The Business Times, 25 June 1994

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  • 13 1 Business Times MITA(P) 010/12/93 Weekend Edition, June 25-26 1994 WE KNOW ASIA 75*
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  • 644 1  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE THE woes of food and beverage group Yeo Hiap Seng took a drastic turn for the worse yesterday. In a surprise announcement, YHS said its plan to take over its Malaysian business in a complicated crossborder
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  • 462 1 Reuter, AP, AFP Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Ending a week of intense speculative pressure on the US dollar, American monetary authorities played their hands coolly, waiting until yesterday before sponsoring a massive central hank dollar rescue effort. The Federal
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  • 157 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stocks fell sharply yesterday as fears mounted that interest rates would need to be raised to protect the US dollar despite repeated intervention by the Federal Reserve. Blue chips tumbled 50 points in late morning trading triggering the NYSE's 50-point limit
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  • 226 1 Reuter LONDON Stock markets in Europe dived yesterday, wrapped in varying degrees of misery that even central bank intervention to aid the US dollar failed to shift. London fell to an 11-month low, as it appeared unmoved by the joint efforts of the
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  • 526 1  -  Total bonus of 3 months will also be paid By I Anna Teo SINGAPORE Civil servants will gain a total monthly pay rise of 6 per cent this year, and they will also receive, as in the past three years, two months' bonus
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  • 562 1  -  Results do not augur well for other retailers By Corinne Kerk SINGAPORE With listed retail group C K Tang plunging further into the red and Metro Holdings' retail arm also losing money, the gloom in Singapore's retail industry is not
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  • 162 1 Stock market indices Friday Change STII 2,245.82 -4.63 KLSEComp 1,015.03 +11.53 Nikkei 20,766.75 -273.46 Hang Seng 8,881.00 -85.79 SET Index 1,292.54 -12.32 Jakarta Comp 468.87 -2.09 CLSA China B ...1,051.31 -0.75 Aust All Ord 2,017.9 -4.6 FTSE 100 2,876.6 -65.8 Thursday Previous 2pm close Dow Jones 3,654.70 3,699.09
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 393 2  -  By Juliette Walker NEW YORK-based American Standard Inc (ASI) opened its regional headquarters for its plumbing business here yesterday to coordinate the company's growing activity and investment in Asia. ASI chief executive Emmanuel Kampouris said the Asia Pacific was the company's fastest-growing region
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    • 283 2 THE MINISTRY of National Development said yesterday that it had decided to proceed with its third quarter booking of HDB flats in July under the existing system of allocation of public flats. The ministry had indicated earlier that it would
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    • 287 2 BUSINESS and residential computer users in Singapore will soon be able to access Internet. the world's largest international communications network. Singapore Telecom said yesterday it would launch its $1.2 million public access service to Internet on July I. The
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    • 216 2  -  By Corinne Kerk SONY International said yesterday that laser dise players represent the fastest growing segment in its audio visual produets division. Managing director of its Asia marketing division. Kei Kodera. said that the market for laser disc players worldwide is
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    • 209 2 Reuter INDIA will support Singapore's contested bid to host the first ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) next year, Indian ambassador BMC Nayar said yesterday. "Of course. The answer is obvious," he said when asked by reporters in Singapore if
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    • 60 2 THE RAFFLES I CONVERSATION The bigger the global economy, the more powerful will be the smallest players small countries, small companies, right down to the individual." Trend-watcher and best-selling author, John Noisbitt, on the shape of things to come, and on how paradox is going to become the tool to
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 209 2 I WEATHER Singapore: Showers over several areas in the late morning and early afternoon. (Temperature range: 25-32). Asia-PadHc M/U* Cm*. (mfl M/U* C*m4. Buenos A«es 13 08 o<* Auckland 16/12 Ram Amsterdam 20/14 Cloudy Chicago 32/20 Cle» Bar&ak 32/24 Cloudy Athens 37/20 Cloud* Honolulu 31/24 cm Being 28/20 Clear 8er1m....
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  • THE REGION
    • 491 3 Nikkei Weekly TOKYO Many Japanese life insurance companies plan to focus this year's overseas investment activities on other Asian nations' equity markets. Attracted to long-term growth prospects, Nippon Life Insurance Co will triple the value of its Asian stock portfolio during the current
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    • 182 3 AFP BEIJING China's economic tsar Zhu Rongji has urged reforms in the circulation of fertilisers and other agricultural production materials, in order to stabilise prices and protect farmers, the China Daily said yesterday. Mr Zhu, vice-premier in charge of the economy, said that
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    • 398 3 AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand is set to become the first nation with cabotage laws to declare its coastal shipping open to foreign operators, but the effort has exposed the government's vulnerability. The shipping world is closely watching what happens
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    • 284 3 AFP SEOUL Subway workers carried through an all-out strike threat here yesterday, throwing South Korea deeper into a widening vortex of labour disputes. Some 3,000 striking subway workers launched sit-ins at eight places here, including universities and a church in
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    • 215 3 Reuter PARIS Asia remains the region of choice for international investors in emerging markets, according to a survey of 44 international fund managers undertaken for the World Federation of Stock Exchanges (FIBV) and the Paris bourse. The survey questioned 44 managers of
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    • 165 3 AP BEIJING China plans to open its ports to foreign cargo handlers and let foreignChinese shipping ventures ply inland and coastal waterways, a Chinese minister was quoted yesterday as saying. Communications Minister Huang Zhendong said the plan was part of China's
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    • 589 3  -  By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Among expatriates in Asia, those in Thailand appear to be the most satisfied with the quality of the English-language media in their host country. The least satisfied are those in China and the Philippines. A survey of more
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 60 3 UPI VANGON The Myanmese government has announeed an 11-year, USS2 billion (SS3 billion) plan to develop the country's border areas in order to eradicate illicit opium production by the year 2004. Mvanmar's north-eastern border area, particularly the Shan state, is the heart of the Golden Triangle,
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      • Article, Illustration
        56 3 Reuter HANOI Forestry officials feeding a Vu Quang Ox or Pseudoryx Nghetinhensis calf, estimated to be between four and five months old. at a Ministry of Forestry reservation near here on, Thursday. The calf is the first of its species to be captured alive in. a mountainous
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      • 58 3 AP JAKARTA Indonesia yesterday denounced a private conference on East Timor to be held in Kuala Lumpur, saying it would jeopardise Indonesia-Malaysia relations. "The conference certainly could disturb the longstanding relations between Indonesia and Malaysia," said a Foreign Office spokesman. The conference is
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      • 86 3 AFP JAKARTA Only days ahead of a visit here by Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, a private television station has; cancelled an arrangement to transmit television pictures for the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC). A source who asked not to be identified said yesterday that
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  • REGION/WORLD
    • 472 4 AFP Reuter, Bloomberg Business News TOKYO A parliamentary session to consider a no-confi-denee motion against Japan's Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata has been postponed again, probably until noon today, news reports said. The Lower House steering committee was discussing a last-ditch proposal from the
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    • 379 4  -  From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG CHINA and Britain came closer to drafting an agreement on financing the HKSISB billion (Ss3l billion) new airport project after the latest round of the Airport Committee meeting yesterday. The leader of the Chinese team, Guo Fengmin,
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    • 281 4 Reuter KARACHI Pakistan's business leaders are going on strike. Executives yesterday urged Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to address their complaints about higher taxes and said they were determined to hold a threatened two-day strike. "We will go ahead with a two-day nationwide
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    • 260 4 Bernama JOHOR BARU A company in China has expressed interest in building a MS 15 billion (SSB.B billion) joint-venture steel mill in Johor. and a private port to handle shipments for the plant, Mentri Besar Muhyiddin Yassin said yesterday. The company had
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    • 483 4 Yeltsin hails reunion of the continent as four nations sign membership treaties Reuter CORFU, Grcece The European Union, emerging from a period of recession and selfdoubt. signed a landmark friendship agreement with Russia yesterday and scaled membership treaties with Austria. Finland. Sweden and Norway. While
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    • 328 4 The Straits Times JAKARTA Journalists supported by students and activists staged low-key protests here and in Bandung yesterday against the government's decision to ban Indonesia's three leading weekly magazines. A previously-unknown group. Forum Pembela Pres Pancasila (Forum for the Defence of a
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    • 345 4 AFP HONGKONG China's ailing paramount leader. Deng Xiaoping, is still making short trips out of Beijing and was in Shanghai as recently as April, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday. Quoting Chinese sources in Beijing, the English-language daily added
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  • THE WORLD
    • 474 5 Reuter. Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON A US government agency report has rained on the administration's Gatt parade, saying the world trade pact would bring only small gains. The report, issued by the US International Trade Commission (ITC), came hours after
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    • 430 5 AFP WASHINGTON US authorities are reviewing charges that tobacco companies lied about the health hazards of tobacco and evidence that nicotine is addictive, Attorney-General Janet Reno said on Thursday. "We're looking at all the allegations, all the comments, all the information that we
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 91 5 Reuter MILAN Italy's gross domestic product could grow by 3.5 per cent in 1995, compared with official forecasts of 2.5 per cent, if the government pursues a soft line on public finances, economics research group Prometeia said yesterday. The group said in its report
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      • 35 5 London's Tower Bridge in Lego Reuter LONDON Dane Henrik Lykke posing with a model of London's famous Tower Bridge yesterday. The model, which took 600 man hours to build, comprises 46,000 Lego building bricks. Reuter
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      • 94 5 AP NICOSIA, Cyprus Turkey's deputy foreign minister was in Baghdad yesterday meeting senior Iraqi officials on a plan to flush" some 12 million barrels of oil from a pipeline closed nearly four years ago, the official Iraqi News Agency reported. The agency, monitored
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      • 89 5 AP MOSCOW Russia is not developing or producing binary chemical weapons and is not hiding any information about chemicals previously produced, an official said yesterday. Viktor Petrunin, head of the Research Institute of Chemical Technology, told the Itar-Tass news agency that the whereabouts of all
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    • 296 5 Reuter LONDON Britain's balance of payments improved dramatically in the first quarter of 1994, figures released yesterday show, boosting hopes the economy can grow strongly without sucking in a wave of imports. Central Statistical Office data revealed the current account
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    • 279 5 AP WASHINGTON The Pentagon's No 2 official says the United States should develop a new attack submarine by the end of the century and consider building one each year. Deputy Defence Secretary John Deutch said in a memorandum on Thursday to the
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    • 324 5 Sakhalin oil field development also gets nod at ceremony AP WASHINGTON The United States and Russia have agreed to start a joint space station and to open once-secret Sakhalin Island to oil development by US firms. "We as your partners, we as your friends,
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    • 206 7 tive Customer Quality Engineer Project EngiSales Marketing Manager Regional Training Consultant Operations Scheduler Administration Manager Industrial Engineers Naval Architects Business Manager Management Accountant Senior Process Engineer Plastics Specialists Personnel Officer Airport Services Manager Censors Information Officer Reporter Archives S Oral History Officers j Management Trainees Chartist Spot Dealer Researcher, Business
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    • 1218 7 •-<v,r-: "ir C\f'C^ ASIA PACIFIC IMUES UMTTED #21-00 Alexandra Point, 438 Alexandra Road, Singapore 0511. Tel: (65) 272-9488. Fax: (65) 271-0811. !v r n RESULTS FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDED 31 ST MARCH 1994 The directors are pleased to make the following preliminary announcement of the unaudited results for the
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    • 1178 8 &4£ TWIBUfIBfYTTi J- IN *ly* v **V; v 5 CENTREPOINT PROPERTIES LTD (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBUC OF SINGAPORE) #21-00 Alexandra Point, 438 Alexandra Road, Singapore 0511. Tel: (65) 272-9488. Fax: (65) 271-0811. II RESULTS FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 1994 The directors are pleased to make the following
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 720 9  - F N results weighed down by weak M$, keen competition By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Keen competition and a weak ringgit have combined to produce lacklustre interim results at the listed Fraser Neave group. For the six months ended March 31, F&N net earnings were up a marginal 6.9 per
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    • 698 9  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Witnesses for the rival faction in the Yeo family feud disclosed in individual testimonies in court yesterday that they did not have a confirmed replacement for the post of chairman and
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    • 740 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By William Chia SINGAPORE The Indonesian property sector, which has boomed because of lower interest rates and the emergence of a prosperous middle class, looks set to benefit further from deregulation. Although the government did not spell out conditions
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    • 358 9  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE The days are numbered for one of Singapore's industrial landmarks, the Metal Box factory in Woodlands. Listed CarnaudMetalbox (CMB) Asia has sold its factory site to sister company Ccntrepoint Properties for $100.75 million. The transaction is one
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    • 392 9  -  By A J Leow SINGAPORE Rental income from Ngee Ann City helped Metro Holdings almost double net earnings in the year to March 31, despite a $1.26 million pre-tax loss from retail activities. The group reported an after-tax profit of $9.88
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    • 348 9  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Leisure craft builder GB Holdings is on a roll downhill. Yesterday, the company reported an 80 per cent plunge in group net earnings to $631,000 for the year to Mar 31. This works out to earnings of 0.8 cents a share,
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    • EYE on your STOCKS
      • 19 9 For next week's expected market sentiment, see BT Sentiment Index on EL (Personal Finance A Investment section)
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      • Article, Illustration
        163 9  -  By Paul Leo TAKE profit on Jack Chia MPH when it rises to $1.75 the objective of the break above a double-bottom formation on the daily and weekly charts. Using wave theory, the move from June 1 to a close of $1.61 yesterday can be divided into five
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    • 298 9  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Material Handling Engineering (MHE) will raise about $9 million through a rights issue with warrants, the Sesdaq-listed eompany said yesterday. The eompany will offer three rights shares at 45 cents each with one free warrant for every
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    • 197 9 SINGAPORE Aggressive marketing, expanded retail space and strong consumer spending has enabled main board-listed furniture retailer Courts to lift its 1993/94 net earnings by 26.8 per cent to $8.4 million. Turnover for the year ended March 1994 was $99.1 million, an increase of 39.1
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    • COMPANIES
      • 501 10  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA'S Insas Bhd yesterday announeed plans to acquire a controlling stake in cash-strappcd British retail property group Power Corporation pic and a 51 per cent stake in Hongkong stockbroking firm Kcnnington Securities.
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      • 305 10 AFP KUALA LUMPUR US aviation firm Hamilton Standard signed a deal yesterday with Malaysia Airlines (MAS) to set up a facility to overhaul aircraft life support systems for the Asia-Pacific. Hamilton Standard, a division of Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp, will hold 51
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 88 10 SINGAPORE Alexandra Holdings yesterday reported net earnings that surged 8.4 times to 5i2.42 million for the year ended March 31. It also announced a onc-for-two bonus issue. The group said more than 80 per cent of the profit accrued from the sale of a large
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        • 60 10 SINGAPORE Metal Containers said yesterday its subsidiary Ace Plastic Technology had sold its investments in two Thai companies 12.000 shares in Sintraco and 380,000 shares in Sinco Technology for 21.84 million baht. The cost of the investment was 10.92 million baht. The company
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        • 77 10 JAKARTA The Jakarta Stock Exchange said it would centralise its share settlement system from Monday through a fully netted system for all listed stocks. "In anticipation of the computerisation of the exchange at the beginning of next year...all listed and traded shares will be settled
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        • 116 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Mulpha International Bhd. via its whol-ly-owned subsidiary, Mulpha Haute Couture Sdn Bhd (MHC), is to set up and operate a hotel in Hanoi in a joint venture with the Vietnam National Tea Import-Export and Development Investment Company, a state-owned company.
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        • 73 10 Reuter MANILA The state privatisation agency has rejected the proposed price for the initial public offering (IPO) of Petron Corp. the Philippines' largest oil refiner, government officials said. An official at the state-owned Philippine National Oil Co, parent firm of Petron. said they proposed eight
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      • 212 10  -  By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE QAF yesterday reported a 9 per cent increase in net earnings for 1993 and said it would invest $6.5 million in a bakery in Tianjin, despite setbacks in a Chengdu joint-venture. The group said it was negotiating to end the joint-ven-ture
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      • 137 10 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Hicom Holdings Bhd (Hicom) achieved a 22.9 per cent increase in group pre-tax profit to M 5259.29 million (S$ 153 million) for the year ended March 31. 1994. In a breakdown of its operating revenue, turnover from the company
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      • 164 10 SINGAPORE Electronics contract manufacturer Tri-M Technologies yesterday reported a 75 per cent fall in net earnings to $2.58 million and a 31 per cent drop in turnover to 5i75.77 million for the year to March 31. it also reported that earnings per share
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      • 100 10 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's two "national" car makers teamed up yesterday with US Electricar Inc for the manufacture of this country's first electric vehicle, officials said. Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Bhd (Proton), manufacturer of Malaysia's first national car, the Proton, and
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      • 396 11  -  By Peter Osborne SINGAPORE One of Australia's leading makers of industrial plastics and automotive and construction materials, Pacific BBA, plans to expand its operations here and in China. Pacific's managing director, Graham Kraehe, told the group's annual general meeting in Melbourne earlier
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      • 260 11 Los Angeles Times NEW YORK A littleknown but fast-growing Indi-ana-based insurance company on Thursday bid U553.25 billion (554.97 billion) for Kemper Corp, forcing General Electric Co to withdraw its rival offer for the insurance and mutual funds company. The
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      • 296 11 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY The escalating newspaper circulation war in Britain will have a negligible impact on the overall profitability of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, analysts said. The latest cuts in the cover prices of British broadsheet newspapers may, however,
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      • 316 11 Eastern Express HONGKONG China Resources Enterprise (CRE) plans to acquire food giant Ng Fung Hong from its parent China Resources (Holdings) in November. The deal is expected to enhance greatly CRE's profitability. CRE chairman Zhu Youlan said the financial arrangement was
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      • 178 11 Bloomberg Business News ROCHESTER, New York Eastman Kodak Co, moving to refocus on photography, agreed to sell its prescription drug operations to France's Sanofi SA. Sanofi, Kodak's partner in the business for the last three years, will pay US$l.6B billion (552.6 billion)
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      • 226 11 Reuter LONDON British brewer Scottish and Newcastle pic said its famous Newcastle Brown Ale, known locally as "a bottle of dog", was heading east next month to tempt millions of potential Chinese beer drinkers. "The north-east's most famous export is
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      • 527 11 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS M«u(*n prtoM Jun 25 27 UMB Invest Mgt Ltd C«mnnr« ai_!a TrmI Unifund I 44 I 50 unn inisi umbondv 103 i.oss The Commerce 163 I 73*d United Or Fund' 165 172 The Savings Fund 1.54 1.63 llniled Asia Fund 163 1.73S'pore Prog Fund 0.70 0.74 S'pore
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
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      • 1244 11 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookim/Balance Rstts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Acj lade 192* 26,0500 18 24/1500 24/1659 24/1900 4 25/1200 25/1459 25/1/00 Ac» Lotus 053* 25/1500 W 24/1500 24/1659 24/1900 AftMracle
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 530 12 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Despite 4.800 mutual funds to choose from, American investors say they are having a tough time finding a suitable choice in today's turbulent financial markets. There are too many mutual funds in the US$2.l trillion (553.2
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      • 229 12  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Paribas Capital Markets, a wholly owned subsidiary of Banque Paribas. has launched the Paribas Emerging Markets Index Allocation Fund. The US dollar denominated, open-ended fund was launched last Wednesday. An application has been made for listing on the
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      • 312 12 IHT SINGAPORE Asia's increasing dependence on the Middle East for oil is opening new opportunities for business links with Gulf suppliers. These include major investments in new refinery capacity in Asia, oil company officials and analysts say. As Asia's demand for
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      • 415 12 DBS weekly currency review US$/mark: triangle objective met! The US dollar continued its fall early this week to hit a low of 1.5880 on Tuesday, beyond the bearish triangle objective of 1.5964. It then corrected to reach a high of 1.6119 on Thursday before easing
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      • 162 12 Reuter MANILA A woman accuscd of fleeing to the United States after masterminding a multi-million-peso seam involving government securities is negotiating a deal for her return to the Philippines. Manila newspapers said yesterday. Marilyn Nite is trying to hammer out
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      • 159 12 THE Singapore dollar was little changed against the US dollar in quiet trade. OlTshore demand for the local currency remains buoyant. Continuing US dollar weakness against the majors should gradually bring the Singapore dollar to new highs in the coming week. The Malaysian ringgit was
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      • 193 12 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar failed to hold brief gains against the mark and yen after central banks attempted to lift the ailing currency, which fell back towards record lows and dragged the world's financial markets lower. Traders and analysts were sceptical about the central banks' buying of
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      • 161 12 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT NEW YORK Crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) is expected to rise amid concern that demand is growing while supplies are tight. Crude prices rallied late on Thursday, ending almost four days of declines, as traders took
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      • 84 12 AFP NEW YORK The dollar rose against the major currencies yesterday in active trading following a concerted intervention by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. Around 9:55 am (1355 GMT), the dollar was trading at 1.6065 marks against 1.6045 on Thursday and at 101.62 yen (101.40). The
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      • Article, Illustration
        1693 12 IimU-m iithnil unit y tuk tiluhxl aicuinsi Si*m infi 14 iim/inx /tunm-r» HUM- ivjr ItSf US$/S$ forward rates Noon June 24 s$ Bid Offer I month I.S258 I.$27] 2-monlh ***** I S26<» 3-monlh 1.5248 1.5263 6-month 1.5230 1.5250 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9am on Jihm 24
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1366 13 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen and Japanese government bond (JGB) futures closed firmer on the back of the strong yen. The strong surge in the yen in the alternoon session triggered more buying for Euroyen and JGBs. The dollar/yen dropped sharply to 100.40
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      • 697 13 COMMODITY REPORTS Gold Hongkong Gold closed up USSI from its opening levels as the weakening US dollar prompted late buying and shortcovering. Gold ended at U*****.70/391.20 an ounce, up from New York's close of U*****.50/390.00 on Thursday and the local opening of U*****.70/390.20. Local
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 91 13 LONDON The sugar futures market is set for additional gains over the next two months linked to increased offtake in Russia and re-stocking in China. according to a report by UK trade house CCzarnikow Sugar Ltd. It said: "The market is anticipating evidence of fresh
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        • 110 13 PARIS Germany should work towards creating more coherent and less rigid energy policies, the International Energy Agency says in a report on the country. Germany is the third largest consumer of energy among industrialised nations, and energy policy is based on seeking secure, diversified,
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        • 131 13 MOSCOW Russia's prospecting brigades, or artels, which account for 60 per cent of Russian gold output, have called off a planned stoppage of gold supplies to the state, the Union of Prospectors' Artels told Interfax. The prospectors sent a letter in May to President Boris
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    • 1476 13 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jui~94 175.50 500 875 Aug 169.75 167.25 170.00 300 3100 Sep 164.50 164.50 165.00 200 2200 Oet/Dcc 161.25 160.25 161.25 2400 9525 Jan/Mar 95 161.25
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1102 14 -4.6 SHARES fell yesterday in heavy trade boosted by the approaching end-of-month expiry date on June options to buy or sell shares, brokers said. The key All Ordinaries Index closed at 2,017.9 points, 4.6 below Thursday's finish. The All Industrials Index rose 0.2 to 2,933.3 and the All Resources
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      • 647 14 -33.01 Share prices fell yesterday after two days of technical rebound on fears of a hike in short-term US interest rates and weakness in other Asian markets. The Philippine Stock Exchange Index fell 33.01 points to close at 2,789.14. Turnover rose 62 per cent to 1.06 billion shares, while
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      • 614 14 +68.48 The Taipei bourse yesterday staged a comeback amid improved market confidence, propped up by the good performance of pulp and paper shares. Following Thursday's 86.47point fall, the Weighted Price Index recovered 68.48 to settle at 5,939.62. Turnover rose to 1.05 billion shares valued at NT547.36 billion compared with
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      • 503 14 -6.12 Share prices fell back yesterday, affected by a hike in call money interest rates and end-of-month blues. The Composite Price Index fell for the fourth straight day, losing 6.12 points to close at 929.45. Turnover shrank to 47 million shares worth 720 billion won from Thursday's heavy volume
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      • 328 14 -21.24 Shares declined 1.03 per cent in line with Thursday's drop in Wall Street. A broker said there was practically no local news driving the market so investors were simply following offshore performances. The NZ4O-share Index dropped 21.24 points to 2,038.77. Declining stocks outnumbered advancers by 18 to
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      • 58 14 -28.30 Share prices ended slightly lower in a dull trading session ahead of the weekend. "Since the trends are not very clear, very few people wanted to buy on a Friday," said a broker. The BSE 30-share Index closed at a provisional 4.229.40, down 28.30 from the previous close.
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      • 762 14 -65.8 Equities closcd at their lowest level of the year yesterday and the FTSE could be headed lower still as institutional investors remain unconvinced that the time is right to buy stock. "The FTSE looks very vulnerable. The buyers are staying out of the market. Institutions do not have
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      • 159 14 -32.00 Frcnch shares finished sharply lower, taking their lead from a weaker dollar despite concerted central bank support for the US currency. Traders said intervention by central banks has sparked a battle of wills with the hedge funds. "And it looks like the hedges funds are winning," said one
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      • 229 14 -27.44 German stocks rallied in post-bourse trading after European central banks tried to support the falling dollar but sank when the effort apparently failed. The DAX Index of 30 stocks closed down 27.44 points from the previous day's close at 2,005.07. The index reached nearly 2,020 after the intervention
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      • 164 14 -8.52 Italian shares staged a late rally on a bout of short-cov-ering to end off earlier lows, shrugging off losses elsewhere in Europe. The Milan Bourse Index was 8.52 points off at 707.44. "There was a spark of buying in the last half an hour, it was largely shortcovering,
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      • 304 14 -5.95 Dutch stocks were swiped to a weak close by the sickly dollar, with central bank intervention providing only a brief respite for shares and traders seeing further downside potential in weeks to come. The AEX Index closcd 5.95 points down at 381.43, the day's low. "I wouldn't be
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      • 282 14 +31.0 Swiss shares ended lower on profit-taking and posi-tion-squaring ahead of the weekend. Dealers said the weak dollar pushed prices down. The outlook was uncertain as investors kept to the sidelines bccausc of the uncertain interest and forcx situation. The Blue-chip SMI closed down 49.5 at 2,577.2 while the
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      • 310 14 •109 Shares underwent a sharp correction on yesterday as they tracked weaker world markets and lost faith with bullion after its brief dip below US$39O an ounce. Dealers said the market, nervous ahead of the weekend, would continue losing ground if world markets remained under pressure. Local industrials were
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      • 248 14 -40.00 Stocks suffered sharp losses in early trading, pulled lower by weakness in Wall Street stocks and Canadian bonds, traders said. Traders said there was little impact on stocks after world central banks intervened to prop up the sagging US dollar. The TSE 300 Index sank 40.00 points to
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      • 689 14 -47.56 The Dow Jones Average, which retreated 25.68 points on Thursday, was down another 47.56 points to 3,651.53 at 11am EDT. The New York Stock Exchanges "uptick rule", which restricts program selling to help stabilise the market, took effect at 11:04 am when the Dow's loss widened to
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      • 800 14 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash Bid Offer Mim Cap Deposit 3» 6400 31 6500 Mini Jenev Gill 0 1893 0 1992 Mim Mn Income "0 9000 *0 9100 I SS Cash Income Plus Fund 9 '800 10.3100 PS i Reserve Fund 5 2S00 5 2900 Sierlini Equity Euro Performance 0 4592
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      3142 15 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks fell on concerns the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates to defend a declining US dollar. Rising interest rates encourage a flow of funds in bonds from equities because they raise borrowing and investment costs for businesses and make bond yields relatively more attractive.
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      532 15 CLSA TRADING was dull in the Shanghai bourse with most counters moving within a narrow range and on low turnover. Tyre Rubber gained 11.5 per cent on thin trading. The Shanghai B Index ended 1.89 points up at 793.68 on US$2.6 million turnover. In Shenzhen, trading in B shares
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      2519 15 Reuter TOKYO Active arbitragelinked selling and profit-taking forced Tokyo stocks to end lower, brokers said. The dollar's slip below 101 yen in late afternoon on comments by the Bank of Japan governor also undermined prices, but most investors were reluctant to take large positions before the weekend. Dollar/yen exchange
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      1838 15 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks recouped some losses just before the market closed on bargain-hunting in the communications and finance sectors. The SET Index closed 12.32 lower at 1,292.54 points. off a low of 1.280.98. on five billion baht against Thursday's 5.8 billion baht. "Slumps in New York and Japan markets
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      1152 15 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed lower in sluggish trade, with players sidelined mainlv on concerns over US interest rates. The Official Index ended 2.09 points lower to close at 468.87. "Fund managers are cautious about injecting any fresh funds into the market, mainly because of uncertainty over whether US
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    • 2536 16 MOST ACTIVE volume kins Hyd 50c 4.309.000 Mulpha lull 50c 3.924.000 CASH JOc 3.578.000 Promct 2.733 000 Kcnong Bhd 50c 2.37I.OOO Fabcr Group 2.182.000 kamunling 50c 2.061.000 l andmarks Bhd 1.661.000 MB! Capital 1.237.000 Lien Hoc TSIW7 1.204.000 AMDB 50c 1.144.000 Insas Bhd 1.103.000 Mul(i-l*urposc 1.050.000 MOST ACTIVE
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 6007 16 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Stocks ended mixed yesterday but strong interest on blue chips nudged the key share indicator to a higher close. The KLSE Composite Index edged up 11.53 points to 1,015.03 from 1,003.50 a day earlier. Turnover, however, dropped to 150.4 million
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 7133 17 Gr Cr 1994 Lmi Vol Day Last Qwrtt Dl» Dt» YM Net Cap High Low Cam pa ay Sale (*000) High Low Bayer Seller S Or S PIt Saill INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL I-WO 835 t s Acma 1000 f30 302 1040 480 1000 1020 17.5 2.1 L8 160 684 J
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      • 1848 18  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Prices on both sides of the Causeway ended mixed yesterday, as weakness in US equities which dragged the prices of local counters lower was offset by a stronger Malaysian market. The Straits Times Industrials Index ended a quiet
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  • ISEAS Trends
    • 1078 19  -  Yuan Ming examines the switch in America's China policy from ideology to pragmatism, and cautions the world not to misread a rapidly transforming China Yuan Ming Professor Yuan Ming is Director of the Institute of International Relations. Beijing University. AMERICAN President Bill Clinton's renewal of Most
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    • 1061 19  -  Paul Y Hammond puts into perspective America's increasingly difficult role in Asia at a time when Asian criticism of the Clinton administration is at its peak Paul Y Hammond Dr Paul Hammond is Distinguished Service Professor of Public and International AJfairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and
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    • 1036 19  -  Ramesh Thakur looks at how growing mutual interests between the world's two largest democracies are slowly dissipating age-old irritants Ramesh Thakur Dr Ramesh Thakur is Professor of International Relations and Direetor of Asian Studies at the University of Otago. New Zealand INDIAN Prime Minister PV Narasimha
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    • 1366 20  -  Nation-building is far more than mere cultural "roots". It is the fostering and nurturing of a climate and environment for thinking among the citizenry something which is indispensable for Singapore. Ling-Mei Lim looks at the issue Ling-Mei Lim Ling-Xlei Urn is a /reclame writer concerned with cultural
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    • 792 20  -  Most architecture and city-planning in East Asia seem more inspired by Stalin than da Vinci, contends Gerald Segal Gerald Segal Dr Gerald Segal, born in Montreal and educated in Jerusalem, lives in London, and is a Senior Fellow in Asian Studies at the International Institute for Strategic
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    • 1049 21  -  Reza Y Siregar examines some issues related to recent speculation over a possible devaluation of the Indonesian rupiah Reza Y Siregar Dr Reza Y Siregar is a Fellow of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. RECENTLY, many economists and top government officials in Indonesia have expressed
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    • 1166 21  -  Rodolphe de Koninck analyses forest policies in South-east Asia in economic, social and geopolitical terms Rodolphe de Koninck Professor Rodoiphe de Koninck is Professor of Geography, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, and is a Visiting Fellow at ISEAS. THROUGHOUT Southeast Asia, between the late 1960s and
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    • 1014 21  -  Despite one political crisis after another, Thailand continues to demonstrate an uncanny inclination towards political stability and maturity, says Medhi Krongkaew Medhi Krongkaew Dr \lciihi Krongkaew is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Thammasal University, and is concurrently a Research Fellow at the
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    • 1520 22  -  Michael Ong sets out the extent to which Australia has reoriented its economic, political, diplomatic and strategic priorities towards Asia Michael Ong Dr Michael Ong is Acting Director of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Group, Parliamentary Research Service, Canberra. The views in this
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    • 1045 22  -  Henri Locard examines university education in a Cambodia beset with numerous problems Henri Locard Henri Locard is a visiting lecturer with the History Department, University of Phnom Penh. CAMBODIA today desperately needs an intelligentsia to run the country. After the sudden fall of the Khmer Rouge regime
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    • 1088 22  -  Cambodia's stability continues to be undermined by a determined if shrinking Khmer Rouge guerilla force. Ramses Amer looks at short-term prospects within the country Ramses Amer Dr Ramses Amer is a Research Associate at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, and
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    • 176 20 A Trends compilation II N response to numerous re- broad themes, appropriately dividI quests from readers, the Insti- ed into six sections: I tute of Southeast Asian Stud- Democracy under scrutiny ies has just published a Debating ethnicity, we I farcompilation of essays on Singa- ism and population trends pore
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • 1677 23  -  Jaime Ee talks to professionals whose gourmet tastes have turned them into successful part-time restaurateurs Jaime Ee PATTY TEO is an interior designer who runs her own architecture firm with her partner, Ernesto Bedmar. Her husband, Patrick Teo, is a former merchant banker who runs his
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    • STRAWS IN THE WIND
      • 131 23 AFTER the recent launch of Planet Hollywood in Hongkong, Hotel Properties' Ong Beng Seng was spotted living it up at the colony's hottest nightspot, JJ's, hobnobbing with the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Jean Claude Van Damme and Jackie Chan. But not for long, said a Singaporean who happened
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      • 79 23 ONE CHURCH here is trying to wean its members off TV, or at least to spend less time in front of the goggle box. Its five priests challenged each member of the congregation to pledge to make one day a week totally TV-free. Special prayers would be said
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    • OPINIONS
      • 1600 24  -  Sulaiman Noordin says myths are being passed off as facts and facts are being distorted to serve a hidden economic agenda Sulaiman Noordin The writer is a staff member of the University Kebangsaan, Bangi, Malaysia. This article first appeared in the
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      • 742 24  - Article on CFCs and ozone layer another viewpoint Robert D Fincher I AM writing to offer critical comment on the article by Paul Roberts (BT, 10 June) on the hole in the ozone layer. Since Singapore's lifestyle, commerce and industry rely heavily on air-conditioning, 1 believe your readers should be
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      • 254 24  -  L Dang WHEN WILL the Yeo Hiap Seng family stop boring us. the minority shareholders, and get on with running a companythat is quite obviously going downhill? Chairman Alan Yeo seems well protected with a five-year contract, which apparently was signed
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      • 93 24  -  Soh Gim Chuan IN your report (BT. June 17) on the government committee to review conveyancing fees, you mentioned that estate agent Rowland Lean felt that lawyers earned too much from conveyancing because it appeared to him that the work was
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      • 254 24  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Lim How Boon SINGAPORE is an open socicty and its citizens arc constantly exposed to outside influences. As a result, some of our traditional Asian values are being eroded or compromised over time. Hence, for example, we find the need to introduce
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      • 479 24  -  T H Liang THE Singapore government's introduction of a minimum booking fee of 5 per cent of the purchase price and the increase in the forfeiture rate of the fee to 25 per cent will have very minimal effect on property speculators. The measures adopted by
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    • VIEWPOINT
      • 2745 25  -  THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION Writer John Naisbitt, who has for years been taking his readers on journeys into the future, talks to Vikram Khanna about the long-term trends shaping the world. He also looks at how different economies are faring right now and explains why he is such
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      • 1010 25 BLOND, bearded and goodhumoured, John Naisbitt has the air of a genial prophet. Which is perhaps appropriate, because prophesying, of a sort, is what he does for a living. One has to wonder, though, how did he how does anybody get into this
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    • PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
      • BULLS EYE
        • 59 26 Those polled on their views of the Singapore stock market for the week ahead: Alliance Securities, Baring Securities. Crosby Securities, Daiwa Securities, Kay Hian James Capel, Nomura Securities, OCBC Investment Research, Ong Co, Peregrine Securities, Phillip Securities, Smith New Court, (JOB Securities, WI Carr
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        • 373 26 OCBC Investment Research (June 21) SIA. For FY9S, we expect load factor to improve as traffic growth is expected to outpace capacity growth 12 per cent to 9 per cent. We estimate net earnings to increase by about 14 per cent to $913 million or an EPS of 71.2
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        • 79 26 Ong Co (June 23) Mulpha. Speculation is rife that the company will announce very shortly that it has been awarded the Pasir Gudang port privatisation project. We see some upside still, at least for the coming week. Note: The broking firms, their directors and officers, and their
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        • 102 26 P T Peregrine Sewu Securities Fundamentals remain intact. First quarter results were general- ly good. Domestic interest rate increases are expected to be gradual. We discount any serious adverse earnings impact from rising rates given the tapered market gearing. The banking sector may feel some
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        • 162 26  -  John Engle, John Engle, CFA Research director Smith Barney Shearson HG Asia il prices have risf I en roughly 31 per cent since bottoming at U5513.12 per barrel on Mar 29, 1994. It certainly appears that we will have to get used to higher oil prices for
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      • 787 26  -  DBS Investment Research says the STII can test its January 1994 high. Teh Hooi Ling reports Teh Hooi Ling THE BULL should return to the Singapore stock market in the second half of this year to assault the 1994 index high of
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      • 368 26 AFTER seven strong quarters, gross domestic product is losing momentum, judging by a dip in DBS Investment Research's in-house leading index. The index, which DIR says generally leads Singapore's GDP performance by about six months, slipped in the second half of
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      • 413 26 ONLY two sectors air transport and petroleum have sin-gle-digit 1996 prospective price earnings ratios (PERs) at current price levels. In its June investment strategy report, DBS Investment Research recommends clients to keep more air transport, petroleum, food and beverage, media, banks and finance and
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      • 550 26 Aztech PCI Dec 94 Dec 95 Dec 96 Jun 94 Jun 95 Jun 96 EPS Growth 54.7 25.6 21.4 EPS Growth |2.1| 23J 22.4_ Prospective 18.4 14.7 12.1 Prospective PER (xj: 16.0 J2.9 J0.6 Creative may be cheaper but Aztech is more liquid.
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      • 656 26  -  CHART By Najeeb Jarhom I he writer is research manager oj Fraser Securities SINGAPORE stocks took a breather in the past fortnight as Malaysian Clob shares found renewed speculative fervour. Lower liners were largely in the van of the latest rally,
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      • 423 27  -  The construction sector is expected to continue to be a major impetus to Malaysia's economic growth at least up to 1997, reports Joyce Quek Joyce Quek HAS LIFE gone out of Malaysian construction activity with the completion of the Ms 6 billion (553.5 billion) North-South
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      • 720 27  -  Agnes Chen points out the pitfalls to avoid before you jump on the bandwagon Agnes Chen ADD A US recovery to an expected consumption explosion in huge markets like China and India and what do you have? High commodity prices. Or so
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      • 678 27 Cement Cima is one of the prime beneficiaries of Malaysia's buoyant construction industry. The group's relationship with politically-connected UEM puts it in good stead. Although FY93 results were boosted by a one-time gain of MS26 million (5515.3 million) from the sale of Rcnong shares, earnings improvement in FY94
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      • 735 27 Deposit amount l-wk l-mth 3-mth 6-mth Bank of China AS 10.000 49.999 99 3.0000 4 0625 4 2500 4 5000 50.000 Above 3 0000 4.1875 4.3750 4.6250 Dmk 10.000 49.999 99 4 0000 4.1250 4.0625 4.0625 50.000 Above 4 0000 4.3125 4.2500 4.2500 I IKS 50.000 99.999.99
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    • 776 28  -  inajmPftifi ftnf unema wcww By SHAHIRON SAHARI WHY WOULD anyone want to remake a box-office smash hit that's not really out of date? In other words, why fix something that ain't broke? The main reason, no doubt, is to breathe new life into what the makers
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    • 567 28  -  By SUSAN TSANG MY ONLY previous acquaintance with the girl was as Danny Kaye's thumb when he played Hans Christian Andersen. We get a more fleshed-out acquaintance with her in Don Bluth's animated feature. Not that anyone more than three feet tall would care to know Don
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    • 1409 28  -  Tye Kim Khiat takes a look at how plans for Melbourne's Crown Casino are shaping up Tye Kim Khiat THE EBB and How of fortune is as old as the story of man. Omar Sharif will tell you. Come June
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    • 1149 28  -  Travel By S N VASUKI YOU ARE in France's fabled Bordeaux region for a weekend and want to take in some of the local sights. Fortunately you are spoilt for choice. The region offers some truly spectacular fare. You could quaff wine
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    • 609 29  -  CD Review By SHAHIRON SAHARI DAVID SANBORN: hearsay The jazz-funk alto saxophonist is back after two lacklustre albums to present a better and truer-to-form effort. Produced, for the umpteenth time, by bassist Marcus Miller (who wrote/cowrote six of the nine songs), hearsay is, however, a
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    • SPORTS
      • 607 30 Wimbledon AP WIMBLEDON, England Lori McNeil, the surprise conqueror of Steffi Graf, reached Wimbledon's fourth round with a solid victory yesterday. But another giant-killer, Kenneth Carlsen, fell ill and withdrew a day after upsetting Stefan Edberg. McNeil, in her best
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          25 30 NEW YORK Major League Thursday American: Oakland 4 Kansas City 0; Seattle 2 Chicago 13. National: Cincinnati 7 SF 5; Florida 3 Chicago 9.
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          299 30 AFP Reuter BEAVERTON, Oregon Slumping sales of sportswear named for retired star Michael Jordan have prompted Nike Incorporated to stop selling the clothing once existing supplies are exhausted. The "Air Jordan" line of seatsuits, Tshirts, hats and shorts are among several Nike lines that are mired in low sales,
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          166 30 TOKYO 100 million yen ($965,000) Miznno Open 2nd rd yesterday (Japanese unless stated): 135 Anthony Gilligan (Aust) 69 66 136 Brian Watts (US) 68 68, Koichi Suzuki 66 70 137 Saburo Fujiki 69 68, Seiki Okuda 67 70. SAYAMA, Japan Japan women's Open 2nd rd vesteiday: 140 Ikuyo Shiotani
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          116 30 AP CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand New Zealand and France have intensified their preparations for Sunday's first test, using the record test appearances of two players as the impetus for strong performances. Both captains Sean Fitzpatrick and Philippe Saint-Andre said Friday their respective team discussions featured the match appearances of two
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          117 30 LONDON Wimbledon yesterday Men's 3rd rd: Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) b Kenneth Carlsen (Den) 6-4 6-4 1-0 retired; Wayne Ferreira (SA) b Chris Wilkinson (GB) 6-2 6-2 6-3; Michael Chang (US xlO) b Grant Connell (Can) 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 6-2. Women's 2nd rd: Amanda Coetzer (SA xl 4) b Ginger
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      • 373 30  -  From Michael Karem The writer, a Londonbased freelance journalist, contributed this article to BT in WIMBLEDON IN the first modest response to attacks on "boring tennis", the men are to be made to hurry up the game between serves. The time
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      • 686 30 World Cup Finals AP NEW YORK Italy played shorthandcd. Cameroon decided to just play. The Italians, in a must-win situation, did precisely that at the World Cup on Thursday. And they did it with grit and guile and with a backup goalkeeper. Oh yeah, the
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      • 440 30 NYT EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey The shock of reality was great enough that Roberto Baggio appeared capable only of try ing to run from it. Italy's star player backpedalled from the sight of the substitution marker being held aloft in the late afternoon sunshine.
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      • 412 30 NYT LONDON Ireland's success in the World Cup is creating a windfall for Guinness, the Lon-don-based brewer, which has seen stout sales rocket on both sides of the Atlantic. Some pub landlords in Britain have had to order "emergency supplies" of Guinness after Ireland's
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    • TIME OFF
      • 235 31 The bi-annual event this year promises to be bigger, better, faster and more than previous festivals with over a hundred groups and solo artistes performing. 7/7/ July 3. Counter sales lor all ticketed shows are on at all I icketCharge outlets. Call 296-2929. NOTE: all shows start
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      • 371 31 Oliver! Lionel Bart's musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' tale of an orphan boy who grows from rags to riches literally and emotionally is given a fresh treatment by the boys of ACS Barker Road as a fund raiser. Today. Spm at the Anglo-Chinese School Centre for Performing Arts. Dover
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      • 77 31 George Lam in Concert For those who didn't know, he was singing before he started sprouting Chinese wisdom over a mug of Guinness. Yes, the Guinness Man (in his second night here) will be belting out all his familiar hits and no. Roll Out the Barrel will not be
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      • 121 31 The Great American Adventure Experience the wonders of the US through three filmlets. Show times: Hidden Hawaii. I lam, 2pm and 7pm: Niagara Miracles. Myths and Magic. 12pm, 4pm and Spm: Grand Canyon The Hidden Secrets. Ipm ana spm. At the Singapore Science Centre's Omni Theatre. Chinese shows: Ham.
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      • 659 31 International Year off the Family Uniccf organised this exhibition celebrating this special event with a pictorial display depicting family life from countries like Senegal. Lebanon. Afghanistan. Brazil. Cambodia and China. Today: 9am to 5 pm: tomorrow: Ipm to spm. At t/u- Queenslown Library. Admission is free. The PC Show
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      • 123 31 The Foreign Service Law and Foreign Affairs Minister S Jayakumar. Permenant Secretary (Foreign Affairs) kishore Mahbubani. Tommy Koh. Chan Heng Chee and other officers will share their experiences on their careers at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and how it has benefited them. Today, 2pm at the Canning Room. Level
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      • 432 31 Coin and Banknote Auction Some of the region's rarest numismatic material including a unique collection of 19th-century banknotes and the very first Straits Settlements fivedollar banknote, will be offered for sale. Auction today. 10. 30am. It the Hyatt Regency Ballroom. 3rd level. Ilyatt Regency ilotel. Taiji Demonstration for Charity
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