The Business Times, 6 July 1994

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    12 1 SINGAPORE Business Times MITA(P) 010/12/93 Wednesday July 6 1994 WEKNOW ASIA 75*
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  • 2 am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow up 8.75 points
      47 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stocks edged higher yesterday. In the broad market, at Ipm EDT, advances led declines about 10-9 on NYSE volume of 108 million shares. At 2pm EDT, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 8.75 points at 3,655.40. Reuter
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      Lock icon Bosnia ultimatum
      49 1 AP GENEVA Foreign ministers from the US, Russia and Europe yesterday issued an ultimatum to the Bosnian warring factions: Agree to a new peace package or face reprisals. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kosyrev said the plan "was the only possible alternative" to continuation of the war. AP
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    162 1 Stock market indices Tuesday Change STII 2,187.95 -3.21 KLSEComp 1,004.06 +4.5 Nikkei 20,834.37 +202.44 Hang Seng 8,623.19 -5.09 SET Index 1,295.64 +20.73 Jakarta Comp 456.76 -1.61 CLSA China B ....1,013.81 -1.60 Aust All Ord 2,003.4 +16.3 FTSE 100 2,965.00 -5.4 Tuesday Previous 2pm close Dow Jones 3,655.40 3,646.65
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    Non-oil domestic exports up 30.6 pc
    512 1  -  Analysts surprised by May figure By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE The republic's non-oil domestic exports jumped 30.6 per cent in May, surprising most analysts who had expected export growth to taper off given the high base in 1993. Taking a cue from the strong figures,
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    Economists see Singapore's 2nd qtr growth cooling to 9pc
    717 1  -  Poll of 18 forecasts yields wide range of between 7-Bpc and lOpc By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Early estimates by economists see the Singapore economy growing around 9 per cent in the second quarter, easing from the sizzling 11 per cent in
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    KL businessman Ch'ng Poh sentenced to 5 years' jail
    461 1  -  By Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG MALAYSIAN businessman Ch'ng Poh, who bailed out Singapore's Emporium Holdings in 1987, was sentenced to five years' jail yesterday for conspiring to defraud IHD Holdings Ltd of HKSI27 million (5524.9 million). After a 54-day trial.
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    Alan Yeo remains chairman of YHS
    522 1  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Alan Yeo has retained his chairmanship of listed food and beverage group Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd, as shareholders voted yesterday in an extraordinary general meeting to withdraw the resolution to remove him. But sources from the rival Yeo family faction
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    Lock icon S$ hits new high of 551.521 against US$
    319 1 Reuter Bloomberg Business News SINGAPORE The Singapore dollar climbed to a new high of 551.5210 against the US dollar yesterday, its advance capped by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Dealers said the local dollar hovered between 1.5235 and 1.5225 per US$ most
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      10 1 Regional Analysis: Pg n The East Asean Grow th Area
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Hotel rates up for fifth month
        320 2  -  By A J Leow HOTEL room rates in Singapore are showing signs of firming up, according to the latest figures from the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board. The board's statistics for May showed that despite average occupancy of 81 per cent (compared with 85.7 per
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        Philip Yeo to receive Indon award
        40 2 THE Indonesian government will confer EDB chairman Philip Yeo with the Bintang Jasa Utama award on July 18. This is in recognition of his contribution towards fostering good bilateral relations between the two countries.
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        Joint air exercise begins today
        83 2 THE Indonesian Air Force and the Republic of Singapore Air Force begin an eight-day bilateral air exercise today. A joint statement from the two airforccs said yesterday the Elang Indopura exercise was part of a series between the two countries. About 200 personnel will be
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        Envoys call on President Ong
        49 2 THE Ambassador for Greece, loannis Fotopoulos. and the Ambassador of Chile, Carlos Tudela. presented their credentials to President Ong Teng Cheong in separate ceremonies at the Istana yesterday. Mr Fotopoulos is resident in Bangkok. Mr Tudela succeeds Carlos Negri, who left Singapore in April.
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        Corrections & clarifications
        57 2 Corrections clarifications IN OUR article "Dr Yeo to head Totalisator Board", published yesterday, we said that former Defence Minister Yeo Ning Hong was recently appointed chairman of the Fort of Singapore Authority. We omitted to say that Dr Yeo will only assume that position in September, when the term of
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      Zero dividends should have aroused suspicion, says QC
      330 2  -  I he Pan-El case By Ramesh Divyanathan THE ABSENCE of dividend payments and the high incidence of round figures in share-dealing reeords should have raised the suspieion of Coopers Lybrand when it audited the Pan-Electric accounts, the High Court was told yesterday.
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      Shangri-La group's new hotel in S'pore sees 65pc occupancy in early months
      480 2  -  By A J Leow THE Shangri-La group's latest establishment in Singapore. Traders Hotel, expects an average occupancy rate of 65 per cent in the six months after it opens next April. Although Traders is a newname in the
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      Telecom spending $llm to expand paging business
      129 2 SINGAPORE Telecom will invest SI I million in equipment that would enable it to expand its paging business by nearly 50 per cent. It has awarded a contract for the supply of two paging systems to Mecomb Singapore, the distributor for Motorola. The
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      NTUC Income launches managed health care plan
      241 2  -  By Soh Tiang Keng A MANAGED health-care scheme, under which employers can insure the medical costs of their staff, has been launched by NTUC Income. The plan, under which companies pay the premiums, covers treatment by general practitioners in neighbourhood clinics, by specialists
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      Swiss will back S'pore's bid to host first WTO meeting
      459 2  -  By Juliette Walker SWITZERLAND, which is bidding to make Geneva home to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), would back Singapore's offer to host the first meeting of the world's new free trade group, the Swiss ambassador to Singapore said yesterday.
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Jakarta MPs downbeat about 6.2 pc growth target: report
      456 3 JAKARTA Members of the House of Representatives are gloomy about the country's ability to achieve an average economic growth of 6.2 per cent as projected during the current Five Year Development Plan (Repelita VI), a Jakarta Post report said yesterday. It
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      Lock icon Hun Sen denies his party involved in coup attempt
      390 3 Reuter Bernama PHNOM PENH Cambodian Second Prime Minister Hun Sen disowned the two members of his political party who mounted an unsuccessful coup attempt at the weekend, branding them as traitors who were acting alone. Speaking to reporters outside parliament yesterday,
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      200 journalists urge lifting of ban on Indon magazines
      235 3  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA OPPOSITION to the closure of three Indonesian weekly publications resumed yesterday with nearly 200 journalists staging a peaceful protest demanding the immediate lifting of the ban. Waving banners and posters criticising the government, the demonstrators also
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      Lock icon Ranariddh puts his case to the press
      57 3 Reuter PHNOM PENH Cambodian co-premier Prince Norodom Ranariddh launching a spirited discussion on his proposal to ban the Khmer Rouge with members of the press during a break of the National Assembly here yesterday. The National Assembly is now in session debating a
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    • NOTEBOOK
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        Lock icon Shorter work week for civil servants
        86 3 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian government is to cut the working week for civil servants from six to five days starting next year, but working hours will remain at 40, a minister said here yesterday. "As a try-out, the new policy will be introduced in
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        Lock icon Suit against sultan gets A-G's consent
        73 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Attorney-General has given his consent to a Singapore businesswoman to institute legal proceedings against the Sultan of Pahang in his personal capacity concerning a caveat on a piece of land in Pahang. On May 19, Faridah Begum Abdullah filed a
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        Lock icon New bid to privatise Philippine firm
        112 3 AFP MANILA The Philippine government will attempt to privatise National Steel Corp (NSC) using a more flexible approach after two failed attempts over the past two months, the Finance Department said yesterday. The sale will entail a combination of primary shares to be issued
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        Lock icon Strike by 200 Viet workers
        76 3 AFP HANOI Some 200 workers at a garment factory in Ho Chi Minh City held a wildcat strike to protest against what they called abusive and indecent behaviour by South Korean managers, a report said yesterday. Workers walked out of the Gia Dinh Textile and
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      Lock icon Vietnam gains admission to Pacific economic group
      170 3 AFP SINGAPORE Vietnam has been admitted to the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). The PECC yesterday said the admission of Vietnam was widely viewed as the start of a longer-term process which would see it join Asean and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec)
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Taiwan gives up 45-year fight to be known as real China
      445 4 AFP TAIPEI After 45 years, Taiwan has announced it has finally given up its long and fruitless fight to be recognised as the real China. A 1991 policy paper released here yesterday explained how the long-time policy of battling
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      Lock icon Chinese central bank stands firm on tight credit
      390 4 Eastern Express HONGKONG China's central hank, the People's Bank of China, has vowed to pursue tight monetary polieies to fight inflation despite repeated calls by money-losing state-owned enterprises for more investment. Chine Securities News, quoting a hank research report, reported yesterday that
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      Lock icon HK cholera source identified
      55 4 Reuter HONGKONG Government health inspector Tse ki-cheong taking a sample of fish tank water in a Hongkong restaurant on Monday. A cholera outbreak here has been traced to bacteria-infected water supplies in local restaurants, some of which source their water supplies from the British territory's polluted
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      Lock icon Shanghai's bruised investors struggle against the bear hug
      470 4 Reuter SHANGHAI At one of Shanghai's most exotic brokerages a converted Russian Orthodox Church small investors who dived into the bull market of 1992 and 1993 are struggling to stay afloat. "The water's up to here." said one disgruntled investor, holding one
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon China to standardise land leases
        96 4 AFP HONGKONG China is to standardise land lease periods nationwide in a bid to unify the varied lease periods currently used by local authorities, a report said yesterday. The government recently put forward a proposed lease for residential developments of 70 years maximum, the Hongkong
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        Lock icon Taiwan's inflation up 2.14 pc
        104 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's inflation rate in June registered a modest 2.14 per cent rise over a year ago. mainly prompted by a 6.36 per cent increase in the cost of education and entertainment, a government agency said yesterday. Inflation, as measured by the consumer price
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        Lock icon Hongkong denies censoring textbooks
        98 4 Reuter HONGKONG The Hongkong government has denied claims by angry teachers that it directed a passage on the 1989 Beijing massacre of democracy activists to be edited out of school textbooks. Teachers last week accused the government's Education Department of deleting references to the Tiananmen Square
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        Lock icon HK courts' conversion to Chinese
        80 4 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong's courts are switching from English to Chinese but do not have sufficient time to complete the transition ahead of the British colony's 1997 return to China, the head of the judiciary said yesterday. Chief Justice T L Yang said legislation permitting the
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon Manmohan focuses on India's loss-making state companies
      465 5 Reuter BOMB.-W India's Finance Minister Manmohan Singh has signalled he is ready to tackle the politically sensitive issue of closing loss-making state factories in the latest phase of the country's radical reform programme. I he l imes of India yesterday quoted Mr Singh
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      Lock icon Australia pushes Asian integration, expects Apec deal by Nov
      374 5 Reuter SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating vowed yesterday to further integrate Australia with the rest of Asia and said he expected AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) nations to agree to a common set of investment principles at a November meeting. Mr
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Move to tighten copyright laws
        71 5 NYT TOKYO The Agency for Cultural Affairs, an arm of the Education Ministry, has established a division within the agencycommissioned Copyright Council to specialise in copyright problems and study ways to implement regulatory measures. Based on council debates, the agency plans to submit to the
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        Lock icon Aussie-Viet ties seen threatened
        73 5 Reuter CANBERRA The eleventh-hour scrapping of an Australian parliamentary delegation's visit to Vietnam has hurt ties between the two countries, a senior opposition politician who was a delegation member said yesterday. Canberra said on Monday that Vietnamese restrictions on the visit had forced its cancellation. Andrew
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        Lock icon Queensland's growth lagging
        96 5 Knight-Ridder SYDNEY The Australian state of Queensland said its real trend gross state product grew by one per cent in the March quarter, down from 1.2 per cent in the preceding two quarters. The result is below the national average of 1.1 per cent. In the year
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      Lock icon NZ economy grows at fastest pace in 10 years
      526 5 Rate of 5.3 pc is highest among industrialised nations Bloomberg Business News WKLLINGTON New Zealand's economy in the year ended March 31 grew at its fastest pace in 10 years, expanding 5.3 per cent, the government statistician said. New Zealand now
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  • THE WORLD
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      Clinton lowers hopes of Japan trade deal
      579 6  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON ON THE eve of the annual summit of the seven large industrialised nations, US Presidenf Bill Clinton and administration officials have been lowering expectations about the possibility of any close agreement with Japan on trade issues or of
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      Lock icon Chairman of French industrial giant Alcatel in graft probe
      334 6 Reuter PARIS Pierre Suard. chairman of industrial giant Alcatel Alsthom SA, was placed under formal investigation yesterday for alleged fraud, corruption and misuse of public funds after being detained for more than 13 hours. Industry Minister Gerard Longuet, on a visit
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      Lock icon Latin America producing tycoons at fastest rate: Forbes
      344 6 Reuter NLW YORK Americans again dominate Fttrhes Magazine's latest tally of the world's billionaires, but Latin America is producing tycoons at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world. The world's biggest billionaire fortune is controlled by the family of the
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      Lock icon Lighting up Fourth of July
      35 6 Reuter WASHINGTON Fireworks near the Washington Monument in celebration of the 118 th American Independence Day. A crowd of some 600,000 people turned up to watch the 20-minute display. Keuter
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      Lock icon Arafat vows to fight for independent state with Jerusalem as capital
      409 6 AFP JERICHO. West Bank Yasser Arafat, speaking to Palestinians in self-governing Jericho yesterday, vowed to fight for an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. Cable News Network quoted him as accusing Israel of violating the autonomy agreement by
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      Lock icon US adopts new tax rules on pricing
      401 7 Firms to get more flexibility in setting transfer prices NYT WASHINGTON Grappling with a source of high-stakes international friction, the US Treasury has adopted new tax rules under which corporations gain much greater flexibility in allocating prices among parent companies and their foreign
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      Lock icon Canada struggles to dismantle its internal trade barriers
      403 7 Reuter OTTAWA Canada's entry into a free trade zone with the United States and Mexico and its part in a global free trade agreement look like child's play compared with its efforts to scrap stubborn internal trade barriers. Canadian Industry Minister John
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      Lock icon Flight of the Hutus
      89 7 AFP BUTARF, Rwanda Ihese Rwandan Ilutu children, some blissfully unaware of their plight, were cramped into a truck that took them away from the hometown of Butare, which was taken over by the rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front on Monday. The rebels have seized this
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      Lock icon US needs to keep its defence plants humming, warn analysts
      328 7 Reuter WASHINGTON Amid consolidations and cutbacks in the defence industry following the end of the Cold War, analysts warn that defence plants need to keep humming in the event a war or other emergency requires a quick speed-up in production.
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      Lock icon Ireland's economy forging ahead
      285 7 Reuter DUBLIN While most European economies limp out of recession. Ireland's is forging ahead and the biggest problem on the horizon is how best to manage its success. Most economists expect the economy to maintain its firsthalf momentum in the second half of the year and
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      1224 6 I KREDIETBANK N.V. I w (Incorporated in Belgium) B Consolidated Annual Accounts As At 31 December 1993 B Balance Sheet After Profit Profit and Loss Account Appropriation 1993 H (in BEF 000) am ASSETS 1993 (in BEF 000) Interest receivable and similar income 198,699.411 |jj| of which income from fixed-yield
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  • WORLD FOCUS
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      Lock icon New York a hothouse for telecom technology
      1300 8 NYT NfcW YORK Eighteen months ago. Shant S Hovnanian was a home builder in New Jersey. Now he is the chief executive of a small telecommunications company in Manhattan. pushing a technology that did not exist a decade ago and preparing to do
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Brazil comes through despite being a man down
      672 9 World Cup finals AP PALO ALTO. California Brazil overcame the expulsion of defender Leonardo for violent conduct to kick host nation United States out of the World Cup on Monday with a 1-0 score. Romario, its Barcelona star striker, set up the
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    • Article
      Towards a friendlier, richer tennis
      740 9  -  From Michael Karem WHILE the dramas of Wimbledon were unfolding over the two weeks on the tennis courts, two significant events for the future of the sport were happening unreported backstage. One was a visit by a business team from a major, as yet unidentified,
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      High time referees got some high-tech help
      598 9  -  Instant TV replay can help referees make better judgment calls, says Shahiron Sahari Shahiron Sahari SINGAPORE It's about time Fifa did something about the controversial matter of refereeing. While soccer's world ruling body has modernised the game in many areas in sponsorship programmes,
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      Lock icon Making it in good time
      70 9 Reuter LINZ, Austria Jubilant world champion Gwen Torrence after her win in the 100-metre sprint at an international track and field meet in Lin/ on Monday. The I S athlete clocked a time of 10.98 seconds a world's best for this year. Run-ner-up Shanna I
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      Lock icon The day the Yanks scared the samba out of the Brazilians
      835 9  -  George Vecsey says the American team's gallant effort may signal a new dawn for soccer in the US George Vecsey NYT PALO ALTO, California They will always have Stanford. They will always have that Fourth of July in the
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        Lock icon World Cup
        320 9 Reuter AFP SEOUL South Korea, who failed to get through the World Cup's first qualifying round in the US. are to get a helping hand from the government in a bid to improve their chances in France in 1998. An official at the Culture and Sports Ministry said
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        Baseball
        80 9 NEW YORK Major I>eague on Monday American: Boston 4 California I; Cleveland 7 Minnesota I: NY 0 Oakland 4; Baltimore 9 Seattle 3: Chicago 3 Milwaukee 2; Kansas City 4 Toronto 9; Texas 4 Detroit 3. .National: Chicago 4 Colorado 3 (Ist game): Chicago 2 Colorado 4 (2nd game,
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        Rugby
        43 9 lIMARL', New Zealand South Africa maintained its unblemished tour record with a 67-19 victory yesterday afternoon over a Hanan Shield Districts XV. The win gave the Springboks a 5-0 record going into Saturday's first test against New Zealand at Carisbrook in Dunedin.
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        Lock icon Tennis
        202 9 Reuter AFP ST PETERSBURG, Horida WTA Tour top 10 on Sunday: 1 Steffi Graf (Ger) 2 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spn) 3 Conchita Martinez (Spn) 4 Martina Navratilova (US) 5 Kimiko Date (Jpn) 6 Lindsay Davenport (US) 7 Jana Novotna (Cze) 8 Mary Pierce (Fra) 9 Natalia Zvcrc\a (Bela) 10
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        Lock icon Yachting
        204 9 Reuter SYDNEY America's Cup organisers have warned an Australian challenger it could face disqualification over its sponsorship by tobacco and food giant Philip Morris, a spokesman for the Australian syndicate said yesterday. The One Australia syndicate said the warning was issued by America's Cup '95, the organising body for
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  • REGIONAL ANALYSIS
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      Growth quadrangle optimistic about take-off
      571 14  -  The East Asean Growth Area FACE TO FACE The Philippines is pushing for a growth quadrangle, the East Asean Growth Area, as it aims for economic recovery. A 1 Labita meets Foreign Secretary Roberto Romulo to find out more about the EAGA. Al Labita BT:
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      Economic powerhouse in the making
      947 14  -  Special to BT HERMAN MONTENEGRO HERMAN MONTENEGRO The writer is president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Against the backdrop of a new global trading system, the East Asean Growth Area (EAGA) looks set to be South-east Asia's next sub-regional economic powerhouse. The
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      EAGA snowball bowls over doubting Thomases
      1031 15  -  The East Asean Growth Area AL LABITA AL LABITA The writer is BT's Manila correspondent WHEN the Philippines proposed an East Asean "growth polygon" in late 1992, it was not sure if its neighbours would welcome it. At the time, Asean was preoccupied with
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      134 14 Ik. im vsj HK *Ib 3 ft f |9 II mI I ywag, 1. MUT 1 I^^H| At Risis, things get rejected for flaws you'd never even notice. The merest fl^l^Tl£^ spot, the tiniest pinhole, is reason enough. That's why every Risis creation is always perfect, without the slightest blemish.
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      701 17  -  Benjamin Loh reviews the last two concerts of the four-day Piano Festival Benjamin Loh MARTIN Roscoe from Britain was the third pianist to perform in the Piano Festival, and his recital on Sunday night revealed an intelligent mind and a warm personality. In Mozart's Fantasy in D minor
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      349 17 Reuter CHINA will impose new rules on its film industry, limiting the number of foreign imports and regulating co-productions, some of which have embarrassed the Communist Party, the official China Daily said yesterday. Imported films will be limited to 30 per cent of the total
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      Lock icon Neeson and Richardson take the plunge
      271 17 CHATTERBOX AP UPI AP ACTOR Liam Neeson and actress Natasha Richardson, who met and fell in love while performing on Broadway, were married offstage in a private ceremony at their country home in upstate New York. About 70 guests attended the hush-hush event on
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      315 17 First Published June 1994 By Goh Kheng Chuan The rising value of property has HANDBOOK increased the significance of making FOR a Will. This book explains in simple BSM&FICIARY terms how to make a Will. It describes the proper execution of a Will and how the estate is distributed by
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      1283 17 TV RADIO ■|^HH|■EBHIHBfc, Collins Meets Coward, SBC 12 to named him. Joan Collins and Anthony Ncwlcy Noel Coward tribute spe- 'mT which highlights the musi--1930s Fnglish Maneaters of the Wild, "^E3P*" episode stakes out the Big Cats leopards. $pf etc: looks v dog's the bear iflf, these predators turn their
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    Britain needs Patten now
    531 18 rmmm HONGKONG Governor Chris Patten has had his little victory. After 17 hours of bitter debate late last week, the colonial legislature approved his political reform Bill. It provides for elections to create a legislature consisting of 20 elected members, 10 picked by a committee of
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      Silver among the grey
      280 18 THE COMMENT last week by NTUC chief Lim Boon Heng that older workers could be as good as young ones given the right training and placed in the right job was a refreshing change for older Singaporeans who want, or need, to work to a ripe
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      Building a homeland
      152 18 NOW Palestinians no longer talk about intifada or the use of stones to ward off the Israelis. The historic return of PLO chief Yasser Arafat to his homeland should make them a tolerant lot that look forward to development not only with neighbouring Israel but the Arab
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      Develop a sense of mission
      167 18 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong has expressed confidence in the nation's future. This may be due to the fact that Singapore's achievements so far, despite the lack of natural endowments, has proven that the human factor is more important than anything else. The excellent quality
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      Tread warily on open exams
      161 18 IN RECENT MONTHS, the education sector has been confronted with change from almost every angle. In the primary schools, changes are being made to reintroduce Science into the curriculum after a lapse of 10 years. In secondary schools, inventions and creativity will be taught as
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      Courts reflect society
      172 18 THE RULE OF LAW in Hongkong will be strengthened by the planned use of Cantonese in the higher courts. The use of the language which is most comprehensible to the majority of citizens will improve the administration of justice, because it will enable them to better understand,
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      More good news than bad
      161 18 THERE IS, as ever, good and bad news on the stockmarket regulations front. The bad news, revealed in the independent report on the World Trade Centre takeover, is that some very important businessmen were involved in some very dubious dealings. Last week, the regulators also
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    1326 18  -  Analysts find Star TV well poised to break even in 1995, feeding a wealthier continent hungry for information and entertainment. Kevin Murphy reports Kevin Murphy NYT RUPERT Murdoch was "sold a pup" when he bought Star TV about a year ago, his critics said. In
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      71 18 I I I A I -J m^ goes on a house hunt How much are private properties going for? Should you buy now, or later? House Hunt gives you the actual transacted prices of all private property sold in Singapore each month. From that, you'll have a clear view p»
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      87 18 STOP THC CPvR ,MR |QNLV "TOO HRPPV —IT PAEANS NJOO HOO, rOR BRiSTOw/j GOTO/ xi U w T OJ€- CP»NSPUIT IHG. Pfe- r ROL i— > f TOSSED MR-BR'STou)/ throe- U>RYS. G«VWG My LIFT TQ TTHC. J J) DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAL yRSMPeHR.ONAPRtLM.I994. T W tVMHHH //v YOUStUORB (JNPERQffTH THAT I
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      Taiwan runs the risk of being over-banked
      1553 19  -  While Peter Osborne examines how Taiwan's banking industry is expeeted to change with the government's liberalisation allowing foreign banks greater access, Edward A Gargan reports why Taiwanese investors are tending to avoid China now and preferring to 'go south'^ Peter Osborne Edward A
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      1239 19 NYT AFTER pouring billions of dollars into China in recent years, Taiwan's investors are slowing their activity there and are looking elsewhere at countries in South-east Asia. The slump in Taiwanese investment has accompanied a sharp slowdown in general foreign investment in China. Last week,
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    478 20 AP AFP TOKYO Japan's new government yesterday formally committed itself to enforcing a package of measures designed to ease business and trade regulations its trading partners say block them out of Japanese markets. The newly adopted package consists of deregulatory measures covering four
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    Lock icon Making a shrill protest
    50 20 AFP TAIPEI Members of the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party blowing whistles during a National Assembly session yesterday in a bid to disrupt proceedings. The Assembly is holding a three-month session, which began in May, to discuss constitutional reforms introduced by the ruling Kuomintang party. AFP
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    Lock icon Li Peng urges Bonn to play bigger world role
    310 20 Reuter AFP BONN Chinese Premier Li Peng yesterday offered Germany closer cooperation in international affairs as part of what it said should be an expanded German role on the world stage. The Chinese leader also told an audience of leading German
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    Lock icon China's parliament passes copyright rules, first labour law
    481 20 AFP BEIJING China, under investigation by the United States for its alleged failure to protect intellectual property rights, passed new regulations yesterday providing a maximum seven-year jail term for copyright violations. The National People's Congress (NFC) standing committee passed the regulation together
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    Lock icon Turmoil on S African markets as key minister quits
    342 20 AFP Reuter Bloomberg Business News JOHANNESBURG South Africa's Finance Minister Derek Keys said yesterday in a brief statement that he would quit his post for personal reasons. The official announcement came after strong rumours of Mr Keys' resignation had caused turmoil
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    The real issue in the US health-care debate
    896 20  -  The Bottom Line YEONG WAI CHEONG YEONG WAI CHEONG The writer is a principal of Kaufman. Diamond A Yeong, a US-based economic and investment research firm. He contributed this commentary to BT THE Clinton Presidency found it- < self having to deal
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    449 20 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Mass market housing prices in Hongkong stabilised in the AprilJune quarter, pressured by rising interest rates and the threat of government measures to suppress the market. The Vigers Knight-Kidder Property Index, released on Monday, showed the purchase price of small and
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    341 20 Reuter TOKYO Japan's new government will set up a system to promote transparent policymaking and avoid the backroom manoeuvring that caused its predecessor to self-destruct, a coalition party spokesman said yesterday. Under the system, most coalition decisions will be taken by a panel of 20
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      CMB sells Secura for $19m to focus on core business
      312 21  -  By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE Listed CarnaudMetalbox Asia (CMB) has sold its last non-core business for an extraordinary gain of $13.6 million. At the group level, the gain was $8.7 million. The 75.8 per cent stake in Secura Singapore Pte Ltd,
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      Ong Beng Seng signs conditional deal for Australian retailer Brash
      359 21 SINGAPORE Tycoon Ong Beng Seng's Hotel Properties Ltd (HPL) and Rizona (Hongkong) Ltd yesterday let the ink dry on a conditional agreement to buy Australian retailer Brash Holdings for As4o million (Ss44 million) An announcement from HPL last night said
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      Daiwa Inv sets up S'pore firm to monitor region
      252 21 SINGAPORE Japanese fund management giant Daiwa Investment Trust and Management Co Ltd (DITM) has set up a company here to monitor Asean and other Asian markets and economies. Officially launched yesterday, the new Singapore firm, Daiwa Investment Advisers Pte Ltd, will
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      Lock icon Maika sets its sights on financial sector
      102 21 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Maika Holdings Bhd is looking for opportunities in the financial services sector, group general manager R Palanisamy said yesterday. He said that while the group was already in the insurance business through a stake in United Oriental Assurance Sdn Bhd
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      Time for YHS to get down to real business
      948 21  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Now the real work begins for Yeo Hiap Seng. After the "loss" of six precious months due to infighting among members of the controlling Yeo clan, YHS should now fingers crossed be able
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      SPC, Guangdong firm enter LPG venture in China
      260 21  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE Homegrown Singapore Petroleum Company has teamed up with a Chinese firm to invest in a $22.5 million liquefied petroleum gas venture in China. SPC said yesterday its partner was Jiangmen City Gas Corp (JCGC). a company belonging to
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      Son of Tat Lee Bank founder promoted to deputy chairman
      232 21 SINGAPORE Goh Eng Chew, the son of Tat Lee Bank's founder and chairman Goh Tjoei Kok, looks set to take the helm from his father. Tat Lee Bank said yesterday that the younger Mr Goh, 64, had been promoted to
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        MARKET MOOD
        44 21 Mixed Market Mood' indicates the Itkeli trading sentiment today, framed on brokers polled at 5-6/wi yesterday (hernight events may alter sentiment Brokers /tolled Alliance. Barings. Dans a. OA* (ioh. Morgan (Jrented. OngCo. Somura. Smith .Wm Court, lat Lee and SO W arburg
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        HOT STOCK
        124 21  -  Quak Hiang H hai Lim Kah Ngam Ltd looks to be heading downwards to $1.60. but will it? The stock is already badly oversold at current levels. It was sold down from $2.37 early this year to $1.71 yesterday, after adjusting for its bonus issue. The daily RSI
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          Alliance shareholders approve plan
          52 22 SINGAPORE Alliance Technology and Development shareholders have approved a plan to lease and redevelop the former Singapore Command and StalT College building and site at Fort Canning Park. The property will be redeveloped by a subsidiary to be set up with the name Fort Canning Country
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          Yamaichi's DAE Fund's NTA
          28 22 SINGAPORE Yamaichi Merchant Bank says the unaudited net tangible asset backing per share of the Yamaichi DAE Fund was USS 15.87 at June 30.
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          Thai Prime Fund's NTA
          27 22 SINGAPORE DBS Asset Management says the unaudited net tangible asset backing per share of the Thai Prime Fund was U5522.61 at July 1.
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          Informatics to buy KL land
          64 22 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed Informatics Holdings says its subsidiary Informatics Resources Corp has agreed to buy a plot of land in Kuala Lumpur for MS 1.88 million (551.09 million) from Melawati Development. The 28,955 sq ft plot will be used for IRC operations. The conditional agreement is
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          F&N to redeem unsecured bonds
          32 22 SINGAPORE Fraser and Neave will redeem its unsecured bonds due 1994, worth $174 million, on Aug 8. It will also pay accrued interest on the same day.
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          Lock icon Antah gets approval for issues
          116 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Antah Holdings Bhd has announced that the proposed acquisition of Bangunan BNH, bonus and bond issues have been approved by the Securities Commission (SC). However, the proposed acquisition of Bangunan BNH for M 532.5 million is to be paid for by issuing
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          Lock icon Revised terms for AMF issues
          140 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Arab-Malaysian Finance Bhd (AMF) said that its proposed one-for-three bonus issue and a rights issue of 7.5 per cent irredeemable convertible unsecured loan stock 1994/1999 (Iculs) have been approved by the Securities Commission. but with revisions. AMF has proposed a bonus issue
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          Lock icon Matsushita to form unit in Thailand
          67 22 AFP TOKYO Japan's Matsushita Electric Works Ltd plans to form a wholly-owned subsidiary in Thailand in August to produce synthetic resin for semiconductor packages. A spokesman yesterday said the new company, Matsushita Electric Works (Ayutthaya) Ltd, would be capitalised at 1.28 billion yen (S$
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        Lock icon Malayan Cement's pre-tax down 6.2 pc to M$ 38m
        217 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malayan Cement Bhd has reported a group pre-tax profit of M 538.1 million (5522.1 million) for the half year to May 31, 1994, down 6.2 per cent from the M 540.6 million in the previous corresponding period. A
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        Lock icon Petron expects 3b-peso profit for 1994
        343 22 AFP MANILA Petron Corporation, the Philippines' largest company, posted a 971 million peso (5554.7 million) net income in the first quarter and expects net profits to rise to between 3 billion and 3.2 billion pesos for the whole of 1994. Officials yesterday said this
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        Lock icon Tenaga Nasional names new directors
        156 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Tenaga Nasional Berhad senior general manager (operations). Abdul Rashid Ahmad, has been appointed a director of Tenaga Nasional, effective from May 15. He replaces Mohamed Ariffin Abdul Rahman, who has retired. Energy, Telecommunications and Post Ministry Secretary General Mohd Ali Hassan has
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        New Thai share issues must reserve 30pc for small investors
        440 22  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK IN A significant move aimed at giving smaller investors a bigger piece of the action. Thailand's securities watchdog has ruled that companies must set aside 30 per cent of their new share issues for
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        Lock icon MBf unit buys stake in hospital study company
        169 22 MBT KUALA LUMPUR MBf Holdings Bhd, through its wholly owned subsidiary, MBf Property Services Sdn Bhd, has subscribed for a 30 per cent stake in a company which has been given approval by the government to carry out a study on the
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        Lock icon Philippines' SM Prime disappoints in debut trading
        431 22 AFP MANILA The debut listing of shopping mall developer SM Prime Holdings Inc yesterday managed to buck the bearish trend in the Philippines, but it failed to do as well as expected, analysts said. The disappointing performance would not keep SM Prime from
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        Lock icon Uniphone to spend M$ 50m on plant expansion
        177 22 Bernama PETALING JAYA Uniphone Telecommunications Bhd is to invest a minimum of Msso million (Ss29 million) to expand the production capacity of its cable plant, chairman Shamsuddin Abdul Kadir said. This would be carried out in two to three years, he told
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        Lock icon Mancon gets nod for bonus, rights issues
        137 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Mancon Berhad's proposed bonus and right issues, acquisition of Wangsa Idaman Sdn Bhd and Employees' Share Option Scheme have been approved by the Foreign Investment Committee and the Securities Commission (SC). A statement released by D&C Sakura Merchant Bankers Berhad
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        Lock icon Permodalan Perak to set up microchip plant with US company
        379 22 Bernama IPOH Permodalan Perak Berhad. formerly known as Syarikat Permodalan dan Perusahaan Perak Bhd. is planning to team up with an American firm to set up a MS 16 million (559.3 million) microchip plant at Bandar Baru Seri Iskandar, about
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        Lock icon M'sian firm in joint venture to make power station components
        313 22 MBT KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian company. Rohas-Euco Industries Bhd, has formed a joint venture with two Australian companies to make power station components for the domestic and export market. The joint venture company, known as Aluminium Asia Engineering. claims to
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        Lock icon HK firms linked to Tomson-WTC probe say they are not hit
        386 23 Reuter HONGKONG Seven companies involved in a govern-ment-commissioned report into certain transactions related to Tomson Pacific Ltd and World Trade Centre Group Ltd (WTC) said their operations will not be affected by the contents of the report. The report,
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        Lock icon Japan electronics firms rushing to meet soaring components demand
        355 23 AFP TOKYO Japanese hightechnology companies satf yesterday they had either finalised or were considering plans for billions of dollars in fresh investments to meet soaring worldwide demand for electronics components. Toshiba and IBM Japan said they would jointly invest 40 billion
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        Lock icon Aussie fund invests in Beijing video ad venture
        167 23 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY An Australian company has joined Japanese and US companies in helping finance the installation and operation of a giant video screen at Beijing's main railway station. C H China Investment Ltd, an Australian listed fund that specialises in
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        Lock icon HK bourse censures ex-directors of Tung Fong Hong
        375 23 Eastern Express HONGKONG The Hongkong stock exchange on Monday censured three former directors of Chinese medicine company l ung l ong Hong for dealing in the company's shares without notifying the chairman, as required by local rules. Ihe censure of Chan Leihan.
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        Lock icon Seoul firm in US$ 1b China petrochem venture
        211 23 AFP SFOI I. South Korea's Continental Development Corp (CDC) is to sign in September a contract to build a I SSI billion (SSI.S billion) joint-venture petrochemical complex in C hina, the compan> head reportedl> said yesterday. Continental group chairman C hang l)uk
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          Lock icon Casio, Mitsui to sell pagers in India
          74 23 AFP FOKYO Japan's Casio Computer Co and leading trading house Mitsui Co said yesterday the> will start selling eleetronic pagers in India from November in a tie-up with a local company. Casio will supply pagers to Delhi-based Bharti Telecom Ltd. which will sell
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          Lock icon TDK to raise EC, Asia output
          89 23 AFP TOKYO Japan's TDK Corp said yesterday it planned to raise its output of video tapes in Luxembourg and launch production in either China or Thailand early next year to counter the impact of the stronger yen. I he company said monthly output in
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          Lock icon Yaohan in Shanghai paper venture
          80 23 AFP TOKYO Ihe Hongkong arm of Yaohan Japan Corp plans to form a facial tissue and toilet paper venture in Shanghai with Japan's Da is ho wa Paper Vtfg Co Ltd and a Chinese partner, a company spokesman said yesterday. The new company would be
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          Lock icon Inchcape is Mitsubishi's Viet agent
          56 23 AFP HONGKONG International marketing giant Inchape said yesterday its joint venture in Vietnam. Inchcape Saigon Motors Corp. was appointed after sales service agent for Mitsubishi passenger vehicles in Vietnam. Inchcape Saigon Motors is 63.5 per cent owned by Inchcape with the remainder held by the
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          Lock icon Buy Shaw Bros, says Lehman
          65 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Film producer and distributor Shaw Brothers was rated "aggressive purchase recommended" by Lehman Brothers in its research report dated Monday. Shaw Bros ended yesterday at HKSII.6O. up 20 UK cents. Lehman said it raised its earnings-per-share forecast of Shaw Bros to
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        Lock icon German telecom giant seeks global mobile phone alliance
        532 24 Reuter BONN Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, Europe's biggest phone company, said on Monday it is seeking a global mobile phone alliance to become a major player in the market for international personal mobile communications. Lothar Hunsel, chairman of Telekom's mobile phone unit, DeTeMobil
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        Lock icon ICI and Enichem may float their PVC joint venture
        393 24 FT LONDON Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries and Enichem of Italy are considering the flotation of EVC, their 50-50 polyvinyl chloride subsidiary. The flotation suggests a continuation of ICl's strategy of quitting the commodity chemicals business. Last year, it sold its fibres
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        Lock icon Foreign investment in Seoul stocks up
        194 24 Knight-Ridder SEOUL Foreign investors poured a net U5565.3 million (5599.5 million) into South Korean stocks in June, the Bank of Korea said yesterday. Foreigners bought U*****.8 million of stock and repatriated U*****.5 million from stock sales in the month, the central bank said. In
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        Lock icon Reichmann hires Soros adviser
        193 24 FT TORONTO Paul Reichmann's efforts to resurrect his family's property empire took another step forward with the appointment of two experienced executives to senior posts in recently formed Reichmann companies. Evan Marks, a close adviser to financier George Soros, has been named chief executive of Reichmann
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        Lock icon Hedging? Not when world markets follow US
        563 24 NYT NEW YORK One of the many arguments for investing abroad is that stock markets in different parts of the world tend to hit their peaks and valleys at different times because of varying economic conditions. It follows, then, that an American can
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        Lock icon Japan's Seiyu plans to open retail outlet in Hanoi
        190 24 UPI TOKYO Japanese supermarket giant Seiyu Ltd said yesterday that it plans to open a retail outlet in Hanoi through a joint venture with a Japanese trading house and Vietnam's state-run agricultural company. Seiyu spokesman Ikuno Ito said the firm was
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        Lock icon Big Japan mortgage firm may file for bankruptcy
        166 24 NYT TOKYO A mortgage company whose bad loans account for a staggering 90 per cent of its outstanding loans signalled yesterday it plans to file for bankruptcy an action that would constitute the third-larg-est failure in Japanese corporate history. Nippon Mortgage Co,
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        Lock icon Making videos for pre-schoolers keeps VCFs business going
        627 24 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Producing and selling videos for pre-schoolers may not seem like a money machine, but coupled with comedy and fitness videos, it is enough to keep VCI pic's business growing. Chairman and chief executive Steve Avres yesterday said the
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        Lock icon Thomson-CSF' s 1993 losses may reach 2.3b francs, say analysts
        352 24 Bloomberg Business News PARIS Defence electronics company Thomson-CSF SA is expected to report a loss for 1993 of up to 2.3 billion francs (*****.7 million), slightly higher than previous company forecasts, analysts said. They also said the company was likely
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        400 26 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Citibank plans to launch a HKSI billion (SSI97 million) offering of mortgage-backed securities via Goldman Sachs on July 12 or 13, sources close to the deal said yesterday. The three-tranche offering would be listed in Luxembourg and backed by selected mortgages
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        73 26 AFP GUANGZHOU A shop attendant demonstrating a device used to check counterfeit money on a fake 50-renminbi bill on Saturday in the capital of this southern Chinese province of Guangdong. Chinese counterfeiters have recently been producing high quality bogus US dollars and Chinese renminbi, leading
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        305 26 NYT BONN The spectacular collapse in the spring of the Schneider real estate empire claimed its first casualties in Germany's banking community on Monday as Deutsche Bank AG, the nation's largest commercial bank, said four executives had been dismissed because of
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        Lock icon Pertamina seeks US$ lb in loans to upgrade refineries
        171 26 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's state oil company Pertamina is seeking US$l.O4 billion (551.58 billion) in loans to finance the upgrading and modification of two refinery complexes. "The government has agreed to allow Pertamina to seek US$l.O4 billion in loans to finance the
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        191 26 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR There are now 25 financial institutions in Malaysia that provide interest-free Islamic banking services. Finance Ministry Parliamentary Secretary AfTifudin Haji Omar says. He said they comprised 14 commercial banks, nine finance companies and two merchant banks with a total of
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        296 26 Bernama KOTA KINABALU The Malaysian Cocoa Board (MCB) will conduct collaborative research programmes on cocoa with a research institute in China. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed yesterday between MCB and Xian Oils and Fats Research and Design Institute (XOFRDI) to
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        155 26 Reuter SINGAPORE South Korea's Hanil Bank has launched a LJSSKH) million (SSIS2 million) five-year floating rate note (LRN). said the Singapore branch of Bayerische Landeshank Girozentrale. an arranger and lead manager. The notes are priced at par and will pay the
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        158 26 The Singapore dollar remained buoyant moving slightly higher against the US dollar in light eommercial deals yesterday. News of high 30.6 per cent growth in nonoil domestic exports in May added to bullish sentiments. The ringgit was little changed in quiet trade with the US
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        Futures rebound as Yemen concerns return
        158 26 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT NEW YORK Crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange rebounded as Canadian Occidental Petroleum shut an oil field and an accompanying export terminal in southern Yemen after fighting in the country's civil war flared up nearby. Canadian Occidental, based
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        196 26 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar closed here more than I x /i pfennigs weaker against the mark amid speculation that leading nations will decide against action to boost the US currency. Investors increasingly doubt the Federal Reserve and the Bundesbank will alter interest rates to support the dollar.
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        91 26 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was in sharp decline against major currencies yesterday morning in light trading amid scepticism the Fed or other central banks would intervene to strengthen the dollar. At 1355 GMT. the dollar equalled 1.5848 marks versus 1.5850 at mid-session in London and 1.5950 Friday
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        1730 26 rajf keithird index iakvlaied agam*l S'pure's top 14 trading partners Base year 198 5 US$/S$ forward rates Noon July 5 Bid Offer 1-month I.S2I I 1 5226 2-month 1 5205 1.5220 J-month 1 5200 1.5215 6-month 1.5175 1.5195 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9mi on July 4
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        1361 27 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar futures ended higher on a firmer dollar but Euroyen and Japanese government bonds (JGBs) closed lower on fears of deficit-financing by Japan. The Euroyen market remained supported by US Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen's earlier call on Japan and Germany
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        KL tin follows London's fall
        664 27 COMMODITY REPORTS KL Tin Tin closed 15 sen down at M 513.60 a kg due to falls in the London market on Monday night and an initial high offer. The market was not helped by a smaller premium of USS3S a tonne to LME which
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          Meeting to discuss Brazil frost
          102 27 SINGAPORE The impact of the Brazilian frost and the export retention programme will be discussed at a meeting in Brasilia later this week of the Association of Coffee Producing Countries, the draft agenda shows. The Brazilian government will present details on how the extent of
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          India okays 74 new sugar mills
          135 27 NEW DELHI The Indian government has approved 74 new sugar mills, each with a daily capacity to crush 2,500 tonnes of sugar cane, in the past one year, said a government statement. Kalpnath Rai, the country's Food Minister, told a parliamentary panel on Monday
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          Coffee output up only 5pc
          118 27 GUATEMALA CITY Central American coffee production for the 1994-95 year (Oct 1-Sep 30) will be slightly up on this year's harvest, said a senior Salvadoran coffee official on Monday. "Production will stay low it will be up 5 per cent at most," said Ruben Pineda,
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1540 27 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at 5.30p«ii) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Aug 94 179.00 179.00 181.75 950 1225 Sep 174 00 173 75 176 00 500 3200 Oct 168.75 168.75 169 50 300 3500 Nov 169.50
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        Australia
        1065 28 -1-16.3 SHARES rallied yesterday as investors took heart from a bullish statement by market leader BHP and a firmer futures market. Brokers said a lack of direction from Wall Street which was closed for a holiday on Monday also contributed to steady and subdued trade. The key All Ordinaries
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        Manila
        595 28 -49.97 Philippine share prices fell yesterday on sustained selling pressure despite the morale-boosting debut of property development giant SM Prime. Brokers attributed this to the continuing slump in other markets. The Philippine Stock Exchange Index finished 49.97 points lower at 2,595.16. Volume slumped to 518.8 million shares, while value
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        Seoul
        495 28 +9.26 Share prices continued to advance for the fourth straight day yesterday, extending recent rallies, dealers said. The Composite Price Index rose 9.26 points to close at 960.49. Turnover expanded from the previous day's trading with 38 million shares to 40 million shares valued at 780 billion won changing
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        Taipei
        608 28 -2.68 The bourse ended slightly lower yesterday due to profit-taking. dampened by cement and food shares. The Weighted Price Index fell 2.68 points to settle at 6,064.95. Turnover increased to 1,362 million shares valued at NT563.98 billion. Falls outnumbered gains by 159 to 131, with 84 issues unchanged. The
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        New Zealand
        306 28 -12.47 Shares dropped ahead of a key Federal Reserve meeting later yesterday that could result in a raising of official interest rates. Government data yesterday showing a 5.3 per cent growth in the economy in the year ended March 31 caused concern that higher growth eventually will mean
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        Bombay
        90 28 +6.86 Stocks ended mixed in low volume amid concern among domestic investors over the impact of a government clean-up of India's last big financial scandal. Investors are worried about the income tax department's threat to seize shares worth millions of dollars held under false names. The department said it
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        London
        644 28 -5.4 STOCKS fell amid concern US interest rates are poised to rise and the dollar will keep sliding against other major currencies. The FTSE 100 Index declined 5.4 points to 2,965.00. Concern about higher US rates dominated trading as the Federal Reserve Board begins its two-day Federal Open Market
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        Paris
        149 28 12.55 French shares ended firmer after a feared sell-off by US investors of Alcatel Alsthom failed to materialise, traders said. A better tone on Wall Street and US Treasuries, and the buying back of Alcatel stock helped the market to recover some of Monday's losses. Trading in Alcatel dominated
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        Stockholm
        161 28 -15.36 Swedish stocks fell, pulled lower by falling bonds and a weak krona, as investors speculated about rising US interest rates. The OMX Index fell 15.36 points to close at 1,025.88. Six stocks rose and 24 declined. "People arc very cautious now because the weak krona is putting pressure
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        Frankfurt
        226 28 1.95 German stocks were little changed aAer falling earlier in the day as investors awaited the outcome of several economic events. The DAX Index of 30 leading stocks rose 1.95 points to 2,034.64. "People are still waiting to see what the Fed will do today, what the Bundesbank will
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        Brussels
        189 28 -15.69 Belgian stocks fell on fears that the US could vote to raise interest rates at a meeting of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee yesterday and today. The Bel 20 Index of leading shares closed down 15.69 points at 1,416.97. Bond prices also fell. The yield on the
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        Milan
        186 28 119 Italians stocks closed higher after Treasury Minister Lambcrto Dini said the government will announce measures to improve public finances. The minister said the government will release a statement tomorrow saying when its budget will be ready. The statement will "indicate the government's programme for improving public finances". The
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        Zurich
        271 28 -26.7 Swiss shares closed lower as investors withdrew to await the results of the Federal Reserve Board's meeting. The Swiss Market Index of 21 stocks, the SMI, closed 26.7 points down at 2,609.7, with 18 shares lower, one steady and two higher. The index was led lower by bank
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        Johannesburg
        306 28 -12 South African industrial shares slipped yesterday on reports that Minister of Finance Derek Keys would resign this morning, but dealers said there was no panic sell-off. Golds remained steady, holding onto most gains. "There's likely to be a bit of an overreaction and we're waiting to hear who
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        Toronto
        262 28 +3.16 Stocks firmed slightly in cautious midday trade as players awaited news from a two-day Federal Reserve committee meeting which stared yesterday. Dealers said the market is likely to stay quiet until the full impact of the meeting is known. "The big thing is the Federal Reserve Open Market
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        New York
        667 28 14.90 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rebounded 21.69 points on Friday, was ahead 14.90 points to 3,661.55 at llam EDT. The key barometer was down 7.77 points shortly after the market opened. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index was ahead 0.11 to 246.45, while Standard Poors
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        878 28 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash Bid Offer Mim Cap Deposit 38 (>400 38 6500 Mtm Jersey Gilt 0 189J 0 1992 MimMn Income *0 9000 *0 9400 US$ Cash Income Plus Fund 9 8400 10 3700 PS J Reser>e Fund 5 2800 5 2900 Sterling Eqaity Euro Performance 0 4592 0
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      3206 29 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Share prices were little changed amid concerns that the Federal Reserve Board might boost US interest rates to bolster a weak dollar this week. Higher US interest rates would eventually slow Hongkong company earnings growth because of the close economic ties between Hongkong and :he
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      550 29 CLSA TURNOVER in both China B bourses improved substantially as foreign investors started to accumulate shares on weakness. The Shanghai B market reported a turnover of US$4.2B million with the index down 2.92 points to 752.58. Alkali, the biggest gainer, went up 5.3 per cent on moderate trade. Due
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      2547 29 Reuter TOKYO A rebound in the battered dollar against the yen buoyed market sentiment and encouraged brisk buying of blue chips and export-oriented electricals, leading shares to close with healthy gains. Individuals actively bought second section and over-the-counter stocks as well. But brokers said institutions were mostly sidelined. "A
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      1876 29 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Stocks rose, with investors raising bids for shares in major banks on expectations that earnings growth would be high despite rising interest rates. Investors also bid up large real estate issues in the belief that declines over the past month had over-compensated for the potentially
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      1170 29 Bloomberg Business News JAKARTA Shares fell as forthcoming initial offerings and possible interest rate rises decreased the appeal of the secondary stock market. The Official Index fell 1.61 points to close at 456.76. Trading totalled 7.26 million shares worth 30.46 billion rupiah. down from Monday's 7.95 million shares. The
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2548 30 MOST ACTIVE votunr Ivlno H.J XX imhib Mulphj lull 50c J.'48.1K*) I icn Hoc I SKf 7 VMHH**) noma 1.114.000 Mulii-Kurpo*.- 2.251 (X*> Rcamg HhI SOk 2 217.1**) kcmavan MX I.S29.(**> K.I. IndiBtnes l.M>2.(**) Bcr(a>a In J IJtTjW Kamuiitiilg MX 1522.1**) t ahcr < iroup I 155.1**) \SH
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        6048 30 follow-through support. Bloomberg Business News, Be ma ma KUALA LUMPUR In the latest sign of investor concern over the outlook for stocks, door-maker Golden Pharos Bhd fell 15 per cent after saying it would become the third company in three weeks to become
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        7998 31 Cr Gr M Ml 1994 I ml Vol D») IjM QikH( Din Dit VM \H ip Avg High U* ani(Mn> Sale >/- ("000) High l oo Buvtr Seller S C'vr PF. Soil Price INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 14*10 835 I Aetna 980 <-10 28 980 975 975 980 17.5 2.1 1
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        Lock icon Market ends mixed as players wait for clearer leads
        1907 32  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Index-linked stocks closed weaker yesterday, but the broader market firmed up in improved volume, as investors awaited the outcome of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting and its impact on the US Financial markets. All three major
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      462 21 NEWS VALUE How today's news might a fleet your stinks Economists see Singapore's 2nd qtr growth cooling to 9pc (pg I) Good numbers which suggest that the downside risk in the stoek market is limited. Non-oil domestic exports up 30.6 pc (pg I) External demand stronger than expected. Alan Yeo
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      Ships with dangerous goods can use Portnet to notify PSA
      273 33  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Carriers of dangerous goods can now notify the Port of Singapore Authority through the Portnet computer network. Previously, owners or agents of ships intending to load or unload arms, explosives or radioactive substances had to notify
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      Lock icon Haitian refugee boat capsizes
      269 33 Knight-Ridder ST MARC, Haiti A surge of Haitian refugees towards US shores turned into a tidal wave on Monday, with the US Coast Guard intercepting 2,628 boat people in 67 boats, smashing a single-day's record. A boat, packed with at least 200 refugees, capsized off Haiti's
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1125 33 Page Col ABC Containcrline 16 4 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 ANL 3 1/2 Antaco Mgmt 17 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Appenship 8 4/5 Arabian Express 15 5 •ASCL 5 5 Assist Marine 6 1 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait
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      Lock icon South Korea's ship orders down in first half
      249 33 AFP StiOl 'L South Korea's shipbuilding industry is in the doldrums. suffering from worse-than-expected orders in the first half of the year, the Korea Shipbuilders' Association (KSA) said yesterday. South Korea won orders for 1.97 million tonnes or 65 vessels in the
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      Lock icon Algeria to start work on gas pipeline soon
      232 33 KnightRidder ALGIERS Work on the Algerian section of the MaghrebEurope gas pipeline will start soon, following the signing at the weekend of a so-called confirmation accord between Sonatrach and the US Bechtel group. The confirmation accord is a procedure regularly used in
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      Lock icon US Coast Guard issues rules of financial responsibility
      365 33 KnightRidder NEW YORK The US Coast Guard has published interim final rules regarding vessel financial responsibility under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. The owner or operator of all tankers entering US waters will have to show evidence they have the ability
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      Lock icon Jordan, Lloyd's reach draft accord
      290 33 Reuter AMMAN Jordan has reached a draft agreement for land inspections to replace sea searches of Aqaba-bound vessels by a UN flotilla enforcing trade sanctions on Iraq, a Jordanian official said on Monday. He said the long-awaited pact with Lloyd's Register of Shipping, an independent
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      Lock icon CMN sticks to Swan bid line
      977 34  -  Andrew Spurrier talks to Iskandar Safa, the Lebanese businessman behind the potential French bidder for UK's Swan Hunter yard Andrew Spurrier Lloyd's List ISKANDAR Safa has confirmed that his company's bid for troubled UK shipyard Swan Hunter will depend on it gaining two years
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      13045 42 This is a list ol 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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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        692 50 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jurong Port Bata*. isw toia 060/ ?o*) 060/ ??m Al Bdal AM 441 14 5 alongside 060/ 2359 Braslagi 1 A26 44 TOj 05 0/ 1500 05 0/ :«I0 Own Foituiw 16 44 II alongside
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        2248 50 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Ac. Uy 0MB 08 2000 IB 05 1500 05 1659 05 1-00 3 06/0/00 06 1159 06 1400 4 06 1200
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      Daily Freights
      768 50 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1.350 on Monday from 1,338 on July I. The US Independence Day holiday contributed to a sluggish start of the freight market, although rates remained firm for Atlantic Panamaxes. brokers said. Much of what has been
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        Lock icon Airlines set for massive gains by end-1995, says lata
        511 52 Reuter NAIROBI The head of the global the International Air Transport Association said his members had emerged from four years of unequalled decline in which they lost US$l5.6 billion (5523.7 billion) and forecast massive gains by end-1995. "International aviation has survived
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        182 52 AFP BANGKOK Thai Airways International has moved a step closer to becoming a smokefree airline, banning smoking from flights to Australia and New Zealand, an official said on Monday. Flights between Bangkok and Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland were made
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        Take a second look
        76 52 SINGAPORE Second carrier Silk Air's in-flight magazine Silk Winds has taken on a new look. From this month, readers will And a wider range of articles. Silk Air general manager Michael Chan said the new format aimed to entertain and inform in a more friendly way,
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        225 52 Reuter ZURICH Swissair Schweizerische Luftverkchr AG said its freight capacity would have to expand if the airline wanted to benefit from the expected annual 7 per cent growth of the air freight market. "In the long-term we will only he able to hold our
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        Lock icon Taiwan eyes cooperation with GE Aircraft Engines
        151 52 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan and GE Aircraft Engines, a unit of General Electric Co. are exploring the possibility of cooperating to develop aircraft engines, Taiwanese officials said on Monday. The military-run Aero Dcvclopment Centre and GE Aircraft Engines have been discussing production of CF
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          Lock icon Shanghai posts 34pc rise in trade
          80 52 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Trade through Shanghai. China's largest port, reached USS 14.55 billion (5522.1 billion) in the first six months of 1994. up 34 per cent over the same period of 1993. the Xinhua news agency reported yesterday, l:\ports surged 41 per cent
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          Lock icon McDermott may buy US shipyard
          65 52 Bloomberg Business News TAMPA. Florida MeDermott International Inc. an electric generation equipment maker, may buy the American Ship Building Co as the shipyard emerges from bankruptcy protection, the lampa Irihunc said on Monday. McDermott executives toured the shipyard in May, and its accountants were asking
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          Lock icon Rolls-Royce wins £60m Indon order
          91 52 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Rolls-Royce pic said on Monday it got a contract worth £60 million (SS 139.8 million) to supply electrical and mechanical equipment for a 60-megawatt power plant in Indonesia. The UK engineering and aerospace company said it will supply and install two
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          Lock icon Danish group sells UK aviation unit
          75 52 Reuter COPENHAGEN Danish industrial group EES Industries A/S said its wholly-owned British EES Aerospace Ltd subsidiary sold its Middlesex-based ADE-HML Ltd aviation equipment unit to EIS Group pic. "The sale should be seen in the light of ELS Aerospace's new strategy to focus on
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      1139 39 a MULTILINE SHIPPING PTE LTD ■V (a member of SINSOV Group) CR N0: **********0c enquiries: *****33 A —BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31, *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****97 OUTWARD *****10 T/S *****10 A BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****28 T/S *****46 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****06 DOC *****07 MARINE INSURANCE: *****87 INVENTORY: *****59 AGENTS: KL: 03-*****75/697
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      713 40 ©APPENSHIP /pv Hamburg iWr) CONVENTIONAL INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE \>/ EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FAR EAST Z VESSELS LOADING PORTS DISCHARGE LOADING FOR MERINI ANTW 27/06 SPORE 30/07 SEAKITTIE HAM 29/06 SPORE 02/06 ELENA V ANTW 03/07 SPORE 06/08 /i?A ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF [ACCEPTING CARGO TO GULF PORTS 1
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      339 44 VESSEL VOT JAKARTA SPORE BANGKOK MANILA GUAM SAPAN OCEANIA EXPRESS 97 M. 20 ML 24 lUL 31 AUG 13 AUG 16 KYOWA ROSE 95 AUG 13 AUG 17 AUG 24 SEP 7 SEP 9 (REEFER CONTAINER AVAILABLE> I VESSEL VOY ETA SPORE GUAM (T/S) MOTHER VESSEL GUAM PON APE KOSRAE
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      179 44 /£Lnorbul£v PoUjjr* NORBULK CARGO SERVICES LTD. I I REGULAR CONVENTIONAL I I TIMBER AND PLYWOOD SERVICES WORLD AGAMEMNON PORT ROM/ANT/UK I SEA SONNET 10/7 12/7 FLU/ROAM/ANT/W I IS P PK lOADING FOR NOR BULK TBN 21/7 24/7 DBN/CPT/EL ALSO LOADS TAWAU, KK. TG. MANI PK SWK SAB AH LOADING FOR
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      751 45 (it FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES r yMm■■ 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 10/7 ROTTERDAM 09/7 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 10/7 HAMBURG/BREMEN 10/7 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 12/7 FELIXSTOWE/UK 11/7 BARCELONA/SPAIN HT7 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 09/7 GENOA/ITALY TI/7 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 11/7 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 10/7 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 07/7 NEW YORK/EC 10/7 FREMANTLE/AOELAIDE 08/7
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      291 45 W TEL: *****33 (12 Lineo) =L FAX: *****15/*****03 00 TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lineo) ]=J CR NO.: **********0E ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Veeeel Voy ETA Loading For Sport Abbay Wonz 40WB 12/06 Daressalaam, Mombasa. D|«bouti Assab, Maasawa Netsanet 35W8 15/09 Daressalaam, Mombasa.
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      517 45 Guaranteed Sailing to:BANGKOK/LAEM CHABANG/LACB 9/7 (SAT). 12/7 (TUt) PORT KEIANG/PtNANG 7/7 (THUR), t/7 (FRI) HONG KONG t/7 (FRI). 12/7 (TIE) JAKARTA 9/7 (SAT) MANN.A/CCBU 12/7 (TUE) HO CHIMWH 1/7 (FRI) SURABAYA 10/7 (SUN) BUSAN 10/7 (SUN) DONGNAMA LINE COHTAINERIBED MRWCT tTWAITB/»LW/INC/BBN KtSStl SSP n BIN fWG HC BSK HONGKONG GlOltY
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      1737 46 MAMMN CONTAINER LINES, INC ICtV/VvM Agents: MAC-NELB SPORE: *****22 (24 LINEB) wV/ v 'c/w Hoc **********0 C SIBU (064) *****9 KUCHING (082) *****3 PCNANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****67 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 j I ASIA HKG/TWN/BKKI GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5
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      1212 46 £> THONG SOON LINES PTE LTD /VyX 78 SHENTON WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 I \y Vy TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I ctDAuiAv SINGA EXPRESS SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK SINGAPORE TO THAILAND VESSEL VOY SPORE PEST VESSEL VOY SPORE MjjCM* EQUATOR 111
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      601 47 HygV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY Of BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTING BMAKBUK SOC CARGOES TO FROM KOBE YOKOHAMA. NAGOTA MOI. TOKYO*. MANIA*. DAKAO*. Penary* P Kelang Singapore E Msia" *AMALEVERETT V2IE 09/10 Jul SHAPLAEVERETT W2IE 20/21 M 22/23 Jul KARABICVERETT VIBE 06/07 Aug ACCEPTING BREAKBUtK FCL/SOC CARGOES TO FROM CWTTAGONG CAICUTTA ANO MOMGIA",
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      257 47 ISL GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP to REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES 0 CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN X 1/7 7/7 16/7 GLORY SELATAN V 6/7 13/8 19/8 28/8 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN VI 17/7
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      585 47 PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK CONTAINER SERVICE VtSSU WOT SIN KARACHI MAKRAN 149 HW 13/07 23/07 HVPtRABAO 131 HW U/07 27/07 SARGOOHA US HW 02/0» 10/01 ISLAMABAD 124HW ttt/0« 11/01 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VtSStl WOY SIN HUG BSN OSA WAG TOU SARGOOHA 144 QW 07/07 11/07 15/07
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      697 47 luiiH^iiiimiiiiiia FORTNIGHTLY OIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/P. ELIZABETH CAPETOWN/LAGOS VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH CPT LOS HUIHC/106 U/07 25/07 26/07 28 07 15/ OB VI ME/ 100 26/07 09 OS 10/ OB 12/ OB 30/08 SHUNHE/105 11/08 25/08 26/08 28 08 15/08 TAO HE 87 26/08 09/09 10/09 12/09
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      269 47 SIN FAR EAST 12/07 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 10/07 BANGKOK 10/07 MANILA/CEBU 10/07 JAKARTA/6ELAWAN/SURABAYA 10/07 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 10/07 BUSAN 10/07 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 10/07 HONG KONG SjN CHINA (*SI&±«;«n) 10/07 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SjN EUROPE/UK 12/07 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 12/07 RDM HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech SIN USA/CANADA 10/07
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      313 48 y Contemn CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 10 JULY (Accapting lo all N«w Zealand porta) PENANG 08 JULY JAKARTA 10 JULY PORT KLANG 14 JULY BANGKOK 10 JULY MELBOURNE 14 JULY SYDNEY 14 JULY BRISBANE 14 JULY FREMANTLE 08 JULY 09 JULY 'ACCEPTING TO ALL SCANDINAVIA PORTS BOMBAY 08
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      1493 49 ISEAMA^RGENTINMJNE^^I CONTAINERISED "HUB" SERVICE I DIRECT TO ARGENTINA/BRAZIL URUGUAY *> I EASTBOUNO BASE PORTS VIA BUENOS AIRES VIA SANTOS Vlttm VOY S'POM USHUAIA BUE SNT M'VIDEO ASUNCION MO PAAANAOUA ALEXANDER SCHULTE IE Sailed 27/07 31/07 04/08 01/08 03/08 07/08 08/08 TBN IE 25/07 28/08 01/09 05/09 03/09 04/09 08/09 09/09
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      476 50 NORTH PHILIPPINES FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MANILA LANKA MAHAPOLA *****N 08/07 (FRI) 13/07 (WED) PERVOMAYSK *****N 12/07 (TUE) 16/07 (SAT) TWO SAILINGS WEEKLY VIGOUR PACIFIC *****N 15/07 (FRI) 20/07 (WED) FR,D T ANO TUESO Y LANKA MAHAPOLA *****N 19/07 (TUE) 23/07 (SAT) SOUTH PHILIPPINES FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL
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