The Business Times, 29 June 1995

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  • 12 1 SINGAPORE BusinessTimes WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Thursday June 29 1995 85*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 82 1 Reuter NEW YORK US shares rose yesterday following news of the car trade agreement reached between the US and Japan in Geneva. At 2pm EDT, the Dow Jones was up 13.83 points at 4,542.61. At midday advances led declines 11 to nine. "This advance is relief
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  • 168 1 Stock Miiwt indices Wednesday Change ST1I 2,088.51 -10.17 KLSE Cornp 1,024.62 -U.95 Nikkei 14,618.07 -140.98 Hang Seng .._9,151.37 -48.17 SET Index 1,379.26 +2.75 Jakarta Comp unav Manila Comp 2,751.71 +3.92 Taipei WPI 5,495.88 -97.13 Seoul Comp 872.68 +3.91 Bombay BSE30 3,302.65 +22.96 CLSA China B 780.85 -4.65 Aust
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  • 501 1  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Tony Tan, who left the Cabinet in early 1992, is rejoining it as a Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence. The Prime Minister's Office yesterday said Dr Tan would take up the posts on Aug I. The statement
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  • 533 1  -  Forecast a shade below MTl's 7.5-8.5% projection Reports by Vikram Khanna SINGAPORE Singapore's economic growth will moderate to its "potential" rate that is, a sustainable mediumterm rate of 7-8 per cent this year after topping 10 per cent in 1994,
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  • 530 1  -  Clinton calls off punitive tariffs From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON THE US and Japan finally reached a pact yesterday on their car dispute after 20 months of tortuous negotiations and several days of intense wrangling in Geneva. The agreement averted a
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  • 300 1 SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore's profit fell to $288.2 million in the year to Mar 31, 1995 from $1.1 billion the previous year, according to the MAS annual report released yesterday. This is the second year in a row
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  • 531 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Employers moaning about the strong Singapore dollar were told yesterday to do what Japanese and German manufacturers did when confronted with a strong currency face it stoically and boost productivity. They should stop wishing for
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    • 26 1 Law: Pg 12 The duties of a director MORE REPORTS, Pg 2 Banks must channel excess funds overseas Foreign fund managers move in despite slower growth
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    • 34 1 Hock Lock Siew: pg 19 liH. Why CASH-Barito deal is off Business as usual at Yeo Hiap Seng, says MD Alex Chan Pgl9 US car makers on China charm offensive, Shipping Times, Pg 14
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 302 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE construction firms have steadily increased their presence abroad since the mid-80s and are currently involved in a wide range of projects, according to the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB). While residential properties, office and retail complexes remain the mainstay for overseas
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    • 482 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming EMPLOYERS want the final extension of the retirement age to take effect in stages not at one go, as is the plan. They are afraid of ending up with even higher wage bills when the retirement age is raised from
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    • 342 2  -  MAS Annual Report Reports by Shiv Taneja THE banking system must channci surplus funds overseas, the Monetary Authority of Singapore says in its 1994-95 annual report released yesterday. Domestic lending opportunities will not expand fast enough to soak up available funds and
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    • 400 2 DESPITE slower growth in the fund management industry last year, international fund managers continued to be attracted to Singapore as a base for their regional operations, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said in its 1994/95 annual report released yesterday. The
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    • 506 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan A CONSORTIUM comprising Kcppcl Engineering, AEG Transport System and Gammon has submitted the lowest bids for the Bukit Panjang and Buona Vista Light Rail Transit projects. At 5284.76 million, the consortium's bid for the Bukit Panjang project was
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    • 170 2 THE government said yesterday it has appointed Bilahari Kausikan Singapore's permanent representative to the United Nations. Mr Kausikan also takes over as High Commissioner to Canada, resident in New York, from Chew Tai Soo. Born in Singapore and educated at Raffles Institution,
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    • 256 2  -  From Agnes Wee in JAKARTA DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Minister for Trade and Industry Yeo Cheow Tong and Minister for Communications Mah Bow Tan, will attend the first In-donesia-Singapore Ministerial Committee Meeting in Jakarta today. The Ministry of Trade and Industry
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 469 3 Bloomberg Business News Reuter PENANG Several US tcchnobgy companies had to halt or slow production in Penang after a fire cut ofT more than hair the power there on Sunday. Intel Corp, Advanced Micro Devices Inc, Quantum Corp and Seagate Technology
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    • 464 3  -  From Ho Kay Tat in PENANG THE power brownout in Pcnang will not deter foreign investment in the long-term, said the Malaysian state's chief minister, Koh Tsu Koon, yesterday. Speaking to Business Times and The Straits Times, Dr Koh expressed confidence that foreign investors
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    • 421 3 AFP JAKARTA Two members of the Indonesian independent journalists' association denied charges of insulting President Suharto and the government when they appeared in the central Jakarta court on Tuesday. Ahmad Taufik, 29, and Eko Maryadi, 27, both members of the Aliansi
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    • 201 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Tenaga Nasional, Malaysian Resources Corporation and Cellular Communication Network will develop a fibre-optic telecommunication network throughout Malaysia at a cost of MS4OO million (SS22B million). Tenaga chief operating officer Abdul Rashid Ahmad yesterday said the three parties hold
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    • 202 3 Bernama WUALA LUMPUR Malayfta and the Philippines have agreed on initial steps to help each other improve their agriculture sectors, the Agriculture Ministry said yesterday. The measures will mostly be in the form of technical cooperation and exchange of information, it
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    • 424 4  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK SINGAPORE container operator C P Holdings has won a concession from the Myanmar government for a build-operate-transfer container port worth more than US$5O million (5569.5 million). Tht project is the first BOT concession granted by
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    • 248 4 UPI PIINOM PENH Cambodia wants lo develop a more competitive economy before becoming a full-fledged member of Asean, government leaders said here on Tuesday. "We have a stake, a desire and interest in Asean but we are also concerned about the gap that
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    • 366 4 Reuter AP JAKARTA Indonesia, Japan and the United States yesterday signed an agreement worth more than US$45 million (Ss63 million) to protect Indonesia's biological diversity as part of commitments made in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. "The Indonesia Biodiversity Conservation Programme is an
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    • NOTEBOOK
      • 47 4 Reuter BANGKOK Thai hill tribe novices lining up for the day's last meal period before an annual ordination ceremony at Bangkok's Marbel Temple yesterday. One hundred and fifty hill tribe youths entered the three-month Buddhist monkhood which includes a noon-to-dawn fast. Reuter
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      • 114 4 AP MANILA Philippine government and communist negotiators blamed each other yesterday for the collapse of peace talks in Belgium. After only one day, the government broke off the talks Tuesday after the rebel National Democratic Front demanded the release of one of its
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      • 95 4 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's Information Minister Harmoko has called for an immediate halt to the sale of uncensored laser discs which he said amounted to "poison", the official Antara news agency said yesterday. "Such a venture is the same as spreading poison in our
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      • 58 4 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian authorities are projecting a 3.48 million tonne surplus in rice production in 1995, press reports said yesterday. The Angkalan Bersenjata daily quoted Agriculture Minister Syarifudin Baharsyah as saying rice -field expansions could yield 28.76 million tonnes of rice this year, or
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      • 76 4 AFP JAKARTA The main Indonesian island of Java, one of the most densely populated in the world, would suffer a serious water crisis by 2005 as its reserve of ground water was very low, an expert has warned yesterday. "Ground water reserves for Bandung
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    • 255 4 Reuter CANBERRA Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Gareth Evans yesterday told Indonesia's new ambassador to Canberra, an army general, to apologise for remarks that the 1991 Dili massacre was not regrettable, Mr Evans said that if Lieu-tenant-General Herman Mantiri failed to apologise, it would
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 357 5 Reuter HONGKONG Conglomerate Wharf Holdings yesterday unveiled an ambitious US$77O million ($51.07 billion) plan to crack the market when the colony's domestic telephone monopoly ends this weekend. Ten years from now, Wharf unit New T T sees itself with
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    • 363 5 SINGAPORE To further attract foreign investors, China will, among other things, publish an investment guide book, improve the investment environment and offer more preferential policies. In a press conference with Singapore reporters yesterday, China's vice-premier Zou Jiahua said Beijing is in the process of
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    • 204 5 UPI BEIJING China's top statistician yesterday charged that ambitious local officials are resorting to phony figures to exaggerate industrial output of township enterprises and lower the number of births in the teeming countryside. "Such cheating in some localities and departments has affected
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    • 162 5 Reuter Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI New Chinese guidelines on foreign investment issued on Tuesday are aimed' at guiding overseas funds into infrastructure projects, according to an official. "Foreign investment has so far been mostly in processing industries and property projects instead of
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    • 95 5 AFP BEIJING China yesterday launched a massive national fitness drive, aimed at dragging couch potatoes into gyms and combating a general lethargy born of raised living standards. The draft National Fitness Programme, which could help transform China into a global sporting superpower by the year
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    • 332 5 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's state statistics bureau says the country's economy is entering "a place where the green and amber lights meet", moving away from its overheated "red light" pace of late last year to a "normal" growth rate.
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    • 406 6 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong is still waiting. Coming up to a full year after most market watchers said property prices would start rising again, prices have stubbornly continued heading south. Many fund managers and analysts have been equally stubborn in their optimism,
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    • 290 6 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG In an aggressive afternoon of buying, Henderson Land Development Co Ltd purchased two sites at the season's first public land auction yesterday. The company paid less than what the market expected for a plot of land in
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    • CHINAWATCH
      • 83 6 AFP WASHINGTON The US on Tuesday rejected Taiwan's bid to gain admission to the United Nations and reaffirmed its own one-China policy. The US statement came a day after the government in Tapei offered to set up a US$l billion (551.39 billion) fund to
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      • 73 6 Reuter ZHUOZHOU, China A Chinese artillery shell factory that lost money for 12 years is now profitable in making car parts with foreign partners, plant officials said yesterday. Journalists and delegates to an international conference on conversion of military factories to civilian output
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      • 68 6 Reuter BEIJING China's finance minister revised downwards the final 1994 fiscal deficit to 57.4 billion yuan (559.58 billion) from the 63.8 billion yuan he presented in his March budget, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. Liu Zhongli told the standing committee of the National People's Congress
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      • 35 6 AFP BEIJING Chinese customs officials uncovered 375 major smuggling cases in the first five months of 1995, confiscating goods worth 1.3 billion yuan (SS2I7 million), the China Daily reported yesterday. AFP
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    • 195 6 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China Strategic has ended all acquisition talks with Stone Electronics Technology Ltd. In a statement yesterday, China Strategic said it considered most of the assets Stone wants to sell "unsuitable", without explaining what that meant. Last week, Stone Group Corp,
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    • 393 6  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Hongkong developer Junefield Holdings is having talks with a local corporation to jointly develop a 36hectare financial park in jingJunefield's managing director C B Ng, who was in Singapore yesterday, said that the project will
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    • 231 6 AP TAIPEI Taiwan yesterday set Dec 2 as the date for legislative elections, a critical prelude to a presidential poll three months later. Both elections will test the ruling Nationalist Party, which has been in power for 46 years and is facing
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  • ASIA
    • 356 8 Local polls results a vote of no-confidence in President Kim: opposition AFP SEOUL Soyth Korean opposition parties yesterday toasted their victory in the nation's first local elections in 34 years, calling the outcome a vote of no-confidence in President Kim Young Sam. With more
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    • 432 8 UPI Reuter TOKYO Japan's economy may be entering a deflationary cycle featuring steep drops in land, stock market and consumer prices, an economist at a major think-tank said yesterday. "The economy is stuck in deflation, not what the government terms disinflation,"
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    • 152 8 AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand's political landscape fragmented further yesterday as the launch of a new party pushed the government of Prime Minister Jim Bolger deeper into a technical minority in parliament. The new United New Zealand Party, with seven MPs, announced it would be in
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    • ASIANOTES
      • 78 8 Reuter MELBOURNE Australian Treasurer Ralph Willis said a possible AS2SO million (*****.4 million) to AS3OO million cut in the 1995-96 budget surplus would not have too dramatic an effect on fiscal policy but that it was a move in the wrong direction. Earlier Mr Willis
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      • 77 8 AFP SEOUL A South Korean-Chinese joint venture has got the green light from North Korea to set up a locally-incorporated subsidiary in the North, the South Korean partner told Yonhap news agency yesterday. CPI Co, the South Korean investor in the joint venture, the Yanbian-Longxing
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      • 72 8 AP SYDNEY Police are investigating a defence department payment of US$2ll,OOO (*****,135) to a Dutch national to assess Indonesia's strategic security goals, The Australian newspaper said yesterday. It said it had obtained Australian government documents that showed the payment was made to an Australian company,
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    • 265 8 System's low usage costs set to trigger boom Reuter TOKYO Telephones could soon be ringing constantly in Japan's restaurants, cinemas and streets. Analysts say the use of cellular phones in the country is set to boom with the launch of a model which will be
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    • 207 8 AFP NEW DELHI The Indian government has allowed Rolls Royce and three international lending agencies to set up a gas-fired power plant in West Bengal, officials said yesterday. Finance ministry officials said the collaboration is one of three foreign investment projects totalling
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    • 233 8 Reuter COLOMBO Labour unrest and an overvalued rupee are bigger problems for the Sri Lankan economy than renewed fighting between Tamil guerillas and government forces, Sri Lankan business leaders say. "More than the war, local and foreign investors are more concerned about trade
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    • 1116 8 ore C.K. TANG LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT The Directors announce the unaudited results o* the Group and the Company for the year ended 31 March 1995 as foHowsGROUP COMPANY 1994/95 1993/94 1994/95 1993/94 SSOOO ssooo ssooo ssooo 1. Turnover 181,333 180,353 0.5 187,834 166.148 1.0 Investment
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  • FOCUS
    • 321 9 AFP NEW DELHI An Indian panel reviewing a US$2.B billion (Ss4 billion) power deal with Enron Corp has said the project should be scrapped without any compensation being paid to the US firm, newspapers said yesterday. The Economic Times said the panel, which
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    • 1004 9 India's controversial US$2.B b deal with Enron Credibility of state govt and India's economic programme at stake FT BOMBAY This month's investment courting tour of Britain and the United States by Manohar Joshi, the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra, India's pre-eminent industrial state,
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    • 756 9 BALANCE SHEETS STATEMENTS OF EARNWGS (BANKING ACCOUNTS) (BANKING ACCOUNTS) December 31,1994 and 1993 Years ended December 31,1994 and 1993 19W 1993 1994 1993 (In MMions) (In Mifions) (In MNons) (In Miions) Won Won Won Won Cash and due from banks 2,073,786 2,020,370 Interest on loan; 774,752 680,333 Interest-bearing deposits with
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    • 871 9 << /X KRUNG THAI BANK PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED 65 chulia street #32-05/08 ocbc centre Singapore 0104 w TEL: (65) 533-6691 FAX: (65) 533-0930 TELEX: RS ***** KTBSIN Balance Sheet Income Statement As at 31 December 1994 and 1993 For the year ending 31 December 1994 and 1993 ASSETS 1994 1993
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
    • 708 11  -  Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a car that drives itself. Alyssa Gabbay reports Alyssa Gabbay AP THE Pontiac minivan moves along the winding road, hugging the curves and climbing easily up the hills. It seems like an ordinary ride but driver Dean Pomerleau's hands are
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    • 464 11 NYT WORKING with government scientists, a North Carolina company says it's designed a "revolutionary" lighter-weight vehicle air bag that inflates faster and takes up less room in the car. Greensboro-based Precision Fabrics Group Inc teamed up with Sandia National Laboratories to
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    • INTAKES
      • 59 11 SINGAPORE Computer Telephony Integration '95, billed as Asia's premier voice event, will be held at Marina Mandarin Singapore from Aug 15. The three-day event includes speakers from companies like AT T Bell Labs, Qantas Airways, Hongkong Telecom, Singapore Network Services and Telecom Equipment. For more details, call
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      • 71 11 SINGAPORE The Rolls-Royce Trent 800 (pictured above), said to be the world's most powerful aero engine, recently received its certificate of airworthiness at the power level of 90,000 pounds (400 kilonewtons) of thrust. Airborne trials have begun on a Boeing 747 test aircraft and the
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      • 107 11 Reuter TOKYO Computer giant NEC Corp has announced plans to mass produce plasma-display panels (PDPs) and start selling a new type of slimmer, larger television set that uses these displays. NEC Corp said it would introduce its flat-screen TV sets using PDPs in the Japanese
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      • 77 11 UPI SAN FRANCISCO Kidney transplant patients can now get a new drug that reduces organ rejection by nearly 50 per cent, the such advance in 12 years, doctors said on Monday. The immunosuppressant compound, Cellcept (Mycophenolate Mofetil), is the first new drug available since 1983
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  • THE LAW PAGE
    • 1318 12  -  Leow Chye Sian examines a case which helps clarify what a director can and cannot do Leow Chye Sian The writer is a senior lecturer in business law in the School of Accountancy and Business at Nanyang Technological University CAN a director enforce a service
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  • SPORTS
    • 488 13 Wimbledon AP Reuter WIMBLEDON, England Mary Pierce's first Wimbledon didn't last long. The fifth-seeded Pierce was beaten in the second round yesterday by Nathalie Tauziat of France 6-4, 3-6, 6-1. The 20th-ranked Tauziat, coming oft" a victory in last week's Wimbledon warm-up at
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    • 390 13  -  From Michael Karem in LONDON THOSE commentators who loudly condemned Ray lllingworth's English selection had to eat their words on Monday at the end of an enthralling match which saw England square the series with West Indies at one each. For those such as myself
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    • SPORTSHORTS
      • Article, Illustration
        99 13 AFP MANUKA Heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe has donated US$3,OOO (554.200) to the family of a Filipino fan electrocuted while watching the television coverage of his World Boxing Organisation (WBO) title defence. Okong Yap, 29. suffered a fatal electric shock at home in the southern city of Cotabato while attempting
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        54 13 AFP MELBOURNE Jack Nicklaus is likely to play in this year's Australian Open at the Kingston Heath course in November, promoters said on Tuesday. Nicklaus, who has won 18 major titles and six Australian championships, would join three-time winner Greg Norman and. probably, fellow American John Daly as the
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        298 13 AFP PRETORIA British Prime Minister John Major has congratulated President Nelson Mandela for South Africa's victory at the World Cup that ended here on Saturday, the British embassy said on Tuesday. "My very warmest congratulations on South Africa's splendid victory in your hard fought battle against New Zealand," Major
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        300 13 AP WIMBLEDON The women's doubles team of Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf, scheduled to make its debut at Wimbledon yesterday. has withdrawn. The Women's Tennis Association announced on Tuesday night that Graf withdrew because she "did not want to aggravate her back". Graf won her first-round singles match on
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 708 15  -  France will showcase more of its talents in a bigger and better festival, reports Corinne Kerk Corinne Kerk FOR THOSE of you who remember and enjoyed the first French Festival held here two years ago, the good news is that it's coming back and on
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    • 391 15 Reuter THE arrest of British actor Hugh Grant, best known as a shy romantic in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, for allegedly having sex with an American prostitute was front page news in Britain yesterday. Grant, 34, was booked in Los Angeles
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    • 332 15 CHATTERBOX AP AP AP AFTER months of rumours, it's finally official. Princess Stephanie of Monaco will wed Daniel Ducruet, her former bodyguard and father of her two children, on Saturday. Stephanie's lawyer, Thierry Lacoste, made the wedding announcement from his Paris office on Tuesday, saying
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  • 484 16 EUROPEAN Union heads of government concluded their two-day Riviera summit this week with a less than rousing call to arms on the question of mass unemployment. The EU economy "must be made more dynamic", the assembled leaders announced. Greater dynamism will, it is hoped, help
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  • 376 16 ANY ATTEMPT to divine the direction in which Indonesia will travel must take into account one crucial factor the longevity of President Suharto. He is reported to be in absolute control and personal prestige has risen with his international forays, chiefly over Apec and the
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  • 148 16 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong's remark that the government is glad to see slower economic growth as long as it does not lead to a sharp rise in unemployment is in no way a suggestion that Singaporeans can slow down. What it really means is that Singaporeans
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  • 166 16 A South Korean freighter carrying 2,000 tonnes of rice left Tonghae port for North Korea last night. Sea Apex is the first South Korean ship to enter North Korea. Under an agreement by the two Koreas, South Korea will provide 150,000 tonnes of rice to the poor
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  • 130 16 THE billion ringgit question now being asked on the Kuala Lumpur stock market is when will the impact of the liberalisation moves announced last week be felt. Will the fund managers take a bite at what some analysts say is "an attractive bait" and flock to the
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  • 111 16 LEGISLATORS have welcomed the government's decision to amend police (and other law enforcement agencies') powers to search for and seize journalists' material, and there has been cautious support for the proposed repeal of the government's powers to deport and detain suspects and requisition land under the Emergency Regulations
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  • 112 16 A SIGH of relief will be heard in Hongkong, once the government has carried through its initiative to reform the draconian laws against press freedom that have been on the statute book since the *****. Predictably, the sigh will not be echoed in Beijing. The Chinese object
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  • 951 16  -  Barings' collapse has set off a new wave of foreign acquisitions in London's financial sector, reports Neil Behrmann Neil Behrmann The writer is a London-based journalist who contributes to BT THEY are talking about Big Bang Mark 11 in the City of London. In
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    • 1091 17  -  Asian INFRASTRUCTURE A monthly series Developing transport networks is a priority in China, Indonesia and the Philippines. Build-operate-transfer projects are the buzz, reports S N Vasuki S N Vasuki INVESTING in China's highways sector is proving to be a mixed blessing for
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    • 687 17 THE Ramos administration is betting that its success in attracting foreign investment in the power sector can be repeated in highways. It has unveiled five priority BOT (Build-Operate-Trans-fer) projects, involving total investment of U554.65 billion (556.46 billion) on 869 km of roads. Dr Alan
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    • 1144 17 INDONESIA'S Public Works Minister Radinal Moochtar is an extremely busy man these days. Ever since the government unveiled an aggressive plan in April to substantially increase private investment in toll roads, some of the biggest names in the construction business have been beating
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  • 507 18 UPI WASHINGTON The Clinton administration is pursuing a strategy that engagement of China's Communist regime instead of containment will be the key to maintaining American interests in Asia into the 21 st century, officials told a House panel on Tuesday.
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  • 336 18 Cable Wireless, Veba one step closer to global alliance Bloomberg Business News LONDON Veba AG and Cable Wireless pic have sealed an alliance to operate telecommunications services across Europe in what is expected to be the first stage of a larger global partnership with a US-based company. The German utility
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  • 144 18 AFP JERUSALEM Israel wants to build a coalition with Syria to block Iran, which could become a nuclear power within six years, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said yesterday. "By negotiating with Syria, we are trying to establish a strategy and
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  • 268 18 AP TOKYO Five partners from Asia, the Middle East and the United States will build the world's longest fibre optic cable, linking Japan and Britain, an executive from one of the partners said yesterday. The cable, which will be able to
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  • 294 18 AFP AP LONDON Two heavyweights in Prime Minister John Major's cabinet yesterday refused to rule out standing for his job should he fall in the first round of a self-imposed Tory leadership battle next Tuesday. Employment Secretary Michael Portillo and
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  • 369 18 The Straits Times TOKYO Japan says it will be ready to steer Apec towards a clear plan of action when it meets in Osaka in November. Japanese Foreign Ministry officials yesterday described as "totally unfounded" perceptions that Japan was moving
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  • 876 18  -  The Bottom Line ALVIN TAY ALVIN TAY The writer is BT's news editor ARE local banks running a quiet campaign of their own to promote thrift among the small depositors? How else would you explain why local banks' existing interest
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  • 250 18 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Prices paid by US businesses for imports rose for the fifth consecutive month in May increasing the risk of higher inflation as the cost of non-petro-leum imports posted the largest gain in more than six years. Total import
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  • WORLD IN ABOX
    • 87 18 Reuter HELSINKI Male officials yesterday revealed their nappy-changing habits as part of a bid to help European men break free of macho stereotypes and cultivate their more feminine traits in family life. "I changed nappies years ago," said Bernard Durkan, minister of state from Ireland's department of social
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    • 66 18 AFP JERUSALEM Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's coalition government yesterday fought off a parliamentary no-confidence motion against the Israeli army's scheduled redeployment on the West Bank. The right-wing Likud and National Religious Party brought the motion saying a pullout from Palestinian towns would endanger the lives of the
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    • 95 18 AFP TOKYO Japanese Premier Tomiichi Murayama will offer US$lOO million (SSI39 million) in low-interest loans to South Africa when President Nelson Mandela (right) visits here next week. Foreign ministry officials yesterday said it will be Japan's first yen loans under its official development assistance (ODA) to
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    • 80 18 Reuter BRAZZAVILLE The Constitution of Congo, whose transition to multi-party democracy has been difficult and often bloody, has been produced in cartoon strip form to make it accessible to a wider public. State media yesterday said Germany's Hanns Seidcl Foundation funded the project for a Congolese artist
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    • 99 18 Reuter WASHINGTON The US House of Representatives was set to vote late yesterday on a constitutional amendment to protect the American flag, and supporters are confident it will pass by the required two-thirds majority. "We are going to respond to the will of the overwhelming majority
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    • 78 18 Reuter SANTA ANA, California Residents of California's bankrupt Orange County have refused to help rescue the county from financial ruin, voting in force to reject a controversial half-cent sales tax increase. More than 61 per cent of Orange County voters rejected the tax measure on Tuesday,
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    • 65 18 Reuter PAPEETE, French Polynesia France authorised the Rainbow Warrior yesterday to sail into its South Pacific waters, where it is to stage a protest against France's decision to resume nuclear weapons testing. The French Polynesian High Commission said it had given the Greenpeace flagship, a worldwide symbol for
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    • 105 18 AFP CAIRO Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers clashed in a disputed border area, leaving wounded on both sides as tension rose after the failed attempt on President Hosni Mubarak's life. An official yesterday said the clash erupted late on Tuesday after Sudanese soldiers opened fire at an Egyptian patrol
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    • 103 18 Reuter PARIS Japan was the largest donor to poor countries in 1994, holding the top spot for the second year by giving US$l3.2 billion in aid, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said yesterday. But the rich world as a whole, struggling to rein in
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 546 19  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Construction Supplies House Bhd (CASH) yesterday confirmed market rumours that the Malaysian Securities Commission has rejected its proposed M 52.59 billion (551.48 billion) deal with Indonesia's PT Barito Pacific Timber. CASH'S merchant banker Utama Wardley Bhd said in a
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    • 748 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Leslie Lopez JAKARTA In June last year, Indonesian tycoon Prajogo Pangestu stunned the Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta markets when he revealed plans to wrest control of Malaysia's Construction Supplies House Bhd (CASH). Touting the deal as a grand timber alliance, company
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    • 406 19  -  Proceeds raised will go to investments and debt refinancing By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Liang Court Holdings, which has just won another management contract in Bangkok, plans to raise about US$B4.3 million (SSIIB million) for its local and foreign investments and to refinance its debt.
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    • 396 19 Singapore it's business as usual at beverage group Yeo Hiap Seng, and staff morale is good, YHS managing director Alex Chan told Business Times yesterday. YHS is the prize in a hostile takeover bid mounted on Monday by a powerful consortium led
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    • 494 19  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Analysts expect little change at OCBC Bank after the impending departure of chairman Tony Tan, who is rejoining the government as Deputy Prime Minister. Analysts contacted by BT say the bank will continue to grow and flourish in its
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    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        52 19 Mixed '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. W Carr and S
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        92 19  -  By Paul Leo LIEN HOE is a buy at yesterday's close of $1.61 but investors must be prepared to hold it for a few months. Stochastics are below 25, indicating an oversold situation, but Moving Average Convergence Divergence Indicators are oscillating around zero, pointing to a consolidation. Supports
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANYBRIEFS
        • 64 20 SINGAPORE CAM Mechatronic has posted a 9 per cent increase in net earnings to $4.56 million for the six months to March 31, due to strong demand in the computer industry. Turnover grew 18 per cent to $57.5 million from $48.71 million previously. CAM said
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        • 74 20 SINGAPORE Alliance Multimedia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alliance Technology and Development, has set up a new company to develop virtual reality shows and products in a joint venture with the Institute of Systems Science Corp. Alliance will hold a 70 per cent stake in the
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        • 70 20 SINGAPORE Amtek International, the investment subsidiary of Amtek Engineering, has accepted an offer to take one-third stake in the shares of Fisher Tech, a precision plastic parts maker. Amtek will buy one million new shares of I each at a subscription price of $2
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        • 46 20 SINGAPORE Jurong Shipyard Ltd announced that its shareholdings in Jurong Engineering Ltd (JEL) had reached 8.25 million shares or 20 per cent of JEL's issued share capital on June 27. JEL has thus become an associate company of Jurong Shipyard.
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        • 44 20 SINGAPORE Pan Pacific Public Co said that one of its directors, Yap Boh Pin, had acquired 125,000 shares at $0.50 per share through the firm's last rights issue, bringing his total shareholdings to 375,000 as at March 31.
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        • 77 20 AFP KUALA LUMPUR KFC Holdings (Malaysia) Bhd said yesterday that it would open another 20 restaurants this year to cater to chicken-lovers in Malaysia and Brunei as a boardroom battle continued to unfold. The company, which operates Malaysia's largest fast-food chain through a
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      • 456 20  -  By David Mok SINGAPORE Electrical accessories maker Clipsal Industries will set up a manufacturing subsidiary for architectural light fittings in China, venture into new markets and roll out a major product line later this year. Clipsal executive chairman Victor Lo yesterday said
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      • 292 20 SINGAPORE Cinema operator Eng Wah Organisation yesterday reported a 44 per cent slump in net earnings to $1.65 million largely due to a dearth of Chinese blockbuster hits. Turnover dipped 10 per cent to $14.75 million for the year ended March 31, while
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      • 335 20  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Construction company Lee Kim Tah Holdings intends to raise $40.12 million through a one-for-10 rights issue of loan stock with warrants. Each right will entitle the holder to subscribe for $5 of loan stock with three warrants. The
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      • 340 20 SINGAPORE Marinebased Hai Sun Hup Group suffered a 15.5 per cent fall in net earnings to $20.2 million in the year to March 31, 1995. Announcing its results yesterday, the group attributed the fall to lower charter rates and
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      • 183 20 SINGAPORE Steamers Maritime has bought another containership for US$2O million (5527.8 million). Just last month, the marine and telecommunications group bought a similar ship. With the latest acquisition, it now owns four. Steamers said yesterday it bought the ship Kimanis through its 40
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      • 351 20 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian timber tycoon Muhamad "Bob" Hasan has been appointed head of Bank Duta in a major reshuffle. At an annual meeting here yesterday, shareholders also voted to replace the presidentdirector and two directors and expand the board of directors with three new
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      • 537 20 Maaagari' pricM Jun 29 Sh Greater China Fd 1.00® .|_i» X Mendaki Gr Fund 1.02 1.05® Singapore unit irust us Gr Fund 1.04 io8** The Commerce 1.55 i.64xd »u-t iu The Savings Fund 1.49 1 58 UWH ASSei mgl LOT S'porc Prog Fund 0.61 0.65 Unifiind 1.41 L47 Spore See
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      • 358 21 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's cabinet has given final approval for Taiwan convertible bonds to be converted into stocks, but securities analysts yesterday saw positive and negative effects on the stock market. The cabinet's decision is the last approval needed for the measure. A cabinet
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      • 81 21 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Appliance and packaging group Southcorp Holdings has agreed to buy the Smorgan family's plastics packaging business for AS 162 million (Ssl62 million). The acquisition includes a 50 per cent stake in a Malaysian packaging business which has contracts to supply bottles
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      • 84 21 AFP SYDNEY Australian food group Goodman Fielder has announced a revamp of its Asian operations aimed at doubling profits from the region within four years. The group said it had reorganised its Asian businesses into one organisation under Asian region chief executive Mark Holcombe.
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      • 87 21 Reuter HONGKONG New T& T Hongkong, a unit of Wharf (Holdings), said it had been awarded a licence to compete with Hongkong Telecommunications in the domestic fixed telecommunications sector. New T T will start its service to business customers in October and to residential
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      • 92 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Morgan Stanley Co has named Joseph M F Chan as head of equity trading and risk management for its Asian operations outside Japan. In taking up the post, Mr Chan will move to Hongkong from London, where he was head of
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      • 75 21 Reuter SYDNEY The Australia government said on Tuesday it would change media laws to stop television station owners from owning more than 15 per cent of a newspaper published in the same market. The limit also applies to a newspaper owner's television interests. The
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      • 389 22 Bloomberg Business News Reuter STUTTGART DaimlerBenz \G, Germany's biggest industrial group, said yesterday £t expects a "severe loss" in ;1995 after setting aside at least pne billion Deutschemarks (Ssl billion) to counter jthe mark's rise against the
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      • 192 22 Bloomberg Business News CORNING, New York Coming Inc said its secondquarter earnings rose 23 per cent, excluding a U*****.5 million (Ssslo million) charge the company took because its Dow Corning Corp joint venture filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May. Profit from operations
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      • 220 22 Reuter LONDON Retailer Sears, best known for its Selfridges store in London, became the latest British stores group to suffer from tough trading conditions on Tuesday as it warned of lower first-half profit and disappointing sales. The group's shares fell on the
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      • 653 22 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a series of rule changes that would make it easier for companies to raise capital through stock sales. Under one proposal, private companies could test the market for their stock before
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      • 428 22 NYT NEW YORK Tired of dealing with arbitragers, Viacom Inc said on Tuesday that it will pay investors a total of US$B3 million (SSII6 million) for securities issued to shareholders of Paramount Communications when Viacom acquired it last year. The securities, called contingent
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 552 24 Bloomberg Business News MANILA Foreign banks are making a comeback in the Philippines, after a hiatus since 1948 when all but four were banned for being potential destroyers of the economy. Under the economic liberalisation programme of President Fidel Ramos,
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      • 252 24 Reuter LONDON The Bank of England will adopt new European rules which could have saved it more than £70 million (S$ 154 million) four years ago, after the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), banking sources
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      • 229 24  -  By Siow Li Sen SINGAPORE The Singapore Commodity Exchange (Sicom) is introducing a new Sicom trading permit which costs $750 for six months to boost trading and increase liquidity in the Robusta coffee futures contracts. In addition, it will also introduce
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      • 507 24 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Mitsubishi Bank's move to package real estate collateral on problem loans as bonds for sale in Europe will be difficult for ether tipinrir banks to replicate, government officials and analysts said. The Nihon Keizai newspaper reported that
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      • 187 24 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong banks' profits will grow an average 10 per cent in 1995, according to a bank report. The Bank of China's Hongkong branch said in a report that deposits could grow faster than lending this year, while the rising cost of
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      • 370 24 Reuter BOMBAY India's oil exploration and production companies offer a great opportunity to investors, investment firm Smith New Court said in a study on India's oil and gas sector. "Oil and gas demand will grow 20 per cent faster than GDP, imports are
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      • 328 24 SINGAPORE Refiners of crude oil in East Asia may look back on the second half of 1995 as a time of calm before the proverbial storm. While refinery executives expect profits from the business of transforming oil into refined products to stay above
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      • 185 24 Reuter LONDON The dollar was stable in early Europe with the market fixated on the outcome of the US-Japan car talks but convinced they were doomed to failure. Although market watchers anticipated mild knee-jerk dollar selling if the negotiations were fruitless, dealers said lack of agreement was well priced
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      • 88 24 AFP NEW YORK The dollar strengthened slightly against the major currencies yesterday in light trading as a make-or-break deadline in US-Japan trade negotiations neared. Around 1340 GMT, the dollar was trading at 1.3890 marks against 1.3870 on Tuesday and at 84.50 yen against 84.25. In London, the dollar
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        1340 24 I rade-»eighted index cakulalixl against S'pore's lop 14 trading partner* Base year 1985 US$/S$ forward rates Noon /Jun 28 S$ Bid Offer 1-month ***** 1.3919 2-month 1.3864 1.3879 3-month 1.3824 1.3839 6-month 1.3706 1.3726 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As art San m Jun 28 Singapore dollars to oik
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1293 25 SIMEX REPORT r k Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollars were firm at close while Euroyen were lower after narrowrange trade. Dealers said Eurodollars were trapped in sideways trade ahead of the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee meeting next week. They said market consensus was that
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      • 681 25 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber TOKYO: All months of Tokyo rubber futures fell after investors sold all day, discouraged by Tuesday's bearish mood. Prices were 2.2 to 3.5 yen per kg lower, with benchmark December down 3.5 at 124.1. Investors liquidated long positions from the opening,
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      • 86 25 TOKYO The threat of US sanctions against imports of some Japanese cars is already curbing demand for copper and other non-ferrous metals in Japan. The threat of 100 per cent import tariffs on 13 models of Japanese luxury cars, announced midMay, has already prompted
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      • 92 25 BOMBAY India's high-level Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Tuesday approved a partnership deal between Indian Oil Corp and the Kuwait Petroleum Corp for a completely new refinery in eastern India, the United News of India said. The approval came a year after the two firms
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      • 47 25 HONGKONG China's 1994-95 (Sep-Aug) sugar production reached 5.41 million tonnes, down from the previous year's levels near six million, the official Market Daily reported yesterday. Of the total, sugar produced from sugar cane was 4.46 million tonnes and from sugar beet 949,000 tonnes.
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      • 76 25 WASHINGTON The House Appropriations Committee yesterday approved, by a vote of 26-15, a plan to block the Clinton administration from going ahead with a long-sought revamping of USDA meat inspection procedures. Under the amendment approved by the committee, USDA, industry and labour unions would spend
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    • 1411 25 SICOM Futures Mbir (fvtaras dosing as at 5.3tpa) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) (lose Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest hli 210.00 207.00 208.50 100 50 Aug 206.50 206.50 207.00 500 3925 Sep 205.50 202.00 202.50 850 1950 Oct/Dcc 201.00 201.00 201.00 975 6825 Jan/Mar 96
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1016 26 +8.8 SHARE prices closed higher yesterday as investors snapped up stock at bargain prices after a weak morning session. "There is general uncertainty in the market, but it has got to a stage when bargain hunters are coming in," said a dealer. "It looks like it's going to be
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      • 579 26 +3.92 Share prices closed higher as bargain-hunters took advantage of the prolonged downturn that began last week. "Bargain-hunters focused on Philippine National Bank and Manila Electric," a dealer said. The PSE Index rose 3.92 points to 2,751.71. Turnover was 5.98 billion shares valued at 933.4 million pesos. The rise
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      • 509 26 -97.13 Share prices closed 1.73 per cent lower as investors adjusted their holdings, with pulp and paper shares and textiles hit hardest, dealers said. "Investors turned cautious and adjusted their holdings while the market was undergoing a correction," said a trader. The 321-issue Weighted Price Index lost 97.13 points
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      • 491 26 +3.91 Share prices posted a 0.5 per cent rebound after the government intervened to reverse a sharp drop triggered by jitters over the humiliating defeat of the ruling party in local elections. The Composite Price Index went up 3.91 points to settle at 872.68. Trading volume was thin with
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      • 300 26 -5.70 Shares ended slightly down after a quiet session. Telecom ended at NZ55.55, down one cent, but brokers said there still appeared to be some big sellers. About 2.56 million Telecom shares, worth NZSI4.2 million, were traded. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended 5.70 points down at 2,025.32 on
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      • 104 26 +22.96 stocks were mixed as tight money market conditions and high interest rates scared away investors, analysts said. Many companies are selling off their stock market investments to fund expansion plans rather than borrow at high interest rates, they said. But some speculators were building up positions for shortterm
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      • 950 26 Britannia Funds Statiaf Cask Bid Oder Mini Cap Deposit 3*6400 3* 6300 Mm Jenty Gdl_ 0.1*93 ft 1992 Mim Mil Inconie ****** ****** USS CmI 1 Kane PVb Find 10 3100 II 1400 PS S Reserve Fund 3 5100 3 3200 0.4392 0 49IS Far East Fund *2.7650 ****** Man
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      • 713 26 -30.5 UK STOCKS tumbled for a second time this week amid concern that the Conservative government may relax its grip on inflation and spending no matter who wins the party's leadership contest. Interest-rate sensitive bank stocks paced the decline, on peculation that a shaky performance by the pound sparked
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      • 138 26 -12.22 French shares closed lower, pressured by weakness in US stocks and a lack of interest in the bourse. "It was a very calm day," a trader said. He said there was no primary force driving the market although Wall Street's weakness weighed on sentiment. The CAC-40 index closed
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      • 215 26 -5.14 German stocks fell in postbourse trading after Daim-ler-Benz AG warned of severe losses for this year. The surprise move hurt major export and industrial stocks amid concern that the strong mark was hurting corporate earnings more than expected. Daimler, the third-heavi-est weighted stock in the DAX Index of
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      • 259 26 -8.14 Belgian stocks fell to a 12day low amid concern that a trade dispute between the US and Japan might not be settled by last night's deadline, which will weaken the dollar, hurting Belgian companies with dollar-denomi-nated sales. Reports in the late afternoon that the US and Japan were
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      • 308 26 -3.81 Dutch shares closed lower after dropping in stages throughout the session. A lower Wall Street pushed the market down in late trade and dealers noted some profit-taking. A slightly firmer dollar was not enough to reverse the trend. The AEX Index shed 3.81 points to close at 433.57.
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      • 268 26 -8.3 Swiss stocks fell as investors sold machinery exporters and other industrials after Daimler-Benz AG, Germany's largest industrial group said it expects a severe loss in 1995. The loss is expected because it has to set aside one billion marks to cover currency-related losses after the dollar's recent slide
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      • 322 26 -28.3 South African shares closed down in more active selling on Wednesday as jitters mounted over the slump in London and other markets, dealers said. Weakening of the rand and gold's dip to USS3B6/87 in late trade had little immediate impact. The Overall Index ended 33.9 points lower at
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      • 742 26 -2.77 Stock prices turned slightly lower in active trading as the market took its cue from bonds, which reversed direction after a firm start. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which slid 8.64 points on Tuesday, was off 2.77 to 4,539.84 at 11am EDT. The key barometer was ahead
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      2725 27 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks dropped as the government's first land auction since March sent mixed signals on the territory's property market. One site sold for more than analysts expected, while the other fell short of forecasts. Together, the sales provided few clues about whether property prices are recovering.
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      550 27 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index lost 2.60 points at 1,127.27 on turnover of HK565.5 million. Yizheng and Shanghai Petrochemical were the most active stocks, accounting for over 60 per cent of turnover. Kunming, the worst performer so far this year, closed at a new year low of
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      2523 27 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks fell for a third day amid concerns that the trade friction with the US and the yen's strength would cut into exporters' earnings and derail Jat« pan's economic recovery. 2KL "The trade problem is one of the biggest concerns of the market right now,"
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      1679 27 Reuter BANGKOK Shares closed slightly higher in sluggish trading with most investors holding back before Sunday's general election. The SET Index ended 2.75 points higher at 1,379.26 with 61.8 million shares worth 4.7 billion baht changing hands. Advances led declines 153 to 109, while 129 issues closed unchanged. "Most
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      1175 27 Reuter JAKARTA Shares were thought to be mixed at the close, with volume remaining thin and most players staying on the sidelines following computer woes. The exchange said it was having computer problems and could not release figures for its index. It returned to its manual trading system for
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    • 2382 28 Cr Cr IW Lm Vol Da; LmQm Dt» DH VM Net M Cap High Lam Cimhh Srf» (IM) High l/n. Bayer SeOer CV P/K Ml MALAYSIAN STOCKS 471 196 n MSB 50c 36S -I 307 37S 364 366 J6S 3.0 -M 0 2 177.4 127 77.5 la AMDS
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 6693 28 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks fell on concern that the US-Japan trade dispute will spill over into Malaysia. "In the background is the concern that everybody has about international trade," said an analyst. "If there's protection in the air, it's not good
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    • 335 19 NEWS VALUE Economic growth will modorate to 7-8% this year, says MAS (pg 1) No surprises. PM to employers: face up squarely to strong S$ (pg 1) A rising Singapore dollar can be taken as a given in investment decisions. Liang Court plans USsB4m loan issue (this pg) Financing terms
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    • 533 31 Knight-Ridder Reuter THE Baltic Freight Index (BFl) eased five points to 2,002 in a market that brokers said lacked short-term direction. That situation was exacerbated by the fact that South Korean charterers, who exert influence in most areas, are on holiday. Some saw today's losses in the freight
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    • 246 31 Reuter HONGKONG Delays in Hongkong's container port development have caused shipping lines to start looking to Chinese and Taiwanese ports, said Henrik Zeuthen, managing director of Maersk Hongkong. He told a seminar that Sin-o-British political wrangling has stopped local
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    • 322 31 SES '000 Jun 28 S$ Vol CWT Distribution 1.56 -0.03 28 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.13 unch 42 Cosco Investment 1.67 -0.03 18 Cosco Investment A 1.74 Far East Levingsto 6.5 unch 203 GB Holdings Ltd 0.755 +0.005 13 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.82 unch 160 Hitachi Zosen Sing
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    • 433 31  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE In a move indicative of the stiff competition in the liner trades, member shipping lines in the Asia North American Eastbound Rate Agreement (Anera) withdrew a previously announced fuel surcharge increase. In a statement from San Francisco, Anera
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    • 59 31 Reuter ST PETERSBURG Russian seamen taking part in a rescue operation exercise on a training ship Kamensk, near St Petersburg out in the Finnish Bay which is used as a training base. Every Russian seaman has to undergo rescue operation training at one of the
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    • 251 31 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia needs more ports to cope with rapid container traffic growth which is clogging up Jakarta's main Tanjung Priok port, Industry Minister Tunky Ariwibowo said. "We have problems in the harbour because of the high growth
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    • 103 31 AFP SEOUL South Korean and Japanese maritime police have found the hull of a Liberianregistered freighter which sank with all hands off the Korean coast last week after a mid-sea collision, news reports said on Tuesday. Yonhap news agency quoted the police in nearby Cheju
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    • 339 31  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE The volume of tanker and combined tonnage laid-up or idle in May hit 9.3 million deadweight tonnes (dwt) the highest for the year. According to London-based E A Gibson Shipbrokers, 92 tankers and combined carriers were
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    • 255 31 UPI SINGAPORE Panama embassy officials in Singapore yesterday said they are appealing to Chinese authorities to stop a Panama-registered, Singaporeowned cargo ship hijacked in the Gulf of Thailand on Friday and now bound for southern China. The ship's Singaporean owner
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    • 137 31 Reuter BANGKOK Thoresen Thai Agencies pic said Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved its application for an IPO. Thoresen, a shipping industry group, said it plans to conduct its public offering between July 19 and 21, subject to the SEC's
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    • 945 32  -  Trade with the European Union is growing strongly, good news for Channel ports. John Prescott looks at their response to demand for more capacity John Prescott Lloyd's List THE end of the economic recession in Europe, expanded membership of the European Union and a ports
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    • 315 32 Page •ANL 3 Able 7 Accord 10 •Ahlers 6 •Ahrenkiei 4 •Appcnship 4 Astro 10 Austral 11 Avant 6 BSA II Batamindo 7 Bright Express 6 •CCNI 4 •CM A •COSCO 7 •CSAV 3 Centenary 7 Central Ex 11 Chahaya 4 •Cho Yang
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    • 11439 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 :s the ETA at Singapore followed by the ETA at the destination. The page number refers to the location of the schedule
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      • 1545 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Boofcng/Balance ftdh SNp V>y Hi Etb/Bb ftrioi From T» Frwn Aa lade 2448 30/1100 3 29/0700 29/1159 29/1400 4 29/1200 29/1459 29/1700 Aa liy 064A 01/2300 1A 28/1500 28/1659 28/1900 IB 28/1500 28/1659 28/1900 4 29/1200 29/1459 29/1700 Aa
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      • 849 43 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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      • 313 44  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Ground handler Changi International Airport Services has formed a joint venture in China to provide ground handling and terminal maintenance services at Guangzhou Bai Yun International Airport. CIAS said yesterday its 51 per cent subsidiary DMES Enterprises
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      • 56 44 Reuter SEOUL Heavy traffic inching its way past the construction of a subway in Seoul yesterday. With the city's mayoral election over, the residents of Seoul are waiting to see if the newly-elected mayor, Cho Soon, will hold good on his main campaign pledge to ease the
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      • 348 44 Reuter SHANGHAI They may be talking tough with Japan, but in China the "Big Three" US automakers have taken a different tack: sweet words and smiles. On Tuesday, they made a new pitch by displaying their latest models at
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      • 288 44 AFP SHANGHAI China cannot rely on cars to move its masses as in the West without triggering an ecological catastrophe, German car manufacturer Volkswagen said here on Tuesday. Martin Posth, chairman and president of Volkswagen Asia-Pacific, told reporters that the projected daily traffic
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      • 199 44 Reuter LOS ANGELES Executives from nearly two dozen airlines voiced opposition on Tuesday to a 32 per cent increase in landing fees at Los Angeles International Airport, claiming the city is neglecting the airport. In a letter released by the Air Transport
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      • 261 44 Bloomberg Business News DALLAS Southwest Airlines Co will test hand-held computers next month to assist passengers in baggage check-in. The Windows-based computers are part of Southwest's "ticketless" travel system, a programme airline officials say will save the carrier US$2O million (Ss2B million) annually* Beginning July
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      • 337 44 AFP BEIJING China is to raise fares for foreigners travelling on its internal air routes by up to 30 per cent from July I, the official news agency Xinhua announced on Tuesday. The increases will affect "some" domestic fares, boosting
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      • 188 44 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR KL International Airport (KLIA), the new international airport being built in Sepang, 50 km from here, will be as competitive as Singapore's Changi Airport if Malaysia Airlines (MAS) introduces more non-stop routes, according to an industry analyst. Simon Pickup, a
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      • LOGBOOK
        • 129 44 MBT KUALA LUMPUR In an effort to help its airline customers reduce costs, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group announced that it will maintain the 1995 prices of its spare parts in the Spares Standards Catalogue at 1994 levels until June 30, 1996. This move, according to
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        • 101 44 Reuter PARIS The International Chamber of Commerce has urged European Union Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock to impose stricter controls on state aid to airlines. It said subsidies distort competition and can delay needed restructuring. "If a liberalised market is to work properly, every participant
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        • 129 44 AFP PHNOM PENH Royal Air Cambodge (RAC), Cambodia's national new airline, on Tuesday began a Boeing 737 service to Siem Reap, the site of the fabled 12th-century temples of Angkor Wat, company officials said. Previously, the airline and its predecessor, Kampuchea Airlines, flew smaller,
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        • 125 44 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE, Florida Harris Corp said it is part of a group that received an eight-year contract to develop an airport management system for Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Terms of the contract weren't disclosed. Harris said it has teamed with Malaysia's
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        • 83 44 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Electric Train will run to Seremban, its southern most point from October this year, Deputy Transport Minister Oatuk Mohamed Ali Rustam said on Tuesday. Trial runs between Kuala Lumpur and Rawang would begin next month and after that free service
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