The Business Times, 14 November 1994

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  • 12 1 SINGAPORE BusinessTimes WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Monday November 14 1994 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 46 1 Reuter LONEX)N Britain's industrial materials group Cookson Group pic and precious metals firm Johnson Matthey pic yesterday said they were holding talks which might lead to merger proposals. The statement said a further announcement would be made "when appropriate". Reuter
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    • 59 1 AFP NEW YORK The New York Times yesterday questioned USAir's safety practices, saying a two-month investigation had revealed a number of safety and training lapses by the airline. The newspaper began the investigation after the crash of a USAir Boeing 737 near Pittsburgh
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  • 159 1 Stock market indices Friday Week chaage STU 2.322.59 -29.91 KLSEComp 1.029 87 -44.54 Nikkei 19.284.36 -527.2 Hang Seng 9,367 85 -162.55 SET laden 1.466.22 -56.72 Jakarta Comp 513.38 -7.22 CLSA China B 1,115.50 -27.84 Aust AU Ord 1.952.0 -47.8 FTSE 100 3,075.9 -21.7 Dow Jones 3.801.47 -6.05 Average
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  • 198 1 Reuter AP JAKARTA China and the United States held high-level negotiations yesterday but US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor said he was still "not persuaded" Beijing could fulfil its wish to enter the world trade club by year's end. "China's offers, at this point,
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  • 585 1  -  By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Internet, the computer network which links more than 20 million users around the world, has decided not to use Singapore as the venue for its annual conference scheduled for June 1995. Disagreements with its local organiser. Information
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  • 403 1  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK WITH eyes set on becoming an economic hub of the region, Thailand is drawing up a master plan for the development of its fast-growing financial services sector. The master plan, comparable in importance to the
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  • 418 1  -  By A J Leow SINGAPORE Sports and leisure group Superßowl will acquire the Marina Bay Golf and Country Club at Marina South for $10.2 million. Superßowl said over the weekend that it is buying the four-hectare site as a going concern
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  • 471 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Singaporebased Wah-Chang Group is launching eight hotel projects worth about $200 million in the Asia-Pacific. When ready, the projects which include service apartments will boost the group's stable of hotels in the region to over 20, worth some
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  • 428 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Although stock market traders this week will await anxiously the outcome of tomorrow's Federal Open Market Committee meeting, most observers believe the worst could almost be over. After watching prices fall in thin volume almost continually last
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 197 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan ALTHOUGH the benchmark three-month Singapore dollar interbank rate eased from 3.56 per cent at endSep to about 3.25 per cent for most of October, tomorrow's US Federal Reserve meeting is bound to lead to a rise soon, say economists. Many economists
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    • 134 2 THE fifth batch of five precincts has been selected for upgrading under the Housing and Development Board's Main Upgrading Programme. The precincts are in Beach Road/North Bridge Road, Chin Swee Road, Upper Cross Street, Toa Payoh Lorong 7 and Lorong 1, and Moulmein Road/Bales
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    • 343 2  -  By Lilian Ang JURONG Town Corporation (JTC) plans to spend $23 million next year to refurbish the Ayer Rajah industrial estate. The upgrading exercise, which will give the 20-year-old estate a new look and image, is part of a larger effort
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    • 422 2  -  By Quak Hiang Whai ASIA remains a high savings area with Singapore easily the highest saver in the region, and all the signs point to the trend continuing in the region, says the American Express Bank. The US bank said in its latest Amex
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    • 63 2 Soon 5.2m sq ft of diversity under one roof Reuter CONSTRUCTION WORKERS in a gondola working on a section of windows under Suntec City's modernistic ceiling form a surrealistic picture. The giant light-grey building, with hundreds of roof pipes forming pyramids above, will have 5.2 million sq ft of convention,
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    • 244 2  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK A TEAM from Thailand's ailing Democrat Party will be visiting Singapore next week to exchange views with members of the People's Action Party. Delegation leader Charoen Kanthawong said the threeday visit, starting next Tuesday,
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  • APEC '94
    • 1056 3  -  a INSIDE Apec By Yang Razali Kassim in Jakarta LEADERS of 18 Asia-Pacific economies are bracing for a difficult summit in Bogor tomorrow to pin down a compromise time-table for free trade. Though the chances of an agreement on a 2020 deadline have
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    • Apec BULLETIN BOARD
      • 81 3 The Straits Times JAKARTA Asean and the United States will step up their commercial "match-making" programmes to strengthen their business linkages. Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Supachai Panitpakdi said yesterday after the third dialogue between Asean Economic Ministers and the US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor here. Asean
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      • 98 3 The Straits Times JAKARTA Singapore will remain a catalyst for the industrial, tourism and infrastructure developments in Indonesia, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. Using the Batam experience as an example, he said that while Singapore had pledged to help build an industrial park
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      • 68 3 Bloomberg JAKARTA US Secretary Ron Brown said the Clinton administration has targeted 10 developing economies as potential export markets for American products. India, China, and South Korea, along with Indonesia, represent Asia in the group of 10 that the White House has chosen as
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      • 115 3 AFP JAKARTA Japan's International Trade and Industry Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto charged the United States yesterday with failing to coordinate its response to his offer to rev ive stalled car trade talks. Mr Hashimoto said Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and Commerce Secretary Ron Brown responded
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      • 73 3 AFP Reuter JAKARTA Japan's Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama formally offered yesterday to host a third summit between leaders of the 18-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum, Japanese officials said. The officials said Mr Murayama. who arrived here on Saturday, made the offer during
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      • 74 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia and South Korea agreed to try boosting bilateral trade to US$lO billion (5514.7 billion) by 1997 from an estimated US$6 billion this year, South Korean Trade and Industry Minister Kim Chul Su said. "There was an agreement that we try
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 357 4 Reuter PENANG Malaysia said yesterday it wanted more American investment in hightechnology and capital intensive sectors to propel the country into the ranks of the developed nations by 2020. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told a regional conference here that Malaysia placed the utmost
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    • 241 4 Reuter NST KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Malaysia would not award projects to British contractors on the strength of loans pledged by the British government, the Star newspaper reported yesterday. He said tenders for such projects would instead be assessed
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    • 448 4  -  From Leslie Lopez in DILI, Indonesia VIOLENCE flared in East Timor yesterday after the killing of a local resident sparked a wave of street demonstrations and clashes between protesters and Indonesian troops. Sources say 15 protesters have been arrested and the situation in
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    • 286 4 AFP LONDON Britain is preparing a £2 billion (554.7 billion) arms deal with Indonesia covering the sale of armoured vehicles, missiles and naval vessels, The Observer newspaper reported yesterday. "According to sources in London and Jakarta, Indonesia's shopping list includes
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    • 80 4 Reuter HANOI US, Thai and Vietnamese companies have agreed to build a 36-storey office and apartment block in central Ho Chi Minh City, the second skyscraper planned there. The Harmony Property Group, in which contractors Christiani and Nielsen (Thailand) are majority partners, signed a joint-venture
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    • 128 4 MBT NAGOYA Japan s HSST Development Corporation has started negotiations with Malaysian parties for the possible development of an electric high-speed rail link between the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at Sepang and downtown Kuala Lumpur. "We are talking to a consortium involved in
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    • 135 4 AFP JAKARTA Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai yesterday threatened to boycott Australian-made weapons in retaliation for continuing allegations that some Thais support Khmer Rouge guerillas in Cambodia. "If they still think this way, we won't buy (the weapons)," he told reporters here. Mr Chuan, who
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    • 89 4 Reuter YANGON A senior Myanmar general was quoted yesterday as calling for journalists and tourists to be allowed to visit Myanmar's northernmost Kachin state, out of bounds to most foreigners for decades. State-run media quoted military intelligence chief Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt as saying
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    • 343 4 The IBM AS/400 Advanced Series. The more sophisticated we made it, the simpler it became. Chances are, you want more from a business computer than just sophisticated technology. After all, simplicity and ease-of-use are important, too. Which is why you ought to take a closer look at the IBM AS/400*
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 630 6 AFP Reuter BEIJING China's inflation will rise above 20 per cent this year, the highest level since economic reforms were launched 15 years ago, an official forecast published in the China Daily said yesterday. In January, the government pledged to keep inflation under 10
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    • CHINAWATCH
      • 94 6 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's foreign exchange reserves, which hit a record high of U5590.98 billion (S$ 134 billion) in August, rose to another record of over US$9l billion by the end of September, the semi-official Central News Agency said. The increase was due in part
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      • 71 6 AFP SHANGHAI China's oldest newspaper, the Xinmin Evening News, is planning a foray into the United States in a bid to become a major media group within the next five years, the newspaper's editor-in-chief said. Ding Fazhang said that the Shanghai-based newspaper would be
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      • 73 6 AFP SAN FRANCISCO Hongkong governor Chris Patten arrived here on Saturday for an eight-day visit to the western United States seeking to bolster bilateral business ties. The visit to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle had been planned for some time as part of
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    • 353 6  -  From Teh Hooi Ling in LONGKOU CITY, SHANDONG SINGAPORE is the largest foreign investor in Longkou City, an open coastal city in Shandong province, its vice-mayor Gai Shao Ning said here yesterday. Of the US$2BO million (Ss4l2 million) committed by foreign investors,
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    • 46 6 Reuter TAIPEI Shih Wong, 60, using what he said was the biggest brush pen in the world to write a 33m by 20m Chinese character here yesterday. Mr Shih has been practising the art of calligraphy since he was five years old. Reuter
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    • 184 6 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China is to introduce tough new controls and supervision of its stateowned companies abroad in an attempt to stem losses of national assets through inadequate management and theft. The state-run China Daily Business Weekly reported that over the past
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    • 207 6 Reuter BEIJING China, which in 1990 had an estimated 180 million people who were unable to read or write, has scored a modest success in reducing illiteracy, the official Xinhua Daily Telegraph newspaper said yesterday. A government survey showed that illiterate people above the
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    • 109 6 -> 1 ««•»>— r &ssb r I MR KWEK HONG PNG I Departed on 8 November 1994 would like to express their sincere thanks and appreciation to His Excellency The President and Mrs Ong Teng Cheong, H Ministers, Ministers of State, Parliamentary Secretaries, Members of Parliament, Government Officials, friends, colleagues,
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 473 8 AFP SYDNEY Australia's embattled conservative opposition leader, Alexander Downer, yesterday vehemently denied reports he is poised to resign following a series of gaffes and slumping popularity polls. Mr Downer has been besieged by rumours that his Liberal Party is ready
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    • 350 8 AFP DHAKA Bangladesh was yesterday in the grip of a dawn-to-dusk nationwide general strike called by the opposition. which brought militant picketers streaming onto the country's streets. Witnesses said crude bombs were exploded early yesterday by opposition activists in parts of the capital,
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    • 320 8 AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil Tiger rebels declared a unilateral ceasefire to mark the election of President Chandrika Kumaratunga who initiated peace talks with the rebels, military sources here said yesterday. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) announced
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  • THE WORLD
    • 519 9 AFP ISMAILIYA, Egypt The Suez Canal, as it turns 125 this week, is under threat from the peace process which is carving a new Middle East and opening up alternative routes. "Peace brings with it competition. I hope that economic problems will
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    • 48 9 Reuter ROME A general view of Saint Giovanni Square, where more than one million people took part in a demonstration agains Italy's 1995 budget over the weekend. It was one of the largest protests ever to have been staged in the capital. Reuter
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    • 367 9 Reuter STOCKHOLM Swedes went to the polls yesterday to decide whether to join the European Union, with opinion polls showing around one million undecided voters hold the key to the outcome. A Reuters poll of polls which averaged all
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    • 334 9 Reuter LONDON Owners of Britain's 20 million cars have been jolted by clear signals that the Conservative government may put the brakes on what former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher used to call "the great car economy". An official report
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    • WORLDWATCH
      • 129 9 Reuter LONDON Five men appeared in a British court on Saturday charged with going equipped to cheat with false bills and foreign government guarantees with a face value of about US$2O billion (5529.4 billion). The five, two Americans, a Briton, an Italian and a
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      • 66 9 Reuter PARIS French Cooperation Minister Michel Roussin resigned on Saturday over a political funding scandal in a new blow to the government and presidential aspirations of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. Disclosing the resignation, the premier's office said Mr Roussin would be replaced by Bernard Debre,
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      • 126 9 AFP BRUSSELS The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation stands ready to assist the Western European Union (WEU) in military operations in which the United States and Canada decline to participate, Nato Secretary General Willy Claes said yesterday. "We cannot wait for the United
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  • SPORTS
    • 894 10 Reuter ADELAIDE Michael Schumacher won Germany's first Formula One world drivers' championship in controversial style yesterday and then apologised to British rival Damon Hill for remarks he made about him. The 25-year-old Benetton driver won the title after being forced into early
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    • 293 10 AFP LONDON England kicked ofT their World Cup season by crushing Romania 54-3 here on Saturday, scoring six tries to leave them just two points short of a record win. Will Carling marked his 50th cap with one of the tries after Tony
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    • 96 10 AFP WASHINGTON Wilma Rudolph, who triumphed over polio, pneumonia and scarlet fever to become the first US woman to win three athletics gold medals at one Olympics, died of brain cancer on Saturday. She was 54. As a child, Rudolph was told she would not
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    • 485 10  -  By Robin Finn NYT NEW YORK Martina Navratilova has dreamed it, dreaded it, dined on it, decoded it with astrologers and tarot cards; retirement has been fraught with peril and possibility. And now. with immediacy. The late tennis sage Ted Tinling once pigeonholed
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    • 254 10 Golf AP DORADO, Puerto Rico Fred Couples and Davis Love didn't have great days last Saturday at the World Cup of Golf. They did move one round closer to knocking Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer from the record books, though. Couples, who
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    • SPORTSHORTS
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        59 10 NEW YORK NBA Saturday: Charlotte 113 Detroit 100; Cleveland 86 Indiana 93; Philadelphia 103 Orlando 116; Miami 99 Washington 109; Minnesota 101 Boston 114; New Jersey 84 Houston 100; Chicago 120 Dallas 124 (OT); San Antonio 101 NY 82; Denver 119 Utah 110; Golden State 121 LA Lakers 99;
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      • Article, Illustration
        55 10 HKRMOSILLO, Mexico AMF World Cup leading placings after Saturday's semi-finals W omen: 1 Anne Jacobs (SA) 9,961 pins 2 Lucy Giovinco (US) 9,854 3 Cara Honeychurch (Aust) 9,694 4 Grace Young (Sin) 9,603. Men: 1 Tore Torgcrsen (Nor) 10,935 2 Mohamed Khalifa (UAE) 10,325 3 Krithawat Jampakhao (Thai) 10,274
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        57 10 NEWCASTLE, Australia New South Wales, replying to England's 328, were 314 for five wickets in their first innings at the close on the second day of the four-day match at Newcastle on Sunday. Scores: England 328 (G Hick 73, J Crawley 71, G Thorpe 67, N McNamara 4-50); NSW
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        206 10 GOTEMBA, Japan Japan's Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki won his sixth tournament of the season yesterday. beating American Bob Estes by five shots in the 150 million yen Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters. Ozaki closed with a 5-under-par 67 for an 18-under total of 270, one week afier his record breaking 15shot
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        36 10 GLASGOW South Africa recovered from their midweek defeat against Scotland A with an emphatic 33-6 win on Saturday over a Combined Scottish Districts XV which included five tries. In Leinster, Ireland. Leinster beat USA 9-6.
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      • Article, Illustration
        106 10 AP ANTWERP, Belgium Pete Sampras, with a ruthless serve, beat fellow American Jared Palmer 7-5, 6-3 on Saturday to set up a final against Swede Magnus Larsson in the US$l.l million European Community Championship. Seventhseeded Larsson used his backcourt power game to perfection to beat France's Olivier Dclaitre 6-4,
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 919 11  -  SINGAPORE'S Chan Brothers, one of Singapore's biggest tour operators, has come a long way from its early days as a small ticketing agency. Michelle Loh finds out where it is heading now Michelle Loh Anthony Chan is a modest man. The genial managing director of Chan
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    • 489 11 TIMOTH Y F McCarthy has been appointed chief executive of Jardine Fleming Unit Trusts and a board director of Jardine Fleming Holdings Ltd. He will be responsible for Jardine Fleming Unit Trusts throughout the region and looking at increasing the investment product line to cover a wider scope
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • THE ARTS
    • 533 13  -  Claudius Tanski took some time to settle down and reveal his insightful musicianship, reports Benjamin Loh Benjamin Loh CLAUDIUS Tanski, the third in a series of German pianists presented by the Goethe-Institut, gave a recital of varying standards at the Jubilee Hall on Wednesday.
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    • 49 13 Reuter NEW YORK Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's painting of a young ballet dancer, Danseuse ajustant son maillot, sold for nearly US$5 million (557.4 million) at Christie's here last Wednesday. The anonymous buyer paid almost three times the painting's estimated high to secure it. Reuter
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    • 270 13  -  By Benjamin Loh A SOMEWHAT clinical approach to musicmaking characterised the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's performance last Friday night in its programme of Bruch's Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op 46 and Elgar's Symphony No 2 in E flat. Op 2. With British violinist Lorraine
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 209 13 1 WEATHER Singapore Showers over many areas in the afternoon. (Temperature 24-31). Ma-PadAc Hi/U' Cm* Ear*** Hi/La* Cant Buenos Aires 26/15 Ooudy Auckland 181/13 Cloudy Amsterdam 07/01 Cloudy Chicago 17/08 Ooudy Bangtail 32/23 Ooudy Athens 16/09 Shower Honolulu 29/21 Cloudy MM 13/02 Ooudy Berlin 03/-3 Cloudy Houston 23/10 Cloudy Bomtey
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  • BusinessIT
    • 876 15  -  Digital intends to double its personal computer revenues to US$2 billion this fiscal year, the company's PC chief tells Lee Wai Leong Lee Wai Leong L A MERICAN giant Digital Equipment Sif Corporation, whose personal P& computers have 'come out of nowhere to be jipaong
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    • 663 15  - The Comdex carnival love it, hate it, just don't miss it IT industry's mega-event opens in Las Vegas today. David Welcher finds out what's in store. David Welcher LIKE pilgrims on a religious excursion, the movers and shakers of the IT industry, along with those who aspire to join their
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    • TECHTAKES
      • 35 17 SINGAPORE Hewlett-Packard and Lotus Development Corp have announced an alliance to work together in three areas integrating electronic messaging, groupware, network and system management products; sales and marketing; and support.
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      • 53 17 SINGAPORE Microsoft Singapore is offering specially priced promotional packages for the Christmas season. Its Small Business Pack that includes Works 3.0 and Publisher 2.0 normally retails for $600 and is now going for $299. The Multimedia Pack, which includes Encarta 95 and Home Mouse, costs 5299,
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      • 52 17 SINGAPORE Informatics Computer School has been appointed the first authorised training centre for FACT Software International, a provider of real-time business accounting software. FACT claims its software allows almost all of a company's accounting, inventory, and cash control functions to be accessed and monitored at the
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      • 39 17  -  Compiled by David Mok SINGAPORE Digital Equipment Singapore has announced three new Pentium offerings in its line of desktop personal computers the Celebris 560, 590 and FPS9O. Street price for the 560 starts from $3,200.
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    • It's happenin'
      • 40 17 SINGAPORE A seminar titled "Current and Future Trends in Manufacturing Software Solutions" will be held on Nov 16. It is jointly organised by Avalon Software and the Singapore Manufacturers Association. To register, call Ava at 221-5988.
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      • 30 17 SINGAPORE CSA Automated is holding a launch-cum-seminar on the effective management of open systems on Nov 18 (2-spm). For more information, call Tracia at 371-9751.
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      • 107 17  -  Compiled by David Mok SINGAPORE The Information Communication Institute of Singapore (ICIS) is conducting a three-day course called "The Software Process: Definition, Assessment and Improvement" starting on Nov 30. The course includes a detailed analysis of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). To register, call 460-0546.
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      • 61 17 SINGAPORE Quantum Corporation, the world's largest volume supplier of hard disk drives, has promoted David RawclitTe to marketing director of its Asia-Pacific operations. Mr Rawcliffe, who was with disk drive giant Seagate for seven years, joined Quantum Asia-Pacific as technical marketing director in April. He is
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      • 48 17 SINGAPORE UK-based software house Systems Union Ltd (SUL) has appointed Bruno Lee as its agent manager in Singapore. Mr Lee's new responsibilities include expanding the distribution of the company's open systems accounting software Sun Systems in the Asean region through value-added agent networks.
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    • 525 17  -  PC sales and end-user purchase figures don't always add up, a research firm says. Joseph Rajendran finds out why Joseph Rajendran PERSONAL computer companies in Singapore have a poor perception of what goes on in the re-export market and are afraid to publicly
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    • 369 17  -  By Claire Leow MORE than 60 million disk drives will be shipped this year, up 16.3 per cent over last year, according to US market research firm Disk/Trend's latest survey. Sales are expected to rise 5.7 per cent to U5522.97 billion (5533.8 billion)
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    • 444 17  -  By David Mok US-based computer maker AST Research has focused its distribution channels and shortened delivery times in a bid to increase its share in the PC market here. The company's local arm has cut its distributors to three, each catering
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    • 792 18  -  IT THE NEXT WAVE Ngoh Lek Heng says key technology and service issues must be resolved first Ngoh Lek Heng The writer leads research on the video-on-demand project at the Institute of Systems Science. He can be contacted at tei: (65) 772-6597 or fax: (65)
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    • 662 18  -  ItRACfINGtHE s I>gTVVDRMiWORLDi Tommi Chen shows how businesses exploit the three C's connectivity, communication and collaboration on the Internet Tommi Chen The writer is an Internaut and managing partner of Net Centre Pte Ltd which provides specialist networking services. His
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    • 856 19  -  Lee Wai Leong sizes up some snazzy software that does just that Lee Wai Leong ITs hard these days not to have heard of Internet, the so-called Information Superhighway. Linking more than 20 million computers worldwide, Internet is the world's largest computer network. For Singapore users, the
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    • 274 19  -  By Lee Wai Leong Hewlett Packard last week launched the HP Omnißook 600 subnotebook computer as well as its first colour notebook, the Omnißook 4000. At just 1.7 kg, the OmniBook 600 runs on an Intel 486 DX2/50 (or Intel 486 DX4/75), and comes
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    • 789 19  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY TOM AMBROSE The writer is a support contracts specialist with Hewlett Packard's Americas' Field Operations (AFO). He also has extensive experience as a computer consultant helping businesses use information technology productively WITH SO many changes happening in the computer industry, it is
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  • 498 20  -  From Al Labita in MANILA US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton yesterday pledged the United States' commitment to preserving security in Asia and sought to assure world leaders that the Republican takeover of Congress in last week's mid-term elections would not undercut his foreign
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  • 348 20 AFP PARIS Borrowing on world capital markets rose modestly to US$644 billion (*****.6 billion) during the first three quarters, up from US$6lO billion in January-September 1993, despite tensions on interest rates, the OECD said yesterday. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
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  • 219 20 Eastern Express HONGKONG The Hongkong government has no plans to interfere in an office market that is attracting not driving away local and foreign business, said planning, environment and lands secretary Tony Eason yesterday. "The market is currently on a course of
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  • 952 20  -  The Bottom Line SN VASUKI SN VASUKI The writer is a BT correspondent specialising in regional infrastructure ASIAN governments and multinational corporations in the infrastructure business have a common foe in non-governmen-tal organisations (NGOs). In recent years, NGOs working in concert
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 515 21  -  Aim is to fill a niche for medium-sized vessels of 20,000 dwt By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Singmarine Industries, a member of the giant Keppel Corp group, plans to boost its Middle East shipyard with a 20,000 deadweight tonne (dwt) dock. Executive director
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    • 301 21  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Sim Wong Hoo's Creative Technology Ltd plans to put up a new corporate headquarters in Jurong East. In a statement yesterday, the listed multimedia group said it will develop a 600,000 square foot building at the International Business Park. Upon
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    • 187 21 SINGAPORE An aggressive regional expansion and better profit margin helped lift net earnings of Sesdaq-listed Informatics Holdings by 41 per cent to $2.6 million for the six months to Sep 30, 1994. Turnover for the computer school jumped 18 per cent to $30.8 million
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    • 810 21  -  HOCK By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The current depressed market has created a climate where syndicates are able to recoup their money from gullible investors by mounting "bear raids" on certain counters. In simple terms, a bear raid is the dumping of
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      • 385 22 Amalgamated Containers said to be considering this possibility in its conditional bid for company KUALA LUMPUR Amalgamated Containers Bhd (ACB) is looking at the possibility of injecting some China business into Singapore-listed Metal Containers Ltd for which it is making a conditional bid. Market sources
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      • 135 22 SINGAPORE The overseas investment arm of local bus operator Trans-Island Bus Services (Tibs) has set up a $3 million joint venture in a Chinese city to operate taxis and inter-city coach services, the company announced over the weekend. The 50-50 venture between
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      • 340 22 Reuter JAKARTA PT International Nickel Indonesia (Inco) plans to invest US$5OO million (*****.5 million) to raise its annual production capacity to 150 million pounds (68,000 tonnes) by 2000. Inco, to be the third largest nickel mine in the world after the move, is
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      • 516 22 M m*9»n mkm Nov 12 14 Mcndak. Cr Fund I.I* I I* US Or Fund 0* I CM" ®PP®" TOB1 IIAB IM I y The Commerce 1.67 1.77 Htmm Mg( The Savings Fund 1.62 1.71 Unifend IJJ |»7 S pore Prog Fund 0.63 0.67 Unibood 1045 107 S pore Sec
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      • 61 22 Reuter HANOI Vietnamese women assembling Daewoo parts at the Hanoi Electronic Corporation (Hanei) plant here last Thursday. Hanel, a state-owned company, has achieved big growth in revenue from 80 billion dong (then US$B million) in 1992 to 14S billion dong (US$l3.B million) in 1993
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      • 370 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Olympia Industries Bhd has secured Securities Commission approval for its proposed rights issue but with changes to the size and the price of the offer. Olympia said on Saturday the proposal was now revised to a three-for-10 issue, which works out to
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      • COMPANYBRIEFS
        • 44 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Multi-Usage Holdings Bhd's 2.552 million shares available for public subscription was subscribed 45.23 times. Malaysian Issuing House Sdn Bhd said in a statement on Saturday. The balloting for the public category was held on Friday. Bernama
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        • 48 22 SINGAPORE Creative Technology has completed its US$2l.B million (Ss32 million) acquisition of Digicom Systems Inc. an American firm which produces and sells modem technology and products. Creative paid in cash. It plans to integrate Digicom's telephony capabilities into its future Sound Blaster products.
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        • 64 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Sungei Way Holdings Bhd is to acquire a 100 per cent stake in Sungei Way Marketing (S) Pte Ltd comprising six million shares of $1 each for $8.94 million cash. A Sungei Way Holdings statement on Saturday said the proposed acquisition
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        • 47 22 Bernama MALACCA The Malacca state government has offered 292 hectares of land to Hicom for the development of its heavy industry. Chief Minister Mohd Zin Abdul Ghani said on Saturday. He said Hicom has yet to respond to the offer. Bernama
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        • 78 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR KIG Glass Industrial Bhd, the integrated glass tableware manufacturer, estimates a consolidated pre-tax profit of MS 15.85 million (SS9.I million) for the year ending Dec 31. The forecast for 1995 was M 531.1 million. KIG said in a prospectus issued here on
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      • 441 23 Eastern Express HONGKONG Sun Hung Kai Properties is planning this week to put in a bid for two multi-billion-dollar property developments at the Tung Chung and Tai Kok Tsui stations along the new airport railway. Speaking after the company's
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      • 347 23 Reuter SHANGHAI Chinese authorities have dismissed a report in the official media that pension funds will be allowed to be invested in the domestic stock markets, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. "The news was irresponsibly broken," Tian Huamin, director
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      • 153 23 AP BEIJING China plans to make its stock markets more open to foreign investors in an effort to raise more capital and bring it more in line with international practices, an official report said yesterday. The China Daily's Business Weekly
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      • COMPANYBRIEFS
        • 53 23 Reuter SHANGHAI The Shenzhen Stock Exchange will set a daily ceiling of 3,000 lots that may be traded by each seat on the market starting on Dec 1, the China Securities newspaper reported. After that date, the exchange computer will automatically reject all transactions over
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        • 108 23 AFP TOKYO Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corp plans to produce semiconductors in a joint venture in Taiwan, starting in 1995, a newspaper said yesterday. The major Japanese electronics manufacturer will establish a joint venture in Taiwan late this month to produce 16-megabit dynamic random access memory
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        • 68 23 Reuter FAIRFIELD, New Jersey Bradley Pharmaceuticals Inc expects strong fourth quarter sales and profits. "During the first nine months of 1994 the significantly positive level of sales, net income and income per share confirm that meaningful progress continues to be made in implementing corporate strategy
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        • 74 23 Reuter DOHA Hilton Hotels Corp and Qatar's West Bay Hotels Co have finalised plans to build a US$9O million (SSI32 million) Hihon beach-front hotel and apartment complex in Doha, officials from the companies say. Construction will begin in six months and the project is to
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      • 102 23 Reuter TOYOTA, Japan This machine, called a "Space Escargot" by its builders, shows that strict practicality is not the main point of the annual ideas competition held by the Toyota Motor Corp over the weekend for its engineers and designers. Tomoisa Fukatsu's team was looking into
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      • 157 23 Eastern Express HONGKONG Golden Harvest Entertainment's initial public offering (IPO) has been "exceptionally well-received by investors" during its three-day subscription period, brokers say. Early estimates indicate the HKS24O million (5545.36 million) new share issue was between 40 and 50 times subscribed. This
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      • 420 24 Reuter LONDON Anglo-Dutch food and consumer products giant Unilever plc/NV on Friday announced an 11 per cent rise in third-quarter 1994 profit after a sweltering summer boosted ice-cream and iced tea sales across western Europe. Unilever, the world's largest ice-cream group with brands
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      • 489 24 Reuter CHICAGO The big challenge for Sears, Roebuck Co, once it sheds Allstate, will be to make good on its promise to be the place where women shop for clothes, not just car batteries and washers, retail observers said last Friday. Sears
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      • 378 24 Bloomberg Business News LOS ANGELES Microsoft Corp, the world's largest personal computer software company, has been accused in an anti-trust lawsuit of illegally refusing to sell its popular operating systems to a tiny Californian computer maker. Uni-CNG Inc, with a halfdozen employees
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      • 197 24 Bloomberg Business News SAN DIEGO IBM's PC unit lost millions of dollars of potential orders this holiday season because it couldn't supply its new Aptiva personal multimedia computers fast enough. It might have asked Lutz Hahne for help. Mr Hahne
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 557 25 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Lloyd's of London will petition the House of Lords, the United Kingdom's highest court, for leave to appeal against a court decision that has put a large question mark over its ability to collect more than
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      • 48 25 AFP MOSCOW Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin (second from right) and his first deputy, Anatoly Chubais (left), watching a computer screen during their visit to the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (Micex) on Friday, where Mr Chernomyrdin held talks with Micex bankers. AFP
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      • 269 25 Reuter HANOI Britain's Prudential Corporation, one of the world's biggest insurance companies, will set up a representative office in Hanoi by the end of this year, group chief executive Michael Newmarch said yesterday. He received a licence to open the office on Friday.
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      • 208 25 Reuter MANAMA Saudi Arabia's Bank al-Jazira will offer new shares to shareholders this month to raise its paid-up capital 50 per cent to 600 million riyals (SS23I million). "The bank will offer the new shares within two weeks. It has set a target
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      • 282 25 AFP MANILA The Philippine government has set guidelines allowing for the entry of foreign insurance companies here in a major move to open a potentially lucrative but largely untapped market, it was announced yesterday. Finance Secretary Roberto de Ocampo, however, said that only insurance or
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      • 404 25 Knight-Ridder SYDNEY Despite a twoday retreat following a sudden, sharp rally, the rising trend for the high-flying New Zealand dollar remains firmly in place. With economic fundamentals rivalling virtually any developed nation, the NZ or "Kiwi" dollar should continue to attract
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      • SMALLCHANGE
        • 57 25 AFP SHANGHAI Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the largest bank in China, has been given top credit ratings by two American rating agencies, a local newspaper reported on Saturday. Shanghai Securities Kens said ICBC received Moody's Investors Service's triple A rating and
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        • 101 25 Reuter MANILA The Asian Development Bank said its total lending fell nearly 6 per cent in the first nine months of the year as the bank made renewed efforts to improve the quality of its loans and projects. Total lending slid to U552.45 billion
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        • 112 25 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australian bond yields rose more than those of any other nation amid persistent concern that inflation would accelerate and prompt the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates. The Reserve Bank last raised short-term lending rates on Oct 24 by one percentage
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        • 78 25 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Ministry of Finance plans to make it mandatory for Japanese financial institutions to submit regular reports on their derivative transactions, the leading business daily said yesterday. Beginning in 1996, institutions will be obliged to report trading of all futures, options, swaps and
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        • 48 25 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The annual interest rate on deposits in the nationwide postal savings system will be raised by 0.03 percentage point to 1.35 per cent from this week, the Asahi and Nihon Keizai newspapers said on Saturday. Bloomberg Business News
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      • 250 25 Bloomberg Business News ZURICH Swiss Reinsurance said on Friday that it expects net profit to approach 800 million Swiss francs ($9lB million) next year, and to achieve a return on equity of 15 per cent by 1999. Speaking at a company presentation,
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      • 535 26  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON LONDON The bullion market is hoping that gold will remain stable after the expected US interest rate increase tomorrow. Since the US economy remains strong, the gold price is being pulled upwards by Western players who fear
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      • 213 26 Knight-Ridder CHICAGO The effect of flooding on Vietnam's rice production and exports is one of the key factors expected to drive the world market over the next couple of months. If flooding is as severe as some maintain, a domino effect will
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      • 50 26 AFP LONDON Ford's Aluminium Intensive Vehicle (AIV) was unveiled in London on Friday. Ford has partnered with Alcan, the aluminium producer, to research and develop aluminium for high-volume production of cars. Pictured at the launch were Bill Stuef (left) of Ford and Mike Kelle of Alcan. AFP
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      • 135 26 Reuter NEW YORK Cash flow as a percentage of total property and casualty industry revenue is at a "30-year low", signalling an end to aggressive rate competition and an imminent recovery in "rates and profitability", Lehman Brothers said in an investment update last week. In
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      • 268 26 Reuter HONGKONG China's sugar market is confounding analysts and traders alike, with some swearing the country is about to run out of sugar all together and others certain the current crop will be good. There is no doubt among industry observers that China's rising
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      • 647 27  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Yumiko Iijima MMS International SINGAPORE The US congressional election was the main event of the week and the surprising results helped improve the weak dollar tone and pushed it higher. The dollar opened the week in Asia little changed from the
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      • 734 27 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON The base metals slumped in a technical decline on the London Metal Exchange (LME) last week, suffering quietly after the record highs reached the previous week. Copper, aluminium and the other metals, with the exception of nickel, fell on profit-taking
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    • 1327 27 Rubber Nov11 Singapore Commodity ExchMfi Physical Men (futures dosing at at S.3«fai) guynrs Saliars As at 12 mm (S cents/kg) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) r jr— RSS 2 Dec 94 193.00 I94.00N Month Huh Low £u Itonm) Inters" RSS 3 Dcc 94 192.00 I93.00N Month LoW Sctt
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    • 4704 28 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Karn EPS Dale IY LY TV LY Company ann ($m) (Sm) (cts) (cts) ABR Hldgs Sep 19 I I 109 1.365 2.5 3.3 Acma Sep 16 I 48.926 19 517 71.0 28.6 Alcorn* Aug I I 9.373 7 905 t44 6 40 Ale*
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    • 753 28 CHARTS BY BRIDGE 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:
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 813 29 FT New York IF THE honeymoon between President Bill Clinton and the new Republican-controlled Congress lasted little more than 24 hours last week, any affectionate thoughts the financial markets had about the Grand Old Party's mid-term election triumphs on Tuesday had an even
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      • 405 29 AFP London ONCE again, share prices in London were dominated last week by fears of a rise in interest rates in Britain and the United States, although the US mid-term elections momentarily boosted the markets, dealers said. The FT-SE 100 Index of
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      • 420 29 AFP AFP Tokyo STOCK prices here tumbled on sales by business corporations and foreign investors last week, with the key market gauge on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) falling 2.7 per cent to its lowest level in months. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected
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      • 242 29 Hongkong STOCK prices slipped 1.71 per cent during the week in cautious trading due to fears over US and local interest rate increases. The Hang Seng Index, the key barometer of top shares, lost 162.55 points to close the week's trading at a two-week low
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 148 29 A bearish Australian bourse, nervous about the future for commodity prices and interest rates, slumped 2.4 per cent during the week to close on Friday at a 14month low, brokers said. The key All Ordinaries Index ended at 1,952.0 joints, 47.8 points below the previous week's close and the
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        • 113 29 The strong Philippine peso, which has given nightmares to exporters and forced monetary officials into weakening measures, pushed down the stock market last week, analysts said on Saturday. The Composite Index closed at 2,926.61 points on Friday, down 169.97 points or 5.4 per cent lower than the 3,096.58 points
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        • 110 29 The Taiwan stock market reversed two consecutive losing weeks and posted modest gains, boosted by improving economic performance, brokers said. After a 3.57 per cent drop the preceding week, the 393-issue Weighted Price Index on the Taiwan Stock Exchange recovered 113.57 points, or 1.78 per cent, to settle at
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        • 79 29 Share prices slipped for fourth consecutive days on the Korea Stock Exchange as a massive public auction of state-owned stocks sapped funds out of the market. The Composite Price Index shed another 6.32 points to close out at 1,116.25 during the half-day session on Saturday, down 8.78 points on
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        • 73 29 Low business volumes, lacklustre trading and virtually no buying interest saw share prices crash through the week on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index lost 244.07 points to close at 4,059.58 points on Friday, while the 100share National Index was down 93.72 points at 1,943.79
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        • 120 29 Politics and interest rates cost the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index 56.72 points, or 3.7 per cent, during the week and saw it close on Friday at 1,466.22 points, brokers said. The average daily volume of shares traded was ;68.7 million, down sharply from 103.44 million the week
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        • 774 29 -20.52 Blue-chip stocks closed sharply lower on Friday, burdened by worries over the strong possibility of an interest rate hike this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 20.52 points lower at 3,801.47. It ended the week 6.05 points lower. In the broader market, declining issues led advances
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        • 276 29 •8.51 Stocks finished a very thin session lower as interest rate jitters and bank holiday closures kept most players pinned to the sidelines. Traders said equities will shuffle sideways until the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The TSE 300 Composite Index lost 8.51 points to close at 4170.68
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        • 2262 29 London Not II Peace Industrials A. A. Corp Adr 59 -.370 Abbey National 417 -J Allied Lyons 591 -7 4/8 Amcc 95 -J Argyll 264 -I Asda Croup *3 inch BAT Ind 446 2/8 >1 2/8 BICC 351 4 I BOC Group 707 -4 BR Petroleum 413 -9 BTR 302
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 6090 30 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian share prices closed lower for the fourth straight week in uninspired trading, reaching lows that brokers said should set the stage for a rebound. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 86-share weighted Composite Index plunged 44.54 points to 1,029.87 from
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      • 7449 31 MAIN BOARD Tramactiqn date: freefc ended Nov U Gr Cr M *1 19*4 Last Vol Week l-«lQ~« Di. DJ. YM N* <M High Loo Cornell) Sri* (000) High U» Buyer Seller Of P/E Su.il Price INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 720* 4.7.5* m I s Acma 50c 520 -35 1045 550 500
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      • 1908 32  -  R Sivanithy SINGAPORE November so far has not been a good month for the local stock market, if last week is anything to go by. In thoroughly depressed sentiment, the Straits Times Industrials Index last week lost 29.91 points to 2,322.5. As a result,
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    • 828 22 Buy-Outs j A seminar for managers wanting to know about Management Buy-Outs (MBOs) This half day seminar is designed to provide managers with a practical understanding of the MBO process and the issues involved. The seminar leaders include a partner of a leading Singapore law firm. HIGHLIGHTS Q MBO Case
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    • 426 33  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Tuas shipyard Pan-United has won a large part of an £8-million (SSIB.B million) upgrade and conversion of the diving support vessel Stena Venturer. The contract involves the conversion of the ship into a floating production storage offloading (FPSO) vessel
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    • 11634 42 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. li6B® PN: ship calls at Penang after
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        • 105 52 AFP HANOI Peninsula and Orient Australia has been chosen to develop a major container port outside Ho Chi Minh City, according to a report seen here yesterday. P&O will provide half of the US$l9 million (5527.9 million) to upgrade the Ben Nghe Port into
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        • 90 52 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan Air Lines and Air France will begin daily non-stop flights between Osaka and Paris on Dec 6, the companies announced last week. Three of the seven weekly flights will be operated by JAL and the rest by Air
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