The Business Times, 10 January 1994

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  • 13 1 Business Times WE KNOH ASIA MITA(F) 010/12/93 Monday January 10 1994 75 C
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 82 1 AFP BRUSSELS The Group of Seven industrialised democracies will hold a ministerial meeting on the worldwide unemployment crisis in March. US President Bill Clinton made the announcement during a speech at the Brussels city hall ahead of the two-dav North Atlantic Treaty
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    • 61 1 Reuter BRUSSELS US President Bill Clinton, on his first visit to Europe as US leader, last night said that the continent remained central to US security. Mr Clinton, in Brussels to attend a Nato summit, said that Europe was America's "most valued partner"
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    112 1 Stock market indices Friday Week change ST1I 2.366 40 -59.28 KLSE Composite 1.190.73 -84.59 Nikkei I*. 124.01 +706.77 Hang Seng 11.***** -886 82 SET Index 1.575 43 -107.42 Jakarta Composite ...607.69 4-18.92 CLSA China B 1.461.86 til.19 AustAIIOrd 2.186.0 -12 4 FTSE 100 3.446 0 17.2 Dow Jones
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  • 109 1 Reuter ISMAILIA, Egypt Investors from Singapore, Hongkong, Taiwan and South Korea are proposing to finance new port facilities along the Suez Canal. The chairman of Egypt's Suez Canal Authority said yesterday that the Asian investors were ready to finance a new port in
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  • 403 1  -  Reports by Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Corporate chief executives in Singapore last year commanded an average of U*****,643 (*****,228) in total pay, putting them among the world's highest paid, says US-based management consultant firm Towers Perrin. In the ranking of CEO salary
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  • 291 1 SINGAPORE Executives in the financial industry are likely to get a lower pay rise of 6.5 to 8.1 per cent this year, down from 7.1 to 9 per cent in 1993, says US-based management consultancy firm Towers Perrin. Their pay hikes are also
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  • 456 1  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE The Telecommunication Authority of Singapore (TAS) wants Singapore Telecom to spell out precisely what lies within its exclusive right to operate and provide basic telecommunication services. Singapore Telecom was recently issued with a notification to this effect,
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  • 304 1 AFP McLEAN, Virginia US companies forked out a record US$65 billion (Sslo4 billion) last year on security, most of the money targeted at flushing out industrial spies. "The industry is booming," said William Cunningham, president of Hallcrest Systems Inc. a consulting firm
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  • 379 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Analysts arc cautiously optimistic about the direction of the local stock market this week. Noting that the fundamentals a strong 1994 economic outlook, robust corporate earnings, ample liquidity have not changed, the analysts expect the Straits Times Industrials
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  • 244 1 Reuter TOKYO Japan, under US pressure to open up its public works sector, w ill allow foreign firms to enter bids on large-scale building projects beginning in April. The Nikkei newspaper said on Saturday that the Japanese government,
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  • 220 1 AP MANILA Nearly all tax officials are corrupt and few would be left in government service after a purge. "My sense is this: that almost everybody might not pass scrutiny," Liwayway VinzonsChato, chief of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, told the Philippine Daily
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 301 2  -  By Paul Leo MONEY supply M 2 will grow at a faster rate this year. M 2 comprises currency in circulation, plus demand deposits (or Ml) and what is known as quasi-money. The latter comprises fixed deposits, Singapore-dollar negotiable certificates of deposit, savings and other
        Source: Kim Eng Securities  -  301 words
    • 194 2 NASDAQ-listed Rexon, a Califomian company producing software, storage devices and computer products, is setting up a factory at Woodlands. The plant will employ 500 people by year-end and generate US$lOO million (Ssl6o million) in revenue in 1995 its first full-year of
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    • 597 2  -  Companies finding it harder to find clerks and other support workers By Anna Teo THE LABOUR market will remain tight this year, with the dire shortage of clerks and support staff likely to worsen, employers and recruiters say. At the executive/professional level, local engineers
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    • 375 2  -  By Soh Tiang Keng THE public sector must be more performance and ser-vice-oriented to succeed in Singapore and elsewhere. Minister of State for Finance and Communications Teo Chee Hean said last night. Speaking at the opening of the 11-day conference
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  • THE REGION
    • 436 3 Bernama JOHOR BARU The manufacturing sector will be the engine of growth of the Malaysian economy towards the year 2000. said Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry Chua Jui Meng. He said by the year 2000 the manufacturing sector's contribution to
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    • 40 3 Reuter CHREY THOM, Cambodia A Cambodian mother and child, one of 5,000 ethnic Vietnamese refused entry to Cambodia at Chrey Thorn border checkpoint, waiting to meet United Nations officials working to obtain their return to Cambodia. Reuter
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    • 271 3 AFP, Reuter HANOI A group of US senators called yesterday for the lifting of the US embargo on Vietnam, saying it was time to normalise relations. At a press conference, the head of the visiting delegation from the US Senate's Energy
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    • 192 3 Reuter, AFP MANILA The government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will resume talks today on a new economic programme that will boost the Philippines' prospects for sustainable growth, officials said. An IMF mission is scheduled to arrive in Manila today for talks
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    • 277 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's planters and builders expressed dismay yesterday at a sudden freeze on foreign labourers imposed by the government, saying the move would worsen an already tight labour market. "There should be flexibility in the implementation of policies like this,"
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    • 193 3 Bernama LONDON Malaysia and Singapore have been included in a list of countries of uncertain status by the European Union (EU) which is now preparing to impose visa requirements on the majority of foreign nationals seeking entry into Europe. Other Commonwealth countries
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 58 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Senator Mustapha Mohamed has been appointed Deputy Finance Minister, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said. Mr Mustapha replaces Abdul Ghani Othman, who was made Youth and Sports Minister last month, Dr Mahathir told reporters after chairing a supreme council meeting of his
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      • 80 3 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China will attempt to stimulate sluggish demand for domestic automobiles by withdrawing foreign ventures' duty-free privileges on imported vehicles and relaxing regulations on the purchase of cars by state entities, according to a report in the official China Daily. Foreign affiliates will
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      • 76 3 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan and Britain will hold talks in Taipei later this month to discuss trade, officials said. "The two sides will hold two days of consultations in Taipei beginning Jan 17 to improve their trade interaction," said Tsai Lien-sheng, a Board of Foreign
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      • 65 3 AFP JAKARTA Army chief General Wismoyo Arismunandar has warned Indonesians not to attempt to humiliate the country's leadership, especially the president, a report by the daily Republika said yesterday. Meanwhile, human rights activist Nuku Sulaeman will face trial on Thursday following his arrest for
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    • 662 5 Stumbling block is rapid domestic growth Reuter, AFP BEIJING China yesterday said wide-ranging reforms instituted this year will help roll back its trade deficit in 1994 and Foreign Trade Minister Wu Yi was quoted by The China Daily as saying that China will try
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    • 193 5 AFP TAIPEI Foreign firms will be allowed to invest in oil refining in Taiwan under a bill to break the state monopoly of the Chinese Petroleum Corp (CPC), officials said yesterday. The draft bill approved by the Economics Ministry will
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    • 244 5 UPI TOKYO North Korea yesterday accused South Korea of carrying out "provocative ground and air war exercises" in the vicinity of the demilitarised zone separating the countries. The official (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) made the accusation in an unusually terse
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    • Article, Illustration
      40 5 Reuter 'AIPEI A Taiwanese woman views a carving made from the world's largest piece of "chicken blood stone", a stone streaked with red veins used in traditional Chinese sculpture, at an international jewellery exhibition in Taipei. Reuter
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    • 322 5 AFP HONGKONG China has quietly begun its search for the first chief executive to run Hongkong after the British colony reverts to its sovereignty in 1997. The Sing Tao Daily News, a local newspaper, said yesterday China's de facto consulate in Hongkong
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    • 183 5 AP BEIJING China will allow lawyers from Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan to practise on the mainland if they pass the mainland bar examination, the official Xinhua News Agency said yesterday. The Justice Ministry plans to hold training seminars for interested candidates starting
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    • 408 5 AFP SEOUL South Korea's Trade Promotion Corp (Kotra) has endorsed a Russian proposal that Moscow be a matchmaker and partner in future North-South Korean industrial tie-ups. Kotra had endorsed a Russian government study on the possibility of triangular economic cooperation between
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    • 178 5 Reuter BEIJING Japan was China's top trading partner in 1993, followed by Hongkong, the United States, the European Community, Taiwan, South Korea and Russia, the Economic Daily said. Chinese figures show Japan exported U5523.25 billion (5536.9 billion), up from U5513.68 billion in 1992, and
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    • 268 5 Savings' decline is department stores' benefit UPI BEIJING An inflation-driv-en spending spree has forced down growth in the country's individual banking deposits, upsetting bankers but delighting retailers, a state-run newspaper reported yesterday. From January to November, the retail price index rose 12.5
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    • 235 5 AFP BEIJING Foreign Trade Minister Wu Yi has said the US risks damaging ties when it uses China's Most Favoured Nation (MFN) trading status to pressure Beijing on human rights, a report said yesterday. "It is unwise to
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    • 602 6 Reuter BOMBAY South Asia's economies, stimulated by a series of region-wide reforms that have unshackled business and liberalised currency regulations, will gather pace in 1994, posting growth averaging above 5 per cent, analysts said. With the winds of liberalisation sweeping the
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    • 421 6 AFP NEW DELHI Asian giants China and India are reviewing plans to manufacture commercial aircraft by sharing technological and financial resources in a joint venture. The Chinese ambassador to India, Cheng Ruisheng, told the Press Trust of India (PTI) yesterday that the
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    • 290 6 Reuter TOKYO US President Bill Clinton is expected to press Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa in their meeting next month for Japan to buy most of its foreign rice from the United States, the Sankei Shimbun reported yesterday. Trade issues will
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    • 125 6 UPI TOKYO Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa described himself on Saturday as a lazy student who rarely showed up at classes while attending Sophia University in Tokyo. In a break from escalating political pressures, Mr Hosokawa made his first appearance at his alma mater, Sophia
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    • 164 6 Reuter TASHKENT. Uzbekistan Warning of "immense danger", Pakistan's Foreign Minister Assef Ahmad Ali said on Saturday that nuclear war might engulf South Asia if his country's territorial dispute with India went unresolved. Mr Ali told a news conference during a visit
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    • 284 6 Reuter TOKYO Japan's former Trade Minister Seiroku Kajiyama, a senior figure in the oncedominant Liberal Democratic Party, is the latest politician to be linked to a bid-rigging and bribery scandal, a newspaper said yesterday. Kajiyama. a former trade and justice minister, allegedly took 10
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  • THE WORLD
    • 482 7 Reuter FRANKFURT German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said there were signs that Germany's economic downturn was coming to an end after a difficult year in 1993. Mr Kohl said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that there were "several good
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    • 373 7 Reuter, UPI LONDON Two forced resignations from British Prime Minister John Major's Conservative government have cast a cloud over his Back to Basics campaign for higher moral standards. Millionaire MP Alan Duncan quit as aide to the health minister on Saturday after the disclosure
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    • 127 7 AFP ABU DHABI Gulf Arab states will sign an economic agreement with Japan to attract industrial investment needed to help diversify their oil-based economies, a Gulf official was quoted last Saturday as saying Dafir al-Omran, a chief negotiator between the six-nation Gulf
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    • 291 7 Reuter TORONTO Canada and the United States remain at odds over several trade disputes, including Canadian wheat exports to the US, following a meeting of agriculture ministers from both countries on Saturday. US President Bill Clinton has set a deadline of Jan 17
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    • 130 7 AFP BRUSSELS Nato government chiefs will take the first timid steps towards opening the alliance's doors to its former Cold War adversaries when they hold a two-day summit here starting today. They are also expected to approve more flexible structures for European
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 70 7 Reuter MOSCOW Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the extreme nationalist who has shocked the world with his dream of massive Russian expansion, courted Washington on Saturday by calling instead for strong democracy and cooperation with the West. "We stay as a democratic state," Mr Zhirinovsky told CNN. His party became
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      • 63 7 Reuter MEXICO CITY Two women protest in front of the Ministry of the Interior, demanding a halt to the army's bombing of guerillas who staged an uprising in the southern state of Chiapas a week ago. The protesters want the government to hold talks with the Zapatista
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      • 105 7 AP WASHINGTON Attorney-General Janet Reno is rejecting Republican suggestions of White House interference in the federal investigation of President Bill Clinton's role in an Arkansas real estate venture. Ms Reno, insisting that she is in charge of the Justice Department probe, said she refused to
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    • 195 7 Reuter WASHINGTON Ukraine is extremely close to final agreement with Russia and the US on a deal to get rid of all the nuclear arms on its territory within three years. The Washington Post reported yesterday that Ukraine would in exchange receive debt
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  • SPORTS
    • 523 8 Golf Mercedes Championships AP CARLSBAD, California Pro golfs old folks are still hanging in there, matching stroke for stroke with their younger counterparts on the PGA Tour. "I don't think they quite know what to make of it," Dave Stockton said on Saturday after he
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    • 46 8 Reuter SHEFFIELD, England Jayne Torvill crying tears of happiness with her partner Christopher Dean after they scored maximum marks for artistic impression in the free dance section of the British Ice Dance. The Nottingham duo are now the new British champions. Reuter
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    • 394 8 Reuter KANSAS CITY Kansas City got its first taste of postseason Montana magic and Green Bay's Brett Favre threw three touchdown passes to Sterling Sharpe as the Chiefs and Packers advanced in the National Football League playoffs with wild wild card
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    • 434 8  -  By Shahiron Sahari ANDREW Harriman, probably the fastest man in world rugby, is likely to be the major attraction at the Singapore Cricket Club Rugby Sevens next month. Harriman, who captained England to a stunning victory at the World Cup Sevens in Scotland
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    • SPORT SHORTS
      • 18 8 Reuter NEW YORK NFL Saturday: Kansas City 27 Pittsburgh 24 (OT); Detroit 24 Green Bay 28.
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        53 8 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Saturday: Atlanta 102 Cleveland 89; Charlotte 102 NY 99; Detroit 92 Indiana 101: Orlando 112 Washington 101; Minnesota 108 Boston 90; Chicago 100 Dallas 81; Houston 100 Philadelphia 93; Denver 104 Sacramento 98; Milwaukee 90 New Jersey 90; Seattle 108 Utah 87; LA Clippers 90
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        127 8 Reuter BRISBANE South Africa are in danger of missing out on this month's one-day series finals after crashing to a 48-run loss to Australia in a limited over game here yesterday. Australia, recovering from last week's five-run second Sydney test defeat to South Africa, bounced back to win the
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      • Article, Illustration
        216 8 AP AP AUCKLAND. New Zealand Australian Craig Jones fired a one-over-par 72 yesterday but held on for a one-stroke victory over Frank Nobilo in the New Zealand Open. Jones had a four-round total of sev-en-under 277 on the Remuera Golf Course. Nobilo, a New Zealander. finished with a 70
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        54 8 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Saturday: Washington 4 Chicago 1; Boston 2 Florida 2 (OT); Hartford 6 NY Islanders 0; Pittsburgh 2 Calgary 2 (OT); Tampa Bay 4 Philadelphia 2; Montreal 3 NY Rangers 2; Ottawa 2 Winnipeg 3; Toronto 5 Vancouver 3; St Louis 3 Anaheim 5; LA
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      • 200 8 Reuter DETROIT Tonya Harding on Saturday won her second US National figure skating title to earn a place on the Olympic team, where she will be joined by Nancy Kerrigan. Kerrigan, the Olympic bronze medalist who would have been defending champion at this week's Nationals, was unable to
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      • Article, Illustration
        98 8 AFP PARIS 11th stage of Paris-Da-kar-Paris rally over 457 km from Boutilimit to Akjoujt-Atar in Mauritania Cars: 1 Hubert Auriol (Fra) Citroen 6hr 02min 56sec 2 Pierre Lartigue (Fra) Citroen at 3min 25sec 3 Hiroshi Masuoka (Jpn) Mitsubishi at 56:00 Overall 1 Lartigue 28hr 22min 9sec 2 Auriol at
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      • Article, Illustration
        169 8 Reuter AFP AP AP ADELAIDE Emerging Russian talent Yevgeny Kafelnikov gained his first ATP tour title with a straight sets win over compatriot Alexander Volkov in the final of the Australian men's hardcourt championship yesterday. It was the first time two Russian players had contested the final of a
        Reuter; AFP; AP  -  169 words
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  • Business IT
    • 676 9  -  America's push for a data superhighway will fuel Singapore Telecom's growth, Telecom's US general manager tells David Welcner in New York David Welcher SINGAPORE Telecom's US arm is ready to provide high-tech services like video-conferenc-ing and other multimedia products, as the
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    • 506 9  -  It hopes to make a sizable impact by the middle of the year, reports Bernard Chew Bernard Chew Intel will introduce a new. clock-tripled version of its popular i486 microprocessor within the next three months, Intel Singapore's country manager Harry Lee
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    • 258 9  -  Joseph Rajendran finds out why the republic's plant was chosen Joseph Rajendran HEWLETT-Packard's Singapore plant has been selected to manufacture the US technology giant's highest-end personal computers for distribution worldwide. Khaw Keng Joo. general manager for the company's Asia Pacific division, told Business!r
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 74 10 SINGAPORE IBM Singapore has been awarded the Sisir-NCB ISO9OOI IT certificate which covers design, development, implementation and maintenance of systems integration solutions. It is the first time that an IBM unit in the Asean region has been awarded the certificate. IBM is the 10th company
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      • 58 10 SINGAPORE US-based Pilot Software has announced the Pilot Enterprise Solution, their first complete client/server platform that provides a comprehensive set of multi-functional software tools for enterprise-wide information and delivery and analysis. The Pilot Enterprise Solution consists of new and enhanced products in the company's Command Centre product
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      • 92 10  -  Compiled by Nicholas Fang SINGAPORE Datacraft Asia, distributor for US-based Telematics in the region, is providing LAN routing capability on its ACP 50 with a new product called ELX (Ethernet LAN Exchange). The ELX board consists of a Communication Equipment Module add-on board that resides
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    • IT Moves
      • 63 10 SINGAPORE Data General Computers Sdn Bhd has appointed Shaifubahrim M Saleh as its general manager. He will be responsible for building the company's business in Malaysia and together with local resellers will build the company's support infrastructure, aimed at the firm's Open Systems clients. Mr Shaifubahrim
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      • 71 10 SINGAPORE Compaq Computer Asia has appointed C J Ang as general manager of the company's Malaysian subsidiary with immediate effect. Mr Ang, 41, has 17 years' experience in the computer industry and has held a number of marketing, strategic management and consulting positions. Prior
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    • 509 10  -  Two major shows in the offing underline the surge in demand for drives, Claire Leow finds out Claire Leow COME March, the disk drive industry will have not one but two events over 10 days dedicated to drive technology and
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    • 233 10 THE local subsidiary of worldwide pharmaceutical distributor Getz Bros (Singapore) has decided to upgrade its computer system with software from J D Edwards and hardware from IBM. The new system will replace a 10-year old system at the company and will now be able
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    • It's happenin'
      • 51 10 SINGAPORE ECS Computers (Asia) Pte Ltd. the SCO Authorised Centre, is offering authorised SCO Unix training at various levels. In-depth training will be provided by SCO certified trainers. Courses will be held throughout January and February. Call Connie at 472-6228 between 9 am and 5 pm on
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      • 40 10 SINGAPORE Autodesk Asia Pte Ltd will be launching a new software. Auto Cad LT for windows next Friday at the Dynasty Hotel Ballroom from 2.30 to 5.30 pm. Registration is at 1.30 pm. Call Cindv at 299-9228.
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      • 33 10 SINGAPORE 3Com Asia Ltd is organising a seminar on "Solutions for Network Success" on Wednesday, Jan 26 at Sheraton Towers Singapore. For more information Call Li Anne at 538-9368.
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      • 55 10 SINGAPORE The Pan-Asian Telecommunications Information Task Force, a division of the Institute for International Research, is organising "Multimedia: Asia Summit '94". The highlights include programmes on the information superhighway and broadband technologies of the future. The summit will be held from Feb 22-24 at the Kowloon
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      • 75 10  -  Compiled by Nicholas Fang SINGAPORE The Systems Education Centre is organising a scries of workshops and seminars between January and March. The workshops in January include: the fundamentals of Unix and related programming. C+ object oriented programming, Novell Netware installation and administration, and the TCP/IP communication
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    • 752 11  -  111 IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT AND BUSINESS Lim Joo Boon explains what it takes to transform an enterprise from its business as usual stance in changing times. Lim Joo Boon The writer is a partner of Andersen Consulting Singapore and is active in
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    • 494 11 Bloomberg Business News APPLE Computer Inc came to the Mac World trade show last week armed with a slew of supporters for its new generation of PowerPC-based computers. But to some Apple observers that just may not be
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    • 814 11 A trick played using the Dartmouth campus' advanced computer network raises new questions about ethics in the computer age NYT SOMEBODY in Prof David Beckers course* on Latin American politics did not want to take the midterm exam, so he or
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    • 910 12  -  TEST RUM Bernard Chew comes across the poor man's answer to digital imaging Bernard Chew HAVE you ever looked at the mound of paper documents on your desk newspaper clippings, magazines, memos, brochures and wished that you could keep all of them
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    • 227 12 AFP SOUTH Korean scientists claimed last Tuesday to have developed the world's first notebook computer able to run both Apple and Microsoft operating systems. Newtech Korea Z-11, a private computer research institute, built the dual-micropro-cessor, dual-operating system (O/S) notebook over
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    • 423 12 Reuter APPLE Computer Inc last Wednesday unveiled eWorld, an online service that will provide a wide range of news, business and entertainment information to computer users, starting this spring. Apple chief executive Michael Spindler said the new service fits the company's goal to have a
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    • 132 12 Reuter Communication intelligence Corp in San Francisco said pen computing would be available to Macintosh users later this month. Called MacHandwritcr. it is the company's first consumer product for the Apple Computer Macintosh market in the United States. The company said it would be
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    • 834 12 Millions of autonomous programs called "agents" may now course through the veins and arteries of data networks, intent on diverse, useful tasks AP COMPUTER viruses are the scourge of modern computing. But a small Silicon Valley software developer, whose owners include American Telephone
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    • 741 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. LAST year about this time, I peered into
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 1093 13  -  What will companies be like in the next century? Charles Handy argues that the main challenge for employers will be keeping and motivating staff Charles Handy The author has written many books on organisations and their futures. His new book. The Empty Raincoat, will
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    • 473 13 ABN AMRO Bank has appointed Anton B Dikken as regional manager for its South-east Asia region, based in Singapore. Mr Dikken is currently ABN Amro Bank's country manager for Australia. Prior to his Australia posting. Mr Dikken was general manger of ABN Amro Bank's Singapore branch. CASTROL has
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    • 1214 13  -  Businessmen are aggressively looking out for the best bargains to cut costs. Roger Collis reports Roger Collis IHT THE MESSAGE from the business community to the travel trade for 1994 and beyond is this: we are learning to stretch our travel dollar not by travelling less
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  • 561 16 Reuter TOKYO Japanese officials are drafting a no-frills budget for fiscal 1994 that envisions selling government-held stock and raising liquor and tobacco taxes to offset falling revenue. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday that the finance ministry was behind schedule in drafting the
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  • 306 16 Reuter WASHINGTON Abu Dhabi has agreed to send former BCCI official Swaleh Naqvi to the United States to stand trial for his role in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal. The Justice Department said yesterday that Naqvi. formerly
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  • 247 16 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News, AP SYDNEY Cooler weather late yesterday offered firescarred Sydney a glimmer of hope that it would soon win its four-day battle with infernos which have destroyed more than 150 homes and killed four people. But weather forecasters said Sydney
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  • 279 16 Reuter BEIJING Japanese Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata ended a busy two-day visit to China yesterday, leaving behind excellent political relations and a booming trade and economic partnership. "We want to do all we can to support China's open-door and reform policy, which
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  • 161 16 Reuter MANAMA Omani oil officials embark on the final leg of their drive today to win nonOpec output restraint in a bid to entice Opec to prop up weak prices. An Omani official said yesterday that Oil Minister Said bin Ahmad al-Shanfari
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  • 878 16  -  The Bottom Line PAUL MARRIAGE PAUL MARRIAGE The writer is executive director of corporate affairs consultancy Forrest International. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the company. THE stock market correction in Hongkong may have put the lid,
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    • 367 17  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE The threecorner fight between Singapore Telecom International (STI) and firms from China and the United States to install Cambodia's first telephone paging system has entered its final round. The winning bids to install and manage pagers
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    • 289 17  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Cambodia's national carrier Royal Air Cambodge, in which Singapore Airlines has a 40 per cent stake, will take to the skies by May. The Cambodia Times reported over the weekend that the newly-relaunched airline would seek flying rights to
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    • 814 17  -  HOCK By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Did you panic last week? Did you break into a cold sweat when, for the first time in several months, the Singapore stock market seemed to have hit the skids? If
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    • Article, Illustration
      338 17 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Jan 7 Last Stilt Index Slock tale h«e factor ao*ers <$) Avimo 2.380 0.0)0 1 48 -3.36 C4C 8 500 -0.450 5.27 30.20 CWT 3 260 0.060 2.02 -4.03 Cercbos 7600 0.200 4.71 -1342 F&N 16 600 -1.000 10.29 67.11 Gen Mag
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    • COMPANIES
      • 613 18 Fund managers see limited upside, taking another look at stirring established bourses Reuter LONDON Emerging markets. the investor bandwagon of 1993. will probably stay the eourse this year, but as established markets rebound, some international funds are wondering if they want to keep
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      • 307 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Mattress manufacturer SweetDream Industrial Corporation Sdn Bhd will be joining the queue of companies seeking a listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange soon. In the process of a restructuring exercise, it may apply for listing later this year.
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      • 463 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR AMMB Holdings Bhd is expected to make a cash call to finance its long-sought after acquisition of a commercial bank. The company announced last week that it obtained approval from the Finance Minister for the purchase of
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      • 419 18 BANGKOK A leading property company in Thailand, Land and Houses pic, had unveiled a plan to launch housing projects for those in the lowincome bracket. The Nation newspaper said on Thursday. There is strong demand for houses priced below 600,000 baht (5537.500),
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      • 257 18 PENANG Bandar Sunway Sdn Bhd. a subsidiary of the Sungei Way Group, hopes for a KLSE main board listing next year, according to a report in The Star. Executive director Yeow Thit Sang said this last week after a ground-breaking ceremony for the
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      • 363 18 Reuter, AFP KUALA LUMPUR The bullish Malaysian stock market is expected to become more volatile as the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index continues to scale new heights in 1994 and next year, a chartist has been quoted as saying.
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      • 276 18 BANGKOK Boonklcc Plangsiri, president of the Shinawatra Group, has urged Thailand's government to deregulate the telecommunications industry to create more competition. He told the Bangkok Post last week that the deregulation would increase demand sharply and create more competition to supply that demand. Somprasong
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      • 238 18 BANGKOK Chemicals manufacturer Lenso group is pushing for telecommunications to become its "flagship" business within five years. The Bangkok Post reported last Friday that Lenso would restructure its business into four major groups chemicals. telecommunications, manufacturing. real estate and service headed by
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      • 458 20 Reuter BOMBAY Indian blue-chip firms plan to raise almost US$2 billion (553.2 billion) from overseas equity markets in the first quarter of 1994, cheered by the increasing interest of foreign investors. The target represents a big jump from the US$l.2 billion
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      • 423 20 NYT NEW YORK After a week of speculation about how he could pull together the money to win Paramount Communications Inc in a fierce bidding war, Viacom Inc chairman Sumner Redstone submitted within minutes of a deadline last Friday an offer for the giant entertainment
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      • 319 20 Reuter WASHINGTON A cutthroat battle between long-distance telephone companies for the lion's share of the US$26 billion (Ss4l billion) home market forced down prices last week to a low of US$3.9O an hour for calls to anywhere in the US. That rate,
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      • 294 20 Reuter LONDON The London Stock Exchange said 1993 was its busiest ever, with shares and gilts turnover and proceeds raised from rights issues all hitting records. The LSE said the year's total turnover in equities was worth £1.14 trillion (552.7 trillion), 49.8 per cent up
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      • 333 20 Bloomberg Business News LAS VEGAS A software industry group has presented an outline for a video-game rating system in a move designed to pre-empt the US Congress from legislating its own. The rudimentary proposal, presented yesterday by the Software Publishers Association at a consumer
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      • 61 20 Reuter LAS VEGAS A delegate at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas gets hands-on practice on a Sega portable video game. Game Gear, at the very user-friendly Sega booth. More than 80,000 delegates from around the world visited the show at the weekend to
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      • 511 20 Reuter FRANKFURT Shareholders counted their losses and critics apportioned blame last Friday as Germany started to come to terms with the shock news of the downfall of one of the country's most prominent companies. Shares in crisis-hit German metals group Metallgesellschaft Ag (MG) lost more than
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      • 399 20 FT LONDON Lonrho is alleged to have paid £555.000 (SSI.3 billion) to the former finance director of House of Fraser, a man who supplied damaging information on the owners of Harrods to the Bank of England and a House of
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 62 20 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Sales at PC-maker Acer Inc rose 58.6 per cent, or NTS7.IS billion (SS42B million), in 1993 from a year earlier to a record NTS 19.3 billion. Business boomed last year on strong worldwide demand for notebook computers and increased purchases of electronic
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        • 78 20 AFP TOKYO Moriya Shiki, chairman of Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corp, died of intestinal bleeding at a hospital in Tokyo yesterday at the age of 69. his family said. Mr Shiki joined the company in 1947 after graduating from the engineering deparment at University of Tokyo and
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        • 99 20 Bloomberg Business News BASEL HofTmann-La Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical and chemical company, and the Shanghai Sun Ve Pharmaceutical Corp have signed a joint venture agreement to set up a US$3O million (5547.7 million) pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Shanghai. Roche will hold a 70 per
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        • 54 20 AFP SAN FRANCISCO Pacific Telesis has announced it will eliminate 10.000 jobs by 1997 and put aside US$576 million (SS9IS million) in the fourth quarter for restructuring. The telephone and communications company said 3,000 jobs will be eliminated this year with the rest over
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        • 66 20 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Cyril Stein, the man who created UK leisure company Ladbrokc Group pic. resigned on Friday as a non-execu-tive director, barely a week after his retirement as chairman. Mr Stein served as chairman of the group since 1967 until retiring. He said the
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 858 21 Record sales of convertible bonds expected this year Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Taiwan companies in search of cheaper capital and some international name recognition are gearing up to sell a record number of convertible bonds in international markets this year, according to analysts
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      • 294 21 NYT TOKYO The two major categories of postal savings accounts registered their fourth largest monthly gain ever in December alarming banking industry regulators, who fear that money that should be going into the already troubled banking industry is going into postal savings. Banks,
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      • 232 21 FT PARIS The Bank of France's new independence in setting monetary policy would help to fight inflation and reinforce the "international credibility" of the franc, French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur says. Installing the central bank's new board and monetary policy committee,
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      • 277 21 Reuter LONDON The Securities and Investments Board (SIB), a top UK watchdog, has issued draft proposals calling for commission disclosure by all those selling life assurance. The Treasury instructed the SIB to change disclosure rules for the life insurance industry in July last year
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 65 21 AP HANOI Daiwa Bank, Ltd, one of Japan's 11 major retail banks, has opened an office in Ho Chi Minh City, the official Vietnam News Agency reported yesterday. The Osaka-based bank opened its office on Thursday to gather and offer economic information on Vietnam
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        • 65 21 Bloomberg Business News NEW ORLEANS Washington on Friday became the fifth state to urge deferral of an upcoming court hearing on a proposed US$l2O million settlement between Prudential Securities Inc and the firm's energy-partnership investors. Securities regulators from these states argued that the 137,000 limited-partnership investors
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        • 70 21 Reuter CAIRO The Central Bank of Egypt, in a report to parliament, said the country must continue to restrict borrowing abroad to build on its recent success in reducing both the foreign debt and the size of debt repayments. The confidential report said the amount of
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        • 72 21 Bloomberg Business News WYOMISSING, Pennyslvania Talks involving Sovereign Bancorp lnc's chairman to sell the US$4 billion-asset thrift were held without the knowledge of at least half of the company's board, the savings and loan's chief executive said. In a statement. Jay Sidhu said he and
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      • 532 22 Bloomberg Business News BOSTON The US Attorney's office in Boston expanded its investigation of ties between Merrill. Lynch Co and La/ard. Freres Co by issuing subpoenas for bond documents nationwide. US Attorney Donald Stern last month sent subpoenas to as many as 50 states, cities
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      • 212 22 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia. Malaysia and the Philippines hope to form a price cartel for hardwood products as global demand is exceeding supply, a press report said here on Saturday. "We should not underprice each other on the world market and we should cooperate
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      • 225 22 TRADES in USS/majors were mostly conccntratcd in the yen and related crosses last week with comments from Japanese and US officials sending markets into a flurry of activity but with trades kept in confined ranges. The regional currencies also experienced volatile activity with the
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      • 294 22 AFP BEIJING China is aiming to increase steel production by 5.7 per cent to more than 90 million tonnes this year in a bid to keep pace with mushrooming infrastructural development. the China Daily said on Friday. Steel makers must
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      • 282 22 UPI NEW DELHI A govern-ment-appointed committee has recommended that India lift the protectionist barriers on its nationalised insurance sector and open it to foreign and Indian private competition, federal officials said yesterday. The committee, headed by former central bank governor R N
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      • Article, Illustration
        2163 22 *Rates are the average of 9 selected banks Jrade-*eifhted index calculated against Spire's top 14 trading partners Base \ear 1985 Prime lending rites BANKS ABN Amro Bank NV S*» ANZ Banking Group 6 Allied Irish Bank PLC 6' k American Express Bank 6''; Arab Banking Corp 6 Arab Bank PLC
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      • 215 22 Reuter NEW DELHI India plans to seek Chinese collaboration to expand its coal industry. A government statement last Friday said India was interested in sharing China's experience and technology in mechanised long-wall underground mining. At present China operates more than 350 long-wall faces
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 631 23 HONGKONG Asian currencies closed generally higher on the first week of the new year, though the yen continued to suffer from a strengthening US dollar. The Australian dollar gained on the back of improving confidence in the US economy, while the Singapore and Malaysian
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      • 681 23 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON The New Year began well for the oil industry with Brent North Sea oil price rising back above the USSI4 a barrel level in London trading last week on hopes of an indus-try-wide meeting
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    • 1510 23 Rubber MS Conoodity Excfcango (future* closing as at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Feb 94 131.25 130 00 130 00 650 2,650 Mar 134.50 132.50 132.25 700 6,775 Apr 136.00 134.25 134.00 450 5.650 May 136.00 135.25 135.25
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    • 4661 24 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Kara KPS Dale IV l.Y TV I.Y i mi pa nv ann (Soil (its) (tls) \cma Sep 10 1 1*517 6.006 2*3 9.7 MSB* Oct 28 P 2095 0 334 2 04 0.3 \HoKcTcck Sep 30 I 0 490L 0 1 SO 0.5
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    • 753 24 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. RSf is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 785 25 NYT New York US INVESTORS started 1994 in confident fashion last week, buying enough stocks to push the Dow Jones Industrial Average through 3,800 for the first time. But the broader market missed out on the new year
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 121 25 HEAVY demand for resources stocks took the key indicator for the Australian market to a higher close for the week despite a slight drop on Friday. The key All Ordinaries Index climbed 12.4 points above the previous week's finish to close on Friday at 2,186.0. There were only four
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        • 140 25 The SET Index fell 107.42 points, or 6.4 per cent, during a roller-coaster week to close on Friday at 1,575.43. The average SET Index for the week was 1,676.69, up from 1,653.07 previously. The average daily volume during the week was a heavy 298.30 million shares, up from 225.19
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        • 107 25 The bull continued to reign last week, with most share prices moving higher to push the index through the psychological level of 600. The JSE Index, which moved up from 599.888 on Tuesday to close at 612.888 on Wednesday to set a new record for the past 43 months,
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        • 111 25 Share prices on the South Korean stock market surged 2.75 per cent in value during the first week of trading this year, helped by lower interest rates and expectation of economic recovery. The Composite Price Index closed the Saturday's half-day session at 890.01, up 23/83 points from Tuesday the
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        • 138 25 The Taiwan stock market started the new year on an upturn with share prices reaching a three-and-a-half year high on active trading during a holiday-shortened week. Extending a 14.1 per cent jump over the previous week, the 366-issue Weighted Price Index put on another 130.03 points to close at
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        • 46 25 Heavy buying by foreign institutional investors propelled share prices to new highs during the first week of the new year. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index closed Fric at 3,662.40 points, up 316.14 points over last year's close of 3.346.06. The Manila report was not available
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      • 265 25 AFP London SHARE prices rose on the London stock exchange in the first four days of trading in 1994, as dealers showed optimism in the forthcoming year boosted by hopes for interestrate cuts and an up-tum in the British economy.
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      • 190 25 AFP Tokyo SHARE prices gained ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange again last week as foreign investors resumed buying, expecting further increases in the short term as other Asian markets consolidate, brokers said. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues on the
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      • 403 25 Sun Hung Kai Research Hongkong LAST WEEK was a roller coaster ride, with the market up 710.84 points intra-day by Wednesday, and then giving up 1,987.50 points from that to the intra-day low on Friday before a recovery late on Friday afternoon. Although concerns
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        • 2268 25 London Jan 7 Peiic* Industrials Argyll 303 6 4/8 Bass 587 12 Coats Viyella 268 +6.130 Duons 244 3 Great Portland Est 234 5 Harnsons Crosfields 197 8.120 Pearson 628 -2 Racal Electronics 195 7 Roval Bk Of Scotland 463 13 Scottish Newcastle 545 4/8 +8 4/8 Siebe 565 3
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        • 854 25 16.89 WALL STREET closed higher on Friday, hitting its third record last week due to long-term interest rates which slipped on news that fewer jobs than expected were created in December. The Dow Jones Index of 30 leading industrials was up 16.89 points to 3,820.77. Trading was heavy
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        • 322 25 -4.77 Toronto stocks closed a re-cord-shattering four-day week mixed as profit-taking hit precious metals shares. "This is the indicator week," said one dealer. "They say the first week of January is an omen for the rest of the year." The TSE 300 has finished the "indicator week" nearly 100
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    • 2892 26 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume Fabcr Group II6.IO.0U0 \Ml)B JOc 90.098.000 Promcl 89 7 50 000 Mdroptcx 50c 83.497.000 kamunling 50c 76.295 000 FACB50c 62.293.000 Kcnong Bhd 50c 60.964.000 Peg. Msm 47.452.000 Johan HWJgs 50c 47.179.000 Mclropte* TSR 42.766 000 InsasBhd 41J16.000 Ind Oxygen
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5997 26 Bernama SHARE prices on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange ended the first week of the New Year easier with the benchmark Composite Index plunging more than 5 per cent on two straight days as investors cashed their profits after the bourse's recent
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 7247 27 MAIN BOARD Transaction date: Week ended Jan 7 I Cr Gf 1993/94 Last Vol Week Last Qwrtt Di» Df» VM Net M Cap High Low Compai) Sate (WO) High Low Bayer Seller Or P/l Smil INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1400 260 Aetna 1270 -10 1935 1290 1170 1240 1280 12.5 2.1
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      • 2036 28  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Last week's near 60-point fall in the Straits Times Industrials Index was a welcome correction to an overheated market, say analysts, who are cautiously optimistic about the week ahead. In its weekly summary, OCBC Investment Research said: "The strong upward retracement
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    • 418 29  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE China Ocean Shipping Company (Cosco) plans to split its trans-Pacific containership service into two one calling at the northern ports of Seattle and Vancouver, and the other calling at Oakland ai\d Long Beach in the south. The split replaces
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    • 434 29 SINGAPORE Happy days are here again for shipyards around the world, if orders announced last week are any indication. Topping the list is an order from bulk-liquid carrier Stolt Nielsen for up to 10 parcel tankers at a total cost of between US$65O million (Ssl billion)
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    • 225 29 Bloomberg Business News MIAMI, Florida Carnival Corp said its fiscal fourth-quar-ttr profit rose 16 per cent because of increased revenue per passenger and the addition of a new ship last January. The cruise ship operator said last week net income in the quarter
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    • 502 29 Spill blackens Puerto Rico's popular beaches Reuter SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Coast Guard and Navy crews struggled last Saturday to stabilise a leaking oil barge that has dumped 2.8 million litres of heavy fuel into the ocean off one of Puerto Rico's most
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      • 1484 30 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookitf/Babnct Rdts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Act Ltac 9766 11/0700 1 09/1500 09/1659 09/1900 2 09/1700 10/0659 10/0900 3 10/0700 10/1159 10/1*00 Atony* N103W 12/1500 3 10/0700
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    • 11773 38 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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    • 1035 45 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates remained unchanged at 1,213 on Thursday. Rates on the major US Gulf to Japan grain route remained steady with U5521.75 paid for one combination port discharge. Cargill fixed the Athena for a Jan 21-29, 52,000-long ton heavy grain,
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    • 1689 46  -  Shiprepairers, whether in Europe or the Far East, have the same story to tell Stephen Thomas Stephen Thomas Seatrade Review Even though the number of vessels repaired at yards all over the world have remained consistent, owners are electing to cut down on
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      • 532 48 Reuter WASHINGTON Transportation Secretary Federico Pena last Thursday unveiled plans to help revitalise the nation's airlines, but officials stressed the economy would have to play a central role in any industry recovery. The proposals call for creation of a new government corporation to
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      • 532 48 Reuter NEW DELHI Short of money, India is encouraging private companies to build and own their own airports. Two airports in the southern Indian state of Kerala were to be developed by private companies and it was likely more airports would
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      • 170 48 Reuter WASHINGTON McDonnell Douglas Corp agreed last week to a Pentagon order putting its troubled C-17 cargo jet programme on probation for two years and cutting the US military's planned purchase to perhaps only 40 planes. The agreement, a bitter pill for the
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      • 358 48  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Europe's airline industry has called for decisive action to set up a single air traffic management (ATM) system in Europe. Four major airline trade associations said in a paper that Europe urgently needed to establish
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      • 248 48 NYT TOKYO The helicopterbuying spree that gripped the corporate world during the days of Japan's late 1980s as-set-inflation economic growth appears to have died a quick death with the onset of the recession. According to statistics from the Ministry of Transport, 655 helicopters were registered
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    • 1478 36 4k— AS AGENTS: "K" LINE (SINGAPORE) PTC LTD (CM No: **********0 M) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 ■A W W ltX MALAYSIA "K" LINE MAMTNMI (MALAYSIA) SON BHO mm TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 I INDONESIA: P.T. SAIANA LAUTINTCRNUSA. TEL: JKT *****08
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    • 1008 37 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I I CR NO **********QE VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SIN KOTr«URIA mmLI 1171 1//1 «7I BUNGA TERATAI 4523 11/1 4/12 16/1 KOTA SURIA SRO2N 11/1 14/1 16/1 EQUATOR RUBY 27N 12/1
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    • 1736 42 Il4Amn container lines bf\~/\"|Aflent»: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) UJ \7 VU C /R Noc SIBU (084) *****9 KUCHINQ (082) *****3 PENANGL (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 HKG/TWN/BKK I GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN
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    • 189 42 I SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD tu en n* STOK TOUT KEUNG KMNG BUI MH 14/1/9* hi PI lor Ufa* (SOU) *UVM HUDHU 30/1/94 DKCh*'(i«c and lotdmf tor Boflituy oartw S*M Loading for Mile HONED! 9RM 11 1 94 load.rg For Male UMCEDH Sailed loading For Male
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