The Business Times, 5 September 1994

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  • 2am LATEST
    • 60 1 AP WASHINGTON Haiti's military regime still has time to avoid an invasion by relinquishing power on its own. US Vice-President A 1 Gore, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday, said invasion was "not inevitable if the illegal dictators in Haiti decide to comply with the
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    • 44 1 AP WASHINGTON Collegeeducated women are the only group whose real wages have not fallen in the early *****, while the wages of college-edu-cated men are declining as fast as less-educated workers, according to a new report on the nation's workforce. AP
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  • 148 1 Slwh mtrfcrt indicw KrMay Week cluate STII 2.330.61 +37.1 KLSEComp 1,160.88 +49.1 Nikkei 20,653.83 +182.34 Hang Seng 9,901.56 502.48 SET Index 1,539.86 +89.11 Jakarta Comp 515.50 +9.97 CLSA China B 1.158.38 +17.18 Aust All Ord 2.107. +29.8 FTSE 100 3,216.50 -48.6 Dow Jones 3,885.58 +4.53 oqufriloiit lending Singapore*
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  • 568 1  -  By AJ Leow SINGAPORE Media reports of record prices set by condominium developments launched earlier this year had belied the fact that demand for private properties actually slowed down in the first half of the year, according to a National University
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  • 593 1  -  By Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN multinational Sime Darby Bhd has posted an 11.5 per cent rise in group net profit to M 5449.7 million (***** million) for the financial year ended June 30. Although the result
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  • 251 1 Bernama BANGI, Malaysia The sharp appreciation of the yen has seriously implications for the Malaysian economy. Deputy Finance Minister Mustapa Mohamed said yesterday: "One-third of the total federal government debt is in yen and we are at the mercy of the Japanese." He was speaking
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  • 334 1 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong is considering adopting Singapore's strict quota system for privately-owned cars in a bid to curb traffic congestion in one of the most densely populated places on earth. "The growth of private cars has been phenomenal and it must be suppressed. Singapore
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  • 590 1  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE The Keppel group and Singapore Press Holdings have formed a consortium to bid for licences to run mobile phone and radio paging services in a tender that has attracted the attention of international giants, including Australia's Telstra Corp and
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 291 2  -  By Corinne Kerk GROWTH in credit card spending is showing signs of slowing down. Total billings of Visa's Singapore cardholders reached $852 million in the second quarter, 0.8 per cent down from the $858.7 million in the first three months of 1994. Visa accounts for about
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    • 427 2  -  By Soh Tiang Keng NTUC FairPricc, Singapore's largest supermarket chain, is planning to introduce Ameri-can-style service and retailing know-how here. Up to now. Fair Price has leaned heavily on the Japanese model of running its 47 supermarket and retail outlets spread across the
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    • 102 2 THE Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) said it is coming up with a three-year plan to address some rising social problems among Indians which may erode family values and ties. Its chief executive officer MP Kanisan yesterday said at a seminar on family values
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    • 78 2 OWNERS of nine blocks of HDB flats at Jurong East Street 13 yesterday started voting on the government's interim upgrading programme. The residents started voting after meeting MP for Jurong Ho Kah Leong. If 75 per cent or more agreed to the upgrading, work
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    • 58 2 NATIONAL SERVICEMEN will now be issued with additional personal equipment such as helmets and field packs which they can take home for use during in-camps and mobilisation exercises. Defence Minister Lee Boon Yang said Mindef considered requests from NSmen and did a trial before deciding
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    • 250 2  -  Product can be used in air-bag and anti-skid braking systems By Markos Tando A LOCAL precision instruments maker has teamed up with the Institute of Microelectronics to develop a device that can be used in vehicle safety systems such as air-bags and seat-belts.
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    • 236 2 td|H the market was as predictable mT the Finest Scotch \W«sky Government Speakers Include Private Sector Speakers include H.E. President Soeharto of Indonesia The Hon. Peter Benson, Sr. Partner. Coopers Lybrand H.E. President Ramos of The Philippines Mr 0,11,1 Berr V* chief Executive. Morgan Grentell H.E. Mr Brian Howe MP,
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 398 3  -  From Alan Boyd THAILAND has approved large tax cuts designed to bolster its claim as the region's car assembly centre, with output being shifted to export markets to replace falling domestic motor vehicle sales, said Savit Bhotiwihok, the government
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    • 254 3 MBT TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said Japan is ready to reassess its position on the proposed East Asia Economic Caucus (EAEC), saying that there is no reason to reject it. Reflecting what many described as a definite forward movement
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    • 404 3  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE The Philippine government, which recently lost a tax evasion case against tobacco magnate Lucio Tan, is appealing against the tax court's decision. Tax authorities filed a motion on Aug 26 asking the court of tax
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    • 258 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia and Exxon are expected to sign a contract in November to develop the Natuna gas field in the South China Sea, a news report said here yesterday. "God willing, in the end of November, the negotiations between Exxon and
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 127 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian authorities plan to provide tax incentives for investment in frontier areas, high-risk business sectors and for firms which reinvest their after-tax profits here, a news report said yesterday. The Bisnis Indonesia daily quoted Finance Minister Mar'ie Muhammad as telling the parliament on
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      • 84 3 Reuter HANOI Foreign investment pledges for projects in Vietnam have topped the psychological US$lO billion (Ssls billion) barrier, the State Committee for Cooperation and Investment (SCCI) said yesterday. A licence awarded for a US$3B million farming scheme by Hongkong's Chia Hsin company sent the figure
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      • 109 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian business tycoon Eddy Tansil has lodged an appeal against a 17-year jail term imposed last month for his role in a US$447 million (Ss67l million) fraud, the Repiiblika daily said yesterday. An unnamed lawyer for Tansil was quoted as saying an appeal
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      • 101 3 Reuter TOKYO The Myanmar military junta has said it will open talks with the country's foremost dissident, Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, Japanese dailies reported yesterday. Kyaw Win, deputy director of the Myanmar Defence Ministry's intelligence bureau, told Japanese reporters
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      • 108 3 AFP JAKARTA Jakarta Military Commander Hendropriyono has called on his subordinates to remain vigilant against possible efforts to disturb the Apec summit here in November, the Antara news agency said yesterday. "Be alert for individuals who will engage in actions to shame the
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
      • 129 4 Reuter BEIJING Workers in China have coughed up substantially more in income tax to the government since Beijing revised the law this year, the official China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. In the first six months of 1994, China collected three billion yuan (***** million)
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      • 97 4 Reuter TAIPEI State-run Taiwan Power Company will invest NTS6SO million (SS37 million) in a coal-exploring venture in Australia, the semi-official Central News Agency reported. The Commission of National Corporations has approved the proposal by Taiwan Power, the agency quoted unnamed commission officials as saying.
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      • 101 4 Reuter SHANGHAI China's state council has ordered stricter control of grain prices after floods and drought in producing provinces sparked fears of falling output, Xinhua news agency reported. "All localities must strictly carry out the government policy on grain pricing," Xinhua quoted Luo Zhiling, Vice-Minister
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      • 86 4 Reuter BEIJING The People's Higher Court in China's central Wuhan province has declared a Sino-Hongkong container joint venture bankrupt after it failed to repay debts which had matured, the Xinhua news agency said. The insolvency of the Wuhan Container Co Ltd, a joint venture between
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    • 454 4 Reuter MOSCOW Russia and China have pledged to build more stable ties, avoiding the shifts between political alliance and outright hostility that marked their relations in the past. Chinese President Jiang Zemin came to Moscow on Friday to meet his Russian counterpart
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    • 266 4 AFP Bloomberg Business News BLUING China's booming real estate industry- a major cause of inflationary pressure is expected to register double-digit growth for the rest of the decade. The China Daily Business Weekly yesterday quoted a Construction Ministry report as
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    • 119 4 AFP BEIJING China is to pump USS2SO million (***** million) into the country's only wholly Chinese-owned passenger car production line in a bid to double output. The China Daily Business Weekly yesterday said the massive injection of funds will be used to
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    • 322 4 AFP SEOUL Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng may visit South Korea next month to discuss business, the North Korea's nuclear problem and security. Yonhap news agency said yesterday. Mr Li would be the highest Chinese official to visit South Korea since the
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 408 5 Reuter BOMBAY Indian newspaper barons are fighting a rearguard battle against the next proposed phase in the country's free-market programme the opening up of its market of 900 million people to foreign media. Despite strong objections within his ruling Congress Party
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    • 256 5 AP WASHINGTON The Indian government complained on Friday that the US recall of hundreds of thousands of imported flammable skirts unfairly created an "impression that all Indian garments were dangerously flammable". But it confirmed an American official's statement that
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    • 232 5  -  From Brian Gomez in SYDNEY AN Australian company, Trippett Sheddon, has signed a Asl6 million (5517.8 million) deal with Indonesia's Alamsemestra Foresta under which Australian-developed remote sensing technology will be used to monitor ecological trends in Indonesia. Australia's Minister for Industry,
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 62 5 AP TOKYO Space engineers tried on Saturday to save at least some of the experiments planned for a US$4l5 million (***** million) government satellite which failed to enter its proper orbit. The communications satellite's failure, following an embarrassing series of errors and delays, was a
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      • 67 5 AFP SEOUL Foreign stock investors have gained some US$5.6 billion (SsB.4 billion) in market value since South Korea partially opened its bourse in January 1992, according to official statistics publicised yesterday. In August, South Korean issues held by foreigners were valued at US$l4 billion,
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      • 72 5 Reuter TOKYO A leading Japanese real estate developer is to build two high-rise office blocks in Shanghai, one of them 90 storeys tall, the economic journal Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday. The paper said Mori Building Co, a leading supplier of office buildings in
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      • 48 5 UPI COLOMBO The leader of the Tamil separatist guerillas, Velupillai Prabhakaran, has said he will meet Sri Lankan Prime Minister Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaranatunga for peace talks in rebel-held Jaffna, according to the government's senior ofTicial in the northern district, K Manicavasagar. UPI
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    • 49 5 AFP SEOUL A South Korean girl running happily after a parade on the confetti-showered pavement of a busy downtown shopping street on Saturday. Traffic had stopped for dancing and other festival events on the first day of the annual three-week-long Myoungdong street festival. AFP
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    • 156 5 AFP BEIJING China hopes the impending visit of Australian Trade Minister Bob McMullan will boost Beijing's bid to reenter Gatt an issue Canberra has linked to successful wool trade talks, a report said yesterday. Mr McMullan arrives here tomorrow at the
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 1186 6  -  The Langkawi meeting By Agnes Chen SINGAPORE Ask ordinary Singaporeans and Malaysians how they view the complex interlocking ties between their two countries, and you hear descriptions such as "sibling rivalry" and "it's all in the family". Few, however, deny that apart from the occasional
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    • 37 6 S y Valuing the customer Singapore guns for chip market Becoming a smart investor What s next for the Royal Brothers 9 Hight-tech fraud on Wall Street Investment spotlights on Singapore Shipbuilding and Pilecon SEPTEMBER 1994 k
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  • THE WORLD
    • 448 7 FT BRUSSELS A constitutional debate has broken out in Europe on the future pace of political and economic integration. The wrangling could prove as divisive as that over the Maastricht Treaty. Concern was expressed at the implications for the community's
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    • 340 7 AFP BERLIN Economic cooperation between western Europe and southern Africa is set to receive a boost with an unprecedented joint session in Berlin today and tomorrow of 27 foreign ministers from the two regions. As current president of the European Union's council
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    • 424 7 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Union, already a Tower of Babel, is about to get up to three new languages, straining its ability to communicate but giving a boost to English as the EU's working tongue. It is a prospect, diplomats and
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    • 294 7 Reuter NEW YORK The Clinton administration plans military and diplomatic actions over the next few weeks, including new movements of US troops into the Caribbean, according to the Saturday editions of The Los Angeles Times. Officials told the paper the administration hopes
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 99 7 AFP LONDON Troubled Russian investment group MMM was banned from advertising in the state-run media on Saturday by the Russian government, the ITAR-TASS news agency said yes* terday in a report monitored here by the BBC. Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin signed the government's decision,
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      • 58 7 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO Former secretary Rena Weeks celebrating as she left City Hall on Thursday with her lawyers Alan Exelrod (left) and Philip Kay. Ms Weeks was awarded more than US$7 million (SSIO.S million) in damages in her sexual harassment suit against her former employers at
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      • 81 7 Reuter LONDON British Prime Minister John Major yesterday rejected a plea from Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams to sit down now for talks and said he still needed convincing that the IRA ceasefire in Northern Ireland was permanent. "We would like to be
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      • 86 7 Reuter WASHINGTON US Defence Secretary William Perry has cancelled his trip to Russia this week and instead will only go to Germany, the US Defence Department said on Saturday. He had been scheduled to leave today for Russia and Germany to see the first joint military
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      • 64 7 AFP JERUSALEM Syria wants to press ahead to make peace with Israel, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said in an interview published yesterday. "There is an accumulation of facts which show Syria intends to press ahead," he told Yediot Ahaornot newspaper. The two neighbours are
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    • 611 8 But Labour refuses to promise favours after predicted election victory Reuter LONDON British trade unions, battered and depleted by 15 years of hostile Conservative governments, may be on the verge of a revival as the political mood changes following Tony Blair's
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    • 293 8 AFP PARIS French firms are looking for contracts worth a total of US$5OO million (Ss7so million) from a visit here this week by China's President Jiang Zemin, business sources said. French companies secured nearly US$l billion in new
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    • 300 8 AP RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil s finance minister resigned on Saturday after boasting in a private chat accidentally transmitted nationwide that he slanted economic data to help the government-backed presidential candidate. President Itamar Franco accepted Rubens Ricupero's resignation a day after refusing
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    • 297 8 FT MOSCOW Russia has announced a new tax structure to try to beat massive tax evasion and maintain government revenue in the face of falling production. Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Aleksashenko last Friday said tax revenues to July had been half
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    • 424 8 2nd Asia Young Leaders' Forum October 5-7,1994 Puerto Azul Beach Hotel, Philippines n jJ [l (Jointly organised by the Asean Business Forum and IS The Asia-Australia Institute) The Asia-Australia Institute W ASIA'S FUTURE: WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER? Asia In The *****: What Are The Challenges For Young Leaders? A A
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  • Business IT
    • 824 9  -  Now it has more capital, new management and advanced products to boost its faltering CD-ROM drive business, Joseph Rajendran learns Joseph Rajendran WEARNES Peripherals, which is struggling to generate profits from its CD-ROM drive business, has just got a cash infusion from parent
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    • 475 9  -  The local designing coup aside, the tool also boasts unique features, says David Mok David Mok SINGAPORE chalked up a first with the launch of MediaCorder. an end-us-er multimedia authoring tool, at the Information Technology Institute's (ITI) second industry briefing last week. DigiWorks
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 59 10 SINGAPORE Telecom Equipment has launched Micro 7, a lightweight pager with a longer battery life. Operating an AAA battery, the pager can work for up to 34 days, claimed Telecom Equipment. The product was developed by Shuwa Technology Company and is priced at $188, excluding GST.
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      • 67 10 SINGAPORE WordPerfect Asia, which is being assimilated into Novell, has launched an attractive offer for its applications products. Until Oct 31, any buyer of WordPerfect 6.0 a will get a free licence upgrade to PerfectOffice. The PerfectOffice package includes WordPerfect, Quattro Pro spreadsheet software, Presentation, Group Wise office
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      • 94 10 SINGAPORE Seagate Technology has launched two new products in the Medalist XE family the 545 megabyte (MB) and 272 MB drives. The Medalist family is targeted at PCs that do high performance applications with low power consumption, especially suitable for Green PCs. Both products come
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      • 57 10 SINGAPORE Software firm Oracle has completed its global reorganisation which now offers standard price, distribution, marketing and support worldwide. Headed by Ray Lane, the Oracle Worldwide Operations will consist of four areas the Asia-Pa-cific, Americas, Europe/Middleeast/Africa and Japan. Apart from the geographic division, there are divisions handling the
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      • 74 10  -  Compiled by Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Network system maker Wellfleet Communications has announced four new partners in Singapore: Anixter Singapore as the regional distributor for the Asia Pacific; CSA Automated and Telecom Equipment as value-added resellers for the Singapore market; and SolsisNet Sdn Bhd as the reseller for
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    • It's happenin'
      • 56 10 SINGAPORE Digital Equipment is holding Dccus symposium '94 from today to Sep 7 at the Regent Hotel. The symposium will focus on re-engineering core business systems to succeed in a multi-vendor and multi-platform world. There will also be an exhibition featuring solutions on Digital's hardware and software. To
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      • 56 10 SINGAPORE The Singapore Polytechnic will hold a seminar on the MIPS RISC processor on Sep 13. It will also hold a course on PC multimedia starting on Sep 21. Participants will be taught PC and multimedia hardware as well as techniques to produce multimedia applications. For more
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      • 57 10 SINGAPORE The Institute of Systems Science is conducting a series of courses this month and next month. Topics include "Multimedia Technology" (Sep 12-15), "Executive Information Systems for Developers" (Sep 14-16), and "Object-oriented Modelling and Design" (Sep 16). For registration and details on the other courses call Vasu at
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      • 57 10 SINGAPORE A symposium on strategic management of technology will be held on Sep 27 and another entitled "Starting successful high-tech ventures" on Sep 28. The events are jointly organised by the National Science and Technology Board, National University of Singapore and MIT Sloan School of Management. For
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      • 32 10  -  Compiled by David Mok SINGAPORE The Singapore Institute of Management will hold a two-day seminar on software quality management to ISO 9001 standard from Sep 26-27. Call 460 7391.
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    • 419 10  -  By Joseph Rajendran US SOFTWARE giant Oracle, which has just .bought Digital Equipment Corporation's relational database (RDB) business, will continue to support its new Asia-Pacif-ic users from its supercentre in Melbourne. Oracle will also absorb up to 30 start' now working for Digital's
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    • 466 10  -  By David Mok TANDEM Computers, best known for making fault-tolerant computers that continue to function even when parts break down, is back on track after a horrendous 1993. And its Singaporebased operations, which were unscathed, arc set to soar further, company executives say. Tandem
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    • 269 10  -  By Joseph Rajendran GERMAN giants Siemens AG and Giesecke Devrient have formed a joint venture in Singapore to sell smart cards in the Asia-Pacific. The joint venture, called Asia Chip Card, will have an initial paid-up capital of $5 million and will
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    • 873 11  -  IT THE NEXT WAVE Low Hwee-Boon discusses the evolution of software in the international marketplace Low Hwee-Boon The writer is the program manager of the Natural Language Processing group at the Institute of Systems Science. h'US. He can be contacted at 772-2065. SINCE
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    • 785 11  -  Rob Eckelmann argues that the PC is fast becoming a übiquitous information appliance Rob Eckelmann The writer is director oj Branded Products Businesses, Intel THE PC is getting difficult to avoid, whether you are at the checkout counter in a
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    • 854 12  -  Kenneth James checks out the key features of the successor to Windows 3.1 in the first of a three-part preview Kenneth James LAST week Microsoft Singapore executives invited half a dozen computer journalists for a five-hour briefing. We left that meeting with documents
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    • 607 12  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY TOM AMBROSE The writer is a support contracts specialist with Hewlett-Packard's Americas Field Operations (AFO). He has extensive consulting experience in helping businesses to use information technology productively. T ITH so much positive prognosticating about the "information super- T highway"
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    • 197 12 Bloomberg Business News JAPANESE consumer electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co said it has developed technology that'll allow compact discs to store four times the amount of data they can handle now. The development paves the way for the introduction of the "video
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    • 443 12  -  An innovative Australian tool helps manage assignments and the people involved in them, Diana Oon learns Diana Oon FRENZIED managers looking for effective management software might just find what they need in TasKey an Australian innovation from Task Solutions based in that country. Neil
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  • SPORTS
    • 574 13  -  By Harvey Araton NYT NEW YORK He was a Grand Slam champion before anyone really knew who he was. Michael Chang was 17 years three months old when he won the French Open in 1989, the youngest man ever
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    • 562 13 Reuter TOKYO A tense countdown started yesterday to next month's Asian Games in Hiroshima with no solution in sight to China's threat to boycott the jjvent because Taiwan's president has been invited. With only four weeks left {until the
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    • 925 13 US Open AP NEW YORK They were the perfect antidote to slam-bang tennis, Andre Agassi winning in three sweet sets, Michael Chang in just one and a half, each showing why baseliners are dominating this year's US Open. The way they played on Saturday, Agassi
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    • SPORT SHORTS
      • 104 13 AP VANCOUVER, British Columbia Nigel Mansell's official announcement that he's leaving Indycar racing at the end of the season to return to Formula One has left him feeling a bit nostalgic about his two-year American experiment. "I've really had a fantastic two years here," said Mansell. who came to the
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        96 13 UPI PARIS Algerian Noureddine Morecli took his mind off world records and concentrated just on winning on Saturday to siphon off US$l3O, OOO (*****.000) of the million on offer at the lAAF Grand Prix Track and Finals. Moreeli's victory in the 1.500 m earned him US$3O,OOO for the event
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        137 13 AP DALLAS The Dallas Mavericks signed All-America guard Jason Kidd to a nine-year. US$6O million (SS9O million) contract on Saturday. hailing it as a gift to the city that for two straight years has been stuck with the worst team in the National Basketball Association. Kidd. 21. was the
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        284 13 AP Reuter TOMAKOMAI, Japan American Todd Hamilton beat Japan s Ikuo Shirahama 8 and 7 yesterday to win the Japan PGA Match Play Championship. Hamilton, who ranked sixth in the 1993 Japan PGA money rankings, earned 25 million yen (*****.000) lor his second triumph of the season and his
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    • 390 13 Goir AFP CRANS-SUR-SIERRb. Switzerland Eduardo Romero continued his birdie rampage in the European Masters on Saturday, scoring a third-round 66 for an 18-under-par 198 and a two-stroke lead in the first qualifying tournament for Europe's Ryder Cup team. But the 40-year-old Argentinian will
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    • 559 13 An efficient and well-established auto servicing/repair centre located in the east of Singapore, we are only 15 minutes away from CBD. Residents in Katong, Siglap, Bedok, Tarn pines and Changi have long since experienced the convenience of CAR SERVICING BY PHONE. The overwhelming demand from EXECUTIVE CLASS customers have compelled
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 1337 14  -  Juliette V\ alker looks at the benefits of franchising and how some local franchises are faring Juliette Walker WHAT do Travel Net, the children's clothing store Base Ball, and the East-West style pharmacy Medical Alliance Corp have in common? Most would say
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    • 582 14 HOME-GROWN Noel Gifts International is turning to franchising to package its creative gift business to the region. Managing director Alfred Wong says franchising has allowed the Sesdaqtraded company to expand regionally without over-stretching its managerial or financial resources. Setting up and staffing
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    • 1022 15  -  Teenagers pay US$49O for a stint at Camp Entrepreneur, and tell Deborah Jacobs they got their money's worth at the end of the programme Deborah Jacobs NYT WHILE her friends went to field hockey camp, ba-by-sat or \i(Jrked as lifeguards this sumricr,
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    • 389 15 I.INC INC SING has been promoted to joint managing director of General Electric Company (GEC) of Singapore Pte Ltd. Dr Ling will oversee the da\-to-da> operations of GEC Singapore and its Brunei subsidiary. He holds a PhD in engineering from the University of London. His promotion from his
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    • 273 14 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOTEXTILES, GEOMEMBRANES AND RELATED PRODUCTS SINGAPORE 5 9 September 1994 Daily Conference Registration on site. Proceedings in CD-ROM! Themes Reinforcement, Hydraulic and Environmental Organised under the auspices of the I "W"V International Qeotextiie Society by its Southeast Asia Chapter(SEAC-IGS) t BOLTON INSTITUTE (Proposed The University of
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  • THE ARTS
    • 941 17 Just as in pop culture, classical music has its various passing fads. The k irf composer currently is Mozart, who has been hailed as today's IQ and image booster NYT Beethoven is no longer the world's greatest composer. He still glowers from the pantheons of
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    • 435 18 BEIJING China's efforts to rein in high growth rates are set for failure with government economists predicting a 12 per cent rise in gross domestic product (GDP) in 1994 and an 18 per cent rise in prices, due partly
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    • 410 18  -  From K P Nayar in New Delhi INDIAN officials accompanying Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao to Singapore expect bilateral cooperation in tourism to be the "most tangible" outcome of Mr Rao's two-day visit later this week. Indian ministers dealing
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    • 319 18 Reuter LAGOS The sacked leaders of Nigeria's striking oil unions yesterday suspended their two-month-long stoppage to force an end to military rule. "Pengassan and Nupeng have met and decided to suspend the strike in the interest of the suffering masses of Nigeria,
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    • 232 18 NEW DELHI The Indian government will offer equity in 21 state-owned firms in continuation of a phased privatisation of the giant public sector, an official spokesman said yesterday. The government would divest 10 to 20 per cent of its
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    • 1023 18  -  The Bottom Line ANTHONY ROWLEY ANTHONY ROWLEY The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent WHAT'S in a name? Quite a lot if you happen to be the International "Monetary" Fund and yet are accused of taking little interest in monetary matters, or if
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    • 378 18 Reuter, AFP CAIRO European-backed revisions to the UN draft programme on controlling population growth could clinch agreement at this week's population conference, a US official said yesterday. Timothy Wirth, Undersecretary for State for Global Affairs, said the compromise to be put forward
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 369 19  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Listed Taiwanese resistor maker Yageo Corporation is expected to become the first Taiwanese company to be traded on Singapore's over-the-counter market when its Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) are quoted on Clob International. A representative of
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    • 499 19  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR SIME DARBY's three listed subsidiaries Tractors Malaysia Holdings Bhd, SimeUEP Properties Bhd and DMIB Bhd turned in varied results for their financial year ended June 30. Tractors reported a 12
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    • 130 19  -  -By Al Labita MANILA Rising operating costs dragged down profits of the Manila subsidiary of Malaysian tyre maker Sime Darby for the fiscal year ending June 30. In a report last Friday to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Sime Darby Pilipinas said net
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    • 596 19  -  HOCK, By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE How different DBS Land has become. Once primarily a commercial property landlord, listed DBS Land has reached a stage where it says its strong financial performance for the first half of this year was due
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 113 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Advance Synergy Bhd, which now owns two finance companies since acquiring a controlling interest in United Merchant Group Bhd, looks likely to divest one of the licences, for which there should be no shortage of takers. Analysts, though unhappy with the
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        • 77 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Asia Pacific Land Berhad will not proceed with its proposed venture in property development and investment in a bank in Vietnam. In a statement last Friday, AP Land said that the proposals could not proceed because the terms for the investments could
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        • 81 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR MBf Holdings Bhd has reported a 10.3 per cent increase in group pre-tax profit to M 543.2 million (5525.4 million) for the six months ended June 30, from M 539.2 million in the previous corresponding period. Group turnover rose 11.4 per cent
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        • 52 20 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia has launched a crackdown on companies attempting to cheat the government through bogus exports, Antara news agency said last Friday. "We are investigating companies suspected of reporting fake exports and will make an announcement soon," Finance Minister Mar'ie Muhammad was quoted as
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        • 48 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Securities Commission has granted an extension to Malayan United Industries Bhd to dispatch the mandatory cash offer document and accompanying form of acceptance and transfer to Pan Malaysia Cement Works shareholders to Sep 17 from Sep 6. Bernama
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      • 520 20 Maaafart' prictt Sep 3 5 Mcndaki Gr Fund 1.19 I 22xd<8 Singapore Unit Trust us Gr Fund 102 l 0^ The Commerce 1.69 1.79 UMB Invest Mgt Ltd The Savings Fund 1.61 1.70 Unilund 1.56 1.62 S'pore Prog Fund 0.73 0.78 Unibond+ 1.035 106 S'pore Sec Fund 1.05 I.IUd United
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      • 397 20 Eastern Express HONGKONG Members of the Hongkong Stock Exchange (HKSE) last Friday voted against the newly imposed trading spreads rule in an extraordinary general meeting, a move which could herald a rift between the exchange and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).
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      • 227 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Pilccon Engineering Bhd is set to take advantage of the privatisation opportunities opening up in Sabah and Sarawak. It is soon to be awarded a major contract in one of these privatisation projects, acquired through Pilecon Szeton Sdn Bhd, in
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      • 328 20 Eastern Express HONGKONG Shandong International Power Development (SIPD). the H share giant seeking a listing in Hongkong, plans to raise up to US$3 billion (554.5 billion) in a combined offering for local and international investors before the end of the year.
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      • 204 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Lai Sing Holdings Bhd made an encouraging debut on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange second board on Friday, closing at M 55.90 for a M 53.10 premium over its offer price of M 52.80 a share. It opened
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      • 396 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's capital market must be further developed to be a reliable and competitive source of financing for the private sector and provide the primary drive for national growth, says an analyst. Lim Chee Sing, the general manager
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      • 401 21 Reuter SHANGHAI China is pushing ahead with plans to open its domestic A share markets to foreign investors, one of the key securities reforms promised a month ago, the China Securities Newspaper reported. It said overseas brokerages were competing to
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      • 142 21 AFP BEIJING China's securities authorities are drafting regulations aimed at stamping out unauthorised mergers of listed and unlisted companies, according to press reports yesterday. China currently only provides rough guidelines on mergers, leaving the door open for unstandardiscd and even illegal activities. Experts from
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      • 345 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japanese electronics maker Aiwa is likely to exceed its current profit forecasts for the coming half-year period to Sep 30 and the full year to next March, continuing a run that has made it a favourite
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      • 356 21 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lanka's stock market, on the rebound after falling sharply after the formation of a new People's Alliance (PA) government, is looking for direction amid confusing economic signals, analysts and brokers said. "Now, depending on what the government says, the
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      • 551 21 MARKET Mlgi Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI It's a foregone conclusion among analysts here that the stock price of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing t Co, Taiwan's largest chip mak- er, will soar at least 50 per cent soon after it starts
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      • 514 22 Bloomberg Business News BASLE Roche Holding, reporting half-year earnings for the first time, posted a strong net profit of 1.623 billion Swiss francs (551.84 billion) on higher operating margins and surprisingly large investment gains. Roche's first-half performance was in
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      • 52 22 Reuter STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan Chrysler president Robert Lutz talking about the newest Chrysler product, the 1995 Chrysler Cirrus, and the workers who are building them at a drive-off ceremony at the company's plant here on Friday. The Cirrus was built to compete with the Honda
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      • 349 22 Bloomberg Business News TROY. Michican Kmart Corp said it filed plans to sell 51 per cent of Sports Authority Inc. its sporting goods unit, in an initial public offering that could raise about USSI73 million (***** million). Kmart filed its
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      • 154 22 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Colgate-Pal-molive Co, which has undergone three restructurings in the last 10 years, is about to embark on another one. Details are still being ironed out. but the company has decided on a revamp that will cost at
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 74 22 AP BEIJING The stock exchange in the southern city of Shenzhen has begun relaying market quotations to stockbrokers via a satellite network, the China Daily reported yesterday. The new network would provide up-to-date information and handle stock transactions via a satellite system run by the
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        • 65 22 Reuter COLOMBO The Sri Lankan government will sign a renegotiated deal with Airbus Industrie to buy three A34-300s airplanes for USS3OO million (SS4SO million) on Sep 9, the Sunday Times said. The agreement was to have been signed last month but was postponed because
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        • 81 22 Reuter KARACHI. Pakistan Pakistan's Pak Fibre Industries Ltd said it had invited applications for subscription to five million 10 rupee shares at 25 rupees each. The subscription is to take place on Sep 14. Pak Fibre Industries was set up in 1983. Its plant at
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        • 45 22 Bloomberg Business News BOMBAY Fujitsu Ltd of Japan will acquire a 10 per cent stake in an Indian computer company. International Computer Indian Manufacture Ltd. and the company will be renamed Fujitsu ICIM Ltd, newspapers say. Bloomberg Business News
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 453 23  -  By Conrad Raj THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has ordered finance companies to stop participating in syndicated loans. The move is said to have taken the finance houses and lead managers by surprise as finance companies have been participating in such loans for
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      • 550 23 Reuter ARDALIN, Russia Forget North America, it's small fry. The Middle East looks good, but it's pretty well sewn-up. What about Russia? Foreign oil company executives searching for unexplored "super-giant" fields are casting a roving eye over Russia's far north. The
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      • 239 23 SINGAPORE United Overseas Bank (UOB) has introduced a special ATM card for corporate customers and another multi-purpose ATM card linking four types of accounts. Launched today, the UOB Corporate Unicard aims to help customers manage their companies' finances better. The customers will get to decide
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      • 109 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Merchant bank Jardine Fleming was the most profitable merchant bank in Hongkong for the third year, the Sunday South China Morning Post reported. The bank's net profit rose 166 per cent to HKSJ.S7 billion (SS29B million) last year on a surge
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      • 81 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China Resources (Holdings), one of the largest state-owned trading corporations in Hongkong, on Friday completed the paperwork to borrow US$245 million (***** million) for five years from a syndicate of 30 banks. China Resources chairman Zhu Youlan told a ceremony marking
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      • 60 23 Bloomberg Business News MANILA A directive to curb a practice of the government lending money to itself could help keep interest rates low over the long haul, analysts said. "On face value, it will drive down interest rates to some extent," said Angie Tirol, an
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      • 61 23 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR BBMB Unit Trust Management Bhd is distributing additional units of the BBMB Prime Fund in view of its price appreciation. A BBMB Unit Trust Management statement said the bonus unit creation exercise, scheduled to be carried out yesterday, would be on
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      • 325 23 Reuter KOALA CAMP, Northwest Territories The signs of man's presence jar the eye as crews frantically tunnel for diamonds amid a virgin Arctic landscape of silver lakes, rugged tundra and majestic caribou. A 180-man settlement, satellite dishes, airstrip, sewage works, fuel cache and processing
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      • 224 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The entire eight-member South Asia equities research team working for British brokerage Smith New Court has switched to Swiss securities house ÜBS Securities. "We have recruited all of Smith New Court's subcontinent research team," said a
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      • 229 23 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Schroders pic said first-half pre-tax profit rose 7.6 per cent as a surge in earnings at the London-based investment bank's asset management arm offset a slump in income from securities trading. Strengthened by a near twofold rise in earnings at
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      • Article, Illustration
        1793 23 *Rates are the average of 9 selected banks I naJe-v eight*/ index svkuiatrd against Sptirr tap 14 trading partners mr m< L s ABN Amro Bank NV 6% ANZ Banking Group 6 Allied I rah Bank PLC 6V> Amcncan Express Bank 6V1 Arab Banking Corp Arab Bank PLC 6V» Asahi
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 639 25  -  SJMEX WPEKiV WOUNDUP By James Foo, MMS International SINGAPORE After the previous Friday's sharp rally which saw the dollar above 1.5900 marks on an OECD report that Germany had scope for lower rates, the dollar was lower against most major currencies towards the weekend.
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      • 731 25 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON The dormant gold market awakened with a shudder last week, gaining US$5 an ounce to finish the week at a month's high of US$3B6 an ounce, bolstered by jewellers stocking up for the Christmas season. Non-precious
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    • 1342 25 Rubber Sep 2 Singapore Commodity Exchange Physical Meas (futures dosing as at 5.3tpa) Buum lUUu As at 12 mm (S cents/kg) RSS 1 CMtract (S cents/kg) pr~ —y RSS 2 Oct 94 187.50 188 50N Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest RSS 186.50 187.50N RSS 4 Oct 94
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    • 4746 26 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Kara EPS Date TV LY TY LY Company ui (Sm) (Shi) (ct») (cts) A BR Hkto May 30 F 1.407 2.851 3.2 7.0 Aetna Jun IS F 41.318 14.26* 62.3 23.1 Alcorn* Aug I I 9.373 7.905 7.44 6.40 Alex Hldp Am 23
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    • 752 26 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 416 27 AFP New York WALL STREET had an up and down week with blue chips closing above the 3,900 mark for the first time since February before interest rate hikes pushed it back down. The Dow Jones Index of 30 leading industrials
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      • 293 27 AFP Hongkong STOCK prices soared a sharp 5.35 per cent during the week on optimism of normalisation of Sino-US trade ties following US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's visit to China. The benchmark Hang Seng Index gained 502.48 points to close the
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      • 443 27 AFP London MOMENTUM on the London Stock Exchange was dampened last week by fears of a slowdown in economic growth in the United States, reports of which eclipsed good news on the British economic front. The FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares ended the
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      • 421 27 AFP Tokyo SHARE prices rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week as players welcomed moderate moves in dollar-yen trading. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues in the first section rose 182.34 points, or 0.9 per cent, last week to
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 122 27 Australian stocks closed the week firmer on Friday as some leading blue chip stocks made strong gains and others were punished for disappointing annual results. The key All Ordinaries Index climbed to 2,107.0 points, up 29.8 points on the previous week's finish while the All Industrials Index rose 29.5
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        • 84 27 Positive news throughout the week gave the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index a solid gain of 88.31 points, or 6.10 per cent, and a close on Friday of 1,539.06 points, brokers said. The average daily volume of shares traded was 169.7 million, up from 156.7 million shares the
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        • 89 27 Share prices rebounded on Saturday on the Korea Stock Exchange to close the week at 947.88 points, slightly up from the previous week's 941.18. The Composite Price Index gained 3.36 points during Saturday's half-day session, affected by prospects for the government's slackening monetary policy. After a slow start, prices
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        • 87 27 Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange advanced last week amid slower trading with the Weighted Price Index posting a four-year high on Monday before going into a skid, brokers said. Following a 1.7 per cent rise the preceding week, the 378-issue index gained another 129.53 points, or 1.88
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        • 142 27 Ebullient optimism buoyed by mostly good first semester company reports kept trading warm at the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE), with investors even ignoring recent increases in bank deposit rates. Investors, appeared to keep a high level of confidence on the JSE which has begun to recover in the past
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        • 97 27 Heavy buying by speculators and institutional investors saw share prices flare up on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), pushing up the BSE Index to a record high. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index gained 94.45 points to close the week ending Friday at 4,526.21 points. The BSE Index touched a
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        • 765 27 -15.86 Blue-chip stocks posted a third straight loss on Friday, taking a downward cue from the inflationwary bond market. The Dow Jones Industrials finished off 15.86 points at 3885.58. In the broad market, declines beat advances 1,065 to 939 on New York Stock Exchange volume of 216.1 million
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        • 272 27 -0.12 Stocks finished a pre-holi-day weekend session virtually unchanged after an early rally on US jobs data lost steam mid-morning. "It's the Friday before the Labour Day weekend we've done nothing," said P and C Holdings president Ron Meisels. He said the market mood could shift for the worse
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        • 2300 27 London Sep 2 Prncc Industrials A. A. Corp Adr 57 2It Abbey MM 419 7 Allied Lyons 610 -I Ante 120 unch Argyll 291 f 1.140 Asda Group 64 4/8 •4/8 BAT Ind 4504/8 > 6 720 BICC 403 unch BOC Group 735 -6 BR Petroleum 417 7 BTR 384
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    • 2403 28 Mull i-Purpose 23.562.000 Benaya L Wt99 21.778.000 Wris Hyd 50c 19.800.000 Mulpha Intl 50c 16.655.000 Promet 15.991.000 Kamunting 50c 13,549.000 B Raya TSR97 13.225.000 Garuia Hl<lgs 11,065.000 ln«i Oxygen Wt95 10,876.000 Benaya Group 10.339.000 AMDB SOc 10.063,000 Fabcr Group 9,302,000 HUong Prop JOc 9.087.000 Multi-Purpose 69,237,194 Idris Hyd
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5428 28 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices finished the holiday-shortened week higher as strong institutional support for blue chips spilled over to the retail sector. The benchmark Composite Index ended the week at a six-month high of 1,160.88, up 49.1 points or 4.4 per cent above the
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 8136 29 Cr Cr M Wi l«N La* Val Week Last Quale Di« Dt. VK Net Can A»g High Ln Cmmfmaj Salt COM) High Law ■»>« Vlkt Ik Or P/E Sail Prfc* INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1440 835 II Aetna WO S 368 1010 WO MS «0 17.5 4.7 II 15 S 6*2
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      • 1931 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE For the next few weeks at least, the local market is expected to remain well buttressed not only by its fundamentals but also by a spillover effect from the increasing amount of funds flowing into the region. The bulk
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    • 1107 22 Sime Singapore Limited PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE 1994 The Directors are pleased to announce the following:1. Unaudited result* of the Group and of the Company for tha yaar anded 30th Juna 1994 Group Company 1994 1993 1994 1993 Million Million TURNOVER 554.8 498.2 +11
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    • 1472 24 logjuji The Sime Darby Group PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE 1994 Sime Darby Berhad Unaudited reaulta of the Group for the year ended 30th June 1994 The Plantations Division's profits were significantly below those achieved in 1993 due to the 1993/94 1992/93 lower average prices
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    • 388 31  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE South Korea's Hanjin Shipping Company will commence its transAtlantic service between North Europe and the US East Coast on Jan 1, 1995. Hanjin Shipping will not be using its vessels but has entered into a slot
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    • 1586 32 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1.456 on Friday from 1,473 on Aug 25. The market focusscd on Panamax activity in the US Gulf, brokers said. MSK once again featured with the charterer covering business on the Japan run. The charterer fixed
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    • 12827 40 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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      • 421 50 AFP SYDNEY Australia's fledgling international carrier Ansett has dropped its plans to fly to South-east Asia in order to concentrate on the more lucrative north Asian market, managing director Graeme McMahon said last Friday. Yesterday, it launched the first of
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        55 50 Reuter SYDNEY Qantas' most distinctive jumbo jet is rolled out for its first public showing at Sydney airport on Saturday, featuring an aboriginal design known as 'Wunala (kangaroo) Dreaming". Thought to be the world's largest piece of modern art, the Boeing 747-400 began Qantas' inaugural service to Japan's
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      • 84 50 Bloomberg Business News AMSTERDAM Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, Europe's fourth largest, plans to become the first international airport to have its own commercial television network. From November, three hours of English-language programmes will be broadcast continuously on about 250 televisions located throughout
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      • 114 50 AFP OSAKA. Japan Japan's first 24-hour airport, Kansai International. opened here yesterday with commercial jets taking ofT and landing. Built on a man-made island in Osaka Bay, western Japan, the airport will link 22 foreign countries and regions and 24 Japanese cities at the beginning of operation,
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