The Business Times, 21 October 1994

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  • 13 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 75« Friday October 21 1994
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  • 2 am LATEST
    • 47 1 Reuter WASHINGTON American consumers were the victims of billions of dollars worth of fraud in 1993 ranging from car sales to mail order and telemarketing scams, the Consumer Federation of America said yesterday in its annual report of consumer ripoffs. Reuter
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    • 40 1 Reuter BRUSSELS European industry is set to launch an attack on foreign trade barriers with the blessing of the European Commission, the European Union's Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan said yesterday. Reuter
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  • 163 1 Stock market indices Thursday Change STII 2,382.25 +18.14 KLSEComp 1,124.39 +5.53 Nikkei 19,991.90 +123.03 Hang Seng 9,388.78 +68.72 SET Index 1,521.61 +20.19 Jakarta Comp 518.76 -0.21 CLSA China B ....1,158.84 -4.06 Ausl All Ord 2,016.3 +2.9 FTSE 100 3,063.2 +2.4 Thursday Previous 2pm EDT close Dow Jones 3,906.44
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  • 549 1  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Seven years after the Bank of America hived off its credit card business and wound down its retail operations here, it is back on the scene with a slew of retail products to be launched next month. In Singapore
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  • 497 1  -  By Amy Balan SINGAPORE The Malaysian economy grew at a brisk 8.1 per cent clip in the second quarter of 1994, buoyed by continued strong growth in its manufacturing, construction and services sectors. The growth was, however, significantly lower than the 10.1
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  • 336 1 Reuter AP Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK US stocks plunged yesterday after a government report showed a stron-ger-than-expected gain in housing starts and a monthly economic survey by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve sounded an inflation alarm. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which
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  • 174 1 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The dollar fell to a two-year low against the mark yesterday, hurt by comments from Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen that the US won't buy dollars to support the currency. His remarks, delivered in Seattle on a campaign stop, "were
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  • 457 1  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE Developers plan to launch about IS condominium and landed property projects totalling more than 4,000 units before year-end. About half of the new developments are in sought-af-ter locations such as Tanjong Rhu and River Valley, while the
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  • 287 1  -  From Lim Soon Noo in HONGKONG YU Pun Hoi, the chairman and controlling shareholder of Ming Pao Enterprise and South Sea Development, resigned yesterday after being publicly censured by the Stock Exchange of Hongkong (SEHK) for failing to disclose his
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 301 2  -  By Shiv Taneja LOANS GROWTH to professionals and individuals drove up overall bank loans and advances to non-bank customers to $86.4 billion in August, reflecting year-on-year growth of 16.7 per cent, the Monetary Authority says. The growth rate in loans to professionals and private individuals
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    • 153 2 A 90-MEMBER delegation from Hainan province, China's largest special economic zone, is in Singapore to find investors for 253 projects worth about $13 billion. The Hainan Meilan airport project is the biggest, with a price tag of some 500 million yuan (5585.8
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    • 404 2  -  Expansion of Tuas facility tipped to boost output more than 150% and double turnover By Claire Leow ASAHI Techno Vision is adding a second plant here by next April, which will boost output of glass panels for televisions and computers by 150 per
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    • 451 2  -  By Juliette Walker ABOUT 900 workers will be affected when Thomson Consumer Electronics (TCE) shifts its colour television operations in Kallang to other plants in Ang Mo Kio, Batam and Bangkok by mid-95. TCE said yesterday that it would
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    • 351 2 NATIONAL carrier Singapore Airlines has signed a new and more generous profit-sharing deal with its staff unions, a move which will cost the airline between $25 million and $300 million annually. SIA said yesterday the formula would apply for
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    • 426 2 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said that a police investigation into remarks made by an American academic, Christopher Lingle, in a newspaper commentary was part of the normal workings of the legal system. Mr Goh, who spoke
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    • 307 2 THORNHILL Lodge International Racing Gub has closed its doors after attracting 100 full members, but will begin welcoming term members tomorrow. Thornhill founder and chairman lan Beattie said this week the resort-style club had raised nearly $1.5 million by selling 20 corporate and 80
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 403 3  -  From Harish Mehta in PHNOM PENH CAMBODIA'S parliament yesterday removed controversial finance minister Sam Rainsy and appointed seasoned politician Keat Chhon as his replacement in a sweeping Cabinet reshuffle. Mr Rainsy's exit follows a move to oust him because of his autocratic style. His replacement,
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    • 280 3 Reuter Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Britain's Rover Group may make engines for Malaysia's car company Proton Bhd under an agreement signed yesterday that loosens Japan's stranglehold on Malaysia's indigenous car manufacturing industry. Witnessed by Britain's Trade Minister Michael Heseltine and Malaysia's Minister
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    • 462 3 The Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR The Arqam myth was shattered yesterday when its leader, Ashaari Muhammad, confessed publicly to propagating deviant teachings and begged forgiveness from God. Mr Ashaari, detained less than 50 days ago under the Internal Security Act, tore down
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    • 299 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian and Singaporean officials will meet in mid-December to work out the procedure for submitting documents concerning the Pedra Branca issue to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Ahmad Kamil Jaafar, secretary-general of Malaysia's Foreign Ministry, said
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    • NOTEBOOK
      • 86 3 Bloomberg Business News HANOI With its economy accelerating but still unstable, Vietnam urgently needs to reform its financial and monetary systems. Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet told its highest legislative body yesterday. Addressing the opening of the National Assembly's biannual meeting, Mr Kiet said
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      • 86 3 AP JAKARTA A joint venture between an Indonesian tycoon and foreign investors will build a US$32 billion (Ss47 billion) oil. refinery with a daily capacity of 300,000 barrels in East Java, the: official Antara news agency reported yesterday. It quoted the tycoon, Probosutedjo,
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      • 58 3 AFP MANILA President Fidel Ramos' spokesman yesterday crit£; cised the outspoken Cardinal Jaime Sin for comparing him to latfi* dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Press secretary Jesus Sison said NftRamos was not out to perpetuate his rule like Marcos, as Cardinal* Sin had claimed, and counter-attacked that
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  • CHINA /HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
      • 117 4 AFP SHANGHAI China expects the proportion of loss-making light industrial enterprises to decline by five percentage points to 36.6 per cent at the end of the year from 41.6 per cent in June. The Wenhui daily yesterday cited figures released at a meeting here
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      • 54 4 AFP BEIJING This bus drove through an unmanned railroad crossing early yesterday and was cut in half by a train. Twenty people were killed and more than 30 were injured in the accident. The bus was carrying workers to their factory in Chaoyang district, southeast
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      • 99 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui told the island's military yesterday that Taiwan would never change its anticommunism policy but restated its goal of eventual reunification with rival communist China. "Our policies of opposing the communists, opposing Taiwan independence and reunifying the country have not
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      • 105 4 AFP TAIPEI Canada has for the first time replaced the US as the favourite destination of Taiwanese emigrants, a government agency said yesterday. Last year, close to half of the 20,000 people emigrating from the island went to Canada, while in 1993, the US was
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      • 97 4 AFP BEIJING The Chinese government yesterday criticised a US Congress proposal to award 1995's Nobel peace prize to prominent dissident Wei Jingsheng. "It is nothing but a mockery of theNobel peace prize to nominate such a man as a candidate," foreign minify spokesqian Chen. Jj»n
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    • 449 4 Money will be used to fund infrastructural projects NYT TOKYO China wants Japan to lend it 1.5 trillion yen (5522.6 billion) over a period of five years through Japan s low-interest yen-based loan programme for developing nations, according to documents obtained by Asahi
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    • 345 4 Reuter TOKYO Japan threw down a new gauntlet to China over its relations with Taiwan yesterday when officials revealed that a Japanese minister and a Taiwanese minister will formally meet for the first time in 22 years. Minister
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    • 206 4  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE More than 120 cable and satellite companies are due to take part in the upcoming Cable Satellite Asia '94 exhibition in Hongkong, signalling their interest in the region's sky-rock-eting broadcast industry. Cable and satellite manufacturers and suppliers from at
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    • 37 4 Time is money lots of it Reuter TAIPEI This Vaeherin Constantin, adorned with 130 carats worth of diamonds, is on display at a watch show here. The organisers say it could fetch US$lO million (Ssls million). Reuter
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    • 201 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China will launch a certificate system to help its factories and retailers spot fake goods before taking part in their production or sale, the China Daily reported. Under the system, foreign music and video producers will be
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    • 296 4  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE The China soft drinks market is poised for explosive growth, with annual consumption expected to double from the present 8.8 million tonnes to 18.3 million tonnes by 1997. Even by then, the consumption per head will only be
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    • 368 4  -  From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG TWO PIECES of residential land fetched less than expected prices at a government land auction yesterday because of bad feng shui and the small size of the plots. The sales earned the government
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    • 242 4 AFP BEIJING US ExportImport Bank chairman Kenneth Brody pledged "aggressive" support here yesterday for US exporters to China through soft loans that would counter the tied aid offered by other foreign governments. "We are now in the position of being
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 421 5 FT TOKYO Valuable clues to the quality of Japan's economic recovery will emerge over the next six weeks, when more than 1,300 listed companies report their interim results. The government's Economic Planning Agency declared at the start of September that Japan
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    • 262 5 NYT TOKYO South Korea is expected to relax restrictions soon on travel by its businessmen to North Korea and on investments in the communist nation, according to South Korean officials. The expected moves were in keeping with South Korea's
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    • 195 5 AFP SEOUL South Korean carmakers yesterday predicted a boom in fourth-quarter exports, citing strengthened offshore sales activities and the introduction of new models. The Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (Kama) said car exports by domestic companies were expected to reach 277,000 units
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    • 87 5 Bloomberg Business News CANBERRA Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating said additional revenues from stronger-than-expected economic growth will be used to cut the nation's budget deficit. "As the economy improves, as the outlays of the commonwealth are reduced that is outlays on unemployment benefits
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    • 67 5 AFP NEW DELHI India and China will sign an agreement restoring direct banking links during Indian Vice-President K R Narayanan's week-long visit starting today. The two countries will also sign a memorandum of understanding on providing multiple entry visas to officials of the two
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    • 78 5 Reuter NEW DELHI India's Hindu nationalist party, keen to strengthen the influence of the native Hindi language, plans to end English study for the youngest Delhi primary school pupils, a newspaper reported yesterday. The Pioneer daily quoted state Education Minister Sahib Singh Verma
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    • 62 5 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The United States is anxious to resume negotiations with Japan over car trade issues in the coming weeks, according to a senior US official. "My hope would be in the next week or two, but I don't know that
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    • 384 5 Export body blames panic reaction by many countries and govt apathy Reuter NEW DELHI India lost an estimated 40 billion rupees (551.92 billion) in export earnings in the past few weeks due to the outbreak of plague that led several countries to quarantine
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    • 148 5 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Clinton administration has reached a tentative agreement with Pakistan to open its markets for US textile and apparel exports, US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor said on Wednesday. Mr Kantor described the accord as a "landmark agreement" that will allow
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 907 6  -  The removal of Cambodian Finance Minister Sam Rainsy From Harish Mehta in PHNOM PENH WHAT could Cambodia's Finance Minister Sam Rainsy have done wrong to be axed just 15 months after being appointed? And what a period it was. Mr Rainsy slashed inflation from
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  • THE WORLD
    • 417 8  -  By Vikram Khanna SINGAPORE Next year will be a year of pleasant surprises in US financial markets, as economic growth slows, inflation remains under control and the dollar recovers, Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach said yesterday. He told about
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    • 125 8 Reuter GENEVA The world telecommunications market, for years in a boom cycle, saw a sharp slowdown in overall growth in 1993, United Nations figures showed. The UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU), in an outline report received by Reuters yesterday, said worldwide revenues
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    • 393 8 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON If the economy continues to come on strong, the Federal Reserve will raise key interest rates on Nov IS for the sixth time this year. The mindset among Fed officials already favours raising the
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    • 362 8 Reuter FRANKFURT Bundesbank president Hans Tietmeyer said yesterday the central bank could not rule out another cut in interest rates this year but he warned money policy had to stay tight if inflation goals were to be met. In a wide-ranging interview
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    • 55 8 AFP ZAGREB, Croatia Croats queuing to buy tickets for the Croatian lottery T of 37' on Wednesday, trying to beat the 6.00pm closing time. The jackpot in this popular game now exceeds two million German marks (551.95 million) equivalent to more than 800 years' salary for
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 68 8 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The independent counsel's office has subpoenaed the White House for all documents related to the Clinton administration's investigation of Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. The documents must be given to independent counsel Donald CSmaltz's office by Nov 10, according to a statement released by
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      • 86 8 AFP WASHINGTON A world trade panel has ruled that the US violated international trade agreements in nine of 15 cases in imposing punitive anti-dumping duties on European steelmakers last year. The panel of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ruled on Wednesday that the
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      • 86 8 Reuter LONDON Britain said yesterday it was opening up telephone service to the US to new competition, saying that should result in cheaper phone calls. The announcement means new players can lease lines from Britain's two international phone companies, British Telecommunications and Mercury, a
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    • 268 8 Reuter BONN The left wing of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic party (CDU), which could become a thorn in his side because of his slender majority, demanded yesterday that he drop plans to curb unemployment benefits. The head of the
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    • 372 9 Reuter COLUMBUS, Ohio UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told a world trade conference here on Wednesday that trading practices had to be drastically reformed or poorer nations would not reap the benefits of the fast-expanding global trade. He said that
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    • 281 9 Russia told to restore confidence in rouble Reuter MOSCOW Senior officials of the International Monetary Fund, talking tough on Russia, urged the government on Wednesday to fight inflationary budget deficits and restore confidence in the battered rouble. The IMF officials, including top Russia
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    • 137 9 Reuter LONDON Some 37 per cent of British manufacturing firms were working at full capacity in the third quarter, according to a quarterly economic survey from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). This compares with 29 per cent in the second quarter
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    • 42 9 Reuter BROOKFIKLD, Illinois Windy, an 18-year-old bottle nose dolphin, swimming with her newborn calf at the Brookfield Zoo in suburban Chicago on Tuesday. The calf, born last Tuesday, is only the second successful dolphin birth at the zoo. Reuter
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    • 308 9 AFP MOSCOW Leaders from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are gathering here today in a fresh bid to remove obstacles to their economic integration, with Russia determined to strengthen cohesion among the 12 former Soviet republics. For President Boris Yeltsin, the
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    • 283 9 Reuter WASHINGTON The Labour Department agreed on Wednesday to review a complaint by four human rights groups that charged Sony Corp with violating workers' rights to organise and associate freely at its Mexican plant. The decision by the department's National Administrative Office
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    • 55 8 THE RAFFLES ICON V K RSAT lON "The UN is a contradiction in terms, because nations can never be united. Globe-trotting economist and political scientist Ervin Laszlo on the gridbck of international policy-making And why he moved his home from Manhattan to a mountan top near Ptsa. In Executive Lifestyle
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 725 11  -  China PR veteran Kimberly Arnett tells Michelle Low the do's and don'ts of selling to the new-found China market Michelle Low CHINA'S the new land of opportunity. Everyone wants to get in there, and fast. It is, after all, the biggest consumer market in
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    • 275 11 Bloomberg Business News CHINA is expected to pass a tougher advertising law within a week to stamp out misleading advertisements and curb spiralling ad rates, the China Daily reports. The revised Advertising Law, submitted for final approval to China's parliament yesterday, insists advertising rates
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    • COPY LINES
      • 73 11 SINGAPORE Luxury products retailer Hermes yesterday launched its "Love of The Horse Exhibition" at its boutique in Takashimaya. The exhibition, which ends on Oct 29, is a tribute to the horse, whose form and function inspired the existence and evolution of Hermes. Since its
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      • 62 11 SINGAPORE Lam Soon Singapore has been appointed as the new distributor for the Irish Dairy Board's Kerrygold butter and cheeses. Lam Soon has been aggressively expanding in the past year, diversifying from its core businesses in edible oil to other food and beverage products.
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      • 56 11 SINGAPORE Northwest Airlines is increasing its business class capacity on the Singapore route with the introduction of the Boeing 747-400 aircraft on Oct 31. The aircraft, which will be used on five of Northwest's seven weekly flights from Singapore, will increase business class seating
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      • 81 11 NYT NEW YORK Procter Gamble Co said on Wednesday that it had named Grey Advertising in New York as the global agency for its newly acquired Giorgio Beverly Hills line of luxury fragrance brands. The assignment, which had been expected, consolidates P&G's prestige fragrance business
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      • 42 11 NYT FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida. Zimmerman Partners Advertising said it had been awarded the accounts of three additional Mitsubishi dealer associations, bringing the total it handles to 15, with combined billings estimated to exceed US$3O million (Ss44 million). NYT
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    • 668 12  -  Order books are filling, but a lot is riding on the new Jag, writes Lilian Ang Lilian Ang AT a private function next Thursday guests of car dealer Malayan Motors will feast their eyes on the new Jaguar models which have won accolades the world
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    • 248 12  -  By Juliette Walker THE Lady in Red has been pub-crawling her way around Singapore for the past six weeks. Her aim, though, is to sell beer, not drink it. The Lady in Red is Anchor Beer's innovative, new promotion gimmick and no kin to
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    • 288 12 Reuter Australia is one of the world's most multicultural societies with 20 per cent of its people coming from 150 countries, yet the nation's corporate leaders have traditionally ignored its ethnic communities. But as more wealthy migrants arrive, especially from Asia,
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  • SPORTS
    • 484 13 Golf AP LAS VEGAS Brian Kamm and Sean Murphy shot 645, but shared the spotlight with two big names on Wednesday in the first round of the five-day, 90-hole Las Vegas Invitational over three courses. Kamm, who has not finished
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    • 576 13 Reuter PRAGUE The Professional Golf Association (PGA) was making its first foray into the former communist East bloc yesterday, but only after lastminute help from the soldiers who were once charged with keeping the West at bay. The U*****,000 (S$ 1.102 million) Czech
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    • 559 13 AFP AUCKLAND Soccer is a gentlemen's game played by thugs, so the old sporting adage goes, and rugby is a thug's game played by gentlemen. After a spectacularly violent first-class clash last week, the brawler tags could be applied exclusively to
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    • 407 13 UPI EDINBURGH Gavin Hastings on Wednesday labelled Scotland's Stars the poor relations of world rugby as he lifted the lid on housing payments for amateur players. Hastings was reappointed Scotland's skipper through to next year's World Cup earlier this week. The 32-year-old was
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    • 506 13 Bloomberg Business News SAN FRANCISCO There was a time when American stadiums and arenas carried tradi-tion-laden names only, like the Boston Garden, Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, Chicago Stadium and Soldier Field. But as those facilities become old, obsolete and discarded, they arc being
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    • 709 13 AP NEW YORK Deion Sanders, Joe Montana and John Elway defined star quality for the National Football League this week. In a sport where 99 per cent of the participants are interchangeable parts clad in suits of armour, there are, perhaps,
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    • SIDELINES
      • 176 13 Reuter SEOUL A South Korean wrestler won a gold medal at the Asian Games with a cancerous tumour bigger than a baseball in his stomach, hospital officials said yesterday. Song Sung 11, 25, took gold in the Greco-Roman mid-heavyweight category by beating Kazakhstan's Vitalii Leikine
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      • 110 13 AFP PERTH, Australia England's Ashes tour yesterday became embroiled in controversy before it had even started when the tourists' manager complained that no practice bowlers had been provided. "It's just not good enough," Keith Fletcher said, blaming the Western Australian Cricket Association. "It's the first time
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      • 152 13 NYT NEW YORK The search for a mythical world golf champion will be undertaken in a new event that will feature 32 players vying for the US$l million (SSI.S million) winner's prize. The U553.65 million tournament will start next year and take place periodically
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      • 116 13 AP NEW YORK Alan Rothenberg, chairman of the US World Cup organisers, will get US$7 million (5510.3 million) for his soccer work, US$4 million more than World Cup USA 1994. In addition to the US$3 million in back pay, Rothenberg will get US$BOO,OOO for each
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    • SCORE CARD
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        116 13 TOKYO 120 million yen (Ssl.B million) Bridgestone Open Ist rd yesterday (Japanese unless stated): 66 Kiyoshi Maita 67 Roger Mackay (Aust), Daisuke Serizawa, Tomohiro Maruyama 68 Masashi Ozaki, Brian Watts (US). Hideki Kase, Toshiaki Odate, Graham Marsh (Aust). Nick Price (Zim). Abo: 72 David Ishii (US), Hsieh Chin-sheng (Tai),
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        261 13 LONDON European Champions' league 3rd series group matches on Wednesday Group A: Manchester Utd (Eng) 2 Barcelona (Spn) 2; Gothenburg (Swe) I Galatasaray (Tur) 0. Standing (p w d I gf ga pis): 1 Man Utd 3 12 0 6 4 4 2 IFK Gothenburg 3 2 0 1
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        254 13 BEIJING Salem Open 2nd rd on Wednesday: Albert Chang (Can) b 7-Jim Grabb (US) 6-3 6-4; Anders Jarryd (Swe) b 2-David Wheaton (US) 5-7 6-3 6-1; Tomas Nydahl (Swe) b Rick Leach (US) 6-4 6-4; 5-Andrei Olhovskiy (Rus) b Nicolas Pereira (Ven) 6-4 6-2. BRIGHTON, England Brighton International women's
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 766 15  -  George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, talks to Bernard Weinraub about his dreams and his disillusionment and explains why he left Hollywood for good Bernard Weinraub NYT Years ago George Lucas fled Hollywood, a town and a state of mind that appalled him.
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    • 753 15  -  From history to politics to love, the 10-day festival offers a wide choice, says Susan Tsang Susan Tsang STARTING tomorrow, film buffs will have another 10-day dose of European films stuff which differs from our usual cinematic fare in that they
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    • 338 15 CHATTERBOX AP UPI UPI UPI ROSEANNE has met her match, again. And this time he's even bigger than she is. The ample TV star got engaged last Friday to her blond bodyguard. Ben Thomas. Her publicist, Kevin Campbell, said the couple have not set a
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  • 501 16 CHINA, by any measure, made the biggest impact at the Hiroshima Asian Games which concluded last Sunday. Even before the Games had actually begun, China had threatened a boycott because the Olympic Council of Asia had invited Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to attend the opening ceremony.
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 252 16 THIS WEEK'S clashes in Haiti strengthen the view that although the United States has won the war, the Haitians will have to save the peace. What matters most is economic reconstruction so that the Haitians can realise the aspirations that prompted them to elect
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    • 192 16 SINGAPORE'S entry as the 30th founding member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is a milestone in the republic's role as a trading nation. Trade is the lifeblood of Singapore. But the republic's presence in the WTO is not just to protect our interests; more
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    • 175 16 THE STANDOFF between the chicken industry and the government representing the rights and views of consumers has now gone into the next round. Into the coop has flown the Minister of Agriculture in defence of poultry breeders and their brood, even as the Minister of Domestic
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    • 137 16 ALTHOUGH it certainly must sound over-optimistic to say at this moment in history that an era of peace seems to be dawning, nevertheless the turns which some of the most serious local and regional conflicts have taken lately surely must give people everywhere reason for at least
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    • 176 16 WHEN Minister for Defence and Labour Lee Boon Yang visited Nee Soon South constituency a few days ago, he heard to his delight that residents of nine private estates would form a residents' association. A representative also said that they hoped to make residents' committees (RCs)
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    • 112 16 THE RISE in China's annual inflation rate to 27.4 per cent in September from the already unacceptably high level of 25.8 per cent in August is cause for considerable alarm. Although widespread flooding last month contributed to the rise in consumer prices, meteorological conditions alone cannot be
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  • 1077 16  -  While new car sales have started picking up in the EU, manufacturers there realise that the big markets of the future lie abroad. Salil Sarkar reports Salil Sarkar The writer, a Paris-based journalist, contributed this article to BT THIS YEAR,
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 2860 17  -  Malcolm W Browne reports on three new controversial books which add more fuel to the volatile debate on intelligence Malcolm W Browne The writer is a science reporter for The New York Times. This article first appeared in The Sew York Times Book
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    • 1057 17  -  Joyce Barnathan, Lynne Curry and Russell Mitchell find office space at a premium as Western companies rush in, but the worst may soon be ovec Joyce Barnathan, Lynne Curry and Russell Mitchell FROM THE 37th floor of the China World
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  • 573 18  -  From Walton Morais in BERNE PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday said the first official visit to Switzerland by a Singapore leader would underpin strong, economicsdriven bilateral relations and signal to businessmen that "we want to do more
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  • COMPANY RESULTS
    • 79 18 Bloomberg Business New ARMONK, New York International Business Machines Corp reported a profit in the third quarter well above Wall Street's expectations. Net income was US$6B9 million (SSI.OI billion), or US$l.lB a share, for the three months ended Sep 30, compared to a loss
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    • 53 18 Reuter DETROIT General Motors Corp yesterday reported a profit of US$552 million (*****.4 million) for the third quarter, although its North American operation continued to lose money. The profit, which followed a US$ 113 million loss in the year-ago period, came on strong revenues of
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    • 51 18 AFP ATLANTA, Georgia Coca-Cola, the world's largest soda pop manufacturer, announced yesterday that its profit had risen 20 per cent in the third quarter of this year to US$7OB million (551.04 billion). Revenues rose 23.2 per cent to U554.46 billion from the third quarter in 1993.
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    • 43 18 AFP NEW YORK AT&T yesterday announced that its profits had risen 2.9 per cent in the third quarter to US$l.O5 billion (551.54 billion). Revenues rose to U5518.65 billion, up 8.24 per cent from the July to September period. AFP
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  • 315 18 LONDON Tim Smith, a junior minister for Northern Ireland, resigned after he admitted to receiving money to ask questions in Parliament, the UK government said yesterday. Mr Smith was accused with Trade and Industry Minister Neil Hamilton of being paid
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  • 375 18 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The Justice Department anti-trust division is investigating allegations of price fixing by securities dealers in the Nasdaq Stock Market, where shares of about 4,800 companies trade. For the Nasdaq, which bills itself the stock market for the next
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  • 276 18  -  From S N Vasuki in JAKARTA A SENIOR World Bank official yesterday warned Asian governments against giving guarantees that cover commercial risk to foreign investors establishing infrastructure projects. Greg Ingram of the banks research advisory staff said these guarantees were
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  • 650 18  -  The Bottom Line REGINALD DALE REGINALD DALE The writer is a columnist with the International Herald Tribune, where this commentary first appeared HERE'S something that sounds like an entertaining idea. France's Minister for European Affairs, Alain Lamassoure, is proposing that the European Union
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  • 549 18  - Tokyo, London exchange chiefs clash over securities laws From Anthony Rowtey in TOKYO THE managing director of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Yoshiaki Kaneko, warned yesterday that a "race to the bottom" was developing through competition among global securities markets to relax rules and regulations. Securities issuers and investors could suffer
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        39 19 Firm Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled Alliance, Baring, Fraser. Nomura. OngCo, Phillip, Smith New Court, W! Carr ana SG Warburg.
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        133 19  -  By Paul Leo UNITED Overseas Finance's Monthly Relative Strength Index is heading towards 2S, indicating that the downside is limited. Weekly Moving Average Convergence-Divergence Indicator has already signalled a buy. However, investors looking to buy the counter can a fiord to wait. Though the stock may head towards
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    • 422 19  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY WITH the acquisition of the Australian biscuit-maker Players Group, Jack ChiaMPH now has a toehold in the Australian biscuit market about 4 per cent. The market is estimated to be worth around AsBoo million (SsB64 million) a
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    • 301 19  -  By Teh How Ling SINGAPORE Singapore National Printers will restructure itself as an investment holding company to assist diversification. And to reflect its new status, it intends to change its name to SNP Corp. Under the restructure, it will hive off its general printing and
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    • 249 19 SINGAPORE WBL Corp yesterday confirmed that it was trying to sell part of its stake in a listed Malaysian company to Tongkah Holdings of Malaysia and Goldtron of Singapore. The sale of 13.2 million shares or 31 per cent of O'Connor's Engineering Trading
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    • 759 19  -  HOCK LOCK SiEW By William Chia SINGAPORE Sewerage companies are not normally glamorous. But when you mix rising Malaysian corporate star Ahmad Sebi Bakar with national sewerage contractor Indah Water Konsortium and its M 56.2 billion (553.58 billion) contract, a different picture unfolds. Berjaya
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    • 279 19  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY A CONSORTIUM of Malaysian investors, including IJM, one of the country's largest construction companies, is to restart the stalled World Square project in Sydney. Ipoh Gardens started the project but it stalled in 1990 after the company locked out
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    • 175 19 SINGAPORE Locally listed Pan Malayan Holdings is buying an office building in Melbourne, Australia, for As4o million (5543.2 million). The property group said yesterday it would use a wholly owned subsidiary for the acquisition, which is part of a larger effort to
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 54 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Datuk Keramat Holdings Bhd has recorded a hefty rise in its group pre-tax profit to M$ 137.81 million (5579.5 million), for the half-year ended July 31, up 967 per cent from M$ 12.56 million in the previous corresponding period. No interim dividend
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        • 84 20 SINGAPORE Acma's shareholders have approved a one-to-two share split at an extraordinary general meeting yesterday. The par" value of its ordinary shares will be 50 cents instead of 1 after the split. Its authorised share capital will also increase to 200 million shares, while
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        • 85 20 SINGAPORE Hotel Properties said yesterday that it has acquired a new associate company, Planet Hollywood Singapore, which is locally incorporated. The restaurant operator was acquired by Planet Hollywood Asia, a subsidiary of Planet Hollywood Holdings which in-turn is a subsidiary of HRC Holdings, an associated
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        • 60 20 SINGAPORE Causeway Investment announced yesterday that it has drawn down the full amount of a $7.5 million loan granted by DMT Properties. The loan agreement was dated June 9. Part of the money will be use to redeem its loan stock maturing on Oct
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        • 50 20 SINGAPORE Yeo Hiap Seng said yesterday it has not entered into any contract relating to the sale of shares in its Malaysian associated company Yeo Hiap Seng (Malaysia). This was in reply to a Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange query on YHS (M)'s unusual market action.
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      • 127 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Hicom Holdings Bhd's wholly-owned subsidiary, Hicom Communications Sdn Bhd, was awarded an electronic data interchange licence by the Ministry of Energy, Telecommunications and Posts. Hicom said the project entails the provision of EDI service by Hicom Network Services Sdn Bhd (HNS),
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      • 410 20  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Investors keen on marine industry exposure should consider dumping shares of bigger yards and buying into medium-size outfits such as Singmarine Industries and Singapore Shipbuilding and Engineering, says US securities firm Salomon Brothers. In its maiden report on the
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      • 286 20  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Less than nine months after it was launched, the local equities research department of US financial giant Salomon Brothers has become the biggest of any international investment bank here, says director and head of research Bruce Rolph. Mr Rolph, who moved
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      • 311 20  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Two former directors of Sesdaq-listed HBM Print have enlisted the help of Pan Pacific Public Co and a major local printing company for a new venture. The new firm, Panpac Media, has become a mirror of HBM and
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      • 207 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Damansara Realty Bhd, Jeram Kuantan (Malaya) Bhd and Uniphoenix Corporation Bhd are to jointly acquire and develop several pieces of land totalling 820.266 ha in Kuantan initially purchased by Damansara from Jeram Kuantan for M 565.6 million (5537.86 million). The
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      • 456 20 WUneeers'prices Oct 21 Mcndaki Or Fund 1.18 1.21x4 US Gr Fund 0.98 1 02— T 7?j s. s s3 a .a Ss* Spore Sec Fund 104 1.10 United Gr FundI! «l 1*9 S pore Invest Fund 1.26 1.33 Untied Asa Fund 1.72 1.82Spore Equity Fund 0.84 0.89 (J08 Life Hi
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      • 319 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Tenaga Nasional Research Development Sdn Bhd (TNRD) has signed a joint venture agreement with Microwave Technologies (South East Asia) Pte Ltd to manufacture and market microwave equipment. TNRD chairman Ani Arope, who is also Tenaga Nasional Berhad's executive chairman, said "our
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      • 274 20 SHAREHOLDERS of Sesdaqlisted electronics company Goldtron have been advised by directors to vote in favour of its acquisition of Hongkongbased magnetic tape maker Swilynn International Holdings for $42 million. In a circular to shareholders yesterday, Goldtron said the acquisition was in the interest of the
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      • 327 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Ancom Bhd proposes to raise M 5115.3 million (5566.5 million) via special and rights issues to finance the expansion of its activities in the chemical, oil and gas and the shipping sectors. Ancom said in a statement
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      • 500 21 Reuter HONGKONG A poor response to Hongkong's latest public offering shows the initial public offering (IPO) market is falling quickly back to earth after years of skyrocketing profits and demand, analysts said. Repair and maintenance outfit Wing Fai International Ltd said
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      • 449 21 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON Telecom Corp of New Zealand has won its appeal in the British Privy Council against rival phone company Clear Communications on pricing issues relating to Clear's desire to compete with Telecom in local call services. The Privy Council,
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      • 209 21 AFP HONGKONG Hongkong's leading clothes retail chain Giordano Holdings yesterday vowed to continue its expansion in China despite a sell-ofT by its mainland-linked major shareholder. Giordano, which also has stores in South-east Asian capitals, still plans to open 150 outlets in China
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      • 225 21 Reuter NEW YORK Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd appeared open to the possibility of selling its MCA Inc entertainment unit, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, citing individuals close to the situation. Matsushita executives, who said they would begin studying valuations of
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      • 329 21 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE The chief executive of Australian newspaper publisher John Fairfax Holdings Ltd said the company is negotiating its first forays into pay television and on-line information delivery to businesses. In a speech to the Securities Institute of Australia, Stephen Mulholland also signalled
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      • 415 21 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI Foreign investors got their first shot at owning a piece of a Chinese telecommunications company yesterday when shares of Shanghai Posts Telecommunications Equipment Co were listed on the Shanghai exchange. The price of the shares jumped 44 per
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      • 270 21 Reuter SHANGHAI Shanghai A shares soared yesterday amid renewed hopes that Beijing will go ahead with its plans to boost the market. The index put on 70.90 points, or 10.64 per cent, to 737.53 points on high turnover of 4.13 billion yuan. Investors
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      • 328 21 Reuter WELLINGTON Brierley Investments Ltd is likely to buy back some of its shares during 1996, when it has reduced its exposure to British hotels group Mount Charlotte pic, broking house Hendry Hay Mcintosh says. Hendry Hay issued
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      • 57 21 Reuter HONGKONG Lippo Asia Ltd, a unit of Hongkong's HKCB Bank Holding Co Ltd, said it has launched a new stock broking unit in the Philippines to focus on brokerage and corporate finance. In time the firm, Lippo Securities Inc. will expand into fund
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      • 36 21 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co said it would invest US$3O million to build a white goods factory in Thailand. The factory would have an annual capacity of 300.000 units.
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      • 50 21 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's Humpuss Group has been awarded a US$495 million (*****.6 million) contract by the government to build a three-berth terminal at the Jakarta port of Tanjung Priok, a company executive said. The contract was signed in August. Construction will start in December. Reuter
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      • 60 21 Reuter NEW YORK International Business Machines Corp is discussing a plan to underwrite the costs of an alliance with Apple Computer Inc which could lead to IBM gaining rights to the Macintosh operating system, the Wall Street Journal reported in yesterday's edition. Funding of such
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      • 97 21 AFP TOKYO Japan's Kyosha Co Ltd yesterday said it had set up a joint venture in Indonesia with another Japanese firm *nd local concerns to produce and sell printed circuit boards. The joint venture will be capitalised at US$l.5 million and is expected to
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      • 443 22 Reuter NEW YORK MCI Communications Corp, two Baby Bells and GTE Corp reported higher operating profits on Wednesday, as cost-cutting and revenue growth kicked in to boost the bottom line. MCI, the nation's No 2 long distance company, said its profits
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      • 294 22 FT SAN FRANCISCO Digital Equipment has reported smaller than expected losses for its first fiscal quarter as revenues grew modestly. The results raised hopes that the computer manufacturer would achieve its goal of returning to profitability by mid-1995 after four years of
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      • 352 22 Bloomberg Business News HIGHER unit sales of new drugs boosted third-quarter earnings for four big US pharmaceutical companies, and two of them posted better-than-ex-pected results. Price increases, muted by heavy discounting for man-aged-care companies, have stabilised but contributed almost nothing to the
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      • 452 22 Bloomberg Business News ST LOUIS McDonnell Douglas Corp on Wednesday said higher earnings at its F/A--18 fighter and C-17 military transport programmes drove profit from operations 39 per cent higher in the third quarter. Profit from operations rose to US$l4O million (*****.5
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      • 270 22 Bloomberg Business News REDMOND, Washington Microsoft Corp said fiscal firstquarter earnings rose 32 per cent on strong sales of its Windows operating system and Office package of business programs. The world's largest personal computer software company said on Wednesday that net
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 345 23  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Spanish bank Banco Santander has set up an Asia-Pacific headquarters at its newly opened Singapore offshore branch. The bank Spain's largest will also shift some treasury operations here from its Tokyo branch. Visiting chairman Emilio Botin said
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      • 257 23  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Overseas Union Bank has been asked by Australia's Bank of Queensland to arrange a US$lOO million (S$ 147 million) multi-option facility for it. Funds for this syndicated facility will be tapped from the Singapore-based Asian dollar
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      • 313 23 Reuter LONDON Creditors of the collapsed Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (BCCI) have agreed to accept US$l.B billion (552.65 billion) in compensation from Abu Dhabi in a deal to be announced very shortly, a creditors' spokesman said on Wednesday. The
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      • 330 23 KnightRidder SINGAPORE Bank Negara. Malaysia's central bank, may have directed banks to raise their fixed-deposit rates, said dealers in Kuala Lumpur. Bank Bumiputra and other major banks in Malaysia hiked their one-month fixed-deposit rate to 4.25 per cent from
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      • 101 23 AFP TOKYO Japanese government bonds issued in the fiscal year ending March 1996 are likely to reach nearly 12 trillion yen (SSIBO billion), exceeding 10 trillion yen for the third consecutive year, the Nthon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday. The expected large issue
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      • 95 23 AFP NEW YORK Chemical Banking, the fourth largest US bank, said on Wednesday it is selling off risky loans and real estate to Moigan Stanley Real Estate Fund for US$34l million (SSSOI million). Some 86 per cent of the package is risky loans and
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      • 92 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The president of the Shekou branch of the Bank of China was prosecuted for charges of corruption, bribe taking and embezzlement of a public fund, the semi-official China News Service reported yesterday. The Shenzhen judiciary found Zhang Junxi, president since
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      • 57 23 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Citicorp on Wednesday named Robert B Shapiro, president and chief operating officer of Monsanto Co, to its board. Mr Shapiro's election brings to 17 the number of directors of the US' largest banking company. Shapiro first joined Searie, now a
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      • 322 23  -  From S N Vasuki in JAKARTA PROJECT finance to meet Asia's huge infrastructure needs is readily available but the real challenge before governments in attracting capital flows is in introducing transparent legislation that will minimise risks and boost confidence of the international
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      • 555 24 Reuter SHANGHAI Life insurance is booming in Shanghai, the only Chinese city open to foreign insurers. It is prospering along with private industry, whose workers are not covered by the state welfare system. Its rapid expansion reflects a new focus on
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      • 273 24 Reuter NEW DELHI India's National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco), Asia's largest aluminium maker, will cut alumina production by 10 per cent because of slack global demand, company officials said. "We have decided on a 10 per cent cutback in production of alumina
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      • 323 24 Reuter HONGKONG China's steel industry will remain in the doldrums, economists and industry sources said, because the only way the government can bring the economy in for a soft landing is by further tightening credit. "Credit will remain tight,"
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      • 54 24 Reuter PORT-AU-PRINCE A Haitian man selling petrol for around US$2O (5529.60) a gallon (4.5 litres) along a street in Port-Au-Prince as black market trade in fuel continues to nourish. But the market's days are numbered as tankers unload supplies for petrol stations which are due
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      • 291 24 Reuter TOKYO Japan may import more cadmium for use in nickel-cadmium batteries on the back of growing exports of electronic equipment to North America, Europe and Southeast Asia, industry sources said. "We're cutting zinc production, so there's not much possibility
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      • 383 24 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Some buyers of copper and aluminium from booming economies in Asia are cutting down on purchases of these key base metals because of soaring prices in London and New York, regional trade sources said yesterday. Some Chinese, Japanese, South Asian and Vietnamese
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      • 288 24 LONDON Brent crude futures extended a three-day, 3.8 per cent gain amid strong demand from refiners anticipating the completion of maintenance work. Prices were further boosted by soaring refined products futures in New York after part of the Colonial Pipeline ruptured and oil workers
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      • 201 24 Reuter LONDON The dollar stooped lower after the Bundesbank's chief economist said he was content to see a stronger mark, but nervous operators kept buying it back under 1.5000 marks, dealers said. "Yes, we are always happy with a strong mark," Bundesbank board member Otmar Issing said,
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        1352 24 IraJe-uetfhled index inkutaled axainsi S pore's lop 14 trading partners Base year 1955 US$/S$ forward rates Noon Oct 20 1-month I 46S0 I W5 2-month l<WO 1.4675 V month 1.4640 1.4555 6-moMh 1.4590 1.4610 Snowy OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9m m Oct 2t: Singapore dollars
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      • 97 24 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was steady in earty trading here yesterday, sticking close to Wednesday's closing level in a directionless market. At 1345 GMT, the dollar was trading at 1.5018 marks, up from 1.5015 on Wednesday, and at 97.30 yen, down from 97.35. Earlier in the day
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1257 25 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen and Eurodollars futures close flat in narrow range trading. Dealers said Euroyen was range bound as there was no fresh news in the market. "The yen markets are still focused on foreign exchange and the problem is that nothing is
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      • 689 25 COMMODITY REPORTS Gold TOKYO: Gold futures closed slightly firmer in quiet trading, supported by individual investor buying on the back of the dollar edging up against the yen. Prices were two to six yen per gram higher, with benchmark August up four at
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 108 25 SYDNEY Strong feedgrain prices and the prospect of imports depressing the market should encourage farmers to sell most of their crop at harvest rather than warehousing grain or storing on farm, according to the Australian Wheat Board. Southern growers currently remain reluctant to commit
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        • 68 25 HONGKONG China's central Hubei province is expected to produce 500,000 tonnes of cotton this year, up 50,000 tonnes from 1993, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday. Hubei is one of China's major cotton-producing provinces. Although the report labelled this year's anticipated output as
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        • 60 25 KUALA LUMPUR Egypt's state agency Food Industry Corp on Wednesday bought 8,000 tonnes of Malaysian palm stearin for arrival in December. "TTie price was U*****.50 (5J775.50) per tonne, C&F, and the seller was Kuok Oils and Grains. The FIC also bought 8,000 tonnes of
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        • 82 25 LONDON Burundi's coffee board sold 12,000 bag of fully washed and 4,500 bags of washed coffee offered at the 16th weekly auction of the 1994-95 campaign in Bujumbura on Wednesday. The Board said buying was not as active as the week before. Fully washed
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    • 1400 25 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at S.30pai) 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Nov 94 200.00 200.00 201.50 800 1250 Dec 197.00 196.00 195.25 200 3375 Jan 95 189.00 185.50 187.25 375 2600 Feb 189.00 185.50 187.25 375 2900
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      • 1132 26 +2.9 SHARES closed marginally firmer yesterday as hesitant investors stood on the sidelines in a jittery day's trade, brokers said. The key All Ordinaries Index closed at 2,016.3 points, up 2.9 while the All Industrials Index rose 1.2 to 2,855.9 and the All Resources Index climbed 4.6 to 1,394.1.
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      • 653 26 -22.22 Share prices fell as investors succumbed to profit-taking after a six-day advance, analysts said. The PSE Index finished at 3,077.12 points, off 22.22. Turnover was 5.6 billion shares valued at 1.8 billion pesos. "We expect prices to move sideways for the rest of the week," an analyst said.
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      • 263 26 +5.63 Shares rose to their highest level since Oct 3, as Telecom surged following announcement of a victory in a major court battle against a competitor. It was the second day Telecom has accounted for practically all of the market's gain. The NZSE-40 Index gained 5.63 points to
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      • 80 26 -47.48 Shares were held down by sustained selling pressure and ended lower, brokers said. The BSE 30-share Index fell 47.48 points to 4,281.99 with speculators off-loading some of their holdings in A group or specified shares. Yesterday was also the last day of the current fortnightly account period for
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      • 637 26 +92.27 Shares jumped across the board as the Central Bank of China (CBC) urged commercial banks to lower interest rates, with shipping shares enjoying the largest gains, dealers said. The 386-issue Weighted Price Index recovered 92.27 points to finish at 6,761.37. Turnover was 1.52 billion shares worth NT568.26 billion.
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      • 478 26 -5.99 Share prices were sidelined for the second straight day yesterday amid market jitters over inevitable corrections. The Comp9site Price Index shed 5.99 points to settle at 1,088.77, with 47 million shares worth 1.06 trillion won changing hands. Rises outweighed falls 512 to 365, with 66 counters unchanged. Major
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      • 651 26 Britannia Funds Sterling («sh Bid Oder M.m Cap Depaut M 6400 3* 6500 Mini JerseyGih jOlIWJ 0 1992 Mim Mai Incimt *0.9100 ****** US$ Cash Income Plus Fund ***** *****0 PS S Reserve Fund 5 3200 5 J300 Siciiint taint) Euro Piifmnn .0.4592 ***** Far East FunJ *2 7650 *2.9730
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      • 730 26 +2.4 STOCKS closed mixed after the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported higher manufacturing prices, sparking concern that US inflation and interest rates will rise. The report sent bonds and stocks reeling, wiping out earlier gains. A report from the US Commerce Department that housing starts rose 4.4 per
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      • 115 26 •5.90 French shares eased below Wednesday's close following a stronger than expected rise in the US Philadelphia Fed index. Losses in bond markets and a weaker dollar also tipped equities lower. The CAC-40 Index closed down 5.90 points at 1870.41. Paris Oct 18 Kr Xir-Liquide 732.00 100 AlcaMt Amlhom
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      • 148 26 -4.24 German share prices drifted lower, tracking weaker Bund futures prices after the release ot the Philadelphia October diffusion index. Deutsche was traded sharply higher in heavy volume. The DAX Index ended the day at 2,053.89, down 4.24 points. Frankfurt Ort l» DM Am 150 50 -4W BASF 110
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      • 181 26 +64 Italian stocks ended higher for the first time in three days, as some investors reckoned that prices have fallen too much in recent days, with some stocks at their lowest since January. Trading activity, however, was low as many investors decided to wait for the outcome of Italy's
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      • 164 26 -4.29 Belgian shares ended lower, pulled down by weaker bonds, the ailing dollar and a disappointing start on Wall Street. Several dealers and brokers said that they expected shares to take a further beating today, the last day of the forward account. However, one predicted the gloom would lift
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      • 228 26 1.52 Dutch shares wobbled slightly but remained in positive territory. Dealers described market sentiment as cautiously optimistic amid expectations that bonds had bottomed out, barring disastrous German money supply figures due out some time this week. The general feeling was, however, that the German M 3 money figures would
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      • 255 26 +2.53 Swiss shares ended little changed in quiet trade. An early technical rebound lost steam in the morning and prices slipped further after the release of US figures. Today's market would be determined by Wall Street performance, dealers said. One added that the expiry of Sofiex options could affect
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      • 281 26 13 South African shares ended softer on mild profit-taking. Industrials were steady on continued positive sentiment and a limited supply of scrip, dealers said. A financial rand slip had eased pressure on rand prices. The Overall Index ended down 15 points at 5,667, the Industrial Index was 13 better
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      • 781 26 -19.17 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rebounded 18.50 points on Wednesday, was down 19.17 to 3,916.87 at 1 lam EDT. The key barometer was ahead 3.03 points shortly after the market opened. The NYSE Composite Index was off 1.24 to 257.08, while Standard Poors 500-stock index was
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      • 278 26 -3.12 Stocks continued lower in sluggish midday trading with a quiet session expected this afternoon, traders said. Rallying gold and metal stocks restrained losses in most other sectors, including communications and banking stocks. 'We're probably not going to do much between now and the close," one dealer said. The
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      2912 27 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks ended higher amid positive news on real estate developments by three major companies and as share prices in Shanghai climbed, analysts said. The Hang Seng Index ended up 68.72 points at 9,388.78. The broader All Ordinaries Index rose 28.71 to 4,699.23. Shanghai's A share
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      523 27 CLSA H SHARES gained 25.08 points to 1,472.50 on turnover of HK$ll3 million. In Shanghai, the A Index ended up 379.05 points to 3,920.99. Shanghai Petrochem rebounded 5 per cent on volume of HKSI4.B million. Yizheng came under selling pressure with almost HK$42 million worth of shares changing hands
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      2504 27 Reuter TOKYO Stocks closed firmer on buying by public pension and insurance funds, which mainly bought cheap chemical and steel shares, brokers said. Other institutional and individual investors remained on the sidelines due to a lack of fresh incentives. "Public fund buying aims to support overall prices, as the
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      1745 27 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closed firmer on initial buying of bank stocks which gave investors more confidence. The SET Index closed 20.19 points higher at the day's high of 1,521.61 on 9.17 billion baht turnover. "The market was earnings driven today," said a broker. Investors bought banks in the morning
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      1088 27 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed mixed in overall quiet trading apart from Indosat, Indonesia's international telecommunications company, which again dominated trading and closed 5.5 per cent higher. "Just like yesterday, Indosat has overshadowed the entire market in very strong demand from foreign investors," one local broker said. Foreign investors
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    • 1871 28 MOST ACTIVE volume l.ingui 50c 11.448.000 Mulptu Iml MV 8.000.000 Bellas j < iioup h <52.0tt) Promct 4 W® Choc Plod 50c 4.837.000 kl. Industrie. 4.4/>J.OOO kins Hsd jOc 4.41 MM) MBHaptUl WM" Invtt Bhd JBI KpMm .vc.vooo Multi-Purpose 2.I84.0UO aN.it.roup 2084.000 Muln-PWt 1.865.000 MOST ACTIVE value I
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 4289 28 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR The benchmark index rose amid speculation that transportation services company Shapadu Kontena is the object of a takeover bid. The company's stock rose MS 1.10 to MS 13.70 with 6.9 million shares changing hands. The stock has
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      • 7880 29 I Gf Gf M Wl 1994 Leal Vol Dny Laat Q<«" /jj p**! I High Low Cwngnay Sri* ("000) Htgk Low Buyer Or P'E tail Price INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1440 «J5 mt Acma I.OOad+IO 119 1110 1090 .100 1110 17.5 7SJ.JIWI 547* 267* Ale* Hide* 50c 533 J 1?® U|
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      • 1848 30  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Shares rose as investors returned to blue chips after three days of consolidation. While turnover improved from the previous day, the 192.83 million shares worth $558.54 million traded yesterday was moderate and still below last week's
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    • 344 19 NEWS VALUE I low today's news might affect your stocks Bank of America makes comeback in S'pore (pg 1) Impact on listed banks negligible. Brisk 8.1% growth for M'sia in 2nd qtr (pg I) No impact as figures are broadly in line with expectations. Inflation data encouraging, though. S'pore developers
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    • 484 31  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Shipyard accidents in the first eight months of this year killed 24 people. Ministry of Labour figures show. This is just one fewer than the five-year high of 25 fatalities in 1992. From January to August
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    • 642 31 Knight-Ridder LONDON The pace quickened in late trading on Wednesday with evidence that charterers' attempt to check the pace of rising freight rates has so far failed, brokers said. Futures trading on Biffex took a battering earlier on Wednesday as April, the most actively
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      68 31 Reuter MIAMI, Florida James Lida of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd placing a lighthouse on a model of an 18-hole miniature golf course on Wednesday called 'Legend of the Links'. The 6,000 sq ft course is being built on the deck of Royal Caribbean's newest ship, the 1,808-passenger Legend
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    • 225 31 AFP STOCKHOLM The Swedish government on Wednesday deferred any decision on whether to refloat the wreck of the Estonia, which sank in the Baltic last month with the loss of more than 900 lives. Transport Minister Ines Uusman said more information was
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    • 279 31 Reuter NEW YORK The US Coast Guard said that the northern part of the Houston ship channel was shut at sunset on Tuesday evening due to heavy flood waters, adding it does not yet know when shipping will resume. "The Houston Ship Channel
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    • 244 31 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Commission's decision to block the Transatlantic Agreement (TAA) between shipowners on the transport of containers is likely to deal a stinging blow to other shipping cartels, lawyers said. The decision effectively left the 15 companies
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    • 1916 32 2.. ?HE pace quickened in late trading on Wednesday with evidence that charterers attempt to check the pace of rising freight rates has so far failed, brokers said. Futures trading on Biflfex took a .battering earlier as Apr. the most actively traded month touched a low of 1.640
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    • 12399 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 brum the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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      • 726 48 Vessel Voy No Berth A/nvil Departure Vessel Voy No Berth frrival Departue JuronK P«rt Spwd3 ****** P01A 21 10 0/00 21 10 0800 1*4 116 1/ 2110 1100 Balair Spe«d4 *****' P01A 20 10 1900 20 10 2000 toST 0 02 94 "n£de 21 10 2300 Batar-
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    • 678 49 The Nation TO DEVELOP Thai fleets, the Thai government must emphasise key items to be top priority to sell on the world market, and must strengthen supporting industries such as steel, petrochemicals and natural gas. Kamonchanok Suthiwartnarueput, lecturer at Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Commerce
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 415 50 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON With jets flying overhead, federal regulators, community activists, politicians, and airline officials gathered near Washington National Airport on Wednesday to ponder a question bedeviling them: Should a 25-year-old rule limiting hourly takeofls and landings at National and
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      • 279 50 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Boeing Co said on Wednesday that it will consider Taiwan as a partner in building a proposed 100-seat passenger jet. Earlier news reports said Boeing had invited Taiwan to join the project, after Ronald Woodard, president
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      • 257 50 AP TOKYO Japan's Mazda Motor Corp is in the final stage of negotiations with Ford Motor. Co to purchase Ford cars for sale in Europe under Mazda's brand name, the Japanese automaker said yesterday. Mazda, which is owned
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      • 44 50 Reuter AUCKLAND, New Zealand A fireman surveying the damage after a 68-year-old motorist drove her car through a car park barrier here yesterday. Two children in the back seat of the crushed car were unhurt. Reuter
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      • 191 50 Bloomberg Business News DETROIT The US auto industry's hitshow, light trucks, looks like it may soon hit its limit. The booming market for pickup trucks, minivans and sport-utility vehicles may be starting to show its first signs of
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        • 101 50 SINGAPORE An Airbus Industrie widebody airliner painted in the new livery of Cathay Pacific is now in Singapore for the first time. The A 330, which is the first Airbus aircraft to be powered with a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engine, performed a special demonstration
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        • 82 50 SINGAPORE Listed shipowner Osprey Maritime on Wednesday took delivery of Osprey Challenger a 41,570 deadweight product tanker. The Singapore-registered vessel, built in Japan, yesterday began its one-year charter to Japan's Navix Line. Osprey owns a fleet of 11 vessels comprising one liquified natural gas carrier,
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        • 71 50 Bloomberg Business News ROCKFORD, Illinois United Parcel Service of America said it opened its newest regional air hub at the Greater Rockford Airport in Illinois. The 530,000 sq ft facility employs 375 package handlers and 85 supervisors to handle a current 120,000 packages a
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        • 76 50 Reuter CANBERRA Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd is set to try and renegotiate a secret deal it has with New Zealand's Brierley Investments Ltd in which Qantas tops up the dividends Air New Zealand Ltd pays Brierley, The Australian Financial Review newspaper said yesterday.
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        • 67 50 SINGAPORE Northwest Airlines clarified yesterday that KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is not a participant in the World Business Class promotional offer as earlier announced. The promotion will only be available to Northwest Airlines World Business Class flyers. They will receive a free companion ticket and a roundtrip
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      • 305 50 AP WASHINGTON The Department of Transportation's preliminary finding this week that 4.5 million General Motors Corp pick-up trucks pose safety hazards was made against the advice of its top safety and technical advisers, department officials said on Wednesday. "Our view
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