The Business Times, 14 November 1995

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 194/12/94 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14,1995
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    74 1 D 20BJO (.7.84) STOMP (-9.47) n bt-moa mm INK* (-5.50) Etl MABXETMOOD; UlBni 9fOCX HABIET INDICES Monday Chants STB 2,063.10 -7.84 KL8E COUP 888.58 -1817 MB® ._.17,789.46 -54.19 KANO SENG iJtffOi -26.63 SET INDEX 1,197.27 +4.86 JAKARTA OOMP .467 .$5 -7J4 MANILA COMP .2,360.05 -54.64 TAIPEI WP1 CLOSED
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    FINANCE
    64 1 us$ ss US$ 1.411 t IJMl 1J14 DH .0.709 1000 *111 .0.997 1.406 MS. 0.396. 9.967 BAHT .0.040. .9.969 RUPMfl 199 9.944 9.992 ran Bin SINGAPORE* 144 KUALA LUMPUR 7.K JAKARTA 17.50 BANGKOK ltJB» MANILA U.00 HONGKONG 9.M TAIPH SYDNEY 10.75 TOKYO 180 SEOUL— 12.00 ZURICH** .4.50 FRANKFURT— tit
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    Lock icon 30b baht govt fund to kick start Thai market
    553 1  -  Analysts expect a short-term fillip bat say deep-seated problems have not been addressed From Loh Hui Yin in Bangkok THE Banharn government, blamed by disgruntled investors for the stock market slump, moved yesterday to shore it up by providing a soft
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    Lock icon York Pacific share price hits the roof with 80% surge
    290 1  -  By] Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] York Pacific Holdings was given the "Indonesian treatment" by the market yesterday following news that London-listed Wassail pic was making a bid for the company. In heavy trading of 9.23 million shares, the price soared 80.8
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    Jakarta scales back Telkom float to avert international flop
    394 1  -  Share price also cut to below the offering range From. Maggie Ford in Jakarta THE Indonesian government has been forced to cut the size of its Telkom flotation in half and reduce the price of the shares below the offering range
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    Ministry to review cost of land allocated to JTC
    481 1  -  Study underway to see how industrial land can be priced to reflect specific uses By- Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] The government —mindful that investors find Singapore's land prices too high is reviewing the way it allocates industrial land to the Jurong Town
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      163 1 Nnrluiiatl What measures will the government implement to tackle the issue of 'exorbitant' industrial land prices? Ifs quite clear that selling more industrial land will be one of them, says Lee Han Shih in the Property Column, Pgf IBWBUIBB tai to Aart vp atack aaHut, this pg. May not benefit
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      158 1 Robust 9% growth in third quarter; Pwiilnj i Some grey clouds need watching, Pg 2 IT TOOK MONTHS TO GET THE SOUND RIGHT. OUTSTANDING RELIABILITY TOOK 1000 HOURS LONGER. MASTER RtVEIL. MASTER WATCHU. y Jt Made in the tradiTiONAL SCHOOL. .T Tuned like a musical jSjbjrSKfe INSTRUMENT. AS B DEPENDABLE
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Rubber prices firm further with 3% gain
      295 2  -  But broker doubts if they would reach Feb record levels By Siow Li Sen RUBBER prices jumped by as much as 3 per cent or five US cents (seven Singapore cents) a kg yesterday, carrying over last week's strong showing. "Probably having held
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      Lock icon Robust 9% growth in third quarter
      607 2  -  Electronics upswing, buoyant regional economies give a boost. MTlups 1905 forecast to 8-&5% By. Anna Teo ECONOMIC growth picked up to 9 per cent in the third quarter on the back of a strong electronics upswing and buoyant regional growth, the Ministry of Trade
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      A bright picture but some grey clouds need watching
      672 2  -  Year's growth Is likely to be stronger than earlier expected bnt some Important signals need to be heeded down the road By 1 Vikram Khanna LOTS of good news, but laced with a few trends that need watching. That's basically the
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      Exec pay: slower 7.6% rise next year
      384 4  -  Greater portion of increment will rest on merit, total bonus will fall marginally, Hay survey shows By\ Chuang Peck Ming EXECUTIVES are likely to see their pay rise 7.6 per cent next year, after an increase of 8.4 per cent in 1995. But
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      EDB takes 10% stake in chemical plant
      306 4  -  The $57m plant will be built by Toshiba Chemical Corp By. Ang Wan May THE Economic Development Board is taking a 10 per cent stake in a $57 million plant being built here by Japanese firm Toshiba Chemical Corp to make chemicals for
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      Telecom's VOD needs only 20% take-up rate
      259 4 SINGAPORE Telecom's video-on-demand (VOD) service will need only a 20 per cent take-up rate to make money. Telecom project director (VOD Trial) Allen Lew revealed this at the Globecom'9s conference here yesterday. He said: "Based on consumers' average yearly spending on entertainment of
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      Lock icon Team of good people found and ready for politics: PM Goh
      355 4 But more private sector and women candidates still needed The Straits Times PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday revealed that he had found a team of good people to enter politics, but not enough of those with ministerial potential
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      Corrections and clarifications
      129 4 DBS Bank has clarified that deputy president and chief operating officer Ng Kee Choe will not take over as acting president when DBS Bank's current president Patrick Yeoh retires at the end of the year, as we reported on 11 Nov. We are sorry for the error.
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      374 5 BREITLING 1884 jjfc<aK:>«.--- <feg?¥sS- -ir lif, £-Jt S f, ,v. -„> t Selfwinding mechanical chronograph CHRONOMAT calibrated to Vsth of a second. At a time when instruments routinely 30-minute and 12-hour totalizers. monitor flight data at Mach 1 miles above the r^ Power excess of 42 hours. earth, why continue
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon What's behind the resilience?
      704 6  -  Realistic pricing, developers' holding power and robust prices in the prime districts, say analysts By 1 Tan Su Yen The year 1995 may well go down in real estate history as yet another year when house prices tenaciously held firm despite predictions of an imminent price
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      Sting ahead for firms in property?
      518 6  -  THE PROPERTY COLVJKM Some may be hit by changes in govt industrial land sales By Lee Han Shih GOOD news for foreign investors, bad news for property companies building factories and warehouses? Yesterday, the Ministry of Trade and Industry took some of the fizz
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Ho Chi Minh City beats Hanoi in wooing investors
      434 7  -  SINGAPORE City gets foreign projects worth USss.sb against the capital's USs3.2b By] Harish Mehta BOOMING Ho Chi Minh City has attracted foreign investments worth about US$5.5 billion (557.75 billion), far ahead of Hanoi with US$3.2 billion, sparking worries over an imbalance
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      Lock icon Viets hope Kohl visit will spark interest
      225 7 HO CHI MINH CITY AFP VIETNAM is hoping that a visit this week by Chancellor Helmut Kohl will spark interest among German companies which have been slow to invest here. Germany ranks 28th on the list of investors in Vietnam with US$33 million
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Strenghtening US-Indon ties
        35 7 Reuter [JAKARTA] US Transportation Secretary Federico Pena (left) being greeted by Indonesian President Suharto yesterday. Mr Pena is in Indonesia for an official visit to strengthen economic relations between the two countries.
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        Lock icon Viet judge faces brubery charge
        53 7 Reuter [HANOI] Vietnam has charged a judge at the country's highest court with accepting a bribe of gold and cash. Bui Van Tham, a Supreme Court judge and vice-head of the civil court in Hanoi, was charged with accepting 290 gm of gold and US$500(SI710)
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        Lock icon Indon- Aussie conservation pact
        54 7 Reuter [JAKARTA] Indonesia and Australia signed an agreement yesterday designed to promote training and cooperation between the two nation's nature conservation agencies, the Australian embassy said in a statement. The agreement will see the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (Anca) and Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry cooperate in
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        Lock icon Manila-London form business council
        62 7 AFP [MANILA] The Philippines and Britain yesterday launched a business council to bolster trade between the two countries which has been on the rise since President Fidel Ramos' visit to London early this year. The launching of the Philippine-British Business Council came during a week-long visit
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        Lock icon Jakarta plans to cut import tariffs
        82 7 Reuter [JAKARTA] Indonesian Industry Minister Tungky Ariwtbowo said yesterday the government plans import tariffs cuts as pail of a fresh economic deregulation package to be announced soon. "We are preparing the new deregulation package, including cutting import tariffs. The package is expected to be
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      Mitsui quits Vietnam gas venture
      300 7  -  SINGAPORE Bat its partner British Gas may build scaled-down project By\ Harish Mehta JAPAN'S Mitsui and Co has dropped out of a US$42O million (***** million) project to build a gas pipeline in southern Vietnam but its partner British Gas may step into the breach.
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      Lock icon M'sia eyes China firms to meet cement crunch
      219 7 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA has identified 20 factories in China from which it could source cement to cope with the current acute shortage of about 700,000 tonnes amid a construction boom, a minister said yesterday. "The list of Chinese factories will later
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      4 7 Chinese, Germans sign USs2bdeal,Pg9
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      150 7 WORLD BUSINESS CLASS No wonder Northwest flights pass more quickly. ■f i -1 HI i iyt EH BThey all go via Hollywood. Northwest is the only US airline to offer you the epitome of choice and control for in-flight entertainment. Because we have a Personal Video System for all First
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  • CHINA – HONGKONG – TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Pudong's 95b yuan upgrade
      100 8 BEIJING Bernama PUDONG New Area, China's biggest development zone, has recently voiced an ambitious plan to inject 94.9 billion yuan (about Ssl6 billion) into its infrastructure upgrade in the next five years. The area, in the eastern part of Shanghai, will see the huge investment poured
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      Lock icon China may allow currency convertibility next year
      273 8 BEIJING Announcement of date may be made at Apec meeting in Osaka FT CHINA plans to allow convertibility of its currency on the current account well ahead of a previous 2000 deadline, and possibly as soon as next year. This would represent a
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      Lock icon China's consumer inflation rate falls
      174 8 BEIJING Bloomberg Business News CHINA'S consumer price inflation rate fell for the 12th straight month in October, according to State Statistics Bureau figures. The consumer price index recorded a 12.1 per cent year-on-year increase in October, down from 13.2 per cent in September and 14.5
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        Lock icon Taiwan-Beijing trade to stay indirect?
        46 8 Reuter [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council and economic officials have decided to maintain the cufwot Indirect trading system with China despite a proposal to allow direct trade between them in the planned offshore shipping centre, the United Daily News said. Reuter
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        Lock icon China's US$600 infrasturcture boost
        48 8 Reuter [BEIJING] China Is expected to spend USsBoobillion (***** billion) on Infrastructure over the next five years, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said. It said imports annual economic growth ofat least 75per cent in the next 15 years, Xinhua news agency said. —ReuW
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        Lock icon Small difference between HK's GNP/GDP
        68 8 Reuter [HONGKONG] Hongkong, which measures Its wealth m terms of Grow Domestic Product (GDP), has begun to compUe Gross National Product(GNP) figures aa well to gauge wealth earned from outside Its borders. The difference was less than expected. Hie Commissioner for Census and Statistics said
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      Lock icon Chinese, Germans sign US$2b deals
      300 9 BEIJING Daimler-Benz and China Aerospace to cooperate on peaceful use of technology in outer space Reuter AFP GERMAN and Chinese enterprises yesterday signed 12 contracts, letters of intent and other documents involving US$2.l9 billion (SS3.I billion), the official Xinhua news agency said. The documents cover
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      Lock icon HK govt defends its Bill of Rights
      320 9 HONGKONG Chief Justice quoted as saying that it damaged legal system AFP THE Hongkong government stuck by its embattled Bill of Rights yesterday, after its chief justice was quoted by a Chinese official as saying it had undermined the legal system. Chief Justice
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      Lock icon 65% of economy free of govt control: report
      131 9 MSHANGHAI Reuter SIXTY-FIVE per cent of China's economic activity is now independent of government control, the Shanghai Securities News said yesterday. Government control continues in only about 20 per cent of goods production and distribution, which means 80 per cent of the
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      323 9 CREATIVE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD (Incorporated in tho Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders of Creative Technology Ltd will be held at Marina Mandarin Singapore, Les Oiseaux, Level 5, 6 Raffles Boulevard, Marina Square,
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      44 10 i I j I Look what being efficient x and responsive I s in trade banking I j —O a Jr r brought us. 'S//; J i> I J ol >« X" JT iH ,!t]r T-* \f *jr- 'ufift fir p>v (HB I Standard Chartered
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  • ASIA
    • ASIA Notes
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        Lock icon Japan sets up derivatives committee
        77 11 Reuter TOKYO—Japan's Finance Ministry said a special committee has been set up to discuss accounting rules for securities' derivative products and the steps needed to control the risks and disclose exposures to derivative products. The committee will hold its first meeting early next month and
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        Lock icon World Bank nod for Pakistan loan
        65 11 Reuter ISLAMABAD—The World Bank said it had approved a US$35 million (Ss49 million) loan to Pakistan to support i the privatisation of Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation (PTC) and the formation of a regulatory telecommunication framework. Pakistan plans to sell a 26 per cent strategic stake
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        Lock icon KFC fails in bid to reopen India outlet
        86 11 Bloomberg Business News NEW DELHI The high court here yesterday reftised to grant a request by KFC, a subsidiary of Pepsico Restaurants International, to reopen its 100-seat restaurant in the Indian capital. Kentucky Fried Chicken petitioned the high court of Delhi after
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      Lock icon Eto resigns over his remarks on Korea
      205 11 AFP [TOKYO] Japanese state minister Takami Eto announced his resignation yesterday after making controversial remarks about Japan's colonial rule over Korea, in a move that Seoul hinted now paved the way for a planned summit between the two countries. "I have submitted my
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      Lock icon Korea stocks dive on fears probe may include market
      375 11 Accounts at securities firms could be investigated in probe against Rob, say analysts Bloomberg Business News AFP [SEOUL] South Korean stocks plunged yesterday on investor concern the government probe into former President Roh Tae Woo's slush fund payoffs will expand to
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      Lock icon Economy starting to show signs of recovery: BOJ
      282 11 Reuter Bloomberg Business News {TOKYO] Japan's economy is still stalled, although it is starting to show signs of gradual recovery, Bank of Japan (BOJ) senior deputy governor Toshihiko Fukui told business executives. But he added that signs of economic recovery had not
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      305 11 Girard-Perregaux The art of mastering time Girard-Perregaux pour Ferrari symbolises the partnership between two esteemed companies a result of mutual respect and recognition for each other's field of specialty. The inspired collection represents the shared vision between Girard-Perregaux and Ferrari, that of striking the perfect balance between technical expertise and
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Tokyo floats plan to resolve Apec farm row
      168 12 OSAKA Reuter JAPAN floated a compromise plan yesterday to try to resolve a bitter row over farm trade which is clouding AsiaPacific efforts here this week to chart a clear course towards free trade in the region. Japan, host of a meeting
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      Clinton vetoes debt bill as Rubin acts to avert default
      286 12  -  WASHINGTON White Hon* and Republicans fail to reach compromise on budget dispute By] Leon Hadar US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton yesterday vetoed a bill that would have extended the federal government's debt limit. The move came after the White House and
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      From profound to prosaic
      534 12  -  LBTTHRFROM SaOKBB Tha problems facing post-commanlst Croatia By Kevin Sullivan ZAGREB'S smokefilled bars are buzzing with speculation, an entirely normal state of affairs. The Croatian capital is a city where political gossip and rumours of war are a staple of coffee-shop conversation. Two topics exercise the
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      Lock icon Windows 95 wins Product of the Year award
      422 12 LAS VEGAS Reuter PC COMPUTING magazine unveiled the 1995 winners of its Most Valuable Product awards, giving the MVP "Product of the Year" award to Microsoft for Windows 95, which also won in the Operating Systems category. The magazine said Windows 95
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      1164 12 ARANBURGH HOLDINGS PTE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF WASSALL PLC (Incorporated in the United Kingdom) UNCONDITIONAL CASH OFFER FOR YORK PACIFIC HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Sale and Purchaee Agreement N M Rothschild Sons (Singapore) Limited ("Rothschild") announces on behalf
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      8 12 UStuna sceptical ofApec's grand goals: Analysis, Pg 14
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      1739 13 I aam VAN DER HORST LIMITED ft ill I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) fl M RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 1995 1 I The directors are pleased to make the following preliminary announcement of the unaudited results for the year ended 30th September 1995:- I I
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Japan may be right to say 'no'
      812 14  -  THE BOTTOM LDVE OPINION By Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent THERE are times when the "Japan that can say no" is surely right to do so, and Tokyo's current opposition to the inclusion of agriculture in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      110 14 4 I believe that most of us have got some skeletons in our cupboard and we can't be too insistent about looking into other people's cupboards.' Mahathir Mohamad Malaysian Prime Minister, warning the Commonwealth to tread carefully when judging whether its members lived up to its democratic
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      Saving the Commonwealth
      461 14 EDITORIAL THE activism that the Commonwealth displayed in Auckland was intended to save it from being marginalised But pushed too hard, its new-found concern for democracy and human rights could prove to be a medicine more drastic than the disease. If the 52-nation group does fear being
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      US turns sceptical of Apec's grand goals
      846 14  -  Observers say Osaka summit will have to show it can move from talk shop to action group By] Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent FOR the past three years, the Heritage Foundation has organised press briefings before the annual meetings of
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      800 14 Heeding th« call to retrain LOCAL companies and workers should heed the latest drive to improve productivity and competitiveness. The formation of the Singapore Productivity and Standards Board (SPSB), sown when a Bill was tabled in Parliament earlier this month, marks Singapore's concerted effort to stay
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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      827 16 WING TAI HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 31 st Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Orchard Room, Level 4, Westin Plaza, 2 Stamford Road, Singapore *****2 on 29 November 1995 at 11:00
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      319 16 M THE MATTBt Of THE COMPAMES ACT, CAP SO AND MIME MATTER OF RKHESSE (S) PTE LTD the creditors of the obovenamed Compony, which is vduntorify wound up, are required on or before 14 December 1995 to send in iheir nomes and addresses wilh particulars of their debts or doims,
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      263 16 MOT■ C E S IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 00 Pursuant to flitlut i 290(2Xb) H R SYSTEMS PTE LTD (In Mwitoors' Voiuntsvy Winding-up) At an Extraordtoary General Mooting of the abovonamod Company duty convened and held at IS Beach Road. •03-02 Beach Centre. Singapore *****7 on
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      904 16 A INFORMATICS t.P HOLDINGS LTD ANNOUNCEMENT OF UNAUDITED RESULTS AND DIVIDEND FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER I—S The Board of Directors of Informatics Holdings Ltd are pleased to announce UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 1995 Half Year Ended 30 September Group Company STOOP Change
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      18 16 A quick look at the markets. For Financial News, call 1900-913-0001, at 30 cents a minute. .1 -7?'
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      663 16 FARSIGHT INDUSTRIAL] I ENTERPRISES PTE LTD J (In Members' \foluntary Liquidation) J NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308(2) of the Companies Act, Cap SO thai the Final Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company will be held at 322 Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim. Singapore *****1 on 19 December
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • CHATTER BOX
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        Lock icon Seinfeld on Letterman
        109 17 UPI DAVID Letterman made a big deal last week out of the feet that he has been replaced after one outing as host of the Academy Awards show. The Motion Picture Academy returned to Whoopi Goldberg, who hosted in 1994. But multiple Emmy nominee Jerry Seinfeld offered
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        Lock icon Polanski bankers for home
        150 17 UPI DIRECTOR Roman Polanski, known for Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown, wants to return to the United States from exile in Europe, but he would rather not have to go to prison if he comes back. Polanski fled the country 18 years ago as he was preparing
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        74 17 AFP THE European Academy of Cinema gave the Felix for Best European Film 0f1996 to Land and Freedom by Britain's Ken Loach while Best Young European Film went to La Maine by France's Mathieu Kassovitz. Land and Freedom depicts divisions within the left during the
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        Lock icon Clancy and wife kiss and make up
        62 17 UPI AUTHOR Tom Clancy (Patriot Games, The Hunt for Red October) has reconciled with Wanda, his wife of 25 years and mother of his four children, after a prolonged separation due to Clancy's widely-publicised liaison with 1 Katharine Huang, an assistant district attorney
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        Lock icon Patrick Swayze's restaurant blues
        47 17 UPI ACTOR Patrick Swayze's Manhattan restaurant, 1 Mulholland Drive, has filed for bankruptcy protection in order to restructure its federal tax payment after overrunning renovation cost and suffering delays in reopening after a summer closure. The restaurant is still open for business. UPI
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      Lock icon An image gone stale
      933 17  -  Quentin Tarantino's star seems to have lost some of its lustre, says carym jambs CARYN JAMES NYT IT has been little more than a year since Pulp Fiction opened. Here are just a few things that have happened since then to Quentin Tarantino, the film's 32-year-old
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      Lim has a story to sell
      1057 18  -  BOOKS Writer Catherine Lim talks about her latest book and why she has turned to self-publishing By] Harish Mehta NOVELIST Catherine Lim has turned publisher. But she blanches a bit at being labelled as such. "It's only a little-little business registered about a month
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      Buyers still pay for quality
      727 20  -  ART Auctioneers say top pieces did well in latest HE jewellery, ceramics auctions By\ Susan Tsang THE Autumn sales in Hongkong by Sotheby's and Christie's showed that buyers are getting very selective, but they are still willing to pay for top quality. Christie's four-day auction,
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      Fiji's Singh strikes it rich at JW Skins
      519 20  -  GOLF The globetrotter makes the right putts at the right time By] Eileen Chan [CHAIYI, Taiwan] Fiji's Vijay Singh upstaged world number three Ernie Els, David Frost of South Africa and Taiwanese amateur Hong Chiao-yu to win the lion's share of the
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      Lock icon VDH net profit jumps 49 per cent
      404 21  -  Results due to improved margins in power generation and screen manufacturing By' William Chia [SINGAPORE] Engineering and power barge supplier Van Der Horst (VDH) has posted an impressive 48.84 per cent increase in net group earnings to $48.97 million for the year ended
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      UPP hits record $2.40 as frenzy buying continues
      333 21  -  Possibility of merger with Barito dismissed by bidders By 1 Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Takeover target United Pulp and Paper Co (UPP) soared to a record $2.40 in intra-day trading yesterday, while the possibility of its merger with Indonesian timber giant P
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      Pan Global to buy Menara Sabre tower
      301 21  -  From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur PANGLOBAL Equities Bhd yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to buy the investment company which owns prime office tower Menara Sabre from Singa-pore-listed Transmarco and Singaporean businessman David Eng for Msl7o million (Ss9s million) cash. The 38-storey
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      Six penny stocks queried on trading surge
      192 21 [SINGAPORE] Half a dozen companies were queried by the stock exchange here yesterday as penny stocks came to life on the local bourse. However, the companies Material Handling Engineering, Oakwell Engineering, Nippecraft, Pan Pacific Public Company, Omni Mold and GB Holdings said they
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      Stamford Tyres soars on takeover talk
      330 21  -  Price hits $1.82 record high, over 13 m shares traded Reports by Ven Sreeniavasan STAMFORD Tyres Corporation's share price hit a record high of $1.82 yesterday amid rumours that the company is the subject of a takeover by unidentified Indonesian parties. The Sesdaq-listed tyre
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      Tenaga needs a major recharge
      581 21  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By S N Vasuki Malaysian utility Tenaga Nasional Bhd is expected to announce a sharp 15-20 per cent faU in fullyear net earnings tomorrow. That should not surprise investors. Tenaga's financials have been under pressure since it was refused a tariff hike
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        S'pore Telecom to make joint bid for Belgian firm
        281 22  -  Consortium eyeing govt-owned firm includes Ameritech and Tele Danmark Reports by' Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecom is joining a three-party consortium led by US-based operator Ameritech Corp to bid for a 49 per cent stake in Belgian government-owned telecommunications company Belgacom
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        S'pore may be Intelsat's regional support hub
        266 22 [SINGAPORE] Intelsat, the world's biggest commercial satellite operator, is more likely to set up a regional support centre in Singapore than in Hongkong. Singapore has the edge in office costs, said Intelsat group director for the Asia-Pa-cific Eui Koh yesterday. He told BT
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        IPC, OPH aim to put high tech into buildings
        272 22  -  Joint venture will develop technology solutions for smart buildings, homes By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Information technology firm IPC and property group Orchard Parade Holdings (OPH) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding for a new joint venture company "to develop technology solutions
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        Moody's assigns ratings to UOB and Keppel Bank
        211 22 [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank and Keppel Bank have been assigned ratings for their deposits as well as for their financial strength by international rating agency Moody's Investors Service. UOB was assigned Aa2 and Prime-1 rating for its long and short term deposits,
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          Causeway lifts stake in Sino Supermizer
          38 22 [SINGAPORE] Causeway Investment has increased its stake In Sino Supermizer (S) Pte Ltd (SSPL) to 80 per csct from 51 per cent by busing 145,000 shares from SSPL's co-owner Golden Horse (Holdings).
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          Inno-Pac beefs up board of directors
          55 22 [SINGAPORE] Inno-Paclflc Holdings has Increased the directors on its board to four with the appointment of Moehamad Izat Achmad Habechi Emir and Yin Kum Choy as non-executive directors. Mr Moehamad lscfaalim«nof Emir Holdings, Emir Enterprises and Equity Acceptance. Mr Yin is managing partner of
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          Singatronics sells unprofitable business
          60 22 [SINGAPORE] Singatronics is selling its loas-incurring plastic mould injection business for H-2 million. But it will 4 take a minority stake in the company buying the business. *>$• Singatronics said its subsidiary, Theck Heng Industrial, A will sell its assets and business to NyproMold AsiaPadfic. Theck
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          Lock icon Smaller board lots for eight KLSE listings
          71 22 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) has announced that the securities of eight public listed companies are to be traded in board lota of2oounits effective from Dec 8. The companies are Sungsl Bagan Rubber Co (Malaya), Bukit Katil Rubber Estates,
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        Lock icon Hicom, Gadek shares plunge
        393 23  -  but DRB firms up; movements reflect investors' view of complex deal From'. Ho Kay Tat in Kuala Lumpur SHARES of Hicom Holdings Bhd and Gadek (M) Bhd tumbled yesterday as investors took the view that the two will, in the short-term, be worse off under a
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        Shares of Lippo companies fall
        236 23  -  Slide attributed to poor sentiment, talk of liquidity problems By William Chia [SINGAPORE] Listed companies within the diversified conglomerate Lippo Group suffered falls in their share prices yesterday. Market observers attribute this to the poor sentiment of the Jakarta bourse as well as concerns that
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        Pama puts money in plantation
        249 23 [SINGAPORE] A consortium led by PT Pama Ventura Indonesia, a Jakarta-based venture capital company, has invested US$25 million (5535.3 million) in PT Pan London Sumatra Plantation (Pan Lonsum), an Indonesian plantation company. The US$25 million investment by Pama Ventura and Suez Asia a wholly owned
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        Lock icon Perwaja plant may be sold, says Mahathir
        124 23 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The government is considering selling the Perwaja plant for a reasonable price, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said last night. Many people are interested and the government was considering their offers, he said. Dr Mahathir, however, admitted that Perwaja had suffered
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        Lock icon N American funds putting less into stocks, bonds
        278 25 Fond managers have doubled their stake in alternative investments to USs69b since 1992 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] The 254 largest US and Canadian institutional investors have almost doubled their stake in alternative investments in the past three years, a new survey
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        Lock icon A$ pares early gain; Soros seen selling
        315 25 Bloomberg Business News [SYDNEY] The Australian dollar finished little changed yesterday, giving up an earlier gain, amid speculation international currency investor George Soros sold about Assoo million (Sss2l million) of the currency, equal to an amount he unloaded late last week. The Australian
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        Lock icon UK fund managers in love with HK
        220 25 Reuter [LONDON] UK fund managers are "in love with Hongkong" according to the UK's Merrill Lynch/Gallup monthly survey of fund managers' investment intentions. The survey, which is being published under the aegis of Merrill for the first time since its purchase of UK
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        Lock icon Crude oil prices being manipulated
        426 25 Market movers cause distortions to make big profits, say producers, refiners Reuter [LONDON] The world s main oil-pricing system is being deliberately distorted by highrisk market makers trying to make big profits in complex high-risk derivative trading, say other market players. North Sea crude oil
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        Lock icon Oil prices rise after blast at US military mission
        315 25 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON] World oil prices rose in nervous mid-morning action here yesterday on news that a bomb blast at a US military mission in oil giant Saudi Arabia had killed a number of Americans. The December futures price of
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        156 25 Reuter AFP London THE DOLLAR stumbled along in morning European business, steadying from its overnight downward trend as the market pondered the likelihood of a US debt default after an acrimonious weekend in Washington. At 1045 GMT the dollar was at 1.4096/02 marks and 100.5650 yen, down from
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        COMMODITY Reports
        892 26 (KUALA LUMPUR] Tin price on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market closed one sen lower yesterday to M 515.94 per kg due to reduced buying interest. A dealer said the sentiment on the KLTM was affected by the absence of fresh leads at the start of the week. "The
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          Russian harvest down 23%
          144 26 [MOSCOW] Russian farmers have harvested to date 68.9 million tonnes of grain, 23 per cent less than at the same time last year, State Statistics Committee chairman, Yury Yurkov, said here yesterday. He said the harvest is practically finished in Russia, except for small amounts of
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          Malaysian buys S American soymeal
          42 26 [HONGKONG] One Malaysian buyer late last week bought 30,000 tonnes of South American soymeal pellets, traders said. Shipment is said to be slated for late November and early December. The value of the soymeal was not available.
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          Mauritius exporting more sugar
          89 26 [LONDON] Mauritius exported a total of 85,530 tonnes of sugar in August, up from 52,363 tonnes in the same month last year, according to figures from the Mauritius Sugar Syndicate. Exports since the start of the year now stand at 298,021 tonnes, fractionally ahead of the
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          Aussie, Thai firms in xino deal
          96 26 [SYDNEY] Australia's Western Metals will supply Thai refined zinc producer Padaeng Industry with the majority of its intermediate concentrate needs under a proposed agreement between the two companies, Western Metals managing director Rod Webster said yesterday. Padaeng requires about 150,000 tonnes of zinc concentrates
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          Ivory Coast freight rate dispute resolved
          98 26 [LONDON] Ivory Coast shipping sources say agreement has been reached between the government and major shipping lines on new freight rates for cocoa shipments to Europe. Under the agreement, 1995-96 freight rates to ports in north Europe, including Amsterdam and Hamburg, will be reduced
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        1116 26 Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Eurodollar futures ended easier in listless trading on growing concern that US President Bill Clinton and Congress would not reach a budget agreement in time to avoid a partial shutdown of the government today. Dealers said that the market is likely to trade downwards until
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        Tokyo
        2241 27 -64J0 STOCKS were little changed, with concerns that the dollar would suffer from a stand-off over the US budget offsetting optimism about corporate earnings. The Nikkei Average dipped 54.10 points to 17,789.46. The Topix Index lost 3.60 to 1,420.75. "Uncertainty about the outcome of the US budget debate is
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        Sydney
        664 27 -&3 Shares closed lower after a late slump in industrial stocks countered the impact of an earlier surge in gold stocks. "I thought it might have firmed up more than this," said a broker. "The market has a firm undertone there are just a few weaker stocks dragging it
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        Manila
        400 27 ■8414 Share prices closed 2.3 per cent lower on thin trade as negative sentiment on economic Indicators kept most foreign Investors away. "There was some heavy selling on the part of foreign investors mostly on San Mig- uel issues," said an analyst. The PSE Composite Index fell 54.64 points
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        Seoul
        563 27 -2121 Stocks continued to fall unchecked as investors refused to participate, waiting to see where the prosecutors' probe into former president Roh Tae-woo's illicit slush fund would go, brokers said. "When the scandal first broke, the major market players didn't take it very seriously, thinking it was just politics,"
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        Wellington
        425 27 413 Share prices ended flat after a directionless session, marked by a little profit-taking in leading issues. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended 2.63 points down at 2,197.12 on turnover worth NZ$3l.6 million. The market is expected to consolidate and move sideways if the absence of fresh factors persists, an
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        Bombay
        101 27 ■8128 Share prices closed sharply lower, falling through the key 3,200-polnt support level on the BSE 30 index as sentiment continued to plunge. The BSE 30 reversed an early 15-point gain to close 86.28 lower at a provisional 3,193.77. Analysts were now predicting the index will test the 3,000-point
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        London
        672 27 ♦IX4 SHARE prices closed moderately higher, with the market ignoring early losses by US stocks but buoyed by gains in US Treasuries and gilts. The FT-SE 100 Index closed 13.4 points higher at 3,536.8. Volume was 600.6 million shares. The market was underpinned by earlier gains on the announcement
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        New York
        667 27 -7JBI Stock prices were slightly lower in cautious trading early yesterday amid some jitters over a possible government default The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which gained 6.14 points on Friday, was down 7.59 to 4,862.78 at 11am EST. The NYSE Composite Index was off 0.55 to 315.23, while
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      2516 28 Bloomberg Business News QltagSeng -26.63 HONGKONG stocks were little changed amid concern that an impasse over the US debt ceiling will drive up interest rates and weaken the dollar. The Hang Seng Index fell for a sixth day, hurt by declines in property stocks and banks. "People don't want
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      CHINA
      606 28 HShanghai ß Share Index SHANGHAI B shares rose for a second day, led by fast food operator New Asia Group, as some investors bet a report that inflation had slowed is good news for retail stocks. China's State Statistics Bureau said yesterday morning that consumer prices rose by 12.1
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      1082 28 Bloomberg Business News n Composite Index -724 INDONESIAN stocks tumbled as foreign investors sought to sell before the nation's growing trade deficit could send the rupiah falling and reduce the value of their holdings, traders said. The Composite Index fell 7.24 points, or 1.7 per cent, to 467.35, its
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      1189 28 Bloomberg Business News HSETMm *4M THAI stocks edged higher as financial issues rebounded on some third-quarter profit reports. Property and industrial issues fell on concern that high interest rates and the worst flooding in 40 years in many parts of the country would reduce earnings. "None of the big-picture
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        Lock icon Index falls 1% over trade deficit jitters
        6695 29 KUALA LUMPUR Reports Bloomberg Business News Pftmpoate Index -10J7 MALAYSIA'S benchmark stock index fell more than one per cent on concern a widening trade deficit will cause the ringgit to fall. The KLSE Composite Index fell 10.97 points to 888.50. The Emas Index
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        Singapore Finance: a good buy?
        3181 30  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy IT IS quite difficult to recommend warrants or any other type of instrument when the market is as weak as it is these days. However, investors who take the view that sooner or later things have to start improving could
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        HOT STOCK
        66 32  -  By Paul Leo INFORMATICS is a medium-term buy. Intra-day chart shows strong buying support at yesterday's close of 53 cents where the bulk, of the 1.68 million shares was done. The previous day's volume was only 614,000 units. Weekly Relative Strength Index is at 25 and/Urther weakness will
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        Takeover rumours spark chase for second liners
        872 32  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Market is otherwise lacklustre as investors continue to spurn bine chips By R Sivanithy TAKEOVER speculation, triggered off by the recent purchases of United Pulp Paper (UPP) and York Pacific and concentrated mainly on Sesdaq stocks, provided the main feature
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          If they deny, they lie
          96 32 AN INTERESTING point worth noting is that all the companies taken over were queried by the Stock Exchange of Singapore prior to their takeovers. And surprise, surprise, all said they had no idea what was going on a few days before they announced they had
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          The $50 bet on who's next
          86 32 THE TAKEOVER of York Pacific and UPP brings the total number of recent takeovers to eight—Yeo Hiap Seng, ABR, Asiamatrix, LAM, Econ and Horiguchi being the others. Based on the premiums paid, the price for a local listing appears to have risen from at
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          Avoid construction
          125 32 HARD times are in store for building contractors. An analyst with a government-linked brokerage said he expects the margin squeeze in the construction industry to intensify in the short to medium term. Four other analysts have also recommended that their clients avoid the sector. They say the results
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          More money, more mediocrity
          80 32 GORDON "shoot from the hip" Wu last week made the largest private donation of US$lOO million (SSI4I million) by a foreigner to an American university. When asked by the New York Times why he had given the money to his alma mater, Princeton University, instead of
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          Give the homeless a (Web) site
          107 32 IF YOU NEED another reason to be bullish about Internet stock*, here it a good one. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corp, tokl this story at a conference in Boston. He said he was completely astonished recently when, coming out of a restaurant in
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      325 33 Reuter Knight-Ridder THE freight market made another push forward with Caper and Panamax rates up in the Atlantic. There are signs of improving rates also in the Far East for Panamaxes as well as for the smaller geared bulkcarriers. The Baltic Freight Index climbed 35 points on Friday
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      284 33 StS '000 mo ss w CWTOist 1.46 -0.02 112 ChuanHup 1.19 *0.02 42 Coko In* 197 -0.03 1 PELS 6.00 *0.05 272 FrtUnkj 0.79 *0.01 551 CBHoMngi 1-25 *0.19 3134 Hal Sun Hup 0.915 *0.005 171 Hitachi 2osan 1.06 unch 45 IMC HoMngs HK 5.60 Jay* Holdings 1.62
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      429 33  -  Jobs worth US$5-10m; work to begin in the first half of next year By\ Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Jurong Shipyard Limited (JSL) has secured two major conversion jobs for next year. In an interview with Shipping Times, JSL managing director K K Tan said last
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      Japanese shipbuilders report lower 1st half sales
      315 33  -  Price catting evident as sales fall 13% while tonnage increases From, Bruce Rutledge in Tokyo JAPAN'S largest shipbuilders have reported first-half sales down 13.2 per cent from last year. The figures, covering the first six months of Japan's fiscal year (April-September), indicate that
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      234 33 AFP [MUSCAT, Oman] A drifting supertanker loaded with 260,000 tonnes of oil was towed over the weekend towards the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in a bid to avert an environmental disaster in the Gulf, an Omani official said. "Two
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      238 33 Reuter [OSLO] Norway's biggest shipping company, Bergesen dy A/S, said it did not expect any significant changes in tanker rates for the rest of the year. The company's liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers are expected to achieve rates for the rest of 1995
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      Lock icon Lloyds Register to impose new rule on bulk carriers
      276 33 Some Shipßight procedures to be compulsory from Jan MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] Lloyds Register is making mandatory the application of certain Shipßight procedures for all bulk carriers over 190 metres in length from January next year. A recent statement issued by the
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        75 33 Reuter [SEOUL] Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd, a shipbuilding arm of Samsung Group, said it had won a US$322 million (***** million) order to build seven container vessels for China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co (Cosco). Delivery is scheduled between late 1997 and early 1998. "It
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        Lock icon CPC in venture to build LNG vessel
        92 33 Reuter [TAIPEI] Taiwan's state-run Chinese Petroleum Corp (CPC) will participate in a joint venture with an Indonesian and a Japanese firm to jointly invest more than US$3OO million (***** million) in building a ship to transport liquified natural gas (LNG), a Taiwan newspaper
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        89 33 Reuter [BEIJING] China's major coastal ports will have the capacity to handle 605.64 million tonnes of cargo by the end of this year, the Guangming Daily said. China would have 834 middle-size berths including 432 deepwater berths by the year-end, it said. In the 1991-95
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        Lock icon Fuji Kisen to sell stake in Panama unit
        97 33 Reuter [TOKYOJ Fuji Kisen Kaisha Ltd has decided to sell its stake in a shipping unit in Panama to a Japanese shipping company and to dissolve another Panamanian subsidiary, in order to restructure its shipping business. It owns a 75 per cent
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        86 33 AFP [MANILA] The Philippines yesteray repatriated 14 Chinese fishermen who were shipwrecked in the disputed Spratly chain last month, Foreign Department officials said. The Hainan seafarers boarded a commercial flight for the south-eastern Chinese city of Xiamen and were seen off by a Chinese embassy
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      111 33 Oana-Antara [BERLIN] Indonesia has ordered two more commuter ships of the Dobonsolo type from the German shipyard of Meyer in Papenburg, a spokesperson for the shipyard said here yesterday. The ships, which can accommodate around 2,000 passengers, have been designed as inter-island vessels.
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      509 34 DUTCH SHIPPING INDUSTRY: CHANGE IS IN THE AIR Altered tax system and more flexible manning rules allow shipowners to be more competitive Fairplay AFTER more than two years of trying to persuade the government that Dutch shipping still matters, Aart Korteland, chairman of the shipowners'
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      405 34 Fairplay DUTCH shipyards are giving a cautious welcome to OECD plans to end shipbuilding subsidies. Larger yards in the south, such as Van der Giessen-de Noord, which is building a string of ro-ro/passenger ferries for overseas owners, would lose the advantage of soft-loan facilities. To
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        646 45 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure (BT) Adi Batam I 13/95 alongside V4.tl/0600 (BT) AmU Qui SIS 2/95 Jl alongside M.11/1900 (BT) Buana Bom S12 2/95 Jl alongside V4.ll/1900 (BT) Sejeti 60/95 Jl alongside M.11/1900 Batam Indaft N242 J2 alongside M.11/2300 BKm Murni 11/04/95 J4 alongstde M.11/2300 Burnt
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        828 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 average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        528 46 Protectionist barriers will fall with entry into World Trade Organisation Reuter [TAIPEI] With 12 car manufacturers serving a population of just 21 million, Taiwan's car industry is almost as crowded as its roads. Many predict that some in the corporate slow lane will
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        283 46 AFP [DUBAI] Canadian and French companies at the Dubai air show are trying to lure wealthy Gulf Arabs away from the luxury corporate jets sold mainly by American firms. But France's Dassault-Fal-con, which accounts for 25 per tent
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        354 46 Month-old walkout leaves plants with almost no workers AFP [WASHINGTON] A massive strike at the BOeing aircraft company now in its second month may cripple the company's ability to deliver all the aircraft it had planned for this year, a company spokeswoman
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        Lock icon China car industry seeks 126b yuan investment
        152 46 Reuter [BEIJING] China's car industry will seek to attract investments totalling 126.2 billion yuan (5520.9 billion) by 2000, Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The industry is expected to produce 2.7 million cars and eight million motorcycles annually by 2000, Xinhua said. The government
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        190 46 Reuter [SINGAPORE] Asia, already the world's largest tyre market, is expected to get more than 75 per cent of the US$5 billion (Ss7 billion) in new investments in tyre manufacturing expansion over the coming years, a trade magazine said. Eight of
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        Lock icon Canada probes Airbus bribery charge
        148 46 Reuter [OTTAWA] Canadian federal police are asking Swiss authorities to help investigate "certain allegations" that sales of Airbus aircraft to Air Canada, the country's largest airline, involved bribery, the Canadian Press news agency reported late on Sunday. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officials were not
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        Work starts soon on Philippines' new terminal
        217 46  -  Congestion at Manila international airport will be eased by '98 From. Al Labita in Manila CONSTRUCTION of a new international airport terminal funded by the Japanese government will start early next month, Transportation Secretary Jesus Garcia said yesterday. Mr Garcia made the announcement
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          97 46 [SINGAPORE] International Aero Engines' sales has hit over US$l billion (551.42 billion) even before the year ends. Its latest order from Saudia Airlines of US$42O million (*****.3 million) for 29 V 2500 engines helped it reach the mark. The aircraft engine manufacturer said it expected
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          107 46 AFP (BANGKOK] Thailand's Council of Economic Ministers yesterday approved a proposal to set up a second Thai airline able to compete on international routes, a government spokesman said. The plan, which would for the first time allow competition in Thailand's commercial aviation industry,
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          Lock icon Hainan sells shares to US Air Corp
          100 46 AFP [BEIJING] Hainan Airlines has become China's first foreign-invested airline, selling one quarter of its shares to the US Air Corp Ltd for US$25 million (5535.2 million), Xinhua reported yesterday. The deal, under which the US firm takes control of 100,040,001 shares in
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          101 46 Bloomberg Business News [Dubai] European aircraft maker Airbus Industrie said it won orders for six twinjet A33os from Gulf Air, worth a total of around US$72O million (551.05 billion), Airbus announced at the Dubai Air Show here. Airbus said that Rolls Royce had been chosen
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        149 46 Reuter [GENEVA] International airline passenger traffic rose by 8 per cent in the first nine months of the year and freight traffic by 11 per cent, the International Air Transport Association (lata) said. In its monthly statement, lata said both passenger and freight traffic
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      385 33 Bumpy ride ahead for Taiwan car producers Protectionist barriers set to fall. Back Page BULLETIN BOARD Maltby a mainboard director at H Clarkson HPVII^h Managing director of Clarkson Asia, Simon B Maltby, has been appointed a mainboard director of international shipbroker Horace Clarkson Co. m k Mr Maltby, has been
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