The Business Times, 1 September 1994

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES WE KHOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Thursday September 1 1994 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 62 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks were slightly lower at midsession yesterday as investors took profits. At Ipm EDT, in the broader market, declines led advancing issues by a small margin on volume of 169 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange. At 2pm EDT, however,
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    • 44 1 AFP NEW YORK US tobacco and food giant Philip Morris yesterday announced an almost 20 per cent increase in its quarterly dividend and said it planned to buy back US$6 billion (Ss9 billion) worth of company shares over three years. AFP
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  • 163 1 Stock market indices Wednesday Change STII 2,312.7 +13.19 KLSE Comp closed Nikkei 20,628.53 +36.41 Hang Seng 9,929.39 +242.83 SET Index 1,524.83 +32.30 Jakarta Comp 510.20 +0.94 CLSA China B ....1,162.90 +7.36 Aust All Ord 2,122.1 +5.6 FTSE 100 3,251.3 +1.7 Wednesday Prerkws 2pm dose Dow Jones 3,937.05 3,917.30
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  • 692 1  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE The Weekend Car (WEC) scheme will be replaced by a new OPfPeak Car (OPC) scheme from Oct 1. Under the new scheme which will be a permanent feature of Singapore's land transport policy, there will be no
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  • 290 1 SINGAPORE The government knows that people are concerned about rising Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices, and is itself concerned about it, Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan said yesterday. "We review the COE scheme very regularly, we review all aspects of it, the
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  • 283 1 Reuter BEIJING China yesterday formally signed the death warrant for Hongkong's political reforms, ordering that the British colony's legislature should not live a day beyond Beijing's 1997 takeover. "China issued a legal regulation today to abolish Hongkong's political structure based on
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  • 88 1 SINGAPORE Metro Holdings yesterday announced that it was "unable to conclude its negotiations with a party in relation to the possible sale of its 50.3 per cent shareholding interest in Transmarco Ltd". It added that its directors "expect a final outcome to these
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  • 467 1  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE The United States Federal Reserve is expected to tighten monetary policy further this year and next, with the result that local interest rates would probably rise before the end of the year. MMS International, the financial analysis
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  • 628 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE In a major restructuring to meet future capital requirements. United Overseas Bank (UOB) plans to merge listed subsidiary Industrial Commercial Bank (ICB) with Far Eastern Bank (FEB) and absorb Lee Wah Bank (LWB) into the parent
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  • 205 1 SINGAPORE Regional stocks all ended higher yesterday, led by Hongkong shares, which rose strongly for the second straight day. Encouraged by an 18-point rise overnight in the Dow Jones Industrial Average its third gain in a row the Hang Seng Index surged 242.83 points
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 309 2  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE-MADE desktop computers are making their way in rising numbers into China, the Trade Development Board's latest trade figures show. For the first five months of the year, shipments rose to 7,452 units from a measly 416 units for the same period last year.
        Source: TDB  -  309 words
    • 338 2  -  Biscuit King trial By Ramesh Divyanathan THE TRIAL of "Biscuit King" Rajan Pillai will proceed despite the discharge of a Queen's Counsel on Tuesday. A new lawyer, C R Rajah, has joined the defence team, which will now be led by R
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    • 262 2 FORMER director of the Commercial Affairs Department Glenn Knight was struck off the roll of advocates and solicitors at the High Court yesterday. The court of three judges also struck off two others, Gnaguru Thamboo Mylvaganam and Mohomed Jiflry
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    • 169 2 IT will be easier for Singaporeans visiting Australia to get visas from today. Application procedures for both tourists and business visitors have been simplified, with the information sought on the application form to be halved. A photo is no longer required. The new visa
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    • 201 2  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE now has a mobile phone density of seven phones per 100 people, one of the highest in the world, said Telecom executive vice-presi-dent (local services) BG Lee Hsien Yang yesterday. BG Lee was speaking at a ceremony to
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    • 262 2 Key to success in regional businesses: Rear-Adm Teo BUILDING long-term relationships is the key to succeeding in regional businesses, Singapore entrepreneurs were told yesterday. "It is possible to make a quick killing, but if both sides plan to be there for
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    • 240 2 THE International Herald Tribune yesterday apologised for suggesting in an article, published on Aug 2. that Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had risen to his present position not on his own merits but purely because he was Lee Kuan Yew's son. The
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    • 280 2 THE National Productivity Board (NPB) yesterday launched six franchises at its fifth multi-industry forum. Speaking to an audience of about 600 at the forum, Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, MP for Yuhua, cited the increasing number of retail establishments, a rise in
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    • 225 2 GERMANY'S experiences and strategies for commercialising research and development (R&D) results will unfold at the Information Technology Institute's (IT1) second industry briefing today. Over 260 industry representatives including top-manage-ment personnel from major players in the local computer industry will hear all
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    • 67 2 Corrections clarifications IN A REPORT on Tuesday, headlined "East, Central regions to see 32,000 new private homes", we said that the potential supply of some 103,000 units was to be built by the year 2010. The URA has clarified that the year 2010 is used as a planning guide. Precisely
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 403 3  -  Advisers say fledgling group helped seal Gatt accord last year From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA KEY advisers to the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum said yesterday the fledgling group has already begun to influence the promotion of global trade liberalisation. Senior officials of the Eminent
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    • 57 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Women working in Malaysia's insurance industry marching in a parade to mark the country's 37th National Day celebrations yesterday In his National Day speech, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad urged Malaysians to be more responsible and disciplined to help curb the increasing number
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    • 434 3 Reuter MANILA The Philippines posted 5.4 per cent GNP growth in the second quarter of 1994, firming hopes that it is headed on the same growth path as Asia's tiger economies. "All the signs point to a further acceleration," said So-cio-Economic Planning Secretary Cielito
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 82 3 AFP JAKARTA Fires have razed about 1,400 hectares of forest in south Sumatra over the past two weeks, a local police official said yesterday. The spokesman for the South Sumatra police also said the fires had ripped through about 1,000 ha of industrial forests
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      • 70 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR The police chief of the Petaling Jaya district, Hanif Ahmad, explaining the heist of a gold bar consignment from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport yesterday. He said a group of unarmed robbers broke into the Malaysia Airlines cargo complex and took
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      • 70 3 Reuter BANGKOK The Thai government has given preliminary approval to a proposal to develop a Vietnam War-era American air base into a manufacturing and transportation hub, an official in the Prime Minister's Office said yesterday. If implemented, the transport centre, to be located at
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      • 54 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The credit-rating agencies of four Asean countries Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines have formed the Asean Forum on Credit-Rating Agencies. The organisation aims to discuss issues of common concern to creditrating agencies in Asean, said Rating Agency Malaysia Bhd deputy general manager
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    • 256 3 AFP HANOI South Korean Prime Minister Lee YoungDuk wrapped up a two-day visit to Vietnam yesterday that put the finishing touches to the improved relations between the former Cold War foes. After talks with Vietnamese leaders, during which he won support for Seoul's
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    • 144 3 Reuter JAKARTA The Indonesian Attorney-General's office has contacted the Finance Ministry and central bank to look into alleged unpaid loans from scandal-plagued Bank Bapindo to a major textile firm run by an ex-convict. "For further information on the matter, please contact the Attorney-General
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    • 442 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia yesterday identified potential hurdles, including bureaucratic red tape, facing foreign investors and said it planned to maintain an aggressive campaign to lure fresh funds. Asril Noer, director of investment promotion at the Investment Coordinating Board. to|d a business luncheon
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    • 354 3 Bernama SHANGHAI Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim ended his six-day official visit to China yesterday confident of a bright future in a Sino-Malaysian relationship going beyond trade and economic considerations. He said that all the Chinese leaders whom he
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
      • 94 4 Reuter BEIJING China has adopted tough measures to curb a rise in tariff evasion, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The right to approve applications for duty deduction and exemption has been tightened, Wu Naiwen, deputy director of the General Administration of Customs, told
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      • 93 4 Reuter BEIJING China's controversial Daya Bay nuclear power plant near Hongkong is insured for a national record of US$4 billion (Ss6 billion), the official Gilangming Daily said yesterday. The newspaper said the plant was insured with the Shenzhen City People's Insurance Company, which reinsured
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      • 100 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's state-owned BES Engineering Corp, one of the island's leading construction firms, surged its daily 7 per cent limit in early trade on rumours the government would release more shares soon, brokers said yesterday. After 45 minutes of trade, the second most
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      • 95 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan and Japan have reached an agreement to allow more airlines to fly to each country in response to increasing trade and civil exchanges between the two countries, the Transportation and Communications Ministry said in a statement yesterday. Japan's Interchange Association and the
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      • 85 4 AP BEIJING Consumer goods sales are forecast to rise by 19.9 per cent to 781.3 billion yuan (S$ 136 billion) in the second half of this year, it was reported on Tuesday. Rising incomes in both the cities and the countryside is the main
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    • 171 4 Reuter BEIJING China's Foreign Trade Minister Wu Yi said she will propose to the French government the establishment of a French industrial park in Wuhan during a visit to Paris early next month. The International Business newspaper quoted Ms Wu as saying Hubei province,
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    • 357 4  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE Hongkong's exports suffered in the first half of this year because of measures in China to cool the overheated economy, Hongkongßank said in its latest economic report. But, the report also said, that sustained demand
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    • 532 4 Reuter SHANGHAI US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown said yesterday a new era had opened in his country's relations with China but conceded problems lay ahead. Mr Brown spoke a day after the Chinese authorities agreed to resume high-level
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    • 271 4 Reuter HONGKONG Macau Governor Vasco Rocha Vieira. a welcome guest in China unlike Hongkong counterpart Chris Patten, apologised yesterday after his aides issued a profile describing Premier Li Peng as arrogant, arbitrary and unpopular. Mr Rocha Vieira, who is scheduled to
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    • 315 4 Reuter HONGKONG Money has become such a rare commodity in China that private mainland trading companies are asking overseas agents to organise credit so they can continue importing vital raw materials, traders and analysts say. "We are finding ourselves playing the
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    • 227 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING A report by leading economists has warned that failing state-owned enterprises threaten the credibility of the banking sector. The official Xinhua news agency, citing a joint survey on state enterprise bankruptcy compiled by the State Economic and Trade Commission, the State
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 517 6  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO JAPAN'S industrial production fell in July despite recent signs of a recovery in demand for consumer goods, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) reported yesterday. This reflects a major inventory-clearing exercise by recession-hit Japanese
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    • Article, Illustration
      37 6 Reuter SEOUL Unionists from major motor companies scuffling with riot police outside the US embassy here yesterday. The protesters were demanding that Washington halt its pressure on South Korea to further open its motor industry. Reuter
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    • 479 6 Analysts expect expansion to take place later Reuter SYDNEY Australian economic growth slowed in the second quarter of 1994 as consumer demand faltered, official data yesterday showed, but analysts expect growth to surge again over the coming months. "The economy's
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 42 6 AFP TOKYO Public support for Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's cabinet rose to 44.3 per cent, exceeding for the first time the number of critics of his administration, a poll published yesterday by the Yomiuri newspaper showed. AFP
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      • 35 6 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL South Korea's 7.4 per cent inflation during the past year could lead the authorities to tighten their already restrictive monetary policy, analysts say. Bloomberg Business News
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      • 36 6 Reuter SEOUL North Korea's decision to send a special envoy. Foreign Minister Song Ho-gyong, to China signals an imminent announcement of a new leader in Pyongyang, diplomats in Seoul said yesterday. Reuter
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      • 48 6 AFP TOKYO Japan's birth rate in the six months to June surpassed that of the same period a year earlier, reversing a 20-year downtrend. A total of 611,948 babies were born in the first half, up 17,395 from the corresponding period in 1993. AFP
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      • 38 6 Reuter SEOUL Union members at South Korea's five major car companies threatened to launch a nationwide campaign to boycott US products if Washington continued to press Seoul to open its automobile market. Reuter
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    • 258 6 Reuter COLOMBO The Sri Lankan government yesterday partially lifted a four-year economic embargo on the Tamil rebel-dominated north and said it was awaiting a rebel response to its invitation for peace talks. Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga said 28 items out of a list
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    • 244 6 Reuter NEW DELHI Actual direct foreign investment in India is expected to rise to US$2 billion (Ss3 billion) in 1995 from US$577 million in 1993, said the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) in a report on world investment. Unctad
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    • 332 6 India bank reforms open up software market Reuter BANGALORE Reforms sweeping India's banking industry have opened up a huge market for software involving foreign technology, computer analysts said on Tuesday. They said the new privatesector banks, which India allowed last year after reversing a 24-year-old policy, opted for the most
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 70 8 Reuter BONN German Foreign Minister KJaus Kinkel yesterday hailed the departure of troops of the former Soviet Union from the Baltics as an important contribution to stability in Europe. The withdrawal from Estonia and Latvia coincided with a farewell ceremony in Berlin yesterday, attended by
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      • 73 8 Bloomberg Business News JOHANNESBURG South Africa's consumer price index rose at an annualised rate of 8.2 per cent in July, up from 7.5 per cent in June. The inflation figures put pressure on Israel's bond yields, the latter being pushed beyond the psychological barrier of
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      • 101 8 AFP KUWAIT CITY For these Kuwaiti girls, it may be the very last Barbie dolls that their father would buy them if a religious official gets his way. Dr Khaled al-Madkur, chairman of a committee in charge of making sure Islamic law is respected in
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      • 88 8 AFP MOSCOW Thieves have stolen a capsule containing 4.5 grammes of radioactive cesium-137 from a chemical plant at Tambov, south-east of Moscow, a Russian government spokesman said on Tuesday. The thieves broke into the warehouse of the Uvarovski plant in broad daylight on Tuesday and took
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      • 64 8 Reuter JERUSALEM Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said on Tuesday the Jewish state would give permission for Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to visit the Gaza Strip Palestinian self-rule enclave, ending a diplomatic flap. Mr Peres said he and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat
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    • 285 8 Bloomberg Business news PARIS The recovering French economy created a modest 11,000 jobs in July, insufficient to lower the unemployment rate from a near-re-cord 12.6 per cent. The new jobs added to 20,000 generated in June, when the unemployment
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    • 227 8 Reuter WASHINGTON The United States Immigration and Naturalisation Service has awarded the biggest contract in its history to upgrade its systems so it can catch and deport more illegal aliens. Taking advantage of money freed up by the recently passed crime Bill
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    • 497 8  -  From Neville Stack in LONDON AFTER 25 years of terrorism and murder, the IRA yesterday declared a "total" ceasefire. But in their historic declaration, they did not use the word "permanent" which was demanded jointly by the British and Irish
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    • 369 8 AFP MOSCOW The presidents of China and Russia are to meet here this week to agree on de-targeting their nuclear missiles and discuss trade amid signs that the giant neighbours' trading boom is tailing off. Jiang Zemin, the Chinese President and secretary-general of
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    • 400 8 Reuter NEW YORK The US$lO billion (SSIS billion) merger of Lockheed Corp and Martin Marietta Corp provides dramatic new evidence that the United States defence industry is getting smaller in a hurry and more deals are on the way. Wall Street analysts on
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    • 446 8 NYT WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that it was investigating possible misrepresentation and gross misconduct in the recent auctions of radio licences for interactive video services. The commission sold about 598 licences last month for US$2l7 million
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    • 546 8 Reuter VIENNA Bombs, plutonium smuggling and the Chernobyl disaster have cast a shadow over the nuclear industry, heralded 40 years ago as the clean, cheap answer to global energy needs for the 20th century and beyond. Yet despite the bad
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    • 163 8 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS OF COMPANIES I ION1 ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE A handy easy reference for new and professional traders and the financial profession, this book presents a comprehensive financial summary of virtually all the companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. It draws on the data from
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    • 9 8 Lockheed, Martin Marietta merger 2nd-largest this year, Pg 20
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  • SPORTS
    • 680 9 US Open AP NEW YORK Now that Jim Courier has rediscovered the fire in his game, hobbling Pete Sampras will begin the defence of his US Open title. In mid-August, Courier, appearing tired and bored, announced he was leaving tennis indefinitely. "There is a
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    • 545 9 Golf NYT NEW YORK If he were a tennis player, there would be •no decision for Tiger Woods to make. If he belonged to that fraternity of self-absorbed, unappealing athletes performing at Rushing Meadows for the next two weeks, he would go
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    • 400 9 NYT BEIJING Embarrassed by the second drug disqualification of a swimmer this year, China has put together a younger and less experienced team to send to the seventh World Swimming Championships in Rome this weekend. With its come-from-no-where rise in
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    • 569 9  -  By Michael Kaufman NYT NEW YORK Suffering from baseball deprivation, we went to Van Cortlandt Park, on the Bronx, to watch cricket. In point of fact, we have not been driven as loopy as those of our neighbours, who are actually
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    • 437 9 AP PARIS Michael Schumacher has met his match on the Formula One circuit a court of appeals that upheld his tworace suspension, forcing the runaway Grand Prix points leader to the sidelines for the next two races. The International Automobile Federation's court of appeals said
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    • SIDELINES
      • 123 9 Reuter BEIJING China's State Sports Commission (SSC) said yesterday that Japan, in the face of Beijing's boycott threat, had withdrawn an invitation to Taiwan's president to attend the Asian Games in October. The commission reaffirmed that it would stay away from the games in
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      • 123 9 Reuter JOHANNESBURG Ernie Els and David Frost have withdrawn from the 1994 World Cup, the Professional Golfers' Association of South Africa (PGASA) said on Tuesday. Els and Frost had initially been selected to represent South Africa in the World Cup at Delrado Beach Golf
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      • 110 9 Reuter LONDON John Daly is out of this week's European Masters in Switzerland after injuring his back in a scuffle at the end of the World Series of Golf in Ohio on Sunday. The controversial American was caught up in a scuffle with the father
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      • 130 9 AP CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand New Zealand rugby union scrum-half Graeme Bachop on Tuesday agreed to play next season with the Sanix chemical company team in Fukuoka. Japan. Bachop. an unemployed carpenter, said the offer of a job in Japan was too good an opportunity
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      • 56 9 AFP DONGUAN, China Agnes Lee of Singapore (left) preparing to go on stage during the 11th Asian Women's body building tournament on Sunday in this Guangdong province city. China hosted the Women's Body Building Foundation event for the first time. Joyce Yeo Bee Kheng, also
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      • 149 9 AFP NEW YORK Martina Navratilova, who once ruled tennis on the court, now controls the WTA Tour off the court as well. The newly elected president of the WTA Players' Association said on Tuesday she has the power to enforce minimum age limits and wants
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    • SPORT SHORTS
      • Article, Illustration
        330 9 AP BERLIN Grand Prix on Tuesday: Men 110 m hurdles: 1 Colin Jackson (GB) 13.02 sec (year's best time) 2 Mark Crear (US) 13.07 3 Mark McKoy (Can) 13.29. Long jump: I Mike Powell (US) 8.20 m 2 Stanislav Tarascnko (Rus) 7.90 3 Dion Bcntley (US) 7.90. 100 m:
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      • Article, Illustration
        299 9 AP NEW YORK L 559.36 million L'S Open Ist round on Tuesday Men: Stefan Edbeig (Swe x 5) b Lars Jonsson (Swe) 7-5 6-1 6-1; Patrick Rafter (Aust) b David Rikle (Cze) 6-4 6-1 6-4; Roger Smith (Bah) b Diego Nargiso (Ita) 7-6 (7/4) 6-4 6-0; Steve Bryan (US)
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
    • 775 10  -  Forget TV shopping, the future is on-line, according to a new study. Audrey Tan has the details Audrey Tan NEED a dress or jacket for tonight's dinner but don't quite fancy trudging through department stores, searching for the right size? Welcome to interactive
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    • IN TAKES
      • 92 10 UPI NEW YORK By looking at simple memory tasks, doctors may soon be able to determine who is most likely to suffer dementia within five years, scientists say. Using a portion of tests routinely performed during an exhaustive neuropsychological examination, researchers at the Albert Einstein
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      • 72 10 AFP PARIS Multi-directional vision becomes a reality with the "fly-robot", so called because its system of optics is modelled after the mechanics of the compound eye in the fly. The robot will be on display in the Science and Industrial City at the Villette Park
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      • 77 10 Reuter UNIONDALE, New York Researchers for Ciba-Geigy AG have found that a compound called recombinant human Transforming Growth Factor Beta 3, or TGF-Beta 3, improved heading of wounds in animals it studied, the company's collaborative partner Oncogene Science Inc said last week. Recombinant research involves the
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      • 90 10 UPI LIVERMORE, California High-tech identification tags that send out signals could help the blind, foreign visitors and emergency crews get around easily, engineers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said last week. The engineers said their system would enable people in need to read "dumb"
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    • 540 10 US scientists are testing a new drug that will make the stress test stress-free AP A STREAM of fluorescent squiggles cuts across a computer screen and the attending cardiologist nods with satisfaction. All is proceeding normally in this stress test: The patient's pulse has
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  • THE LAW PAGE
    • 617 11 Jakarta is busy drafting new laws to minimise the destruction of the environment in the country Government concern over environmental degradation in Indonesia has risen sharply over the past two years. Armed with new satellite photos and other data revealing the full extent of decades of
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    • 169 11 Environmental impact assessment: Government Regulation No 51 of 1993 THIS deregulation package revises environmental impact assessment procedures, known by the local acronym Amdal. Ventures across the board are no longer required to obtain an Amdal. Instead, the responsible Amdal commission within each department will screen proposed projects
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    • 648 11 Even messages that are confidential or which have been deleted tell tales many big companies prefer to forget Bloomberg Business News THE WAY Atlantic Richfield Co's glossy brochures put it, Arco's solar energy unit was a business with a bright future. That sounded good to
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    • 200 11 E Tlic article is reprinted from the Aug 14 issue of Business Asia, a fortnightly management report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (Asia) Ltd l<m Km* iW— Hotali LU #> A small hotel opens in Singapore with the worm's p'reatest reputation Aor service Irehiria it. 1, Now Open Four Seasons
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 836 13 Late-comer Kiwis earn their bouquets in quick time in the formidable wine industry Reuter NEW ZEALAND'S young wine industry has sprung from anonymity to international acclaim in the space of a generation, and experts believe the best has yet to come. It is a
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    • 219 13  -  By Audrey Tan WHEN it came to submitting his entry for the Business Times/Saab Lifestyle Exclusive competition, lawyer Q K Chia put his own motoring know-how to the test. As a result, he beat more than 500 other entries to win the top prize of a
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    • 348 13 CHATTERBOX AP AP UPI UPI IT WAS a subject fit for a novelist, and the plot had two of them. A Pulitzer Prize-win-ning writer invites the US president to dinner at his shoreside home on a posh New England resort island. The
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    • 199 13 BUSINESS TIMES LIFESTTLE EXCLUSIVE RESULTS Congratulations to our winners! TOP PRIZE: 7 days Swedish winter holiday for two by Saab. Q K Chia *****43 D 8 CONSOLATION PRIZES: A Saab watch and Saab Polo Sweater/ Polo Shirt of Swedish origin. Goh Yong Mia *****61F Kenneth Hangchi *****731 Brian Yeo *****97
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 1213 13 TV RADIO Look Who's Talking, 8.30pm, SBC 5 This hit portrays KxVfIMBL parenthood as a cross between IIM I W 4 skb Kirstie Alley falls out with the father of her child before the Kjj» "®hk bah> is due. so cabbie John V" f Travolta child's ,|M| H jar jr
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  • 494 14 EDITORIAL Exhilarating was the word used by US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown to describe his visit to China the first by an American Cabinet official since US President Bill Clinton renewed China's most-favoured-nation trading status in May. And it does seem to be the appropriate
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 278 14 IT MAY NOT YET be the feared clash of cultures, but the pussyfooting of the "contact group" countries the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Russia can easily convert the war between Bosnia-Her-zegovina's Serbs and Muslims into a proxy conflict between the Christian West and the
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    • 150 14 TODAY, Malaysians celebrate their 37th Independence Day. Certainly, the occasion ushers in a renewed determination in achieving the vision for tomorrow. That vision has been laid down by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad, and is known as Vision 2020. Even now, Malaysia is fast becoming an economic
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    • 136 14 ON HIS VISIT to Singapore, Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama laid a wreath at the memorial to Singaporean civilians killed during the Japanese Occupation. His action required political courage and is to be commended. Of course, Japanese remorse must go beyond making apologies and laying wreaths. Singapore
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    • 164 14 THE POTENTIAL for intra South-east Asian trade in financial instruments and currencies to take off successfully is now better than ever before. Initially, there will be difficulties as national interest will always come first. Asean central bankers attending the inaugural forum in Kuching have already
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    • 182 14 MOST District Board members believe China will dismantle all three tiers of elected government in 1997. That is no surprise. With the National People's Congress (NPC) due to vote this week on a resolution bringing their term of office to an end on June 30, 1997,
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    • 149 14 LAST TUESDAY, US President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill that could end US aid to the Thai military if the armed forces and the government are found to support Cambodia's outlawed Khmer Rouge or fail to support Myanmar pro-democracy activists. Now is the
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  • 1050 14  -  Yogi Aggarwal wonders what India's stance should be, following a former Pakistani prime ministers categoric claim that his country has nuclear bombs Yogi Aggarwal The writer, a Bombay-based journalist, contributed this article to BT THE nuclear temperature in the Indian subcontinent
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    • 278 14 -till) IN-DEPTH BUSINESS tNEWS FROM A SINGAPORE Kr over two decades Singapore I 111 usiness has covered the local and F T I I W t regional business scenes with more depth H and breadth from a perspective which is more relevant to local businessmen than any other publication. Some
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1614 15  -  With advances in technology, Singapore Telecom is having to constantly reassess its pricing policies and operations to compete with the rest of the world. Ang Peng Hwa examines how the monopoly is facing the challenge posed by callback services Ang Peng Hwa
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    • 347 15 Even THOUGH Singapore Telecom is undoubtedly a well-run company, it is difficult to attribute its 50 per cent gross margins purely to management. That it could make pre-tax profits of $1.55 billion on revenues of $3.1 billion in the 12 months to March 1994 must surely be
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  • 430 16 Reuter Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The government's main economic forecasting gauge was flat in July, the Commerce Department said yesterday, suggesting weaker momentum for growth in coming months. The Index of Leading Indicators, which is supposed to forecast economic trends six to
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  • 299 16 Reuter WASHINGTON Orders received by United States factories took their sharpest tumble in 2-1/2 years during July, the Commerce Department said yesterday, mainly because of weaker orders for new cars. The 2.3 per cent drop in July orders to a seasonally adjusted U*****.3 billion
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  • 533 16 AP AFP TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama yesterday said Tokyo was setting up a US$l billion (SSI.S billion) fund for cultural and vocational projects across Asia over the next decade as a token of apology to victims of Japanese aggression before
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  • 66 16 AFP BANGKOK A workman climbing a pole yesterday amid the rubble caused by a huge Are that levelled Bangkok's notorious Klong Toey slum on Monday. About 3,000 people lost all their possessions in the blaze near the city's port. News reports yesterday said residents believe
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  • 236 16 AFP NEW DELHI India will challenge China as the most populous nation with 1.5 billion people by 2035, according to World Bank projections, but the warning has not unduly worried demographers here. The child boom, a result of failed birth-control
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  • 390 16 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia has imposed export taxes on palm oil exports effective today to control rising domestic prices, the Finance Ministry said in a statement. "Starting on Sep 1 the government will impose export taxes on crude palm
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  • 943 16  -  The Bottom Line KEVIN SULLIVAN KEVIN SULLIVAN The writer is a BT journalist CUBA is not a happy place. Outside Havana, with its 1950s sedans and crumbling buildings, a devastated system of agriculture has finally given up the ghost: this year's
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  • 338 16 Reuter TOKYO Japan and the United States may case a trade standoff by forging pacts in two key sectors before a Sep 30 deadline, but each side wants the other to compromise first, *~jncw dose to the talks
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  • 297 16 AP TOKYO In a case which could affect millions of dollars in royalties, a Japanese court yesterday ruled that Fujitsu Ltd is not infringing on a key semiconductor patent held by Texas Instruments (TI) of the United States. TI receives large
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        42 17 Firm Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment Brokers polled: Barings. Daiwa. OA Goh. Kay Hian. Morgan GrenfeU. Nomura. Smith Nen Court, Tat Lee and SG Warburg.
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        127 17  -  By Paul Leo Hotel Plaza has broken above a downward-sloping trendline, formed by joining the peaks from its all-time high of $1.60 on Jan 4, on the weekly chart. It is therefore a buy at yesterday's close of 1.06. Weekly Moving Average Conver-gence-Divergence Indicator has already signalled a
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    • 382 17  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Listed developer DBS Land is to build a condominium with about 570 units on a 99-year leasehold site in Sims Avenue. It said yesterday the 28,154 sq m site will house a 17-storey condominium at a plot
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    • 324 17  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Higher investment income and new contracts have helped listed Singapore Automotive Engineering Ltd (SAE) to chalk up interim net earnings of $5.7 million. This is a hefty 35.7 per cent rise from the $4.2 million SAE earned in
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    • 136 17 SINGAPORE SIA Engineering Company has joined forces with Praxair Surface Technologies and United Technologies International (UTI) to set up the first jet engine fan blade repair centre outside the US and Europe. The SIA engineering arm has a 39.2 per cent stake
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    • 632 17  - Aztech's unsound bottom line what went wrong HOCK LOCK SIEW By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE The "buy" recommendation was unanimous among investment analysts. Even until a week ago, brokers were still pushing Sesdaq-listed Aztech Systems. Then on Monday, PC sound card maker Aztech dropped a bombshell a 20 per cent slump
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    • 340 17  -  By Alvin Tay SINGAPORE OCBC Bank sold a further 1.2 million Singapore Press Holdings shares for about $20 million last month, as the banking giant continued to trim its stake in the media group to the stipulated 3 per cent level.
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    • 266 17 SINGAPORE Food distributor Provisions Suppliers Corporation (PSC) has achieved an 84 per cent increase in interim net earnings, buoyed by a strong performance from its leisure and recreation business. Earnings reached $3.26 million on the back of a 12 per cent rise in turnover to
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 86 18 SINGAPORE Pan Pacific Public Co has finalised a golf club joint-venture agreement in the Lunan county of Yunnan province with the Chinese authorities. It said yesterday the China-incorpo-rated joint venture. Stone Forest Golf Co. will have an issued capital of US$3.5 million (555.25 million). PPP's
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        • 78 18 SINGAPORE CAM Mechatronic has bought four Japanese die-casting machines for $1.02 million. Another $232,000 has been used to acquire ancillary equipment. The machines will be installed in CAM's sixth and latest factory in Johor, located at Pasir Gudang. Initial operations are expected to start in
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        • 61 18 SINGAPORE Elec and Eltek International's placement of 15.45 million shares at US$2.5O apiece has been fully taken up. The company launched an offer of 25.75 million shares in two tranches: the successful placement tranche, and an offer tranche of 10.3 million shares at US$2.3O each.
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        • 49 18 SINGAPORE JCI Holdings Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Jack Chia Holdings (Hongkong), exercised subscription rights over four million Jack Chia-MPH 1995 warrants to subscribe for four million JC-MPH shares at $1.10 yesterday. The issued capital of JC-MPH will be raised to $188.76 million.
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        • 30 18 SINGAPORE QAF Ltd said yesterday that Danny Sim Kwang Boon has resigned as group general manager of its wholly-owned subsidiary, QAF Holdings Bhd, from yesterday.
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        • 49 18 SINGAPORE Soon-to-be-listed electronic products group Flextech Holdings has been granted international patent pending status for its high-speed detaping machine. The detaping machine was developed by Flextech's wholly-owned subsidiary, Telford Industries. Flextech submitted its patent application to the US Patent Office about a month ago.
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        • 116 18 Reuter SYDNEY Food group Goodman Fielder Ltd said it will form a joint venture with Indonesia's Sinar Mas and Risjadson groups in the country's snack food market. Goodman said the venture will target the AS2SO million (***** million) a year modern ethnic and western
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      • 438 18  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THE MANILA office of Hongkong-based First Pacific Davies (FPD) is targeting rich Filipino-Chinese as investors in a prime property project in China. FPD Philippines director Felipe Neri said yesterday marketing had begun on the 1.2 million sq ft
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      • 421 18  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE The diversified Indonesian Sinar Mas group is planning to list its property flagship, PT Duta Pertiwi, next month with an initial public offer (IPO) of 25 million shares to raise about 87.5 billion rupiah (5560.37 million). Makindo
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      • 683 18 SINGAPORE Lee Wah Bank (LWB) and Far Eastern Bank (FEB) will become names from the past following the much-awaited restructuring of the United Overseas Bank group. This means that there will be 11 local banks in Singapore, down from the
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      • 426 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Instangreen Corp Bhd will be seeking greener pastures and budding projects when it tees ofT on the main board of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, which is expected to be on Oct 10. While its many local projects have served well to
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      • 491 18  -  From Brian Gomez in SYDNEY MELBOURNE-based Ashton Mining Ltd. 47 per cent owned by Malaysia Mining Corp Ltd, has announced a "significant" discovery of a diamond province in Finland. The company has been exploring the prospect for eight years and is understood
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      • 511 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR KPJ Healthcare Bhd will get an injection of hospitals and companies from its parent company, Kumpulan Perubatan Johor Sdn Bhd (KPJSB). KPJ Healthcare, which is seeking listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Main Board, comprises Johor Specialist
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      • 537 18 Mwgm'Fkes Sep I Mcndaki Gr Fund 1.21 I 24A Singapore Unit Trust us Gr Fund 1.02 106 1 aiyn a aj_,-A iaj The Commerce 1.(6 1.76 UmB IITVCSt M|t Llfl The Savings Fund 1.58 1.67 Unifund I.54 1.60 Spore Prof Fund 0.72 0.76 Lnibond I.03S 1.06 S pore See Fund
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      • 545 19  -  From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG HONGKONG banks and other financial institutions are expected to give the public more details of their financial health, starting with 1994 earnings statements. Full disclosure for listed banks, however, is still at least a
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      • 221 19 Reuter HONGKONG Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd yesterday said it was cautiously optimistic about prospects in 1995 but Hongkong's high inflation rate and business costs remained concerns. "I think 1994 will be another tough year but there are some signs that 1995 will be better so
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      • 205 19 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan will soon open its small over-the-counter (OTC) market to foreign investment under the same rules applied to overseas investors in the island's stock exchange. An official yesterday said the Taipei Securities Dealers' Association had presented a report to the
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      • 328 19  -  From Claire Leow in HONGKONG HONGKONG Telecom signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday with leading computer chip maker Intel Corp of the US to market, develop and resell Intel's "personal conferencing" product. The product, Pro Share, uses the personal computer as a
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 66 19 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Taiwan's Evergreen Marine Group, one of the world's largest shippers, posted pre-tax profit of NTS 1.68 billion (SJ96 million) for the hall-year to June 30. The Financial Times yesterday said the figures represented a 2.4 per cent increase from last year. According
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        • 69 19 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Yulon Motor Co, a 25 per cent-owned affiliate of Nissan Motor Co of Japan, yesterday said company losses narrowed in the first half from a year earlier. Yulon, one of Taiwan's largest vehicle makers, said it lost NT574.9 million in the first
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        • 70 19 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Nissho Iwai Coip, one Japan's biggest trading companies, has approached Viacom Inc about cooperating to provide programmes to cable television stations in Japan. Nikkei English Mens yesterday said Nissho Iwai wanted Viacom to help it run cable TV operations in
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        • 82 19 Bloomberg Business News EINDHOVEN, Netherlands Philips Electronics NV yesterday said it had agreed to set up a joint venture for passive electronic components with Shanghai Radio, a unit of China's Shanghai Electronic Components Corp. The Dutch electronics giant said one of its joint ventures in Asia, in
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        • 71 19 Reuter HONGKONG Start-up costs at Television Broadcasts Ltd's TVBS channel cut into the company's international division profitability in the first half of the year, but the channel is progressing well. TVB yesterday said it expected satisfactory growth for the rest of the year.
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      • 238 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Hongkong shipping and property conglomerate controlled by Macao casino tycoon Stanley Ho yesterday said its profit rose 16.9 per cent in the first half of the year. Shun Tak Holdings Ltd said net profit increased
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      • 429 20 Reuter AUCKLAND New Zealand's Fletcher Challenge Group surprised the stock market by announcing an annual net profit of NZ$675 million (Ss6o9 million) yesterday, and company officials and analysts forecast a strong year ahead. Executives of the company, whose interests range from
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      • 387 20 AFP SYDNEY International transport group TNT yesterday posted net profits of A 548.5 million (SSS4 million) in the year to June following a loss of AS 133.7 million the previous year. The group booked a net abnormal gain of A 540.32 million in the
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      • 336 20 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Daimler-Benz, Germany's largest industrial corporation, has posted interim net profit of 462 million Deutschemarks (***** million), up 2.75 times from 168 million marks last year. Sales in the first half of 1994 rose to 48.96 billion marks from 43.19 billion
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      • 375 20 NYT NEW YORK As information technology stocks continued their recent surge on Tuesday, shares of one of the companies riding the rally, 3Com Corp. reached an all-time high. For a mid-sized computer networking company with a name little known beyond Silicon Valley, the
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      • 415 20 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British engine maker Rolls-Royce Pie is expected to report first-half pretax profits of around £41 million (SS94 million) today, up 31 per cent from the first half of last year. Financial analysts, while predicting a rise in profits yesterday, were,
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      • 246 20 AFP BOMBAY The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensitive index, which tracks 30 blue chip shares on India's largest bourse, zoomed to a record high on Wednesday. The index rose by 62.91 points to close at 4,588.16 points, well above the previous
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      • 349 20 Bloomberg Business News NEWARK, New Jersey Lockheed Corp's agreement to merge with Martin Marietta Corp in a US$lO billion (Ssls billion) stock swap ranks the second-largest merger announced this year. The merger, the largest in the defence industry, would extend a series of
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      • 159 20 Reuter FRANKFURT Chemicals giant Bayer AG on Tuesday became the latest German firm to hunt for intellectual property lost in two world wars, saying it would try to buy back the rights to its own name in the United States.
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 327 21 Reuter NEW DELHI Economic recovery is helping to revive the battered international banking system, but there are still too many American banks and many Japanese ones have inadequate reserves, a top banking analyst said here yesterday. "Global recession and competition brought
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      • 256 21  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE The first Swiss cantonal banks to venture abroad have set up representative offices in Singapore. They are Zurcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) and Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV). Singapore is their first overseas base. ZKB and BCV are members of
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      • 335 21 Number tndlcjrttv* Otom Amount >WWWt of ikyi of mkMte pdtw redemption Maturity JJ* rate poymtnt ocuniofl (mdudtoo yteld j, r d<to InterMt accrued (%po) InterMt) 15.10.94 N*****1A 1992 1 7/8# 850.00 15/4 15/10 138 99.90 2.67# 1.12.94 N*****1S 1989 51/8# 800.00 1/12 1/6 91 100.75# 2.10# 15.5.95 N*****0N 1993 1
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      • 235 21 AFP JAKARTA Fraud-hit state bank PT Bank Pembangunan Indonesia (Bapindo) yesterday said unaudited interim net profit fell 76.06 per cent on the previous year to 8.05 billion rupiah (555.5 million) in the six months to June. Bapindo said in its financial statement,
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      • 259 21 SINGAPORE A Ministry of Defence captain and his team led the pack with equity of US$l.B million (552.7 million) on Tuesday at half time in the Simex Challenge, a simulated energy and financial futures trading game run by the Singapore International
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      • 215 21 SINGAPORE The local subsidiary of the Finland-based Nokia Group has raised a US$2l.B million (5532.7 million) loan to support its US$3O million GSM cellular telecommunications network turnkey supply contract with Globe Telecom of the Philippines. The loan involved an export credit agency
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      • 174 21 Bloomberg Business News ZURICH Swiss Bank Corp said it cxpects net profit to drop in 1994, although the bank is "cautiously optimistic" about the second half. The company said, however, that it sees "better results" in 1995, when trading revenue should increase and
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      • 323 21 Reuter LONDON Britain's major banks will soon bear a closer resemblance to their traditional conservative image after more than 10 years of forays into high-risk areas, often with disastrous consequences. The Latin American debt crisis that broke in 1982 cost the top
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 694 22  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON INTERNATIONAL bond and equity markets are hoping that the buying strike of cashrich Japanese institutions will soon come to an end. At stake is the performance of securities markets that are highly dependent on
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      • 322 22 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Petroleum has made a major natural gas discovery in Colombia near its huge Cusiana and Cupiagua oil fields. The company estimates recoverable reserves of five trillion cubic feet of gas and 250 million barrels of
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      • 400 22 Knight-Ridder TOKYO The reopening of copper mines in Canada and a likely start to mining at Chile's La Candelaria deposit should inject more concentrates into the Asia region, according to industry sources. Mines that shut down or curtailed operations as copper
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      • 341 22 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia will receive about 50,000 tonnes of rice from Vietnam and Thailand this week to help ease pressure on domestic supply after a severe drought, the official Antara news agency reported. "Some 50,000 tonnes of rice
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      • 203 22 Reuter BANGKOK The US subsidiaries of two Japanese companies, Itochu International Inc and Mitsui and Co (USA) Inc. and Kerry Trading Co Ltd of Hongkong have won parts of a Thai long-term sugar export contract, the Thai Cane and Sugar Corporation (TCSC)
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      • 192 22 Reuter LONDON The dollar was caught in deadlock against the mark and the yen in early Europe, hampered by the prospect of a Bundesbank meeting and US jobs data this week. The dollar lost out slightly to both currencies overnight but traders said it was basically confined
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      • 262 22 Bloomberg Business News Reuter BANGKOK Thailand will buy natural gas from Myanmar under a deal that will be struck next week. A Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) official said the state-owned unit will sign a contract with the Myanmar Energy Ministry on Sep 9.
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      • 196 22 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT NEW YORK Crude oil and heating oil futures rose on the New York Mercantile Exchange in response to falling inventories, indicating demand is running stronger than expected. US supplies of crude fell 2.97 million barrels last week
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      • 94 22 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was higher against the major currencies except the pound sterling early yesterday in a calm atmosphere before the Bundesbank's fortnightly meeting and US unemployment figures later in the week. Around 1350 GMT, the dollar was trading at 1.5800 marks against 1.5765 late Tuesday
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        1513 22 Imle-tietfhiriJ nttltt ,ahiilalnl afam\i S'purr lap 14 trading partiun Box irar. I98< US$/S$ forward rates Noon Aug 31 S$ Bid Offer 1-month ***** 1 5002 2-month 1 4982 1.4996 V month 1.4976 1.4990 6-month 1.4953 1.4971 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9am on Aug 31 Singapore dollars
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1284 23 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen and Japanese government bond (JGB) futures ended steady after trading in narrow ranges. Dealers said Japanese July industrial production data, which were in line with market market expectations, did not excite the market. A preliminary 1.7 per cent
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      • 475 23 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber SINGAPORE RSSI and RSS3 mbber futures ended the day mixed but trading turned active in the afternoon on booksquaring, brokers said. The sheet rubber sector saw light short-covering alternated with liquidation. But the TSR2O contract was however lower on selling pressure.
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 84 23 HONGKONG China's Guixi Copper Smelter will boost its imports of copper concentrate by 20 to 30 per cent after it completes an expansion designed to double output capacity by 1997, an official said. The smelter, located in the southern province of Jiangxi, now imports
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        • 95 23 HONGKONG China's central government has so far purchased 6.52 million tonnes of early rice, up 3.31 million from last year's early rice buying, the Beijing-backed Wen Wei Po newspaper reported yesterday. As of Thursday, 93 per cent of the planned buying of early rice for this
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        • 65 23 CANBERRA Australian oil and gas producer Ampolex yesterday announced its El Jem-2ST onshore well in Tunisia has encountered hydrocarbons. "It's an encouraging result, but it's still too early to be definitive about it," a company spokesman said. El Jem-2ST tested at 13.3 million cubic feet of
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        • 103 23 SEOUL South Korea plans to increase imports of beef this year to meet surging demand, the English language Korea Times newspaper reported yesterday. South Korea's beef imports for this year will amount to roughly 126,000 tons, up from 106,000 tons officially projected at
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        • 80 23 TAIPEI Taiwan Feed Grain Association has agreed to buy 300,000 tonnes of South African corn before April, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News reported yesterday. "A negotiation team is in South Africa to discuss signing a long-term contract to buy corn. However, we are unable
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        • 69 23 TOKYO Average retail prices of petrol, gas oil and kerosene in Japan were unchanged from a week earlier, the Institute of Energy Economics reported yesterday. The average price of high-oc-tane petrol was 137 yen per litre; regular petrol was 120 yen; gas oil
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    • 1445 23 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 5.30pw) IBS t Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Sep 94 198.00 198.00 198.00 25 800 Oct 187.50 186.50 187.50 1025 5050 Nov 175.25 175.00 175.75 550 5225 Dec 170.50 170.50 172.25 225 4500
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1133 24 +5.6 STOCKS closed marginally firmer yesterday following uninspiring domestic economic data but investors were hesitant ahead of Wall Street's opening, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index finished at 2,122.1 points, up 5.6. The All Industrials Index advanced 5.3 to 3.052.3 while the All Resources Index rose 6.2 to 1,428.3.
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      • 637 24 +8.76 Share prices moved sideways yesterday despite the release of encouraging 5.07 per cent gross national product (GNP) growth for the first half and frenzied buying in property-related issues, analysts said. The PSE Index edged up 8.76 points to 3,112.83. Turnover was 4.51 billion valued at 1.91 billion pesos.
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      • 555 24 +27.83 Stocks yesterday posted modest gains in cautious trading, with Foods topping the winning categories of shares, dealers said. The 378-issue Weighted Price Index rose 27.83 points, to settle at 7,008.11. Turnover was 1.41 billion shares valued at NT571.66 billion. The market opened slightly higher and peaked at 7,034
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      • 453 24 +4.38 Stocks finished in positive territory for the second consecutive day yesterday on a flood of continued buying orders for blue chips and petrochemicals issues. The Composite Price Index gained 4.38 points to settle at 944.23. Turnover swelled to 33.2 million shares worth 642.5 billion won. Falls outpaced rises
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      • 298 24 15.66 Shares rose to a three-month high after forestry and energy group Fletcher Challenge reported higher than expected annual profit, traders said. "The market wanted to hear a good story from Fletchers and it got it," said a broker. Fletcher Challenge lifted net profit 77 per cent to
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      • 111 24 +62.91 The BSE 30-share Index closed at an all-time high of 4,588.16 for a gain of 62.91 points breaching the previous high of 4,546.58 reached on April 2, 1992. The 100-share National Index closed at 2,145.19, up 13.33. Indian stock prices have been rising in the past few weeks
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      • 970 24 Britannia Funds Sicilian Cask Bid Offitr Mim Cap Orpowt 3* MOO M6500 Mint Jersey Gilt AIW3 ***** Mim Mu Income ***** ***** USt Caah Incomc Plus Fund *9 4800 *9 9900 PS S Reserve Fund S 3000 5 )100 Sterliag Mail) Euro PerfoorurK* 0.4)92 0 49Jl Far Eaa Fund *2
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      • 692 24 1.7 STOCKS turned mixed amid a drop in Treasury bonds after a US report showed prices paid by manufacturers rose this month. The prospect of rising prices, the bond market's nemesis, cancelled out the stock market's initial gains, which had been sparked by takeover speculation and hopes for rising
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      • 181 24 +8.71 French stocks were steady as investors took in the news of Tuesday's surprise move by major commercial banks to raise their base lending rate for the first time in 20 months. "A lot of people see it as having to do with the pressure of long term rates
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      • 224 24 -5.77 German stocks were mixed in post-bourse trading amid European interest rate concerns. Investors were cheered briefly by news from the US Commerce Department that the US index of leading economic indicators a yardstick to measure growth over the next half year was unchanged in July. "It's hard to
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      • 191 24 +2.53 Belgian stocks rose for the sixth of the past seven days on expectations that US economic recovery will boost earnings of Belgian companies. The Bel-20 Index rose 2.53 points to 1,481.53, its highest level since Aug. 8. Delhaizc "Le Lion", a food retailer which last year earned 72
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      • 176 24 -25 Italian stocks closed mostly lower, with investors continuing to stay out of the market as they await September and the 1995 budget. "It's still a waiting market," said a trader. "We are going to have to see the budget before investors start to come back." The Mibtel Index
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      • 289 24 -1.56 Dutch stocks closed lower as worries over European interest rates resurfaced and BolsWessanen disappointed with a drop in first-half earnings. Today's Bundesbank meeting and Tuesday night's decision by four major French banks to raise base rates by 25 basis points made investors realise that more rises in interest
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      • 132 24 1.95 Swedish shares closed higher following earlier gains in London, and strong earnings growth reported by Swedish companies. The OMX Index of Sweden's 30 most traded shares closed 1.95 points higher at 1,129.85. Earlier the index had fallen as much as 9.05 points to a low of 1,118.85 as
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      • 274 24 +9.9 Swiss stocks rose, helped by strong gains in pharmaceutical stocks even though CibaGeigy reported disappointing results. The SMI Index of 23 stocks gained 9.9 points to 2,645.6, the sixth day of gains, with 12 stocks higher, one steady and 10 lower. The SPI Index of 350 stocks gained
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      • 251 24 -4.04 Stocks were mixed in sluggish midday trade with a quiet afternoon session expected, traders said. Gains in precious metals and consumer products were offset by losses in financial services and transportation. The TSE-300 Composite Index was down 4.04 points to 4,329.67 on volume of 31.00 million shares valued
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      • 738 24 -4.53 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which climbed 18.45 points on Tuesday, was down 4.53 points to 3,912.77 at I lam. EDT. The key barometer was down 9.38 points shortly after the market opened. The NYSE Composite Index was off 0.30 to 261.80. while Standard Poors 500-stock index
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      2781 25 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks rose for a sixth day to close at a five-month high as investors expected US inflation to remain stable and interest rates to stay put. The current rally has been based on Wall Street hopes that US inflation is being contained and local assessments
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      538 25 CLSA THE Shanghai B shares moved up 9.1S points to 891.36 on turnover of US$5.9 million. Previously neglected counters saw substantial price changes. Vacuum climbed 10.1 per cent, and Rubber Belt 5.3 per cent. The Shenzhen B Index remained almost unchanged on turnover of HKS4.S million. Victor Onward lost
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      1751 25 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks ended higher for the fourth consecutive day as foreign buying of blue chip stocks in the banking and communications sectors was topped off by active speculative trade. The SET Index closed up 32.30 points at 1,524.83. Turnover was 18.6 billion baht. Banks were up 3.27 per
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      2475 25 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended another day of shackled trade barely changed from their Tuesday closes. Amid a lack of incentives and uncertainty over currency direction, investors shopped around for issues with prospects of upward revisions in their earnings forecasts. "With the likelihood that the Nikkei will remain tethered within
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      1137 25 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed mixed in moderate trading across the board after light profit-taking by overseas players influenced domestic investors to follow, brokers said. "The market opened firm but became nervous when some overseas players tried to cash out recent gains," one broker said. The move caused local
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    • 2275 26 J Muki-Purpose 4.073,000 GoMcn Plus H 3.714.000 Gamla Hktas 3,126,000 1 Bcnaya L vCw9 2.803.000 Idru Hvd 50c 2.720.000 Promct 2.561.000 Mulpha I nil 50c 2.434.000 Kamunting 50c 2.349,000 h As* P* Ld 1.844.000 KcmayanCwp 1.628,000 B Kaya TSR97 1,583.000 Kulim (M) Wt99 1.539.000 Fabcr Group 1.406,000 Golden
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    • 5259 26 The Kuala Lumpur stock market was closed yesterday for National Day holiday. Below are Tuesday's closing prices 1994 Lam Vol Day Net Co# High Law Cnim Safe WO Higk Low P/K Saail MDUSTMALS CMaaarNMi MO 3M Apaomofi 340 -5 7 MO 530 <00 211* 44: 2tt
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      • 7897 27 Cr Cr M Wt IN4 Lot Vol Day Last Qack Di» Oh VW Net Cap A.g Hick Lo« Com—; Sal* (HOO) High Law Buyer Seller CV P/E Ml Price INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1440 8JS Pis Acma 995 -J 77 1010 995 990 995 17 5 4.7 I I 159 6858
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      • 1849 28  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Stocks staged a much better than expected performance yesterday, as continued firmness on Wall Street finally had a positive impact here. Also contributing to the buoyant mood, which pushed the Straits Times Industrials Index past its 2,300 resistance,
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 307 29  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Cosem Pte Ltd has launched a $1 million container depot business, two months after it was incorporated as a joint-venture holding company of Cosco and Sembawang Maritime. The new company, Cosco Container Depot Ltd, is owned by Cosem
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    • 259 29 Reuter LONDON French shipbuilding group Constructions Mechaniques de Normandie has submitted a revised offer for Britain's bankrupt Swan Hunter under which it would not assume any financial responsibility for completing work on a current frigate contract, Swan Hunter's receiver said. "Whilst the receivers are
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    • 358 29 Reuter PITTSBURGH Shipbuilding, once a prime market for US steelmakers before the defence industry's downsizing, is getting a boost by a loan initiative recently launched by President Clinton. "We're considering this good news," said Mike Heagy, spokesman for Bethlehem Steel Corp,
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    • 816 29 Page Col Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahlers Lines 13 S Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 •APL 5 3-5 •Appenship 8 4/5 •ANL 3 1/2 •ASCL 5 5 Assist Marine 6 1 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 Bank Line, The 9
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    • 496 29 The Nation BANGKOK Thai Maritime Navigation (TMN), a state liner company, has agreed to sell its shares to Bara International Shipping Line at 40 baht (552.39) each after a long-haul negotiation. The Nation said in a report on Monday. TMN has
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    • 448 29 NYT MIAMI A federal judge ordered a cruise ship company that pleaded guilty to dumping oil into the Atlantic to pay US$5OO,OOO (*****,000) and establish an environmental programme to prevent another such spill. The case was the first criminal prosecution
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    • 761 30  -  Has it become safer to sail the seven seas? Rahita Elias reports Rahita Elias PIRACY in Asian waters is taking on a new guise. Instead of armed marauders stalking and attacking sailing ships in the dead of night, pirates now make off with
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    • 12398 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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    • 3359 43 AjLBC C ontainerline NV: Bdsin Shpg Pte Lid (SVMarine Handling bdn Bhd (PK/PN). Jctord Group: Accord Shpg Pic Ltd oVAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Ittris Business Corporation Philippine: Cklsourcc Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ihrenkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg trdg(S). jibatros Sen-Air Service: I-rata Shpg Pte kid (S). lifted
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    • 279 43 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898. Air Express Travel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144 Airborne Freight C orporation Tel: 542-8844 Fax: 542-3716 *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. City-Link International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Cluster Link Supplies Services
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    • 1521 43 Abf\ h\ press Kmghl l"d: 542-7171. Fax *****84 Actinic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Td: 542-7822. Fa*: *****20 Aerolink freight Inlernalional Td: 545-8033. Fax: *****05 Aerospeed Td: 542-5911. Fax: *****15. Air Canto Now Kxpress Td: 542-5454. Fax: *****06 Air Fxpress Iniernatioaal Td: 542-7666. Fax: *****74. *****50.
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    • 2857 44 ALBANIA Duires: Three vessels in port op erating of which 1 discharging bagged sugar, 1 loading cotton bales, 1 discharging bagged felspar, no vessels in roads. ANGOLA Luanda: City quiet, port working normally, no berthing delays. Namibe, Lobito: Port and city quiet. All crude oil terminals loading according
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    • 1098 44 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Arr Pep Namt of Vessel ETA L I D Forts of Calls Port Agent Telephone No SEPTEMBER 02 02 Renaissance 2 1000 1930 Cruise to Nowhere Lines lnl'1 Holdings 224-2763 02 02 Leisure World 1000 2015 Cruise to Nowhere New Century Tours Corp 227-8284 02
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    • 533 44 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES Inspite of the holiday season, we see further evidence of the firming drycargo prices, especially on the handy size/handymax market. VESSELS SOLD FOR FURTHER TRADING Bulk Carriers Skautroll: 37,497 dwt and built July 1983 Osaka, sold for about U5514.75 million to clients Pearl Shipping, India. Dyvi
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      • 685 45 V«M( Voy No B«rth Arnval Dtpvturt Jurong Port Andhdularnnata 6 M/5 atowde 0109/1400 A«s SB 281 118/19 alongside 0109/1200 AS.V/B 3/94 J17 alongside 0109/0900 8atam Bahagia 08/06/94 12 0109/2330 DM Gum 06/04/94 121 0109/2300 ET OHstere 1/8 65 110 akxigs* 0109/1200 ■yo P»e 6/94 112 *xr** 0109/2359
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      • 1269 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AMP LCI CARCO Record Bookint/Baiance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From to tog 056A 03/1500 4 01/1200 01/1«M 01/1/00 to Me 201B 02/1100 2A 31/1700 01/0659 01/0900 4 01/1200 01/1459 01/1700 to
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      • 779 45 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 579 45 Carton Cartw A«l 25 tarty later Readue Mk toman SeAnent Denty Hater RoMw Ml NmMmi S«ftnant M M M/M Exxon Exxon RG/IT3 V/V M/M M/M PPM method KG/IT3 tV/V M/M M/M PPM method Eastern USA 180 Ave 983 0.3 14.1 0 09 10 0.02 BO/Cfenac LMh
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    • 747 46  -  The airport, which opens on Sunday, is expected to boost the Japanese city's bid to become a major Pacific Rim business hub. David Holley reports David Holley Los Angeles Times IT is the most expensive airport ever built 50 per cent over budget when
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    • 1598 46 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,446 on Tuesday from 1,456 on Aug 26. Rates for US Gulf-Japan Panamax cargoes slumped following the lons weekend break here, brokers said. Louis Dreyfus snapped up tonnage for a 54,000-long ton heavy grain, soybean and
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 407 48  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Hongkong carrier Cathay Pacific Airways has adopted a new logo to reinforce its identity as an Asian-based international airline. It was unveiled at the official roll-out of the airline's first Airbus A 330 at the Airbus Industrie
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      • 366 48 AFP PARIS Debt-laden French carrier Air France has hired the former head of US group United Airlines as a senior adviser but the groups are not planning an imminent merger, the United Airlines chairman told a French paper on Tuesday. Speaking to the
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      • 211 48 SINGAPORE The Boeing 747 freighter has carried the major share of the world's air cargo this year and will continue to do so in coming years, aircraft maker Boeing says in a report. In its 1994 World Air Cargo forecast, released recently,
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      • 447 48 Reuter CHICAGO The Association of Flight Attendants said on Tuesday it had ended negotiations with UAL Corp, parent of United Airlines, to join in an employee buyout of the carrier. With this action the AFA has dropped all attempts to join United's
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      • 78 48 Bloomberg Business News PARIS The Channel Tunnel passenger train service linking Paris and Brussels to London is due to begin on Oct 23, says Britßail Travel International president Tim Roebuck. In a statement on Tuesday he said rates would be announced in
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      • 78 48 Pratt Whitney plans service centre Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Pratt and Whitney Co president Kari Krapek said the company may set up a joint parts and service supply centre with three Japanese airlines, Japan's Jiji Press reported on Monday. The three airlines have responded positively to the offer. Japan Airlines,
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      • 85 48 AFP KARACHI Pakistan's state-owned shipping company, Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC), will buy eight ships to strengthen its fleet, officials said on Tuesday. PNSC chairman Admiral Mansoorul Haq told a news conference that five vessels would be acquired in the first phase. The
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      • 89 48 Bloomberg Business News DETROIT The US subsidiaries of German car makers Porsche AG and Volkswagen AG on Tuesday announced substantial price reductions on their US models for 1995, saying the cuts reflect productivity gains made by their parent firms. Volkswagen United States Inc said
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      • 96 48 Reuter NEW YORK AMR Corp on Tuesday said its American Airlines Inc unit has started a project to streamline headquarters management and administrative staffs. A team of corporate officers, managers and an outside consultant win spend four to five months studying the airline's organisational
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      • 68 48 Reuter WASHINGTON The US National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that certain fuel pumps made by Chandler Evans Co undergo extra inspections and that the design of the pumps be evaluated. The board said the Chandler Evans MFP-261 engine-driven fuel pump was implicated
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      • 165 48 AFP BANGKOK The board of Thai Airways International voted on Tuesday not to accept delivery of seven Airbus A *****0 aircraft until the plane receives certification for an automatic landing system, the airline said in a statement. The airline also will
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      • 265 48 Reuter LONDON British Airways pic has announced details of cargo rate increases it will implement on international routes from the UK with effect from Oct 1. It said the rates to Japan will go up by 15 per cent, to other
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    • 37 29 2 New Services to Far East RTA Arriving Wed to Pusan Incheon lAX Arriving Fri to Tokyo, Osaka Yokohama Hotline 326Q23Q Pirates employing new tactics in Asian waters, Pg 2 Cathay Pacific unveils new logo, Back Pg
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    • 1278 33 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Koppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 CARGO DUE SAILS uXm CJ. MAGA M3O Wit Murj. life. KK 29-30 Auf 31 Auf 01 Sap FCL, LCL CONTAINER AMO aftCAKBUIK ICR VKE TO PAPUA NEW OUMEA STRAITS PRCE VI7E Mu»i. 1*
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    • 677 34 GENERAL AGENT C R NO: *****81-***** 4§3k EKA JAYA AGENCIES YMr TEL: *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN CHARGE pHP CHI MNH CITY PAQgR I HANDPHONE DWICT I HtHHTHQt ZUM24 mait MUYiH CHAM —2I«M» HMrawan ■AHW 11CH23 MM7M I WMJAMWK— zmna ImawyHraa 1 TO VIETNAM/HCMC CONTAINtft-PCCDCR SERVICE CENTER-POINT
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    • 1491 35 Y2 l| 'RHEIN BRIDGE 36W' ETA SGP 03/09/94 II B AfeMar 11 ETA RDM 19/09/94, FLX 20/09/94 II BRE 22/09/94, LEH 24/09/94 II wxport n* psw/pnw shqapor* cauporhia ixwgii (tcx> to? uswc usqulf midwest usrc oa/mm VESSEL VOY TBP LOS OAK VAN SET ATL CCG ILL {LB PAL DIT~ HOI
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    • 79 35 SNIPPING WAREHOUSING Xf, H SMPMIBISiIIRMMHHI H gi Singapore Loading Every Mon To Fri (BATAMINOO l/N) f Accopting FCL/ComreoMooel/Protect A Heavy Lift Cargo Tel: 227-0322 P Batamlndo Shipping A p Warehousing Pte Ltd v/. A Fax: 222-9330 H x.zyvjrjc z- .V/O^-4 y *****33 IRAN ETA SIN ETADUBAI 09/09 19/09 15/09 25/09
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    • 1064 35 a MULTILINE SHIPPING PTE LTD ■V (a member of SINSOV Group) CR NO: **********0 C ENQUIRIES: *****33 X BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31. *****13 > BALTIC: INWARD *****97 OUTWARD *****10 T/S *****10 Jfrv BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****28 T/S *****46 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****99/*****01 DOC *****07 MARINE INSURANCE: *****87 INVENTORY: *****59 AGENTS:
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    • 1471 36 44 VM AS AGENTS: "K" LMI (SINGAPORE) PTI LTD (CR NO **********0M/GST REG NO: M2-0Q*****-C) TEL. *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 I T V MALAYSIA UNI MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD u B TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 1 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUT HfTERNUSA,
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    • 992 37 rr PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 140 Cecii street #°3-°0 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. CR NO **********0E I d 1 El Y CMS JIB HOO JED AO J AOE PZU ASA MSW "OTA BE RANI BRNO7S 2/9 7/9 14/9 1«/9 1«/9 20/9 3/10 17/9 23/9 29/9 Ml *®J* WJA4SS 7/9
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    • 546 37 1 BSfl A mm. MYANMA ™HBk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.KIj Pen P.Gd* SAGAMG V36W IN PORT HP* AN V2O4W 02/04 Stp 04/06 Sec MVOMAVWA VIS3W 02/04 Sep 05/0« Sep PAGAN V2I3W 15/17 %f> MAIATSIA AGENTS. BOUSTIAO SMPPWG AGENCCS KUL TEL 03-*****00 Mil
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    • 2055 40 mi mi mimiii FORTNIGHTLY To-^f^ ZEALAND 5/flfipffft't Ccfftfji 4fwts.' COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD 701 (Gveral): *****00 Sale* Booking: Agency Dept. 6 SWm W*, *17 08 i£h?o Container. *****41/844 Container Svc B/L *****02 Operation Container: *****15 OBS Bldg Tower 2 r'^ n i i 7K7x<Z%m m Conventional: *****50 0/0: *****85 Conventional:
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    • 721 41 (it FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 05/9 ROTTERDAM 05/9 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 05/9 HAMBURG/BREMEN 05/9 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 06/9 FEUXSTOWE/UK 05/9 BARCELONA/SPAIN 05/9 LEHAVRE/FRAWCE 06/9 GENOA/ITALY 05/9 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 05/9 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 04/9 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 04/9 NEW YORK/EC 04/9 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 02/9 VANCOUVER 09/9 BRISBANE
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    • 1412 42 SlSwSkok «W2)23W«57 P.KKLANQ: (03) *****77 JAKAfItA: (21) *****07 BUWABAVA} (61) *****0 I ASIA HKG/TWN/BKKI GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN 1/9 2/9 3/9 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH Genoa/Barc«lona/Marsei»«s 2/9 3/9 4/9 3/9 4/9 5/9 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH G'burf/C'hafen/S'holm/Oslo 6/9 7/9 8/9 5/9 6/9 7/9 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH Mraws 1/9 2/9 3/9 nMVRFmwiMfi —5/9 6/9
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    • 406 46 79 ANSON ROAD, #21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TELE: *****92 FAX: *****57 CR **********0N STRAITS SHUTTLE SERVICE SINGAPORE/PORT KLANG/SINGAPORE SINQAPORE/PENANQ/SINQAPORE Vtssa VOV I SW I PKL VESSEL I VOY I SW PEN MCC CONVEYOR 9439 31/1/34 (WED) 02/9/94 (FW) MCC CONVEYOR 9439 31/8/94 (WED) 02/9/94 (FW) WW* SINGAPORE *****N 02/9/94 (FBI) 04/9/94
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