The Business Times, 21 August 1996

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  • 624 1  -  Plans also for 26,000 homes, recreational facilities in Marina South By. Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] In Marina South will rise the New Downtown, with some 28 million sq ft of prime office space, some 26,000 waterfront homes and recreational and watersport facilities.
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  • 347 1  -  By< Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Indonesian "kretek" king Putera Sampoerna has raised the price of his general offer for Transmarco Holdings from $6.50 to $8.55 a share after buying another one million shares in the telecommunications and fashion goods company yesterday. News
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  • 132 1 AFX-Asia [WASHINGTON! fhe Federal Open Market Committee meeting yesterday ended with no announcement on interest rates, according to a statement from the Federal Reserve. The Fed statement offered no description of the meeting In addition, the statement did not disclose how much leeway it gave
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  • 342 1  -  By^ Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Non-oil domestic exports, a key indicator of the health of the manufacturing industry, staged an unexpected 10 per cent rise in real terms in July, after a worrying 2 per cent fall in June. On the three-month
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    • 36 1 m II "This is the oncein the-term, once-in-the-decade opportunity to get it right," Treasurer Peter Costeflo on his bold 1906/07 Australian Budget aimed at turning the country away (torn "a path to deficit and debt". -Mnprt,V|l
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    • 9 1 New Downtown will create more prime property, Pg 2
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 257 2 A COMPUTER virus spread through the Internet which overwrites hard disks is set to strike tomorrow. The global virus, which has names such as Hare, Krsna, and HDEuthanasia, will destroy all data on computer hard disks with no protection against it, according
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    • 379 2  -  Singaporeans should not think they are constrained by land, says ling Kiang By, Abdul Hadhi WITH some 26,000 waterfront homes in the offing, the New Downtown promises to be much more than a mega office hub. At the launch of the exhibition on
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    • 252 2  -  By\ Diana Oon PUNGGOL 21 the newly announced prototype for community living in the 21st century wiD have 60 per cent public housing and 40 per cent private housing. Minister for National Development Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday. Mr Lim said that Punggol, along with
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    • 274 2 Simon Schuster to boost Asian titles THE world's largest Englishlanguage book publisher, Simon Schuster, yesterday announced plans to beef up its Asian titles and to publish CDROM books here at the opening of its $5 million distribution centre in Singapore yesterday. The 60,000 sq ft distribution centre for the company
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    • 238 2  -  Reports by Christopher Tan SINGAPORE Bus Service (SBS) has shortlisted two tenderers for its satellite-linked vehicle-tracking system costing over $100 million. Woon Chio Chong, SBS senior vice-president in charge of the project, however declined to reveal who the two were. "We're working closer with
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    • 331 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Prices By' Teh Hooi Ling WHOLESALE prices continued to slip last month, latest figures from the Department of Statistics show. The Manufactured Products Price Index for July was 80.3 points, down from 80.5 a year ago. Compared with June, it was
      Source: Dept of Statistics  -  331 words
    • 418 2  -  There are concerns that community devt councils may add bureaucratic layers By I Chuang Peck Ming RESERVATIONS were expressed last night at a Feedback Unit dialogue session on the proposal to carve Singapore into 10 to 15 communities, each with a newly
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    • 212 2 SBS has raised the salaries of its 4,800 bus drivers by 15 per cent, a move that will increase the group's annual wage cost by a hefty $16 million. Effective from last July 1, a new driver takes home more than $2,000 a
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    • NEWS Roundup
      • 63 2 GENERAL Pramon Phalasin, Commander in Chief of the Royal Thai Army, wm awarded the prestigious Meritorious Service Medal (Military) by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Tony Tan in a caremocty at the Ministry of Defence yesterday. The medal was conferred for General Pramon's
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      • 105 2 OWNERS of units In Pacific Mansion off River Valley Road have agreed to spend about iio million on raftirhiiimmit The money will go on improving lifts, lobby areas and the security system of the development's tour blocks. Owners of its 288 apartments and two
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      • 60 2 THE National Computer Board has launched IT Power 11 IT power for the workforce of the 21st century—a programme designed to educate workers about the latest technologies. IT Power 21 will equip offios workers with the basic knowledge about work group confuting, the Internet and
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    • 434 3  -  S'pore hails Chief Minister's proposal, plans to help organise investment seminar Reports try Ven Sreenivasan in Johor Bam THE Johor government yesterday invited Singapore developers to invest in resort development projects in the state. During a meeting with visiting Singapore Trade and Industry
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    • 244 3 MALAYSIA will help ensure that the upcoming World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference in Singapore is a success by trying to persuade countries to keep divisive issues off the table during the meeting. Malaysia's International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz gave
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    • 254 3  -  By\ Siow Li Sen PRICES of Thai fragrant rice have soared US$lOO (Ssl4l) a tonne to US$57O from three weeks ago around levels last seen 23 years ago when severe shortages and an export ban imposed by Thailand affected the
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    • 521 3  -  Proposals include port project and revival of Madras corridor plan By' Walton Morais INDIAN External Affairs Minister Inder Kumar Gujral yesterday unveiled a range of proposals to boost economic cooperation with Singapore, including port privatisation, a revival of the Madras corridor proposal and
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  • FOCUS: PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
    • 638 4  -  ▼EBWPOWT: Japanese yen A look at whether interest rate differentials will still underpin yen-Ms, yen-S$ Naresh Verma The writer is a manager of technical analysis advisory (South-east Asia) at Dow Jones Telerate. The opinions in this column are personal and do not
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    • 308 4  -  By: Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] Out of the 687 teams taking part in the Simex Challenge 11, a simulated futures game played under realtime trading conditions, only 27 per cent or 188 teams had made money by the end of the second
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    • 682 4 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] One day soon, emerging market funds may be stocking up on such exoticsounding investments as Egyptian money market bills, Indonesian rupiah corporates and Hungarian forint treasury notes, say investors. That's because many countries that never issued debt in their own
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 404 5 KUALA LUMPUR Surprise intervention shows Bank Negara won't let rates fall below desired level Reuter THE surprise intervention by Malaysia's central bank in the domestic money market yesterday is a clear indication its tight monetary policy will continue, dealers and analysts said. Bank Negara's
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    • 296 5 KUALA LUMPUR Outgoing chairman warns of domino effect in power sector AFX-Asia TENAGA Nasional Bhd's outgoing executive chairman Ani Arope said criticism of the company should not be allowed to get out of hand or this could precipitate financial problems, Bernama news
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    • 519 5  -  iUXfIBW It's happening In Malaysia and Philippines but will making op be that easy? By Yang Razali Kassim Last Sunday, Malaysia's Berita Harian carried a rare picture of Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim together with Islamic opposition party PAS president Fadhil Nor at
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    • 305 6 BANGKOK Chnan accuses premier of incompetence and lack of leadership AFP THAILAND'S opposition filed its second no-confidence motion yesterday against embattled Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa, accusing him of incompetence and of lacking leadership. Opposition leader and former premier Chuan Leekpai of the Democrat Party submitted
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    • 201 6 BANGKOK Reuter THAKSIN Shinawatra, the ty-coon-turned-politician leader of the Palang Dharma Party which recently pulled out of the coalition government, is showering his former colleagues with expensive gifts. Mr Thaksin, who made a fortune in telecommunications and computers before turning to politics, is known for
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    • 279 6 BANGKOK Share prices best left to market forces: finance minister AFP THAI Finance Minister Bodi Chunanonda said yesterday that the government would refrain from intervening in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) to lift the market out of the doldrums. Mr
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    • 147 6 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA said yesterday that it would set up a MSI.S- billion (SsB49-$l billion) integrated pulp and paper mill utilising oil palm fibre. The project, the first of its kind in the country, will be undertaken by the
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    • NOTE Book
      • 80 6 Reuter [PARIS] French oil group Total SA confirmed on Monday that it has joined Malaysia's state-owned Petronas, through its Carigali subsidiary, in a US$6OO million (***** million) deal to develop the Sirri A and E fields in Iran. The project was approved by Iranian authorities. A
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      • 90 6 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Energy, Telecommunications and Poet Minister Leo Moggie said Malaysian energy sector companies must improve their efficiency. In his speech at a YTL Corp function, Mr Moggie said companies in the energy sector must ensure the country has sufficient power supply and
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      • 64 6 AFP [JAKARTA] A government-backed rebel faction of an Indonesian opposition party has moved to etui) the influence of supporters of ousted leader Megawati Sukarnoputri in parliament, reports said yesterday. Suryadi appointed in June at a rebel party congress as head of the Indonesian Democracy Party, has
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      • 43 6 Reuter [HANOI] Vietnamese officers assisting in last minute hat and uniform adjustments to a lineup of marines at Hanoi's presidential palace yesterday. The group was part of an official welcoming ceremony for the visiting Laotian Vice-President Sisavath Keqbounphan to Hanoi.—Reuter
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      • 73 6 Bernama [KOTA BAHRU] PAS yesterday rejected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's call for its members to join Umno saying that would not strengthen Malay unity. PAS president Fadzil Noor said the suggestion for the opposition party to dissolve itself and for its members
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 393 7 TAIPEI Taiwan TV shows him at University of Kiev to receive honorary degree Reuter A TAIWAN television station yesterday showed footage of Vice-President Lien Chan at a university in Ukraine, ending a two-day mystery over his whereabouts. The videotape showed Mr Lien, his wife and
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    • 127 7 SHANGHAI AFP THE Shanghai municipal government has included all 100 of the city's listed companies in a trial reform aimed at building a modern enterprise system, a newspaper reported yesterday. The Shanghai Securities News said the move meant that listed companies would enjoy preferential
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    • Article, Illustration
      37 7 [BEIJING] Visitors to the International Elevator and Escalator Exhibition yesterday marvelling at a robot of an old man (left) talking to an artificial woman's face above an elevator door at a Japanese company's stand. REUTER
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    • 563 7 BEIJING NYT AT A leafy seaside resort fnorth-east of Beijing, where China's Communist Party leaders gather each summer for a kind of collegial brawl over ideology and occasional adjustments to the politburo pecking order, President Jiang Zemin has unveiled
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    • 286 7 HONGKONG Ministry denies that 13 countries will have to close offices AFP CHINA has denied it plans to force 13 countries with diplomatic ties to Taiwan to close their Hongkong consulates after the British colony's handover next July, It was reported yesterday. The
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    • 131 7 TAIPEI Bloomberg TAIWAN posted a current-ac-count surplus in the second quarter, compared to a deficit in the same period last year, the central bank said yesterday in a quarterly report. The current account, which measures the flow of goods, services and transfers
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    • 158 7 TAIPEI Reuter TAIWAN'S president has urged the central bank to study how to control capital outflows to China in a further bid to limit the island's economic exposure on its main rival's turf, a local newspaper said yesterday. President Lee Teng-hui, in a
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  • ASIA
    • 128 8 PERTH Bloomberg Business News AUSTRALIAN businessman Alan Bond has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for fraud concerning the French impressionist painting La Promenade. Bond, who is 58, was one of Australia's leading businessmen and a former "Australian of the Year". On Monday,
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    • 521 8 1996/97 AUSTRALIA BUDGET Treasurer reveals Ass.6b underlying deficit as violent protests continue Bloomberg Business News Reuter, AUSTRALIA'S new conservative government yesterday unveiled in Canberra a 1996/97 budget containing sweeping spending cuts in the face of continuing violent street protests. Announcing an A 55.6 billion
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    • 124 8 PERTH Bloomberg Business News (PERTH] Australia's resources investment boom has slowed with estimates of investment between now and 2000 being revised downwards by at least 25 per cent, The Australian newspaper yesterday reported. The lower rate of investment was confirmed by the abandonment last week of
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    • 171 8 TOKYO AFP JAPAN'S economic planning chief yesterday said the government would monitor a variety of indicators to see whether a serious outbreak of food poisoning this year had hurt the economic recovery. Economic Planning Agency director-general Shusei Tanaka told a news conference his agency
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    • 294 8  -  TOKYO By. Anthony Rowley JAPANESE Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto yesterday began a 10-day visit to Latin America that will take him to five countries where Japan is anxious to lift its diplomatic profile to match its econonmic presence. The visit will also serve to
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    • 102 8 SEOUL AFP [SEOUL] South Korean listed companies suffered 1.32 trillion won (552.27 billion) in net foreign exchange losses in the first six months of 19%, an economic think-tank said yesterday. The combined losses of the 538 listed firms amounted to about half
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD Watch
      • 71 9 Reuter [ATLANTA] Olympic bomb suspect Richard Jewell passed a lie detector test in which he denied any involvement in the deadly July 27 attack, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported yesterday. A polygrapher hired by the security guard's lawyers told the newspaper that the test results
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      • 65 9 AFP [WASHINGTON] CIA chief John Deutch said yesterday he had no plans to leave the intelligence agency, denying a Washington Post report last week that said he wanted to step down in December to return to the Pentagon as successor to Defence Secretary William Perry. Mr
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      • 84 9 AFP [WASHINGTON] Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole has narrowed the gap with President Bill Clinton to 11 points in voter intentions, according to a New York Times-CBS poll released yesterday. According to the survey taken after last week's Republican national convention in San Diego, California,
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    • 229 9 WASHINGTON Reuter ROSS Perot's decision to accept U5529.2 million (Ss4o million) from taxpayers for his presidential campaign was viewed by analysts on Monday as a colossal gamble that will prove him to be either a brilliant visionary or a quirky curiosity of American
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    • 367 9 WASHINGTON Deficit in Jnne dropped 23J%t0 US$B.l lb from a revised USslo.s6b Reuter THE US trade gap narrowed dramatically in June as imports of merchandise and petroleum plunged from May levels, the Commerce Department said yesterday. The monthly deficit dropped 23.1 per cent to US$B.ll
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    • 336 9 WASHINGTON Reuter PRESIDENT Bill Clinton was scheduled yesterday to sign into law the first rise in the minimum wage in Ave years, giving the lowest-paid Americans a 90 US cents (551.26) raise but sweetening the pill for small businesses with tax cuts.
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    • 285 9 MOSCOW Reuter BORIS Yeltsin's new security chief plunged Moscow politics into chaos yesterday, challenging the authenticity of presidential decrees on the Chechnya crisis and raising speculation on whether Mr Yeltsin is still running Russia. Aides to the 65-year-old president, seen only once in public since
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    • 244 9 MEXICO CITY Bloomberg Business News MEXICO'S economy surged 7.2 per cent in the second quarter, pulling the country out of its worst recession in six decades, the government said. The growth in gross domestic product is the biggest quarterly rise in
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 771 10  -  OPINION THE BOTTOM LIMB By Loh Hui Yin The writer is BT's Bangkok correspondent HOW the next few weeks pan out for Banharn Silpa-archa will determine the fate of his government If and thafs a big if the embattled Thai Prime
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    • 112 10 'If I had used one of these, I could have been Queen.' f% m ■mrf CaLm*M treorge odKmiti who has offered the Princess of Wales USJ3 million (554.23 million) to say these words in an advertisement, plugging his Omnipoint Communications 'plans to start a new form of
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    • 607 10 EDITORIAL Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole has projected a for-ward-looking agenda, pledging to restore economic growth at home and re-establish US global leadership. The political gridlock in Washington, stemming from the failure of President Bill Clinton and the Republicans to agree on ways to put America's fiscal
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    • 1091 10 Most central banks seem to follow a simple role on setting optimal interest rates bnt it is far from foolproof The Economist IT MIGHT seem that central bankers can rest easy these days. The great beast, inflation, seems tamed, having fallen to only 2.8 per cent in America,
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    • 852 10 Vaak talks in tartarwt rates THE attention of the world's financial markets will be focused this week on the Bundesbank council in Frankfurt and the Federal Open Market Committee in Washington. These bodies will decide whether to cut interest rates in Germany and/or raise them in
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 666 12  -  Edward Burns makes another movie about Irish-Catholic brothers and their women, reports bobbsfbr STEPHEN SCHAEFER Reuter POR someone who went from carrying camera packs as an assistant on TV's Entertainment Tonight to turning a U5525,000 (5535.000) first film into a US$lO million hit, Edward Burns is
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    • 241 12 FILM AFP (PARIS] French movie queen Catherine Deneuve is suing the Paris magazine Gala for 150,000 French francs (5541,500) for invasion of privacy over an article and photographs allegedly published 1 without permission, her lawyer said on Monday. Deneuve is bringing the action
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    • 674 12 FOOD Makers however are cautions about tampering with the sacred formulas Reuter [WASHINGTON] In laboratories across the United States, scientists are experimenting with the ingredients of chocolate, hoping to create the mod-ern-day alchemist's equivalent of gold chocolate that is both guilt and fat-free. The researchers,
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    • 1154 14  -  CHESS IBM researchers have started work to invent programming tools for the rematch in May By: Bruce Weber NYT [NEW YORK) It was in the fifth game of the landmark sixgame series in February when it all fell apart for the challenger. Rejecting
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    • 675 14 FOOD Maine seafood dealer wants to encourag* fishermen to harvest them Reuter [PORTLAND, Maine] Pete Collin admits the sea cucumber looks "just disgusting" but he is confident it can win the hearts of Maine fishermen who need new markets and US consumers who
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    • 544 14 FOOD INDUSTRY Producers plan not only to apply balk meat bat also to meet the region's tastes Reuter [SYDNEY! A century after live ostriches were first brought to Australia for the millinery trade, a new industry is tempting the Asian market with ostrich sashimi, ostrich
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 553 15  -  Amcol ■pre than 100 meet Wckl managers to IBM u M W Met better protection in Sinar pas rescue deal ■A Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] More than 100 bondholders of Amcol Holdings met the company's judicial managers yesterday and expressed concern that their interests may not have been
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    • 128 15 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank), Malaysia's largest bank, said yesterday that its exposure to troubled steel company Perwaja Steel and ailing Singapore property and trading company Amcol Holdings Ltd was insignificant. "Yes, we have provided for Amcol and Perwaja (but) it is
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    • 805 15  - Were Transmarco, Goldtron targets of bear raids HOCK LOCK SIEW R Sivanithy THERE are rumblings in the market that questions should be asked about the recent movements in Transmarco's share price. This call is no doubt prompted by disgruntled shareholders who last week sold their shares in panic at below
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    • 445 15  -  Group sees difficulty in repeating last year's performance By Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Underscoring the weak retail market, Robinson Company has reported its first profit fall in almost a decade. The homegrown retail group said yesterday that its net profit fell 10.8
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    • 586 15  -  Public response is expected to be better than take-up rate in 1993's IPO By i Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecom's second tranche of shares (ST2) is expected to be "anything over one billion shares", said the Commissioner of Inland Revenue, Koh Yong
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
      • 365 16  -  Second-liners PCI, Sfu Yu, Causeway **njor gainers as aters seek out tential targets m R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Widespread ru- f mours of impending corporate takeovers swept through the stock market yesterday, sending prices higher with three second liners PCI, Fu Yu Manufacturing and Causeway Investments
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      • 344 16  -  CORPORATE RESULTS ft Turnover np 27% to $511 m on improved sales in most regions By, Jennifer Lien •"[SINGAPORE] Acer Computer International (ACI) yesterday .reported a 14.4 per cent rise in -.net profit to $14.7 million for ;i the half year ended June 30. Turnover
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      • 400 16  -  From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MALAYAN Banking Bhd (Maybank) recorded a strong 24 per cent hike in group net profit to M 51.07 billion (Ss6oB million) for the year ended June 30. The earnings were marginally better than market forecasts. This gives the
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      • 184 16 [SINGAPORE] Apollo Enterprises recorded a 33.7 per cent rise in interim group net profit to $2.39 million for the six months ended June 30. Group turnover was up 3.8 per cent to $26.1 million. The group said its results were affected by intensified competition in
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      • 270 16 [SINGAPORE] Computer firm Aztech Systems yesterday posted a net loss of $17.7 million for the six months ended June 30, but said it expects to contain its losses from going forward. Aztech expects an overall reduction in business volume this year due to continued
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      • 294 16  -  Fromi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong ROBERT Kuok's newly-listed vehicle Kerry Properties did not disappoint its followers yesterday as it unleashed a 103.8 per cent jump in earnings in its maiden interim report. The Hongkong-listed group said net profit for the six
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      • 436 16  -  Some listings postponed; foreign investors still wary From S N Vasuki in Jakarta POLITICAL uncertainty continues to cast a long shadow over the Jakarta stockmarket, with analysts ruling out a major recovery in the bourse this year. Several companies have postponed
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      • 309 16 (SINGAPORE) City Developments is adding to its industrial portfolio again it has picked up a piece of land in Geylang for $52.5 million in a joint purchase with sister company Trade and Industrial Development (TID). CityDev said yesterday it has completed
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      • 271 16 (SINGAPORE] Major Berger International shareholder UB Overseas Holdings (UBOH) is selling its majority stake in the paint maker as it finds the offer price of $1.50 per share attractive. "We, the majority holders, are happy and I would think the minority shareholders
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      • COMPANY Briefs
        • 123 16 [SINGAPORE] Indonesia's Salim group now owns about 73 per cent of QAF at the close of its takeover offer yesterday. In a statement, Salim's takeover vehicle Qualif said it received acceptances for 126.26 million shares or 99.8 per cent. Before the offer, it
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        • 38 16 [SINGAPORE] Heshe told the Stock Exchange of Singapore last night that it was not aware of any reason for the increase in the price and turnover of its shares on Monday.
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        • 47 16 [SINGAPORE] Sing Investments and Finance has chalked up a 33.8 per cent surge in group net earnings to $2.44 million for the six months ended June 30. Operating revenue was up 8.7 per cent to $16.48 million. No interim dividend was declared.
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        • 67 16 [SINGAPORE] ST Computer Systems and Services has entered into a joint venture agreement with Singapore Technologies Logistics (STL), ST Telecommunication (STT) and Cybermart. Under the agreement, ST Computer will take 170,000 shares, STL 170,000 shares and STT 169,998 shares (exclusive of the promoter shares) in
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 172 17 Bloomberg Business News [PALO ALTO, California! Stocks of Silicon Valley companies fell on Monday for the seventh time in eight sessions, led down by Netscape Communications Corp. The Bloomberg Silicon Valley Index slipped 0.14 to close at 155.60, its third straight decline. The
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      • 393 17 Hotel chain to sell existing and new shares; price range to be revealed at time of offer Bloomberg Business News [LONDON] Thistle Hotels said yesterday it will sell shares to investors on the London Stock Exchange next month. The Singapore government
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      • 336 17 FT [NEW YORK] The man widely tipped as the next head of AT&T, Alex Mandl, left the US long-distance telephone group on Monday for the chance to make his fortune in the country's fast-changing local telephone markets. Mr Mandl's departure
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      • 57 17 [TIJUANA, Mexico] Sanyo North America president Motoharu leu answering reporters' questions on Monday regarding the safe return ofMamoru Konno, president of Sanyo Video Component Corp USA, after Sanyo paid US$2 million (Ss2.B million) in ransom to kidnappers here. Mr Konno was held for nine days,
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      • 480 17  -  Interim results expected; fast growth seen for company in next few years Froml Neil Behrmann in London UK MOBILE telephone network Orange pic announced yesterday that its losses had widened to £125 million (*****.5 million) in the six months ended June compared with an £89
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 420 18  -  Otherwise, they may net survive competition and harden of had debts From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo LEADING international cred-it-rating agency Moody's Investors Service warned in a report yesterday that at least some of Japan's seven m£gor trust banks may
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      • 402 18 Antony Leung's resignation follows that of another senior private banking exec FT, NYT [HONGKONG] Antony Leung, head of Citibank's Asia-Pacif-ic private banking operations, is to resign to join Chase Manhattan, marking more upheaval at Citibank's regional operations. The move follows the departure
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      • 275 18 Reuter [SHANGHAI] The Chinese yuan is likely to continue to rise after repeatedly hitting closing year-highs over the past few weeks, but room for further gains will be limited, analysts said yesterday. The rising trade surplus and record
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      • 169 18 Bloomberg Business News [SYDNEY] Fidelity Investments is eyeing Sydney as the site for expansion in the AsiaPacific, not Hongkong, said Richard Darke, the managing director of Fidelity Investments Australia Ltd. Fidelity, the world's largest mutual fund manager, had expanded office space in Hongkong
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      • 303 18 Reuter [LONDON] The merger of the London Commodity Exchange (LCE) with its mighty cousin Liffe may bring a host of new players into cocoa but officials say the hedging character of the market will be maintained. Traders are upbeat about the prospect
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      • 261 18 Reuter [NEW YORK] Lloyd's of London says a US federal court has granted it motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by four Lloyd's Names David Tufts 111, James Tufts 11, Albert Crutcher and Linda Tufts Hebbler. In a statement on
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      • 241 18 SOKELReport Reuter [SINGAPORE) Simex Euroyen futures gave up some of their recent gains to end lower in choppy trade as players awaited the outcome of the Federal Reserve's policy-mak-ing meeting later yesterday. "As long as we see no movement from the Fed, that would take
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      • 175 18 Reuter London THE dollar edged off earlier highs with trade cautious ahead of the outcome of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Wariness ahead of the FOMC meeting has taken the shine off the dollar's earlier dash to session highs on news the US trade deficit for June
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      • 327 18 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON] New York crude futures were 20 US cents lower yesterday, in response to Monday's 60 cents, or 2.6 per cent, surge to a four-month high of U5523.26 a barrel. Prices were boosted on Monday by traders' perceptions that demand
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    • 2100 19 Note A. A. Corp A* 53 1/2 -I AS Port* 2911/2 11/2 Abbey National 5961/2 *101/2 AMod Lyons 450 3 Amoc 94 unch Argyd 344 As4a Group TI9.200 .700 •AT M 456 4 WCC 329 1 BOC Group 8781/2 *11/2 BR Petroleum *281/2 -21/2 OT» 257 Sen*
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    • 1636 19 Reuter *3om STOCKS closed slightly higher after drifting in tight ranges in mostly directionless trade for most of the day. Investors remained on the sidelines, and brokers expected the sluggish trend to continue for a while. The key 225-share Nikkei Average ended up 20.60 points at 21,127.01. Its September
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      1639 20 Reuter Q Hang Seng +99.03 A RALLY in the utilities sector lifted stocks to a higher close, with the key index closing above 11,300 points for the first time since March. The Hang Seng Index closed 99.03 points higher at 11.312.51. Turnover was HK53.44 billion. "People are buying laggards.
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      623 20 Reuter Shanghai B Shire Index ♦0.06 SHANGHAI'S B shares ended up in slow trade, with investors focusing on interim results. The index ended up 0.05 point to 51.81 on volume of 8.4 million shares worth US$3.4 million. Brokers said short-term market sentiment was still cautious despite the rise, with
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    • 345 20 AFP PI WP Index +M 3 SHARE prices closed higher yesterday thanks to light purchases by state-run banking consortiums and foreign institutional investors. "Despite increasing sales of China-oriented shares by domestic players, some staterun banking consortium and foreign institutions started buying," said a dealer. The Weighted Price Index advanced
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      742 20 AFP Fl Composite Index *152 SHARE prices closed higher following a slight gain on Wall Street and local speculation. "The story of the day was again local speculation," a dealer said. "Today's focus was on stocks of the Lippo Group and Duta Anggada. Foreigners were waiting for the outcome
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      816 20 AFP OSCTMg *3J3 SHARE prices rose amid some optimism at the introduction of a new support fund but with most investors sidelined by political concerns. "Sentiment was cautious due to the political uncertainty, but the support fund offered a boost, with some of the fund said to have entered
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    • 324 20 AFP Manila -LM STOCKS closed lower as the weak performance of new listings disheartened investors. The Composite Index fell 1.98 points to 3,090.69. Turnover was 2.1 billion shares worth 1.45 billion pesos. PLDT eased 10 pesos to 1,530 while Petron Corp was unchanged at 10.25. San Miguel Corp's A
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    • 333 20 AFP SHARE prices closed lower as selling pressure increased amid poor fundamentals. "The breach of the 800point level was anticipated and a further slide seems inevitable," said a trader. The Composite Price Index dropped 6.61 points to 793.91. Turnover was 16.1 million shares worth 326.9 billion won. Falls beat
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    • 613 20 AFP FlAllOriiiJuiM 432 STOCKS closed slightly up yesterday after profit-takers and investors cautious about the looming budget announcement trimmed early gains. The All Ordinaries Index added 3.2 points up at 2,264.7. Turnover was 357.7 million shares worth A 5917.7 million. Among market leaders, resources giant BHP fell four cents
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    • 271 20 Reuter Fl Wellington ♦OIS4 SHARES were mixed, with forester Carter Holt Harvey declining after it reported worse-than-expected firstquarter earnings. The NZSE Top 40-share Index rose 0.54 point to 2,167.79. Reuter W (HW AH Z Banking 7.40 0.W 5704 Advantage* HMgs 1.55 -0.02 7700 Air Nn Zealand (A) 3.09 -0.01
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 6894 21 Bloomberg Business News M Composite Index +106 SHARES prices closed firmer yesterday in thin trade on selected blue-chip buying in late trade and with the day's focus mainly on second and third liners. A gain in Telekom Malaysia offset declines in Malaysian International Shipping Corp
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    • WARRANTS & OPTIONS
      • 3533 22  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy AFTER being in the doldrums for some time, there now seems to be a bit of activity in property stocks. One of the counters which enjoyed a sudden burst of activity yesterday was United Overseas Land, which traded a hefty
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    • 2088 22 'MfcAYSAN STOCKS I I Or Qf J***. La»t Va» Day LaatOuot* Dk Dk W NM M Cm ■mgj L— Stne Cawpany im COOP) HHP Law Bwyac SaBar Cvr Pit im* *2$ 364 msSOOO AIS850C 370 3 1 370 370 374 380 10 4.9 0.4 76.9 3793 '•3 ,52
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 1035 23 TURNOVER COOO) VALUE (*000) win Cut txi mm Oj> txx bMhi*trt«l 75,930 9,222 69,192 160,127 22.$7 3 163,000 rinanc* 4,283 2.020 a.303 49.0*7 3,412 32.909 H««»H 1,499 2M 1,795 5,124 4«1 5,609 *rop*fti*» 11,021 4,304 15,329 91.494 6,427 97.661 PUnUttcn 326 326 641 641 MWn« K)2 102 279 279 6CW
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      • 4610 23 199* Last Val Day Last Ouott (Mv 01* YM Nat Cm A va Wg» U» StMo Company Sato COOP) Mto> Law ■■yar Sa8ar Or P/I |3 Plica MOUSTMALS 5146 ASENT$10 200 US- 214 165 1258 AcarSOc US180 -1 301 181 180 181 182 S ON 7.5 1.0 1L1
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      • 905 23 ML*. 1 6 y«* LMtOvaU Wv Mv YM Nat Cap Ava I# C— 8—9 Ml fWOt NNd Ln Nrw l<Mr C*VT P/t irn* Prtca ItfftAO 2 K 'S 2000 A8R HMMSc 198 *2 303 203 H7 197 199 XO 14J 0.1 123.8 881 187 90 6# AS AutolOc 75.5
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        229 24 Stacks Vote™ Causeway 60c 12,538,000 Fu Yu Mfg 10c 10.581,000 Berger Intl 25 9,987,000 GoMtron 20c 8,342,000 IKH. 4,794,000 Linde- Jacob 4,6n,000 Eltadi 25c 4,083,000 HesheHidgs 25 3,209,000 Via* Ind WtOI 2,938,000 Transmarco 2,652,000 Stacks Transmarco 23,785,550 Causeway 60c 19,245,830 MS Foreign 16,648,700 Berger Intl 25 15,682,2% Spore Land 15,273,062
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        60 24  -  -%1 Paul Leo OSPREY MARITIME fell two US cents to US$l.27 with 413,000 units done, 2.4 times the lOday average of 170,600 shares. Strong support is between USSI.O6 and $1.20. With Moving Average Convergence-Divergence Indicator already signalling a buy and weekly Relative Strength Indices in oversold territory, Osprey
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      • 577 24  -  STOCK MARKET COKXDBMTART Though sentiment has improved, players remain wary with analysts warning that the upturn may just be a technical correction' By Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] Amid news of better Singapore trade numbers released yesterday, the Straits Times Industrials Index ended 18.15
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 40 24 NIKKO Capital Management has appointed Standard Chartered Bank as another distributor of Its Nlkko Oriental Growth Fund, which is currently distributed only by Malayan Banking. This brings the number of unit trusts distributed by Stanchartto27.
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        • 85 24 THE trials and tribulations of Amcol have kept many punters busy. A market source said that there is talk that one other local company could come under judicial management. She said that punters are thus trying to figure out which one. Another tale had it that the six
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        • 37 24 A MARKET observer noted that while the Great Singapore Sale of companies might be here, it is not that the companies are cheap. "What's cheap can get cheaper," he reasoned.
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        • 65 24 FOREIGN exchange and money brokers not only have to submit their entertainment bills to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, they also have to inform the employers of the dealers they are entertaining. A market source said that such practice has been going on for quite some time
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        • 55 24 WHILE Singaporeans are eating better and buying better products, they are not splurging on gold jewellery. According to the World Gold Council second quarter report, jewellery demand in Singapore fell 11 per cent to four tonnes while investment demand, at less than half a tonne, was
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        • 94 24 ACCORDING to Euro Week, the formal launch of Mexico's spectacular US$6 billion (SSB.4 billion) floating-rate note provoked wildly contrasting emotions among syndicate members three weeks ago. All those involved praised the issuer and lead managers JP Morgan and SBC Warburg for the highly successful completion of
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    • 385 24 I 10 1 U I 1011 -lUH IS«M»-~41 ISS< IN THE MATTERS OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 5« BRICKWORK INVESTMENT PTE LTD (In Mentors' Voluntary Winding Up) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of BRICKWORK INVESTMENT PTE LTD duly convened and held at 5001 Beach Road #06-15, Golden Mile Complex. Singapore
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    • 301 24 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. (CHAPTER AND IN THE MATTER OF PROCHIEVE TRADING PTE LTD (Incorporated ia the Republic of Singapore) (la Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company held at 24 Raffles Place. #26-05 Clifford Centre. Singapore *****1 on 12 August 1996.
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    • 280 24 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 CLEANROOM LAUNDRY SERVICES PTE LTD (la LiqaMattM) At a general meeting of CLEANROOM LAUNORY SERVICES PTE LTD duly convened and held on the 16th day of August. 1996 the following special resolution was passed: SPECIAL RESOLUTION That the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 303 25 Knight-Ridder, Reuter THERE was little activity on the freight market here at the start of the week, but |is one broker put it, "85 per cent of trade is done on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday." fixtures TANKERS: At least four charterers publicly quoted new business for the big
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    • 278 25 mum-* kitH IS *t- m grr Distribution lm -0.02 207 ahian Hup 1.02 *0.01 M9 $Mca tavastmant _L29 *0.04 m fCLS 6-55 unch 495 rrMMUnta 0.76 *0.02 21 OOnoMnqs 1.00 *0.00 WT Mi Sun Hup LOS unch 237 WMMZONII 0.015 *0.025 66 IMC Hot*** HK5.60 J9ya HoMlnqt 112
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    • 455 25  -  Deal enables Cosco to 'sail direct' to Taiwan, and Yangming to China By' Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] Chinese shipping giant China Ocean Shipping Co (Cosco) yesterday announced a landmark slot exchange agreement with Japan's K Line, which ropes in Taiwan's
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    • 314 25 Xiamen and Fnzhon may be first ports to be opened nnder new regulations Reuter [BEIJING] China introduced rules yesterday governing direct shipping links with Taiwan, effectively ignoring a de-cades-old ban by the island it regards as a renegade province. The regulations, which took
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    • 655 25  -  STRAIT TALK By Seafarer SIMULATORS are taking an ever greater role in training bridge watchkeeping officers these days. That is right and proper of course. But there are limits. In the UKbased Nautical Institute's journal Seaways, Michael Bamett considers the effectiveness
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    • 196 25 Reuter, AFP [TAIPEI] Taipei gave a positive but cautious response to China's announcement of rules governing direct shipping links across the Taiwan Strait. "Of course we are happy to see it accomplished, but would prefer to comment after we have more details," said a
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    • 47 25 [SINGAPORE] European crane-builder Gottwald recently delivered its 500 th crane—one of four currently being deployed to handle cargo at Tanjung Priok in Indonesia. The four mobile harbour cranes are being used to handle containers as well as bulk and general cargo.
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    • 112 25 [LONDON] The UK is to set up a pollution zone extending up to 320 km from the coast. Any foreign ship suspected of committing a pollution offence within the zone will then be liable to prosecution in the UK courts if ft
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    • 298 25  -  By: Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) welcomed in May 48 new ships to its fold. These ships totalled 585.400 gross tonnes (gt) or 829,600 deadweight tonnes (dwt). Among them are eight ocean cargo vessels, two of which
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    • 147 25 [LONDON] The European Community Shipowners' Association (ECSA) has warned that failure to ratify an international agreement to curtail shipyard subsidies will spark another race. Writing in the ECSA's annual report, association president John Lyras cited US reluctance to pass legislation implementing the agreement
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    • 189 25 [SINGAPORE] Fast Ship high-speed vessel technology developer Thornycroft, Giles Company (TCG) and automated materials supplier TTS Technology ASA have formed a partnership to jointly develop what they say will be the world's fastest container handling technology. The agreement will bring together two
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    • 1110 26  -  CONTAINER FLEETS: SIZING UP BUSINESS Just 10 years ago, the standard container looked like it was on the way out and the 40-footer would be the new standard for both domestic and international movements but not only has it survived, demand for it has risen
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      • 326 42 Govt tells carrier to choose McDonnell aircraft built in Shanghai over Boeing Bloomberg Business News [BElJlNG] Shenzhen Airlines, China's first independently funded airline, said the government told the company to order Chinese-built McDonnell Douglas Corp aircraft rather than planes made overseas
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      • 252 42 AFP [NEW DELHI] Air India is seeking damages from the USbased Boeing for the late delivery of two planes, saying the delay has cost the flagship carrier thousands of dollars in losses, officials said yesterday. Indian Civil Aviation Ministry officials said a
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      • 142 42 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's state-owned Nusantara Aircraft Industry (IPTN) plans to take part in a tender next year for the supply of military transport aircraft in Australia, a report said yesterday. "We will propose the CN-235-300, our newest series," IPTN deputy commercial manager Heru Santoso was quoted
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      • 280 42 Reuter [SYDNEY] British Airways pic (BA) said yesterday it had no plans for new alliances over the next few years, but would extend its global reach by franchising its popular brand name to smaller airlines. British Airways has an alliance with
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      • 236 42 AFP [LONDON] Britain is not prepared to sign an "open skies" agreement with the United States similar to one struck with Germany earlier this year because it claims that deal was biased towards the US, a press report said yesterday. Britain and the
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      • 238 42 AFP [TOKYO] US military authorities in Japan admitted yesterday two of their fighter jets flew close to a Qantas Airways 747 passenger jet en route from Tokyo to Sydney but did not violate authorised civil aviation procedures. The two US Navy McDonnell Douglas
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      • 158 42 Current payments said to be woefully inadequate AFX-Asia [BRUSSELS] The International Air Transport Association said its airlines are to abandon the liability ceilings on compensation payments to passengers, which are "universally considered to be woefully inadequate". As of Nov 1 or on receipt
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        • 83 42 AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong's new airport at Chek Lap Kok is on schedule to open in April 1998, despite some delays in construction, an Airport Authority spokesman said yesterday. "Thus our aim remains to open the airport in April 1998 and we are
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        • 76 42 AFX-Asia [BOSTON] Korean Air Lines Co, part of the Hanjin Group, announced on Monday that it will start flying from Boston and Newark, New Jersey, to Seoul this week. Boston will become the 14th US gateway for the Seoul-based carrier when service begins
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        • 76 42 Reuter [AUBURN HILLS, Michigan] Chrysler Corp said it would announce plans for a new manufacturing investment in South America in conjunction with Detroit Diesel Corp. The two companies gave no details of the investment, but a Chrysler spokesman said it was being made in addition
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        • 80 42 Reuter [JACKSON, Wyoming] An Air Force team investigating the crash of a presidential cargo plane in which all nine aboard were killed found the plane's two flight recorders on Monday, an Air Force spokesman said. The flight data recorder and the voice recorder, commonly
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    • 364 40 ipping Times, Wednesday, August 21, 1996 tjSSri WENDER CONTAINER LINES ATTRACTIVE FCL/LCL RATES TO: Indian Sub-Continent Ports: MADRAS BOMBAY CALCUTTA COLOMBO f CHITTAGONG NHAVASHEVA/ PORT KELANG PENANG MADRAS WWSHPG FWDG (P) LTD TEL: 9144-554 0450 FAX 91-44-554 0200 BOMBAY WW AGENCIES PVT LTD TEL: 91-22-207 5852 FAX 91-22-207 5851 PKLANG
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