The Business Times, 4 January 1994

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  • 13 1 Business Times MITA(P) 010/12/93 Tuesday January 4 1994 WE KHOW ASIA 75 c
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 39 1 AFP NEW YORK The Dow Jones Index stood at 3,752.41, down 1.68 points, at I pin EST, depressed by a sharp rise in long-term interest rates after reports of encouraging US economic data. AFP
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    • 69 1 Reuter NEW YORK US investors purchased a record net US$25.l billion (5540.2 billion) foreign equities in the third quarter of last year, as well as a peak USS2I.4 billion of foreign corporate and government bonds, according to the Security Industry Association yesterday. Through the first
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    • 70 1 AFP WASHINGTON The US and Japan are very far apart in trade negotiations, particularly with regard to automobiles, JcfTrcy Garten, Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade, told the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Washington and Tokyo arc trying to negotiate a framework for
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  • 112 1 Stock market indices Mondat Chance Sill 2.441.53 15.85 KLSE Composite ...1.288.85 13.53 Nikkei dosed Hang Seng 12.086 49 198 I SEI Index closed Jakarta Composite ...589.65 +0.88 CLSA China B 1.458.98 -2.31 Aust All Ord closed FTSE 100 closed Monday Previous I pm close Dow Jones 3,<52.4I 3.754.09
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  • 249 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Four regional stock markets yesterday opened the New Year on a record high note. In Singapore, investors, cheered by the news that 1993 economic growth will be around 9.8 per cent, chased the Straits Times Industrials Index up 15.85
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  • 491 1 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's central bank. Bank Negara, said ycstcFday it was raising the statutory reserve requirement of all commercial banks, merchant banks and finance companies to 9.5 per cent of their eligible liabilities from 8.5 per cent. "The increase will mop
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  • 500 1  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE British tobacco giant Rothmans' share prices tumbled on both sides of the Causeway following news that the proposed merger of its Malaysian and Singapore subsidiaries into an Asian holding company had fallen through. After plunging $1.75 during the first
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  • 165 1 Bloomberg Business News. Reuter WASHINGTON US construction spending advanced 1.8 per cent during November to the highest level ever, providing a firm foundation for the country's economic expansion, the Commerce Department said yesterday. It was the seventh consecutive monthly gain. (onstruction spending totalled a seasonally
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  • 420 1 The Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR The ruling National Front led by Umno is gearing itself for an early general election, which could he held between July and October this year. Although it need not seek a fresh mandate until early 1995, the Front
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  • 450 1  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Local firms Sunright and Falmac Machinery have bccomc the first this year to obtain listing approval from the Stock Exchange of Singapore. A company official said yesterday Sunright would offer its shares to the public tomorrow. Two others,
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    • 62 1 Property: p K 9 Thakral buying Aussie properties So who's been buying into Singapore property? Foreign buyers. They now account for 30 per cent of the value of all properties sold in Singapore Page 2 China is tops with Japanese investors Manufacturers in Japan have again picked booming China as
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 324 2  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE'S non-oil domestic exports are likely to have grown by about 14 per cent in the last two months of 1993, up from 9.3 per cent in October, to bring the year's total to 572.9 billion in volume terms. This amounts to an annual increase
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    • 246 2 GLENEAGLES Hospital and the Health Maintenance Office Ptc Ltd (HMO) an organisation for private doctors have announced a scheme that offers package rates for hospital stays. The scheme, a first in Singapore, aims to provide total health-care at an affordable
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    • 651 2  -  By Anna Teo ECONOMIC growth this year could be volatile, if the strong 9.8 per cent expansion last year was fuelled largely by Hush liquidity and frenzied stockmarket trading, economists said yesterday. Caught by surprise yet again by the GDP growth rate, announced by
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    • 582 2 Most received between 6.8 and 7.2 per cent rises last year: survey COMPANIES are moderately optimistic about wage growth and bonus payments this year, but expect to pay less than they did last year, according to the
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    • 470 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi FOREIGN buyers now account for 30 per cent of the value of all properties sold in Singapore. According to industry sources, the bulk of the interest comes from Hongkongers and Indonesians, who buy mainly condominium units. The interest in
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    • 487 2  -  Full-day Area Licensing Scheme By A J Leow, Corinne Kerk MOST retailers, hotels and restaurants in the central business district said it was still too early to assess the impact of the full-day Area Licensing Scheme has on their
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    • 344 2 THE first day of the full-day Area Licensing Scheme (ALS) was marked by a different sort of congestion long queues to buy ALS discs from roadside booths. The delay resulting from the surge in demand for the discs was worsened
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  • THE REGION
    • 358 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia announced yesterday fresh incentives for oil exploration in remote and high-risk areas of the archipelago to help boost reserves and stave off the day it becomes an oil importer. The central plank of the long-awaited incentives was
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    • 150 3 JAKARTA Indonesia on Saturday lowered tariffs on 1,941 types of products imported from fellow Asean members under a Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) scheme, says a Jakarta Post report. "The tariff reduction was introduced to facilitate Asean's agreement on the liberalisation of
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    • 253 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's armed forces (Abri) will continue to play a significant political role for the foreseeable future despite signs that their influence is being eroded, officials and foreign diplomats say. Last year was difficult for Abri. which has
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    • 373 3  -  From Al Labita in MANILA MANILA President Fidel Ramos said yesterday that the first quarter of his six-year term has served as a springboard for a sustained surge of the country's economy in the years ahead. In a nationally-televised speech. Mr
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    • 337 3 Reuter, AP HANOI Vietnam needs to invest hundreds of billions of dollars to upgrade its transport system in the coming years as it races to improve harbours, airports, railways and roads to meet surging demand, the official Vietnam News Agency (VNA)
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 106 3 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan plans to ease restrictions on investment in the island by Hongkong-based airlines and banks in which China holds stakes, the L'niied Daily News newspaper said yesterday. Currently, Hongkong firms in which China holds a stake of more than 20 per cent are
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      • 91 3 UPI BEIJING In a bid to lower its shocking industrial accident death toll, Chinese authorities have targeted fire-prone foreign garment factories in a clampdown on enterprises not conforming to new fire prevention regulations, the official media said yesterday. The Ministry of Public Security issued
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      • 50 3 Reuter NEW DELHI Policeman Narender Singh pulling a 150-tonne diescl locomotive with his teeth at Delhi's railway station on Sunday in a bid for a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Mr Singh pulled the engine over a distance of 8.5 metres. Reuter
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      • 63 3 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The Japanese government will reduce tax on the ownership of land used for public purposes, including parking lots, by one-third or one-fourth of the current level, the Yomiuri newspaper said yesterday. The move is part of the government's efforts to stimulate
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      • 60 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian police have smashed what they believe is the country's largest fake credit card syndicate and arrested three suspects in Sumatra, the official Antara news agency said yesterday. A police official said the suspects, arrested in Sumatra's capital Medan on Dec 31, admitted
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    • 863 4 China's economic reforms Prices may increase as tax hikes and yuan flotation take effect Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Foreign ventures in China, already reeling from Beijing's surprise decision to float the yuan last Saturday, are now scrambling to cope with a package of tax
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    • 391 4 Reuter HONGKONG The colony assumes that Britain and China will reach agreement over the deadlocked financing for its planned new airport within a few months, a senior government official said yesterday. The government has published a Bill to make fund-rais-ing for the U5522.5 billion
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    • 198 4 Bloomberg Business News. Reuter HONGKONG China would continue to accept foreign exchange certificates even though the government had decided to stop issuing them, the China Daily reported. Citing a circular released by the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, the paper said FEC
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    • 67 4 Reuter HONGKONG Iran Thai Thuy, 21, heads into a marriage hall as a camp supervisor helps Nguyen Thanh Thuy from a truck that brought the Vietnamese women from a detention centre on Sunday. Girls as young as 16 are among the many Vietnamese applying to marry
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    • 348 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan had set a June deadline this year for the privatisation of three state-run firms, economic officials said yesterday. Taiwan plans to privatise 10 state firms but has selected Taiwan Machinery Manufacturing Corp. BES Engineering Corp and China Petrochemical
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    • 567 4 China Daily. Reuter. Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Chinese Premier Li Peng, warning rapid price rises could bring instability, urged caution on economic speed and inflation in interviews published yesterday. Despite his warnings, economists said. China's overheating economy would surge again with both
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    • 331 4 NYT BEIJING Despite continuing abuses of human rights. China has made "dramatic progress" in improving the lives of its citizens, says US ambassador J Stapleton Roy. He argued that this record should be taken into account when policy toward China is reviewed early
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    • 210 4 UPI BEIJING Concerned that state assets are being sold ofT at bargain prices, the government has ordered a temporary ban placed on the sale of state housing, official media reported yesterday. In a nationwide circular issued on Sunday, the State Council.
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    • 608 5 Knight-Ridder. Reuter BOMBAY lhe Indian rupee will become "more convertible". with the government relaxing foreign exchange regulations in the fiscal 1994-95 budget, say forex dealers, economists and finance managers at leading corporations. With foreign currency reserves at a record high, topping US$9.B
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    • 72 5 Reuter CALCUTTA A herd of 40 wild elephants passes crops on the way back to its forest home in Bangkura, about 90km north of here on Sunday. The herd wandered into a densely populated industrial area of the eastern state of West Bengal last
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    • 343 5 Reuter KARACHI Pakistan's textile industry urged the government to tloat the rupee to ease the expeeted blow to the industry from China's devaluation of its currency. "Pakistan should immediately float its currency following the Chinese yuan devaluation. otherwise our textile products will be
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    • 272 5 Reuter. AFP TOKYO Japanese business leaders predict a hard year ahead with the economy in the doldrums and a government unable to act swiftly to enact economic-boosting measures, according to a poll released yesterday. A Kyodo news agency survey of top executives of
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    • 189 5 Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistan and India failed to narrow their differences on the potentially explosive issue of Kashmir after two days of unprecedented talks on the disputed Himalayan region, officials said yesterday. Pakistan said no future talks could ho held unless India reduced
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  • THE WORLD
    • 390 6 Reuter WASHING I ON About two million jobs will be added to the US economy in 1994, Labour Secretary Robert Reich predicted yesterday. Mr Reich predicted the unemployment rate eould fall to as low as 6
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 78 6 Reuter MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin's priorities for 1994 are to stabilise Russia's economy and protect the country's national interests, his spokesman said yesterday. "Securing financial stabilisation. lowering inflation, strengthening the rouble and support for healthy production forces will be priorities," Mr Vyacheslav Kostikov told Tass. "Undisputed
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      • 58 6 Reuter NEW YORK Rudolph Giuliani (left) being sworn in as the Mayor of New York City by District Judge Michael Mukascy at the City Hall in Manhattan on Sunday watched by his wife Donna, daughter Caroline and son Andrew. Mr Giuliani is the first
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      • 101 6 Reuter DUBLIN Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds hinted in remarks published yesterday at concessions towards the IRA's political wing. Sinn Fein, to salvage an Anglo-Irish peace deal on Northern Ireland from collapse. Mr Reynolds said a Dec 15 Anglo-Irish joint statement to end
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    • 379 6 Reuter BONN Chancellor Helmut Kohl said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that the Balkan war and the rise of ul-tra-nationalism in Russia showed the need for Germany to maintain a capable defence. "Anyone who takes a good look around in the
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    • 44 6 AFP PORGE, France Children taking a close look at the carcass of a 19-metre-long whale on the Porge beach on Sunda> Authorities have called in specialists to determine the cause of the mammal's death. AFP
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    • 350 6 Reuter KUWAIT The golden bonanza never came for foreign companies seeking to help rebuild Kuwait after the Gulf War. Three years on. new offset trade obligations have added to the challenge facing contractors already hit by the emirate's post-war economic
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    • 307 6 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO Major players in the world's electronics industry will descend on Las Vegas this week to view the iatest toys and gadgets displayed at a four-day exhibition that kicks off tomorrow. Some 70.000 people are expected to attend the Consumer Electronics
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    • 279 6 Reuter LISBON Portugal's privatisation drive is running out of steam as the economy stagnates and local investors refuse to pay the asking price for financially troubled firms which foreigners are discouraged from buying. The government planned to earn 225 billion escudos (552.06
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    • 360 6 NYT PARIS Greece yesterday took over the presidency of the European Community for the next six months, but many EC observers doubt that the realpolitik of the EC will permit much progress to be made on Greece's favoured areas
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  • SPORTS
    • 723 7 Reuter EAST RUTHERFORD. New Jersey A heroic effort by rushing champion Emmitt Smith carried the Dallas Cowboys to a tense 16-13 overtime win over the New York Giants on Sunday as the National Football League play-off picture was completed. Dallas' victory earned the
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    • 344 7 AP NEW YORK Leßon Ellis scored a career-high 15 points, including a go-ahead threepoint play in overtime as Charlotte beat the Knieks 124-123 on Sunday night. The Hornets have beaten Chicago and New York in their last two games without
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    • 33 7 Reuter SYDNEY Richard Snell (left) applying numbing spray to pace man Allan Donald's right knee during play in the Second lest between Australia and South Africa yesterday in Sydney. Reuter
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        165 7 AP AFP TURIN, Italy Prime Nebiolo. president of track's world governing body, the International Amateur Athletics Federation, said entry bonuses and richer prizes would be given at the 1995 World Championships to meet growing demands by athletes. In an interview with the Turin's daily La Slanipa. published yesterday. Mr
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      • 160 7 AP AP EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey Not even missing two games at the beginning of the season could keep Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys from winning his third straight National Football League rushing title. Smith, playing the second half and overtime of Sunday's 16-13 victory over the
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        44 7 AP NEW YORK Results of games pla>ed on Sundav Charlotte 124 New York 123 (OT): New Jersey 101 Boston 97: Miami 93 IX'troit 85: Utah 92 Portland 90; San Antonio 94 LA Lakers 92: Philadelphia 96 Denver 80: Sacramento 119 Dallas 116. AP
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        52 7 AP NEW YORK Results of games pla>ed on Sunda> Boston X Washington 2; San Jose 4 Edmonton 4; Montreal 3 Vancouver 2; Hartford 7 Pittsburgh 2: Toronto 3 Buffalo 3; Anaheim 4 Tampa Bay 1; St Louis 4 Calgary 3 (Of Quebec 6 Dallas 4: Chicago 5 Winnipeg
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        82 7 Reuter KI AI.A LUMPUR Pakistan's Zarak Jahan Khan and Mir Zaman Gul have been named top seeds for the Asian championships starting here on Jan 15. Holder Abdul Faheem Khan of Hongkong, who won the title in Peshawar to become the first non-Pakistan Asian champion, is seeded in the
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        407 7 AP AP AP AP PERTH Ivan l endl is taking a positive attitude into what may be his final year as a tennis player. Now 33. Lendl finished 1993 ranked 19th in the world. It vvas the first time since 1979 he finished with a ranking outside the top
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    • 490 7 Hopman Cup AP PERTH Wally Masur downed Cedric Pioline in straight sets yesterday, leading Australia to a 3-0 Hopman Cup quarterfinal victory over France, but then denounced the new electronic line-calling system. Masur beat US Open finalist Pioline 7-5. 6-4 in the men's
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    • 282 7 AFP ADELAIDE New Zealand's eighth seed Brett Steven ousted Zimbabwe's Byron Black 6-3, 6-2 at the Australian men's hardcourt tennis championship here yesterday. Rain delays meant that only four of the scheduled eight singles matches for the opening
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
    • 718 9  -  It plans to list holding company, look for new opportunities, reports Florence Chong from Sydney Florence Chong THE Singaporebased Thakral group is set to power ahead in the New Year Down Under. First, the group is expected to seal a AS26O million (SS2B2
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    • 700 9  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY INVESTORS from Singapore were the most active buyers in the Australian hotel market in the past year, creating a record year for the industry. If sales pending, including the purchase of eight hotels by the Singapore-based Thakral Group, are
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    • 504 9 Bloomberg Business News FOREIGN companies attracted by China's rapid economic development have poured into Beijing at an unprecedented pace, sending office rents through the roof in response to the higher demand. Already the Chinese capital is the sixth most expensive city
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    • 363 9  -  By Abdul Hadhi CHINA'S move to impose a hefty eapital gains tax on property deals is unlikely to hit Singapore businessmen as hard as some other foreigners. Sources say the tax which ranges from 30 per cent to 60 per cent
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    • 225 9  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY THE Ongko Group of Indonesia has bought more than a third of Kadisson Hotels Australia, a hotel management company, for an undisclosed sum. The Indonesian company, owner of the Dai Ichi Hotel, which opened in Jakarta earlier last
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    • 312 9 Jones Lang 3^-Wootton Selected market transactions in the past week Date of Built In area Sale price transaction District T H» ft ft)* T#nure (Si) PRIVATE Dec 26,1993 0512 Parte West Apt 1997 99LH 678,000 604 Dec 28.1993 0923 Belle Vue Apt 2314 FH *1,050,000 454 Dec 25,1993
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    • REGIONAL SKYLINE
      • 85 9 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Government plans to reduce the density of commercial buildings in crowded parts of Hongkong could cut land values, says a property analyst. The government intends to reduce plot ratios which control the degree of development on a site in Kowloon. the
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      • 78 9 Reuter TOKYO Condominium prices here continued to fall last month, says research firm MRD. Sixty-one per cent of 624 real estate firms polled on Dec 14 said condo prices were lower than a month earlier. Thirty-three per cent said prices were about the same. The
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      • 62 9 BANGKOK Rents for ccntrally loeated officcs arc cxpcctcd to remain stable despite a projected vacancy rate of 15-18 per cent until the late-*****, says Colliers Jardinc as reported in Bangkok Post. "Continuing economic growth and expansion of the service sector should see the demand for well-located,
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      • 66 9 Australian Financial Review SYDNEY The Sydney CBD finished 1993 on a strong note, with property sales totalling more than AS2OO million (SS2I7 million) in the three months to Dec 13. Although this was lower than in the previous three months, the third-quarter figures got a
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      • 57 9 HONGKONG Some foreign companies with regional headquarters here have voiced concern at the rapidly rising cost of otTiccs and apartments, says a government survey. Hongkong's attractiveness as a regional HQ has deteriorated in the past year, according to 22 per cent of 436 companies polled.
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      • 52 9 BANGKOK The new president of the Engineering Institute of Thailand, Arun Chaiscri, plans to ask the government to limit the local operations of foreign architects and engineers, reported Bangkok Post. He says that foreigners wanting jobs in Thailand should have to seek resident status and possess Thai
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    • 66 9 43 SIXTH AVENUE SINGAPORE 1027 Residential Development Site 7 i J g J Total Site Area 4,797 sq. m. (51,633 sq. m.) approx. FREEHOLD. Lots 1336 24-273. MK 4 Provisional permission obtained for a proposed low-rise Condominium Housing Development Subject to Existing Tenancy. Closing Date: 12th January 1994 (Wed), 4:oopm.
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 658 11 The pleasure revenge has been making a slight but steady gain NYT Rather than pledging to be perfect and subjecting themselves to an abstemious, healthful, aerobicised life in 1994, more people seem to be indulging in the sybaritic, choosing the massage table over
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    • 466 11 CHATTERBOX Reuter Reuter UPI Reuter SANTA MONICA, California Veteran movie and television actor Cesar Romero, well known for his portrayal of The Joker in the Batman television series, has died. He was 86. Romero died late last Saturday evening at Saint John's Hospital and Health Center in
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1291 11 TV RADIO Highlander II: The Quickening, I 11.00pm, SBCS HL J Leaden 1990 sequel about the Chris Lambert wants days the er a Ironan from home who unleashes comic White Nights, 8.30pm, TV 2 dancer who to the the refuse to go European Concert The Berliner Philharmoniker SBC To celebrate
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  • 601 12 EDITORIAL THERE is a tale making the rounds in the Singapore stockmarket that says a great deal about its current state. A broker apparently got a call from a client asking to buy "Guthrie Lern". What the caller meant was Guthrie's loan stock, which appears in
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 271 12 UNDER THE peace accord reached last September, Israel was to begin withdrawing its troops from the occupied territories of Gaza and Jericho on Dec 13. Delay in implementing the accord has weakened public support for it on both sides by encouraging doubts and suspicions in
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    • 230 12 TWO MONTHS AGO, the taxi companies applied to the Public Transport Council (PTC) for a fare increase. They argued that the fare increase would counter higher costs of operation. This includes maintenance costs, spare parts prices and the cost of Certificates of Entitlement to register taxis.
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    • 171 12 "EVERY Singaporean a shareholder" was picked as the hottest news item last year by Zaobao readers. Our shareholders/population ratio topped the world after the public share offer by Singapore Telecom last year. No doubt the excellent performance by the share market was linked to the Telecom
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    • 220 12 THE ADMONITORY TONE in the Prime Minister's New Year Message is not merely a perfunctory damper on an increasingly gung-ho Malaysian attitude to lucrative enterprise. Capitalism cannot work without the inspiration of competition, measured in profit. The point at which the motivation for bona fide profit
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    • 168 12 SOMEHOW, THIS FEELS like an unusual end of the year. After all, who would think of giving warnings and cautions as a year-end message? But that is exactly what has been happening in the last several days. As if orchestrated, scores of officials in charge of political
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  • 990 12  -  Leon Hadar examines the challenges facing the American-European relationship Leon Hadar The writer is a Washington-based journalist who contributes to BT IT WAS only a few months ago that top US officials were suggesting that Washington was about to bid farewell
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 805 13  -  Gary Shilling, who runs an economic consultancy and investment firm in New Jersey, is one of America's more celebrated bears. With signals set fair for the US economy, he discusses his contrarian views with Lawrence Malkin Lawrence Malkin IHT Q: WHAT is
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    • 1262 13  -  Steve Lohr on when a promising technology becomes an industry Steve Lohr NYT Technology and the marketplace are an odd couple. Technology is about what's possible or producible; business is about human wants, needs and pocket books. Yet a breakthrough technology the telephone, the jet engine,
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    • 1159 13  -  US telephone companies plan to spend billions of dollars to build advanced networks. Edmund L Andrews reports Edmund L Andrews NYT FEW things are really certain about building the fabled electronic "superhighway," except this: it will cost a staggering amount of money. How
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  • 582 14  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Japanese manufacturers have again picked booming China as the hottest spot for investments and plan to step up their presence there in the New Year, says a survey by the ExportImport Bank of Japan. The United States
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  • 305 14 AFP SEOUL South Korea is preparing for the possibility that a breakthrough in US-North Korean nuclear talks will lead to recognition of Pyongyang by Washington and Tokyo, Foreign Minister Han Sung Joo said here yesterday. "We plan to establish measures
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  • 305 14 AFP AP SEOUL Brisk exports of cars, electronic goods and machinery helped South Korea cut its 1993 trade deficit to US$l.35 billion (552.16 billion) from US$5.l4 billion the previous year on a customs clcarance basis, officials said yesterday. South Korea is also believed
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  • 215 14 Bloomberg Business News. AFP PARIS Leading French banks Socictc Generate. Banque Nationale de Paris. Credit Lyonnais and Credit du Nord all announced a cut in their base lending rate to 7.95 per cent from 8.15 per cent effective tomorrow. The move followed a
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  • 352 14 HONGKONG Investors poured over U*****.5 million (SSI. 12 billion) into mutual funds or unit trusts in the first 11 months of last year, more than tripling the previous record net annual sales figure of U*****.1 million recorded in 1991, says the Hong
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  • 933 14  -  The Bottom Line YANG RAZALI KASSIM YANG RAZALI KASSIM The writer is BT's Regional Analysis Editor. WILL the Year of the Dog be vicious for Asia's economies? This is the time of year when soothsayers of all descriptions ofTer their predictions
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  • 63 14 Reuter OI'JA, West Bank A voung Jordan Valley settler, draped in an Israeli flag, preventing Palestinians from driving to Jericho at a road block in this Palestinian village on Sunday. Settlers from nearby Ma'amah set up road blocks in protest against the Ga/a-Jericho plan which they
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  • 224 14 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's national oil company has rcceivcd government approval to explore for oil and natural gas with China in disputed fields in the East China Sea, the United Evening News newspaper said yesterday. The cabinet's Mainland Affairs Council, which
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 416 15  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE The KeppelSembawang fight for a shipyard in the .Philippines entered its third round yesterday when a complaint was officially filed to disqualify Keppel Shipyard as a potential owner of the shipyard. The complaint was filed by Sembawang's partner and
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    • 227 15 SINGAPORE Singapore Piling and Civil Engineering, a subsidiary of Hwa Hong Corp, has won the main building contract for the $220. million Tampines Mall. The company said yesterday it had already started work and expected to finish the job in August 1995. One
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    • 254 15  -  By Loh Hui Yin SINGAPORE Liang Court Holdings and Wah Chang are teaming up to develop a $40million condominium project in a fast-emerging Bangkok suburb. The development, called Bangna Place, comprises 12 nine-storey blocks in three clusters, a club house, a
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    • 793 15  -  HOCK By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Though still in its early days, a little heralded management change at Fraser Neave last November may produce a significant impact on the group in future. In that month. Tan Yam Pin, chief executive of
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      312 15 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Jan 3 Last Smk la4e\ Slock sale Chp factor movers <S) Avimo 2 600 0 050 1.56 4.63 CAC 8 600 0.100 5.17 9.26 CWT 3.120 0.060 1.88 5 56 Cerebos 7 600 -0400 4.57 -37.04 FAN 18 300 -0.100 11.00
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 110 16 SINGAPORE Electronic goods retailer Pertama Holdings yesterday reported net earnings of 51.24 million for the six months to Sep 30, 1993, up 26.7 per cent from the corresponding period a year ago. Earnings per share is at 1.9 cents, up from 1.5 cents previously.
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        • 65 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Pacific Bank Bhd will not further register transfers of shares in favour of foreigners until their shareholding in the company fell below 30 per cent. It said yesterday that as at Dec 31, 1993, the total shareholding beneficially owned or controlled
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        • 105 16 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong cold storage giant Seapower International Holdings Ltd said its net profit rose 60.6 per cent to HK526.5 million (555.5 million) in the six months ended Sep 30. The figures are after taxes and minority interests but before one-off
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        • 52 16 SINGAPORE Hong Fok Corporation yesterday said David Y L Chu has resigned as a director and member of its audit committee with immediate effect. This follows the resignation of general manager Lim Poh Guan three days ago. Two months ago, Mr Lim also resigned as Hong
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        • 64 16 SINGAPORE Singapore Technologies Industrial Corporation has sold 32 per cent of Heraeus Precision Engineering Pte Ltd to its existing joint-venture German partner, WC Heraeus GmbH. This will reduce STIC's stake in Heraeus from 51 per cent to 19 per cent. Meanwhile, its parent Singapore Technologies Holdings
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        • 27 16 SINGAPORE Amtek Engineering Ltd said yesterday that it has incorporated a wholly-owned subsidiary. Amtek International Pte Ltd, as an investment holding company.
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        • 41 16 SINGAPORE DBS Bank said yesterday that Peter Chen Min Liang, chairman and chief executive officer of Shell, Singapore, has been appointed to its board of directors for an initial term of three years from yesterday.
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        • 86 16 Bloomberg Business News NEW DELHI Inchcape pic, a marketing and distribution company, will soon acquire a stake in Gestetner India Ltd, which makes duplicators, stencils and duplicating ink, the Business Standard newspaper of Calcutta said. It said talks between the two companies were going
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      • 1090 16  -  Top 50 Asean companies By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Malaysian companies dominated the top 50 Asean listed companies last year but it was Singapore Telecom which took the top spot. Buoyed by the bullish run on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, 19 Malaysian listed
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      • 232 16 KnighiRidder JAKARTA Rumours last week that PT Telkom, the giant Indonesian state-owned telecommunications company, would be listed soon, either domestically or offshore, are unfounded. Brokers said yesterday that a statement by Telkom finance director Muljohardoko last week that the government was finally
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      • 476 16  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE Nasdaqlisted Creative Technology has taken a new approach in increasing its market share for its proprietary Sound Blaster technology which drives its sound cards for personal computers (PCs). Now, instead of merely selling Sound Blaster sound boards to
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      • 513 16 Manag*fV prtc*i Jan 4 Unibond 1.03 l.055xd lima* T—,■ i United Gr Fund! 1.75 1.82xd Singapore unit I rust United AMI Fund 2.11 2.2lxd« The Commerce 1.91 2.01 MTUC lltflHIHI The Savings Fund 1.7$ 84 i_~_, a &a <ni S pore Prog Fund 0.77 0.81 Income Bond Policy 4 84
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      • 391 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Lityan Holdings Bhd, which is offering 9.92 million shares at M 53.40 (SS2) per share for public subscription, is positioning itself in two of the most promising industries today the information technology industry and manufacturing. Adviser and managing
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      • 480 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR UCM Industrial Corporation Berhad. which is facing serious financial problems threatening its existence, has proposed restructuring exercises to rescue the company. The restructuring scheme, which involves six proposals, includes the acquisition of the entire enlarged issued and paid-up share
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      • 268 16 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG In an attempt to step up investment in the territory, the Hongkong stock exchange began shortselling yesterday. Brokers said that the practice is likely to stir up more volatility in the market. "Short-selling is going to create
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      • 342 17  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE The stockholders of Californian drive company Maxtor Corp have approved a proposed USSISO million (SS24O million) investment by Hyundai of South Korea, four months after the process was begun. The deal required the approval of three unnamed matters, of which
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      • 364 17 Reuter SEOUL Foreign investors desperate to buy stocks in South Korea are expected to have another frustrating year in 1994, when most analysts predict the Seoul bourse will shoot to an all-time high. Keith Nam, representative of H G Asia Ltd, said
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      • 310 17 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The green traffic lights on Wall Street are turning yellow. While 1993 will be the securities industry's most profitable year in history and fourthquarter earnings are expected to be in line with the thirdquarter's USSI.2B billion
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 77 17 Reuter JAKARTA PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa, Indonesia's biggest cement producer and a member of the Salim Group, said its finance director Judiono Tosin had resigned, effective yesterday. "He resigned to pursue private interests and will be succeeded by Benny Santoso," said a company official. Mr Santoso.
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        • 71 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Golden Power International Holdings Ltd says a general downturn in the global electronics industry led to a 17.8 per cent decline in net profit to HKSI3.6 million (552.72 million) in the six months ended Sep 30. from HKSI6.S million
          Bloomberg Business News  -  71 words
        • 51 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Chinese government-owned Yizheng Chemical Fibre will raise USS2SO million (SS4OO million) through sales of shares in Hongkong and the United States to fund expansion of a plant that produces polyester filaments, the South China Sunday Morning Post reports. Bloomberg Business
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        • 48 17 The Nikkei Weekly TOKYO Sakura Bank will raise 100 billion yen (SSI.4 billion) by issuing preferred stock next month at the earliest, the Nikkei newspaper said. It would be the first time a Japanese bank has issued preferred stock. The Nikkei Weekly
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      • 551 17 MARKET W AT Clrl Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China's rich businessmen may be willing to spend thousands of yuan on expensive cognac and watches, but you are less likely to find them buying fancy lingerie for their wives or mistresses.
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 672 19 But earnings not likely to match third quarter's Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The largest banks of the US benefited from stronger trading revenue, lower loan-loss provisions and an increase in consumer lending in the fourth quarter. Net interest margins narrowed, largely because
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      • 434 19 Reuter BOMBAY India's foreign exchange market heralded the New Year with the introduction yesterday of cross currency options, in a move seen by bankers as a further tentative step towards currency liberalisation. Options offer companies with large imports or exports a hedge against currency fluctuations.
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      • 272 19 Reuter MELBOURNE National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB) said it had consolidated three existing commercial paper programmes in Europe and Asia into a USS2.S billion (Ss4 billion) global commercial paper and certificate of deposit programme. NAB said the new multicurrency programme would operate in
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      • 218 19 Reuter HONGKONG The Bank of China's total assets outside the country topped USSIOO billion (SSI6O billion) as of the end of September, while domestic deposits with the bank have also jumped in 1993, the Beijingrun Ta Kung Pao said. "Total assets of the
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 62 19 HONGKONG Hongkongßank, a unit of international banking conglomerate HSBC Group pic. has frozen its expansion plans for China until word comes from the government on whether foreign banks will be allowed to transact yuan-denominated business, the South China Sunday Morning Post reports, citing Anthony Russell. head
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        • 43 19 AFP PARIS A former director of the International Monetary Fund. Frenchman Pierre-Paul Schwietzer, right, died at the weekend at 81. Mr Schweitzer was the fund's director from 1963 to 1973. Details of where he died were not available. AFP
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        • 68 19 IBJ to write off 350b yen The Nikkei Weekly TOKYO The Industrial Bank of Japan will dispose of non-per-forming loans totalling 8(X) billion yen (SSI 1.4 billion) during the next three years, the Nikkei newspaper said. The bank will probably have to write off 300-350 billion yen as a result,
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        • 85 19 and Hokkaido Takushoku 100b yen Knight-Ridder TOKYO Hokkaido Takushoku bank plans to write off bad assets of nearly 100 billion yen (SSI.4 billion) in the fiscal year ending March, officials said yesterday, according to a Kyodo news wire report. They said it will include liquidation of 40 billion to 50
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      • 1133 20 Yen's rise against dollar makes Japan's bonds a winner Bloomberg Business News LONDON Japanese government bonds produced both feast and famine in 1993. Month after month, Japanese bonds returned more to US investors than bonds in any of the world's other major
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      • 303 20 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Southeast Asian palm oil and coconut oil prices are expected to continue rising into early 1994 due to declining supply and rising demand, regional traders said. Rainy spells and floods in Malaysia will disrupt transportation of palm fruits from
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      • 635 20  -  Foreign currency outlook From Neil Behrmann in LONDON THE Bundesbank is hinting that the US dollar is undervalued against the powerful dcutschcmark. The German ccntral bank notes that the dollar is trading well below its purchasing power parity (PPP). Its November monthly report
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      • 224 20 AFP MUSCAT Non-Opec members Malaysia and Angola told Oman on Sunday that they backed its efforts to contain an oil glut in the world market that had sent prices to record lows, the Omani News Agency (ONA) reported. Omani Oil Minister
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      • 147 20 Reuter MANAMA Saudi Arabia's Deputy Commerce Minister Abdul-Rahman al-Zamil said King Fahd's declaration that the riyal would not be devalued has effectively ended speculation against the rival, the Arab AVm.v reported \esterday. The Jeddah-based newspaper quoted Mr Zamil as saying: "The statement of King
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      • 133 20 THE USS traded softer in listless trading as most centres were still on holiday yesterday. Initial sales of USS from olTshore commercial MS demand pushed the USS/MS to a low of 2.6900 before local banks on the bid provided support and mopped up ex- cess
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      • 200 20 Reuter LONDON The dollar was around half a yen up in late Luropean trading above the key 112 yen level as the mark/yen cross inched higher yesterday. Dealers said business was thin with London still out for the new year celebrations but when London dealers return today the dollar
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      • 217 20 Reuter HOUSTON New US reformulated petrol laws will overburden eurrent distribution systems by doubling the number of product grades available while giving refiners little time to ehange operations, an industry report said. The US Environmental Protection Agency's "complex model" laws "will likely require
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      • 88 20 AFP NEW YORK The dollar fell against the major currencies except the yen yesterday on the first day of trading of the New Year. Around 9:30 am, the dollar was trading at 1,7355 German marks against 1.7394 on Friday's close. Against the yen, the dollar was trading at
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        1677 20 JrjJe Hrifhrni index calculated attains/ Spore's lop 14 trading partners Base year 198 < US$/S$ forward rates Noon Jan 3 sT Bid Offer 1-month 1.6110 1.6125 2-month 1.6114 1.6129 3-month ***** ***** 6-month 1.6125 ***** Source OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 10am on Jan 3: Singapore
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1291 21 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex interest rate futures contracts ended barely changed in extremely light trade yesterday as the market closures in Tokyo and London dampened activity. March Eurodollar futures ended at 96.50 against the 96.49 seen on the IMM previously. A total of 2,010
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      • 635 21 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin TIN maintained last week's uptrend and prices ended at a 10week nigh yesterday, aided by generally weaker ringgit against the US dollar. The metal finished 16 sen up at V 1512.55 a kg. supported by persistent European and Far
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 101 21 KUALA LUMPUR The present rainy spell affecting much of the country' won't disrupt the supply of Malaysian cocoa beans, industry sources say. "Nobody's really worried about the rains." said Edward Lee. general manager at trading firm Sasco in Tawau in the east Malaysian state
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        • 71 21 JAKARTA Indonesian coffee exporters are expected to announce by mid-January the financing method for their coffee export retention plan, which is expected to be based on those used in other producer nations, industry sources said. However. fears are emerging that the government may reject any
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        • 76 21 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian bulk palm oil and lauric oils exports worldwide in December were 439.990 tonnes, down from 549.349 in November. traders said, quoting cargo surveying firm Caleb Brett. Sales of palm oil excluding oleochemicals. palm kernel oil and coconut oil during the same
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        • 92 21 NEW DELHI Indian traders expect wholesale vegetable oil prices to dccline soon because rapeseed. known here as mustard, has started trickling into the market in the north. Rapeseed arrivals will pick up in March-April, traders said, and reports from the north indicate a bumper
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      • 1649 21 Rubber RAS Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 1pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jan 94 134.75 134.75 133.50 200 0 Feb 135.25 135.25 134 50 50 3.350 Mar 137.25 136.25 136 50 1100 6.725 Apr/Jun 139.50 138.75 139
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    • 1361 22 COMPANY MEETINGS (ompant Place Date lime PM Data E Scrangoon (iardens Jan 7 l UNtam (.'ountrx lutv Function Room (Annex Building). 2nd Level. 22 Kensington Park. Road (***** SPH A&E News Centre. Jan 8 11 Warn 82 (ienting Lane (1334) ABR Hldgs E Conference Room. Jan
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 650 22 75.43 Share prices closed stronger, hitting new all-time highs on the first trading dav of the year as blue chips kept the market up amid profit-taking in other issues. brokers said "We saw profit-taking in sec-ond-line issues, especially towards closing, but what led the market to continue its ascent
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      • 482 22 13.14 Buy orders boosted financials and recent laggards sueh as construction and low-priced counters during the first trading day of the year, brokers said. The composite stock index added 13.14 points to 879.32. with some 21.7 million shares changing hands during a single tv\o-hour session. "Everything but blue chips
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      • 136 22 119.8 Prices of market leaders rose further in hectic deals on kerb as foreign institutional buyers accumulated stocks, taking advantage of selling pressure due to an exchange's directive asking brokers to reduce their out- standings, brokers said. A broker said the selling by brokers to comply with the BSE
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 118 22 +22.34 Futures-related buying in a thin market helped push French shares to a new high at the close, traders said. The CAC-40 index closed nearly 1 per cent higher after a lacklustre start. They said the market was waiting to see how the London stock market would begin the
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      • 150 22 1.42pc Swedish shares ended the day sharply higher, and the OMX-index closed at a new all-time high, unwinding an initial decline caused by worry over an impending decision on the Orcsund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark. The all-share index climbed 1.42 per cent to 1.407.41 in moderate turnover of
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      • 156 22 1.3 German shares continued higher in post-bourse trading after recovering early losses in official trade after a weaker start. Dealers said the DAX's performance today could depend on the position of London traders when they come back to the market after a holiday. But there may be scope for
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      • 240 22 +8.68 The Bcl-2() stock index finished at a record closing high, with most stocks helped by a stronger dollar against the franc. Expectations that the Belgian central bank will lower interest rates again soon also helped drive the market. However with the London stock market closed for a holiday,
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      • 160 22 +0.87pc Italian shares kicked off 1994 with modest gains as Montedison took centre stage for a third day. Dealers said confidence in the stock had risen sharply since last week's accord with Shell merging most of the two companies* polypropylene and polyethylene businesses. The Mibtel index closed 0.87 per
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      • 240 22 +6.1 Local buying amid enthusiastic fundamental and chart sentiment pushed shares to new highs. Dealers say 1993's uptrend looks to continue well into this year, though some consolidation must be expected. The AEX (formerly EOF) index rose 6.10 at the final calculation to end at 420.37. after a slow
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      • 1495 22 London Dec 31 Pent* TTIndustrials \r%\\\ 27* 4/N H.inn <W» 4 (4tN VivdU 257 4/* -2 4/# DtMPi .\H> X < iieal INtilland t xt I NMMH C utsfields III 2 Racal FkilriHiKN m 5 Roul Bk CM Vmljntl 4>r> Scottish Newcastle 535 unvh SicKr fH I /eneva *40 4/*
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      • 308 22 +21.8 Swiss shares rose to record highs on the first trading day in 1994 in good volume. LX'alers said optimism for a global economic recovery helped cyclical shares, while shares which were strong in 1993. like Roche or banks, did not rise to the same extent. The all-share SPI
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      • 291 22 +23.2 Shares started 1994 slowly as the market found few fresh factors to influence direction. but a late financial rand decline from earlier highs eased the pressure on non-gold stocks, dealers said. The overall index added 16.5 points to 4.909.5. the industrial index added 23.2 points to 5.596.2 and
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      • 832 22 -0.28 The Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.28 point to 3.753.81 at II am EST yesterday. The key barometer was ahead 5.03 points shortly after the market opened. The New York Stock Exchange composite index was off 0.60 to 258.48. while S&P 5(X)-stock index was down 0.59
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      3156 23 UPI HONGKONG A strong opening and afternoon rally dri\en by bargain hunters pushed shares up 1.67 per cent to set yet another market record on Monday. The blue-chip Hang Seng index jumped 198.1 points to close at 12.056.49 setting a new record on the first day of trading in
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      531 23 THE CLSA Shanghai B Index finished 6.98 points lower at 1,127.6 yesterday in inactive trading. The laggards Refrigerator, Rubber Belt and First Pencil performed the best adding 7.0. 6.4 and 5.9 per cent respectively. Suffering from heavy profit-taking. Diesel Engine closed 4 per cent down from the high of
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      1128 23 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed mixed in quiet trading yesterday with investor interest con fined to selected stocks, brokers said. The official index ended 0.88 points higher at 589.65. Tjiwi Kimia closed up 150 rupiah at 6.100 while Fan Brothers ended down 25 rupiah at 2.000. Brokers said sentiment
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    • 2933 24 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume Prom el 30.079.000 Fiber Oroup 22.223.000 Metrople* 50c 22.0''I 000 I mas Bhd 20.599.000 kjmunling 50c 15.696.000 FACB50C I3.544.OUO Cieneral Corp 12.440.000 Mil 12.043.000 Metroplex TSR 10.864.000 Mulpha Intl 50c 10.430.000 A.VIDB 50c 8.891.000 KL Industrie* 8.781.000 Renong Bhd
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5900 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange closed the first day of the new year's trading on a positive note. The Composite Index, which touched an all-time high of 1,290.86 at 3.15 pm. fell back to close at 1,288.85, up 13.53
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 6866 25 Gr Gr 1993/94 Last Vol Day Last Qntt IN* Dt. VM Nn M Cm High Law (o«paa> Sate CM*) High Lr» Biryfr Seller CNr P/E tail INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1400 260 I Aetna 1170 -110 141 1270 1170 1170 1220 12.5 2.1 1.1 30.6 806 4 460 220 is Ale*
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      • 1728 26  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Shares started the New Year with a bang yesterday, pushing the Straits Times Industrials Index to another record close. Trading began strongly, and within the first hour the index gained 36 points over Friday's close. But intermittent
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      • 127 26  -  By Paul Leo CWT DISTRIBUTION will rally towards $3.70 within a few weeks, from yesterday's close of 53.12. The stock broke slightly above a downward sloping trendline formed by joining the peaks since Dec 20 and should soon test its high 0f53.30. Volume picked up yesterday to 237,000
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    • 324 27  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE The Australia South Asia (ASA) consortium has expanded its liner service to Brisbane, with a fixed-day call at the Australian port every fortnight. The new service will be part of the group's weekly four-vessel link between Sydney and Melbourne
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    • 123 27 AP ANCHORAGE An empty oil tanker hit ice in Prince William Sound on Sunday, rupturing its bow and putting a hole in a ballast tank. The tanker wouldn't have spilled any oil if it were full, said Petty Officer Bill Schleuter, a Coast
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    • 345 27 Reuter MANAMA Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has won a deal from a Saudi Arabian shipping firm to build five crude oil supertankers worth more than US$4OO million (***** million), a Saudi company official said. The general manager of the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia
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    • 349 27 Reuter HALIFAX, Nova Scotia A search plane spotted an orange life-raft on Sunday, raising hopes of rescuing survivors of a freighter that sank in a North Atlantic storm with a crew of 36 Greeks and Filipinos, a Canadian Coast Guard spokesman said. The
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      • 617 28 Ve*$d Voy No Bcftti Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jurong Port Bechar 1CNA93 POSA 04.01/2300 0701/0230 Arttrs Blue 030 04A 16 alongside 0401/0700 Bonastar 931 ISA P04 0401/2300 0501/1S00 Batam Bafagu 01/01/94 ill alongs** 04.01/2300 Brasta® 1 Al/94 P03 04.01/1500 0401/2300 Batam Murm 01/01/94
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    • 11473 36 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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    • 3025 41 MK.%nnauii m awaiwiwa Containerline NV: Bclsin Shpg Agencies Pte Ltd (SVManne Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SVAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahreakiel liner Service Kim Shpg Trdg(S). Albatros Sea-Air Service: Frjta Shpg Pte J-td
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    • 313 41 CONFERENCES CONSORTIA Alia Kwtli Aatarica Euttmud Rate A|mMirt (Far East/Narlk teaka, axdadas lapaa): American President Lines; Sea-Land; Neptune Orient Lines; Maersk Line; Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line; Mitsui OSK Lines; Nippon Liner system; "K" Line; Orient Overseas Container Line, Hapag-Lloyd. Traas-Paelfic Wastbaaad Rate Afraamaat (North Aanriea/Far East): American President Lines; Sea-Land;
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    • 276 41 Abacus C ouriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898. Air Express t ravel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144. Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: 542-3716. *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. City-link International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Cluster Link Supplies
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    • 1463 41 Abex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84 Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7821 Fax: *****20. Aeroliak Freight International Tel: 545-8033 Fax: *****05. Aerospeed Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454 Fax: *****06 Air Express International Tel: 542-7666 Fax: *****74. *****50 Air
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    • 2262 42 ALBANIA Duress: Two vessels in port, both discharging bulk wheat, 1 vessel in roads waiting to discharge bagged rice. ARGENTINA Santa Fe: No vessels berthed, no vessels due; max draft 21 ft 1 in. Diamante: No vessels berthed, none in roads, no vessels due, max draft 21 ft
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    • 1087 42 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES RUMOURS indicate that a resale double/double aframax (delivery April 1994 at Samsung) may have been sold at around US$4B million. Initial enquiries indicate this could be the tanker Pacific Order and that the buyers are Far Eastern (either Japanese or Proc). It is also reported that
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    • 553 42 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Might T>pe ETA T From Op Flight l>pe ETD T To TODAY TODAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 I NRT SIA SQ802 B747F 02>0 2 SYD/AKL KAL KE697 B747F 0150 1 SEL NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 I BKK/NRT JAL JL6I7 B747F 0345 I TYO KAL
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    • 503 42 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Dep Name of Vessel ETA ETD Ports of Calls Port Agent Telephone No JANUARY 07 07 Sea Goddess 2 0700 2300 Bintan Sin Jardinc Shpg Agcncis 224-1052 Port Klang 07 07 Leisure World 1000 2015 Jakarta Sin Lauw Sons Travel 227-8284 Port Klang 07
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    • 485 43 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,215 on Friday from 1.217 on Dec 30. The year ended on a slow note with holidays severely curtailing activity, brokers said. The major grain routes have been very slow with just a few reports of
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    • 376 43 COURSES Title: Handling Transportation Of Dangerous Liquids (Refresher) Duration: Jan 6 Jun 16 Organiser Port of Singapore Authority Tel: For further details/registration contact SPI at 321-1707/321-1824/321-1825 or fax: 321-1416. Title: Handling Transportation Of Dangerous Liquids (SDF 70%) Duration: Jan 7 Jun 17 Organiser Port of Singapore Authority Tel:
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    • 804 43 THIS twice 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 are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 1334 44  - Bulk shipping another turn in the cycle? Peter Rowbotham, joint managing director of Drewry Shipping Consultants, notes that a bearish sentiment has taken hold of the" bulk shipping market Peter Rowbotham, International Bulk Journal POSSIBLE declines in rates and ship values are indicated ahead of an upturn some time in
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      • 717 46 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Robert Crandall, the often blustery chairman of American Airlines, claims his industry is in the "eye of the storm." Not since the early days of deregulation has the airline industry faced such tumultuous change, and fourth-quarter
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      • 473 46 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The United States railroads survived the flood of the century and a coal strike responsible for cutting US production by 5.5 per cent, winding up with an improved fourth quarter and forecasts of even better
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      • 420 46 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The US's Big Three car makers will post stronger fourth-quarter earnings. driven by more competitively priced cars and strong light-truck sales, analysts said. "We expect another round of strong earnings from all three, and they will come in
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      • 60 46 Reuter KAGOSHIMA, Japan Two Greek survivors of the Cyprus registered freighter Arctic Reefer, which sank off southeast of Japan on Saturday, were rushed to a hospital in Kagoshima city on Sunday after they were rescued by two ships in the area Twelve of the
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      • 243 46 AFP TOKYO Central Japan Railway is planning a new magnetic levitation high-speed train capable of speeds of up to 550 km per hour, the daily Yomiuri reported yesterday. An experimental threecoach train should be ready in early 1995 and it is expected to achieve
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        • 117 46 AFP JERUSALEM Israel intends to build a new business jet in collaboration with US and Russian firms, a spokesman for the Israeli aviation industry said. He said Galaxy, as the new aircraft is called, would have US Pratt and Witney engines while its
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        • 79 46 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Suzuki Motor Corp. the largest minicar producer in Japan, and Daihatsu Motor Co, the second largest minicar maker, have agreed to standardise auto parts, the Nihim Keizai newspaper reported. Air conditioners, automatic transmission equipment. lights and bumpers will be standardised
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        • 82 46 Reuter NEW YORK Trans World Airlines Inc's emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings is not trouble-free, according to an article in Barron's. The magazine said that the company's emergence eight weeks ago involved extinguishment of about US$l billion (S$ 1.59 billion) of its old
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        • 45 46 Reuter DETROIT Forty-five of America's top auto writers and critics, in a surprising move, named the Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan as the first North American Car of the Year before the start of the auto show in Detroit. Reuter
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      • 186 46 Reuter HANOI Ten US construction companies are among firms registered to bid for the upgrading of Vietnam's Highway One, a multi-phase renovation project estimated to cost well over US$2OO million (Ss3lB million), the Vietnam Investment Review said. Senior transport ministry officials
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