop its demand that Japan accept numerical targets to slash its swollen trade surplus, the Mainichi Shimbun said yesterday. The US side made the concession in a bid to hasten the conclusion of a framework for
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    • 360 6 UPI TOKYO A powerful figure in the seven-party coalition government led by Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa touched on Saturday on the possibility of a dissolution of the House of Representatives if political reform legislation is not passed. The
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    • 205 6 AFP TOKYO Japan will boost its payment to the United Nations from the current 12.45 per cent of the international body's total budget to 13.5 per cent, starting in 1995, the Yomiuri Shimbun said yesterday. The newspaper, quoting a Foreign Ministry source, said
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    • 153 6 AFP TOKYO Japan and Russia will start their first joint project on space development, with Tokyo given rights to use testing facilities for spaceships, the Nikon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday. The joint project is based on a bilateral agreement for cooperation in
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  • THE WORLD
    • 459 7 Reuter WASHINGTON US VicePresident A 1 Gore, reflecting US concern that nationalists in Russia have capitalised on voter ire over the economy, is leading a drive to ease International Monetary Fund rules that have blocked funds for Moscow. Mr Gore,
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    • 342 7 Reuter FRANKFURT A leading German banker says Germans have to be prepared to make sacrifices as the country grapples with the huge costs of unification. Horst Koehler, president of the German Savings Banks Association, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper that
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    • 259 7 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK The sharp increase in US housing starts last month will help the economy continue its growth path into early 1994, analysts said. However, some questioned whether the improved level of starts activity seen in recent months is
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  • SPORTS
    • SIDE LINES
      • 106 8 AFP NEW YORK Australia's Rupert Murdoch, who spent US$l.5B billion (552.51 billion) for four seasons of American football television rights, sent a shock wave through TV networks and the National Football League. Details of Murdoch's deal became public on Saturday, revealing the global media giant
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      • 40 8 AFP PARIS Three-time Formula One world champion Brazilian Ayrton Senna speeding off in the first qualifying session of the Elf Master Karting Indoor championships held at the Bercy Sports Hall here on Saturday. AFP
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      • 136 8 AFP ADELAIDE Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he handed the hosting rights for the Australian grand prix to Melbourne from 1997 because he wanted the race to stay in Australia. In an interview in the Sunday Mail published here, Mr Ecclestone. president of
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      • 111 8 AFP SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Utah Jazz forward Karl Malone said on Saturday he intends to keep wearing basketball shoes that blink despite a National Basketball Association (NBA) ruling that says he mustn't. "What's wrong with them, just because they blink?" Malone said. NBA
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    • 654 8 Johnnie Walker World Championship Golf NYT MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica Somewhere ofT the Great Barrier Reef, Greg Norman is sunning himself on the deck of a yacht, playing with his kids and enjoying a Christmas family reunion, Aussie-style. Tournament officials here at the Johnnie Walker World Championship
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    • Article, Illustration
      44 8 AFP HAMBURG German European champions Andreas Gerlach and Andreas John performing as Santa Claus during the presentation of their new "laser 5,000' sailing boat at Hamburg's Alster River on Saturday. The boat is to take part in the 2000 Olympic Games. AFP
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    • 286 8 AP LAS VEGAS Soccer officials from around the world expressed shock on Saturday that Fifa president Joao Havelangc intended to ban Pele, the sport's most famous player, from yesterday's World Cup draw. "I am speechless," Germany coach Berti Vogts said. "There's not much more
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    • 695 8  -  Dave Anderson on the scarcity of good quarterbacks in the NFL Dave Anderson EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey In pro football, there's no other position quite like it: quarterback. It stands for leadership, intelligence, arm, toughness and more than anything else, the
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    • SCORE CARD
      • 61 8 Reuter EAST RUTHERFORD. New Jersey The defending Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys clinched a playoff berth on Saturday with a 28-7 thrashing of the New York Jets. Troy Aikman threw for 252 yards on 21-of-27 passing and connected with Michael Irvin on a pair of touchdown strikes to
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      • Article, Illustration
        171 8 Reuter NEW YORK In Houston. Houston pulled within two victories of the best record in NBA history by a team with one defeat and pushed Dallas closer to a record for consecutive losses as Hakeem Olajuwon scored 28 points. The Mavericks (1-21) lost their 18th game in a row.
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      • Article, Illustration
        128 8 Reuter PUEBLA, Mexico Julio Cesar Chavez of Mexico pummelled Andy Holligan of Britain, knocking him out in the sixth round, to retain his World Boxing Council (WBC) super lightweight title on Saturday. Chavez, fighting in front of a fiercely partisan home crowd, scored his 89th victory in 90 professional
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      • Article, Illustration
        208 8 NYT AFP AP MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica US$2.7 million (554.3 million) World Championship third round scores on Saturday (par-71): 201 Larry Mize (US) 67-66-68 204 Colin Montgomerie (Scot) 67-69-68 208 Bcrnhard Langcr (Gcr) 71-68-69 209 Ernie Els (SA) 66-73-70. Brad Faxon (US) 69-69-71 210 Fulton Allcm (SA) 69-69-72. Steve Elkington
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        42 8 Reuter NEW YORK NHL results on Saturday: Philadelphia 2 Chicago 2 (OT); Quebec 2 New Jersey 6; Hartford 4 Washington 1; Tampa Bay 3 Boston 5; Montreal 8 Detroit I; Toronto 4 Los Angeles 1; Calgary 5 Winnipeg 4 (OT).
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    • 149 8 Play market guru and win yourself a royal ride on the Eastern Oriental Express! 'jgjj& y All you have to do is forecast whether the Straits Times Industrials lndex wi c ose n 31 December 1993 h,^her ,ower or unchan^ e<j between 11 and 22 December 1993. Multiple title blocks
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  • Business IT
    • 826 9  -  We'll be back, they tell Bernard Chew, who also learnt of plans for a 'virtual booth' during a recent visit to America's Silicon Valley Bernard Chew, INFORMATICS '93, the premier regional IT exhibition held two months ago, has received favourable reactions from the
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    • 841 9  -  David Welcher finds out how Scopus succeeds in providing clients multi-vendor support David Welcher NOT so long ago, if a company had a basic call-tracking system in place to keep tabs on its customers' software problems, it was considered a progressive and
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    • 276 9 AP IN A remarkable turnaround for a once-troubled industry. US semiconductor makers retook the lead in chip production this year, surpassing Japan for the first time in eight years, a research group said last week. The American gains reflect improved US manufacturing technology,
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    • 599 9  -  Pentium holding its own against rivals, Intel tells Joseph Rajendran Joseph Rajendran INTEL expccts its latest product, the Pentium microprocessor, to be installed in about 15 per cent of all PCs shipped by mid 1994, and up to 25
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    • 657 10  -  At a closed-door seminar in Singapore two weeks ago, Claire Leow found industry experts upbeat about very portable computers Claire Leow DATAQUEST Inc, the market research firm from San Jose, California, sees 1994 as the year of the sub-notebook and hand-held computing devices
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 67 10 SINGAPORE Technofairs Coiporation, manager of Sitex '93, says the computer show, which was held two weeks ago, attracted a total of 106,893 visitors. In a press statement, Technofairs said Samcom's English-Chinese language translation program won an award in the software category. The dinners in the hardware
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      • 45 10 SINGAPORE The associate company of Singapore Computer System, Malaysia-based Sistem Kompakar. has won a MSI million contract from the Malaysian Meteorological Service (MMS). The data message switching system contract will include the Rapid Information Management System from the Lockheed Austin Division.
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      • 60 10 SINGAPORE NEC has announced its Versa Enhanced Series notebook computer. The firm says the new product is an enhanced version of the Ultra Lite Versa. The new product has a brighter screen, a faster processor (i486 DX2 running at either 40 or 50 Mhz), a smaller AC
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      • 67 10 TOKYO Toshiba Corp has withdrawn from a joint venture to produce interactive media CD-ROM equipment with Apple Computer, according to a Jiji Press report. A senior Toshiba official explained that the project was abandoned in light of the departure of former Apple chairman John
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      • 82 10  -  Compiled by Joseph Rajendran NEW YORK The New York Times will begin ofTering an interactive version of the newspaper over the computer network of America Online early next year. The Times and America Online Inc announced. In addition to the top articles from The
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    • IT Moves
      • 116 10 SINGAPORE Lotus Development Corp has expanded i|s consulting services group (CSG) here by adding a new senior consultant and a manager, bringing to six the number of staff in the division. The senior consultant is Chua Lai Chwang, who previously worked for Motorola and Andersen Consulting.
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    • It's happenin'
      • 71 10 SINGAPORE The Systems Education Centre is organising ,a series of workshops and seminars between January and March. The workshops in January include: the fundamentals of Unix and related programming, C++ object oriented programming, Novdl Netware installation and administration, and the TCP/IP communication protocol. Courses in February
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      • 67 10 SINGAPORE The Asean Reinsurance Corporation is organising the Asean Workshop on Information Technology in Insurance on Feb 2-3 at the Mandarin Hotel Singapore. The event will highlight the key issues and challenges in computerisation and IT currently facing the insurance industry in Asean from the
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      • 62 10  -  Compiled by Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE The Pan-Asian Telecommunications Information Task Force, a division of the Institute for International Research, is organising "Multimedia: Asia Summit *94". Some 6f the highlights include services on the information superhighway and broadband technologies of the future. It will be held from
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    • 985 11  -  Senior executive Joachim Kempin tells Claire Leow the future belongs to Windows NT and Chicago Claire Leo Software giant Microsoft is betting on its Windows NT for Desktop operating system codenamed Chicago selling at least 30 million kits in the first year,
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    • 874 11  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Angie Chew explains four consistent and practical steps in reengineering that have assured insurance companies success. Angie Chew The writer, a senior manager with Andersen Consulting Singapore, has more than seven years of experience in the financial services
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    • 674 12  -  Yen Sreenivasan takes a look at the locally developed talking PC" that reads faxes to you over the phone Ven Sreenivasan Imagine your personal computer reading faxes to you over the telephone by the poolside. at the clubhouse, in the car and of
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    • 616 12  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY TOM AMBROSE The writer is a Support Contracts Specialist with Hewlett Packard's Americas' Field Operations (AFO). He also has extensive experience as a computer consultant helping businesses to use information technology productively. Many of you have read, no doubt, about
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    • 193 9 Fulfil A What kind of relationship do you have with your computer? RNy A If you think about it you'll discover it's largely based on trust. A ter a *he vita information that you depend on is trusted to a part of your computer called the disc drive. That's why
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    • 670 14 Nothing Beats ABucLlrVt^ W»WO OF Jr^°*^ N RUE L Round >_ U Terrace introduces Penang Supper, after the popular Penang lunch, dinner and high tea. il IV/r/i some 19 items available from the menu /J m\ surely there's something for everyone. From a rm Wf\ bowl of congee to a
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  • THE ARTS
    • 503 15  -  Lisa Lee reviews the SDTs Project 1 performance Lisa Lee LAST WEEK'S Project 1 performance from the Singapore Dance Theatre, which featured new works by choreographers from the Asia-Pacific region, made one wish that more choreographers would, like Baianchine. give us dance for the
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    • 379 15  -  Andrew Lim on the SSO's Christmas Concert Andrew Lim ALIGHTED Christmas tree, tinsel round the Victoria Concert Hall, a disco ball and balloons hanging from the ceiling these set the stage for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's Christmas Concert last Saturday. Lim Yau conducted both
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 945 16 More companies in the US are hiring ethicists to handle dilemmas Bloomberg Business News WHEN the Texas Instruments Inc salesman settled into his seat on the airliner, he discovered a golden opportunity and an ethical dilemma staring him in the face. Stuffed in the
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    • 947 17 Glenn R Jones of Jones Intercable is taking the road that's less travelled NYT I'm an entrepremnr. Why do I feel like a gunslinger. Or a buffalo hunter. Or a dinosaur. Here, on what was the unfettered frontier. Of free enterprise? "That Sinking Feeling." by
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    • 394 17 MR THOMAS SNYDER has been appointed regional original equipment manager in Asia by Gates Rubber Company. Mr Snyder graduated from Miami University and received a bachelor's degree in economics with an international focus. He will be working closely with Gates Japan to solidify sales opportunities to Asian original
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  • 646 18 NYT MOSCOW In another strong signal of a shift against economic reform after the Russian elections. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin was quoted on Saturday as scathingly accusing Westernised reformers in his own Cabinet of "poorly thought-out experiments" and a failure "to
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  • 293 18 Reuter BUDAPEST A GermanAmerican consortium will pay US$B75 million (SSI.4 billion) to buy a 30 per cent stake in Hungary's state telecommunications company and a 25-year national telephone concession, the government announced yesterday. The price tag makes the purchase by Deutsche
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  • 57 18 AFP CALCUTTA Mother Teresa admiring the Unesco peace foundation award which was presented to her by the directorgeneral of Unesco, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, on Saturday at a simple function here. The award was in recognition of the 83-year-old Mother Teresa's "untiring effort towards dismantling the demarcation
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  • 369 18 NYT UNITED NATIONS Concern is rising at the UN over the human and financial cost of the embargoes the Security Council has imposed on Yugoslavia, Iraq and Haiti. While the leaders of those countries are responsible for the
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  • 297 18 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan and China remained deadlocked on the repatriation of Chinese hijackers during talks in Taipei yesterday and shelved further discussion of the issue until later this week, a Taiwanese negotiator said. Taiwan wants to reserve the right not
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  • 951 18  -  The Bottom Line DAVID MASON DAVID MASON The writer is a partner in an international accounting firm. GAZETTING of the GST Subsidiary Legislation on Friday marks the completion of the regulatory framework of the tax. There are still regulations to
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  • 221 18 Reuter BELFAST The leader of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, suggested in remarks published yesterday that a major Anglo-Irish peace initiative for Northern Ireland was seriously flawed. Gerry Adams said in a newspaper article that the four-day-old plan might flounder unless
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 395 19  -  By A J Leow SINGAPORE Listed-prop-erty and manufacturing group. Wing Tai Holdings, plans to raise up to $338.3 million from a rights issue, the bulk of which will be used for regional expansion. In a statement released over the weekend, the
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    • 488 19  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Flour miller Prima Ltd has successfully crossed a major hurdle over the location of its US$7O million (SS 111 million) wheat flour mill in Vietnam, and is expected to be given an investment licence soon. Sources in
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    • 465 19 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed marine appliance supplier GRP. which reported flat profit growth for the year to June 30, expects to do better this year. Managing director Han Hai Kwang says growth in the next few years will be driven by venturing into niche markets
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    • 689 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By William Chia SINGAPORE When the former Batu Lintang Rubber Company changed its name to Advance Synergy Bhd in June 1992, many investors thought executive chairman Ahmad Sebi Bakar was on an ego trip. They saw it as no coincidence
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    • 298 19  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Listed cement manufacturer Ssangyong Cement (Singapore) is investing US$7 million (S$ 11.13 million) in two joint ventures in Shanghai to manufacture cement and cement-related products. The company said at the weekend that the first was with Shanghai
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    • 225 19 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) said it would monitor daily the share price movements of stocks classified as "designated securities" in which it believes there has been excessive speculation. "There's no definite period for a counter to trade under
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    • 146 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Koperasi Usaha Bersatu Malaysia Berhad (KUB). which is currently awaiting approval to buy a majority stake in Kumpulan Emas. has drawn up plans to develop its vast landbank. Chairman Hassan Harun said yesterday KUB's two-hect-are land at Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur
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    • Article, Illustration
      350 19 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Dec 17 Last Vflx latftx Slock tilt C'kft factor wnm (S) (V) A* imo 2.140 1.38 CAC 8 100 -0.450 5.21 115 38 CWT 3 160 0.170 2.03 -43.59 Ccrcbos 7 500 0 250 4 8 3 -64 10 FAN 17
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 74 21 The Star KUALA LUMPUR Tasek Cement Bhd has teamed up with Oriental Bhd to set up a MSSOO million (SS3I2 million) cement plant in south China. The plant will have a capacity of 650,000 tonnes per annum. Tasek Cement will provide the technical
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        • 64 21 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Muhibbah Engineering (M) Bhd, a marine engineering company which will be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's main board next February, has forecast a pretax profit of MJ 13.37 million (558.35 million) for the year ending Dec 31, 1993. The proposed
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        • 60 21 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malayan Flour Mills Bhd has announced four proposals which will increase its paid-up share capital from Ms7o million to M$ 157 million. However, its net tangible assets per share ratio is expected to fall from M 52.28 (as of Dec 31, 1992)
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        • 65 21 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Renong Bhd's proposal to dispose of the entire issued and paid-up capital of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Probadi Sdn Bhd, to TH Loy Industries (M) Bhd has been approved by the Securities Commission. The consideration of M 5114.40 million (5571.27 million) will be satisfied
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        • 61 21 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Edaran Otomobil Nasional Bhd has made a general offer for the entire issued and paid-up share capital of the EON Bank, other than the 61.3 million shares it already owns. Bumiputra Merchant Bankers Bhd, on behalf of EON, said in a statement over
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      • 248 21 BANGKOK Dow Chemical Company, one of the largest chemical companies in the world, fears that the Asean Free Trade Agreement (Afta) will have negative effects on the feasibility of investing in petrochemical projects in Thailand, said a report in The Nation. As a
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      • 453 21 Reuter GUANGZHOU, China Hongkong property giant New World Development Co Ltd increased its total investment in China to HK$B billion (SSI.7 billion) with the signing two property contracts over the weekend, company chairman Cheng Yu-tung told reporters yesterday. He expects the total
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      • 312 21 BANGKOK Haagen-Dazs Far East Ltd will expand its market into China in the next two years. Indonesia and Australia will follow, says Stephen C Murphy, director of business development. He told The Nation newspaper in Bangkok at the weekend that the
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      • 519 21 Reuter HONGKONG Expanding East Asian wallets and a hunger for designer labels and status symbols have helped create a retail empire for Shanghaiborn Joyce Ma. Ms Ma, who started with one shop in the 1970s and now has 28 pricey designer stores under
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      • 386 21 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's securities watchdog has issued provisional regulations to stop companies flooding the country's infant securities markets with rights issues and bonus shares, the China Daily reported on Saturday. Under the new regulations, companies will not be allowed
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      • 175 21 Reuter HONGKONG A major joint venture power plant agreement in China's Shangdong province collapsed at the last minute when the provincial power bureau pulled out, an English-language newspaper in Hongkong said yesterday. The Sunday Morning Post newspaper said the proposed joint venture,
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      • 403 21  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY THE LOW Yat group from Malaysia has successfully bid against a Singapore-based investor to buy a hotel in Sydney for A 513.4 million (5514.4 million). The latest purchase by yet another South-east Asian investor markedly contrasts with
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      • 238 21 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Sungei Way Holdings Bhd has proposed a one-for-two bonus issue, a one-for-four rights issue, a loan stock issue with warrants and a special bumiputra issue which will raise gross proceeds of MS 182.2 million (SSU3.9 million). The proposals, assuming
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    • CORPORATE FOCUS
      • 1365 22  -  Michael Ying, chairman of newly listed Esprit Asia Holdings From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG MICHAEL YING, the single largest shareholder of international fashion house Esprit, confesses somewhat sheepishly that he could not sew a shirt to save his life. "I've learned a few things like
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      • 323 22 Reuter FRANKFURT Heinz Schimmelbusch. the flamboyant Austrian chief executive of Metallgesellschaft AG. was sacked on Friday as part of a major clear-out of top management of the troubled German conglomerate. MG said that in addition to Dr Schimmelbusch, chief financial officer Meinhard
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 333 23 AP BERN, Switzerland Parliament refused to loosen Swiss bank secrecy laws on Friday, a move critics said will revive charges that the country is a haven for drug trade profits and other illicit money. Conservative lawmakers in the National Council, or lower house,
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      • 313 23 Bloomberg Business News SAN FRANCISCO Luxem-bourg-based Banque Leu pleaded guilty on Friday to laundering US$2.3 million (553.6 million) from drug sales by a Colombian drug ring operating in Southern California, federal prosecutors said. With its plea, Banque Leu became only the second
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      • 224 23 SINGAPORE PT Inti Putramodern (IPM), an Indonesian group with interests in banking, property and camera products, has tapped US$l7 million (Ss27 million) from the Singapore-based Asian dollar market. The one-year loan, with an option to extend for one more year, will be signed in
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      • 345 23 AFP BEIJING China is to issue a series of new laws next year aimed at creating a modem banking system with the People's Bank of China acting as a real central bank, it was reported yesterday. Drafts of the People's
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 116 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Wardley Ltd senior fixed-income manager Jay Boice is moving to Kidder Peabody Co Ltd next month where he will be a vice-president in the international capital markets group a first for Kidder in Hongkong. He will work on debt origination
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        • 101 23 Reuter KUWAIT Paid-up financing of imports by Kuwaiti banks rose to 100.1 million dinars in September from 93.4 million in August, a central bank monthly bulletin said yesterday. The banks paid 86.7 million in September 1992. The figures include financing by Kuwait Finance House, an
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        • 114 23 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK The debt of insolvent First City Bancorporation of Texas rose four to five points on Friday on news that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp has agreed to hold talks to settle the claims against the bank holding company, traders said.
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        • 120 23 Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON The 68 savings and loans owned by the US as of Sep 30 lost US$76O million (Ssl.2 billion) in the third quarter, the Resolution Trust Corp said on Friday. That is US$B7 million more than the thrifts in the government programme
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        • 113 23 Reuter DUBAI The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates has eased limits on lending after local banks said new rules would cost them business. The rules, due to take effect next January, say a bank cannot lend more than 7 per cent of
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      • 288 24 Reuter HANOI Vietnam has demanded that US company Crestone cancel offshore oil development with China in nearby waters, calling the deal "entirely illegal" and a violation of Hanoi's territorial sovereignty. Randall Thompson, president of the Denver-based Crestone Energy Co, held talks in
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      • 543 24  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON NORTH AMERICAN, Australian and South African mining companies are selling gold through futures and options markets to lock in higher gold prices. "There was some producer selling in the past few weeks," says a Swiss bullion manager. "Yet
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      • 219 24 AFP WASHINGTON The US Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates untouched when its policy-making committee meets this week amid political pressure to change its operating style. With mounting challenges to the Fed's traditional independence and its taste for secrecy, analysts say a
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      • 180 24 The USX/majors remained bid through the week except towards the weekend as expectations of a German rate cut failed to materialise and a Federal Reserve official commented that there was no need for the Fed to tighten interest rates as inflationary pressure was sufficiently low.
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        2077 24 *Rates are the average of 9 selected banks Tradr-wngHtrd index cakviated against S port 's tap 14 trading partners Base year 198! EfclpyilM BANKS ABN Amro Bank NV 5* ANZ Banking Group 6 Allied Irish Bank PLC 6ti American Express Bank 6V1 Arab Banking Corp 6 Arab Bank PLC 6
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 705 25  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Ng Lim Pak Lai, Meryl Phang MMS International THE DOLLAR'S bullish outlook. slightly damaged in the past two weeks, rallied sharply, hitting an intraday high of 1.7207 marks in New York on Wednesday after the release of weak German retail sales
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      • 658 25 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON The prices of the main precious metals rose sharply last week to their highest levels since August, encouraged by seasonal jewellery buying and optimism over the market's potential in the new year. In August, gold
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    • 1555 25 Rubber HAS Ciwwrtrty [ick»|t (Marts dosing as at lpai) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jan 94 000 OOO 132 50 0 150 Feb 134 00 134 00 134 00 100 4.425 Mar 134.75 134.75 135.50 100 6,725 Apr/Jun 138
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    • 4509 26 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Eara EPS Dale TY LY TY LY Cmmm Ui (to) (to) (cts) (CIS) A1SB* Oct 28 P 2.095 0.334 104 0.3 MUance Tech Sep 30 1 0.490L 0.150 0.5 Ale* Hides Dec 3 1 12.106 0.844 60 5 4.22 Anal Sled* Sep 27
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    • 754 26 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 702 27 FT New York THE GOOD economic news keeps coming, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average keeps setting new record highs, but anxiety on Wall Street about the condition of equity markets continues to cast a shadow over the final weeks of 1993. The economic
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 129 27 Despite the successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round, the share market closed a shade weaker last week, depressed by the strong showing of extreme right-wing parties in the Russian election, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index, closed at 2,080.2, a loss of 4.7 points since the previous Friday. The
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        • 71 27 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) added 33.20 points (2.2 per cent) during the week to close at 1,513.83. The average daily volume was 256.5 million shares, up from the average of 236.07 million shares previously. The average daily value of stocks changing hands was 27.6 billion baht. up
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        • 105 27 Prices rallied last week as the market pushed the JSE Index to a new three-year high to close above 550. The JSE Index rose by slightly over five per cent last week to close at 556.947 on Friday, compared to 528.457 one week earlier. But the mark was still
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        • 105 27 Share prices reached a 23month high last week on renewed buying by foreign in- stitutional investors. Extending a 1.4-per cent jump over the previous week, the 359-issue weighted price index put on another 630.73 points or 13.6 per cent to close at 5,274.76 points Friday. Heartened by increased investment
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        • 56 27 Profit-taking drove South Korean stocks lower on Saturday. breaking five days of consecutive rises. The Composite Index closed the half-day session Saturday at 864.00, down 10.10 points, or 1.1 per cent, on the day and 2.88 points lower on the week. Volume averaged a daily 43.6 million shares in
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        • 64 27 The Philippine stock market hit another record high last week due to prospects for the year ahead, analysts said. The Composite Index at the Manila Stock Exchange hit 2.662.43 points on Friday, up 149.1 points or 5.9 per cent, from 2,513.29 points posted on Dec 10. The Composite at
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        • 113 27 Brokers boycotted trading on four major Indian bourses from Monday to protest a ban on forward deals, paralysing transactions across the country. Business on the Bombay. New Delhi. Ahmedabad and Calcutta stock exchanges stopped when angry brokers decided late on Monday to stage an indefinite strike against curbs imposed
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      • 375 27 AFP London SHARE prices rose to a series of new record highs on the London Stock Exchange last week, boosted by good retail sa/es, inflation and unemployment figures and hopeful of an imminent cut in interest rates. The FTSE 100 share
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      • 582 27  -  Sun Hung Kai Hongkong LAST WEEK the stock market resoundingly defied the worsening relations between the British and Chinese sides over Governor Patten's tabling of his democratic reform Bill. The Hang Seng Index chalked up the year's largest one-day gain of
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      • 282 27 Tokyo SHARE prices rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week on expectations the government was ready to announce new measures this week to stimulate the flagging economy. The Nikkei Average of 225 stocks jumped 794.48 points or 4.6 per cent last
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        • 821 27 +25.43 Stocks gained ground on Friday, buoyed by a larger-than-expected rise in US housing starts for November. The Dow Jones index of blue-chip stocks ended the day at 3,751.57, up 25.43 points (0.68 per cent). Gainers outpaced losers by a margin of 1,467 to 654 and 587 issues
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        • 2182 27 London Dec 17 Pence +A~ Industrials A- A Corp Adr 44 620 .370 Abbes National 476 J Allied Lyons 640 t 4/8 A met 120 3 A*la Group 56 4/8 +14/8 BAT Ind 523 3 BICC 415 >1 BOC Group 635 -6 BOC Group 635 -6 BR Petroleum 347 5
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        • 349 27 +7.41 Stocks closed stronger in most sectors on Friday as gains in gold, energy and issues outpaced losses in mining shares. Traders said investors were tentatively moving into the market again after a few days of heavy profittaking. "We're ending the week with a slight recovery after some weakness
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    • 2777 28 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE voiurm kamundng 50c 200.334,000 Idns Hyd 50c 86.705.000 Metropte* TSR 84.118.000 Faber Group 75.173.000 Ind Oxygen Wt95 74.964.000 Metrople* 50c 74.066.000 Ind Oxygen 50c 65.048.000i Promet 59.252.000 Menang Corp 58.559.000 AMDB 50c 57.365.000 Mulpha Ind 50c 43.990.000 Tan Chong 50c
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
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        5519 28 Source: Bridge Info I tOCOIcTUBNOVg Cknc Pmion turner KLSE Composite 1109 53 1075.85 -33 68 NST Industrial .5662.96 5466 14 196 82 NST Finance 9381.72 8752.05 f 629 67 NST Properties .2745.57 2712.01 +33.56 NST Mining 3062.47 2508 85 +553.62 Trover (TOO) Total volume 936.226 754.419 +181.807 Total value!MS) 4Wtio:
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      • 251 28 Bernama SHARE PRICES ended last week on a high note with the Composite Index jumping 44.55 points to reach a new all-time high of 1120.40. However, profit-taking ahead of the weekend saw the Composite Index slipping to end the week at 1,109.53, but still 33.68
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 7261 29 1HW1BWP Cr Gr IW3 Lul Vat Week Last Qaote Dt» W» YM NM M Cm High Law Coapaly Sale COM) Hl«h Law Bayer Seller Or P'E tail INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1400 260 I Acma 1260 -80 156 1310 1260 1260 1210 12.5 2.1 1.0 54.5 868 5 310 220 t
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      • 2049 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE A halt to contra trading by some brokerages and the approach of the holiday season is expected to dampen sentiment on the Singapore bourse this week. The market is also expected to continue focusing on second liners and laggards. Brokers
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    • 385 31  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY SYDNEY The number of containers moving between Fremantle, the main port in Western Australia, and Singapore is expected to increase sharply in coming years. The number has doubled in the past decade. Growth has increased since the Western Australian
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    • 224 31 SYDNEY Australia's national shipping line, Australian National Lines, has recorded its second consecutive net loss in the face of depressed world trade conditions. The government-owned company announced last week net losses for 1992-93 of ASB.3 million (SSB.9 million), against
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    • 295 31 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK Brokers last week said most of the major grain houses appeared to be well covered for end-December and early-January cargoes. They anticipated "very dull and quiet conditions" next week in the light of the holi-day-shortened week. Meanwhile, last Thursday's fixture
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    • 275 31 Bloomberg Business News DALLAS The Texas Turnpike Authority last week failed to vote on a plan that would allow Harris County to acquire a debt-laden toll bridge spanning the Houston Ship Channel. "We're still negotiating. We're close to an agreement,
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      • 489 32 Vessel Voy No Berth A/nvil Departure Vessel Voy Ho Berth Vrhol Departwe Jurong Port bum ****** P01A 20 12/1900 20 12/2300 Dewi Seraya 23/93 13 alongside 2012/0800 Brastagi 20/93 P03 1912/1500 1912/2300 Rodina 1/93 17 alongside 20 12/2300 Brastagi 1 50/93 P03 20 12/0800 20 12/2300 Urosttva
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      • 1358 32 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking Balance Rsits Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ha lotus 046A 21/0000 1 19/1500 19/1669 19/1900 2 19/1700 20/0659 20/0900 M Goncharo* 61SI93 21/0915 1 19/1500 19/1659 19/1900
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    • 10845 40 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls
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    • 1465 47 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,229 on Thursday from 1,230 on Dec 15. Rates appeared to be slipping on the key US Gulf to Japan grain run as trading slows in the build up to the Chnstmas holiday, brokers said. Sources
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    • 765 48  -  Fred Winkler looks at the structure and plans of the new group Fred Winkler International Transport Journal AN AGREEMENT has been concluded between Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG, as the majority shareholder of Senator Linie, and Deutsche Seereederei Rostock GmbH, under which all the
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      • 514 50  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Only the bigger players in the international air express industry are expected to survive in the long run, given the need for large investments in the business. In a 50-page report, UKbased Cranfield School of
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      • 345 50 Bloomberg Business News FORT WORTH. Texas Federal Express Corp plans to open a USS3OO million (SS4BO million) regional cargo hub at Fort Worth's Alliance Airport in 1997. The facility, which will employ about 600 people, is essential to the company's
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        • 109 50 AFP HANOI Vietnam's national oil and gas equipment trading company. Petechim. has announced a deal allowing a state-back-cd maritime transport firm. Falcon Shipping, to become the.ficst local company to ship oil from Vietnam. Falcon next year will snip at least 30 per cent of
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        • 90 50 AFP HANOI Saigon port in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh Cily is expected to move more cargo this year than since reunification m 1975. the Vietnam News Agency said last Friday. The Englishlanguage daily said that by Dec 3 the port had moved more than
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        • 92 50 Reuter SEOUL Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd. a unit of South Korea s Daewoo Group, said it expects net profits to total 200 billion won (SS4OO million) this year, compared with 211 billion won in 1992. A company official said sales were expected
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        • 88 50 Reuter AMSTERDAM Koninklijke Nedlloyd Groep's pension fund said it had reduced its stake in Nedlloyd to 4.66 per cent, from 9 24 per cent in January. The January level was reached after the pension fund had bought nearly 5 per cent of Nedlloyd from
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      • 515 50 Reuter BANGALORE, India International defence companies attending an Indian air show said last week that the breakup of the Soviet Union had opened India's defence market, one of the world's biggest, to global competition. Pete Winters of US-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation said New
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    • 1777 35 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppei Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 new guinea pacific line qPEp (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO OUt SAILS OmW RAJAH BROOK! V3OE Mura. lab 11 t2O Dw 21 Dk 22 Dm lcl CONTAINER ANO BMAKKN.K SERVICE
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    • 1625 38 44 _> 9* AS AGENTS "K" LINE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CR No: **********0 M) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 I ■mi MALAYSIA "K" LINE MAIHTtME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD I TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 1 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUTINTERNUSA. TEL: JKT *****08
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    • 1013 39 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I SBI4O Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I CR NO: **********06 VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN 1 VESSEL VOY MN JKT SM KOTA &URIA KSRSIN Jl/15 24/12 31/12 BUNGA TERATAI *13 21/12 24/12 28/12 A 1 EQUATOR RUBY 24N 22/12 25/12 2S/12 SRISAMUT
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    • 2573 42 Full Container Liner Services Malaysia's Agents: Indonesia's Agents: General Agents: Booking Agents: Cnan Cm* Shying Sdn BM Chang Chino Stuffing Sdn Bhd P.T. Global Petri Indonesia Maritime Costar Shipping Pte Ltd Slamm Froigl* Mni Uatre SlaBM M Peruana Ran Ma 4» M«u Let 134, M Fleet, n. 19. N. taaaia
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  • Page 45 Advertisements
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