The Business Times, 2 November 1995

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  • 21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 194/12/94 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes S I N G A P 0 R E THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2,1995 85c
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  • 76 1 SXCHAUGE BATES vst St 081 1.415 I 1.671 in0 W..> •.701. 1.004 IWL 0J82 1.389 m 0J» 0.556 BAHT 0.040. 0056 KLTtAH 0.044. 0.062 MLD BKctoe JIKtMM +J Loadaa PM flx....US«82.«5 +0.45 fBIMEIARS SIWJAORE* 144 KUALA LUMPUR 7.* i JAKARTA 17.50 BANGKOK 13.56 MANILA ii 00 ■ONQKONU J.00 t/UPB
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  • 434 1  -  Quid pro quo may be a stake in listed giant Telekom Malaysia From Ho Kay Tat in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian government has asked billionaire Halim Saad, Renong Bhd's executive chairman, to consider taking over the troubled national steel company Perwaja. A senior government
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  • 320 1  -  From Peter Seidlitz in Beijing CHINA has picked Chief Secretary Anson Chan to be Hongkong's first Chief Executive when it assumes sovereignty over the British colony on July 1,1997. This was confirmed to senior members of the Beringappointed Hongkong adviser group this week
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  • 392 1  -  Prices in Districts 9, 10 and 11 show no signs of easing By. Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Prices of upmarket freehold condominiums in the choice areas the former Districts 9,10 and 11 have shown no signs of easing despite weaker sentiment in
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  • 193 1 [SINGAPORE] Rumours swirled yesterday of more cases of forged Malaysian share scrip, dragging prices in Kuala Lumpur sharply lower and severely affecting sentiment here. Brokers said that investors, already spooked by news of forged Genting shares, were responding to talk that major
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  • 341 1  -  By\ R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Acma is expected to make a 5117.5 million killing by selling part of its stake in a US chip maker, thus vindicating further a strategy it replicated just days before by buying into another American company. The electronics and
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    • 145 1 (kfl sou prime astnct? H Postal codes may chop and change but the prestige of districts 0,10,11 -or shall we say Districts 22-30- remains largely intact. Executive Lifestyle, Pg« VALUE H&lnaay takaewrtrwfafed P®rw*|a this page The Halim factor would probacy come Into play when the stock market is hot again.
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    • 14 1 Amsob Chan: Quietly using her Shanghainese family to put message across on Hongkong's future.
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 708 2  -  Df PARLIAMENT But MPs more circumspect daring debate on family violence bill tabled by NMP Kanwajjit Soin By Chuang Peck Ming PARLIAMENT yesterday voted to get tough with the illegal employment of foreign workers but when it came to family violence, the inclination was to
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    • 537 2  -  New agency will also take over role of nurturing SMEs Byi Genevieve Cua ALLAN CHAN THE National Productivity Board and the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research are to merge in a bid to recharge flagging productivity growth and provide new wind to
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    • PARLIAMENT BRIEFS
      • 118 2 A FIXED but lower scale for conveyancing feet will stay for some time to come, following a recommendation by the Conveyancing Fees Review Committee. But scale fees would gradually have to go to give way to market forces, Law Minister SJayakumar said. Scale fees would
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      • 116 2 COMPENSATION fbr land acquired by the government will now be assessed at its market value as at Jan 1 tills year or at its current value, whichever ia lower. The new benchmark for land compensation will apply to all properties acquired from Sep 27. according to
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      • 67 2 THE Patents (Amendment) Bill paaaed yesterday gives the government the right to make uaeofa patented invention during a national emergency without the consent of the inventor. It can alao similarly make uae of thainvaattoH in 'Mother circumstances of extreme urgency "or in Icaseeof public non-commercial
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      • 72 2 ALSO paaaed yesterday was the Employment >. (Amendment) Bill, which brings the labour laws up-to-date. Employers will now find it less of a hassle to redeploy workvs in a corporate restructuring. Computing over-time pay will also be less confusing with a new and clearer definition of the
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    • 275 3  -  EYE ON TBE ECONOMY Telecoms By] Michelle Low INTERNATIONAL call traffic grew more slowly in August, with year-on-year growth at 17.2 per cent during the month. July had shown some resurgence in call volume. The number of calls made in July was 23.1 per cent
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    • 494 3  -  The joint venture will establish plants for manufacturing ceramic tiles and for processing granite By- Jenny Lam HOME-GROWN conglomerate Wuthelam group has tied up with financial giant Goldman Sachs for the first time to invest in ceramic tile manufacturing and granite processing
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    • 284 3  -  By' Christopher Tan CITYCAB has entered into a $10 mlUion venture with Cabcharge Australia to duplicate the success the cashless taxi payment network has had Down Under. A new company wUI be formed for the purpose. Cabcharge Asia, 85
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    • 327 3  -  $2.4b trade keeps the Republic among Vietnam's top trading partners By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE remains one of Vietnam's top trading partners, with two-way business rising 27 per cent to $2.38 billion in the first nine months of this year. As in the past nine years, the
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    • 83 3 TRADE data duplication and its tiresome paper trail will be banished when the Trade Development Board launches its Total Electronic Trade Documentation System. The integrated electronic system wUI support the flow of information and documentation within the entire trading cycle, the TDB says
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    • 248 4  -  Posh to make local service industry more productive By. Jennifer Lien THE National Productivity Board (NPB) has made more headway in promoting productivity in the local services industry. Yesterday, the board extended its "economic groupings" concept to the household electrical appliance, laundry and
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    • 211 4  -  By Christopher Tan "IT's crazy, actually, spending a few hundred bucks a day leaving it parked in the garage each day," lamented a young for a tai tai bespectacled woman aloud to no one in particular. The high net-worth individuals within earshot murmured in agreement.
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    • 174 4 FORMER Bankers Trust director Ho Tian Yee and former fund manager for the government Greg Seow have set up a fund management company. Mr Seow said that Pacific Asset Management has just been incorporated and they will be applying for an |dviser's
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    • 493 4  -  AT THE BAR Continental drill adds limp to British, Anssle presence as; companies branch out By l Conrad Raj MENTION foreign law firms in Singapore, and j usually British and Australian firms spring Id mind. That's because as a former British
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    • NEWS Roundup
      • 51 4 THE Singapore International Foundation and the Export Institute of Singapore are jointly organising a seminar on "Living, working and doing business in Vietnam" on Nor 21-22 at the Carlton HoteL For more details contact Hemalkh Singfa or Sumltn» Nathan at th» Slnppnr* International Foundation, teL
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      • 48 4 ROVING customers on Mobile Link's Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) will be contactabie on their Singapore mobile phone number even when they travel to Taiwaa from December. BhMM>ont Telecom yesterday signed an agntameat DMtaace Telecommunications Administration ofTaiwan toprovM an automatic GSM roaming service.
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      • 19 4 THE Telecommunication awarded the second public trunked radio licence to ST Sa P® l: Y:r
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    • 20 2 4 quick ,4 look at the markets. For Financial News, call 1900-913-0001, at m 30 cents a ,3 i minute.
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
    • 1311 6  -  The numbers may change but the prestige of the prime districts remains largely intact By Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] IF your postal code is *****2, you probably live in what property people call the Chanel of prime condominiums, Four Seasons Park. But how recognisable is *****2?
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    • 314 6  -  Launches precede start of traditional hiatus during December holidays By. Abdul Hadhi AS PART of the final burst of property launches before the dull December holiday season takes over, three properties are being marketed this week. City Developments has the biggest number of
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    • 455 6 November 9 10 11 1995. Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre THE CONFERENCE John Halliday Royal Hong Kong Jockey Don Allison, Hong Kong Golf Association. Cluh/Doug Williams Gary Player Group Ltd. "Golf development in Hong Kong; Junior Richard Walne The Toro Co. "Raising the "The Hong Kong public golf project
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 201 8 KUALA LUMPUR M&l&ysi&n cabinet decided on the trip, saysßafidah Reuter MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Osaka, Japan, later this month, Malaysian radio said yesterday. International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz told reporters
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    • 441 8  -  BANGKOK Review of incentives, inrlinHng glaahiwg import taxes for foreign firms being considered By, Alan Boyd THAILAND is considering drastic cuts in import taxes for foreign investors possibly by as much as 95 per cent amid signs that the country is losing its
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    • 36 8 [HANOI] Two Vietnamese air force officials trying an IBM Thinkpad computer during the opening of the Vietnam Computer Expo '95 in Hanoi yesterday. International computer giants are taking part in the exhibition. REUTER
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    • 187 8 BANGKOK Some ministers viewed negatively by stock market Reuter THAI premier Banharn Silpaarcha has ruled out a cabinet reshuffle although a reorganisation could appease critics and enhance the government's image, political analysts and diplomats said yesterday. Mr Banharn, who led a sev-en-party coalition to power
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    • 81 8 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg Business News A CONSORTIUM bringing together government and private companies plans to build a US$l.3 billion (551.83 billion) semiconductor wafer plant in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, according to the American company. Interconnect Technology, which will run the project. Money for
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    • NOTE Book
      • 48 8 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia yesterday launched its subscription TV service, offering five channels of 24-hour international programming, Bernama news agency reported. Mega TV will broadcast CNN International news, the Cartoon Network, sports channel ESPN, the Discovery documentary channel and movie channel Home Box Office.—AFP
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      • 73 8 Bernama [KUALA LUMPURI Tax consultancy firm Arthur Andersen says the introduction of the saies and service tax appears imminent within the next two years, it said the intention of the government in integrating and restructuring the present sales and service tax was to broaden the
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      • 47 8 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR) Malaysia can attract investors by diversifying its telecommunication network. Towards this aim, leading consultant Kenichi Ohmae suggested Malaysia introduce a direct mail to and from the Asia Pacific. Mr Ohmae was speaking at Infotech Malaysia '96 here yesterday.—Bernama
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      • 69 8 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR! Carnival staples such as roller-coasters, bumper cars and Ferris wheels have been banned in Kelantan state by its Muslim fundamentalist leaders, who say the rides allow teenagers to have too much body contact. "These rides provide opportunities for the youth of opposite sexes
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • SINO Brief
      • 82 9 Bloomberg Business News [HSINFENG, Taiwan] A nm on the Hsinfeng Farmers' Association, a central Taiwan credit association, ended after depositors withdrew about NT$5OO million (St 26 million) in two days. Depositors raced to withdraw.cash on local news reports that the association had a bad
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      • 30 9 AFP headquarters building during a protest The veterans claimed the KMT failed to live up to its promise to help them improve their welfare—AFP
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      • 65 9 AFP [BEIJING] The book My Father Deng Xiaoping by the ailing Chinese patriarch' 3 youngest daughter, Deng Rong, was selected as biography of the year for 1995, two years after it was first published. The lengthy and often China BiographicUter^re&jciety^itoh praised the work for its "ftdl
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      • 70 9 Reuter CBE2JING] Switzerland has agreed to loan China SFr«) ma j k emrtronnMMgTOtertto projects, th 6 Otina Doily s&id ycstotl&y. Chinese Trade Minister Wu Yi andvisiting Swiss Economic Minister Jean-Pascal Delamuraz signed the loan agreement in Beijing on Tuesday, the newspaper said. It was the
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      • 23 9 AFP [HONGKONG] Chinese troops, acting at the behest of an to mSiS^S<»X^^^te^/>a^ a Guan^ou the incident under
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    • 517 9  -  CHXVA WATCH But without other reforms, the plan's effectiveness Is donbtftal By Lu Ning The writer is a BT correspondent specialising in China LAST week, China's central bank confirmed plans to introduce non-administrative mechanisms to control the nation's aggregate money supply. The People's Bank
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    • 253 9 SHANGHAI Playing the repo market may have burnt some securities houses Reuter CHINESE brokerages are plagued by tens of billions of yuan of debt chains through Tbill repurchase agreements alone and some may not survive the crisis, the Shanghai Securities News said. The
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    • 357 10 TAIPEI 19% of companies surveyed by newspaper posted losses in first nine months of 1995 Reuter IN AN emphatic sign that this Asian Tiger's economy is slowing down, nearly one-fifth of Taiwan's listed firms reported a loss for the first three quarters
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    • 143 10  -  SYDNEY By\ Surinder Singh ONE of Australia's top business leaders, the managing director of Pacific Dunlop, Philip Brass, has been appointed chairman of the Mayor of Shanghai's International Business Leaders' Advisory Council. The appointment is one of China's most prestigious for nonChinese
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    • 73 10 [BEIJING] A retiree working on a weight machine yesterday in a park on Chong Yong Day the Chinese holiday for the elderly, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth month in the Lunar calendar. China is becoming an increasingly old country due to a jump
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    • 314 10 BEIJING Growth should hit 10%, inflation will be kept under 16%, says vice-minister AFP A TOP Chinese economic official has delivered a strongly upbeat assessment of the national economy in 1995, which he forecast would meet all key government targets set at
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    • 231 10 BEIJING Reuter A BAN on foreign acquisition of Chinese firms through the purchase of unlisted shares is temporary and China should encourage such purchases as a form of direct investment, a leading government economist said yesterday. The Bureau of State Assets Management said
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  • ASIA
    • 417 12  -  TOKYO Foreign banks likely to stop charging them a premium on borrowings By Anthony Rowley FOREIGN banks are likely to stop charging Japanese banks a premium on borrowings by the end of this year, said a prominent Japanese banker yesterday. In an
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    • 151 12 SEOUL Reuter DISGRACED South Korean ex-president Roh Tae Woo yesterday appeared at the Seoul Prosecutor General's office to be grilled on a US$654 million (Ss92B million) slush ftincf he amassed while in office. Mr Roh, the first South Korean president, serving or retired, to face
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    • 287 12 TOKYO Ctmpany Übe disciplined fabreaking trading rales Bloomberg Business News JAPAN'S Ministry of Finance will announce today how it plans to punish Merrill Lynch Co for breaking trading rules, Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura said. Though the ministry says it hasn't settled on the
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    • 371 12  -  TOKYO Smw«H litw IMB mooth to restate benefits of alliance to region: Pen 7 By< Anthony Rowley UNITED States president Bill Clinton will use his official visit to Tokyo later this month as a platform for spelling out "why the US-Japan
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  • THE WORLD
    • 304 13 LONDON Company working with customers who makfl high-end computers, including Compaq and IBM Bloomberg Business News PRICES of high-end computers could drop as much as 90 per cent after Intel Corp introduces its Pentium Pro processor, said lan Wilson, the semi-conductor-maker's European
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    • 31 13 [TORONTO] Traders at the Toronto Stock Exchange shouting out their bids and offers during trading on Monday, following the narrow defeat of Quebec's separatists in the referendum. REUTER
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    • 155 13 LONDON NYT THE London Stock Exchange is considering the creation of its own inter-dealer broker a middleman for share deals between market professionals in direct competition with commercial companies which are its own members. The move would help to make up for
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    • 277 13 WASHINGTON Reuter [WASHINGTON] Amid the tussles between Congress and the White House over the budget, the House and Senate moved ahead yesterday with three regular bills to pay for energy and transportation programmes and its own offices. Progress on these funding bills
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    • 139 13 BRUSSELS Reuter THE European Union and the World Bank are forcing farmers to destroy the environment, according to a provocative new book. In a rapid and readable overview, Jack Bond, an independent Dutch-based development consultant, blasts EU and World Bank bureaucrats
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    • 226 13 WASHINGTON Mannfactnring sector slowed at faster rate in Oct, purchasing managers report Reuter THE United States government's main economic forecasting gauge, the index of leading economic indicators, fell 0.1 per cent in September, the Commerce Department said yesterday. Analysts had expected
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    • 125 13 FRANKFURT Bloomberg Business News THE Bundesbank is not likely to cut official interest rates at today's council meeting but analysts said yesterday that anticipation of another eventual rate drop in the current business cycle was growing. No rate action by the central bank
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 725 14  -  THE BOTTOM LDVB OPINION By Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent WHILE the US administration flexes its legal and political muscles to protect intellectual property rights (IPR) internationally, revolutionary technological changes, especially the creation of the cyberworld, raises major questions about whether
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    • 124 14 'Even if you love your dog, if it gets mangy, sometimes you have to shoot it' -IhaluiiSUMwitri deputy prime minister of Thailand and communications magnate on much-hyped Shinawatra projects in Indonesia, the Philippines and India. 'If I had that magic wand that would enable me to wave
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    • 507 14 BY the slenderest of margins, voters decided on Monday that French-speaking Quebec would remain a part of Canada But the bitterness generated during the referendum campaign lingers and continues to divide die country. Fortunately, the narrow margin of the victory places tremendous pressure on Canada's federalists
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    • 903 14  -  Donor nations should help the people to help themselves by providing seed capital for businesses By. Adnan Khashoggi The writer, an international financier, contributed this comment to the Herald Tribune IN 1989, as centrally-planned economies began to disintegrate in Poland and Hungary, United States policy-makers
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    • 800 14 Colombo's mOitAry option SRI LANKAN President Chandrika Kumaratunga has few options for ending her country's civil war. She chooses to carry out a fUU military onslaught in the belief that the Tamil Tigers may soon surrender their armed struggle for independence in the island's north-east. To
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 48 14 DQOHESBPRY By Gary Trudeau I KNEW IT' TKNFJU iOU CALL TUG ART? 66T- YOU MAY NOT BS SICK'PO y VNG PEOPie TO Beueve IN A COMA. J. J., am B K\ KX/PBDYING?IOHATINGOOS L_ BUT YOU'RE ftflK Bmßß f\ WW**' NAMSUJ6RS YOU THINKJN6? Bl SKX.ALL f\) NOTM£N- J siokf
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 1020 15  -  Fellow writers pay tribute to the octogenarian playwright's political activism and power to move people with his plays Pater Marks reports Peter Marks NYT ONE of Edward Albee's fondest memories of Arthur Miller was not inspired by a play, but by a protest.
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    • 398 15 The Moor's Last Sigh has been hailed as a masterpiece Reuter (LONDON] Salman Rushdie, still facing a death threat from Iran over one of his books, is the hottest favourite in the 27year history of the Booker, Britain's top literary prize. Bookmakers view the
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    • 986 16  -  Many Singaporean eclipse chasers travelled to Thailand and Sahah to catch the stellar shew By Helen Chang The writer is a freelance journalist who contributed this article to Executive Lifestyle MORE than one week after the total solar eclipee darkened the skies of Asia, people
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    • CHATTER BOX
      • 154 16 UPI PAUL MOGJJmCBT is weary of having to justify his piaceft in the Beatles legend with people whorngm rl fshalseasag as the heart and soul of the rock croup, he told the Daily J fiaprm in London. Lennon is generally consfclsred the creative, avant-garde songwriter
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      • 80 16 UPI BIOGRAPHER Jams Spate is defending his claim that never before reported until Sf*dk'» Streisand: Hmr Lffrwas published recently. Spada, who had put together two picture books on Streisand* career with the star's help, yrote^e to be interviewed. He says be get the Streiaand-Prealey story from Streisand's
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      • 73 16 UPI Oflbert dates threw the Academy of Arte A Sciences into a tizzy recently when he announced he wanted to take a break from his regular gig producing the Annual Academy Awards ceremonies. But the panic was brief enough. Aim? Ai nhsi I reported in Tuesday's
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      • 81 16 UPI BOBBAMME has emerged from new motherhood as feisty as ewer. She was on Th* Tonight Show wttk JayLmoaa Monday, boasting about having written and directed her first episode ofharsetf-tttledTV show, and came equipped with riding crop, beret and monocle. She admitted that she and JejaCli iiiie recently
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      • 102 16 UPI MONACO'S Fiteisßetelse. enpi mt by a down's r smarts about hie son. Pi ten l»wi,hti the imtomeron the head with an open-handed slap, according to wilnaeses ft weekend gate in New York tor the PrincaeeGraci Foundation. The event ww held in a circus-tented restaurant featuring a show
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    • 738 16  -  But visitors can still eqjoytheshowif they drop their preconceptions By I Susan Tsang REALITY can be boring. And that's what some visitors would feel at the virtual reality exhibition if they expect to experience the stuff they see in movies. "Don't expect the
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    • 328 21  -  Counters with Johore projects suffer in early trading as amdoas investors shed shares w Diana Oon Property counters with Malaysian projects suffered in early selling yesterday but regained some ground later to end the day relatively unscathed. Some investors, worried
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    • 111 21 [SINGAPORE! Uniphone Telecommunications yesterday became the first Malaysian jClob International counter to trade scripless here but no shares changed hands. On the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, the counter had an equally quiet day it closed two sen lower at M 52.94 with just 68
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    • 636 21  -  BOCK LOCK SIBW By William Chia KO PUBLICITY is too much for most companies making initial public offerings. Not so for PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, which is in the market to raise US$3 billion (554.2 billion). Right from the beginning of the year when Telkom's
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    • 168 21  -  By. Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Local multimedia firm Creative Technology said yesterday the High Court had ruled that rival Aztech Systems had infringed Creative's copyright in a software developers' manual. A Creative spokesman said last night the ruling was part of last week's High
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    • 314 21  -  By Rahita Elias (SINGAPORE] The new Philippine associate of marinebased Chuan Hup Holdings plans to start redeveloping its land in Makati in about a year. Chuan Hup acquired 32.52 per cent of Security Land Corp (SLC) which owns 5,567 sq m
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
      • 316 22 Shares open 11% higher after suspension for restructuring Bloomberg Business News [KUALA LUMPUR] Innovest Bhd yesterday opened at M 54.30, an 11 per cent premium to its last closing price, when it resumed trading after a two-month suspension during which the company underwent capital
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      • 76 22 [SINGAPORE] Locally-listed Auric Pacific Group, the former Goodman Fielder Asia, is diversifying from its core business of food processing and distribution into building up its property investments in Singapore and abroad. Auric Pacific is considering various new uses for its properties in Singapore,
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      • 325 22  -  Byi Al Labita [MANILA] The Philippines' largest construction firm, DM Consunji (DMC), will hold a roadshow in Singapore on Nov 9 to drum up investors' interest in its initial public offer (IPO). Handled by US investment bank Salomon Brothers,
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      • 269 22 Plant to get income tax waiver for eight years Bloomberg Business News [BANGKOK] Siam Cement pic and Mitsui Petrochemical Industries Ltd have agreed to a 50-50 shareholding split in a petrochemical venture requiring a total investment of 8.48 billion baht (Ss47B million). Siam
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      • 364 22  -  By I Chan Siew Ling [SINGAPORE] SMALL investors who applied for up to 49,000 shares will get the bulk of Rotol Singapore's initial public offer. The coatings and building material specialist said yesterday that this group would
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      • 164 22 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Technologies Logistics signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday with Kintetsu World Expyes of Japan to jointly develop and expand their freight forwarding operations in Singapore, China, Myanmar and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific. A joint-venture company, ST-KWE Logistics, will be formed,
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      • 536 22 Amount is larger than total investible foods in Europe [SINGAPORE] As much as US$9 trillion (5112.7 trillion) of funds are under management in Asia, according to the first survey of the region's largest institutional investors. The amount is larger than the total investible funds
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      • COMPANY Briefs
        • 58 22 (SINGAPORE] Khoo Chin Inn has resigned as executive director ofTuan Sing Holdings and its subsidiary, SPP Lid. However, Mr Khoo will remain as a non-executive director for both companies. Meanwhile, See Yen Tarn, an executive director of Tuan Sing, has been appointed as an executive
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        • 40 22 [SINGAPORE] Takeo Kobayashi has replaced JTH Skinner as the managing director of Cerebos Pacific. Mr Kobayashi also sits on the company's audit committee with effect from last Tuesday. Mr Skinner remains as a non-executive director.
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        • 48 22 [SINGAPORE] Amtek Engineering Ltd is buying a 58 per cent stake in Singapore-incorporated Mega Tools A Engineering Pte Ltd for $1.04 million. Mega Tools, which has an authorised and a paid-up capital of $3 million and $800,000 respectively, does precision parts machining.
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        • 43 22 [SINGAPORE] Engineering services company Inter-Roller Engineering has appointed Haider Mohamedatty Sithi walla as a non-executive director. Mr SithiwaQa has also been appointed to its audit committee, where he takes over the seat vacated by the chairman, Lim YongWah.
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 437 24 Worldwide market share was 9% for 3Q against 2Q's 7.4%, US school purchases helped boost numbers Bloomberg Business News [SAN FRANCISCO} Defying predictions of its impending demise, Apple Computer Inc regained worldwide personal computer market share in the third quarter and reclaimed
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      • 56 24 [BUPYONG, South Korea] A Romanian auto-worker and his South Korean colleague working on the assembly line at Daewoo Motors' Bupyong plant yesterday. The president of Daewoo Motors said that 40 per cent of the huge Daewoo conglomerate's sales will be generated by its motor
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      • 203 24 Bloomberg Business News [ARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp said it will expand its Internet services and include the use of its Lotus Notes technology. -IBM will develop ways to have information shared on the global computer network as part of its
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      • 147 24 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] A group of 13 large US technology companies will publish a study next month that urges the US government to change computercoding export laws which the firms say hinder overseas sales. The group, known as the Computer
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      • COMPANY Briefs
        • 78 24 Bloomberg Business News [MELBOURNE] Coles Myer Ltd, the largest retailer in Australia, said yesterday that first-quarter sales rote &2 per cent to their highest level in seven years. Coles' sales growth still lags that of rival Woolworths Ltd, though, which posted a first-quarter sales
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        • 64 24 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Viacom Inc said operating cashflow rose 2J2 per cent in As third quarter, driven by gains st its Blockbuster Video chain and its cable networks, including MTV. Op<wating cashflow, or earnings before interest, t y taxes, depreciation and amortisation, climbed to
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        • 56 24 FT {FRANKFURT] AEG, the German industrial group, has confirmed plans for the sale of its energy and automation divisions, marking the latest stage tn a programme to diveet unprofitable operations. Chairman Ernst Geof Stockl said the company was in talks with GEC-Alsthom and two
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • SMALL Change
      • 158 25 Reuter [WELLINGTON] The New Zealand dollar was knocked lower by a Goldman Sachs' report yesterday, throwing open a debate about Its future direction. That debate varies according to time scales and whether analysts are talking about the Kiwi's value against the USS, or on
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      • 435 25 Guidelines snffiMta cap on commissions, rationalising multi-tiered pyramid structure Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Bank Negara Malaysia yesterday announced guidelines on the selling of life insurance policies, including a limit on commissions. The guidelines on agencyrelated and administration expenses, taking effect on Jan 1, 1996, would
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      • 312 25 Auditors may have to fork oat more than £100 m for negligent practice FT [LONDON] Auditors face paying substantial compensation to loss-making Lloyd's of London members after a UK High Court judgment on Tuesday cited fresh examples of negligent practice at the insurance market.
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      • 303 25 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON] Oil prices made modest gains yesterday amid a growing perception that markets this winter may not prove quite as oversupplied as previously feared. December futures for world benchmark Brent blend crude traded eight cents up at U5516.35 a barrel at
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      • 149 25 The dollar continued to pressure the yen during the European morning session after appreciating to its highest level since Sep 21, following t broad based sell-off in the Japanese currency overnight Dealers said the dollar'* move through the 102.50 yen barrier to a high at 102.78 seta up
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        108 25 Source: OCBC DTTH1WW (mom IAT» Abt? frfft AOS M MM MM WW 2jMf QS& 6L28 SlJit AIM ttiPk Hie figures are baaed quoted by tJS&C ftupiati quote is by For Bgures are In'lW unite ofwelSJ currency indicated Among the four currencies themselves, the exchange rale should read as It is.
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 904 26 [KUALA LUMPUR] Tin price on the KLTM rose 55 sen to M 516.28 per kg to breach a two-month high. The last highest price quoted in the last two months was M 516.24 per kg on Sep 1,1995. The gain yesterday was attributed to strong buying interest on
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      • 1131 26 Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures ended higher in technically driven trade while Eurodollars eased fractionally. Dealers said Euroyen futures were boosted initially by strong gains in Japanese government bond (JGB) futures. One trader said Euroyen futures traded choppily but with a firm undertone, following the rise in JGBs.
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      • Knight-Ridder Commodity Summary
        • 95 26 [SINGAPORE] Malaysia exported 3,524 tonnes of cocoa beans in July this year versus 8,736 tonnes a year earlier, the Malaysian Cocoa Board said. Traders tied the sharp export decline to robust demand from local grinders and scarce supplies as cocoa farmers in Malaysia had shifted
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        • 93 26 [BANGKOK] Small quantities of Thai soybeans and soymeal stocks have been damaged by recent floods, officials said yesterday. Details on the damage weren't clear, but it was likely limited as stocks were low, they said. Betagro Feedmills has faced total damage of between 500
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        • 70 26 [NEW DELHI] India is likely to spend US$4.Ol billion (555.65 billion) importing petroleum products in fiscal 1995-96 (Apr-Mar) versus US$2.4O billion a year earlier, a senior Petroleum Ministry official said yesterday. India will spend more on imports due to a higher growth rate in products
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        • 83 26 [MOSCOW] Russia's Samara Metallurgical Co, one of the country's leading aluminium rolling mills, has announced a 15-day stoppage effective yesterday in response to the current difficult financial environment, the Interfax News Agency reported. Vladimir Mukhin, Deputy General Director of Samara, said the decision was
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        • 89 26 [MOSCOW] Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Nazarchuk said Russia may have to buy grain abroad this year because the Federal Food Corp is unable to buy the planned 8.5 million tonnes for the Federal Grain Reserve domestically. He said that the FFC has no
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    • 1236 26 S100M FUTURES Nwl RUBBER (Mats cfosnvj m it 5.30»«i KS1 CONTRACTU cMiA,) C1«U VtfNM OfM n» lw Hit Itww) 6e<5 217.00 216.00 216.50 42$ 1925 SI 8» US AgVg«H 215.75 215.75 2R50 ISO 9750 SSSA 212.50 g.00 675 K$S 3 CONTRACT (US cMts/k<} VoImm 0*M H* 1» Lwr
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      • 767 27 LevertonGeWNl 270 unch 2SO jfenitfy LtndLMM 1*24.0 -2.0 12*1 Ml* 176.0 1.0 ***** VM Mecmoher Holdings *2.0 1.0 1370 rW> Mayne Mckless 503.0 -1U0 ***** AMCOR 9*5-0 -19.0 ***** McPtvtrMon'i 9.5 unch 2475 r-tr- "J Metal Manufactures 257.0 -3.0 139* AdOMMO steemsrwp -M *0.9 2>4* Nettonel Austrska m*0 -*.0 *****
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      • 2230 27 480J5 STOCKS fell yesterday on concern the bad loans plaguing Japan's banking system and the sluggish economy would hurt corporate profits. The Nikkei Average fell 180.15 points to 17,474.49. The Topix Index finished 5.19 lower at 1,405.95, and the Nikkei 300 feU 1.07 to 263.49. "Banking stocks are the
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      • 155 27 -18.0 Stocks slipped to a 17-week low amid persistent debate about whether world growth will be strong enough to ignite another rally in metals prices. "The market took a bit of a caning, especially in the last few minutes," a dealer said. "A lot of companies have been downgrading
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      • 353 27 -1&38 Stocks fell to a two-month low, led by builders and financial institutions, on reports that a Kaohsiung construction company has closed its doors with more than NT$l billion (Sss3 million) in debt. The reports renewed concern that builders, facing a slack property market, are experiencing cash-flow problems, analysts
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      • 535 27 +7.3 Stocks rose for a second day on expectations that a 20month low in market interest rates will lead investors to leave bonds and seek higher returns from equities. The benchmark three-year corporate bond yield fell below 12 per cent yesterday from 15.5 per cent in March. "The falling
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      • 421 27 -an Stocks closed lower after a largely directionless session. Carter Holt Harvey was the worst-affected, losing another seven cents to NZ53.55 after easing two on Tuesday. Brokers said the weakness came from a lower than expected nine-month net profit from Carter's Chilean associate, Copec. Fellow forester Fletcher Challenge eased
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      • 102 27 +2L19 Stocks rose as the rupee strengthened for a second day, easing concern that foreign investors would stay out of the market. "The market is running exactly parallel to the rupee," said a broker. The BSE 30-share Index rose 21.19 points to 3,444.66. The National Index of 100 stocks
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      • 6 27 Copyright© 1991 Morgan Stanley Capital International
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      • 538 27 -10.4 STOCKS fell, ending a two-day rally, after lower-than-expec-ted first-half earnings from J. Sainsbury Pic sent food retailers into a tailspin. The FT-SE Food Retailers Index tumbled 3.25 per cent with Sainsbury down 21p to 403, Tesco down 7p at 293 and Argyll Group losing lOp to 312. "We
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      • 656 27 ♦1084 Stock prices turned modestly higher in active trading early yesterday after bonds rallied following a weaker-than-ex-pected report on the nations manufacturing sector. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which eased 1.09 points on Tuesday, was ahead 10.84 to 4,766.32 at 11am EST. The NYSE Composite Index was ahead
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      380 28 Bloomberg Business News P Shanghai B Share Index -OA SHANGHAI B shares fell, led by Shanghai Automation Instrumentation, amid concern that sec-ond-half earnings will be even worse than the first six months of the year. "The government austerity measures are making things very difficult for companies," said a dealer.
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      997 28 Reuter Pfampoatahiex -0.41 JAKARTA share prices finished the day slightly lower as Tambang Timah made a modest rebound following a rise in London on Tuesday, brokers said. The Jakarta Composite Index fell 0.46 of a point, or 0.09 per cent, to close at 487.99 after touching the day's high
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      1114 28 Reuter □SETMw -6J2 THAI stocks ended the day lower in thin dealings after investors dumped banking and finance Issues, brokers and analysts said. The SET Index ended 5.12 points down at 1,265.64 on lacklustre trade worth 2.3 billion baht. Decliners edged gainers 167 to 96 with 124 unchanged. "Most
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 6518 29 KUALA IUMPUR/feporte Bloomberg Business News n Composite Index -15.83 MALAYSIAN stocks tumbled to seven-month lows, led by real estate and construction companies whose earnings may be hurt by restrictive measures in the government's new budget. Dealers said some investors were spooked into lowering their
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    • WARRANTS & OPTIONS
      • 3256 30  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy IN CONTRAST to Goldtron's warrants which are still trading at a premium even though time is fast running out, Kedah Cement's warrants ceased trading on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange on Monday at a discount In the last few days
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        48 32  -  -by Paul Leo QRP is trapped between support at 90 cents and resistance at 06. While further upside from yesterday's dosing of 68.5 cents can be expected soon, the long-term view remains bearish. Daify RSI is oversold but the monthly indicator is overbought by M Lm
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        215 32 Stacks Volume UPP 25c 9,074.000 GoMtron 20c 6,712,000 •Innovest Bhd 6,279,000 Goldtron Wt95 4,255,000 RFJM Wt96 2,880,000 1&M50C 1,963,000 Hldgs 1,698,000 S Telecom 15c 1,302,000 OAF Ltd Wt98 1,178,000 Hotel Prop 1,177,000 Stocks •Innovest Bhd 16,742,690 OCBC Foreign 12,576,400 UPP 25c 10,165,145 Keppel Corpn 9,906,548 City Dev 50c 8,916,146 GoMtroo20c
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      • 648 32  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Main market indices take a bashing while the second board makes a strong comeback By R Sivanithy WORRIES concerning forged Malaysian share scrip shook the alreadyfragile investor confidence in the local stock market yesterday, sending the KLSE Composite Index to
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 64 32 MAPKFT t^TCßSused^towatd^ markets despite the press being barred from it. At the Fifth Investment Conference held early this week, Van der Horst came In for a re-rating when executive chairman Johannes Kotjo made a presentation to about 300 ftrad managers. VDH shares rose 10 cents
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        • 100 32 IN HONGKONG, it Is a given that tycoons move stock markets. But how many people really know who or what moves the tycoons? We have it on good authority that the recent move by a group of Hongkong tycoons including Cheung Kong's Li Ka-shlng, New World's
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        • 71 32 THE KUALA LUMPUK stock market was yesterday wallowing In a sea of forged scrip, real or rumoured. Serious Investors have every reason to be concerned. Imagine, if forgery can be rampant in a blue-chip company like Genting. what protection can investors Multi-Purpose and Mulpha? It is perhaps
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        • 77 32 UNITED PULP 4s PAPBR rose 22 cents tosl-21 yesterday with 9.07 million units done, making it the most active counter. Rumours of a takeover resurfaced but with a new twist This time round, speculators have identified Mr Johannes Kotjo as the predator who is
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        • 67 32 KUALA LUMPUR-LISTED Technology Resources Industries Is believed to be about to operate interiLtionai telecommunications gateway services. TRI is one of four new operators which have been licensed for overseas calls. But j according to Energy, Telecommunications and Poets Minister Leo Moggie, not all will be allowed
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    • 468 23 Allied Phillip Capital Management Limited is highly diversified with exposure to both the well-developed proud to announce the launch of the and emerging markets in the Asia Pacific region. The fund Allied Phillip Asia Pacific manager will select the industry sectors which Growth Fund (the "Fund"). fj the Y regard
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    • 355 32 S TIM E S J. 8& 12 Ayer Rajah Crescent FOR SALE BY TENDER Sr=T Location Within Ayof Rajah Industrial Estate, off AYE, vto North V\ Buona Vista Road; minutes to Buona Vista MRT Station; close to Singapore Science Park, NUS Type 2 blocks of 2-storey purpose built factory buildings
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 310 33 Knight-Ridder Reuter SENTIMENT appeared to be turning in the Panamax side of the dry-cargo freight market to halt a two-month dive that sent rates to their lowest for 13 months. Shipbrokers said a greater volume of orders for tonnage was being quoted in all the main traditional loading
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    • 239 33 •wl *h W CWTMst 130 unch 17 ChuanHup tie -001 28 Caacolnv 1.85 unch 13 FtLS 6.25 ♦O.IS J5 fn urn* a69 -0.03 109 MHoMnqs 0.915 unch 32 Hal Sun Hup 0.905 unch 1t7 MtacNZ U>9 *0.01 221 (MCHaH6nf HK 5.60 JayaHoMng* L52 -0.02 17 JmnqSMp 9.50 ♦o.io
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    • 309 33  -  The only Asian nation to be ranked among the top 10 By' Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] The port of Singapore has emerged first again in port access infrastructure in the World Competitiveness Report 1995. The yearly report is produced by the Swiss-based International Institute
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    • 698 33  -  SHIPSHAPE By\ Rahita Elias CHAVALIT Tsao comes from impeccable shipping stock, his family having been in the business for four generations. Over the years, the family's fortunes have multiplied a legacy which Mr Tsao intends to maintain over the next generation.
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    • 548 33  -  Construction rate will be 606-766 ships annually from 1096 to 2000, says study By, Alec Almazan [SINGAPORE] Annual newbuilding orders for large ships could increase by as much as 60 per cent during the second half of the *****,
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    • 183 33 Bloomberg Business News [BRUSSELS] The European Commission said it launched an investigation into about 2.14 billion French francs (Sf62o million) of French government aid to unprofitable shipping company Compagnie Generale Maritime (CGM). The inquiry will focus on whether the fUnds amount to
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    • 226 33 Bloomberg Business News [COPENHAGEN] Danyard, the giant shipyard owned by the Danish shipping and industry group J Lauritzen Holding, has told its workforce it must cut costs by an average 10 per cent to ensure the company's survival. A special edition of
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    • 180 33 Lloyd's List [LONDON] London-based Seascope Shipping has confirmed its position within the ranks of the City's top shipbrokers by securing a place on the prestigious London Tanker Brokers' Panel and in the Worldscale Association (London). Seascope has agreed to buy, for an undisclosed sum, the interests
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    • 941 34  -  ASIA'S GRO WING MERCHANT FLEET: SHORTAGE OF CREWS The Philippines, the world's leading supplier of sailors, switches to computerised exams to improve the quality and quantity of seamen from its maritime schools, Florence chomo reports from Sydney FLORENCE CHONG THE rapid growth in the fleet of
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    • 321 34 PACE Act n AMI 3 Abie 7 Accord 10 AMers 6 AtrcnkM 4 AppensNp 4 Astro 10 Austral n Avant 6 BSA n MnMo 7 8'tang Mas K) Bright Express 6 CCMI 4 CMA n COSCO 7 CSAV 3 Centenary 7 Central Ex
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    • 10605 40 ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Pg ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Pg SIN Oest'n Name Name No. No. SIN Dest'n Name Name No. No. ■MMMMMMMMMMNNMMMMMMMRMMMMMMMMMMNMMMMMi Abidjan 05/11 10/12 Oelmas DELMAS JOINVILLE 09/11 It/12 COSCO SONG SHAN /004« T B/n M/n ACL KOTA RIA RIAm II 12/n M/11 MCC
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 552 45 Voy lie Bortfc Arrival Dvpartun JniM <8T) Nadu Tmm Stfl 2/95 JI atonigside 02.11/0900 ;<IT) Se»at> 2/95 J1 alongside 02.11/1900 Mm Tegu* 3 J5 alongside 02T1/0600 Andhdu AdNraksha 43 J12 alongside 02.11/1500 •APJ Aagad 006 JO/19 alongjjde 02.11/1800 'Mm Mam 11/01/95 J6 ilomiMi 02.11/2300 BlMMre 11/01/95 JK> alongside
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      • 1656 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT rtt COHTAIHERS AND La CARCO Boo*incBjl«nc* Bitli Voy II* Etfc/ltr Nrtod Frw To FrtM Aa Clow 0068 04/0700 U 01/1500 01/1659 01/1900 01/1500 01/1659 01/1900 2A 01/1700 02/0659 02/0900 28 01/1700 02/0659 02/0900 3 02/0700 02/1159 02/1400 4 02/1200 02/1459 02/1700 262» 02/1700 01/1500 01/1659
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      • 889 45 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 aver age-sixed stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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    • AIR & LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 315 46 New lata pact will help to avoid costly snits challenging compensation awards Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Twelve airlines have signed a pact waiving limitations on the amount of compensation that can be paid to air crash victims. The new Intercarrier Agreement on
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      • 151 46 AFP [JAKARTAJ President Suharto, in an indirect reference to the refusal of an airline executive to use Indonesian-made aircraft leased by his son's company, yesterday criticised citizens who preferred foreign products to Indonesian ones. "Other countries appreciate (our products). How come there
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      • 85 46 [SINGAPORE) Antonov Design Bureau, together with Air Foyle, its worldwide general sales agent, was recently called rn to transport a massive 75-tonne can-stamping machine from Dayton International Airport in Ohio, US, to Osaka in an. The total weight of the shipment, including all the special heavy-gauge roller-equipped ramps
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      • 229 46 Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO] Toyota Motor Corp will extend technical assistance to a car manufacturer in China, a move aimed at helping the Japanese company catch up with US and European rivals racing to find joint venture partners there. Toyota, Japan's
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      • 209 46 UPI [MACAU] The Chinese government has designated three mainland airlines that will be aUowed to operate scheduled passenger and cargo flights to the new Macau airport, a Macau civU aviation official said on Tuesday. The three airlines are the Beijing-based
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      • 200 46 FT A £2.5 billion (555.6 billion) claim by Eurotunnel against British Rail and SNCF, the French railway, was dismissed yesterday by an international tribunal in a setback for the debt-laden company. Eurotunnel, operator of the Channel tunnel and of car and truck "shuttles", had
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      • 336 46 No indication of when 26-day strike will end Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] The president of Boeing Co said Jet orders next year should match or exceed 1995 levels and that the company will continue to trim costs to achieve wider margins even
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      • 329 46 Bloomberg Business News [SYDNEY! The Australian government remains determined to press ahead with legislation to prepare for the sale of leases on state-owned airports despite opposition party plans which will effectively block it. The government will introduce the legislation into the
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      • LOG Book
        • 100 46 AFP [BEIJING] China Is to link the southern Island and special economic zone ofHalnan to the mainland by rail, with the <4 four-billlon-yuan (Sl679million) project due to begin in late 1906, Xtnhua reported. Chineee and Danish experts have completed a feasibility study on the construction of
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        • 76 46 AFP pntAi.A t jTMp^jrpjMnlnysis Alrlinoshfift"""""gfd secure one more weekly flight to Paris after threatening to stop buying aircraft from European consortium Airbus Industrie ifrefosed extra landing rights. MAS currently has two flights a week to Paris. However, MAS' chairman has complained that the concession
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        • 87 46 Reuter [JAKARTA] Indonesia's flag carrier, Garuda Indonesia, has begun a twlceweekly service linking Surabaya, the country's second largest city, with Taipei, the official Antara news agency reported yesterday. Antara said the flights, by wide-bodied DC-lOs, would leave Surabaya every Thursday and Friday at 15:30 local time
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        • 80 46 AFP [BEIJING] China is expected to become the world's largest market for motorcycles by 3000, with annual demand topping 11 million units, according to areport published J yesterday. Currently, one in every 100 Chinese owns a motorcycle—a far lower ratio than the global average
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      • 109 46 Reuter JAKARTA Work on a light railway to ease traffic congestion in the Indonesian capital Jakarta is due to start next year, the Jakarta Post newspaper reported yesterday. It quoted the director-gen-eral of highway construction, Soeharsono Martakim, as saying the draft plan for
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    • 16 33 Philippines steps op training of seamen Shortage of crews as Asia's merchant fleet grows. Page 2
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    • 194 34 Lines and services represented by Members of the Registry of AccredHod (igßel) Shipping Agents, Singapore Nationsl vajSMj) Shipping Association. For advertise enqurtes, contact Sapping rimes. Tel 740-2089 To crack the safe or enter Mrs Wizardfe crystal ball, caJ^Xoe-G^ine^on at 3fl|gnts ajjfinute. J k ■AURORA 07/11 10/11 RdnVAtwAJK/NvtM ■BELLE 08/11 12/11
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