The Business Times, 22 February 1996

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  • 635 1  -  Companies in BT-CBRD survey cite lower selling prices and higher labour and material costs By, Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Companies posted higher sales but lower profits in the last quarter of 1996 compared to the same period a year ago, a
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  • 482 1  -  From\ Leon Hadar in Washington IN A dramatic development that is sending shock waves through the Republican Party's establishment, Patrick Buchanan has snared New Hampshire with 27 per cent of the vote, leaving Senator Bob Dole in second place and the Grand Old Party
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  • 227 1 Bat Fed chief leaves door open to another rate cut Bloomberg Business News (WASHINGTON] Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan yesterday said the chances of the US economy rebounding from its current slump are better than 50 per cent, though he left the door open to
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  • 447 1  -  Forez markets shrug off intervention deal with S'pore, HE From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TOKYO stock prices plunged yesterday amid growing fears the strengthening yen could abort Japan's fragile economic recovery. Meanwhile, the yen continued to move in the opposite direction Japan
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    • 113 1 JJDlolllfta V Hqcl ff_J Myanmar's economic growtbis lopsided, says A una San Suu Kyi. Hie pro-democracy raps the lack of progress in health and education which, in her view, are the two best indicators of the living standards of the people, Pfl fSftiaaHta Provisions Suppliers Corporation (PSC) is all set
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    • 18 1 Clinton wants pro-growth views on Fed board, Pg 4 US rates low enough for economy: Rubin, Pg 4
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    • 244 1 flaleaapJ92s% higher for a third of companies, Pg 2 Ikwnwilste get more help in numbers game, Pg 11 Timeless values. Empire Period. llGeneva Duplex escapement movement by Hbery These two exquisite watches, The Rolex Day-Date in the shape of peaches, are Wf is appreciated for more called «For China». than
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 447 2  -  BT-CBBD BUBIMEBS ACTIVITY UimUES But over one-third of firms surveyed saw 10% profit fall in the Oct-Dec 1995 quarter Reports by, Anna Teo HOW much better or worse were sales or profits in the Oc-tober-December 1995 quarter and why? Some
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    • 252 2 SEVENTY per cent of the 120 survey respondents had sales of less than $100 million in 1995. Just over a quarter chalked up between $100 million and $500 million in turnover, and just 4 per cent had sales of $500 million or more. The survey
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    • 138 2 COSTS. This factor is the concern most often cited by every type of company surveyed. Local companies named costs, business prospects and competition as their main worries. But foreign firms named manpower woes above competition as a problem. In fact, the 10 companies
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    • 307 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Commerce By, Anna Teo IT was another sluggish year for the retail trade in 1995 retail sales value rose only 1.5 per cent compared to 1994. Excluding motor vehicles, the index in- creased 2.1 per cent. The figures released yesterday
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    • 589 2  -  COMPANY VISIT ASJ By, Ang Wan May FONG Yow Wai is a David fighting many Goliaths. For Mr Fong is managing director of local firm ASJ, which is taking on Japanese heavyweights such as Kyocera, Matsushita and Rohm for a piece
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    • 82 2 Incorporation of offshore companies I with Chinese name Memorandum and Articles of Association are issued in Chinese Certificate of Incorporation is issued For further information with company name in Chinese and immediate service characters please contact: Michael J Kingston Corporate documents notarised or OFFSHORE authenticated by the Embassy of the
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  • REGION
    • 553 3  -  LBTTBRFROM BAMOKOE Will battles between Thai politicians help lilt their game? Bp Alan Boyd AN uneasy sense of dtja vu has descended on the constantly changing tapestry of Thailand's political scene. Bribery scandals, allegations of illegal logging, claims of plagiarism for a college
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    • 416 3  -  TOKYO Opptrition may have lost chance tO stop govt scheme By< Anthony Rowley TACTICAL errors may have robbed Japan's parliamentary opposition party, Shinshinto, of the chance to thwart the controversial official plan for rescuing the nation's bankrupt housing loan corporations
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    • NOTEBook
      • 55 3 Reuter MMWAW mk.i a [BANGKOK] Thai central bank governor Vtyit Supinit said yesterday he believe# the government can keep Thai inflation at 4.9 per cent this year against &8 in 1996. He said the targeted 1996 inflation was appropriate for Thailand 's .projected 8.3
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      • Article, Illustration
        32 3 Reuter [MANILA] Filipino Raman Catholic boys stared awestruck as a priest placed ash on their foreheads in the sign of the cross as the predominantly Catholic Philippine* marked Ash Wednesday.—Reuter
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      • 65 3 Reuter [TOKYO] The Japanese economy is dearly recovering, but uncertainty remains as the recovery relies in large part on the sffKt of past economic stimulus measures, senior Bank ofJapan official said. Despite some signs ofa rise in private sector capital Investment, there is no clear
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      • 50 3 Reuter (CADIZ, Philippines] The Coast Guard yesterday filed criminal charges sgainst the captain and nine crew of the tmy Gretchen-i which sank. Officials earlier said about 70 died in Sunday's disaster but the Coast Guard revised the toll to 51 killed with two missing.—Reuter
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    • 123 3 TOKYO Reuter JAPAN'S Finance Minister Wataru Kubo sees no grounds for media reports that say initial losses from winding up ailing mortgage Arms would increase by 100 billion yen (511.33 billion). "I instructed (the Finance Ministry's) banking bureau to check grounds for the
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    • 557 3  -  U SINGAPORE Bnt gradual and strong recovery will follow, it says By Ven Sreenivasan HONGKONG will undergo a temporary pause in economic growth next year because of uncertainties over the handover of sovereignty, followed by a gradual but strong recovery, according to
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    • 30 3 [CHONGQING] A truffle policeman at work in Chongqing, Sichuan. Starting this year, traffic police in many major cities have to use standardised military-style signs. AFP
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    • 339 3 ■SYDNEY Finance approvals fell for second month in December Reuter THE worst may be over for the Australian housing market, but that does not mean that good times are just around the corner, with housing expected to remain subdued through the first
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    • 354 3 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG expects to build on its position as the second largest foreign investor iii Vietnam as the formerly wartorn nation reintegrates into the world economy, a trade report said here yesterday. The British territory's approved direct investment in Vietnam
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    • 59 3 I 1 M Founded 1905 IIIIKI JS The National University MM of Singapore ||Lj| I PROFESSOR SIR MICHAEL HOWARD H Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor IS "WARFARE IN THE POSTCOU) WAR WORLD" KMI M Venue: LTII, NUS MM Date Wednesday, 28 February 1996 |mi fij Time 6.00pm hjjfij B ri
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  • REGION/WORLD
    • 256 4 WASHINGTON AFP THE United States said on Tuesday that last week's elections in Bangladesh failed to meet Western standards of fairness and did not resolve the political crisis in the former British province. Bangladesh's ruling National Party (BNP) won a
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    • 388 4 WASHINGTON President likely to fill vacancies, reappoint Greenspan this week Reuter PRESIDENT Bill Clinton wants pro-growth views represented on the Federal Reserve Board and may act this week to fill two vacancies and reappoint Fed chairman Alan Greenspan. "The president has been discussing
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    • 268 4 FLORIDA Bloomberg Business News TREASURY Secretary Robert Rubin said he's satisfied that interest rates are low enough at present to lay the foundations for a return to solid economic growth. "Interest rates have come down to levels that are consistent with having
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    • 417 4 WASHINGTON 'Dialogue strategy aimed at building closer ties and toning down disagreement on issues, says report AFP THE US government will seek high-level talks with China in the coming weeks to build closer ties and tone down disagreement on several issues, The Washington Post
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    • Article, Illustration
      48 4 [MEMICI, Bosnia] US army sergeant Robert Anderson (right) and a colleague taking a break while shovelling the sea of mud surrounding their tent near here on Monday. Warm temperatures mixed with melting snow and steady rain have left many camps and checkpoints ankle deep in mud. REUTER
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    • 347 4  -  SYDNEY From, Surinder Singh ASIAN cities occupy seven of the 10 most expensive areas in the world to rent office space, a survey of global rental levels by Australian property firm Richard Ellis shows. The seven cities are Bombay, Tokyo,
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    • 136 4 NEW DELHI AFP A SEVENTH Indian minister resigned yesterday after being implicated in a snowballing corruption scandal which has rocked the political spectrum. Officials said Minister of State for Urban Affairs R K Dhawan, a former aide of assassinated prime minister Indira Gandhi, formally quit
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    • 273 4 M KUALA LUMPUR MBT KHAZANAH Holdings Bhd, the government's investment arm, is studying the feasibility of taking part in several wafer fabrication projects with US partners who are applying to set up shop in the Kulim HiTech Park. The company is currently
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    • 314 4 NEW YORK Paper says US Intends to punish Beijing but White House denies report Reuter THE United States intends to punish China with selective sanctions for supplying nuclear materials to Pakistan, The New York Times reported yesterday. The newspaper quoted unidentified senior officials as
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    • 171 4 SEOUL Reuter SOUTH Korea will allow foreign investment trust firms to raise funds in the country for stock investment elsewhere. The finance ministry said yesterday that the measure, to be effective in the first half of this year, at encouraging Sotrai Koreans
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 40 4 Reuter [NEW YORK] Forma- US Senator George Mitchell told the New York Times in an interview published yesterday the prime ministers erf Britain and Ireland had invited him tor talks on restarting Irish peace negotiation#.—Reuter
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      • 56 4 AFP [TOKYO] Canon Inc has developed the world's smallest compact camera with a zoom lense measuring 9x6x2.7 cm, only slightly larger than a cigarette pack on Tuesday. The camera, priced at 48,000 yen (*****) will go on sale in Japan ftam Apr 28, but will not be
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      • 54 4 Reuter [WASHINGTON] President Bill Clinton and Nato Secretary-General Javier Solana affirmed support on Tuesday for "steady, deliberate" progress toward enlarging the Western alliance. The two leaders also agreed on the importance offtill Russian participation in European security aflkirs and "reaffirmed their support for a genuinely substantive Nato-Russia partnership",
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      • 36 4 FT [LONDON] The European Union is exploring the possibility of a "multi-speed" exchange rate mechanism (ERM) to link the planned singte currency area with countries not initially in the monetary union.—FT 4-
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      • 84 4 AFP [MOSCOW] An opposition victory in the June presidential elections would prompt the International Monetary Fund to review a loan of at least US$9 billion (5512.7 billion) it W expected to grant Russia soon, an IMP spokesman said H here yesterday. IMF director-general Michel
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      • 39 4 Reuter [MOSCOW] Russian President Boris Yeltsin yesterday dismissed reports of differences between himself and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin as "unfounded" and said he would back his premier "to the very end". —Reuter
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  • FOCUS
    • 1291 6  -  Pro-democracy leader raps lack of progress in health and education From. Loh Hui Yin in Bangkok YANGON's growing economy and rapidly changing skyline, shaped by new hotels and office buildings, may catch foreigners' attention but it does not impress pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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  • COMAPNIES & MARKETS
    • 510 7  -  Group looks to future listing of healthcare venture on SES and reduced reliance on consumer business By, Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Mainboardlisted Provisions Suppliers Corporation (PSC) is gearing up to be a leading international healthcare player. It joins the growing group of
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    • 377 7 Malaysia's strong diplomatic ties and corporate presence a major factor: sources MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] A Malaysian consortium led by Telekom Malaysia Bhd and Khazanah Holdings is said to be leading the race for a 30 per cent stake in South
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    • 238 7 Reuter [BANGKOK] Securities One, the leading Thai brokerage, yesterday announced sharply lower net profit of 843.16 million baht (Ss47 million) for 1995 compared with 1.016 billion the previous year. Earnings per share (EPS) fell to 9.37 baht in 1995 from 29.24 baht the previous
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    • 722 7  -  BOCK LOCK SIEW By S N Vasuki ANALYSTS are beginning to wonder why the Jakarta stock market is emerging as one of the region's top performers this year. The market's composite index soared from 485 at the beginning of the year
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    • 212 7 Reuter [BANGKOK] Thai Danu Bank pic plans to raise its capital by 25 per cent next year and will privately offer new shares to foreign institutional investors, the bank's president said yesterday. "Thai Danu plans to allow foreign institutional investors
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    • 385 7 Telecom firms feeling impact of move to liberalise sector NST [KUALA LUMPURJ For a long time in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya, payphones, in their yellow booths, were always associated with Uniphone, of Uniphone Telecommunications Sdn Bhd. But, that is about to change if
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    • COMPANIES
      • 327 8 Reuter [PARIS] French computer maker Cie des Machines Bull, in which IPC of Singapore has a small stake, has returned to the black after running up losses of 22 billion francs (556.2 billion) since 1969. The company on Tuesday announced a net
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      • 410 8 Move marks a new step to open IBM's closed systems to ran software from competitors Reuter [NEW YORK] International Business Machines Corp (IBM), seeking to capture a major slice of the Internet market, on Tuesday unveiled a broad array of software and services to tap
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      • 230 8 Reuter [WASHINGTON] Planet Hollywood International Inc, a theme-restaurant chain, on Tuesday registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a global initial public offering of Class A common shares. The Orlando-based company did not disclose how many shares it plans to sell. For
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      • 139 8 NYT [DALLAS] Texas Instruments Inc plans to build a US$2 billion (Ss2.B billion) semiconductor factory here, only months after completing a similar plant nearby. The announcement on Tuesday comes amid concern from some industry analysts that worldwide demand is slowing for semiconductors, especially computer memory
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      • COMPANYBriefs
        • 45 8 FT MfpAN FRANCISCO) OMMllflMßijHfii nflhs iiijpX l»iil||i> 1 computer online tafarsm HAR Block, its parent company, with a public stock Qg«rtogplannedftir h i 'IpeCompuServestockottering lmi wll|iiiiwtpii liiCissl m telntgrnttrelatKi compsnlee ruTraMi htth. will be a "hot" offering, analysts said yesterday.—JPT
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        • 34 8 Bloomberg Business News ttSSKCSSBSBB^SiS f| personal compui|i to Time will allow them to tap thtlntarnet and cjo4lnawvt««*t i speeds 100 times fester than conventional telephone modems, Tima Wamor Mid. Business News
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        • 51 8 Reuter strong buylnftotarest among new developments in Rupert Murdoch's sprawling media < concern. At the dose, News Corp was up 34 cents or per cent at A<7.» on brisk turnover topping 4.7 Wtlllontharse. i< Analysts said talk ofUS buyers and a report that News Corp, MCI Communicationa Corp
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      • 335 8 Company's changes aimed at re-focusing product development NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] Acknowledging that the Internet and other technology trends are shifting the focus of the software market that Microsoft Corp has long dominated, the company announced on Tuesday a series
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    • Article, Illustration
      1110 8 AFP PSCTMn -SJB THAI shares slid 0.4 per cent yesterday in light trading during holidays in many other regional bourses. Declines on "overseas markets and tight liquidity in the local money market were the main factors" behind the bourse's fall, said Sanphong Limthamrongkul of Jardine Fleming Thanakom Finance and
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    • 4641 9 QUkp -283.44 JAPANESE stocks declined for a fifth day amid concern the dollar's drop against the yen could hurt profit growth of exporters such as Toshiba Corp, traders and investors said. "The market reacted to the dollar's fall, which was a disappointment since it came on the
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    • 1577 9 Qhmkm ♦HQ SHARE*, prices closed higher in moderate trading, recovering frbm earlier sharp losses on Wall Street's gains and renewed hopes of a further UK rate-cut, dealers said. The release of weaker-than-expected retail sales data helped equities and gilts recover early losses, and sentiment was farther boosted
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    • FINANCE&COMMODITIES
      • 474 10 World's biggest bank to raise equity, close op to 20 offices, cut staffing by 12% FT [TOKYO] Fuji Bank, the world's largest bank, has announced a large restructuring to repair its fragile profitability, undermined by substantial write-offs of non-performing loans. The bank
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      • Article, Illustration
        51 10 [MANILA] Lolito Sulaiman, a member of the B'laan tribe, at a press conference called to register his tribe's protest against Australia's Western Mining's exploration activities in the southern Philippines. He is pointing to a map showing the location of his tribe and Western Mining's areas of activity.
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      • 103 10 Bloomberg Business News [MELBOURNE] National Australia Bank, Australia's largest bank, has bought a 5.8 per cent strategic stake in St George Bank Ltd but ruled out a full takeover bid in the short term. "The holding represents a strategic stake in the New South Wales-based
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      • 472 10 Acquisition a lifeline for tilingSiygiHj Bjiggia'fl largest paper sack maker FT [LONDON] Michael Dingman, the American investor and industrial turnaround specialist who controls the Stratton group, has become a significant force in the European paper industry. He is taking a controlling stake in Segezhabumprom, Russia's
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      • Knight-Ridder Commodity Summary
        • 104 10 [NEW YORK] The Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange (CSCE) board of managers on Tuesday voted not to accept the recommendation of the Coffee Control Subcommittee to reduce the speculative position limit for the spot month during its delivery period. As a result, the speculative position
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        • 59 10 [CHICAGO] Volume in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's Globex system set a single-session record 0f26,347 contracts on Tuesday, up from 24,385 set on Nov 23,1994. The volume surge, coming during an extended holiday session lasting from Sunday night until Tuesday morning, proved the value of
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        • 130 10 [NEW YORK] A total 10,000 60-kg bags are pending classification for certification at Miami and New Orleans warehouses, the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange confirmed on Tuesday. Of the total, 7,000 bags are Venezuelan and 3,000 Mexican, the exchange said. "It's the first time in years so
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        • 88 10 [TOKYO] Average retail prices of petrol, kerosene and gas oil held steady in the weekended Feb 19, the Institute of Energy Economics reported yesterday. According to the Institute's survey, as of Monday, prices for regular petrol in Japan averaged 111 yen per litre, unchanged
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        • 97 10 [SYDNEY] Australia's Pasminco Ltd, the world's largest zinc producer, yesterday said it remained cautious for the January-June second half as global demand for zinc appeared to be softening and a drawdown of inventories slowed. "Demand conditions have, since year-end, shown signs of weakening and
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      • 562 10 Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Eurodollar futures made a startling recovery in late trading yesterday as players covered positions after an aggressive early sell-off. September recovered from a low of 94.83 to end at 94.98 against their previous settlement at 94.89. June ended at 94.94 against 94.81. The US interest rate
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      • 337 10 [TOKYO] Yen-denominated gold and platinum futures nosedived by the close of trade yesterday, battered by losses in the spot market and the yen's rise against the dollar, traders said. The April to December gold futures fell by their daily limit of 40 yen per gram, while most platinum futures
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    • EDITORIAL & OPINION
      • 797 11  -  WB OPINION By Harish Mehta The writer is a BT correspondent specialising in Indochinese ctffairs IT DOES not take an expert to forecast that grand coalitions are the future of India because no single party can expect to claim a majority at the
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      • 114 11 1 am excessive with my love for the Filipino people.' -Imelda Haras who served under her husband's administration as Minister of Human Settlements, defending her extravagant projects. We don't like to play Big Brother, but we are cautioning people that investing in stocks isn't a one-way street'
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      • 577 11 EDITORIAL Despite his victories among Republican voters in lowa and New Hampshire, it is doubtful that the Grand Old Party, the political home of Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, will choose Patrick Buchanan, the leading voice of protectionism and isolationism, as its presidential candidate.
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      • 1064 11  -  Unlike the US, interest in forecasting in Singapore has not withered By* Anna Teo TIME and again, economic forecasters in Singapore have had to as one of them put it bang their heads against the waU for having been too conservative. Against the
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      • 690 11  -  nan.nnT Ho Swee Huat Singapore *****8 SINGAPORE Power's low rate of return on equity (ROE) was given as the reason for deferring its listing. The solution to its low ROE is to increase tariff over the next few years. As a customer of SP, without
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      • 125 11 FIRST the mainstream Republican candidates ignored the political and economic issue of the day the deep and justified fear of workers that they will be kicked out of their jobs. Downsizing desolated those who received the tap on the shoulder and put fear into their relatives,
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    • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
      • 665 12 Study shows those with fewer ideas in writing more likely to get disease later AP YOUNG women whose writing contained few ideas were more likely to get Alzheimer's disease 50 years later, according to a study that suggests that subtle signs of the devastating brain
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      • 675 14 OBITUARY He was first Japanese composer to become known in the West NYT [TOKYO] Toru Takemitsu, a prolific composer known for his intensely introspective and usually gently etched concert works as well as for the dozens of colourful, evocative scores he wrote for Japanese
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      • 601 14 FASHION Reuter [ULAN BATOR, Mongolia] It's a dog's life in Mongolia. Stray hounds are vanishing from the streets of the capital, Ulan Bator, and ending up as Mongolia's latest fashion fad. Dog fur coats are the winter vogue in the capital of this
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      • 239 14 BOOKS AP [WASHINGTON] Light a candle, they tell readers. Imagine the ideal guy, the one you want to marry. See him in a business suit. Watch him take a bath. Picture him in the kitchen. Envision him in every, and they mean every, possible
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      • CHATTERBox
        • 49 14 UPI PRINCE EDWARD'S television production company pins J to make a£9 million (B*l9-8 million) documentary about his grandmother, the Queen Mother. The eight-episode $3 series will begin in 1928 with her marriage and continue through to the coronation of Elizabeth n, in 1953. UP! b
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        • 43 14 Reuter RAPPER Snoop Doggy Dogg (right) and his former bodyguard McKinley Lee embracing after a jury acquitted them of first and second-degree murder charges on Tuesday. The jury remained deadlocked on a lesser count of voluntary manslaughter.—Reuter
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        • 37 14 UPI KATHLEEN Turner is getting set to move to the little screen. She has signed a deal with Disney to star in a situation comedy to be taped in New York. UPI
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        • 54 14 UPI MICHAEL Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley may be splitsville in the marriage department, but writer J Randy Taraborrelli is starting a rumour that they may reunite professionally. "Michael Jackson will be producing Lisa Marie Presley's first album in the next few months," Taraborrelli told
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 398 15 Knight-Ridder Reuter THE Baltic Freight Index lost six more points, easing to 1,426 in what shipbrokers said was an exceptionally quiet dry cargo market, although holidays in North America and Asia may be somewhat to blame. Brokers had no evidence that rates for modern Panamaxes were suffering further
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    • 395 15  -  Tired of being held hostage by onions, shipping firms hope for an opposition win From'. Florence Chong in Sydney AS THE Australian elections approach, shipping companies tired of being held hostage by the unions are hoping for a Liberal Coalition win, while waterfront unions
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    • 332 15 P6O consortium to develop Queen Elizabeth Quay AFP [COLOMBO] Sri Lanka plans a deal with Britain's Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P and O) and its local partner to develop the Colom- bo port at a cost of US$2OO million (Ss2B2 million), it was
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    • 627 15  -  SDPSBSPE By] Rahita Elias REAR-ADMIRAL James Card, chief of the United States Coast Guard (USCG) office of marine safety, security and environmental protection, deals with weighty matters of international significance on a daily basis. The USCG, which implements the country's port state control
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    • 229 15 AFP [MILFORD HAVEN, Wales], Salvage crews battling stiff winds and currents off the Welsh coast failed late on Tuesday to refloat a stricken oil tanker that threatens environmental disaster. The operation, a desperate race against time and tide, was mounted amid fears that
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    • 127 15 Reuter [BREMEN, Germany] Troubled German shipbuilder Bremer Vulkan said yesterday it would file for protection-from-creditors proceedings since many of its divisions were insolvent. Vulkan, Germany's largest shipbuilder, said it did not expect to receive immediately any further funds and that group losses for 1995
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    • 302 15 Officials call for modernisation of ferry services Reuter [MANILA] A Philippine senator on Tuesday demanded the death penalty for negligent owners of ships involved in disasters after 70 people died in a ferry sinking. "They must be stopped permanently from killing our
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    • 161 15 AFP [LAOAG, Philippines] A Pana-manian-registered ship sank off the northern Philippines before dawn yesterday after being pounded by strong waves, maritime officials said. Two men a Japanese engineer and a Filipino cook are still missing. Philippine Coast Guard operations chief Lieutenant Commander Feliciano Dyhas identified
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      • 41 15 AFX-Asia iniAHii fl|iiin|nmm iiMii i mss imi mill i <■«■! i Shipping Corp Mid It bat bought tw new cargo lift flnmTttitwr ,ftilnT*irMVln llnifflinipstoir^.»T mllllon). Loreso Shipping said thattlfr cargo liftttUfcfca 3 wfflsddreasths container handUngreguliiiMiilioftfce company's four new cargo vessels.—AFX-ASIa
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      • 63 15 AFP [TOKYO} Japan'aahlpegpoitcontracts In January ji/vv plunged 31.1 per cent from a year earlier in deadweight tonnep front. according to a Japan Ship faportart > Asaociatkmetatimrat. Ship exportert received ccntractt r| ft* 33 ahipe amounting to530,290 deadweight tanner it .'sa •aid tor two cargo combined 16,000deadweighttonnee, 18
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      • 49 15 Bloomberg Business News [NEWPORT NEWS, VirgtnisJTennecofnc's Newport News Shipbuilding said it won a contract tor USII3LS million (5517.6 million) to overhaul the USS itfamtf, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser. Unier the contract, Newport Newt will paint the hull, inspect the to tiw combat systems. —Btoontbin Buttons ziMt
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      • 44 15 AFP [OSLO] Norwegian off-ehore, engineering and shipbuilding group Kvasrner haa bought Tuqpaßa Power fh>m the Finnish group Tampalla for 168 million krnaor (I&9 million), Kvasrner said on Tuesday. Kvasrner would also acquire a&S per oant ofTampeDa, it said. —AFP f rt£T *\r J
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    • 984 16 OUMNXMO FOR 810 DEAL: RIVALS TARGET WARSHIP CONTRACT As two barely surviving shipbuilders in Britain fight over an order to make frigates for the Royal Navy, observers ponder the effect the British government's decision will have amid a climate of shrinking orders for weapons systems
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      • 163 29 Fan Bangladesh: Eid al-Fltr (depends on sighting of the moon). Indonesia: Partial market holiday, Eid al-Fltr; Jakarta Stock Market closed Feb 19-23. Malaysia: Moslem end of fasting month celebration, Hari Raya Puasa. Pakistan: Eid al-Fltr (depends on sighting of the moon). Qatar: (tentative) Eid al-Fltr (depends on sighting
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      • 318 30 Sales increase last year wu smaller than expected canning excess stocks Reuter [PARIS] Car production in Europe has shifted into low gear as manufacturers try to avoid repeating last year's mistake overestimating demand. Although car sales in western Europe rose 0.6 per cent
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      • 281 30 NYT [WASHINGTON] After 14 deaths in commuter train wrecks in the last 14 days, the Transportation Department on Tuesday issued emergency procedures intended to reduce the speed of the trains after they leave stations where there are no signals. The department also issued
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      • 175 30 Bernama [JOHOR BARU] The Johor government has agreed to take up a Malaysia Airports Berhad proposal that it form a task force to further promote the Sultan Ismail International Airport in Senai at the international level. Menteri Besar Haji Abdul Ghani Othman
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      • 164 30 Reuter [DETROIT] Mitsubishi Motors America Inc, a unit of Mitsubishi Motors Corp, said it will form a new research and development company in the US Mitsubishi Motors R&D America Inc will be based in Normal, Illinois, where Mitsu- bishi operates a manufacturing facility. The
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      • 243 30 Reuter [WARREN, Michigan] General Motors Corp said the merger of its Pontiac and GMC divisions will allow the carmaker to lower costs and provide its dealers with more efficient sales and service support But GM officials, during a press conference here
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      • 163 30 Reuter [SEATTLE] Boeing Co said on Tuesday it has started assembling a long-range version of its Boeing 777 airplane. The company said the first 777-200 increased gross weight aircraft will roll out of its factory this summer. The plane will go to British Airways.
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      • 353 30 Car and component makers are waking up to the huge market Reuter [NEW DELHI] The organisers have dubbed it the "Miss Universe contest for automobiles". The week-long Auto Expo which opened in New Delhi yesterday is a showcase for India's ambitions
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      • LOGBook
        • 101 30 AFP [MONTREAL] Montreal's Mirabel airport will lose its international traffic to the Dorval airport, which is closer to the city and has better ground transport infrastructure, officials said on Tuesday. They said the move is to come into effect in April 1997. Mirabel was
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        • 55 30 Reuter (CHICAGO) The worldwide cargo division of UAL Corp's United Airlines generated a record US$757 million (Ssl .07 billion) in revenue in 1996, up 10.5 per cent from the previous year, the company said. Cargo revenue ton miles were up 8.8 per cent from the
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        • 88 30 Reuter [LILLE, France] Traffic through the Channel tunnel was brought to a virtual standstill on Tuesday because of the knock-on effect of heavy snowfalls, a spokesman for operating company Eurotunnel said. Snow on trains was melting in the tunnel and affecting the signalling system. All
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        • 75 30 Reuter [TOKYO] Honda Motor Co Ltd said yesterday it would launch the completely new Orthia sporty station wagon in Japan on March 1. The monthly sales target for the Orthia is 3,000 cars and prices will start from 1.603 million yen (5521,320). Honda aims
          Reuter  -  75 words
        • 72 30 Reuter [HOUSTON] A Continental Airlines jet may have ftitlad to f* deploy landing gear when a McDonnell Douglas DC-® Jet touched down and skidded off the runway on its belly at Houston Intercontinental Airport, CBS reported on Tuesday. The network said investigators into Monday's
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      • 352 30 Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON] The head of the US Senate transport committee says hell introduce legislation next month to increase foreign investment allowed in US airlines to 49 per cent from the current limit of 25 per cent There's just one catch.
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