The Business Times, 10 January 1995

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    13 1 Busmess Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Tuesday January 10 1995 75 c
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  • 2 am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow down 8.41 points
      57 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stocks were mixed yesterday as investors turned cautious prior to the upcoming inflation data. The Dow Jones industrial average was off 8.41 points at 3,859.00 at 1 pm EST. In the broader market, advancing issues led declines by a small margin
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      Lock icon US '95 trade deficit to match '94
      46 1 Reuter WASHINGTON The US government should become an even stronger advocate for US firms trying to get overseas business, said a top Commerce Department official yesterday, who predicted the 1995 US trade deficit will match or exceed 1994'5. Reuter
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    164 1 Stock market indices Monday Change STII „2,181.66 -27.71 KLSE Cotnp 934.95 -20.48 Nikkei 19,444.92 -74.54 HangSeng 7,528.99 -154.37 SET Index 1,347.99 -15.11 Jakarta Comp 477.04 -4.18 CLSA China B 879.59 -12.41 Aust All Ord 1,858.9 -8.8 FTSE 100 3,055.8 -9.2 Monday Pre* loos 1pm EST dose Dow Jones
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    Foreign currency stocks: direct deals for foreign brokers soon
    569 1  -  Reports by Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Approved foreign brokers which are not members of the Stock Exchange of Singapore will be able to deal directly in stocks listed and quoted in foreign currencies here from next month. These brokers stand to
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    Govt drafts law to regulate leveraged foreign exchange trading
    450 1 SINGAPORE The government is in the process of drafting legislation to regulate leveraged foreign exchange trading. Finance Minister Richard Hu said yesterday. He also revealed that, as an alternative to unregulated trading. the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) plans to offer
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    Murayama to bring up security treaty in talks with Clinton
    552 1  -  From Anthony Rowley JAPANESE Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama is scheduled to meet US President Bill Clinton in Washington today for talks expected to range considerably wider than the bilateral trade issues that normally dominate such summits. Though bilateral trade especially
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    Dr Goh to be vice-chairman of Hong Leong Asia
    483 1  -  By I Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Former Deputy Prime Minister Goh Keng Swee will soon take on what is believed to be his first directorship in a listed company. He will be appointed vicechairman of Hong Leong Asia (HLA), the industrial
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    Regional markets take a beating from US interest rate fears
    184 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Concerns over rising US interest rates weighed heavily on sentiment throughout the region yesterday, as all stock markets recorded sharp drops. In Singapore, dealers reported that selling by Hong-kong-based funds helped to drag down the Straits
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      34 1 Property: Pg 13 L_ China's second-tier cities MORE REPORTS, Pg 2 Derivatives here to stay despite concern over losses abroad: Dr Hu Regulation of forex bucket shops will be good for all, say traders
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Thrust in the sector
        351 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan THE manufacturing sector, which is expected to have grown 12 to 13 per cent in 1994, will remain the main engine of growth for the economy this year, analysts believe. The electronics sector, which shows little sign of slowing after having grown a
        Source: Dept of Statistics, HG Asia  -  351 words
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      Lock icon S'pore petrol market in search of new benchmark
      513 2 Reuter SINGAPORE'S petrol market is stuck in a mire after prices lost at least 18 per cent in the past two months as the market searches for a replacement benchmark grade, traders and refiners said. In November and December, ohe pace of
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • Article
        TDB, EDB lead mission to US
        88 2 THE Trade Development Board and Economic Development Board are leading a team of eight local companies to the United States. The mission, which is part of a concerted effort by the two government agencies to develop the health-care sector and supporting industries, left for
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        S'pore in EDI link with Belawan
        114 2 SINGAPORE and the Indonesian port of Belawan will be electronically linked to each other from today. Belawan is located in Northern Sumatra, serving the city of Medan and the surrounding area. It is the first Indonesian port to establish an electronic data interchange link
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      Derivatives here to stay despite concern over losses abroad: Dr Hu
      344 2  -  Conference on global challenges in financial markets By Quak Hiang Whai FINANCIAL derivatives are here to stay despite some concern over recent huge losses sustained by traders overseas. Finance Minister Richard Hu told reporters yesterday that unlike in overseas
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      SES cautions investors on handling of scrip
      183 2 CLOB investors could not hold broking firms accountable if their scrip was misappropriated by a remisier, the deputy chairman of the SES, George Teo, said yesterday at a seminar on financial markets. He made the remark after recent cases when remisiers absconded with
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      Banks turning to derivatives to fill void, says Simex chief
      295 2 FACED with shrinking prospects in their traditional roles, many banks had turned increasingly to derivatives to fill the void, Elizabeth Sam, chairman of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange, said yesterday. Banks, she explained, were using derivatives in creative ways to
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      Regulation of forex bucket shops will be good for all, say traders
      465 2  -  By Paul Leo THE finance industry has welcomed moves to regulate firms that offer leveraged foreign exchange trading services to the public. "The playing field will be level (if regulations are introduced)," Peregrine Futures director Lim Yok said
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      Philips group looks to S'pore unit as role model
      260 2 THE local operations of electronics giant Philips were a role model for the group around the world, chairman JD Timmer said yesterday. Speaking at an event at the Singapore Indoor Stadium to mark the company's first international Customer Day, Mr Timmer
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      Education ministry to promote 2,000 teachers to new scales
      218 2 OVER 2,000 teachers are expected to be promoted next month to two new intermediate scales introduced last year to bring the education service more in line with other professional services in the public sector. Education Minister Lee Yock Suan said last
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      New HDB charges for 23 car parks from next month
      323 2 THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) is revising parking charges for 23 car parks from Feb I. In a statement yesterday, the board said the revision affects both multi-storey as well as surface car parks. The monthly residential season car
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      Lingle, publishers ordered to answer contempt charges
      534 2  -  The IHT case By Ramesh Divyanithan THE High Court yesterday ordered American lecturer Christopher Lingle, the Asia editor of the International Herald Tribune (IHT), its publisher and related parties to answer charges of contempt of court. Justice Goh Joon Seng said he was
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article
      Pertamina, Exxon seal pact on Natuna gas project
      407 3  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA AFTER nearly a decade of protracted and sometimes acrimonious negotiations, the Indonesian government and US oil giant Exxon have sealed an agreement on the development of the US$34 billion (5549.4 billion) Natuna gas project. But industry analysts
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon Vietnam to settle US$ 874m debt
        55 3 Bloomberg Business News HANOI The State Bank of Vietnam, the country's central bank, is preparing to bring debts Vietnam owes foreign banks to the London Club for settlement, the Sunday Vietnam News reported yesterday. The U*****.7 million (*****.3 million) debt will be partly cancelled
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        Lock icon China-M'sia trade grows 51%
        74 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Huge imports of raw materials by China helped Sino-Malaysian trade expand 51 per cent in the first nine months of last year compared with the same period in 1993. Bilateral trade rose to M 56.48 billion (553.7 billion) between January and September last
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        Lock icon Economic gap threatens unity: Ginandjar
        68 3 Reuter JAKARTA A growing economic divide and not religious or ethnic differences is the issue most likely to threaten Indonesia's unity and stability, said Planning Minister Ginandjar Kartasasmita on Saturday. Mr Ginandjar, speaking at an Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association meeting, said the threat of disintegration
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        Lock icon Hanoi's seafood exports hit new high
        60 3 Reuter HANOI Vietnam exported seafood worth a record US$45B million (***** million) last year, thanks in part to increased fishing in waters that are disputed by China, the official Vietnam News Agency reported yesterday. For the fourth year in a row, Vietnam's fishermen hauled
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      Lock icon S'pore ship's chief officer blamed for ferry disaster
      292 3 Reuter MANILA A marine inquiry has found the chief officer of a Singapore ship mainly to blame for a collision with a Philippine ferry which killed more than 140 people, the Coast Guard Chief said yesterday. Commodore Arturo Capada said that a
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      Lock icon Small-time entrepreneur
      56 3 Reuter HANOI Pham Thi Sau, with her two-year-old son Giang, waiting for customers here yesterday. Ms Sau, 26, buys pineapples from Ninh Binh province, about 100 kilometres south of Hanoi, for 600 dong (about 550.09) each and sells it in the Vietnamese capital for 1,000 dong. She makes
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      Lock icon Phnom Penh govt rules out settlement with airline
      298 3 Reuter PHNOM PENH Cambodia's prime minister has ruled out any settlement with Cambodia International Airlines (CIA), whieh has threatened to sue the government for US$lOO million (Ssl4s million) after its operations were shut down. Prince Norodom Ranariddh, asked by reporters yesterday if
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      Lock icon More KL firms adopt multi-function work concept
      419 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR More companies are on the look-out for "multi-function" and "multi-skilled" workers as part of a way to resolve rampant job-hopping and skills shortage in the labour market. This emerging trend, said to have become a culture among employers in the
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon S'porean sought over NT$ 100m fraud
        111 4 AFP TAIPEI Police are hunting a Singaporean, after 20 people were swindled out of more than NTS 100 million (555.6 million). Officers yesterday said the 41-year-old man, who came to Taiwan at the end of 1991, had allegedly used uncashable cheques to buy jewels,
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        Lock icon Foreign investment in China dips
        90 4 Reuter BEIJING China's contracted foreign investment in 1994 was USS6B.I billion (5598.7 billion), down from US$llO.9 billion in 1993. The Xinhua news agency yesterday quoted the Ministry of Foreign Trade as saying actual investment in the year was U5527.7 billion, up from U5525.76 billion in
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        Lock icon Taipei plans offshore securities centre
        68 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan will set up an offshore securities centre with liberalised overseas equity business. China Times Express yesterday said the authorities would establish the planned centre in Taipei, allowing local nationals to buy and sell foreign bonds and shares of listed companies. The Finance
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        Lock icon China hits out at European parliament
        78 4 AFP BEIJING China's Communist Party mouthpiece yesterday lashed out at the European parliament's decision to fund a human rights centre in Hongkong, which reverts to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. "The European Parliament has no right to take such an action," the official People's Daily
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        Lock icon Call to shut down polluters
        66 4 AFP BEIJING A senior Chinese official has called for rural township enterprises that seriously pollute the environment to be shut down, even if they are major earners for the locality. The China Daily yesterday quoted State Councillor Song Jian as saying township enterprises should become
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      Lock icon Taiwanese advance party to prepare for talks with China
      222 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan is to send an advance party to Beijing to prepare for high-level talks later this month aimed at improving ties with its bitter political rival, officials said here yesterday. Three senior members of the semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation
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      Lock icon China aims to cut time for registering trademarks
      465 4 Reuter BEIJING China, facing a looming trade war with the United States over infringement of patents and copyrights, said yesterday it aimed by next year to cut the time for registering a trademark to 12 months from 20. A computer network of
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      Lock icon Bank of Tokyo leads US$ 60m loan for Wuxi-S'pore park
      477 4  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE The WuxiSingaporc Industrial Park (WSIP) has obtained a US$6O million (5587.6 million) loan from nine banks, led by the Singapore branch of the Bank of Tokyo. It is the first loan taken by WSIP as well
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      Lock icon Beijing acts to maintain image of space programme
      300 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China has moved to maintain the image of its sputtering space programme, saying the failure of its most recent satellite launch will not jeopordise contracts to launch 30 foreign satellites by the end of the century. The coordinators
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      Lock icon Chinese phone code thieves could face death penalty
      225 4 Reuter BLUING Callers in China's southern Guangdong province who steal cellular telephone codes to dial for free could face the death penalty, the China Daily quoted a senior official as saying. The Guangzhou Telecommunications Bureau receives more than 400 calls a day
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      Lock icon HKBank vies for former Shanghai headquarters
      371 4 Reuter HONGKONG After 45 years, the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has taken the first step towards reclaiming its once formidable reason for using "Shanghai" in its name. The bank had formally applied to receive the tender documents for its old headquarters. which it was
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      Lock icon Japanese finance minister in Beijing to patch up ties
      278 4 AFP BEIJING Japanese Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura arrived here yesterday for a three-day visit aimed at repairing relations battered by a row last year over Taiwan's representation at the Asian Games, sources said. Mr Takemura met with Vice-Premier Zhu Rongji, who
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon Fall in November Aussie retail sales mirrored slowing growth
      465 5 Reuter SYDNEY A dip in retail sales in November from record levels, along with softness in other recent economic indicators, shows Australia's brisk pace of economic growth slowing in final quarter of 1994, analysts said yesterday. The data reflect three official
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      Lock icon ANZ job indicator down 4.7% in December
      236 5 Reuter MELBOURNE The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd said its job advertisement series fell a seasonal-ly-adjusted 4.7 per cent in December for a rise of 17.6 per cent from December 1993. In trend terms, the number of job ads rose by
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      Lock icon Drought reaching crisis level, say NZ farmers
      290 5 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand farmers say a drought afflicting parts of the country has reached crisis proportions, but analysts say it is too early to speak of any measurable impact on the economy as a whole. John Boddy, vice-president of lobby group Federated
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      Lock icon Seoul to ban false-name property registrations
      481 5 Reuter SEOUL South Korea yesterday announced it would ban registrations of real estate under false names from July 1 to root out tax evasion and discourage property speculation. Finance and Economy Minister Hong Jae Hyong told a news conference that violators of the new
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Indian govt offers equity in 6 state firms
        95 5 AFP NEW DI L.HI [he Indian government yesterday ofTcred investors up to 10 per cent equity in six profit-making public sector firms as part ol its privatisation programme. Bids have been invited from prospective buyers for shares in Indian Oil Corp, the
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        Lock icon Japan's machine tool orders up 44%
        86 5 AFP TOK.Y O Japan's machine tool orders in November surged 43.9 per cent from a year earlier to 54.4 billion yen (SS7BO million) to signal an upturn in corporate capital investment, an industry group said yesterday. It was the largest rise in nearly six
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        Lock icon India eyes Japanese investments
        92 5 AFP NEW DELHI India is hoping for a take-ofT in trade and investment with Japan following the first ever visit here by a Japanese Minister of International Trade and Industry. Ryutaro Hashimoto's trip should lead to "a substantial increase in Japanese investment and act as a
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        Lock icon US, Japan close to finance services pact
        59 5 AFP WASHINGTON The United States and Japan have nearly concludcd a deal on opening Tokyo's financial services market, US Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondalc said here yesterday. Negotiators have been working to finish a financial services deal ahead of Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi
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      Lock icon Murayama hit by party rebellion on eve of US trip
      192 5 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Socialist party moved closer to a split yesterday as rebels stepped up moves to form a new party just a day before Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama leaves for the US. However, political analysts foresaw no immediate threat
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Los Angeles to tap private sector for project management
      474 8 City projects delayed because there are too many of them Reuter SAN FRANCISCO The city of Los Angeles, facing unprecedented infrastructure demands, is developing plans to hire outside firms to oversee the planning and construction of bond-financed projects, city ofTicials said.
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      Lock icon Californian companies play host to 40 diplomats to boost trade
      235 8 AP LOS ANGELES About 40 diplomats, from China to Belize, were in Los Angeles on Sunday, winding up an all-ex-penses-paid weekend intended to show the advantages of doing business in California. They were feted at black-tie dinners, entertained by the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Mexican minister seeks Japanese support
      284 8 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Mexican Finance Minister Guillermo Ortiz yesterday kicked ofT a four-day visit to Japan designed to shore up his country's ailing currency and to win the support of the Japanese government and its massive banks. But Mr Ortiz ran into a roadblock
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Stocking up for a rainy day
      57 8 AFP GUERNEVILLE, California Six-year-old Sandy Chavec waiting in a shopping cart on Sunday as her mother stocks up on groceries at a store here before evacuating the area. After flash flood warnings were issued, hundreds of residents were evacuated along three rivers that were
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      Lock icon UK financiers upbeat about effects of monetary union: poll
      366 8 Reuter LONDON More British financial leaders are upbeat about the effects of a European monetary union on London business than those who fear the common currency plan, says a survey of top London financiers, released yesterday. The survey, conducted by the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Most British SMEs expect business to improve this year
      252 8 Reuter LONDON A majority of UK companies in the small-to-medium size range expect increased turnover and profitability this year and are more optimistic overall than their European Union counterparts. Initial results from an annual European business survey conducted by UK financial
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon UK police probe story sale
        84 8 Reuter LONDON British police said on Sunday they had launched an inquiry into allegations that a detective honoured for her work on the Frederick West serial murder case was trying to sell her story for £1 million (552.25 million). Detective Constable Hazel Savage, 50, is
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        Lock icon No plan for independent UK central bank
        99 8 Reuter LONDON British Prime Minister John Major said on Sunday he had no plans to create an independent central bank, one of the prerequisites for a single European currency. "We have no proposals to bring forward legislation for the independence of the Bank
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      • Article
        Lock icon Breather for S Africa civil service strike
        90 8 AFP JOHANNESBURG A six-day civil service strike came to a temporary halt yesterday when nearly all workers returned to their jobs to give the government time to respond to union demands, organisers said. The strike by the Health and Public Service Workers' Union
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      • Article
        Lock icon Fierce street fighting in Chechnya
        71 8 AP GROZNY, Russia Russian tanks and soldiers tried to seize the presidential palace in savage street fighting yesterday, while Chechen rebels darted from house to house trying to knock out Russian armour. The area around the presidential palace, which has become the symbol of Chechnya's
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      Lock icon US, German and Japanese bond markets offer best potential
      421 8 Reuter LONDON The main government bond markets of the United States, Germany and Japan offer the greatest potential for gains in 1995, despite the bruising they received last year. Bond strategists yesterday said the United Kingdom, France and Canada were also
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Saving the celluloids
      800 11 Even as the centenary of the birth of movies nears, old films face the risk of literally going up in smoke Reuter The film world celebrates the 100 th anniversary of its first flickering image this year, but the rejoicing is overshadowed by fears that much of
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      Lock icon John F Jr seeks solace in work
      447 11 CHATTERBOX AP AP AP AP SINCE his mother's death and the end of his relationship with Daryl Hannah, John F Kennedy Jr has found a new focus. It's George as in Washington. Kennedy is showing up daily to work on a monthly political
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Injured Smith makes Dallas Cowboys' victory bittersweet
      533 12 National Football League playoffs AFP DALLAS Emmitt Smith reinjured his left hamstring on Sunday, casting a pall over a Dallas playoff triumph that moved the two-time defending American football champions within one victory of the Super Bowl. Smith rushed seven times for 44
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    • Article
      Lock icon Dan Marino fails to enter the Promised Land, again
      648 12  -  By William C Rhoden NYT SAN DIEGO For Dan Marino, the territory looked awfully familiar: a playoff barrier standing once again between the Miami Dolphins and a coveted trip to the Super Bow!. In 1991, Miami defeated Kansas City in a
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    • SIDELINES
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        Lock icon Blind man fixed M'sian soccer matches
        100 12 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A blind man with no interest in football has been identified as the mastermind behind scores of Malaysia's fixed soccer games, officials said yesterday. The 50-year-old man. among more than 50 underground bookies and players arrested since August, astounded authorities with
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        Lock icon Ernie Els wins Bell's Cup
        104 12 AFP GEORGE, South Africa World No 6 Ernie Els cruised to victory in the 600,000 rand (*****,000) Bell's Cup golf tournament here on Sunday with 13 under 275. With a two-under-par final round, the South African beat compatriot Hendrick Buhrmann and P H Horgan of
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        Lock icon Atherton: focus on young players
        107 12 AFP MELBOURNE Mike Atherton (right) yesterday stood by his comments that English cricket should concentrate on promoting young players, but denied he had made any criticism of the current touring party. The England skipper, commenting on the comments published in the London Mail on Sunday
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        Lock icon Chance of truce in rugby war
        91 12 AFP LONDON The first talks for 100 years between top officials from the Rugby Union and the Rugby League will take place later this month and could lead to a truce between the two codes, it was revealed by the Independent newspaper here on
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        Lock icon Former boxing champ dies in car crash
        106 12 AP BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Former world middleweight boxing champion Carlos Monzon was killed in a car accident on Sunday in the small town of Santa Rosa de Calchines, 470 km north of Buenos Aires, police said. Authorities initially said Monzon's car struck another
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        Lock icon Motoko shines in Italian debut
        104 12 AFP ROME Japanese volleyball star Motoko Obayashi made a stunning Italian championship debut here on Sunday for new club Brummel Ancona. Motoko, on a one-year contract, was the best player on court as she won 10 points and made 16 service returns in Brummel Ancona's
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      Lock icon Elkington beats Lietzke in sudden death
      711 12  -  Golf Mercedes Championships winner triumphs after being six strokes behind. Larry Dorman reports Larry Dorman NYT CARLSBAD, California In a reversal that was as stunning as it was swift, Steve Elkington came all the way from six strokes behind to a suddendeath victory on
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      Lock icon Battle honours that come with a US$ 30m price tag
      666 12 America's Cup NYT NEW YORK In less than 90 days, six America's Cup yachting syndicates will probably be packing their bags for home. Each one will have spent as much as US$3O million (5543.56 million) to win a boat race
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      Lock icon Sampras calls for tennis off-season and improved ranking system
      439 12 AFP MELBOURNE World No 1 Pete Sampras yesterday called for a designated off-season in tennis, >a refined ranking system and the reinstatement of the 25-second rule between points. Sampras, who is tuning up for next week's Australian Open here in an
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        American Football
        26 12 NEW YORK National Football league playoffs on Sunday National Football Conference: Dallas 35 Green Bay 9. American Football Conference: San Diego 22 Miami 21.
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        Basketball
        203 12 NEW YORK NBA on Sunday: NY 102 Minnesota 87; Detroit 88 Orlando 108; Denver 102 Milwaukee (OT); LA Lakerc 122 Miami 105. Standing* (W L Pet GB) Eastern Conference, Atlantic Di»: I Orlando 26 6 .813 2 NY 18 12 600 7 3 Boston 12 19 .387 13V? 4
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        Golf
        242 12 CARLSBAD, California LS$l million (551.46 million) Mercedes Championship final round on Sunday (US unless stated): 278 Steve Elkington (Aust) 69 71 71 67, Bruce Lictzke 71 69 71 67. Elkington won with a birdie on the second extra hole. 279 Bill Glasson 70 69 73 6 7 280 Craig
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        Tennis
        106 12 SYDNEY L *****,000 New South Wales Open Ist rd yesterday Men: Jamie Morgan (Aust) b 3-Thomas Muster (Aus) 6-2 6-4; Michael Tebbutt (Aust) b Jared Palmer (US) 7-6 (7-3) 6-7 (4-7) 7-5; 7-Andrca Gaudcnzi (Ita) b David Wheaton (US) 6-3 6-2. Women: Nicole Bradtke (Aust) b Marianne Werdel (US)
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      Robina Group posts record A$ 72m revenue
      527 13  -  In just weeks, three-quarters of the residential sites in new Gold Coast development Paradise Springs have been sold, helping to boost the group's turnover, reports Florence Chong in Sydney Florence Chong BRISK sales of land at a new residential development known as Paradise
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      Lock icon Property tycoon is China's youngest yuan billionaire
      124 13 AFP CHINA'S youngest yuan billionaire is a 33-year-old from a peasant family in southern Hainan island who made his fortune in property development, a news weekly reported yesterday. The Life Weekly said Xuan Duxing. who did not finish middle school, started working as
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      Lock icon Nothing moving as buyers adopt wait-and-see attitude
      903 13 Residential property market in HK FT Business cannot get much worse for Rocky Wong, 32, an assistant branch manager for Centaline, a Hongkong estate agent. In his five-year career he has seen nothing quite like the current malaise in the territory's residential property
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      Second-tier China cities worth a second look
      481 13  -  Investors should look beyond Beijing and Shanghai, reports Teh Hooi Ling Teh Hooi Ling Property investors seeking good returns in China in the next few years should look at cities like Tianjin, Dalian, Wuhan and Chengdu as well as Shanghai and Beijing, says
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    PM Goh's message to India
    533 14 EDITORIAL THEY didn't quite get his name right. Nevertheless, Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok long's eall for speedier economic reforms in India won an appreciative audience in Calcutta last week. The Telegraph, a national daily, commended "Mr Tong" for clearing the delusion among Indians that
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Helping the giant wake up
      245 14 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong's second visit to India in the space of 12 months set a new benchmark in bilateral relations, firmly establishing his credentials as "a friendly outsider, who wishes India well and wants it to take off economically". India's recent landmark agreements
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      Belt-tightening in Saudi Arabia
      177 14 THE SO-CALLED austerity drive by Saudi Arabia is still mild by global standards. The measures including higher electricity, petrol and water rates were designed to have a minimal effect on lower-income Saudis. The government has been very careful to ensure that poorer people, and there are
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      Tackle both food and inflation
      216 14 ACCORDING to the State Statistics Bureau, China's economic growth rate was 11.8 per cent last year while the inflation rate was as high as 21.7 per cent. China's vibrant economy is reflected in its double-digit growth rate for the third consecutive year. However, it is
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      Release Aung San Suu Kyi
      196 14 THE MILITARY JUNTA which runs Myanmar faces another series.; test soon. The State Law and Order Restoration Council (Slorc) must decidc whether to obey its own law and free its most famous political prisoner by Jan 20. That is the day the official order detaining
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      Vital need to upgrade manpower
      117 14 MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT has become a cliche waiting for fulfilment. If the government keeps its promises to adopt an offensive manpower development policy this year, societal and economic structural changes will gain further momentum. So where are we going? And if we know where we are
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      Israel must pull back for peace
      144 14 ISRAEL must remove those West Bank settlements if it wants peace, if any land-for-peace formula is to be tenable. The Arabs' recognition of the state and territory of Israel already implies a considerable renunciation of the original land area of historic Palestine. Subtract the
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    Lock icon Who is really running the show in Russia?
    879 14  -  Carey Goldberg says the handling of the Chechnya crisis has only reinforced speculation that Boris Yeltsin's control is largely nominal Carey Goldberg Los Angeles Times The question this time round is not whether rising political tension in Russia will lead to a
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      188 14 INVESTING IN 1995 T*~ Get your copy of this month's Singapore Business I I from your nearest newsstand or, if you prefer the c Tel;(0) JH) eonvenienceofdoorstepdclivcry,sendinthepre-paid pU I subseription form now. I please send my magazine to aus address I r BuiUingNamc Housdßft Ma 1 Newsstand price: Ss4 a
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      Enticing the multinationals Down Under
      1585 15  -  Australia Sydney, in particular is looking more attractive these days as a site for regional headquarters for MNCs. Peter Osborne examines what the country has to offer and discusses how it fares compared to established regional hubs like Singapore and Hongkong Peter Osborne The writer
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      The IT edge that Sydney has over Singapore
      585 15 IN Australia's bid to become a regional financial centre, the information superhighway is turning the country, and especially Sydney, into a key precinct in the global village. A number of communications and computer companies are moving to Sydney. These, in turn, are
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    Lock icon HK developer raises prices on new apartments even as its shares dip
    540 16 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG As its shares continued to drop on the Hongkong stock exchange amid concern over falling property prices, Henderson Land Development said yesterday it had raised prices by 7.3 per cent on a new batch
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    Lock icon Deng desperately ill and in hospital: reports
    400 16 Bloomberg Business News AFP HONGKONG News reports yesterday said China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, 90, was hospitalised in Beijing earlier this month and was desperately ill. The Yomiuri Shimbun, quoting what it said were reliable sources in Beijing, said Mr Deng was so
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    Lock icon Small but big in sound
    61 16 AFP TAIPEI A woman demonstrating what is believed to be the world's smallest karaoke equipment, called Sonaok, displayed yesterday at the World Trade Centre. The Sonaok, designed by Taiwan's Artif Technology Corp, can save 6,000 songs and is linked via remote to loudspeakers. It will
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    Getting the Indian masses to accept economic reforms
    1015 16  -  The Bottom Line VIKRAM KHANNA VIKRAM KHANNA The writer is BT's regional economics editor INDIA'S economic reforms are irreversible: This seems to have now become a mantra recited dutifully by Indian politicians and businessmen at every roadshow and talkfest. The country's Prime
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    First Thai English financial daily launched after only 8 months
    366 16  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK BUSINESS Day, Thailand's first English language financial paper, hit the news-stands yesterday after a mere eightmonth gestation. The 20-page paper, which has a 15-baht (550.86) cover price, said in its editorial that it aimed
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    Lock icon BG Lee to visit Malaysia next week
    158 16 The Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Brigadier General Lee Hsien Loong will make a three-day official visit to Malaysia next week at the invitation of his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim. Malaysian Foreign Ministry officials yesterday said BG Lee would meet
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Ekran chief gains control of electronics firm PWE
      370 17  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR TYCOON Ting Pek Khiing has gained control of yet another Malaysian listed firm the smallish second board electronics firm PWE Industries Bhd in a move aimed at ensuring Ekran Bhd's timely completion of the Bakun dam
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      Informatics sees strong second-half earnings
      269 17  -  By David Mok SINGAPORE Computer training group Informatics Holdings expects strong earnings growth for the second half of the financial year to March 31, 1995. Informatics' chairman and chief executive Wong Tai said yesterday that the group expected to maintain its firsthalf growth performance in
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      Lock icon Jardine stocks do better than expected
      478 17 Reuter SINGAPORE Jardine stocks performed better than expected in the first week of trading in Singapore, but fund managers are unlikely to increase their weighting in the stock, brokers said yesterday. "In terms of price, Jardine Matheson performed better than I expected," said Londonbased
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      So the Hang Seng forecasters are at it again
      885 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Steve Vines HONGKONG Probably the best way to make a small reputation forecasting the likely movements of Hongkong's Hang Seng Index is to start with a large one. This may seem to be both sweeping and unfair,
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      Mulpha to kick off Philippine push with listed buy-in
      441 17  -  From Al Labita in MANILA MULPHA Int'l Bhd, an emerging Malaysian conglomerate, is buying into a listed firm to kick off its plan to expand to the Philippines, brokers said yesterday. Mulpha sees Mabuhay Holdings Corp (MHC), a holding company with
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        MARKET MOOD
        47 17 Weak '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, Daiwa, Fraser. GK Goh. Kay Hian. Morgan Grenfell, OngCo, Somura. Phillip, Smith AVw Court. Il l Carr and SG Warburg.
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        HOT STOCK
        139 17  -  Paul Leo VEO Hiap Seng went through some wild gyrations last j ear r 'sing to $3.58 in January 1994. falling to year's low of $2.38 in March, then to a high of $4.58 in September and back to $3.00 at the end of December. But such wild
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          Aussie subsidiary for Rotary
          43 18 SINGAPORE Rotary Engineering has incorporated an Australian subsidiary, Rotary Engineering Australia Pty Ltd. REA, which has authorised and paid-up capital ot A 52,000,002 and As 2 respectively, will provide engineering and construction services in petrochemical, oil and gas industries.
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          Courts appoints 2 directors
          88 18 SINGAPORE Courts Singapore yesterday announced that it had appointed Terrence Donal O'Connor and Neil James Todd as directors with effect from Jan 2. Mr O'Connor is responsible for the operations of the company's electrical division, while Mr Todd will take charge of its systems and information
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          Foreign ownership of Focal Finance
          28 18 SINGAPORE Focal Finance announced yesterday that foreign ownership of its issued share capital at the end of 1994 stood at 10.86 per cent.
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          Appointments at Inchcape
          68 18 SINGAPORE Inchcape Bhd yesterday announced that it had appointed Roy A Varghese as its board member and finance director with immediate effect. Mr Varghese, who joined the Inchcape Group in August 1994, replaced Joseph Tessensohn, who has taken over as the company's commercial director with immediate effect.
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          FCCC-N Parks building agreement
          47 18 SINGAPORE Alliance Technology and Development announced yesterday that its subsidiary. Fort Canning Country Club Investment Ltd (FCCC), had entered into a building agreement with National Parks Board (NParks) for the renovation and restoration of the Underground Command Centre (UCC) in Fort Canning Park.
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        Lock icon Earnings, not politics, will boost KL market: analyst
        248 18 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Robust corporate earnings, and not election rumours, will underpin the Kuala Lumpur stock market in 1995. Malaysian Investors' Association (MIA) president PHS Lim said on Sunday that earnings were expected to benefit from Malaysia's strong economic growth. MIA groups
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        919 18 Payment Ex Books Pay date close date AISB SO* b 3 Jan 6 Jan 20 Jan 27 Asia Pacific F 20N Feb 6 Feb 10 Feb 22 Avimo 20* F I2.5TE Mar 1 Mar 7 Apr 15 Berjaya Group F 6 Dec 12 Dec 27 Jan 26 Cam Mcch 10*
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        Lock icon Metro Pacific faces selling after clinching property deal
        348 18 Reuter MANILA Metro Pacific Corp (MPC) will temporarily lose its lustre in the Philippine stock market after paying more than expected in the country's biggest property deal. Analysts yesterday said that although the company, a subsidiary of Hongkong's First Pacific Co, would
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        Steamers HK agency chief
        201 18 SINGAPORE Steamers Maritime, a member of conglomerate Keppel Corp, has appointed Vincent Ko head of its Hongkong shipping agency Skyplanet Shipping. Steamers said yesterday Mr Ko became executive chairman of Skyplanet on Jan 1. The Hongkong-based company, of which Steamers holds 50 per cent, has been
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        Lock icon Khoo Kay Peng heads Philippines' Shangri-La Properties
        254 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malayan United Industries Bhd Group (MUI) chairman and chief executive Khoo Kay Peng has been appointed chairman of Shangri-La Properties Inc (SLPI), following MUl's emergence as the largest single shareholder in the listed Philippine company. Two other MUI oftlcials group
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        Lock icon Berjaya Industrial clarifies loss from derivatives trade
        213 18 Reuter KUALA .LUMPUR Malaysia's Berjaya Industrial Bhd, which in late December announced a potential Msl4 million (SsB million) loss in an unauthorised derivatives trade, yesterday said press reports claiming a swap position of between MSSOO million and Msl billion were "grossly overstated". "From
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        Lock icon MHS eyes stakes in Cathay Pacific, Royal Jordanian
        238 18 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Helicopter Services Bhd (MHS), an obscure helicopter charter firm that rose to fame by buying into such giants as World Airways, is eyeing stakes in the Royal Jordanian Airline and Cathay Pacific. The New Straits Times yesterday said
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        Lock icon KL securities regulator stresses discipline, ethics in the market
        403 18 Bernama PENANG The developmental and disciplinary roles of regulators' rights in the securities market are intertwined and complementary, and not contradictory. Securities Commission chairman Munir Majid yesterday said the securities market existed to fulfil certain basic functions, regardless of trading volume,
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        Lock icon NSTP's pre-tax profit climbs 26% to M$ ll6m
        414 18 AFP Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Listed New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Bhd (NSTP) yesterday reported a 26 per cent rise in group pre-tax profit to MSI 15.98 million (SS66 million) for the year ended Aug 31, 1994. The leading Malaysian media group, which
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        Lock icon KLSE first in Asean, fifth in Asia, in terms of market cap
        491 18 MBT NST KUALA LUMPUR The local bourse last year ranked first among Asean countries, and fifth in Asia, in terms of market capitalisation. From just M 558.3 billion in 1985, market capitalisation has risen more than 850 per
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        Aussie lawyer aims to float A$ 50m China property trust
        459 19  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY A MELBOURNE lawyer with experience in the first Chinese listings on the Australian Stock Exchange plans to float the first China property trust here. Jaginder Singh, a partner with Phillips Fox, is conducting a feasibility
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        Lock icon New rules turn Taiwan's OTC investors away
        324 19 Reuter TAIPEI Hopes for Taiwan's revamped over-the-counter (OTC) stock market have sunk rapidly as new technology and procedures aimed at enticing investors have in fact turned them away. While a new computer system centralises and accelerates a previously laborious trading system, man-made obstacles
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        Lock icon India's largest equity offer delay may hit markets
        408 19 Reuter BOMBAY Postponing India's IDBI 21.84-billion rupee (SSI billion) public issue, the country's largest equity offering. surprised India's markets and could further hit sentiment on declining bourses. "The market is already dull and this will be yet another negative factor, even though
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        Lock icon Indian bourses prone to price-rigging, says market regulator
        229 19 AFP BOMBAY India's stock markets are vulnerable to price manipulation because of a lack of transparency, the market watchdog said here yesterday. "While the day's opening, high and closing prices are reported. no information is available to investors as to the volume
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          Lock icon Samsung, US firm in speaker tie-up
          77 19 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co, South Korea's largest electronics maker, said it signed a contract with Hales Design Group in the US yesterday to jointly develop high-end audio speakers. In a press release, the company said it plans to develop two state-of-the-art
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          Lock icon Acer's sales soar to record NT$ 33b
          65 19 Bloomberg Business News lAIPEI Sales at Acer Inc, Taiwan's largest computer maker, soared 70.9 per cent in 1994 to a record NTS33.I billion (551.82 billion), the company said. "PC and notebook sales were very strong." said company spokeswoman Anne Tseng. Sales for December
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          Lock icon Grand Met unit agrees to merger
          70 19 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Grand Metropolitan pic yesterday said its Pillsbury food unit has agreed to a £1.7 billion (Ss3.B billion) merger with Pet Inc. a US-based maker of Progressosoups and other foods. Grand Met, which has sought to expand stable of food brand
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          Lock icon Yamaichi eyes China venture
          95 19 AFP TOKYO Japan's Yamaichi Securities Co Ltd is considering setting up a joint investment consultancy in China with Dalian International Trust and Investment Corp. a Yamaichi spokesman said yesterday. The joint venture with the Chinese partner is aimed at providing high-level information for Japanese companies investing
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          Lock icon ICI buys German plastics maker
          90 19 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Imperial Chemical Industries pic yesterday said it acquired Germany's KJoeckner Pentatec manufacturing plant and business, which makes acrylic and polycarbonate sheet. Terms of the sale were not disclosed, although Britain's largest chemicals maker said the purchase represents less than one per
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          Lock icon Japan's Maeda lands HK order
          65 19 AFP TOKYO Japan's Maeda Corp announced yesterday it landed an order from the Hongkong government to build a sewage disposal system in the British colony with France's Campenon Bernard-SGE. It said the total length of the transfer system was 23.6 km. The medium-sized Japanese contractor
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          Lock icon Mitsubishi Materials in Java venture
          79 19 AFP TOKYO Mitsubishi Materials Corp of Japan said yesterday it will set up a copper smelter on the Indonesian island of Java in a joint venture with two US companies. It said the joint firm will be set up late this year, with 70 per
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          Lock icon Airbus 1994 revenue dips to US$ 8.5b
          108 19 Bloomberg Business News TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie had 1994 revenue of USSB.S billion (S$ 12.3 billion) and delivered 123 planes, slightly less than the 130 planes it forecast at the beginning of the year, and 15 fewer than it delivered in 1993. The US$B.5
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        Lock icon Shanghai B shares hit one-year low on weak sentiment
        412 19 Reuter Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI The Shanghai B share index finished sharply down yesterday, hitting its lowest level since the start of 1994 on weak market sentiment. The index has been falling for the past four months. The US dollar-denominated index
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        Lock icon US-Japan cable TV venture in Tokyo
        427 19 Toshiba, Itochu join Time Warner, US West in budding industry Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Electronics maker Toshiba and trading house Itochu have joined Time Warner Inc and US West International in a joint venture to provide cable television in Japan, where the industry is
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        Lock icon Apple, Oracle face common foe but no merger likely: analysts
        388 19 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO Apple Computer Inc and Oracle Corp are each seen refocusing in new ways under the impetus of a common nemesis, Microsoft Corp, but analysts do not see a merger in the works. Apple has converted its core
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        Lock icon China to expand forex trading, allow foreign banks in Beijing
        395 20 FT BEIJING China yesterday announced plans to broaden its fledgling market-style financial system by expanding foreign exchange trading and allowing foreign joint venture banks into the capital Beijing for the first time. Anticipating a tightening in foreign currency reserves this
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        Lock icon Renminbi may be convertible by 1998
        159 20 AFP HONGKONG China could make the renminbi freely convertible by 1998, two years earlier than Beijing's current target date, said the country's central bank head on Monday. Chen Yun of the People's Bank of China, quoted by the Hong Kong China News Service, said
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        Lock icon Colombia's cocoa growers stage protest
        59 20 Reuter SANTAFE DE BOGOTA, Colombia Protesting cocoa growers running from an oil pumping station in Onto, Putumayo, last week after soldiers forced them away with tear gas. The growers have been abandoning the oil pumping stations they have been occupying as part of a protest
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        Lock icon Aussie insurer sees strong growth in Taiwan
        123 20 Reuter MELBOURNE Australia's second largest life office, National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd, said Taiwan is the Asian market where it can most readily emulate the success and rapid growth of its Hongkong business. The unlisted National Mutual said in its 1993/94
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        Lock icon Yen bonds lose lustre to US Treasury notes as dollar firms
        536 20 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Ouch! If the first few days are any indication, January is going to be an ugly month for Japanese government bonds. The dollar's recent strong performance, attractive yields on US Treasury bonds and expectations of
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      • SMALL CHANGE
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          Lock icon Bangkok Bank upgrades Hanoi office
          59 20 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Bangkok Bank pic said yesterday that its representative office in Hanoi will be upgraded to full branch status on Jan 19, making it the second foreign bank with branches in both Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. Paris-based Credit Lyonnais SA
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          Lock icon Pacific Bank banks on retail services
          73 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Pacific Bank Bhd plans to refocus its attention on retail banking services as the business is expected to contribute significantly to the bank's profit in the near future, its chairman Lin See Yan said yesterday. The move is also in line
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          Lock icon IBJ maintains its prime rate
          61 20 Reuter TOKYO Industrial Bank of Japan Ltd (IBJ) announced yesterday that its long-term prime rate will be left at 4.9 per cent for January, unchanged from December. The prime applies to loans of one year or longer to the long-term credit bank's most creditworthy clients,
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          75 20 Bloomberg Business News BOMBAY Alliance Capital, the American mutual fund giant, plans to launch its first fund aimed at Indian investors on Jan 19, the Times of India reported yesterday. Alliance will become the third American mutual fund group after Morgan Stanley Co Inc and
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        341 20 NYT FRANKFURT The battle for control of Switzerland's largest financial institution, the Union Bank of Switzerland, has entered a new stage, causing a loss of confidence in the bank and leaving investors with paper losses of US$6 billion (SSB.7
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        303 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuter NICOSIA Opec's smallest member, Gabon, has pulled out of the oil cartel, reducing it to 11 members, the Middle East Economic Survey (Mees) reported yesterday. The African state gave as its official reason its inability to pay its share of Opec's budget,
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        189 20 Reuter LONDON The dollar eased by midday Europe as last week's US labour report failed to draw a clear picture of how high US interest rates may go. Swiss banks were seen aggressively selling dollars for yen in early dealings, possibly in an attempt to trigger stop-loss
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        93 20 AFP NEW YORK The dollar slid against most major currencies early yesterday on uncertainty over the stability of the Mexican peso. Gold was unchanged from Friday at U*****.20 per ounce. At 1500 GMT. the dollar was at 1.5567 marks down from 1.5643 on Friday and at 100.83 yen
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        1289 21 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar futures were easier while Euroyen were firm at the elose. Dealers said there was some profit taking for Eurodollars after gains on Friday following the release of the US December employment data which were within trade expectations. A dealer
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        S'pore rubber easier on profit-taking
        693 21 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber SINGAPORE: Rubber futures sank in the afternoon to end the day mostly easier on local dealer selling and profit-taking. The declines were linked to an unimpressive performance on the Tokyo rubber futures, which ended the day mixed after last week's highs. Traders
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          Nod for oil palm plantation licences
          48 21 SINGAPORE The Indonesian government has given licences to nine firms to set up oil palm plantations, the Jakarta Fosl said yesterday, quoting Minister of Transmigration Siswono Yudohusudo. Each plantation will be 6,000 ha, but can be expanded to 10.000-15.000, Mr Siswono said.
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          Quake cuts Japanese firm's zinc output
          60 21 TOKYO Japan's Mitsubishi Materials Corp yesterday estimated lost zinc production at its Akita zinc smelter due to the earthquake that rocked northern Japan on Dec 28 would reach between 2.500 and 3,000 tonnes. A Mitsubishi Materials spokeswoman said full production was set to be
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          Pakistan domestic cotton arrivals down
          64 21 TOKYO Pakistan's cotton arrivals to the domestic market totalled 5.36 million (170-kg) bales unginned as of Jan I, compared with 6.59 million a year earlier, according to the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association. The 18.7 per cent drop on year was mainly attributed to a weather-related
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          No decision yet on sulphuric acid plant
          67 21 SYDNEY Western Mining Holdings yesterday denied a newspaper report that it is set to proceed next month with a Asloo million (SSI 11 million) sulphuric acid plant at its Kalgoorlie nickel smelter in Western Australia. A company spokesman said it has made "no
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          Rain in India benefits rapeseed crop
          56 21 NEW DELHI Rain across north India over the past few days has benefited the winter rapeseed crop and, as a result, wholesale vegetable oil prices could fall, traders said. Prices may also fall in the next few weeks as freshly-harvested rapeseed crop from Gujarat
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1488 21 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Feb 95 240 00 239.00 236 00 450 900 Mar 237.50 4175 Apr 239.50 3525 May 239.50 3525 Jun 246 00 246 00 239 50
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        Australia
        1096 22 -8.8 STOCKS closed weaker for the seventh consecutive trading day yesterday, retracing earlier gains made on the back of Wall Street, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed 8.8 points lower at 1,858.9. The All Industrials Index lost 8.9 to 2,708.2, while the All Resources Index fell 9.1 to
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        Manila
        640 22 -51.24 Shares fell yesterday as property stocks absorbed the after effects of the country's biggest land auction. The PSE Composite Index lost 51.24 to 2,704.98 points. Turnover was 5.14 billion shares valued at 1.11 billion pesos. Analysts said they had expected sluggish trading as traders remained cautious over the
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        Taipei
        553 22 -46.32 Stocks closed lower in light trading for its fourth successive losing session, with foods posting the largest decline. The 410-issue Weighted Price Index dropped 46.32 points to 6,869.08. Turnover dwindled to 1.22 billion shares worth NTS49.49 billion. The market opened high, but retreating buying interest kept the index
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        Seoul
        485 22 +9.52 Stocks rebounded yesterday in anticipation that an announced "real-name" property ownership system would lead to an influx of idle funds into the market. The Composite Price Index rose 9.52 points to close at 998.32 on heavy trading of 51 million shares valued at 998 billion won. Advancers outnumbered
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        New Zealand
        296 22 +7.82 Shares closed moderately firmer. with gains in selected leaders buoying the index. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed 7.82 points higher at 1.911.35, off its high for the day of 1.916.28. Carter, which gained six cents to NZS3.20, and Telecom, up five to NZ$5.15, gave the market a
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        Bombay
        80 22 -49.32 Stocks ended lower as foreign mutual funds and big individual investors mounted an unrelenting selling pressure on fears of political uncertainties. The BSE 30-share Index ended at 3,716.26 points, down 49.32. The broader 100-share National Index lost 15.25 to 1,784.66. Brokers said foreign investors, who had been setting
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        709 22 Britannia Funds Sterling ash Bid Offer Mim Cap Deposit >8 6400 38 6500 Mim Jene> G* O If93 0 IWJ Mim Ma> Income "©9000 ****** L S$ Cash Income Pto Fund *4500 9 9600 PS S Reieoe Fund 5 M00 3 )700 F*!™'Performance 04 W: 0 49 38 Far East
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        London
        689 22 -9.2 STOCKS fell as bank and real estate counters declined, offsetting advances by drug shares and hopes that the dollar will rise this year to boost the earnings of exporting companies. Grand Metropolitan paced the decline, tumbling after the company announced a £1.7 billion US acquisition. Weekend press reports
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        Paris
        137 22 -24.04 French shares were down sharply in late trading after the key index slid through a support level between 1,875 and 1,880 points. "People are feeling bearish at the moment," a trader said, adding that many players expect the bourse to test the 1.800 level. "Equities are out of
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        Frankfurt
        157 22 -5.65 German shares ended lower yesterday, tracking weaker Bunds and a lower Wall Street opening. There was little buying interest in what one analyst called "neutral territory". The DAX Index closed down 5.65 points to close at 2,052.55, but brokers see the key 2,050-point level holding in the near-term.
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        Brussels
        110 22 -0.75 Stocks closed mixed after political troubles in northeastern Belgium calmed and a declining dollar threatened earnings at exporters. The Bel-20 Index closed down 0.75 point at 1,390.47, with 10 stocks declining and six advancing. A local government dispute in the Fourons/Voeren, a French-speaking enclave in Dutch-speaking Flanders, was
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        Milan
        167 22 •158 Italian shares slid in largely speculative trade, weighed by continued political uncertainty, traders said. The Mibtel Index closed down 158 points to 10,111. "Concerns that a solution to the political crisis might be delayed or disappointing are keeping investors away," said one trader. President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro met
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        Amsterdam
        269 22 -0.60 Dutch shares sidled towards a marginally lower close as a weak Wall Street opening and a slightly lower dollar nudged prices into negative territory. In a day of very thin volume dealers were frustrated by a lack of market interest, with little on the domestic corporate news horizon
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        Stockholm
        153 22 +1.57 An initial rise on the Stockholm bourse ended abruptly in late trade as debt yields jumped, but the index stayed in positive territory supported by strong gains by telecoms group Ericsson and the forestry sector. "The market still does not quite know where to go. When bond yields
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        Zurich
        253 22 -7.0 Swiss shares closed little changed, but with a weaker bias. Dealers said the market lacked direction and volume was low. The broad SPI Index ended down 2.75 points to 1,713.42, while the blue-chip SMI Index was 7.0 lower at 2,615.3. Referring to charts, some dealers said the market
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        Johannesburg
        289 22 -14.S South African stocks lost ground yesterday, largely in sympathy with gold share weakness, but also as few fresh factors emerged to offer support. A softer finrand had provided support to rand prices of key stocks, traders said. The Overall Index Ended 51.1 points softer at 5,716.9, the Industrial
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        Toronto
        211 22 -0.38 Stocks were virtually flat in early dealings as players cast about for direction. The TSE-300 Composite Index eased 0.38 point to 4,151.27 in turnover of 9.7 million shares worth C 5104.3 million. Advances outpaced declines 169 to 166, with 206 issues holding their ground. Toronto cs Abitibi Pncc
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        New York
        697 22 +2.02 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rebounded 16.49 points on Friday, was ahead 2.02 points to 3,869.43 at 1 lam EST. The NYSE Composite Index was ahead 0.27 to 251.86, while Standard Poor's 500-stock Index was up 0.58 to 461.26. Advances edged declines 959-805 among the 2.545
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      3175 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks slumped 2 per cent yesterday as concern over declining property prices continued to batter real estate developers. Property companies dragged stocks lower for the second successive day and helped extend last week's 6.2 per cent decline in the Hang Seng Index. "People are getting
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      606 23 CLSA THE H Index yesterday fell 3.1 per cent on turnover of HK.559.1 million. Harbin Power was the biggest loser, closing down 10.6 per cent. Other losers were Dongfang Elec and Maanshan Steel, both losing 4 per cent. The Shanghai B market fell 0.9 per cent on turnover of
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      2549 23 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks declined for a fifth day amid concerns that a robust US economy will prompt the Federal Reserve to nudge interest rates higher at its policy meeting later this month. Yesterday's close marks the longest beginning-of-the-year losing streak since 1962. Activity on the first section
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      1833 23 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closed lower yesterday after drifting down in light selling led by the banking sector. The SET Index closed 15.11 lower at 1,347.99 points on 3.4 billion baht turnover. Falls led rises 201 to 77 with 102 unchanged. "Foreigners liquidated to hold cash because the Hongkong market
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      1168 23 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed lower in line with weaker regional market sentiment while newcomer Bukaka rose almost 4 per cent on its debut. Foreign selling in big-cap stocks led the fall after the index rose 2.36 per cent last week. "Bukaka performed well but could not give enough
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2336 24 >«< Vol 0., I- Quo.' of" Ili«h Lo» (onipant Sale (TO) H%k "■>« N MALAYSIAN STOCKS l(l 0 >69 398 IM> m ARB 50c 262 \d -9 60 271 261 260 262 J O I 206 105 m AMDS 50c 108 -5 175 IIS 108 108 109 J«
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        Lock icon Stocks slide 2% as investors stay away
        6641 24 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's benchmark stock index yesterday tumbled 2.14 per cent to its lowest level since midDecember amid concerns that the US will raise interest rates later this month. Rising rates in recent months have already led foreign investors to
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        Lock icon Market slides on rate fears, selling by HK-based funds
        1743 26  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Selling by Hongkong-based funds and general worries regarding the direction of interest rates yesterday continued to sap the life from the local stock market, with prices closing sharply lower across the board. Investors shrugged off Friday's strong
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        Corrections and clarifications
        53 26 IN yesterday's BT, Jardine Matheson and Jardine Strategic were wrongly ranked as the top two losers for the week ended Jan 6. Compared to their closing prices in Hongkong on Dec 30, 1994, they actually gained US$O.66 and US$O.32 to US$7.BO and US$3.6O. respectively. We are sorry
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      Lock icon LPG carrier fleet growth likely to stabilise until 2000
      401 27 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Liquefied petroleum carrier fleet growth is stabilise until the year s as new carrier construction slows and older ships are demolished, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants. The projected plateau follows a three-year carrier-build-ing boom, during which LPG
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      PNOC approves sale of 3 tankers to S'pore firm
      357 27  -  From Al Labita in MANILA MANILA The state-run Philippines National Oil Company (PNOC) has approved the sale of three ageing crude oil tankers to Singapore's Wirana Pte Ltd for US$7.6 million (5511.2 million), an official said last week. Sold to Wirana
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      Lock icon Canadian grain could make its way to Asia via US ports
      430 27 Knight-Ridder WINNIPEG Canadian grain and oilseeds could be moving out of US ports by the 1995-96 (Aug-July) marketing year, industry and government sources said. Changes to the way the Canadian government subsidises the movement of grains and oilseeds could
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      606 27 Page Col Able Shpg 7 4/5 Accord Group 8 1-3 •Ahlers Lines 13 5 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 •Appenship 4 4/5 •ANL 3 4/5 •ASCL 5 5 Astro Shpg 8 4 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 •Bank Line. The 9 5 Batamindo 7 3
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      62 27 AFP PA PEN BURG, Germany The 67,000 gross registered tonne luxury cruise ship Oriana slowly emerging from the hail of the Mayer shipyard in Papenburg on Saturday. The Oriana is the biggest passenger ship ever built in Germany. It is owned by British shipping company P&O
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      Atlantis Shipyard expects 2 more shipbuilding deals
      262 27 SINGAPORE Atlantis Shipyard, jointly owned by three listed companies, expects to bag two more shipbuilding contracts soon. The medium-size yard said yesterday the vessels were likely to be delivered next year. It gave no other details. Atlantis already has seven newbuilding projects in
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      266 27 AFP LONDON Modifications to ocean-going ferries that could give passengers a life-saving safety margin in an accident are not being introduced quickly enough, a UK engineering group said on Friday. The Royal Academy of Engineering said Britain should act unilaterally unless an International
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1088 28 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,983 on Friday from 1,967 on Jan 5. Activity on the freight market was almost at a standstill, brokers said. In the grain trades, Andre was said to have booked the 54,681-deadweight-tonne Heavy Metal on a
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      TRANSPORT DIARY
      121 28 COURSES Title: Sea Transport (SDF 70%) Duration: Jan 11 Apr 19 Organiser Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Tel: For further details contact SFFA Secretariat at 253-7550 or fax: 253-2303. f 9 Title: Standard Trading Conditions (SDF 70%) Duration: Jan 17 Mar 7 Organiser Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Tel: For
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      850 29 Nantai Line is reaping the benefits of its enduring relationship with southern Afriea Lloyd's List NANTAI Group and its shipping company Nantai Line are one of the fastest growing transport groups in Taiwan, thanks to its strong trading links with southern Africa. Through difficult
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      12920 36 Page II 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. LE6EKO PN:
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      GM unit riding on regional demand
      1074 39  -  Ramesh Divyanathan reports on the expansion of GM's Singapore division Ramesh Divyanathan THE LOCAL unit of us vehicle giant General Motors has expanded its operations and parts distribution business to cope with a surge in demand for its cars in Asia. General Motors Overseas
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      SHIPPING AGENTS
      3311 40 A Xm.BC Containerline NV: Bclsin Shpg Agencies Pte Ltd (SVManne Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (JjyAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Attris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg trdg (S). Albntros Se*-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd
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      COURIER SERVICES
      279 40 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898. Air Express Travel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144 Airborne Freight C orporation Tel: 542-8844 Fax: 542-3716. *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Td: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. /\JS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. City-Unk International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Cluster link Supplies Sen
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      AIR FORWARDERS
      1523 40 Abex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7822. Fax: *****20. Verolink Freight International Tel: 545-8033. Fax: *****05 Aerospeed Td: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express International Tel: 542-7666. Fax: *****74. *****50. Air
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      PORT CONDITIONS
      2437 41 ARGENTINA Diamante, Santa Fe: No vessels berthed, no vessels in roads, no vessels due. San Lorenzo: Five vessels berthed of which 3 loading soya bean meal pellets, 1 wheat, I maize, 4 vessels in roads, 17 vessels due at 9 terminals during the coming week. Rosario: Three vessels
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      CRUISE & FERRY SCHEDULES
      1472 41 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Drp Name of Vessel ETA ETD Ports of Calls Fort Agent lelephone No JANUARY 10 10 Columbus Caravelle 1000 2100 Cruise to Nowhere Harpers Shipping 221-1388 10 10 Dclfin Star 1000 2100 Kukup Harpers Shipping 221-138$ 10 10 Renaissance I 1100 2000 Cruise to
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      SHIP SALES AND TANKER RATES
      1087 41 THE final report of the year once again sees the emphasis on activity in the handy/handymax bulkcarrier market with the majority of the sales being reported in this sector. However there were also reports of a couple of fresh newbuilding contracts being placed for products
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        547 42 Vessel Voy No Berth km* Departure Vessel Voy Wo Berth hnval Departure JmNRC Port Bdllimjf Nep >6A P02 0901/1/00 1101/2300 Mam Ttguh 2 6/6 alongside 1001 2300 Batam SpeedJ A0295* P01A 1001/1200 1001/1400 Aikls Orion S8M02 96 17 alongside 1001/1200 Batam SpeedJ ****** P01A 1001/0/00 1001/0900 Batan
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1382 42 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookinf/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Acx Swan 1S2A 11/1500 3 10/0700 10/1159 10/1400 4 10/1200 10/1459 10/1700 »ka Bhum 5505 10/2300 2A 09/1700 10/0659 10/0900 28
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        765 42 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, sKpws price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements aft indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
        611 42 Carbon Carton _wJan 5 Density Water R endue Ash AJumnun Setfcnent Density Water Residue Ash Akirwmjm 1 M/M T Exun f t*"* KG M*3 1V/V "o MM MM PPM method K/IP3 V/V MM M/M PPM methoi Eastern USA 180 Ave 985 02 13 6 i fit*
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        404 44 FT LONDON Colin Marshall, chairman of British Airways, has hinted that an out-of-court settlement may still be possible with Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic airline over the "dirty tricks" alTair. His comments came as Virgin Atlantic charged that BA was still engaging in
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      1349 31 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Ho« Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 new guinea pacific line v, HHll||iMlM||M|||MllllilllillßbMMlla* £fWgp (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO out SAUS _sls!__ VmXHfUtIL U""' HJ- mp«l 10 lan FC I. LCL CONTAINER AMD BREAKBULK SERVICE TO PAPtjA NEW
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      473 32 cfo JOINT VENTURE i W SAMUDERA INDONESIA C|R RICKMERS Win SINGAPORE CHINA GREEN EM VOY 3«B 12 JAN QWGOAO DAS* SEPIA.UH VOY 3NB 08 FEB XINGANG SHANGHAI INDUCEMENT CALL P.KEIAN6 INDUCEMENT CALL HK. I P GUDANG. BEIAWAN. TG MAM XIAMEN. ZHANGNGANG UTAMA HARTA I WEEKLY FULL CONTAINER SHIP FEEDER VESSEL
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      1077 32 HANJIN SHIPPING I BOOKING TEL:- *****35-237 OPERATION TEL: *****41-253 SALES TEL:- *****30-233 DOCUMENT TEL: *****71-275 FOR VSI SM IKK HMA SEA TV* fO* FM W1 I ll* HAtA Ul WC HANJM BREMEN 014E 13/1 OOttCl 2/2 3/2 4/2 HAUm POHANG 1531 14/1 KMMIM KU 1j 2 HANM HONGKONG Mtt 20/1
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      2110 33 VARNA (BULGARIA) CMBTWH2I (ROMANIA! muawN 9 SAILING PBI MONTH Irn*TAO*<uTpPMr' t pTF ITD 'zSfiSH Co«7jL«r*Sw: 6.1. *****02 Opurrtlvi Conif-r. *****1S COSTAn SHIPPING PTE LTD rwu- ***** cosmir c«ww«iw«* *****50 D O-. ******5 cnwHimi.' fi StMtM Way ml 7 08 CR No: **********0 M 22*220* IruttaM Src Dm; *****50 *****30 DBS
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      304 33 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE 0106 HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 16/01 ROTTERDAM 10/01 AARHIfc/COPENHAGEN 16/01 HAMBURG/BREMEN 10/01 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 10/01 FELIXSTOWE/UK 16/01 I BARCELONA/SPAIN 13/01 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 10/01 GENOA/ITALY 14/01 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 10/01 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 13/01 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 12/01 NEW YORK/EC 13/01 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 12/01 VANCOUVER 13/01 BRISBANE 11/01 TORONTO/MONTREAL
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      964 35 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD) I SSSS? 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. J I KM tM CR NO **********0E I 1. 1 VESSEL VOY SIN CMB JIB HOC JED AQJ ADE PZU MSW ASA h KOTA WIRWAN WRNSIS IS/1 23/1 20/1 30/1 2/2 4/2 13/2 17/2 20/2
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      20 39 PORT SHOTS The latest in sea, air and land transportation Shipping Times Monday to Friday SINGAPORE f Business Times WtanWAM
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