The Business Times, 2 June 1995

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  • 13 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Friday June 2 1995 85*
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  • 60 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks fell on profit-taking yesterday following the market's record high on Wednesday with the biggest one-day gain in almost 3Vi years. At 2 pm EDT, the Dow Jones was down 14.18 points to 4,450.96. At 1 pm, advances led declines by a
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  • 41 1 NYT WASHINGTON Secretary of State Warren Christopher is seeking White House permission to close 21 US consulates in 20 countries. President Bill Clinton is expected to send the final list to Congress this month. NYT
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  • 166 1 Stock Mrint Indicts Thvsiiy Change ST1I 2,205.03 +26.67 KLSE Comp .......1,070.82 +20.82 Nikkei 15,594.57 +157.78 Hans Seng 9,559.74 +152.36 SETInde* 1,401.60 +9.29 Jakarta Comp 485.78 +10.50 Manila Comp 2,802.72 30.35 Taipei WPI 5,714.33 39.78 Seoul Comp 891.43 +8.93 Bombay BSE30 .3,410.24 58J6 CLSA China B 795.14 +6.68 Aust All Ord
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  • 659 1  -  Reports by Amy Balan SINGAPORE Regional dailies are fast joining a growing list of newspapers around the world which have ceased publication or face closure because of soaring pulp and newsprint prices. In Hongkong, two newspapers Wah Kiu and Hongkong Today have already folded
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  • 382 1 SINGAPORE Singapore Press Holdings will be raising advertising rates as part of a wider move to contain the impact of soaring newsprint prices. The ad rate hikes, for all the group's newspapers, will be done in two phases. Rates for display
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  • 240 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Foreign funds, reassured by the improving inflation and interest rate scenario in the US, yesterday responded to Wall Street's 86.46-point rally by flooding back into regional stock markets sending some of them to seven-month highs. In Singapore, UOB's interest rate
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  • 453 1  -  By Michelle Low SINGAPORE The Housing and Development Board's tender for a large Woodlands site closed yesterday with a bullish $309.8 million top bid from Nasidon Investments, said to be linked to Centrepoint Properties Ud (CPL). For the 170,000 sq
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  • 472 1  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE DBS Bank and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp yesterday cut their prime rates by a quarter point to 6 per cent in line with a similar cut by the United Overseas Bank the day before. Overseas Union Bank,
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  • 389 1  -  From Ho Kay Tat In KUALA LUMPUR NO bitter medicine is expected to be prescribed when Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad launches today an an-ti-inflation campaign. Instead of curtailing demand to rein in inflation, economists expect the government to focus on the
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 286 2  -  By David Mok LOCAL sales of personal computers, notebooks and servers reached US$9O million (S$ 125.1 million) in the first three months of this year, says market research firm Dataquest. This represents close to an 11 per cent increase over sales in the first quarter
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    • 97 2 THE Trade Development Board, the Singapore Manufacturers' Association and the South African High Commission will jointly organise a seminar on business opportunities in the Gauteng province of South Africa on June 6 at the Carlton Hotel. Gauteng is the heartland of South Africa's mining, industrial,
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    • 67 2 THE Singapore Philatelic Bureau will jointly release the Asean stamp album with other Asean countries on June 5 in conjunction with World Environment Day. The theme of the issue is Nature. The collection, containing stamps from Asean countries worth $13.95, retails for $21.20 (including QST). It
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    • 447 2  -  Reports by Teh Hooi Ling BUSINESSMAN Ng Joo Seng's Dovechem group is seeking a listing of the group's steel drum manufacturing and chemical storage business on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. Anta Ng Gek Nga, executive vice-president of Dovechem Holdings,
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    • 277 2 LOCAL group Dovechem is building a $105 million chemical plant at Jurong. It will produce phthalic anhydride (PA), a chemical intermediate that goes into making plasticisers and resins, which are in turn used in the automotive and construction industries. The plant will be built
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    • 325 2  -  By Soh Tiang Keng TOP regional practitioners of Islamic finance and banking will meet in Singapore on July 8 to discuss prospects and problems of setting up Islamic financial institutions here. They will attend a one-day conference at the Hilton International
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    • 362 2  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan THE government will implement the road pricing scheme (RPS) at other expressways in the next 12 months only if motorists want it, Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan said yesterday. He said the government would
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    • 271 2 THE closing tender date for the eight Light Rail Transit (LRp consortia shortlisted to provide Singapore's two LRT systems has been extended to noon today. A Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRTC) spokesman told Business Times that the original May 29 deadline had
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 404 3  -  Republic will remain major investor in Asean economies: PM Goh From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA SINGAPORE yesterday underlined its commitment to participate in the economic development of Indonesia and maintained that it will remain a major investor in the country as well as in
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    • 317 3  -  From Leslie Lopez In JAKARTA VISITING Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday raised concerns over the forthcoming Apec summit in Osaka, saying that Japan was not moving fast enough to ensure that the grouping make concrete steps towards
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    • 155 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian and Malaysian officials will meet next week to discuss sensitive bilateral issues, including a dispute over two islands, Indonesia's Foreign Ministry said yesterday. It said in a statement the meeting, to be held between June 6-9 in Jakarta, would seek
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    • 290 3 Jakarta Post JAKARTA Shareholders of PT Bursa Efek Surabaya, the manager of the Surabaya Stock Exchange, have endorsed the merger of the company with PT Bursa Paralel Indonesia, the firm managing the parallel or over-the-counter market in Jakarta. Bursa Efek Surabaya's president, Basjiruddin A
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    • 159 3 Reuter MANILA Two Philippine telecommunications groups are competing to launch the country's first satellite by the end of 1996, but officials said the two can co-exist. A consortium led by telephone giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT) announced on Wednesday that it
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    • 125 3 AP MANILA A Philippine bank that reopened last July after being closed for 10 years filed an 18.8 billion peso (SSl.l billion) damage suit against the central bank yesterday for losses during the closure. Lawyer Francisco Rivera, assistant head of the legal department of
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    • 102 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian green groups yesterday demanded the government make public an environment impact report on the giant hydro-electric dam fast going up in forest-rich Sarawak state. The Bakun dam, being built by Ekran Bhd, is projected by environmental experts to clear
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    • 69 3 Bernama BANGKOK Thailand has decided to join the international convention on chemical weapon to ensure its trading partners that it will never involve itself in the mass destructive weapon, a senior Thai official said yesterday. Manas Suksaman, directorgeneral of the Department of Industrial Works, said
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    • 291 3 CO THROUGH HELL AND ENJOY THE RIDE Driving a car is not the pleasure it peace of mind. And if you're forced off the road to theSxSm used to be. Nowadays, when you're avoid an accident, you'll find that the Discovery not dicing with danger on the open road you're
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 413 4 Reuter HONGKONG Long immune to many of the economic afflictions affecting the West, Hongkong is beginning to feel the pinch of corporate austerity, rising unemployment and depressed spending power. But, economists said, fears that the vibrant trading centre is slipping into an
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    • 133 4 AFP BEIJING The Chinese government said yesterday that attempts to overturn the verdict on the suppression of the 1989 pro-democracy movement were meaningless and devoid of popular support. The statement followed the recent circulation of petitions by dissidents and intellectuals calling for a full investigation
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    • 359 4 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Shenyang, in the heart of China's industrial north-east, is staging a comeback. Hundreds of officials from the city have descended on New York to woo Wall Street bankers and win potential investors. They have done this
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    • 284 4 On the one hand... UPI An American Congressman warned yesterday that a "hostile, expanding and anti-democratic China" could provoke a major conflict unless the United States and other Pacific powers jointly enforce a new containment policy. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican from California,
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    • 202 4 but on the other AFP HONGKONG A former US diplomat with 40 years' experience in Asia blamed his own country yesterday for the current imbroglio in its relations with China. Burton Levin, who has served as ambassador in Myanmar and consul-general in Hongkong,
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    • 42 4 Reuter TAIPEI Dozens of indigenous people from Taiwan's offshore Lanyu Island protesting in front of the headquarters of state-run Taiwan Power Co here yesterday. The group demanded that Taiwan Power remove its nuclear waste from Lanyu. Renter
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    • 238 4 AFP WASHINGTON The US reacted cautiously on Wednesday to a reported Chinese missile test, refusing to link it to recent friction over a US visit by the president of Taiwan and saying it violated no agreements. The State Department
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    • 107 4 AFP BEIJING China yesterday denounced an agreement between the US and Russia to strengthen their anti-ballistic missile treaty. "Wehokl that this will not benefit the strategic balance and staDTOy" tn this region and the world at large," said Foreign Mtujgpy-spokesman Chen Jian. "We are of
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    • 96 4 Bernama TOKYO Nearly one in two Chinese polled think their country will outstrip Japan and become the economic powerhouse of Asia in the 21st century, a major newspaper said yesterday. The survey was conducted in Japan covering 1,958 Japanese on Jan 28-29, and 3SS people
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    • 100 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's individual income tax revenue rose 84.5 per cent to 3.3 billion yuan (SSS4B million) in the first four months of this year, against the year earlier period, the official Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. The State Administration of Taxation
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    • 68 4 AFP SHANGHAI A town in the Shanghai municipality and another Chinese partner have teamed up to construct a 500 million yuan park for leisure-seeking city dwellers, a newspaper reported yesterday. The World Amusement Park was being built in Shanghai's north-western Jiading county by Nanxiang
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • ASIA
    • 431 6  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO JAPAN'S eight major housing loan corporations yesterday published figures showing that they are sinking deeper into the red making an official rescue operation even more pressing now. The bailout promises to be even more controversial
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    • 489 6  -  Harvest Court eyes rights to revolutionary car batteries Frtm Mike Simms in AUCKLAND A MALAYSIAN manufacturer is bidding for a stake of more than 27 per cent in a struggling New Zealand company that has the rights to the world's first never-go-flat
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  • THE WORLD
    • 413 7 Bernama WASHINGTON The Clinton administration on Wednesday condemned a "code of conduct" introduced in Congress that would block arms sales to countries, like Malaysia and Indonesia which are said to have "committed human rights abuses". Assistant Secretary of
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    • 142 7  -  Fran Leen Hadar in WASHINGTON THE Clinton administration's top Asia aide has described the US relationship with Singapore as "very positive" and has expressed Washington's appreciation for Singapore's strong support for continuing US military engagement in Asia and for utilising the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
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    • 292 7 AFP AP LONDON German Finance Minister Theo Waigel said yesterday he hoped Britain would back an "opt-in" on the transition to the final stage of economic and monetary union (EMU). "The UK. already meets most of the convergence criteria. Early participation in
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    • Article, Illustration
      47 7 Reuter SHOMARi, Jordan One of six Red Neck Ostriches gives by Israel to Jordan's wildlife and animal park in Shomari on Tuesday. The Royal Society for Protection of the Environment has cordoned off part of the park to protect the rare species from extinction. Renter
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    • 370 7 NYT NEW YORK The US dollar has taken a pounding in the last year while the yen is flying high. Yet trade accounts have not responded: indeed the US deficit has swelled while Japan's surplus has continued to climb. Doesn't that
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 730 10  -  Companies in China want to know more about consumer spending habits. S N Vasuki reports S N Vasuki AS multinational corporations in the consumer business target China, they are turning to market research firms like SRG China for information on middle-class spending
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    • 298 10 Company says its electronic shopping system's fraud free FT A "VIRTUAL shopping mall" claimed to be the first in Britain in which customers will be able to make credit card purchases over the Internet free from the threat of fraud was launched on Wednesday by
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    • 244 10 Bloomberg Business News COMPUTER owners may like surfing the Internet to see what's offered but they're reluctant to use credit cards to buy products advertised on the global computer network, a new survey shows. Fewer than 25 per cent of computer
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  • SPORTS
    • 580 11 French Open Reuter PARIS Last year Pete Sampras came to the French Open looking for the Grand Slam; on Wednesday he was looking for a taxi and a ticket home. Sampras, who had spent the past two months preparing an attack on Roland Garros,
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    • 453 11 AP PARIS Sergi Bruguera and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, the defending French Open champions, scored solid secondround victories yesterday over low-ranked opponents, but the tournament ended abruptly for Stefan Edbeig. Ed berg, unseeded here for the first time in 10 years,
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    • 792 11 WORLD CUR 1993 AFP Reuter JOHANNESBURG New Zealand surged, Australia stuttered and England stumbled as the second round of the Rugby World Cup concluded on Wednesday with five of the eight quarter-finalists emerging. New Zealand, quite content to let the media attention settle on hosts
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    • SPORTS
      • Article, Illustration
        148 11 Reuter ORLANDO Shaquille O'Neal scored nine or his 35 points in a second-quarter run as the Orlando Magic moved within one game of the NBA Finals with a 108-106 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday. Brian Shaw scored 10 of his 15 in the fourth quarter for Orlando,
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      • Article, Illustration
        126 11 Reuter YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, New York World champion Gary Kasparov will play a powerful chess computer able to analyse nearly a billion chess positions per second. IBM said on Tuesday. IBM said it had accepted an invitation for its Deep Blue com-puter-chess system to play a sixgame. regulation match with
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      • Article, Illustration
        70 11 VICOFORTE, Italy Tour of Italy 18th stage (221-kra Stradelb-Vi-coforte) on Wednesday: 1 Denis Zanette (Ita) shr 30min 44sec 2 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) same time 3 Seiguei Outschakov (Ukr) at Imin Usee 4 Vladimir Poulnikov (Rus) 5 Roberto Pdliconi (Ita). Overall; 1 Tony Rominger (Swi) 79hr 55min OOsec 2 Yevgeny
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        155 11 AP COVENTRY, England Former world No 1 lan Woosnam has slumped to 16th in the rankings and. after missing the cut at last week's European PGA Championship. the 1991 US Masters champion admits he is desperate for a win. Also anxious for a return to form is Colin Montgomery,
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      • Article, Illustration
        210 11 PARIS US$lO3 million French Open 2nd rd on Wednesday (seeds only) Men: 1-Andre Agassi (US) b Todd Woodbridge (Aust) 7-5 6-1 6-0; 5-Thomas Muster (Aut) b Cedric Pioline (Fra) 6-1 6-3 6-3; 8Wayne Ferreira (SA) b Mats Wilander (Swe) 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-1) 6-3 6-7 (4-7) 8-6; 9-Yevgeny Kafelnikov
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 761 13  -  Susan Tsang reviews made-for-children movies for parents planning June holiday outings with their offspring Susan Tsang THE SCHOOL holidays are here, and with them, the need to act like a loving adult towards the perishers. Those who are out of practice in the fine art of supervising
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    • 286 13 Reuter UPI AP UPI PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin has launched an impassioned defence of the Russian potato, saying it is far superior to the tough, tasteless foreign ones. "Our agricultural products are better than foreign ones," he said, echoing his blunt comments about the
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • 452 14 FOUR years after the bubble burst, Japan's economy is still in the pits. Industry after industry is reeling from the impact of the soaring yen. Mighty companies like Nissan are making postwar history by closing down plants. Unemployment is hitting new records (although, at 3.2 per
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  • 294 14 DEVELOPMENTS in Israel last week reiterate the dominance of the "land for peace" argument in official policy on the Golan Heights. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres hinted that the entire plateau, captured from Syria in the 1967 war, might be returned by Israel in the interests
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  • 223 14 IN HIS first public speech since taking over as direc-tor-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Renato Ruggiero showed that the new world body was on the right track. By choosing Singapore, known for its tenacity in practising and promoting free trade, he had shown sensitivity
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  • 156 14 A REPORT on the family, released recently by an international organisation on population, shows that as a basic unit of society and a traditional institution, the family is breaking down all over the world. The reality is this: there are now more unwed mothers, divorce
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  • 132 14 THE SERBS have shown that they can expose the farce of the UN mission in Bosnia at will. The threat by the rebels to use UN peacekeepers as human shields has actually been carried out before, but never with such brazenness. Even the most desperate
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  • 198 14 THERE IS only one question raised by Sunday night's aircraft emergency landing at Kai Tak airport, and that concerns the scale of the tragedy Hongkong might have been confronted with had the pilot not managed to land his aircraft successfully on the tarmac. The hairraising approach to Hongkong
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  • 102 14 THE SERBS of Bosnia have toyed, skirted and tiptoed along the line of civilised behaviour in three years of terrible war. By taking UN soldiers hostage, they have clearly strolled across this time. Tying the unarmed and helpless prisoners to military facilities and displaying them for
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  • 748 14  -  Peter Lynch traces leaks about covert operations to Australian agents who suspect the US was double-crossing them Peter Lynch The writer is a Sydneybased journalist wht contributed this article to BT L IT'S ENOUGH to make James Bond blush. At a stroke, squabbling
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1070 15  -  Neville Stack reflects on the hellish fury of a woman scorned Neville Stack The writer is a political commentator based in London. He writes regularly for BT THE dumpy little woman, who carries her handbag like a bludgeon, is not resigned to growing
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    • 708 15  -  Stability from monetary union is needed to prevent the EU breaking up, says Helmet Werner Helmet Werner The writer is the president of Mercedes-Benz THE PROCESS of European integration is faltering. Indeed, the brakes have been applied so firmly that Europe is at risk of
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  • 547 16 Reuter Bloomberg Business News TEMPE, Arizona Manufacturing activity stalled last month as growth in the nation's factories skidded to a halt for the first time in 21 months, according to a survey released yesterday by the National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM). In
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  • 339 16 Reuter WASHINGTON Consumer incomes in the United States posted the smallest rise in five months during April, the Commerce Department said yesterday, while spending gained at less than half the rate of a month earlier. Incomes were up 0.3 per cent to a seasonally
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  • 329 16 Reuter BOMBAY British finance minister Kenneth Clarke said yesterday there were risks to financial markets if agreement was not reached in Geneva on liberalising global financial services by the end of this month. "If the negotiations fail, we are likely
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  • 217 16 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has slapped a M 5200,000 (S$ 112,000) bond on a cargo ship which it said dumped sludge in its territorial waters, the national news agency Bernama reported yesterday. Once it has paid the bond, Malaysian authorities will
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  • 33 16 AFP PARIS Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew (left) with new French President Jacques Chirac at the Elysee Palace yesterday. Mr Lee is in France on a private visit. AFP
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  • 471 16 Spending on health and education to increase Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand's government raised health and education spending and dangled the carrot of elec-tion-year tax cuts in a "steady-as-she-goes" budget yesterday. At the same time, Finance Minister Bill Birch said the country would keep
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  • 760 16  -  The Bottom Line NEVILLE STACK The writer is a political commentator based in London. He writes regularly for BT SOLDIERS join up to win wars, not to keep peace. The idea of troops as non-combatants is very nearly a
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  • 235 16 Reuter TOKYO Japan's ruling coalition will try today to end an impasse over whether or how to apologise for the carnage Japan inflicted on Asia in World War 11, party officials said yesterday. Officials from Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's
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  • 189 16 Bloomberg Business News Reuter TROY, Michigan Kmart Corp said it will close 72 of its discount stores between late August and next January, axing 5,800 jobs in the process. The second-largest retailer in the US operates 2,300 stores across America's 50 states
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        51 17 Firm 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers pollea: Alliance, Barings, Credit Lyonnais Securities. Daiwa, Fraser, GK Goh, Kay Hian, Morgan Grenfell. Ong Co, Nomura. Phillip. Smith New Court, WI Can and S G
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        93 17  -  By Paul Leo BUY Westmont Land at yesterday's close of $2.87 for an assault on the resistance at $3.20. If it breaks above $3.20, the stock will rally towards $3.70. Monthly Relative Strength Index is approaching the oversold region, while the daily and weekly indicators are neutral. Weekly
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    • 601 17  -  Move by Hong Leong group to bring hotel operations under one listed entity By Agnes Wee SINGAPORE Listed Republic Hotels and Resorts (RHR) has entered into an agreement with Hong Leong Holdings to acquire the iatter's hotel subsidiary, Harbour View Hotel, for $110.9 million.
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    • 504 17  -  By Jenny Lam SINGAPORE Listed Bonvests Holdings is studying the possibility of increasing its Liat Towers building in Orchard Road from 21 storeys to 30 storeys as the site's plot ratio has been raised from four to six. John Chin, the
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    • 134 17 FIRST Capital Corporation (FCC) has got the go-ahead from its shareholders to buy $.425 million Yeo Hiap Seng shares from Hongkong's Guoco Group or its subsidiaries or nominees. An extraordinary meeting held yesterday also authorised Quek Long Chan's FCC to acquire other
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    • 747 17  -  HOCKLOCK SIEW By William Chia SINGAPORE When the Indonesian Santosa business family proposed a fortnight ago to sell a 51 per cent stake in the family-controlled Bank Tiara to their listed flagship holding company Ometraco Corporation, the news hardly produced a ripple
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    • 395 17 SINGAPORE Publishing and property group Jack ChiaMPH has suffered a 28 per cent fall in group earnings to $12.14 million for the year ended March 31, 1995, from $16.96 million previously. The company feaid yesterday that the decline was due mainly to lower profits
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    • COMPANIES
      • 36 18 SINGAPORE Mr Goh Tju Kiang, deputy president of Tat Lee Bank, was promoted to president from June 1. Mr Goh Eng Chew will remain as chairman and chief executive officer.
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      • 42 18 SINGAPORE United Overseas Land has appointed Hiromi Kobayashi as a director with effect from May 8 in place of Yasuyoshi Marushima who resigned on the same date. Mr Kobayashi is managing director of Orix Investment and Management Pte Ltd.
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      • 89 18 SINGAPORE Meiban Plastic has appointed Goh-Wong Pei Leng as a non-executive alternate director to Bernard Chen Tien Lap with effect from May 19. Mrs Goh is the assistant general manager of Intraco Ltd and is a director of Polsin Pte Ltd and an alternate director of
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      • 24 18 SINGAPORE Hitachi Zosen has appointed Takeshi Tenjin as a non-executive director. He is the managing director of Hitachi Zosen Europe.
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      • 46 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kretam Holdings Bhd is expecting a pre-tax profit of M 529.62 million (5516.7 million) for the year ending Dec 31, 1995, provided that its proposed acquisition of stockbroking company, Innosabah Securities Sdn Bhd, is completed by July 1. Bernama
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      • 203 18 SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom yesterday opened a representative office in Japan its fourth overseas to work with its counterparts there on new and mutual services. Telecom and its Japanese counterparts Kokusai Denshin Denwa, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, International Telecom Japan and International Digital Communications
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      • 254 18 SINGAPORE Broadway Industrial Group is expanding its foam-moulded packaging business by setting a second plant in Bangkok, and is studying the possibility of more plants in South-east Asia and China. Executive chairman Wong Sheung Sze said the company also intended to expand into
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      • 477 18  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA Airlines System Bhd (MAS) has posted a net profit of MS 139.34 million (5579.2 million) for the year ended March 31, fifteen times more than the year before but still below market
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      • 444 18  -  By Lee Wai Leong SINGAPORE Sports and recreation centre operator Superßowl Holdings Ltd plans to buy a company that is'developing a commercial and leisure complex in Bukit Panjang. Superßowl will pay 13.5 million to local developer Hiap Hoe which owns 69.4
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      • 210 18 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed metal stamping firm Seksun Precision Engineering will pump about MSS million (552.82 million) to set up a new factory in Penang, Malaysia, this year. The firm's financial controller, Lam Kim Kee, told Business Times yesterday that its existing plants
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      • 358 18  -  By Agnes Wee SINGAPORE Straits Steamship Land has invested a total of 15 million (5533.2 million) in two residential projects in London. It is investing £5 million in five Victorian terrace houses which are under conservation and will turn them into 24
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      • 162 18 SINGAPORE Malaysian property group YTL Corp yesterday received MSI27 million (Ss7l million) proceeds from the private placement of 12 million new shares by Baring Brothers. The issue is the first preemptive placement in Malaysia meaning the group did not have to
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      • 504 18 ■Magan' them Jun 2 Sh Greater Oum Fd 100 <S u Mendakj Gf Fund IjM 1 07g SMgaporo iNMi irwt us at Fund uoi i.os* The Commerce 1.62 1.71 xd a.. .i i The Savings Fond 1.57 1.66 "f* Ui S"pore Pro« Fund 0.63 0.67 United 1.49 1.56 Spore See
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      • 82 20 Reuter HONGKONG First Pacific Co said yesterday its largest shareholder, the Salim family, had converted 25 per cent of its US$lOO million (Ssl39 million) of convertible participating certificates (CPCs) issued in 1990 into 29.16 million new shares. The conversion price of HK56.6883 per share
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      • 87 20 Reuter SYDNEY Renison Goldfields Consolidated Ltd (RGC) is likely to be in control of Pancontinental Mining Ltd (Pancon) when its hostile takeover bid for Pancon closes today but is unlikely to win 100 per cent. RGC, which is making the ASSI3 million (SSSI3
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      • 74 20 AFP TOKYO Japan's Sanyo Electric Co Ltd plans to boost its air-conditioner production in Asia from 850,000 units a year to 5.4 million units a year over the next five years. Production in China alone is targeted to jump from 150,000 units a year
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      • 66 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China Travel International Investment Hongkong Ltd would have to pay around 320 million yuan (5553.4 tnillion) to purchase from its parent company a 51 per cent stake in Shenzhen's Window of the World theme park. The Hongkong listed company has
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      • 267 20 Reuter Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Paliburg International Holdings Ltd (PIHL) and Paliburg Development Ltd (PDL) will merge to form one of Hongkong's biggest companies. The move will reverse the listing of Paliburg Development in 1993 as a separate company.
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      • 452 20 FT LONDON Eurotunnel, the Anglo-French operator of the Channel tunnel, on Wednesday warned its 225 banks that it would press for a cut this autumn in interest payments on its £6.8 billion (Ssls billion) debt. It also ruled out a further rights
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      • 178 20 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The National Association of Securities Dealers Inc has proposed barring brokerage firms from hoarding shares of companies before they recommend that investors buy the stocks. The proposal, now being considered by the Securities and Exchange Commission, would prohibit NASD
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        53 20 Reuter LONDON A union worker feeding banknotes to a pig named Cedric Brown oatside the British Gas annual meeting on Wednesday. Trade unionists paraded the pig to symbolise their anger over chief executive Cedric Brown's 75 per cent pay rise and a plan to axe the company's workforce
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      • 126 20 Reuter AFP TOKYO Japan's Sega Enterprises Ltd plans to transfer all of its production of videogame machines overseas as early as next year in an effort to lower production costs, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun quoted company officials as saying
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      • 278 20 Reuter TAIPEI With aggressive marketing and a "fast-food" manufacturing concept, Taiwan's leading computer maker Acer Inc is riding a crest which is expected to surge even more in the years ahead. Acer believes achieving its group annual sales revenue target of "200/2000" NTS2OO billion
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    • CORPORATE FOCUS
      • 821 19  -  By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Chinese language newspapers, Wah Kiu and Hongkong Today, have already closed down. Last week, the highly profitable South China Morning Post announced unprecedented editorial staff cuts, resulting in the sacking of 25 journalists. These drastic steps are
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      • 365 19  -  By By Peter Lynch in SYDNEY and Mike Simms in AUCKLAND RUPERT Murdoch described the current round of newsprint price rises as "quite frightening" during News Corporation's annual meeting in Adelaide. But Australian publishers consider themselves better off than
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      • 309 19  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON NORTH American newspapers have had for the last several years to contend with sluggish advertising. But as advertising now picks up, many newspapers are facing another challenge a sharp rise in the cost of
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      • 430 19  -  Impact of surge in newsprint cost Fnm Anthony Rowley in TOKYO NEWSPRINT prices have been much more stable in Japan than elsewhere in Asia and the United States, although analysts say that some upward pressure on prices is expected to appear
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      • 479 19  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON INTERNATIONAL newsprint makers are on a roll, but a -slide in North American timber prices during the past few months indicates that prices could peak later this year. Paper analysts, such as Tim Rothwell of
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 492 22 Bloomberg Business News SAN FRANCISCO Visa International Inc and MasterCard International Inc on Wednesday said they had taken a major step towards issuing "smart" credit cards containing computer chips. Working in an alliance that includes Europay International, the credit card companies
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      • 35 22 Reuter SEOUL Seoul Bank executives bowing to passers-by in an attempt to attract new customers yesterday. Such street-level advertising and promotions are common among Seoul's 34 highly competitive commercial banks. Reuter
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      • 306 22 Reuter BEIJING China's central bank will recall loans amounting to more than 30 billion yuan (554.9 billion) in the first half of this year, a bank official said on Wednesday. The loans were made to four specialised banks and nine commercial banks
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      • 91 22 Bemama KUALA LUMPUR Pacific Bank Bhd has raised its base lending rate (BLR) to 7.5 per cent since May 25 from 7.35 per cent. The BLR was last revised on April 21. Fixed deposit rates were unchanged at 5.70 per cent per annum for
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      • 73 22 AFP SHANGHAI Netherlands' ABN-Amro Bank has lead-managed a U5537.4 million (Sss2 million) loan syndicated here to part finance aircraft purchases for China Xinhua Airlines, a bank official said yesterday. The 10-year term loan, guaranteed by Bank of China, carried an interest rate of 1.17 per
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      • 89 22 AFP HO CHI MINH CITY South Korea's Shinhan Bank opened a branch here yesterday aimed at grabbing a share of the expanding trade finance market. The bank is the second South Korean bank to have a branch here after the First Vina Bank, a
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      • 78 22 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's 1995 treasury bond sale is almost complete only halfway through the four-month issue period, the China Daily reported yesterday. The People's Bank of China said that 96.87 billion yuan (5J16.1 billion) of the non-tradeable bonds had been sold, 93
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      • 97 22 Reuter KARACHI The State Bank of Pakistan said it would cut interest rates on some five-year foreign currency bearer certificates from June 1. The rate for dollar-denominated certificates is unchanged at 8.75 per cent a year, but on mark certificates it is down to
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      • 300 22 Bill allows for first major overhaul of system in 56 years Reuter TOKYO Japan's parliament passed a bill to revise the Insurance Business Law, paving the way for a major overhaul of the nation's insurance system next year for the first time in 56
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      • 282 22 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg Business News LONDON Oil prices inched higher yesterday but with scant fresh news to whet the market's appetite crude stayed stuck in its recent tight range. Even hints Brazil's 30-day oilworkers strike was near ending failed to ignite much enthusiasm. "When the strike
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      • 184 22 Reuter LONDON The dollar tested its downside again in late Europe, undermined by set of generally weak US economic data and the absence of further central bank intervention, dealers said. "The dollar's latest movements have been dominated by the US figures, which have brought back the hard-landing scenario," said
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      • 100 22 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The dollar rose against major currencies for a second day amid speculation that the US government will buy dollars again if the currency falters. A buying spree by the Federal Reserve and a dozen other central banks sent the dollar soaring on Wednesday.
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        1179 22 trade-weighted index calculated against Spore's tap 14 trading partners Base year I9BS US$/S$ forward rates Noon /Jan 1 SS BW offer 1-month I 3865 1.3880 2-month ***** 1.3824 3-month 1.3759 1.3774 6-month 1.3627 1.3647 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at Im m Jm I: Singapore dollars to one
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1263 23 Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures ended sharply lower in choppy trade while Eurodollars closed steady. Dealers said Euroyen contracts corrected lower after recent sharp gains. The market was pressured by the dollar moving sharply higher against the yen following joint central bank intervention on
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      • 638 23 COMMODITY REPORTS KL Tin THE price of tin on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) rose seven sen to M 514.60 per kg aided by increased buyers in the market. Dealers attributed the increased buying on the local market to the fact that foreign
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      • 44 23 TOKYO Japan's Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co said it cut its domestic sales price of refined zinc by 3,000 yen (5548.90) per tonne to 127,000 yen, effective yesterday. Mitsui is the recognised price leader for Japan's domestic zinc market.
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      • 78 23 SYDNEY PT Freeport Indonesia will nearly double its daily ore through-put at its Grasberg mine to 155,000 tonnes as it gears up to increase production of copper. The company's aim is to eventually increase ore through-put to 200,000 tonnes a day, enabling it to
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      • 98 23 HONGKONG China's production of copper, zinc and aluminium rose sharply in the Jan-Apr Eriod compared with a year earlier, but output o id and tin fell, the official China Securities news paper reported yesterday. Copper production ii Jan-Apr rose 16 per cent on the year
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      • 96 23 BRASILIA Representatives of the Associatiot of CofTee Producing Countries will meet on Mon day in New York to evaluate the export retention plan due for full implementation on Thursday, top association official said yesterday. "We hopand expect the retention plan to serve as a remind
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    • 1399 23 SICOM Futures Rubber (futures dosing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest 222.00 220.00 222.50 1550 2025 Aug 219.50 217.00 219.50 1550 2650 Sep 217.00 214.00 217.00 150 2925 Oct/Dcc 213.00 211.00 211.00 1050 6375 Jan/Mar 96 210.50
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1011 24 1.5 Shares closed slightly higher yesterday despite a record close on Wall Street as concerns about the local dollar weighed on the bourse. "It was the worst performance seen in Australia in 10 years against a similar movement in the Dow," said Wayne Nicholls, broker with BZ W Australia.
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      • 560 24 +30.35 Philippine share prices rose by 4.09 per cent in yesterday's trading, on the strong performance of the Dow Jones, added liquidity and positive figures for the country's economic indicators in the first quarter, brokers said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Index gained 30.35 points, breaking the 2,700-point barrier to
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      • 496 24 +39.78 Taiwan share prices closed 0.7 per cent higher for a fourth winning session yesterday, with cements registering the largest 2.4 per cent climb. "Selective buying of cements, plastic and construction shares helped maintain the wave of upswing," said Lo Reihsia at the Grand Pacific Securities Investment Trust Co.
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      • 426 24 +8.93 South Korean stock prices closed 1.0 per cent higher yesterday, spurred by continued buying by institutional investors and the scheduled entry into the market of US$lOO million (SSI39 million) in foreign funds. "The market is more likely to go up rather than slide, considering that institutional investors keep
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      • 280 24 +7.53 Shares ended firmly on heavy, pre-budget turnover, but it was a disappointing response to Wall Street's 86-point gain, brokers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended 7.53 points higher at 2,110.81 on turnover worth NZ$BO million, thanks mostlv to a nine-cent gain to NZ$6.O9 in Telecom. But buying
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      • 118 24 +58.76 Blue chips on the Bombay bourse gained as the sentiment was cheered by good corporate results for fiscal 1994-95, brokers said. They said market leaders Reliance and Tisco rose sharply towards the close as speculators became active on the firm sentiment. "Operators who went short on Reliance and
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 611 24 Britannia Funds Stcrtiag Cash Bid Offer Mia Cap Deposit 31*400 J« 6500 Mini Join 6+ .0.1»J 0.I»»2 Mia Max Income ftMOO 0 W00 L)S$ Cask Income Phs Faad 10 5100 *****0 PS S Reserve Faad 5 4*00 5 4400 .....014S42 0.493$ Far Eail Faad •2.7*50 *2 47» Maa Portfolio *1
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      • 630 24 +21.2 UK stocks rose to a 15month high as Siebe pic shares gained on higher-than-expected earnings and hopes grew that British interest rates won't rise anytime soon. Siebe pic was the biggest percentage gainer, up 21 pence or 3.S per cent to 622 pence as the maker of electronic
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      • 175 24 4-12.85 French shares closed higher in line with other markets, Wall Street and the dollar in particular, in the absence of domestic market factors. Dealers are divided over whether the rally will continue with some expecting the CAC-40 Index to flirt with the 2,000 level in the next weeks
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      • 162 24 1.86pc German stocks rose, though £tins were pared in late trading, as export-driven shares were buoyed by Wednesday's surge in the dollar. The DAX Ibis Index of 30 leading stocks closed the day up 19.30 points, or 0.9 per cent, at 2119.24. Still, the index gave up 11.88 on
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      • 104 24 +l£7pc The bourse edged over its record closing high following an overnight rally in New York. The OMX Index rose t.87 per cent to close at 1,265.27, breaking a previous record of 1,257.92 set on May 16. "The rally in New York yesterday (Wednesday) took bourses all over Europe
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      • 260 24 +21.4 The Swiss share market followed the dollar through the day to close at its highest level this year. Dealers said trade had been active and volume was high. Late trading saw some profit-taking which could continue today because of the long weekend, with Monday a bank holiday. The
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      • 270 24 +3.43 Dutch shares set a 15month closing high, finding new strength in late trade after earlier gains had appeared to be fading by midaftemoon. The 25-share AEX Index closed 3.43 points higher at 434.95 and many dealers expect the previous all-time closing high of 438.71 and intraday high of
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      • 131 24 -o.7pc Stocks shed early gains in thin, listless trade that was largely a repetition of Wednesday's performance. Once again futures were by far the most active sector of the market. Brokers expect a similar pattern today as the market awaits inspiration. The Mibtel Index was down 0.7 per cent
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      • 147 24 +5.98 Belgian shares closed higher after giving up half their morning gains in the afternoon when the market absorbed the price rises. The Bel-20 Index of leading shares closed 5.98 points, or 0.41 per cent, higher at 1,460.26, in the bottom part of yesterday's seven points range. A high
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      • 327 24 +20.3 South African shares made mild gains in thinnish trade yesterday as investors were generally unenthused by a steep Wall Street rise overnight. Wall Street bullishness, which spilled over into Asia and Europe, failed to spark the market, and an easier gold price, low investor interest, and a mixed
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      • 249 24 -6.0 Stocks eased early, depressed by moderate profittaking and sluggish North American debt markets, traders said. The TSE 300 Composite Index fell 6.0 points to 4,442.60 in volume of 14.5 million shares valued at CslBs million. Declining issues beat out advances 235 to 192, with 199 stocks unchanged. On
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      • 740 24 -16.95 Stock prices headed lower in active trading early yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange, pressured by renewed concerns over the economy's growth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rocketed 86.46 points in the previous session to its highest close on record, was down 16.95 points to
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      2583 25 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks surged to a seven-month high as banking stocks again led a two-day rally, fuelled by the stronger US dollar and expectations of lower interest rates that help company earnings. A strong performance by US stocks, which on Wednesday posted their biggest one-da\ advance in
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      555 25 IMPROVED sentiment and gains on Wall Street pushed the H share market up marginally by 0.2 per cent. Turnover rose 127 per cent to HKSBO million from the previous day's HKJ35.3 million. Trading remained concentrated in petrochemical stocks, with Yizheng closing up 0.9 per cent and Shanghai Petrochem edging
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      2522 25 AP TOKYO Share prices rose yesterday, a day after the key index plunged to its lowest level in nearly three years, but dealers said long-term prospects still looked bleak. The dollar climbed sharply against the yen, "1 think if we see further bad signs on the economic front the
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      1522 25 Reuter BANGKOK Thai stocks weathered afternoon profittaking in big banks and some finance counters to finish higher on heavy buying of other finance issues, brokers said. The SET Index closed 9.29 points up at 1,401.60 after peaking at 1,429.55 in the morning in heavy trade. A total of 252.3
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      1159 25 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices scored big gains on active foreign buying of blue chips as sentiment remained bullish following an upbeat trend in the region and a rise on Wall Street overnight, brokers said. "Foreign funds were pouring into the market, boosting sentiment and pushing up prices of not
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 6415 26 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks rose to a seven-month high, led by foreign funds buying shares of large, well-established companies, in response to gains on Wall Street on Wednesday. "There is a correlation with the US," said Richard Jones, head of
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      • 1813 28  -  R R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Stock prices soared yesterday in what was described as a "triple whammy" a huge overnight rally on Wall Street, a cut in local interest rates and a firmer US dollar. The Straits Times Industrials Index opened
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    • 273 28 TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-741-1883 FAX:74I-1298 fSM L&M Group JL/1. X Investments Ltd (Incorporated in the Repubfc of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at 15 Scotts Road #04-10, Thong Teck Building, Singapore 0922 on 28 June 1995 at 10.45 a.m.
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    • 158 28 MOU FUNG (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (la Vafaalary Liquidation) FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act (Cap. 50) that the Final General Meeting of the Members of the abovenamed Company will be held at the Office of M/ S Elizabeth Leong A Co.. 3001
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  • BusinessTimes Shipping Times
    • 286 29  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Local operator Star Cruise will introduce its fifth and latest ship, Superstar Gemini, in August. The ship was known as Crown Jewel until Star bought it from Cunard last year. The purchase makes the Singa-pore-based outfit the
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    • 364 29 Knight-Ridder LONDON Strong dry cargo shipping freight rates are likely to be maintained despite a slight softening seen in the last two to three weeks, according to Peter Tudball, former chairman of the Baltic Exchange and director of Casu International Ltd. Mr
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    • 207 29 Knight-Ridder LONDON A rapid expansion in the short-haul oil-sup-ply trade coupled with a resurgence in newbuilding tonnage is behind the tanker market's problems of the last five years, Gerhard Kurz, the president of Mobil Shipping and Transportation, said here on Wednesday. Mr
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    • 200 29 AP NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia Newport News Shipbuilding has won a US$3.9 million (555.4 million) defence department grant to design a liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker as part of a partnership with a Japanese builder and a Texas shipper. Company executives long have
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    • 332 29 SES '000 Jun I S$ Vol CWT Distribution L 1.60 0.03 9 CWT Distribution A 1.51 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.17 -0.02 83 Cosco Investment S 1.72 unch 11 Cosco Investment A 1.62 +0.01 2 Far East Lev ingsto 6.85 +0.20 176 GB Holdings Ltd 0.80 +0.02 7 Hai
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    • 118 29 Reuter PERTH More than 30 ships were stranded in Western Australian ports yesterday, following a statewide strike by maritime workers. The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) called an indefinite stoppage on Wednesday over the awarding of a government stevedoring contract to a company that
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    • 80 29 Knight-Ridder GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip The Netherlands government has agreed to foot half the US$6O-million (5583.4 million) bill for the construction of a port for the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said on Wednesday. The deal was struck during a visit to The
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    • 317 29 NST PENANG Leading bumiputra company Penang Shipbuilding Corporation (PSC) has launched its first vessel since its privatisation in 1992. The trawler, Kuantan, is a 3200 hp Z-drive tug which was commissioned by the Kuantan Port Authority for M 59.2 million (555.2 million).
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    • 294 29 Lloyd's List LONDON The cost of obtaining certificates of financial responsibility (COFRs) could be incorporated into the Worldscale tanker rating system before the end of this year. Acceptance of the cost of obtaining COFRs by the Worldscale associations in
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    • 956 30  -  Investment in the passenger ship industry can be a minefield. Peter Stokes treads carefully through the danger zone viewing casualties and survivors alike Peter Stokes Seatrade Week Newsfront THE passenger shipping industry is characterised by a number of clearly marked divisions. The cruise
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    • 513 30 Page ABC Coot 16 •ANL 3 •APL 12 Able 7 Accord 8 •Ahlers 6 •Ahrcnkiel 4 Antaco 13 •Appenship 4 Arowana IS Astro 8 Austral 9 Avant 6 B'tang Mas 12 BSA 9 BTL 16 Bangladesh 12 Batamindo 7 Bengal Br I5 •Blue
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    • 10092 38 This guide lists the sailing destinations from Singapore. The first date indicates the ETA at Singapore followed by the ETA at the destination. The page tes the ETA at Singapore followed by the ETA at the destination. The page number refers to the location
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 569 47 Vftul Vty No B«rth Arrival Dtparttrt -j——— jvofiK rOn A#an.Ma(»j 6/95 J21 alongside 0206/1300 Bibm Indah N200 11 alongside 0206/2300 Df Guna 05/04/95 121 alongside 02.06/2300 Klkfl 20 M/5 alongside 02.06/1000 Kftrans Taurus 15/95 J18 alongside 02.06/2300 'qjrxk 06/01/95 II alongside 02.06/1300 KMy» 3 J17/18 alongside 02.06/2359
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      • 1575 47 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND La CARCO Record Bookkig/Baianct Rifts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period from T> From Ao lade 241A 04/0700 4 02/1200 02/1459 02/1700 Aa Uiy 063A 03/2000 IB 01/1500 01/1659 01/1900 28 01/1700 02/0659 02/0900 4 02/1200 02/1459 02/1700 Aa Lotus 0658 03/1000 IB
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      • 848 47 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows 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 are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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    • AIR & LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 405 48 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Federal Express (FedEx) will increase its flights into Malaysia and announce new investments totalling several million dollars in a move to meet growing demand for express freight capacity and improve customer services. FedEx, one of the leading air express companies
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      • 48 48 Reuter MOSCOW Passengers sleeping at Moscow's international airport Sheremetievo-ll on Wednesday as its runway was closed for a two-hour check because the temperature exceeded 30 degrees Centigrade. The first time this happened was Tuesday when the airport was closed for seven hours. Renter
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      • 366 48 Reuter SYDNEY The exit of Qantas managing director and chairman from Air New Zealand's board and the decision to replace them with two directors with little airline history set the stage for Qantas to sell its stake in
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      • 112 48 Reuter BEIJING China's aviation authorities plan to ask passengers on major domestic airlines to put their complaints about delays, bad service and overpriced tickets in writing to try to improve service, the China Daily said. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAQ will target
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      • 326 48 Reuter PARIS Cash-strapped Air France said on Wednesday it would delay deliveries of Boeing aircraft and change orders for new planes to replace existing purchases. The state-owned airline is trying to save cash and is in the throes of a three-year productivity drive aimed
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      • 345 48 Bloomberg Business News LONDON United Parcel Service Inc (UPS) has said it will invest more than US$l billion (S$ 1.39 billion) to expand its European operations during the next five years. UPS said the investment will enable it to pick
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      • LOG BOOK
        • 102 48 SINGAPORE London laxis International has reported a 25 per cent increase in sales of purpose-built taxis to operators in the UK and abroad. LTI, the manufacturer of the world-famous London black cab exports vehicles to 11 countries, including Germany, France, Portugal, Hongkong and Singapore. The
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        • 73 48 Reuter WASHINGTON US air cargo growth slowed to 7.4 per cent in April over April 1994, when it had posted an 8.3 per cent increase, said the Air Transport Association, a group representing airlines and shipment companies. The total cargo per revenue ton mile
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        • 79 48 Reuter COLOMBO Northwest Airlines of the US has approached Sri Lanka s Sky Cabs for talks on providing a cargo feeder service between Colombo and Singapore, Sky Cabs said. Garments would make up the bulk of the cargo from Colombo to Singapore and then
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        • 99 48 AP COPENHAGEN Scandinavian Airlines System said Wednesday it is due to sign a cooperation agreement with Thai International next week. The content of the deal was not disclosed. Earlier this month, SAS and Germany's Lufthansa announced an alliance that would combine routes, sales and airport terminal
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      • 359 48 NYT NEW YORK The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has decided not to build a 35.2 km railway from Manhattan to Kennedy International and La Guardia Airports in Queens because of rising costs. Its decision dealt a major setback
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    • 31 29 WEEKLY LCL TO: Algeciras las palmas Barcelona Madrid I. Bilbao Tenerife Ceuta Valencia Small ferries may be your best bet: Page 2 FedEx to increase services, investment in Malaysia: Back Page
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    • 187 30 Lines and services represented by Members of the Registry of Accredited Shipping Agents, Singapore National Shipping Association. for advertising enquiries, contact Shipping Times. Tel 740-2089 ifISNRMNMfc CENTAURUS 6/6 RdnVAtw/UK/Nwrtes I ARIEL 6/6 RdnVAtwAJK/NsKse Loads EVW. Mdayda. Indon-fc jfl I Loading for J AYNUR KALKAVAN i| SEA RESOURCE Hodetdah/Jeddah/Aqabe M PAN
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    • 1345 33 9PV STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 4 10 Hm Chiani Road #11-01 Kepptl Ttwtrs I Sliiaport 0200 T«l; *****80 F»x: *****17 U I new guinea pacific line jgrggu (a service Of china navigation CO) A CARGO Due SAILS VOfTUH V9610E KK, SkM, Tin/ In PI 02 Jun i coi#TAiß4m amb maitbii
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    • 1421 35 Europe express HBS FBJXSTOWi, ROTTHDMI "yw t t—m m—*» »w (»—ni): mum mummi* *i—*ro*t: COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD f mitts cttui-r tmttimu cs»t*i»*r ih-m uttttt K'i: C s .t'f. C»t99»tlotal: ttttttt VO UM7M 7SX2j£FtM,ts AW m >■> f 2»L Fif lltittt Ifuttilt Ire OKI 4ftl7U fulunl ttttJH Mnpmiin IJ i
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