The Business Times, 13 February 1995

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  • 13 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KHOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Monday February 13 1995 85*
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    • 61 1 Reuter MOSCOW Chechnya yesterday claimed its forces blew up a former Soviet missile launching site controlled by Russian forces and inflicted heavy casualties. The rebel region's information minister said 250 Russian soldiers were killed when withdrawing Chechen forces blew up the launching site near the
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    • 36 1 Reuter NEW DELHI Indian and US firms will sign 14 non-con-ventional energy agreements totalling USS2OO million during US Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's visit to New Delhi, United News of India said yesterday. Reuter
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  • 162 1 Stock market indices Friday Week change Sill 2.074.05 -36.19 KLSK Comp 980.38 +53.12 Nikkei 18.291.35 -247.62 Hang Seng 8.012.82 *-533.9 SET Index 1.***** +23.9 Jakarta Comp 453.31 +7.93 C LSA China B 843.56 Aust All Ord 1.846.0 -1.7 l-TSt 100 3.109.9 50.2 Dow Jones 3.939 07 10.43 Average
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  • 183 1 AP NEW YORK Deng Rong. daughter of long-time Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, said on Saturday that contrary to recent reports that her father is near death, he is able to see, hear and walk with support. "For a 90-year-old man, his health is good," she
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  • 689 1  -  By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Malaysia's fledgling derivatives market is all set to take oft". The Kuala Lumpur Options and Financial Futures Exchange (Kloffe) is gearing up to introduce stock index futures on the Malaysian market by the third quarter of this year,
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  • 690 1  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE About a dozen Singapore companies, 10 of them listed or subsidiaries of listed corporations, are vying for contracts in Singapore's first Light Rail Transit (LRT) system. Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan released the list of tenderers at a press
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  • 244 1 UPI NEW YOKK Squealing is getting out of hand, with high-ly-paid informants gaining inereasing control over their government handlers, a study to be released today shows. The National Law Journal. a weekly publication, concluded after a nine-month investigation that "law enforcement's reliance on informants has grown
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  • 480 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Sinar Mas, one of Indonesia's largest conglomerates, plans to list its pulp and paper business on the New York Stock Exchange soon in spite of waning confidence among American investors in emerging markets amid
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  • 258 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Speculative retail interest in Malaysian stocks is expected to continue where it left off last week, but the sharp rises seen so far could lead to profit-taking and therefore a volatile trading week ahead. Some brokers
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  • 134 1 Reuter MANILA DBS Bank is one of the 10 foreign banks in the Philippines that will receive full foreign bank licences. An otTicial said on Saturday that President Fidel Ramos had approved the final four recommendations of the central bank, adding to the
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 330 2  -  By Claire Leow THE United States, the world's leading computer market, remained the largest disk drive market for Singa-pore-based manufacturers. According to trade statistics for the first 11 months of 1994. domestic exports of drives to the US amounted to 13.5 million units worth $5.4
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    • 398 2  -  Concerned contractors urge MAS to reconsider new policy By Quak Hiang Whai THE LATEST MEASURES by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to curb the growth of unsecured loans are expected to have a major adverse impact on the renovation business in Singapore. Renovation
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    • 332 2  -  By Soh Tiang Keng THE government's clampdown on unsecured personal loans and car loans recently appears to be generating aftershocks. Banks are now re-looking their other loan portfolios to ensure they do not breach the new Monetary Authority of Singapore rules. One
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    • 213 2 THE Michelin Tyre group has put a second residential site up for sale this time a prime landed property plot oft Dunearn Road. The 35,000 sq ft site, which one valuer said could net about $14 million or $400 per sq ft,
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    • 258 2  -  By Jenny Lam ASIA'S fashion industry will be a world-class force to reckon with in 20 years' time, say fashion experts interviewed by Business Times. They agreed with Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's recent comments that as part
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 459 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malay-sian-listed companies have secured contracts and signed proposals worth billions of dollars in South Africa in surging business ties following the lifting of sanctions against Pretoria. Statistics provided by the South African High Commission here show that these
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    • 134 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR South African Deputy President F W de Klerk arrived here yesterday for a three-day official visit at the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. Mr de Klerk, who is making his first official trip to Malaysia since the establishment
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    • 314 3 Reuter HANOI Vietnam hopes tighter eontrols planned for its money supply, foreign reserves and other instruments will push inflation below 10 per eent this year. The governor of the central State Bank yesterday said both the government and the National Assembly wanted
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    • 336 3 AFP HANOI Vietnam's muchstated goal of launching its first stock market this year now seems impossible to achieve. Nguyen Cong Nghiep, one of the key figures involved in planning the equities market, told the Vietnam Investment Revien' (VIR) yesterday: "It would
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    • 315 3 AFP MANILA Three months from national elections, an alliance negotiated by President Fidel Ramos with the main opposition may return the Philippines to a virtual one-party system. The May 8 elections will be for 205 deputies and 12 of the 24 senators. There
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 55 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's military in troubled East Timor yesterday said that hooded gangs behind a new wave of violence in the capital Dili were local residents opposed to the territory's integration with Indonesia. "They are people who oppose the integration," local military spokesman Major Laedan
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      • 39 3 AFP HANOI Vietnam granted licences for 25 foreign investment projects in the first month of this year with a combined investment capital of U*****.5 million (***** million), the Vietnam Investment Review said yesterday. AFP
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      • 103 3 Bemama KEPALA BATAS Malaysia will send an official protest note to the Indonesian government if it is true that it wants to include the Sipadan and Ligitan islands in its latest map. Foreign Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday said this would be an appropriate response
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      • 58 3 Reuter MANILA Thirty-two Filipino political prisoners yesterday ended a 41-day hunger strike. The detainees, who launched their protest on Jan 3 to back their demands for freedom, said President Fidel Ramos' decision to free 25 of their co-prisoners and concern by other people for their
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  • CHINA/ HONGKONG/ TAIWAN
    • 522 4 UPI BEIJING A senior labour official predicted yesterday that China's legion of jobless will more than double this year as crumbling state-owned enterprises (SOlis) go bankrupt and heap additional pressure on the already inadequate unemployment insurance scheme. "During reform, it's inevitable for
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    • 280 4 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI Tianjin Bohai Beer Faetory, a money-losing state enterprise in eastern China, has become a prototype for dealing with failure in China. Last month, it became the largest state-run company to liquidate and sell at auction since bankruptcy was legalised
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    • 257 4 AP BLUING China may change its agricultural system to put land in the hands of fewer farmers in an attempt to produce more food more efficiently, an official report said yesterday. The Ministry of Agriculture has submitted a plan to the State
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    • 57 4 AFP KEELUNG, Taiwan Residents of the northern city of Keelung towing a blazing temple-shaped pagoda out to sea yesterday. The elements of fire and water were used in a traditional Taoist ritual to protect fishermen from deities and ghosts. Nine such lanterns stuffed with paper money were burnt
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    • 818 4  -  From Stephen Vines in HONGKONG THE MOST important thing to remember about trade wars is that they are rarely merely about trade. This certainly applies to the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and China over intellectual property rights. Last-ditch negotiations to prevent
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    • CHINA WATCH
      • 111 4 AFP HONGKONG Hongkong has pledged to crack down harder on those who sell fake compact discs on its streets, following a complaint from Washington that it could do more to combat copyright piracy. Secretary for Trade and Industry Brian Chau was yesterday
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      • 108 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The output of China's machinery industry is expected to grow 10 per cent to 12 per cent this year, the official China Daily Business Weekly said. Sales in the industry will grow 15 per cent while profits will be "slightly
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      • 86 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan may allow visits to the island by businessmen from China in the first half of this year, senior government officials said. A spokesman quoted Economics Minister Chiang Pin-kung as saying that he expected the cabinet to announce the approval in the
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      • 89 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Trade between Hongkong and China grew 25 per cent in the first 10 months of 1994, totalling U5531.37 billion (5545.6 billion), the China Daily Business Weekly said. Mainland exports to Hongkong most of which are re-exported rose 42.5 per cent to U5524.16
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      • 70 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Foshan, a city of three million people in China's Guangdong province, said it has two joint ventures under negotiation and recently signed an agreement for a third. A multi-million dollar contract was inked last month with General Electric Co of the
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 401 5 AFP SYDNEY Australia's deputy Prime Minister Brian Howe yesterday rejected conservative opposition claims that Canberra is planning huge welfare spending cuts targeting areas such as social security and child welfare. The cuts are said to have been outlined in
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    • 288 5  -  From Koichi Ishiyama LISTED Shin Nikkei Co, Japan's leading producer of building materials, said it would boost its marketing of building materials in Singapore and other Asean countries in a bid to counter the nation's sluggish domestic business. A Shin
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    • Article, Illustration
      45 5 Reuter SEOUL Airline workers loading plastic containers of water onto a cargo plane over the weekend as part of a campaign to help relieve water shortage in southern South Korea, which is hard hit by a drought that has lasted for months. Reuter
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    • 318 5  -  From John Helmer in MOSCOW RUSSIAN space salesmen leave Moscow for Australia in a few days to discuss plans for building a billion-dollar space launch centre on an island off Papua-New Guinea (PNG), or at Port Darwin, in northern Australia. The Australian Space
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 56 5 Reuter SEOUL North Korea yesterday prepared to throw a mammoth birthday party for leader-in-waiting Kim Jong II the surest sign to date that communism's first dynastic succession remains on course. The Korea Central News Agency is describing this Thursday's 53th birthday celebrations as "the
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      • 69 5 AFP SYDNEY Tax officials have been caught spying on the intimate financial and personal secrets of some of Australia's most prominent citizens up to and including Prime Minister Paul Keating, the Sunday Telegraph reported here yesterday. The files of sports stars, politicians and top
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      • 59 5 AFP NEW DELHI Indian scientists have produced a special wristwatch which warns of nuclear radiation and is for use by the Indian army in the event of a nuclear war, the Press Trust of India reported yesterday. Two hundred of the watches have been supplied
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 92 6 Reuter SANTA ANA, California Bankrupt Orange County's new chief executive William Popejoy. charged with guiding the county through its financial crisis, said last Saturday that the county's bondholders were his first priority. "The interest of the bondholders is the top priority," Popejoy told Reuters in
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      • 102 6 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Saatchi Saatchi Co will find out today if it can delay its former chairman and three former top executives setting up a rival advertising firm. In the High Court, Justice Jonathan Parker said last week that he would rule today on
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      • 59 6 He gets his PhD after 61 years Reuter MUNICH Rudolf Strauss, 81, who developed a manufacturing process for computer boards in 1958, received a doctorate here on Feb 4. Dr Strauss, who fled from the Nazis with his Jewish parents after the Reichskristallnacht in 1938, finished his doctorate 61 years
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      • 137 6 NYT NEW YORK Leonard SSilk, a columnist and editorial writer for The New York Times and for Business Week, who set a standard for a generation of journalists as a pioneer in making complex economic issues understandable to general readers, died last Friday night at
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      • 91 6 AFP LONDON An explosion wrecked a gas pipeline running through Georgia from Turkmeniya, cutting supplies to Armenia, Moscow Echo commercial radio said last Saturday. The explosion happened on Friday in Georgia's Mameuli district, near the capital Tbilisi, and damaged a 30-metre section of the pipe, the
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    • 234 6 Reuter LONDON A British junior minister resigned on Saturday in protest against government and European immigration policy. Prime Minister John Major's office confirmed that Charles Wardle, a former immigration minister who was later made a junior trade minister, had stepped down. "We received
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    • 291 6 Reuter BUENOS AIRES The governments of Argentina and Brazil are well run and their economies are unlike that of crisis-stricken Mexico, a US trade official said in an interview published last Saturday. Trade Undersecretary Jeffrey Garten told the Argentine newspaper La Nacion that
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    • 592 6 Los Angeles TimesWashington Post WASHINGTON Deficit hawks, those tight-fisted scolds who thought this year offered the best chance they would ever see for bringing the federal budget into balance, are starting to lose hope. The Republican-led drive to cut spending dramatically
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    • 61 6 Reuter NICE, France A model for designer Bruno Ferrer presenting this original 'dress' for cocktail waitress service during the Wgetel Salon', an international culinary industry show, here last Thursday. The dress, which comprises 10 circular trays suspended by a shoulder harness, weighs about 6kg. With it,
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    • 473 6 Reuter BUCHAREST Romania's private banking and insurance scctor expanded rapidly after the 1989 fall of communism, but with this growth came corruption and controversy. Pyramid schemes luring gullible investors have collapsed like dominoes. Bankers have been arrested on fraud charges
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    • 418 6 Reuter MILAN The leader of Italy's Northern League. Umberto Bossi. his policies under unaccustomed internal attack, won an overwhelmingly vote of confidence from the party faithful last Saturday after saying he was quitting. Mr Bossi had said he was standing aside to give the
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  • SPORTS
    • 555 8 Golf AFP MASPALOMAS, Canary Islands Seve Ballesteros kept his composure during a frustrating wind-swept third round to preserve his lead in the U*****,000 (*****,000) Canary Islands Open here on Saturday despite the challenge of Sweden's Jarmo Sandelin who
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    • 438 8 America's Cup AFP SAN DIEGO Last Saturday was supposed to be a day off for the America's Cup teams the calm before the storm of the Feb 14 openers of the third round-robin. But it turned out to be a busy day
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    • 541 8 NBA All-Stars UPI PHOENIX Larry Johnson can't help but be a little jealous of New Jersey's Derrick Coleman. "I'd love it," Charlotte's All-Star forward said. "Hey, put me on the cover of Sports Illustrated. I'll take it." That's exactly the kind of talk
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    • 47 8 Reuter PHOENIX Harold Miner of the Miami Heat sailing to the hoop as he showed his winning style in the NBA Slam Dunk contest on Saturday. Miner took the US$2O,OOO (5529,200) top prize in the annual event, part of the NBA All-Star weekend. Reuter
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    • 302 8 AP LONDON Soccer star Eric Cantona, banned from playing for Manchester United for kicking a fan kung fu-style, made a similar assault on Saturday on a TV reporter in Antigua. reports said yesterday. According to Independent Television News, the French striker was
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        250 8 AP LONDON Disgraced sprinter Ben Johnson believes his world record. scratched from the books because of drug-taking, will never be beaten. Legally, that is. Johnson, twice called for taking drugs and now banned for life, clocked 9.79 for the 100 metres and won an Olympic gold medal in Seoul
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      • Article, Illustration
        133 8 AP Wellington west indies captain Courtne> Walsh destroyed New Zealand's first innings with his best lest performance of seven for 37. then made the Kiwis follow on a massive 444 runs behind on the third day of the second ic.it yesterday. Walsh then bowled Bryan Young for a duck
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      • Article, Illustration
        148 8 ADELAIDE US$l5O,OOO (*****,000) South Australian Open final round yesterday (par-73): 275 Tim Elliott (Aust) 68-71-66-70 278 Anthony Painter (Aust) 70-68-70-70; Jack O'Keefe (US) 68-71-70-69 280 Peter McWhinney (Aust) 72-72-68-68. SAN DIEGO US$l.2 million Buick Invitational 3rd rd on Saturday (US unless stated): 201 Peter Jacobsen 68-65-68 204 Kirk Triplett
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      • Article, Illustration
        77 8 Reuter DAYTONA BKACH, Florida Dale Jarrett on Saturday claimcd the pole for the Daytona 500 and will share the front row with defending Winston Cup ehampion Dale Earnhardt in the Feb 19 race. Jarrett. the 1993 Daytona 500 champion, took his Ford Thunderbird around the 4km Davtona In- temational
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      • Article, Illustration
        192 8 Bernama KAMPUNG GAJAH, Malaysia Twenty footballers and two coaches picked up by police for alleged involvement in soccer bribery and match-fixing are expected to be banished under the Restricted Residence Act 1958 next month. Deputy Home Minister Junid Megat Ayob said on Saturday warrants for their arrest would be
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      • Article, Illustration
        57 8 SAN JOSE U*****,000 San Jose Open semifinals on Saturday: 1-Andre Agassi (US) b 5-MaliVai Washington (US) 6-4 6-2; 2-Mi-chael Chang (US) b 3-Jim Courier (US) 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4. CHICAGO U*****,000 Ameriteeh Cup semi-finals on Saturday: 3-Magdalena Malccva (Bui) b 2Gabriela Sabatini (Arg) 6-4 4-6 6-3; Lisa Raymond (US)
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  • Business IT
    • 632 9  -  The move is part of the company's aim to be a total IT solutions provider, IPC chief executive Patrick Ngiam tells Lee Wai Leong Lee Wai Leong Local computer giant IPC Corporation has won a contract to develop an in-house video-on-demand (VOD) system for the high-profile
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    • 351 9  -  By Joseph Rajendran BAY Networks, the product of a merger between network giant Synoptics Communications and Wellfleet, has revealed plans for a sharply higher presence in South-east Asia. Jim Bristow, general manager of local subsidiary Bay Networks Singapore, said the new
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    • 345 9  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE The Kobe earthquake would have no immediate impact on the global memory chip market, says US marketresearch firm Dataquest Inc. A shortage of the memory chip used in computers, known as the dynamic random access memory
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    • 545 9 Reuter SEATTLE Microsoft Corp said last week that more than 50 major computer software and hardware companies had agreed to provide technical support and other services over its planned on-line network. The companies, including Borland International Inc, Computer Associates International Inc, Dell
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    • 786 10  -  The software is not coming from the authorised suppliers. Yet these suppliers hesitate to act. David Mok finds out why David Mok THE multimedia CD-ROM disks in plastic eases selling at many computer shops here may not be legal copies, according to some software companies and
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    • 315 10  -  By David Mok SOFTWARE solutions provider EDS Asia hopes to establish a niche in outsourcing services for smalland medium-sized manufacturing and distribution firms. The company has invested around $200,000 to start up outsourcing units at its Sri Lanka, Singapore, Hongkong and Thailand ofTices,
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 54 10 SINGAPORE Local sound-card maker Aztech Systems has appointed Compex Thailand as its exclusive distributor for its range of multimedia products in Thailand. Compex will market Aztech products through its existing channels and ofTer sales and support. Fhe distributor will also launch a marketing campaign to create
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      • 64 10 SINGAPORE Intel Singapore has cut the prices of its Overdrive processors. The price of the high-end 100 MHz Intel DX4 processor has been cut to US$349 ($506) from US$649, while the 75 MHz DX4 processor is now US$299, down from US$549. The 66 MHz DX2 is now
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      • 80 10 NEW YORK US on-line information service Compuserve said last week it would ofTer World Wide Web and other Internet services to some of its 2.6 million customers within the next two months. Internet is a worldwide network of more than 25 million computers, and the
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      • 55 10 SINGAPORE Multimedia giant Creative Technology has begun shipping the latest edition of the Sound Blaster Discovery CD Multimedia kit. The new edition combines the Sound Blaster 16 audio card with additional educational and entertainment software titles, bringing it to a total of 22 titles. Recommended
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      • 72 10  -  Compiled by Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Data communications vendor RAD Data Communications has introduced the SPS-3, a miniature packet switch that supports multiple protocols, dial-up links and up to 24 additional synchronous ports. Supporting data rates up to 64kps, each of the SPS-3's three synchronous ports
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    • It's happenin'
      • 35 10 SINGAPORE CSA Automated is holding a seminar entitled How Technical Document And Information Management Systems Technology Can Underwrite ISO 9000 Accreditation on Feb 17. For more information, call Tracia at 371 9715.
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      • 48 10 SINGAPORE Techgnosis is holding a seminar on open clientserver middleware on Feb 17 at the Marina Mandarin. The agenda will include a presentation on client-server middleware architectures and an introduction to the SequeLink open clientserver middleware product set. To register, call Joey at 226 6232.
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      • 46 10 Course on C+ programming SINGAPORE Elixir Technology is organising a five-day course on object-oriented programming in C+ starting on Mar 10. The fees are 1,500 per person with a 10 per cent discount for group registrations at least five people. For more information, call 322 8575.
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    • 422 10  -  By Lee Wai Leong PRINTER giant Lexmark International's Asean sales for last year grew by a strong 25 per cent over 1993, while the company's revenues worldwide grew 10 per cent. Disclosing this during a press conference last week, Lexmark managing director (Asean/Indochina)
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    • 958 11  -  IT THE NEXT WAVE Wu Jian Kang explains the promise of geographic information systems Wu Jian Kane The writer is a staff member of the Institute of Systems Science. He can be contacted at 772-2544 ore-mail ID: jiankang@iss. nus. sg. SITTING at
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    • 917 11  -  NET WATCH 11 TRACKING THE NETWORKING WORLD Tommi Chen discusses what the Internet authorities are doing to cope with the explosive growth of the world's largest network Tommi Chen Dr Tom mi C hen is an Internum and managing partner of Net Centre Pte
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    • 330 11 NYT NEW YORK A conflict between a New York state prison regulation requiring that inmates be photographed clean-shaven and a religious belief that a man's beard must not be touched was resolved in a US federal court recently through the latest computer technology.
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    • 800 11  -  Stephen Manes of The New York Times discovers that a new Pentium does not equal maths heaven Stephen Manes Mr**' COMPUTERS and the people who program them can sometimes be too smart for their own good. The latest example is a bizarre byproduct
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    • 1029 12  -  A new book on the much talked-about operating system is a hacker's dream but doesn't quite live up to being Microsoft's nightmare, says Lee Wai Leong Lee Wai Leong UNLIKE his two bestselling programmer's guides. Undocumented DOS and Undocumented Windows, Andrew Schulman's new Unauthorised
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    • 518 12  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY TOM AMBROSE The writer is a Support Contracts Spi-cialist with Hewlett Packard's Americas' Field Operations (AFO). He also has extensive experience as a computer consultant helping businesses to use in formation technology productively. LIKE many of my counterparts in the press. I
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  • 604 16  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA SEVERAL of Indonesia's powerful business groups transferred their holdings in listed companies to related concerns last Friday to narrowly beat a new government levy on the sale of shares by founding shareholders. But the frenzied
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  • 232 16 Reuter LONDON Leading directors of the privatised electricity industry in England and Wales have awarded themselves £72 million (S$ 165 million) in share options, the Independent on Sunday said. Citing research from the opposition Labour Party, the newspaper said the 77 directors received
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  • 400 16 Reuter WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton opened a meeting of Israeli and Arab foreign ministers meant to revitalise the faltering Middle East peace process yesterday, saying the United States would "redouble our efforts to get the peace process back in full
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  • 422 16 Reuter NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao won moral support from missionary Mother Teresa yesterday as he came under renewed attack from the main rival in his ruling Congress party. Mother Teresa released a book in Calcutta entitled P V Narasimha
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  • 120 16 AP BKIJING China's people will help pay for the world's biggest hydroelectric dam through a levy on their electricity bills. The Business Weekly newspaper yesterday said the central government will levy an extra 0.4 fen (about 5-hun-dredths of a US cent) on every kilowatt-hour of
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  • 376 16 Reuter TOKYO Japan's state prosecutors have started a preliminary inquiry into a huge banking scandal that could have political repercussions, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported yesterday. Investigators at the Tokyo district prosecutor's office, who handle only major financial and political scandals, have
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  • 204 16 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party plans to invest about NTS 10 billion (SSSSO million) in building a 300-hectare-plus industrial zone in northern Vietnam, a spokesman said yesterday. "We hope to make sure the investment by the end of February," said
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 602 17  -  By Genevieve Cua THE government-owned Singapore Technologies group has formed an operating headquarters in a structural revamp that is expected to fuel its push into regional and international markets. It has also appointed a new chairman former defence minister Yeo Ning Hong and
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    • 429 17 THE COMBINED net earnings of all financial institutions in Singapore hit a record $4.4 billion in the year to March 1994, boosted by stock market's sterling performance in 1993. This is a 42 per cent rise from the $3.1 billion earnings
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    • COMPANIES
      • 373 18  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR WITH only one final hurdle to clear, Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd (MRCB) and state-owned investment arm Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) are poised to clinch a MS9OO million (*****.8 million) supergrid transmission project from Tenaga Nasional
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      • 479 18 NST KUALA LUMPUR PanGlobal Equities Bhd has forecast a pre-tax profit of M 591.43 million (5552.1 million) for the year ending Dec 31, 1995, a big jump from the estimated MS 10 million figure for the 1994 financial year. The
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      • 175 18 Business Day BANGKOK Telecom Holding, a subsidiary of CP Group and the parent company of Telecom Asia, is injecting 290 million baht (5516.8 million) into subsidiary Telecom International Company. Telecom International, which is 99.9 per cent owned by Telecom Holding, is
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      • 269 18 The Star KUALA LUMPUR Worldwide Holdings Bhd expects its utilities sector to make a similar contribution to group earnings as its core business of property investment and development from 1997. "We want to diversify further and tap the vast potential
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 59 18 SINGAPORE L&M Geotechnics Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of L&M Group Investments, has clinched a $10 million soil improvement contract. The contract was awarded by Koon Construction Transport Co Pte Ltd for the Tuas Power Station of the Public Utilities Board. This project brought L&M
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        • 71 18 SINGAPORE Aztech Systems Ltd has appointed Compex (Thailand) as the exclusive distributor of its multimedia products in Thailand. Aztech, having focused on the US and western Europe, is now building up its presence in the region. It already has offices in Hongkong and Malaysia. Bangkok-based Compex has
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        • 83 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Perusahaan Sadur Timah Malaysia (Perstima) has proposed to carry out a restructuring scheme involving the transfer of the company's manufacturing and sale of tin plate to its wholly-owned subsidiary, Perstima Tin Plate Sdn Bhd. In a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange here,
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        • 64 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Sanda Plastic Industries Bhd has announced that it has received notice from Maju Holdings Sdn Bhd that the latter has acquired 4.038 million shares of Sanda through the open market. In a statement, Sanda also announced the resignation of Ooi Chin Khoon
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      • 557 18 MmmcwV priCM Feb II A 13 US Gr Fund 0 99 103** Singapore Unit Trust UOB Asset Mgt Ltd The Commerce 1.59 1.6® Unifund 1.35 1.41 The Savings Fund 1.51 1.60 Unibond 1.02 1.045 Spore Prog Fund 0.57 0.61 United Gr Fund' 1.55 162 S pore Sec Fund 0.94 1.00
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      • 1549 20  -  Kuala Lumpur Options and Financial Futures Exchange By Amy Balan SINGAPORE John Duggan is concerned. "Whenever 1 pick up a newspaper and read about markets falling/" he says, "it is not uncommon to read that it's because foreign institutions have been selling." The recently-appointed
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      • 267 20 SINGAPORE The big question now is, which index? The Malaysian media has speculated that Kloffe will use the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index, by far the most widely-followed index on the Malaysian market. But the new exchange is not taking any chances. It has pursued a dual index
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    • COMPANIES
      • 568 21 Company filled its coffers when conditions were good Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Interest rates arc up, the Hongkong stock market is down and Swire Pacific's finance director is unfazed. "We filled our pockets when conditions were good," said Peter Johansen last Friday. "Now,
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      • 55 21 Reuter WARREN, Michigan An excited Darrell Fox (left) showing off his profit-sharing cheque last Friday at Chrysler's Warren Track Assembly with vice-president Dennis Pawley (centre) and supervisor Sajid Farida. Chrysler's profit-sharing payments for 1994 averaged about US$B,OOO (S$ 11,620), the largest ever made by
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      • 374 21 Reuter MUNICH Compaq, the leader in personal computer sales worldwide, will report first-quarter 1995 revenues of about US$3.2 billion (554.7 billion), up from US$2.2 billion in 1994, chairman Eckhard PfeifTer said last Friday. But he reiterated at a news conference for German media
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      • 223 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Nomura Securities Co says it made a group current loss of as much as 20 billion yen (***** million) in the first 10 months of its financial year, the result of low commissions on slow stock trading Japan's top
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 39 21 Reuter CANBERRA Seven Network Ltd managing director Bob Campbell said Seven was in early discussions with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Ltd about becoming involved in the News Corp/Telstra Corp pay television venture. Reuter
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        • 92 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Hongkong stock exchange could lose its exclusive right to operate securities exchanges if the government passes new legislation proposed by the securities regulator, the South China Sunday Morning Post reported. Under the proposal by the Securities and Futures Commission,
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        • 55 21 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK China Tire Holdings Ltd has named Lui Siu Tsuen as its chief financial officer, succeeding Michael Chen who has resigned. Hongkong-based China Tire is a unit of China Strategic Investment, which invests in companies formerly owned by thc government
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        • 46 21 Bloomberg Business News HANOI Korea Steel Chemical Co and Daewoo Corp opened a US$B.l million (Ssl 1.7 million) antiseptic factory in the Vietnam province of Song Be, Saigon Liberation says. First Organic Chemistry Factory is thc local partner. Bloomberg Business News
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 743 22  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON LONDON The United States' trade row with China has so far sidestepped commodity markets. Nevertheless, key metals such as copper have already been hit by a sharp slowdown in demand from China and international concerns about
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      • 241 22 AFP BEIJING China is to issue this year its first regulations on bank loans in a bid to create a unified system that will reduce risks and losses in the sector, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. The General
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        1907 22 Rates are the average of 9 several banks I nkle»,-iyhi,il imlrx cak-uhied axain\l S purt' s hip 14 Iradityt partner* Saw hot IQHf I Print* fending rates As oo Feb 10 BANKS \BN Amro Bank NV 7 ANZ Banking Group z\ihcd Irish Bank PLC 7 American Express Bank 7 Arab
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      • 70 22 Reuter rOKYO North Korea last Saturday announced it would issue gold and silver coins (gold in this photo) to commemorate the late Kim II Sung. The gold coin is 35 mm in diameter and the silver one is 40 mm across. The insci"Ption reads "the Leader
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      • 677 22 Siting the US$ 1.3b top priority project in a central province surprises analysts AFP QUANG NGAI, Vietnam Vietnam has approved plans to build its first oil refinery, an ambitious US$l.3 billion (SSI.9 billion) complex set in one of the least developed parts of the country,
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      • 478 22 Knight-Ridder KUALA LUMPUR Optimism that China will improve its buying of palm oil will help support Malaysian palm oil prices in the near term. There is talk that China may soon issue licences with special duty rates to aid the import of
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      • 258 22 Reuter CANBERRA National Australia Bank Ltd chief executive Don Argus said he was disappointed at the slide in NAB's share price after NAB's announcement it would acquire US-based Michigan National Bank for US$l.55 billion (552.25 billion). But Mr Argus said the share market
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 602 23  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Yumiko Iijima SINGAPORE Unlike the previous week, Mexico was not the focus of the forex market last week as US President Bill Clinton came through with an improved package bypassing Congress. However, the absence of dollar selling did not mean that
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      • 602 23 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Base metal prices collapsed on the London Metal Exchange (LME) last week, hit by panic selling as investment funds withdrew from the market, losing between 2 and 8 per cent on Monday alone. Although the
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    • 1401 23 Rubber Feb 10 Singapore Commodity Exchange Physical Pricas (futures closing as at 5.30pm) linr>ri litlm As at 12 noon (S cents/kg) IBS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) c| volume RSS 2 Mar 95 263 50 2 *>N Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest R SS 3 ar 262.50 263
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    • 4874 24 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Ijuti KPS Date TY LY IV LV umpan) ann (Stn) (Sin) (cts) (cts) \BK Hldgs Sep 19 I 1.109 I 365 2 5 3.3 Aetna Sep 16 I 48 926 19 517 71 0 28 6 MSB* Nov 21 P 3.057L 2.095 2
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    • 753 24 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 810 25 FT N€w Yorfc WALL Street has spent much of the week frozen, in all senses. Traders trudged to work through deep-piled snow to find the market unable to move far from the spot where it ended the previous week, just before the
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      • 417 25 AFP London SHARE prices on the Stock Exchange firmed last week, rising above 3,100 points for the first time in three months by the Friday close, dealers said. The FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares rose by 50.2 points, or
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 103 25 Australian shares closed the week marginally lower on Friday after recovering from a mid-week slump inspired by lower commodity prices, brokers said. The local share market's barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, finished barely 0.1 per cent weaker at 1,846 points, down 1.7 points on the previous week's finish. The
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        • 97 25 Philippine share prices climbed for the second week in a row carried by the strong performances of foreign bourses after jitters caused by a US interest rate increase calmed down, analysts said on Saturday. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index gained 113.48 points, or 4.52 per cent, last week
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        • 124 25 The return of some foreign institutional money gave the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index a gain of 23.90 points, or 1.87 per cent, for the week and a close on Friday at 1,301.97 points, brokers said. The average daily turnover was 113.4 million shares, up sharply from 48.8
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        • 64 25 Share prices moved up with exceptionally brisk trading on the Jakarta Stock Exchange last week nudging the index past the 450 mark. The JSE Composite Index finished on Friday on 453.315 after a week of climbs following the previous week's close of 445.381. Average daily transactions soared to 95.91
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        • 64 25 Share prices closed mixed on the Korea Stock Exchange on Saturday as a continuing financial squeeze countered market boosting measures. The Composite Price Index closed at 953.71 points, down 1.60 points from Friday, on a volume of 17 million shares worth 4.7 billion dollars. The index was up 1.83
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        • 105 25 The Taipei bourse staged a comeback in the first trading week of the Year of the Pig as investors returned to the market to buy at lows after a two-month share price decline, brokers said. Wiping out a one per cent drop in the last trading week of the
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        • 74 25 Share prices tumbled on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on selling pressure amid political uncertainty in the run-up to crucial state elections. The BSE's 30-share Sensitive Index lost 116.04 points from the previous week's finish and closed on Friday at 3,522.14 points. The 100-share National Index fell 50.78 points
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      • 447 25 AFP Tokyo SHARE prices lost ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week on profit-taking following the previous week's moderate gains backed by huge construction projects to restore quakehit Kobe. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues in the first section
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      • 275 25 AFP Reuter Hongkong STOCK priccs soared 7.14 per cent on strong overseas buying during the week, with the key blue-chip Hang Seng Index gaining 533.90 points to close at 8,012.82 on Friday. Average daily turnover also grew to HK.54.023 billion, from the
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 842 25 +6.39 US stock prices closed with modest gains on Friday, lifted by a strong rally in technology shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 6.39 points at 3,939.07. For the week, it gained 10.43 points. In the broader market, advancing issues led declines 1,215 to 910 on
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      • 278 25 -5.49 Stocks fell at the close of a lacklustre session dampened by weakness in Canadian debt markets, traders said. The TSE 300 Index edged down 5.49 points to 4,110.55 on volume of 49.50 million shares valued at C 5575.52 million. Declining issues outpaced advances, 358 to 302. with 349
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      • 2288 25 London Britannia Funds lefe |0 Fracc Sterling Cash Bid Offer Mim Cap Deposit M 6400 V* 6500 Industrials Mim Jersey (.til OIIH OIW Mim Mat Income 0 4100 0 4400 A. A. Corp Adr 4* -4/8 \B Port-. 273 2 LSJ ash Abbev National 440 4/8 +5 4/* lnc™« l»nd
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    • 2574 26 Cr Cr IW4/W Lasl Vol Week LaX QmK I*t Dh VH fW M Cap High Law Cwnpaay Sale (-000) Hick Lo» Bwyer Srtkr Or S P/K Smil MALAYSIAN STOCKS m 73 m AISB 50t 294 +46 28* 298 73 294 295 3.0 -2.9 0.3 30 2 206 77
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 6828 26 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian share prices surged for the second straight week after local players inspired by bold ventures of foreign fund managers lent wide support to the market following recent caution. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index, which tracks 86 quality
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      • 8909 27 I MAIN BOARD Transaction date: Week ended Feb 10 (it U M »l IH4/M Ijii Vol Week IxlOolt l>i» l>i» N <-« »'l Hick Im Coa»M> Vale (HOOI 11 nth I... Bu»er Seller S C'vr S P/f Mnil Prior INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 720* 1*8 m I s Vcma 50c 418
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      • 1891 28  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE After the flurry of mainly retail-based speculative activity last week, the weeks ahead present the market with a stern test of its resilience and possibly the biggest since US interest rates were raised at the start of the
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    • 311 29 AFP SYDNEY The captain of the Qtieen Elizabeth II said on Friday that passengers suing Cunard Line Inc for lacking basic facilities were not adversely affected by renovation work during their cruise. At least 120 passengers announced on Tuesday that they were suing
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    • 205 29 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's Evergreen Marine Corp (EMC) has received approval from the government to build its second container yard in China, EMC officials said on Friday. Taiwan's Investment Commission on Thursday gave the green light for EMC, the flagship
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    • 243 29 Bemama KUCHING The Sarawak Marine Department is waiting for a full report from the two rescued crew of the ship Sang Thai Galaxy which sank 186 nautical miles off the coast here on Feb 1 before deciding on the next action. Department acting director
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    • 1052 29 Page Col ABC Containerline 16 I Able Shpg 7 4/5 Accord Group 8 1-3 AhlersLine 12 I Ahrcnkiel Liner 4 1/2 ANL 3 4/5 Antaco Mgmt 17 3 APL 18 1/2 Appenship 4 4/5 Arabian Express 15 4 •ASCL 5 5 Astro Shpg
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    • 2038 30 BUOYING interest on the key Panamax route US Gulf/Japan saw a record grain fixing of US$33 per tonne with combination, carrying the index nine points up to 1,974 on Thursday. The fixture by Falcon of the Italsud relet North Duchess for 54,000 tonnes of heavy grain for early
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    • 1406 31 The European Commission's regulation on consortia could create legal uncertainty and block further rationalisation of international liner shipping International Transport Journal IT IS slowly beginning to take shape: the regulation for the group exemption of so-called consortia which the Council of Ministers empowered the European Commission to
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    • 13211 38 This Is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEfiEMD PN: ship calls at Penang after
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      • 1171 41 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVIN6 Of EXPOBT Fa CONTAINERS AND LCL CARCO Record Booking/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACX** 044A 14/0700 3 13/0700 13/1159 13/1400 4 13/1200 13/1459 13/1700 Ah BMi 5525 *****66 IB *****00 12/1659 *****00 26 12/1700
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      • 404 48 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO All Nippon Airways, restructuring to beat falling profits, has unveiled the second phase of a three-year plan that calls for job cuts, an increase in international flights and less investment in new aircraft. Japan's second-largest airline said on
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      • 403 48 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines will take delivery of five Airbus A330-400s between this month and March. The planes will be used to service regional routes. Delivery of the long-haul aircraft has been delayed twice, reportedly due to quality control problems with the
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      • 387 48 Reuter TAIPEI General Motors Corp sees considerable sales growth in Taiwan in 1995 despite the prospect of increased competition if Taiwan is admitted to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), company executives said here on Friday. William Botwick, managing director of General Motors Taiwan,
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      • 339 48 Bloomberg Business News CHICAGO Toyota Motor Corp says it wants to build more trucks in North America, a move that could help it challenge Detroit's dominance of the booming market for the vehicles. One of the options under consideration is to build
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        • 48 48 Reuter SYDNEY India's national carrier, state- run Air India, says it will re-introduce the only direct India-Australia air service when it starts twice-weekly Perth-Singapore-Bangalore-Bombay flights on March 2. Air India dropped Australia-India flights in 1991 when it restructured its operations. Reuter
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        • 84 48 Bloomberg Business News TURIN Car registrations in Italy rose 7.7 per cent in January from a year ago, the Transport Ministry said on Friday. A total of 205,000 new cars were registered during the month. For all of 1994, Italian new car registrations fell 2.74
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        • 103 48 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Eurotunnel, the builder and operator of the Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France, said its fourth-quarter sales totalled £23.8 million ($37 million), bringing total sales for the year to £30.6 million. The company said revenue was below expectations after
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        • 68 48 Bloomberg Business News SEATTLE Boeing Co said its new 777 jetliner will resume high-altitude test flights after the company modified a safety valve that failed twice two weeks ago and forced an emergency landing. This means the 777 is still on track for US Federal
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        • 67 48 Bloomberg Business News CHICAGO Nissan Motor Corp's US Infiniti luxury car division plans to introduce a new sedan that will cost about US$3O,OOO (5543,500). The new 130 is based on Nissan's recently introduced Maxima sedan and will go on sale in May, said Tom Eastwood,
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      • 301 48 Bloomberg Business News MANILA Emerging Dragons Corp and British Airports Authority pic plan to complete the construction of a third terminal at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) by the end of 1998. BAA chairman Gordon Edington met Philippine President Fidel Ramos last
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      • 454 48 Reuter MELBOURNE New Zealand expects Australia to revive plans for a single aviation market between the two nations once certain issues are resolved, New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Don McKinnon said on Friday. Mr McKinnon said he understood Australia had to
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    • 889 37 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I I m V tM CR NO: **********0E I I VESSEL VOV SIN CMS JIB HOO JED AQJ ADE PZU MBW ASA It-' KOTA BERLIAN BRL27P 17/2 21/2 2S/2 2/3 4/3 8/3 19/3 22/3 24/3 I.
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    • 678 40 SI RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD W TEL: *****33 (12 Lines) FAX: *****15/*****03 til TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) CR NO.: **********0E I® ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LRUS |T (Nationsl Lines of EttiojM) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL V«MI Voy ETA Loading Fof Sport Andinet 38WB 03/04 Mombasa. D|ibouti Assab. Massawa
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    • 1382 42 THIS WEEK' 9 ARRIVAL: NEXT WEEK'S ARRIVAL: VESSELS VOY eta exchange vessels ¥OY ita exchange RATE MTE SINGAPORE BAY 5018 13 FEB 1 4528 LONOON MAERSK 9504 20 FEB 1 4810 MS NANHAI 9504 13 FEB 1 4528 SL VOYAGER 225W 20 FEB 1.4570 MATHILDE MS 9503 14 FEB 1
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