The Business Times, 27 June 1995

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    13 1 SINGAPORE BusinessTimes WE KNOW ASIA X. MITA(P) 194/12/94 Tuesday June 27 1995 85*
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    Lock icon Dow down 29.4 points
    69 1 Reuter NEW YORK Stock prices fell yesterday, pressured by across-the-board profit-taking, a bigger-than-expected rise in May home sales and concern over the US-Japanese trade dispute. At 2pm EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 29.40 points at 4,556.44. At I pm in the broader market,
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    171 1 Stock RMii(«t indices Monday Chance STII 2,092.90 -9.88 KLSE Comp 1,055.28 -6.63 Nikkei 15,145.36 -119.82 Hang Seng 9,201.25 -23.11 SET Index 1,382.42 -13.35 Jakarta Comp 489.81 -1.85 Manila Conlp 2,754.61 -18.11 Taipei WPI 5,646.83 +17.39 Seoul Comp 868.77 -3.69 Bombay BSE30 ..3,274.00 -41.81 CLSA China B 778.57 -0.59 Aust All
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    Markets in lethargic mood
    132 1 SINGAPORE Asian markets started the week on a sluggish note yesterday with the US-Japan car talks and the July 5-6 Federal Reserve meeting weighing on sentiment. Trading was quiet and thin. In Singapore, volumes tumbled to 74 million shares worth $287 million from last Friday's 95.25
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    Quek Leng Chan mounts takeover bid for YHS at $4.70 a share
    813 1  -  Tycoon teams up with Sembawang, Haw Par and Salim group By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Malaysian tycoon Quek Leng Chan appears to have pulled the rug from under developer Ng Teng Fong's feet by teaming up with Sembawang Corporation,
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    Lock icon Manufacturers warn of long-term impact
    355 1 Breakdown in Penang's electricity supply MBT The Straits Times PENANG Production losses and damages arising from a major electricity power breakdown on Penang island over the weekend will have a long-term effect on manufacturers, a Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers statement said yesterday. Power supply to
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    Lock icon US and Japan in last-ditch car talks to avert trade sanctions
    316 1 Bloomberg Business News AFP Reuter GENEVA United States and Japanese trade negotiators are locked in do-or-die talks here to solve their car trade dispute before US sanctions come into force at midnight tomorrow. The US is represented by Trade
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    Simex slaps $1.8m fine on one of its top locals
    251 1  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE The Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) has imposed a hefty fine of 1.8 million on "local" member Teo Kok Eng. According to a Simex disciplinary notice on June IS, Mr Teo had also been suspended from
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    Lock icon Analysts expect S'pore growth to pick up in 2Q
    495 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Economic growth will pick up to between 7.5 and 8.3 per cent in the second quarter, after slipping further than expected in the first three months, economists generally feel. The materials shortages and maintenance shutdowns which
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      17 1 Property: pg 7 .1 1 w A closer look at HK office space Market reports, Pg 20-24
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      9 1 Hock Lock Siew: pg 13 Why curb Thai brokerages?
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Manufacturing output growth eases
        330 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan MANUFACTURING output grew 4.S per cent in April, providing more evidence that the economy is heading for a slowdown. The Economic Development Board, which released the latest monthly index of industrial production yesterday, said cumulative growth for the first four months of the
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      Local MNCs urged to raise know-how
      69 2 HOME-GROWN multinationals should consider using management science to maintain a competitive edge, Acting Minister for the Environment and Senior Minister of State for Defence Teo Chee Hean said yesterday. He said at the opening ceremony of the Informs International conference that as Singapore had
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      Al Khaleej appoints new director
      47 2 AL KHALEEJ Investments, the owner and developer of retail malls Wisma Atria and Forum Shopping Mall, hac appointed a new director and general manager, Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Shi-bani. Mr Al-Shibani will oversee the planning and operational policies of the company's portfolio in Singapore.
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      ENV suspends airport restaurant
      52 2 THE Ministry of Environment has suspended the licence of a restaurant in Changi Airport Terminal One for two weeks. The restaurant Modern Islamic Restaurant was found to be infested with cockroaches twice this year. The operator was fined $500 for the first offence and $400 for
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      URA closes car park in Chinatown
      38 2 THE Urban Redevelopment Authority has closed the URA surface car park bounded by China, Cross and Amoy streets. The car park is part of a land parcel sold recently for commercial devaibpment.
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      Lock icon Understand your market to survive, expert tells ailing deparment stores
      530 2  -  By Jenny Lam SINGAPORE department stores in the red need not worry about becoming dinosaurs so long as they reposition themselves. According to John Riordan, president of the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC), department stores are not passe contrary
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      Water usage up 14% compared with 1987
      182 2 SINGAPOREANS used 14 per cent more water last year than they did in 1987, the Public Utilities Board said yesterday. A survey conducted in April and May this year showed average consumption per household per day was 736 litres last year, compared with
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      Lock icon China not keen to dominate the Asia-Pacific: official
      384 2 Vice-Premier Zou Jiahua plays down fears of economic and military dominance SINGAPORE China will not seek to control or dominate other countries, even after it becomes economically developed, said Vice-Premier Zou Jiahua yesterday. The country's economic development will instead, "serve as a
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      Lock icon MTV Asia launches two cable channels — and promises more
      348 2 MTV Asia launches two cable channels and promises more MTV Asia would launch more cable channels in the region within a year, company officials said yesterday at the launch of MTV Asia's first two channels. MTV Networks Asia president Peter Jamieson said MTV was having talks on tie-ups with Malaysian
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      Govt simplifies Primary One registration procedures
      168 2 THE government will soon make it easier for people to register their children who are going to school for the first time. It will also make it more convenient for people to find out how they should go about registering their children. Yesterday, the
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Indon foreign investment approvals set to hit record
      393 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's foreign investment approvals soared to U5520.03 billion (Ss2B billion) between Jan 1 and June IS and are set to exceed the record U5523.72 billion reached in the whole of 1994, Investment Minister Sanyoto Sastrowardoyo said yesterday. Foreign investment has
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      Lock icon Deregulation the way to create a middle class: minister
      259 3 AFP JAKARTA Economic deregulation, not political democrat isat ion, is the way to create an Indonesian middle class, a minister was quoted as saying yesterday. "There is no middle class in Indonesia, and therefore it is difficult to assign it a
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      Lock icon Daim: M'sia needs to keep costs low to stay competitive
      192 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia should take greater efforts to keep business operational costs low to remain attractive to foreign investors, the government's economic adviser, Daim Zainuddin, cautioned yesterday. Mr Daim, a former finance minister, warned that greater efforts to maintain
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      Lock icon Thai power demand rising as economy grows: study
      224 3 Reuter BANGKOK Demand for electricity in Thailand is growing sharply as the country's economy expands rapidly, a research group said in a study. "Electricity supply can be regarded as one of the most essential components of Thailand's infrastructure," the Siam Commercial Bank
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      Lock icon Manila Hotel stake up for grabs again at lower valuation
      288 3 AFP MANILA The Philippine government yesterday put a controlling share of the historic Manila Hotel on the auction block after lowering its valuation following the failure of the first auction in January. Chief executive Cesar Sarino announced that 30-51 per
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      Lock icon Dire shortage of cement hits M'sian building firms
      422 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian construction companies facc a critical shortage of cement, with demand set to exceed supply for a long time unless more cement plants arc opened, industry officials said yesterday. The building industry which commands about 4 per cent of
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      Lock icon No border problems, says Alatas
      75 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas yesterday said his country had no border problem with China over an area near the gas-rich Natuna islands in the South China Sea. "There are news reports that a Chinese spokesman has confirmed there is no problem about
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      Lock icon Indon permit system under fire
      88 3 AFP JAKARTA A permit system, introduced by Indonesia's former colonial masters to curb insurgents, is still being used to control public meetings here but faces growing criticism as the country celebrates 50 years of independence. Last week, the head of the country's Human Rights Commission,
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      Lock icon KL to raise defence capability
      120 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia wafits to underpin its economic might by increasing its defence capability. The national Be ma ma news agency yesterday quoted Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim as saying Malaysia's economic growth was directly linked to its ability to maintain
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      Lock icon Vietnam to cut rice prices
      63 3 Bloomberg Business News HANOI Vietnam's Office of the Government will reduce the price of rice in the hope of holding the monthly inflation rate at 0.5 per cent, with an annual target rate of 15 per cent. The Vietnam News yesterday said plans to export
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      Lock icon Manila to showcase products abroad
      70 3 UPI MANILA Members of a Philippine export group yesterday said they planned to fly to Japan in November to showcase the country's products, investment opportunities and tourism sites. The Philippine Exporters Confederation said it had been invited by the Kobe International Association to join a
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      228 3 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS ARAB-MALAYSIAN FINANCE BERHAD (A Member of the Arab-Malaysian Banking Group) Period Ended 31st March, 1995 Audited Results* m 1995 ,1994 o /o In'Mlllion RM Iff Million RM Change I* Profit Before Taxation 212.8 107.6 97.8 Profit After Taxation 135.1 72.9 85.3 Shareholders' Funds 675.2 353.2 91.2 Loans Advances,
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Ex-securities regulator arrested
      86 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG A former senior official at the China Securities Regulatory Commission was arrested for allegedly taking bribes while working as a regulator, Hongkong's Eastern Express reported yesterday. An unnamed source in Beijing told the paper that Lu Xiao-long, a former deputy director at the
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      Lock icon China sees tripling of computer market
      110 4 Reuter BEIJING China's computer market will be worth more than 150 billion yuan (Ss2s billion) by 2000, up from 50 billion in 1995, the China Daily said yesterday. In 1994, total sales of computer software were 4.9 billion yuan, 20 per cent more than
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      Lock icon HK retail sales volume down 2%
      93 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong retail sales volume dropped 2 per cent in April as car sales plunged, the government said yesterday. The value of sales rose by 5 per cent to HKSIS.9 billion (SS2.B billion), the Census and Statistics Department said in a
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      Lock icon Dissident forced to return to prison
      89 4 AFP BEIJING Prominent Chintse dissident Chen Ziming has been forced to return to prison one year after he was released from a 13-year sentence on medical parole, his family said yesterday. "Between 30 and 40 policemen came to the house around 11 pm (1500
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      Lock icon Taiwan offers US$1b for United Nations membership
      269 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan began its most aggressive drive yet to end its outcast status yesterday, offering the cash-strapped United Nations US$l billion (SSI.4 billion) if the world body agrees to give it membership. In a move timed to coincide with the UN's 50th
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      Lock icon China praised for converting defence firms to civilian uses
      479 4 Reuter AFP BEIJING China's programme to convert military industries to civilian roles is facing problems, with 50 per cent of the converted plants now running at a loss, delegates at an international forum were told. But they praised China as a
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      Lock icon Chinese farmers turn to moonlighting: survey
      342 4 UPI BEIJING Driven by destitution, most Chinese farmers are moonlighting to bolster their meagre incomes, a survey showed yesterday. "Although non-agricultural sectors have gradually become the main source of farmers income, cultivation is still the main channel for their employment," concluded the Ministry of
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      Lock icon Goldlion's Tsang vows to remain in NPC
      279 4 AFP HONGKONG A Hongkong clothing tycoon has vowed not to quit China's highest legislative body despite revelations of his criminal past, newspapers here reported yesterday. Tsang Hin-chi, chairman of garment manufacturers Goldlion Holdings, was speaking in Beijing on Sunday for the first time
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      Lock icon Beijing unveils new rules on state firm debt repayment
      289 4 AFP BEIJING China has ordered firms that have taken over inefficient state-owned enterprises in 18 cities where pilot projects are being undertaken to clear all debts owed to banks by the loss-makers or face severe penalties, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
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      Lock icon China vows to crack down on drug producers, dealers
      333 4 Reuter BEIJING China executed dozens of people for drug-relat-ed crimes in the lead-up to yesterday's World Anti-drugs Day and vowed to crack down mercilessly on what has become the scourge of social and economic progress. Death sentences, usually carried out with
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      Lock icon Taiwan cautiously seeks more foreign stock investors
      568 4 Measures aimed at restoring confidence in market FT TAIPEI Taiwan is guardedly wanning to the idea of more foreign investment in its flagging stock market as domestic investors flee a punishing index fall this year amid a host of uncertainties menacing share prices.
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      Lock icon Papers offer cash to readers spotting errors
      439 4 UPI BEIJING Fed up with inaccurate reporting and sloppy sentences, the editors of three major Shanghai newspapers have offered rewards to readers finding mistakes in their editions yesterday. The Liberation daily, an official Communist Party publication, plus the Wen Hui Bao and the
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      135 4 HH3 "Among Australia's Top Universities" m University of South Australia Adelaide, Australia Commencing 28 June 1995 New 18-month Structure/Content 12 up-to-date and innovative modules plus a Project 100% in Singapore 312 lecture hours Member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Ranked among the best Australian Universities (Group 1), 1994.
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Aussie current account gap seen improving slowly
      552 5 Reuter SYDNEY Australian economists expect the country's current account deficit to start narrowing over the next 12 months and to better the official government forecast, but the improvement will be painfully slow. Exports were expected to improve in the 1995/96 year to June
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      Lock icon Australia in difficult position over nominated Indon envoy: Evans
      175 5 AP CANBERRA Australia could not reject Indonesia's nominated ambassador, a general who once described the 1991 Dili massacre in East Timor as "quite proper", Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said yesterday. But he said Australia was placed in a difficult situation by
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      Lock icon S Korean police on alert ahead of first local polls in 34 yrs
      342 5 AFP SEOUL South Korean police were placed on alert yesterday on the eve of South Korea's first polls in 34 years for mayors, provincial governors and local councillors. With balloting starting this morning at 6am in 17,200
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      Lock icon Hang on, Sony's wall TV to go on sale next year
      238 5 AFP TOKYO Japanese electronics giant Sony will market television screens next year which can be hung on living-room walls, thanks to new technology which has greatly cut the cost of liquid crystal display (LCD) units. The technology, developed with
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      Lock icon Japan's 8.4 trillion yen pollution
      95 5 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The Economic Planning Agency said damage to the environment cost Japan 8.4 trillion yen (S$ 139.3 billion) in 1990, a figure amounting to 2 per cent of nominal gross domestic product for that year, Nihon Keizai reported on Sunday. Air pollution
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      Lock icon Australia open on small N-tests
      61 5 AP CANBERRA Although angered by a French decision to resume nuclear tests, Australia says it has no objections to small-scale testing to ensure nuclear stockpile safety. Don Russell, Australia's ambassador in Washington, said yesterday his government would not object to small tests, which would be
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      Lock icon Slump in Japan store sales continues
      80 5 AFP TOKYO Sales at Japanese department stores in May fell 2.2 per cent from a year earlier, marking 39 months of uninterrupted declines, the Japan Department Store Association said yesterday. But May's fall was the smallest decline this year, it said. In the month,
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      Lock icon Grants to boost Aussie-Thai study links
      59 5 AFP CANBERRA The Australian government yesterday announced grants totalling A 597,000 (5597,660) to nine universities to strengthen higher educational links between Australia and Thailand. The grants to Australian institutions will fund 10 university staff exchanges and research projects on environmental technologies and management, engineering
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      480 5 1 flKliili' as that!' So said explorer Robert M Swan about the timepiece that .jp helped him navigate to the South Pole. As Swans fellow adventurer Janusz Kurbiel notes: hi s -Mt "When you can't rely on external 1 time checks, a watch becomes .■I one of the basic instruments
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Dutchman Krajicek is first seed to fall by the wayside
      387 6 Wimbledon Reuter AP WIMBLEDON, England Giant Dutchman Richard Krajicek, the 12th seed, yesterday became the first seed to go out at Wimbledon when he was defeated 7-6, 6-3, 6-3 by American Bryan Sheiton, the man who ousted German Michael Stich,
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      Tennis officials move to control power game with racket standards, slower balls
      704 6  -  By Michael Karem LONDON Quietly and without media attention, some of the powers behind modern tennis have taken a first step towards containing the power game, at least at its present level, and for the first time have
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      Lock icon Murdoch: European rugby not good enough
      85 6 Reuter ARCORE, Italy Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch said on Sunday rugby union teams from northern hemisphere countries would have to play better if they wanted his company to offer them lucrative contracts. Mr Murdoch's News Corporation announced on Friday a 10-year broadcast deal
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      Lock icon Norman wins Greater Hartford Open
      92 6 AFP CROMWELL, Connecticut Australian Greg Norman followed up his second place finish at last week's US Open with a victory here on Sunday in the Greater Hartford Open men's golf tournament. An eagle at the 15th lifted Norman to a one-over 71, for a four-round
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      Lock icon Broadhurst wins French Open
      96 6 Reuter PARIS Briton Paul Broadhurst won the French Open by a massive eight shots on Sunday after a brilliant course record 63 in the final round. The 29-year-old former Ryder Cup player, whose last victory on the European tour was the Benson and Hedges International in
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      Lock icon IndyCar winner disqualified
      61 6 Reuter PORTLAND, Oregon Hours after his apparent victory in the 200 mile IndyCar race at Portland International Raceway on Sunday, A 1 Unser Jr was disqualified and second-place finisher Jimmy Vasser declared the winner. Unser was disqualified as winner of the Budweiser/G I Joe's 200 because his
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      Lock icon The Dream makes Dream Team III
      114 6 AFP DALLAS Hakeem Olajuwon, who led the Houston Rockets to a second straight National Basketball Association crown this month, has been invited to compete for the US at the 1996 Olympics, news reports said on Sunday. The Nigerian-born centre, nicknamed "The Dream" is one
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      Lock icon Muster will ignore Wimbledon
      70 6 Reuter ST POELTEN, Austria French Open champion Thomas Muster won his 40th successive clay-court tournament on Sunday and then said he would completely ignore Wimbledon. Top seed Muster, playing before a sell-out crowd of 4,000 less than 100 km from his home town Leibnitz, had an
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      Lock icon Weak A$ casts shadow over fate of big Aussie tennis, golf games
      495 6 Reuter SYDNEY Two of Australia's richest international sports, tennis and golf, are struggling to compete against a seriously-weakened opponent the local currency. As the Australian dollar plumbs near-record depths, organisers of big tennis and golf tournaments are finding
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      Lock icon Lomu stands out among the major winners, losers of 1995 tourney
      653 6 Rugby World Cup Review AFP JOHANNESBURG The World Cup transformed Jonah Lomu's life almost as much as it did Max Brito's. The two formed the starkest of contrasts as the major winner and loser of the 1995 tournament. The
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      Lock icon Food poisoning a coincidence, says All Black spokesman
      552 6 Reuter JOHANNESBURG The outbreak of food poisoning which struck the New Zealand squad on the eve of the World Cup final was described as "an unfortunate coincidence" by an All Black spokesman yesterday. A suggestion earlier by New Zealand coach Laurie Mains
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      Lock icon Debutant Cork's 7-for-43 spell takes England to victory
      375 6 Reuter AFP LONDON Debutant Dominic Cork yesterday bowled England to their first Lord's Test victory over West Indies for 38 years with an inspirational seven for 43. Paceman Cork produced a burst of three wickets for seven runs in 45 deliveries as
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      Indy racing
      99 6 PORTION D, Oregon 200-mile IndyCar race on Sunday after first finisher Al Unser Jr's disqualification, which his team has protested (driver, nationality, car, laps completed): I Jimmy Vasscr (US), Rey-nard-Ford, 102 laps (average speed 103.504 miles per hour/166.569 kph) 2 Bobby Rahal (US) LolaMercedes, 102 (1.257 seconds behind)
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      Tennis
      131 6 ST POELTEN, Austria U*****,000 ATP tournament final Sunday: 1-Thomas Muster (Aut) b Bohdan Ulihrach (Cze) 6-3 3-6 6-1. BONN Halle men's U*****,000 ATP tournament final Sunday: 4-Marc Rosset (Swi) b 3Michael Stich (Ger) 3-6 7-6 (13/11) 7-6 (10/8). MONTE CARLO AIP lour rankings Monday: 1 Andre Agassi (US) 4,779
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      Golf
      202 6 CROMWELL, Connecticut US$l.2 million Greater Hartford Open final round Sunday (US unless stated): 267 Greg Norman (Aus) 67 64 65 71 269 Kirk Triplet! 64 67 69 69, Dave Stockton 65 68 68 68, Grant Waite (NZ) 66 67 67 69 270 Brian Henninger 66 67 72 65, Don
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
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      Lock icon Room for some bargain-hunting
      792 7  -  Hproplrty COLUMN By Lee Han Shih THE worst is nearly over for Hongkong's bleeding office property market, according to the influential American investment bank Morgan Stanley. In its latest Japan and Asia/Pacific investment report released last week, Morgan Stanley Asia said while the Hongkong office market
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      HK developer to launch sale of Beijing plaza units in S'pore
      410 7  -  Junefield Plaza stands on Beijing's up-and-coming commercial district of Xuanwu, reports Abdul Hadhi Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Junefield Plaza, a 50-year leasehold commercial development in Beijing, will be launched here this weekend. A spokesman for ERA Realty Network, the marketing
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      PROPERTYWATCH
      214 7 Selected transactions in the past week teKfcmiaf I. Miwfcn trwuBon aiWct HW Iwdf (tqft) Twww (SI) WWAT1 JM019,1995 1130 Duneam Garden I Condo3 ""l284 FH 1,380,000 1106 Jun 19,1995 0922 Sophia Apt Condo3 1086 FH 700,000 645 Jun20,1995 2367 Dairy Farm Rd Condo2 1389 FH 825,000 594 Jun 21,1995
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      203 7 A quick look at the markets. For Financial News, call 1900-913-0001, at 30 cents a minute. #02-00 Delta House PRIME FACTORY SPACE FOR SALE Location Strategically situatea at Alexanara Road/Delta Road Premises The entire 2nd storey of Delta House Strata Floor Area Approx. 36,307 sq ft Tenure Freehold Floor Loading
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      Lock icon The Net looks a sure bet
      514 9 One of Hollywood's hottest actresses, Sandra Bullock, stars in a thriller on one of today's hottest topics, the Internet UPI VERY few movies are sure things, but The Net is shaping up as close to a certain hit as Hollywood can come. Columbia probably
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      Lock icon New light shed on Japanese picture brides
      503 9  -  Wataru Sawamura meets the director of a film on the lives and travails of Asian migrant women Wataru Sawamura NYT A MOVIE about a "picture bride" Japanese women who were selected as marriage partners by Japanese emigrants overseas on the basis of their
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      541 9 —I—ac AP AP AF AP AP AS he toured a new children's science exhibit in Wilmington, North Carolina, that bears his name, American basketball superstar Michael Jordan was asked if he could toss stuffed "bugs" into the mouth of a toy
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      1144 9 I r. Animal Orphans of th« Peten, A h 9pm, Ch Ciuatemala's rainforest **F^ supplies pet smugglers with most of their inventory. However, a small band of conservationists are fighting to return fl animals into the wild, and to 0 change their countrymen's atti- H tudes towards the forest. The
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    The coming Asian bond boom
    481 10 UP TO NOW, investors interested in portfolio investment in Asia have tended to focus almost exclusively on the region's stock markets. The World Bank's just-released study on the emerging Asian bond market makes clear that the picture is going to change dramatically over the coming
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    Major driven to the wall
    429 10 IN DECIDING to resign as head of the Conservative Party last week, British Prime Minister John Major put more than his own political future at stake. What his action should help settle is where his party stands on the question of Britain's future in Europe,
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    Helping ourselves
    106 10 FROM time to time, the spirit of volunteerism is being called upon from the bottom of Singaporeans' hearts. Last week. President Ong Teng Cheong raised it among the elders who are still able to help their fellow friends. By the year 2030, it is expected that one fifth
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    Limited liquid asset
    171 10 THE PROSPERITY of Singapore in the past years may make many think that if we can do well in our economy, we can obtain all that we need with money. But the fact is, there are many things in this world which money cannot buy. Water, for
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    Those who don't want peace
    130 10 THIRD WORLD countries arc used to encountering ethnic, ideological or religious differences within internal groups. Some have managed to contain such differences and prevent conflicts. Others are not so fortunate. In the case of the Philippines, it seems that some unreasonable demands from a dwindling
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    Summit below peak performance
    154 10 WHEN hard muscles become limp flesh, action becomes an impossible task. The G-7 summit that ended last weekend reaffirmed this reality. Clearly, the leaders of this rich countries' club have beep sitting back on their lazy chairs for too long. Everyone seemed quite happy to issue
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    The state rules
    94 10 DURING 8th-13th Century Abbasid Caliphate, the mosque was held in such sacred esteem that even delinquent debtors were free to take refuge in it. At the overthrow of the caliphate the last non-hereditary rulers of the empire of Islam the newly autocratic successors clamped down on the
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    887 10  -  Paper producers are recognising the potential of biotechnology to create new products and minimise environmental effects, reports Geoff Nairn Geoff Nairn FT RECENT price rises apart, the long-term future of the pulp and paper industry rests on product innovation and minimising the environmental effects of its
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      HK casts wary eye on rival financial centres
      1340 11  -  Officials call for action to preserve territory's status as the 'New York of the East', reports Anthony Rowley Anthony Rowley The writer, BT's Tokyo correspondent, was in Hongkong recently Hongkong is beginning to worry about maintaining its position as a regional and
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      HK Telecom loses monopoly
      832 11  -  Newcomers enter market on July 1 but advantage lies with the incumbent, reports Michael Steinberger Michael Steinberger The writer is a freelance journalist based in Hongkong THOUGH famed for its free-market ethos, the Hongkong government is only now undoing one of the territory's oldest and largest
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    Lock icon OECD report debunks MNCs relocating to low-pay countries
    425 12 NYT PARIS The popular perception that multinational companies are moving production to low-wage newly industrialising countries "is misleading", said a study released over the weekend. "There is little evidence of a shift" in manufacturing capacity away from highly industrialised countries, said the
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    389 12  -  From John Helmer in MOSCOW AS China's Prime Minister Li Peng put his signature to a sheaf of new agreements in Moscow yesterday, more than a quarter of a million Chinese could be looking anxiously at the small print. That is the estimate Russian
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    Lock icon US home resales up 4.7% to surpass forecasts
    221 12 Bloomberg Business News Reuter WASHINGTON Home resales increased last month for only the second month this year as falling mortgage rates finally helped draw more buyers to real estate markets. Sales rose in every region except the north-east. Resales advanced a stronger-than-ex-pected
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    Lock icon Close shave for Mubarak
    117 12 AFP CAIRO Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak survived an assassination attempt in Addis Ababa yesterday when his bodyguards killed three gunmen who fired on his motorcade, the information ministry said. Mr Mubarak (right), 67, who has fought a relentless campaign against Muslim militants, escaped unhurt from the
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    62 12 AP MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin summoned Russian lawmakers to the Kremlin yesterday in hopes of averting a major showdown this week in his power struggle with parliament. Last week, parliament touched ofT Russia's worst political crisis in nearly two years by voting no-confidence in Mr Yeltsin's government
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    Lock icon De Beers, BBC settle suit
    76 12 Reuter LONDON Diamond giant De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd yesterday said it had settled its libel case against the British Broadcasting Corporation over the television documentary The Diamond Empire. De Beers, which controls 80 per cent of world diamond production through its Londonbased Central Selling
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    74 12 AFP LONDON Pharmaceutical sales in the world's richest countries jumped 11 per cent between January and April 1995 compared to the same period in 1994, according to figures released by IMS International yesterday. The sale of drugs in the world's 10 largest markets totalled U5545.5 billion (5563.2
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    63 12 AP BONN The Cabinet yesterday approved Germany's first potential fighting mission since World War 11, sending warplanes and 1,500 troops to reinforce the United Nations blue helmet mission in Bosnia. Parliament is expected to endorse the decision despite leftist opposition. Defence Minister Volker Ruehe portrayed the
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    428 12 Reuter CANNES, France The European Commission yesterday called for EU leaders to use their Cannes summit, which opened here yesterday, to reaffirm the schedule for monetary union and agree to tie up loose ends on the scheme by the end of the year.
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    57 12 Reuter PARIS French economic growth is still slowing down, underlining the difficulties faced by the government in fulfilling its twin aims of boosting jobs and cutting the budget deficit. National statistics institute Insee yesterday said business leaders had said in its June survey that industrial output had
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    HK directors ready to change, but not too quickly
    879 12  -  The Bottom Line PAUL MARRIAGE The writer is executive director of Hongkong-based corporate affairs consultancy Forrest International. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the company Regulating the Hongkong stock market is like trying to
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    Lock icon Minister quits to take up Major's challenge
    236 12 Reuter LONDON Right-wing minister John Redwood yesterday dealt a severe blow to John Major's hopes of clinging to power by resigning from the cabinet to fight the Prime Minister for the leadership of Britain's ruling Conservatives. Mr Major quit and offered himself for
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    Lock icon Kerkorian offers US$700m to lift stake in Chrysler
    203 12 AP DETROIT Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, who dropped his hostile bid to buy Chrysler Corp last month, made a US$7OO million (***** million) offer yesterday to increase his huge stake in the carmaker to nearly 15 per cent. Mr Kerkorian, who is already
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      SC sets rules for foreign assets, broking firms
      659 13  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR THE Securities Commission (SC) yesterday issued new guidelines on the purchase of foreign assets by Malaysian companies and the listing of stockbroking firms. The move follows closely the capital markets initiatives announced by Deputy Prime
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      S'pore Telecom, Bukaka win right to develop eastern Indon telecoms network
      471 13  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA AFTER months of negotiations, Singapore Telecom and Indonesia's PT Bukaka Teknik Utama won the right to develop a telecommunications network in the rugged eastern region of Indonesia. Government and consortium officials say the two
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      APB to double capacity of Viet brewery
      480 13  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Asia Pacific Breweries is investing roughly US$22 million (5530.7 million) to double the capacity of its joint venture brewery in Vietnam. In a briefing for analysts yesterday, APB chief executive Koh Poh Tiong said the expansion was expected to
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      Unwise to cut foreign limit in Thai brokerages
      692 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Loh Hui Yin BANGKOK When people cannot agree on the numbers, a fierce debate is bound to ensue, especially when not just dollars and cents are involved but also vested interests. This is the case with the plan
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      C K Tang sinks deeper into the red with $17.8m loss
      241 13 SINGAPORE Reflecting the continued retail slowdown, listed retailer CK Tang has suffered its second consecutive year of losses. The group yesterday reported marginal sales growth of O.S per cent to $181.33 million and a 29.9 per cent jump in
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        52 13 Lethargic 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance. Barings, Credit Lyonnais Securities, Daiwa, Fraser, G K Goh, Kay Hian, Morgan Grenfell, Ong Co, Nomura, Phillip, Smith New Court, WI Can and S
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        HOT STOCK
        102 13  -  By Paul Leo THE strong interest in Sin Soon Huat is unlikely to be sustained over the next few weeks. Technical factors are neutral even though yesterday's volume of 1.01 million shares is 35 times the 10-day average of 28,600 units. Daily and weekly Relative Strength Indices are
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        Pan Pacific profit down 46%
        87 14 SINGAPORE The net earnings of Pan Pacific Public Co dropped 46 per cent to $406,000 for the year ended March 31. Turnover rose 48 per cent to $42 million. At company level, net profit was 1.6 million, compared to a loss of 111,000 in 1993.
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        UE ups share capital of subsidiary
        45 14 SINGAPORE United Engineers has increased the paid-up capital of its wholly owned subsidiary United Engineers Developments from $2 to $25 million, by way of capitalisation of its current loans to UED. United Engineers said the investment was financed internally.
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        Lock icon KLSE amends trading terms
        104 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange has amended the minimum bid definition to the terms and conditions for trading under Score. A KLSE statement yesterday said minimum bid meant the permissible change on the offer to buy price over the previous done or quoted
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        Parkway, Gleneagles raising $540m in bonds and notes
        493 14  -  Borrowings to finance takeover of Mt Elizabeth and other Tenet hospitals By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Parkway Holdings and its subsidiary Gleneagles Hospital are raising nearly Sss4o million in bonds and notes issues to finance the Tenet hospitals deal and for working capital.
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        43 14 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesians jostling to buy shares of local conglomerate PT Bimantara Citra. The company yesterday launched its initial public offering of 200 million shares. Bimantara is the flagship of the corporate empire of President Suharto's second son, Bambang Trihatmodjo. Renter
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        Indon heavy equipment firm to get two Japanese shareholders
        322 14 SINGAPORE Recentlylisted PT Hexindo Adiperkasa is getting two new shareholders Hitachi Construction Machinery and Itochu Corp of Japan. The heavy equipment distributor said last week that the Japanese companies plan to acquire up to 20 per cent of its shares. The
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        Lock icon New plan for privatisation of Manila Hotel gets approval
        213 14 Bernama MANILA The government has approved a revised blueprint to pave the way for the privatisation of the Manila Hotel, one of the great luxury heritage hotels in Asia with a history dating back to 1912. The revised plan calls for
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        Lock icon Tai Wah Garments moving into property, construction
        273 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Tai Wah Garments Manufacturing Bhd, in a move to strengthen its earnings base, is diversifying into construction, property development, property investment and management. A company statement here yesterday said it is proposing to acquire: Likas Commercial Complex for MSB 6
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        Star signs M$2.2b deal for phase two of LRT system
        347 14  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR SISTEM Transit Aliran Ringan Sdn Bhd (Star) in which a Singapore govern-ment-owned firm Apfin Investment Pte Ltd has a 5 per cent stake yesterday signed an agreement to build the M 52.2 billion
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        DBS Land completes purchase of 60% stake in Aussie developer
        344 14 SINGAPORE Singapore companies including govern-ment-controlled Temasek Holdings and related Firms have taken control of one of Australia's biggest property groups. Temasek-controlled DBS Bank and its property arm DBS Land have acquired a combined 70 per cent stake in the Australian
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        Pacific Century to co-develop three Bombay properties
        201 14 SINGAPORE Pacific Century Regional Developments has entered into agreements with Indian conglomerate Videocon International to develop three properties in Bombay worth $370 million. The projects involve commercial and residential development with total saleable floor space estimated at 1.3 million sq ft. Work on
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        Lock icon HKR chief lashes out at Morgan Stanley downgrade
        455 15 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG After its share price dropped more than 6 per cent last week, developer HKR International lashed out at Morgan Stanley Asia for double downgrading its stock. Last Wednesday morning, Morgan Stanley Asia managing director Peter Churchouse downgraded HKR
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        Lock icon National Mutual begins hard sell over AXA takeover plan
        406 15 Bloomberg Business News Reuter MELBOURNE National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd yesterday began a campaign to convince its 1.25 million policyholders that the proposed takeover by France's AXA SA is the best insurance policy for the company's future. Selling the
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        Lock icon HK exchange raps Cheerful Holdings' MD
        154 15 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The chairman and managing director of Cheerful Holdings, Johnny Chee Jing Yin, was censured by the Hongkong Stock Exchange for failing to disclose loans made by a Cheerful subsidiary to a company controlled by Mr Chee and his wife, the
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        284 15 Reuter SYDNEY The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is seeking to establish stronger ties with the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZSE) and sees the possibility of an integrated Australasian market, said ASX chairman Maurice Newman. "The possibility of an integrated Australasian market with
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        Lock icon L'Oreal eyes German cosmetic firm
        64 15 Reuter PARIS French cosmetics company L'Oreal said yesterday it was negotiating to buy Societe Jade Cosmetic from the German chemicals group Hoechst AG. L'Oreal and Hoechst signed a letter of intent on Friday, but the terms were not disclosed. Jade's 1994 turnover was 210 million
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        Lock icon Royal KNP to sell BT Office stake
        81 15 Bloombere Business News AMSTERDAM Royal KNP BT NV said it expects to raise between US$l2O million (Ssl67 miUion) and US$l4O miUion by selling a 30 per cent stake in BT Office Products International Inc on the New York Stock Exchange by mid-July. The
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        Lock icon Great China Hldgs' profits soar
        65 15 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Great China Holdings, a property investment and management company, said its net profit rose 187 per cent to U5539.6 million (5555.2 million) from US$l3.B miUion during the six months ended March 31. Earnings per share rose to 15.15 US cents from
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        Lock icon Samsung, US firm to develop chip set
        54 15 AFP SEOUL South Korean chip giant Samsung Electronics said yesterday it has agreed with General Instrument Corp of the US to co-develop a key multimedia chip set. "With this agreement, Samsung Electronics can provide full chip set solution for digital video applications," a
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        Lock icon Reliance gets bullet bond from 3 banks
        60 15 Reuter BOMBAY Indian petrochemicals company Reliance Industries concluded a US$l5O million (Ss2o9 million) bullet bond from three banks Union Bank of Switzerland, ABN Amro Bank and Bank of America, bankers said. The loan, at Libor plus one per cent, is repayable in one
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        Lock icon UK's largest ad firm's revenue up
        80 15 Bloomberg Business News LONDON WPP Group pic, Britain's largest advertising company, said worldwide revenue rose by more than 8 per cent in the first five months of 1995. WPP's J Walter Thomson and Ogilvy Mather worldwide units boosted revenue by more than 10 per
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        Lock icon Shares of Seoul's Inchon plunge over 7b won fraud inquiry
        171 15 Reuter SEOUL Shares of Inchon Investment and Finance Corp went limit-down yesterday on news that an Inchon employee had allegedly diverted millions of dollars from the call money market, brokers said. Inchon Investment lost 5.99 per cent or 1,300 won
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        Lock icon Goldman, Sachs looks to media, technology to restore fortunes
        394 16 NYT NEW YORK Stung by a series of setbacks and losses last year, Goldman, Sachs Group is working to restore its r fortunes, and is focusing on a particularly hot investment banking area: communications, media and technology. Late last week, Goldman
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        Lock icon Berlusconi could get News Corp stake through share swap
        462 16 Bloomberg Business News FT MILAN Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi could become a shareholder in Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in exchange for News Corp taking control of Mr Berlusconi's Italian television interests. A spokesman at Mr Berlusconi's Fininvest
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        Lock icon Asahi, Miller in worldwide brewing tie-up
        266 16 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Asahi Breweries and Miller Brewing Co, the second largest brewer in the United States, yesterday said they had agreed to form a wide-ranging strategic alliance in world beer markets. Asahi, Japan's second biggest brewer, will obtain exclusive rights to produce and
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        505 16 High copper prices give steel, mineral giant a major boost Reuter MELBOURNE Soaring copper prices are forecast to have helped hoist The Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd's profits by up to 30 per cent for the year to May 31. Analysts said the steel,
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        Lock icon Largest US healthcare management firm formed
        197 16 Bloomberg Business News MINNEAPOLIS United HcalthCarc Corp said it agreed to acquire closcly held MctraHcalth Co for about US$l.65 billion (552.3 billion) in cash and stock, creating the country's largest healthcare management services company. United HcalthCarc, a Min-neapolis-based health-care management services company, said the
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        Lock icon Barings often broke forex rules in 1994, internal memos show
        409 17 FT LONDON Barings violated the Bank of England's guidelines on foreign exchange exposures for most of 1994, according to internal documents obtained by investigators into the UK bank's collapse. Two memoranda dated last Nov 28 from lan Hopkins, head of
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        Lock icon Cash crunch seen jacking up Indian interest rates
        388 17 AFP BOMBAY The looming cash crunch in Indian capital markets will put strong upward pressures on interest rates for at least the next year, hurting markets and government budgetary targets, analysts here said yesterday. The Investment Credit and Investment Corp of India
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        Lock icon China sets up first new commercial bank
        250 17 Reuter Bloomberg Business News BEIJING The Chinese special economic zone of Shenzhen has set up the first commercial bank under a new commercial bank law, the China News Service said yesterday. The Shenzhen City Cooperative Commercial Bank has registered capital of 1.8 billion
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        Lock icon ADB to issue US$100m of NT$-denominated bonds
        196 17 AFP TAIPEI The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is planning to launch here Taiwandollar denominated "dragon bonds" worth US$lOO million (SSI39 million) late next month, a top banking official said yesterday. Paul Chiu, deputy governor of the Central Bank of China (CBO, said it
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        Ampro, NTUC Income to offer Islamic insurance
        301 17  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Ampro Holdings (Ampro), a body closely linked with the Association of Muslim Professionals, has tied up with NTUC Income, to offer takaful Islamic insurance. The product will be launched within the next three months, an Ampro spokesman .told
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        Lock icon Bank Negara unlikely to follow any rate cuts by Fed in July
        522 17 Knight-Ridder SINGAPORE Bank Negara probably will not follow the US Federal Reserve if the Fed decides to ease monetary policy at its July 5-6 Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Any Fed easing would result in a narrowing of
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        Traders expect price of rubber to fall after July 2
        454 18  -  Talk of China lowering import tariffs said to be unfounded By Siow Li Sen SINGAPORE Rubber prices, which have been rising for more than two weeks now, are expected to fall after July 2 because talk of a reduction in
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        Lock icon Phillips shuts Xijiang field after pipeline rupture
        185 18 Bloomberg Business News SINGAPORE Phillips Petroleum International Corp Asia has halted flows from the offshore Xijiang oil field after a pipeline rupture, several oil traders in Asia said yesterday. The field, located in the South China Sea about 128 km south-east of Hongkong,
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        Lock icon Kleinwort Benson to accept Dresdner's £1b acquisition offer
        290 18 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT Dresdner Bank AG and Kleinwort Benson Group pic said yesterday they had agreed for Germany's second-largest bank to acquire the UK merchant bank for about £1 billion (552.23 billion). Dresdner is paying 725 pence per share in cash
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        Lock icon Oil price rebound in doubt
        322 18 Reuter LONDON Oil prices look unlikely to recover in 1995 from their sharpest decline in a year amid signs that speculative funds are ditching their oil investments as worries about oversupply intensify. Desertion by the financial funds, which have been pulling out of commodities generally,
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        169 18 Reuter LONDON The dollar was holding steady at European mid-session as it fouoht to dispel the cloud of market gloom overhanging the US-Japan car trade negotiations. But analysts said the US currency might be supported by the fact that the market had largely discounted a negative outcome from the
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        79 18 AFP NEW YORK The dollar climbed against the British pound yesterday following a leadership challenge to British Prime Minister John Major posed by former Welsh Secretary John Redwood. At 1335 GMT, the greenback had risen to 0.6272 pounds sterling (0.6223). Against the German and Japanese currencies, it was
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        1239 18 Trade-weighted index calculated against Spore s lop 14 trading partners Bate year 1985 US$/S$ forward rates Noon /Jun 26 SS Bid Offer 1-month 1.3916 1.3929 2-month 1.3863 1.3878 3-month 1.3818 1.3831 6-month 1.3699 1.3717 Sourtr OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9am m Jihi 2t: Singapore dollars
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        Lock icon Eurodollars end mixed, Euroyen firmer
        1313 19 Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollars ended mixed and Euroyen futures were firm in light trade. Dealers said Eurodollars was range bound with little fresh news to move it. "All the important economic numbers are out, so there is little to move the market/' said a Japanese
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        Tokyo rubber eases on lower spot expiry
        694 19 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber TOKYO: Rubber futures ended slightly weaker, in reaction to the lower expiry of the spot contract at noon, traders said. Prices ranged from 0.3 to 0.8 yen per kg lower, with benchmark November finishing 0.7 easier at 128.8. The spot
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          86 19 TOKYO This week's outlook for Japan's soybean buying has been clouded by a rise in Brazilian and US basis levels as well as strengthening freight rates on the US Gulf-Japan route, traders said. Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia are generally well covered and are unlikely
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          China buying more aluminium
          81 19 BEIJING Government trade figures show China imported more aluminium but less copper in the Jan-May period compared with a year ago. For the same period, exports of both metals soared, data from the General Administration of Customs of China showed. The data showed a 230.9 per
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          Australia-Vietnam copper deal
          59 19 SYDNEY The MM Cables division of Metd Manufactures of Australia yesterday reached an. agreement with Vietnam's National Post Telegraph to supply 2,000 tonnes of copper telecommunications cable to the state-run telephone service. The contract is to run over 18 months and is valued at AS26 million (Ss26
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          92 19 NEW YORK US 1995 coffee roastings through.! June 17 reached 7.7 million 60 kg bags, down from I 7.8 million bags in the same period of 1994, ac-' cording to data compiled by Complete Coffee Cov- erage. Roastings for the week ended June 17 stood at
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      1382 19 SICOM Futures Jun 26 PIqfiICII PricM (Mm d—If m at 5.3tpa) S^N^CY RSS1 Caatract (S cents/kg) teal 12mm (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest RSS 2 Jul 95 2I2.SO 2I3.50N jS I I 213.50 I 200 RSS 3 Jul 95 212.00 213.00N Aug
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        Australia
        829 20 +7.2 SHARES closed higher yesterday as investors anticipated impending balance of payment data and the annual results of market leader BHP. "There is a lot happening this week. We've got the end of the financial year on th£ 30th, the current account deficit on Friday and we've also got
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        Seoul
        425 20 -3.69 Share prices fell back as investors remained skittish one day before local elections. U A wait-and-see mood prevailed across the board, heightened by a tight monetary policy, which traditionally follows the elections," said a dealer. The Composite Price Index dropped 3.69 points to 868.77. Turnover was 21.52 million
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        Bombay
        80 20 -41.81 Shares finished lower as speculators sold in end*ccount trade. Brokers said speculators liquidated their positions in index shares as today is the last day of the current account. "Speculators who took buy positions expecting forward trade to return to Indian exchanges are getting out. There's not much participation
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        Manila
        562 20 •IS.II Stocks closed lower on thin volume, as lack of fresh news kept investors on the sidelines. The PSE Index lost 18.11 points to 2,754. 61. Turnover was 3.6 billion shares valued at 772.6 million pesos. Power retailer Manila Electric Co A shares lost two pesos to 170, while
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        Taipei
        493 20 +17.39 Share prices dosed higher for a fourth consecutive winning ses- sion, with electricals enjoying the largest gain. Investors expect the central bank to take an easier money policy in the near future after the island's May money supply slid to a 52-month low. The 321-issue Weighted Price Index
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        New Zealand
        374 20 -4.68 Shares declined as concerns that a slowing economy and a high currency will reduce corporate earnings kept international investors at bay. Foreign investors own 53 per cent of New Zealand shares and usually dominate trading, particularly in stocks like Telecom and forester Carter Holt Harvey. "We're not
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        646 20 -70-2 SHARES closed sharply lower yesterday, sinking under the weight of political uncertainty as the struggle for Britain's top job became ever more tumultuous. The FTSE-100 Index closed at 3,309.2, down 70.2 points. Volume was 415.1 million shares. Analysts said the market was deeply concerned when a serious challenger
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        Paris
        141 20 +7.37 French shares finished with i gains, after a thin day's trading, with business being driven mainly by bond mar- kets, traders said. The market had shown some volatility in the day and disappointed operators who had hoped investors would buy stocks at the start of the new July
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        Frankfurt
        190 20 +6.96 German stocks closed ix mixed as gains in dollar-aen- sitive export stocks offset a concern that inflation may be accelerating faster than a expected. "Housing sales in the US v were stronger than expected which pushed the bond t market back up," said a trader. "That helped the
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        Brussels
        224 20 -5.23 Belgian stocks fell to a 10day low, tracking bonds lower as hopes faded that German and US interest rates would be lowered anytime soon. Traders said a weak dollar also hurt the shares of companies such as wire maker Bekaert which have large dollar-denominated sales. Even so, the
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        Milan
        150 20 •71 Italian shares close weaker in tiny trading volumes as investors await fresh ideas. The Mibtel Index closed down 71 points to 10,011. Turnover was about 300 billion lire. "Foreign funds are still selling, but with volumes this subdued anything could happen," a trader said. Dealers said the market
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        Amsterdam
        244 20 +2.08 Dutch shares closed slightly firmer shrugging off losses in neighbouring markets as financial stocks and Royal Dutch forged ahead. The AEX Index closed 2.08 points higher at 437.01. Dealers said that heightened expectations for lower interest rates had drawn money into financial groups such as ABN Amro, which
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        Stockholm
        87 20 -2.06 Swedish stocks were mixed, with telecommunications company Ericsson dropping so much it prevented the bourse from reaching its fifth consecutive all-time closing high. The OMX Index fell 2.06 points to 1,285.83. Nine shares fell, 15 rose and six were unchanged. Stockholm JaX Sfcj Aam MO 00 mmk AM
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        Zurich
        245 20 -7.4 Swiss stocks fell as Swiss Re lost ground after it was downgraded by Credit Suisse. Swiss Re fell 2.6 per cent to 908 francs as its rating was cut to "neutral" from "overweight". "There's been a lot of very good news (for Swiss Re) but it is all
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        Johannesburg
        322 20 +25.$ South African shares dosed surprisingly higher after a slow day amid a number of depressing factors, and dealers were at a loss to explain the interest. "I don't know it's coming from but trade is very thin,** a dealer said, noting the softer gold price, stronger rand and
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        Toronto
        237 20 -8.70 Stocks weakened early on sagging gold shares and sluggish bonds, but Toronto may get help from gains on Wall Street, traders said. The TSE 300 Composite Index fell 8.70 points to 4,536.00 on volume of 12.5 million shares valued at Csl42 million. Declining stocks defeated advances 178 to
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        New York
        690 20 Stock prices turned slightly lower in quiet trading as the market struggled to shake off pressure from bonds initial weakness. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which eased 3.80 points on Friday, was down 4.15 to 4,581.49 at 1 lam EDT. The key barometer was Ave ahead shortly after
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        2567 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks fell after Friday's durable goods report in the US indicated interest rates are unlikely to be reduced next month. Trading was the quietest in eight weeks. The Hang Seng Index dropped 23.11 points to 9,201.25, with HKJI.64 billion worth of shares changing hands. The
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        543 21 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index lost 9.72 points at 1,143.22. on turnover of HK542.2 million. Zhenhai Refining was the day's best performer, up 5.5 per cent, while Harbin was the worst performer, down 4.8 per cent. The Shanghai B Index closed down 0.1 per cent on turnover
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        2483 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks slipped as escalating US-Japan trade tensions and doubts about the substance of an economic support package due today sapped investor confidence in Japan's nascent economic recovery. "People are quite cynical," said a trader. "We've had lots of packages and promises from the government over
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        1426 21 Reuter BANGKOK Shares closed lower in quiet trading due to lack of buying support. The SET Index closed down 13.35 points at 1,382.42. Trading was thin with 72.8 million shares worth 5.75 billion baht changing hands. Losers led gainers 216 to 62. "Most market participants were staying on the
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        1166 21 Reuter JAKARTA Shares ended lower in extremely thin trading, as players were seen mostly staying on the sidelines and most locals focused on Bimantara's 200 million share offering, brokers said. The Composite Index fell I.BS points at 489.81. "Local players were staying on the sidelines. They appeared to focus
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        6685 22 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks fell a third day, led by declines in power utility Tenaga Nasional after a Are disrupted the power supply to Penang. The fire early yesterday morning cut all nine power lines running under the Penang bridge,
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        Lock icon Shares slip as players puzzle over possible takeovers
        1867 24  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Amcol Holdings and Yeo Hiap Seng who is eyeing them? This was basically the question at the back of most investors' mind yesterday as speculation continued to build around the two companies. It was otherwise a dull
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      532 25 Knight-Ridder Reuter GRAIN fixtures featured strongly in the dry cargo freight market as the Baltic Freight Index (BFI) moved back above 2,000 for the first time since June 8, but the increase was a mere two points to 2,001. PANAMAXES: Toepfer fixed its mid-July Panamax grain order from
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      142 25 AP MANILA With more than 50 agencies dealing with maritime matters, questions of "who's in charge" have led to recommendations for creation of a single leading department, the Coast Guard said on Sunday. More than 15 agencies now deal with checking on the competence
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      318 25 SES '000 Jm 26 S$ TT- Vol CWT Distribution 1.59 unch 2 CWT Distribution A 1.51 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.12 unch 51 Cosco Investment 1.74 -0.03 14 Cosco Investment A 1.74 Far East Levingston 6.55 -0.05 278 GB Holdings Ltd 0.76 -0.04 12 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.82
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      Missing ship seized by Chinese patrol boat, says owner
      471 25  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE A coastal freighter missing since Friday night while carrying US$2 million (Ss2.B million) of cargo is said to have been seized by a Chinese patrol boat. William Tay, the owner and managing director of HM Shipping and
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      50 25 AFP SHANGHAI A cargo barge "Mfclag its way dowa Shanghai's heavily polluted Suzhou river on Suaday. Shanghai, once called the Paris of the East, plans to turn the river into a River Seine where locals can relax and enjoy themselves. AFP
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      IMC, Unithai form venture to buy four vessels
      251 25 SINGAPORE IMC Holdings Ltd and Thailand's Unithai Line Ltd (UTL) are forming a joint venture company to buy four Unithai vessels for U5532.5 million (5545.4 million). In a statement issued from its headquarters in Hongkong last week, IMC said that it would
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      Cambodia seizes S'pore ship, fines owner US$1.5m
      282 25  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Cambodian Customs have seized a Singaporean cargo ship on charges of smuggling and imposed a US$l.5 million (552.09 million) fine on the shipowner. An executive of Singaporebased Vasan Shipping and Trading confirmed its vessel Gena was under the control
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      65 25 Reuter TAIPEI The board meeting of Taiwan's leading steel maker China Steel Corp has decided to set up its own shipping firm to import raw materials and maximise the company's efficiency, a company statement said. China Steel already has four ships, each of
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      357 25 Knight-Ridder AMMAN The Jordanian government is implementing a series of measures to enhance the competitiveness of the Red Sea port of Aqaba against Israel's Mediterranean ports, according to Jordan's Transport Minister Samir Kawar. Mr Kawar told prominent
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      274 25 Reuter TAIPEI Chinese officials have agreed to draft guidelines on direct voyages between Taiwan and China so that Taiwan can begin operating an "offshore transhipment centres" project, a Taiwan leader said on Saturday. "Chinese shipping officials and we have exchanged
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      408 25 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Penang has a "golden opportunity" to become the most efficient port in the country, Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik said on Sunday. He said that the North Butterworth Container Terminal, which became fully operational yesterday, and the Butterworth
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      275 25 Knight-Ridder LONDON Standards of training for seafarers will be discussed at a two week conference which opened at the International Maritime Organisation in London yesterday. The conference, which will run till July 7, will consider amendments to the International Convention on Standards of
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      104 25 AFP SEOUL North Korea has requested that a South Korean ship carrying 2,000 tonnes of rice to ease the communist country's food shortage change its port of delivery, government officials said yesterday. The South had agreed to the requested change
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      656 26  -  Shipping between a company's own facilities can be as tricky as dealing with an outside company. Bob Mottley reports Bob Mottley American Shipper HOW do multinational corporations ship and bill to themselves, between their United States offices and ffoilities overseas? [Answers from sourcing and logistics executives
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        850 37 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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        388 38  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has approved a US$5O million (Ss7o million) investment in Bangkok's mass transit rail system. The funds will be channelled through the Bangkok Mass Transit System Corporation Ltd (BTSC), the Wash-ington-based lending agency said in
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        51 38 Reuter GAN ISLAND, The Maldives Rolls of chain-link fencing being unloaded at Gan Island from an An-12 transport aircraft run by Sky Cabs. The private Sri Lankan airline launched a direct international cargo service to this tiny Maldivian atoll in the middle of the ludian Ocean on Sunday.
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        395 38 Bloomberg Business News AP SYDNEY The Australian government won't impose a threatened load limit on Cathay Pacific Airways flights between Sydney and Hongkong until Aug 1, the carrier said. The government told the Federal Court of Australia yesterday that it will
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        223 38 Reuter SHANGHAI The Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp, China's largest carmaker, posted a 13.S per cent rise in profits in the first five months of this year compared with the same period last year, the Wen Hui Bao newspaper said on Saturday. Net earnings reached
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        218 38 AFP SHANGHAI MercedesBenz is planning to invest at least one billion marks (SSI billion) if selected to manufacture China's family car, a company official said here yesterday. Karlheinz Michel, president of Mercedes-Benz China Ltd, told reporters that the company had entered
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        211 38 AFP ALGIERS Air Algerie, the Algerian national airline, has announced plans to sue the management of Paris airports over a decision to transfer its operations from Orly, south of Paris, to Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, north of the city. In a statement issued
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        274 38 AFP HONGKONG Aviation authorities in eastern China plan to built at least 18 more airports in the region in the next 10 years to meet growing demand, it was reported yesterday. Wu Xisi, deputy director of Eastern China Civil Aviation
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        271 38 Knight-Ridder BOMBAY The head of Maharashtra state's ruling party, Bal Thackeray, is opposing his government's plan to expand airport facilities at Bombay, the United News of India said. Last week, the state government's Sicom and a consortium led by the UK-based Indian Hinduja
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        82 38 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO Two sailors were killed in an explosion in the air-conditioning room of a Philippine ship in the port of Rio de Janeiro, local television and papers said over the weekend. The explosion on the Star Cebu took
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