The Business Times, 7 October 1996

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/95 SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1996
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    30 1 STOCK Milirrr INDICES Week Chaoa STU 1,148-86 ,-n.u KL8ECOMP 1.169.18 +19.58 NUKH 11,148 498.99 BANG SENG SLfiTA 35 +15 05 q.m.14 4ip CuMtCBDU 1~ZJlIcZZ+171 AU8TALL0RD—MIS* +«J DOW MHJI—+111.94
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    FINANCE
    68 1 BXOU1EB1A1BS U8S St US UN i im UN OH MH till ¥1M MK 1J» "HI IM 0.564 IB I.12» 1.182 BABT MM 0.666 KUPUB IM M41 0.M1 ran bars SINGAPORE* 144 KUALA LUMPUR JJ5 JAKARTA 18.W BANGKOK 11-tt MANILA 11H HONGKONG J&M TAIPEI W SYDNEY W.75 TOKYO A* SEOUL
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    Lock icon Hongkong firms scurry to list spinoffs overseas
    515 1 Singapore seen as most popular exchange for separate listing, followed by US Reuter [HONGKONG] The prospect of snaring a higher price to earnings ratio (PER) in overseas markets has led to a wave of spinoffs by Hongkong firms on overseas markets. Singapore is
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    Lock icon World Bank bearish on China's economic outlook
    558 1  -  From Peter Seidlitz in Beijing THE head of the World Bank mission in China has painted a gloomy picture of China's economy, saying that growth is declining, inflation is above official figures and the state industry is in dire straits. In a presentation
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    Lock icon Outlook for Dow turns cautious
    383 1 Blame put on economy slowing more quickly than expected Reuter [NEW YORK] With the Dow Industrials within a hair's breadth of 6,000, the S&P 500 passing a milestone and long-term interest rates apparently headed lower, the outlook for stocks has suddenly tiu-ned cautious. Last Friday's
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    Foreign banks wary of Thai market
    456 1  -  From Loh Hui Yin in Bangkok FOREIGN banks are getting skittish about lending money to the once-hot Thai market and some banks have been asked by their regulatory authorities to submit reports about their loan exposure to Thailand. Their actions come amid political uncertainty
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      136 1 111 SIDE Removable storage giant lomega has wasted no time fßttinr into Ada-Pacific, aoditlooks like the move is paying off big time, m H&inffle Organisers are working wito foe TOB to raise the Republic's visibility at the world's largest technology fair, rn 'Jib..* Wider net Tbe Republic's largest homegrown employment
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      10 1 Fresh container terminal row erupts between China, HK govt, Pg6
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      STPE to make healthcare its new core business
      457 2  -  It will eventually contribute half of the group's turnover, says firm's president By< Jenny Lam SINGAPORE Technologies Precision Engineering <£>TPE), a subsidiary of gov-ernment-linked conglomerate Singapore Technologies, aims to make healthcare a new core business. STPE, whose main businesses now are in
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      Lock icon PM Goh: PAP has no plans to use recent changes to beat opposition
      383 2 Party will fight election on political issues, ward plans The Straits Times THE People's Action Party (PAP) has no plans to use changes to the electoral boundaries or the Group Representation Constituency (GRC) scheme as tactics to
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      Lock icon Dip in new construction contracts
      329 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Construction By: Diana Oon INITIAL figures on contracts awarded indicate a softer construction sector, with the value of new contracts awarded in August down by about 22 per cent compared to a year ago. Preliminary numbers collated by the Construction Industry
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      Tai Sun Group in US$24m Yantai venture
      460 2  -  By: Lu Ning SINGAPORE investment holding company Tai Sun Group has signed a contract to set up a US$24 million <5533.8 million) joint venture to build 10,000-200,000 tonnage class ships in Yantai in Shandong province, officials of the coastal city told BT. Tai
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      Packard Bell-NEC yet to finalise plans for M'sian plant
      430 2  -  By\ Kenneth James PACKARD Bell-NEC has yet to finalise a decision to set up manufacturing operations in Malaysia, and is meanwhile continuing talks with Singapore authorities about possible investments here, the company's Asia-Pacific chief said. Lim Huat Seng, vice-presi-dent of the
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      EXECUTIVE MOVES
      363 4 Alain Begun: has been named marketing director of Fortune's Asian edition. Mr Begun will be based in Singapore. He will oversee Fortune's Asian marketing activities including advertising, sales promotion, market research and new business development. This appointment marks Mr Begun's second term with the magazine. From 1990 to
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      Lock icon Business Trends sets its sights further afield
      590 4  -  Local employment agency sets up Indian office and plans for one in China in near future COMPANY VISIT Business Trends Personnel Consulting Group By\ Shiv Taneja IT HAS established itself as the Republic's largest homegrown employment agency with offices in several Southeast Asian
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      Free e-mail addresses from new service
      213 4 Post One, from SPH's Asi&One site, offers a permanent post box CYBERNAUTS can now have their own permanent e-mail address for free. Post One, the new service from Singapore Press Holdings' umbrella web site, Asia One, gives the cyber-user a unique address that effectively
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Botswana delegation here for visit
        67 4 A FIVE-MEMBER delegation from Botswana's Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) arrived yesterday for a six-day visit. The delegation, led by Botswana Minister for Local Government Lands Housing Patrick Balopi, was invited by Singapore CPA president Tan Soo Khoon, who is also Speaker of Parliament. The Botswana
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        NUS offers new postgraduate programme
        37 4 THE National University of Singapore is offering a new postgraduate programme in sociological research which will lead to either a Master of Social Sciences (Applied Sociology) or a Diploma in Social Research.
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        ISO 9002 for Bukit Batok Town Council
        49 4 THE Bukit Batok Town Council's Property and Estate Management System was awarded the ISO 9008 certificate by the Construction Industry Development Board and the Productivity Standards Board on Saturday. The award acknowledges a systematic, efficient, service-oriented and cost-effective method of estate management.
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      159 2 i 4 30,000 PROFESSIONALS CAN'T BE WRONG 9-12 October 1996 3 Singapore International Convention Exhibition Centre Suntec City Singapore 8 i* Asia s leading electronics manufacturing exhibition and conference, is again set to attract over 30.000 professionals in the growing electronics manufacturing industry. I m. "'i ft i< i»: &»^l
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      96 4 \jonqraiuiahons i fa t->i- v > I JV Mr Eka T ipta wid i a i a I I If gam r Founder Chairman of I I f Sinar Mas Group I I on being accorded the I II 1996 Emerging Markets Chief Executive Officer Of The Year Award I
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Semangat 46 dissolved 8 years after its formation
      404 5 KUALA LUMPUR About 200,000 applications from 546 members to join Umno to be gram tomorrow AFP, Bernama MALAYSIA's opposition Semangat 46 led by Premier Mahathir Mohamad's onetime rival Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah was dissolved yesterday, eight years after it was formed to oppose
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      Lock icon Indonesian media baron expands his horizon
      359 5 JAKARTA Peter Gontha has stakes in TV, newspapers and links with radio networks Reuter PETER Gontha is often called Indonesia's Rupert Murdoch. With plans for a 40-channel satellite television network and newly-purchased control of an English-language newspaper plus existing links to four radio stations,
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      Lock icon Indonesia to rely on taxes, not aid
      144 5 JAKARTA Reuter INDONESIA believes it should self-fund ftiture development rather than rely on loans from the developed world. The official Antara news agency yesterday quoted di-rector-general of taxes, Fuad Bawazier, as saying: "We have been dependent on foreign loans too long. Now we
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      Lock icon Disputed islands not on agenda during Suharto's KL visit
      237 5 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama INDONESIA'S President Suharto arrived in Malaysia yesterday for a two-day visit determined to avoid stirring an old dispute over two islands claimed by both countries, officials said. Mr Suharto is to hold talks with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir
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      Lock icon IMF stewardship of Manila to end
      250 5 MANILA AFP. Reuter THE Philippines will end more than a decade under the economic stewardship of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) next June, Finance Secretary Roberto De Ocampo said yesterday. Mr de Ocampo released a statement here, quoting a speech he made during the
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Poll tips judge as favourite for HK's top job
      415 6 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG's top judge is the popular favourite to become the territory's first head of government after China takes power here next year, according to an opinion poll published yesterday. Chief justice Yang Ti-liang garnered 46 per cent support in
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      Fresh container terminal row erupts between China, HK govt
      473 6  -  HONGKONG Bering alleges construction of CT 10-13 was approved unilaterally By I Quak Hiang Whai A NEW row has erupted over Hongkong's plans to construct four more container terminals, less than a month after the four-year political wrangling over the Container
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      Lock icon Sole survivor of Gang of Four free
      416 6 BEIJING Yao Wenyuan completed his 20-year prison term Reuter TWO decades after Mao Zedong's chief bodyguard carried out the sensational arrest of Mao's widow and the three other members of her notorious "Gang of Four," the sole survivor was officially free yesterday. Yao
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      Lock icon Xinjiang lifts ban on lease of land to foreign investors
      338 6 BEIJING Bid to attract advanced technology and machinery Reuter CHINA'S communist government has, for the first time since taking power in 1949, prised open a ban to lease land to foreign investors in northwestern Xinjiang. The China Daily Business Weekly
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      Lock icon Protesters vow to land on disputed isles
      244 6 TAIPEI AFP THE leaders of 300 demonstrators from Taiwan, Hongkong and Macau yesterday vowed to breach a Japanese cordon around disputed islands in the East China Sea in the latest protest voyage to the zone. The flotilla of 30 fishing vessels and pleasure
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      Lock icon China warns of retaliation against US over textile quota row
      220 6 BEIJING Reuter A SENIOR Chinese trade official said yesterday a recent US decision to slap charges on China's textiles quotas was unreasonable and should be revoked and warned of possible trade retaliation. If the US insisted on continuing the trade
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Japan's socialist party says it may fight poll alone
      527 7 TOKYO SDP leaders want to restore party's identity; New Frontier Party chief to quit if party loses AFP THE left-wing Social Democratic Party (SDP) yesterday said it might prefer to go it alone rather than join another ruling coalition after the
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      Lock icon Japan's long-term PLR to be cut: paper
      171 7 TOKYO AFP JAPAN'S three long-term credit banks are expected to cut their long-term prime lending rates by 0.2 percentage point from 3 per cent per annum, economic daily Nihon Keizai reported Saturday. The move was expected to be approved on Oct 14 and
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      Lock icon Bolger trips in debate with electronic worm
      298 7 WELLINGTON NZ Prime Minister's re-election chances drop after poor rating during TV debate AFP STRUGGLING to stay in office ahead of Saturday's general election, Prime Minister Jim Bolger may rue the day he ever went into a debate with an electronic worm. Last
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      Lock icon Industry calls for interest rate cuts in India
      542 8 NEW DELHI Shortage of liquidity, high interest rates and infrastructure bottlenecks cited for current slowdown Reuter INDIA will soon have to lower interest rates and increase liquidity to help industrial output and prevent a feared economic slowdown, analysts said yesterday. They said
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      Lock icon S Korea lift for brokerages going abroad
      156 8 SEOUL Reuter SOUTH Korea's Finance Ministry will make it easier for domestic brokerages to expand overseas, Yonhap news agency reported yesterday. Yonhap quoted the Finance Ministry as saying brokerages could set up wholly-owned subsidiaries, joint ventures and branch offices if they maintained sound
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      Lock icon Politics seen to add to Indian markets' woes
      311 8 BOMBAY Brokers say former PM's legal problems head list of flash points this week Reuter INDIA'S troubled political scene will add to economic problems, keep investors jittery and give no respite to the country's sagging stock markets this week, brokers said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Aussie treasurer to face the music over rates gaffe
      329 8 CANBERRA Opposition likely to grill him tomorrow on information leaks Reuter AUSTRALIAN Treasurer Peter Costeilo will have to pay the parliamentary price this week for an embarrassing blunder that had his opponents calling for his resignation. On a visit to the
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      Lock icon American caught spying for Seoul: N Korea
      319 8 SEOUL Reuter NORTH Korea yesterday said it had arrested a United States citizen spying for South Korea, dragging Washington further into escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula. A South Korean security official dismissed the charge as a fabrication, while the US embassy in
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon EU set on reform path before taking in new members
      405 9 DUBLIN Leaders reaffirm commitment to wrap op negotiations for a new treaty by middle of next year Reuter THE European Union, confident plans for a single currency are on track, has renewed a pledge to reform itself for the other
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      Lock icon Leaders still at odds over employment plan
      262 9 DUBLIN Reuter EUROPEAN Union leaders remained at odds on Saturday over how they should battle unemployment in their region, where a jobless total of nearly 18 million is generating growing public insecurity. Concerned that they may seem unresponsive to European voters' worries, most
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      Lock icon Juppe denounces bombing of mayoral office
      166 9 BORDEAUX, France Reuter A GRIM-faced Prime Minister Alain Juppe, touring his bombed mayoral offices in the French city of Bordeaux yesterday, denounced the "terrorist act" and said he would not be intimidated. Hours after a powerful de- vice damaged the elegant city hall and
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      Lock icon Wall Street Journal sued over section's name
      329 9 SACREMENTO California Journal magazine disputes nse of its name LAT IN A battle that might be headlined the Dachshund vs the Doberman, a small but respected monthly magazine about California politics is suing the mighty Wall Street Journal over the use of its
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      Lock icon Major refuses to sack Chancellor
      289 9 LONDON Bloomberg Business News UK Prime Minister John Major rejected calls from inside his own ruling Conservative party to sack Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke over his pro-European views. In a British Broadcasting Corporation television interview, Mr Major said calls for Mr Clarke's dismissal
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Lock icon Higher profile for Singapore firms at Cebit
      621 10  -  Organisers work with TDB to raise Republic's visibility at the world's largest technology fair By\ Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Get set for a stand-out Singapore show at Cebit Hannover. The clarion call comes from Cebit marketing arm Hannover Fairs and the Trade Development Board,
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      Lock icon Asia-Pacific foray paying off for Iomega
      577 10  -  By. Annette Pau (SINGAPORE] High-flying removable storage giant lomega has wasted no time getting into the Asia-Pacific, and it looks like the move is paying off big time. lomega's worldwide revenues have rocketed, from US$92 million (SSI2B million) in the first half of last
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      Aim now to get back into the black
      439 12  -  FOCUS OH NCR NCR to zoom in en data warehousing and HATP From Toh Han Shih inSan Diego FOCUS. That is how National Cash Register (NCR) is getting out of the red, and how it will grow its profits, NCR chief executive
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      V-P provides overview of IT in 2000 and beyond
      404 12 [SINGAPORE] Bandwidth, the speed of data transfer in computer networks like the Internet, will grow at an incredible rate, said NCR senior vicepresident Dennis Roberson. He was giving his views to BusinesslT recently during a visit here on what the macroscopic,
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      Company on the road to recovery
      214 12 (SINGAPORE] The bleeding had to stop. And for National Cash (NCR), that meant QdMK the personal computeroMness. After a decision was reached in September last year, the American multinational stopped designing and making PCs, shut down PC facilities and laid people off. Now the
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    • IT TAKES
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        Motorola quest
        81 12  -  Compiled by Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] Motorola's Information Systems Group (ISG) has announced plans to develop low-cost, high-performance software communications products, the first of which will be unveiled later this year. The initiative aims to provide communications solutions for Individuals, develop host-based software products and promote standards towards open
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        IPC launches new model
        87 12 [SINGAPORE] Solutions provider IPC Corp Ltd has launched its Intel 200 MHx Pentium Pro processor model which will enhance the performance of Its entertainment and discovery station MY.G.NIE GOLD. Not only will processing time be shortened, the new model win also Mwhlo mulHnwrfla appHcattima on MY.G.NIE
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        Apple tie-up with Pentafour
        65 12 [SINGAPORE] Apple Computer has signed up Pentafour Software and Export* Ltd as its first developer university partner In Asia, wyriuriing Japan. This tie-up between Apple and Madras-based Pentafour will provide Mac OS developers from India and other parts of Asia with the tools and information they
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        Seminar on BEA Jolt software
        64 12 [SINGAPORE] BEA Systems and HT Consulting (Asia) are holding a half-day seminar on Wednesday to introduce its BEA Joh software. BEA Systems says the software makes mission-critical applications accessible from the Internet or Intranets without additional application programming. Those in banking and telecommunications will find
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        Price cut by Dell
        51 12 [SINGAPORE] Computer systems marketer Dell Computer Corp has announced a 9 per cent promotional price cut on its entire line of Pentium-based Power Edge network servers in the Asia-Pacific. This is the latest in a series of price cuts this year for the Nasdaq-listed, Fortune 500
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      Software firm WRQ of Seattle acquires Express Systems
      422 13  -  Move will help it break into the software management market By, Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Seattle-based WRQ has acquired Express Systems, a leader in licence metering and management software in the US. The PC connectivity software company, which announced the deal at a
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      Lock icon Olivetti to sell off PC division
      476 13 Italian group aims to raise $1J billion in sales of assets Financial Times [MILAN] Olivetti, the Italian information technology group, aims to raise 1,200 billion lira (551.12 billion) in assets sales including its personal computer division and a stake in Omnitel, its mobile telecoms
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      Lock icon AT&T chooses Microsoft software as primary browser
      336 13 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] AT&T Corp has picked Microsoft Corp's browsing software as the product of choice for its Internetaccess service, bumping Netscape Communications Corp. AT&T and Microsoft first teamed up in July, when the long-distance company agreed to offer Microsoft's browser
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      Lock icon Calling your Mends through the Net couldn't be easier
      625 14  -  All abuzz over Internet Phone 4.0 from Vocal Tec By Jennifer Lien MAKING phone calls through the Internet just got easier and the quality better with the latest offerings from Isra-el-based Vocal Tec Ltd. A demonstration of Internet Phone 4.0 on
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      Lock icon Gerstner gives a lesson on the art of salesmanship at IBM
      886 15 Bloomberg Business News [ARMONK, New York] Soon after Louis Gerstner took the helm at IBM in April 1993, he told each of the money-losing computer maker's 12 product managers to write a one-page summary of their business and be
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      And here comes Merlin
      230 15 (SINGAPORE) IBM's latest client operating system, the OS/2 Warp 4 codenamed Merlin will be available in Singapore from the middle of next month. Its new features include voice capabilities, powerful drag-and-drop capabilities. user-friendly Internet access and Java support. Sanjay Saksena. IBM's technical software specialist for Asean
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon The Mediterranean diva
      790 16  -  Montserrat CabaJle seems to have it all, but she does have her regrets too, reports sunaerdem SUNA ERDEM Reuter Spanish opera diva Montserrat Caballe is unequivocal about the kind of person she is. "I am a Mediterranean woman," she states, proudly, firmly. "I am very, very domestic,
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      More aggressive than regal
      384 16  -  MUSIC The SSO gave one of its less successful concerts last Friday Benjamin Loh BEETHOVEN'S Emperor Concerto is probably the most often performed of his five piano concertos, and one that showcases the lyrical and heroic elements of the composer's style at their best. Korean pianist
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      The fairest one of all
      787 16  -  I MUSIC The Hyperion Schubert Edition scores a coup with its 25th volume By, Andrew Lim [SINGAPORE) One would expect any long-drawn-out recording project to lose its momentum by the time it reaches its 25th volume. But the Hyperion Schubert Edition, an ambitious undertaking begun
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      Lock icon Asterix and Obelix return
      821 18  -  COMICS Their last appearance was in 1991, now the popular comic pair is back for their 31st adventure By Alister Doyle Reuter ASTERIX the Gaul leaves cartoon retirement this month to take another swig of magic potion, beat up Romans and travel abroad with his chunky
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      Lock icon Chang suffers shock defeat in straight sets
      466 18 HEINEKEN OPEN Qualifier Stark blasts to second career win while the Woodies win their 11th of the year AFP [SINGAPORE] World No 2 and top-seed Michael Chang suffered a shock straight-sets defeat to qualifier Jonathan Stark in the final of the inaugural U*****,500
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      181 16 THE WEATHER Singapore: Showers in the afternoon. Temperature (32-25) Hi/Lo* Cood. Europe HVLo* Good. Amcrk» WSUT OmL \urUand I? D 9 Showers Ajm> nil 17/11 Slwwws Attanu 27/19 Oaty Ji-26 Cloudy Mm 27/ M CVwdy BiwosAwi 1801 Oowdy ggr (Vmdy Bnta 17/* Sto.m M.* Sunn\ An 16/11 SJwwprs Honolulu 27/32
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      686 17 SINGAPORE BUSINESS Giving You The Winning Edge Where to wine, dine and entertain 15th Sept to 15th Oct 1996 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmmm A Healthy alternative meat prepared in Indonesian style by M chefs Pak and Pak Kaler a. Chotestwol I KINTAMANI -INDONESIAN RESTAURANT-Ala-Carte Dishes LAPIS KAUSWARI (Sliced Ostrich meat cutlets served in
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      826 17 TV&RADIO r-i n inri it 11.30 Friends. Phoebe makes 0.00 Si Doel Anak Sekolahan I some startling discover- (Indonesian, Last epi- LOO PM The Winners. ies about her father while sode). L3O Money. Money. Money. the rest of the gang gets 10.00 American Odyssey. v 7r 2.00 Executive Lifestyles (r).
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      182 17 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 30 Stampede over the long grass 15 j one form Q f foreign capi- SATURDAY'S SOLUTION (6) 131 31 Large troughs causing deep 16 It provides liquor we imbibe at trouble amidships (9) home with the papers (9) T ff Lffrff^MLMAlßNpßvl DOWN 17 Though about an expression of
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Property to propel Sime S'pore's growth
      501 19  -  Division's share of improved group earnings expected to rise to at least 30% Reports by, Agnes Wee [SINGAPORE] Diversified Sime Singapore expects property to be its main engine of growth. The company's managing director, J K Yip, told BT on Saturday that the property
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      Sime unit to open $3m incinerator
      177 19 [SINGAPORE] Technochem, a subsidiary of Sime Singapore, is investing $3 million in a new chemical incinerator in Tuas that destroys toxic wastes. The facility, which uses European technology, is expected to be operational early next year, said Ng Siow Fan, managing director of Sime's
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      More gloom from Dr Doom amid stock market boom
      666 19  -  HAXO SEMO DCSIGHT Someday, the crash will come, but is it Marc Tabor's time yet? By Quak Hiang Whai WHILE the rest of Hongkong risked being distracted by all the noise and attention generated by the sometimes overzealous Diaoyu Islands demonstrations
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
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        Lock icon Innovest gets huge timber concession in South Africa
        367 20 Group expects the 405,000 ha of virgin jangle to contribute Ms2oom a year in profits MBT (KUALA LUMPUR] Diversified group Innovest Bhd has been awarded a timber concession in South Africa covering 405,000 hectares, according to a source. The company would hold
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        Advice on Sembawang Maritime
        233 20 [SINGAPORE] Sembawang Maritime Ltd shareholders should sell their stakes unless they were prepared to take a long-term view of their investments, said Bankers Trust v Singapore over the weekend. The merchant bank was its advice on the takes'over bid by Sembawang Cor£*poration. ;< In a circular,
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        Delifrance Asia may offer only 25% shares in IPO to be launched today
        233 20 [SINGAPORE] Delifrance Asia, the cafe and bakery chain, is making its initial public share offer (IPO) today. It received in-principle approval for its ma inboard listing on Tuesday. The company, which has five factories and more than
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        Lock icon MRCB sells 80% stake in unit
        271 20 The Msl3£m deal to sell cable maker Gaming is part of a management buy-out Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd (MRCB) has entered into an agreement to dispose of its 80 per cent shares in Gunung Petaling Sdn Bhd to Bidalan Ria Sdn
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        Lock icon MBf Property launches Penang condo project
        270 20 Bernama [PENANG] MBf Property Services Sdn Bhd, one of the biggest property managers in Malaysia, on Friday launched its latest condominium project, Impian Minden, here. Its vice-president K J Wong said the Msloo million (5556.38 million) project, located in the prime residential area of
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        Lock icon Maybank expects challenging year ahead
        255 20 Competition will be intense with market liberalisation MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) expects the business environment in the coming year to be more challenging and competition more intense, following further liberalisation of the financial market. Chairman Mohamed Basir Ahmad, in Maybank's annual report,
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        Listing for Japan National Railways arm
        368 21  -  Response to the privatisation delayed by 2 years will be litmns test of market's strength From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo ANOTHER arm of the former state-owned Japan National Railways (JNR) will be launched on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today after a twoyear delay caused
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        Lock icon Thai bourse faces further turbulence
        509 21 Foreign investors expected to exit on fears over economy, quality of new govt Reuter [BANGKOK] Further turbulence is in store for the battered Thai bourse this week as more foreign investors are expected to exit on worries about the economy and the quality of the
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        Lock icon Solomon Lew sells FAI Insurances slake
        201 21 Bloomberg Business News [SYDNEY] Premier Investments Ltd, the publicly listed company of Australian businessman Solomon Lew, has sold its entire stake in FAI Insurances Ltd to various institutions for A 532.4 million (Ss36 million). In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange, Premier said
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        Lock icon Fletcher Challenge seeks buyer for its stake in Timberwest
        343 21 Bloomberg Business News [VANCOUVER, British Columbia] Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd said it will seek a buyer for at least its 52 per cent stake in Timberwest Forest Ltd. Fletcher Challenge and Timberwest will consider all alternatives, the forest products companies said
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        Lock icon End squabbles, new head of Philippine exchange urges
        192 21 Reuter [MANILA] The Philippine Stock Exchange's (PSE) new president yesterday called for an end to squabbles and said that unity among capital market players was needed to help the PSE become a world class bourse. Vitaliano Nanagas, who starts his three-year term
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        Lock icon National Mutual: institutional share priced at A$1.60
        364 21 Offer for 280 m shares closed over-subscribed Reuter (MELBOURNE] Australia's second-biggest insurance company, French-controlled National Mutual Holding Ltd, said yesterday that the institutional portion of its share market listing had been priced at A 51.60 per share. The company, which is 51per cent
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
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        Lock icon Wall Street bears lose 2 more voices
        448 22 Friday's bond rally and stock market record prompt reversal of views NYT [NEW YORK] Two of Wall Street's most visible bears at Morgan Stanley Co have doffed their painfully uncomfortable furs and donned bullish horns. Since April, Byron Wien, the US investment strategist
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        Lock icon Netscape shares drop after AT&T-Microsoft deal
        245 22 Bloomberg Business News [MOUNTAIN VIEW, California] Netscape Communications Corp shares slid for a second day, after AT&T Corp's Internet-access service decided to offer Microsoft Corp's Internet browser as its product of choice. The agreement bumped Netscape's software as the default browser the one customers
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        Lock icon Troubled Olivetti to look for directors from outside Italy
        391 22 Company expects to continue to lose money next year FT [LONDON! Olivetti will shortly appoint two non-executive directors from outside Italy, its chief executive Roberto Colaninno said on Friday. However, he said neither of these would be Dario Trevisan, an Italian
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        Lock icon French retail group Promodes may link up with rival
        449 22 FT [PARIS] Shirts in French retail group Promodes jumped on Friday after its chairman hinted that he was considering an alliance with one of his national competitors. In an interview published in the French business newspaper Les Echos, Paul-Louis Halley said
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        Lock icon John Hancock sells its two brokerage units
        200 22 Bloomberg Business News [BOSTON! John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co said it agreed to sell its brokerage subsidiaries. Tucker Anthony Inc and Sutro Co, to a group led by the units' managers for US$lBO million (***** million) and a share of the firms'
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        OAC Insurance enters investment-linked market
        364 23  -  New account offers life coverage and invests in equities, bonds, fixed deposits By I Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] OAC Insurance has made its debut in the in-vestment-linked insurance market with the launch of its Portfolio Achiever Account. Funds will be invested in equities, bonds and
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        Lock icon US$100m bank in Bahrain planned
        257 23 Reuter [MANAMA] A group of international investors including a Saudi Arabian prince plan to launch a US$lOO million (Ssl4l million) investment bank based in Bahrain, the founders said yesterday. Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, a brother of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, and three investors from the
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        Lock icon Strong demand for copper cables in M'sia forecast
        370 23 Analyst projects market of over MsBb in next five years Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's use of copper will rise substantially into the 21st Century due to major power and telecommunications projects which will sustain strong demand for copper cable, analysts and experts
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        Lock icon US bank earnings seen at US$50b in 1996
        407 23 Reuter [HONOLULU] Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Chairman Ricki Heifer said on Saturday that if bank earnings continued at the same pace as the first half of this year, industry profits could top US$5O billion (Ss7o billion) in 1996. "If the commercial banking
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        65 23 [BEIJING] A man carrying a load of freshly cut beans and rice out of afield as a small girl runs with him on Saturday in rural Beijing. With the harvest season now in full swing, the government projects a record grain output this year of
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        Lock icon US insurance sales guide for banks
        253 23 Bloomberg Business News [HONOLULU] The US Comptroller of the Currency plans, within the next month, to come up with guidelines on how banks can expand their sale of insurance, a move likely to inflame the running feud between banks and insurance agents over their
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        Lock icon HSBC cuts forex jobs at its New York office
        254 23 It will centralise its price-making activity at its London office Bridge News [NEW YORK] HSBC Midland, the treasury and capital markets arm of HSBC Holdings, on Friday announced it was eliminating 25 spot trading positions of 41 foreign exchange trading positions
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
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        Lock icon Japan money flow: US benefits most
        572 24  -  SI MUX Weeklyßourtdup Poll confirms outflow to foreign assets owing mainly to interest rate gap; yen weakness seen Collum Henderson [SINGAPORE] Following the previous week's comment on Japanese funds moving offshore, MMS conducted a poll of Japanese institutional investors (life insurers, trust banks, investment
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        Lock icon Aluminium prices plunge under weight of excess stocks
        874 24 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] The price of aluminium, widely used to make soft drink cans, plummeted last week under the weight of excess stocks on the London Metal Exchange. The price of the light metal plunged to its lowest point in more
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      COMMODITY PRICES
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      BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
      4453 25 Mot oar* > (PS Metatoch Aug9 r 2.438 0.854 103 3.6 DDI TV LY TY IV Ming Wah Sap 17 I 4.807 4.008 3.07 2.80 Campaay mm (tan) («m) (cts) lets) M Moiski* Sap 17 I 18.896 ***** 6.1 14 MOILS Sap 25 I 28J 22.7
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      Lock icon CHARTING SERVICE
      752 25 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory it ranges between zero and 100. In practice, however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: *****0/[(up average/down average)
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
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        Lock icon Fundamentals point to a quiet and profitable quarter
        752 26 NEW YORK Bnt the dissenting voices say prices have been overvalued on Wall Street FT THE basic unit of the American business calendar is the quarter. Not content with the more leisurely reporting regime allowed in Europe, companies are required to up-date
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        ASIAN MARKETS Roundup
        899 26 Q Sydney *32£ A FLURRY of corporate activity, including a As 2 billion (552.22 billion) raid on transport giant TNT Ltd, sent Australian share prices up 1.4 per cent over the week. The Australian Stock Exchange's key barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, climbed 32.5 points, or 1.4
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        Lock icon Footsie breaches 4,000 barrier for first time
        475 26 LONDON AFP EXPECTATIONS of price stability and low interest rates on both sides of the Atlantic lifted the London market to record highs last week, when the FTSE 100 Index of leading shares rocketed above the 4,000 mark for the first time ever.
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        Lock icon HK stocks likely to pause alter firm start
        219 26 HONGKONG Reuter STOCKS are likely to take a breather this week ahead after their recent ascent, but only after the surprisingly weak US September jobs report has provided an early fillip to Hang Seng Index, analysts said. "The (Hongkong) market is due
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        WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        1951 26 Q Paris +117% FRENCH stocks could motor past a two-year high hit on Friday in the days ahead, as lower interest rates keep the outlook for profits bright, money managers said. "Expectations that the economy will pick-up, optimism that 1997 earnings will beat forecasts and falling interest
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        Lock icon Prices fall on profit-taking in sluggish trading in Tokyo
        255 26 TOKYO No fresh leads so investors stay on side lines; foreigners wait for polls AFP JAPANESE share prices fell 1.9 per cent during the week on profit-taking and futuresled selling in sluggish trading, brokers said. The Nikkei Stock Average of the
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
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        Lock icon Strong foreign institutional presence
        8249 27 AFP, Reuter n Composite Index +19-59 MALAYSIA'S stock market ended the week on Friday 1.7 per cent higher on strong foreign buying of selected bluechips while the lesser second board consolidated. Foreign institutional investors were seen gradually accumulating blue chip stocks, said analysts and dealers The
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    • WARRANTS & OPTIONS
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        Kulim warrant worth watching
        3952 28  -  WARRANT WATCH By] R Sivanithy WITH the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's Second Board showing increasing signs of nervousness, parking one's funds elsewhere like Clob International might be a good idea. One counter traded on Clob that has been quietly creeping up in recent months is plantation
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2493 28 MALAYSIAN STOCKS Gr Or 1996 Last Val DM Last Ouot* Mv (Mv YM Nat M Cap Hl» L— Stno Caffgany XH COOP) High Law Buyar Sa6ar C»r PK $m« "lii 360 ms5000 AIS8S0C 438 cd 298 466 436 436 442 SS 4.9 0.3 91.8 449.3 T19 84 m
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
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        1412 29 TURNOVER COOO) VALUE COOO) Witt CI— TfH Main Cla6 Wjj Industrie 148.255 44.882 193.137 407,188 102.258 509.444 Financa 12.793 13.6*8 26.459 118,665 39.280 157,945 Hotats 8.905 1.667 10,572 25.01S 3,046 28.061 Propartla» 21.075 26.768 47,843 109,479 42.049 151.529 PUntatton 5.144 5.144 12,385 12,385 Mining 1.685 1.685 4.453 4.453 BL* 23.714
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        MAIN BOARD
        4846 29 Cr 6 f M Wt 1996 Last Vol WHk Lost Quote Dlv Dlv YW Not Cop Avf High Low StNo Company S«H COOO> High Lew Buyer Seller H C'vr P/E $mH Price INDUSTRIALS 5146 ASE NT$10 200. US- 1000 900 ASF US$0.***** US900 -100 20 900 900 950
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        SESDAQ
        955 29 Or Or M Wt 1996 Last V«4 WH* Last Owtl Otv M* VM Nat Ca» A»« hh> l— swta c«mn s* rooo» hi» i— *»yr cv Wt wa SESOAO 289 135 2000 ABRMIdflfSt 164 "6 78 t«7 161 164 MS JO 14-2 0.1 102.5 72.9 164 90 68 2049
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        HOT STOCK
        62 30  -  Shiv Taneja FUYUMFG closed 2-1/2 cents higher at 59 cents last Friday. There is further upside as indicated by the directional charts (both daily and weekly RSI and Stochastics are quite mixed), but it could be fairly limited. Investors should consider taking profit at around 63 cents to
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        Lock icon Will adopting a contrarian view of market pay off?
        1116 30  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY A major rally in this quarter looks unlikely, bnt if all brokers here are bearish, what's the market's downside? By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Weary watchers of local stocks must be asking themselves what surprises, if any, the fourth
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      320 19 Onty One Card L&e Swing &cfch Ways. fPubbmg or putting the Twilight Card lets you have it aH. Because with the Twilight Card, you'll be up for privileges and nembership to some of the hottest spots from Boat Quay to Malaysia. For starters, you'll get 10% off d drinks at
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      157 20 This advertisement appears as a matter of record only. EASYKNIT INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability on 8 September 1994) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 45,000,000 NEW SHARES OF HK$O.lO EACH COMPRISING:(I) 20,000,000 SHARES AT HKS3.OS FOR EACH SHARE BY WAY OF PUBLIC OFFER; AND (II) 25,000,000 SHARES
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      144 27 WORLD BUSINESS CLASS I'm in a business where time is of the essence. So the global network of Northwest Airlines and KLM is perfect for me. because wherever in the workl I want to go they're Mp PQ hCTG tO To kyO to there to take me. In the L'S,
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      135 28 Kilki ■iIBI lA flllll ill kM IH kW|w iwiM KiBI B IBtiUieiMiSieiKUießßaeßlHßieil^ Need cash for any worthwhile purpose? At Hong Leong Finance and Singapore Finance, we give you cash for your shares almost immediately. This is all you have to do: So, why keep your shares tucked away? Use it
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      373 30 [BUSINESSNotices ,(> )NM < IISI For real- time stock information, call Quickstock on 1900-913-0003 at 30 cents a minute. Stock numbers are available in the stock pages of The Business Times and Lianhe zaobao. IN THE MATTERS OF THE COMPANIES ACT CAP. 50 RICHAMBER ENTERPRISES (S) PTE LTD (In Members'
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      166 30 THE STRAITS TIMES classified EMPLOYMENT YOUR CAREER GUIDE m-nr-iiM |R! Singapore index Special Feature on 16 October 1996 in The Straits Times I The Business Times I Lianhe Zaobao here's an opportunity to enhance your corporate I presence To launch the Singapore Regional Index, a Special Feature will be published
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
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      263 31 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE market has centred on tankers last week with the modern Aframax Iron Gippsland (87,000/89) finally reported sold, after various recent rumoured negotiating, at about US$2B.2 million to clients of ocean tankers Singapore. Also the sistership Panamax tankers Grand Banka/Bimini (57,000/80) now seem
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      428 31  -  Competition hurts republic more because it relies heavily on transhipment cargo By'. Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] The port of Singapore is a bit more vulnerable than Hongkong to competition from surrounding developing ports because of its heavy reliance on transhipment cargo, say
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      219 31 Reuter [BANGKOK] Thai shipping officials have welcomed government efforts to boost the fledgling domestic shippingindustry but say much more was required to develop a solid domestic merchant shipping fleet that could compete effectively with foreign competitors who now dominate the business.
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      253 31 Renewal programme will ensure average age of fleet will fall [SINGAPORE] Chevron Shipping's fleet of tankers will get younger over time as it continues with its fleet renewal programme. John Stafsnes, Chevron Shipping's manager for the Pacific region, said on Friday: "We expect to replace
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      121 31 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian shipping company Global Carriers Bhd has signed a deal for the financing of the acquisition of four container vessels costing a total of Mslso ijijllion (5584.5 million). Arab-Malaysian Finance Bhd Is lending Global Carriers Msl6s million for the acquisition of the
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        1712 47 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Boofcinq/Bolonco Rstls Ship VoyWo Etb/Btr Ptrlod From To From fei M 3* 00/1300 a 04/1700 07/0459 07/0000 07/0TO0 07/W0 OT/MOO 4 07/1200 07/H59 07/1700 AO L*»m4»r OMA 04/0700 04/7W 20 04/T700 07/0449 W/0000 1 07/0700 07£IOT OJ/MOO 4 07/1200 07/M59
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        506 47 Carton WO Mm 992.6 U) 17.6 0.10 57 0.00 Oct 4 Oentlty Water RmMim Atll AfcatnfaM Sediment No aOOW £25 1 0 9 1 rTT- 380 Aw 988.0 0J 13.9 0.07 12 0.00 to! 340 Mil «IS U IM O B 54 0.00 at/wi %in M/M
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        349 48 Sale to former unit of Credit Lyonnais an illegal use of state aid FT [LONDON] British Airways has asked the European Commission to block "with utmost urgency" the sale of Air Liberte, the independent French airline, to a former subsidiary of
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        291 48 NYT [WASHINGTON] The Transportation Department took a big step to eliminate the U5575,000 (S$105,000) limit on airlines' liability in international air crashes that has been specified by the Warsaw Convention since 1966. The department gave tentative approval to a rule, which
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        194 48 Reuter [FRANKFURT] Helmut Werner, chairman of Germany's Mercedes-Benz, said the car maker is in intensive discussions with the Chinese car industry with a view to expanding its network of service centres in China. Speaking in an interview with the German newspaper Welt am
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        512 48 US industry fears Internal Revenue Service's ruling may be applied nationally NYT [WASHINGTON] The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that money a regional airline spent on periodic engine inspections should be treated as a capital investment and not an ordinary business expense, a
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        32 48 [PARIS] Visitors to Paris International Auto Fair admiring a German Audi over the weekend. Over one million visitors are expected to have visited the show when it ends this Sunday. AFP
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        364 48 No plans to reduce its investment in the small Viet market Bloomberg Business News [HANOl] Although there are 14 licensed foreign car makers vying in the still tiny Vietnamese market, world No 2 Ford Motor Co said it has no plans to
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          87 48 Reuter [TOKYO] Toyota Motor Corp, Japan's biggest car maker, has announced that it had developed an electric car powered by a fuel cell that produces no toxic emissions. The environmentally-friendly car "Fuel Cell EV" runs on electricity generated by a reaction between hydrogen and oxygen
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          63 48 AFX-Asia [TAIPEII President Lee Teng-hui said the government should encourage investment in the local airline industry. The Economic Daily News reported him as saying during a visit to EVA Airways Corp that such a move will help Taiwan establish closer ties with foreign countries.
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          112 48 Bloomberg Business News [COLOGNE, Germany] Deutsche Lufthansa AG said its planned share split and conversion of preferred shares to common shares would take place on Oct 10. In a notice published over the weekend in the federal gazette, Bundesanzeiger, the airline said
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          79 48 Bloomberg Business News [MONTREAL] Air Canada said it formed an alliance with Scandinavian Airlines System to Increase service between Canada and Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The agreement coordinates the arrival and departure of their flights and lets the two companies share flight codes, making
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        1617 48 CITY FU6HT ETA FUCHT ETO MM5 2H5 W896 1820 AbuDtoM S0441 1530 Hllj**L AY37 1750 AY» 2135 AMaMa S0230 1830 Of66 2120 WrwMt S097T 1655 S0978 OOP S0229 2220 Ho CM MM VM74I 1300 YW742 0125 Amman RJ188 1325 S0171 1415 S0172 0930 Amsttrlam W43 0455
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        212 48 Reuter [LUXEMBOURG] The European Commission is planning to allow airlines to buy and sell their landing and take-off slots at EU airports but will not introduce wholesale auctions of all slots, officials said. Plans under discussion within the EU executive, if adopted,
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      451 34 Direct Container Service to Fangcheng Zhanjiang Vessel S'pore Fangcheng Zhanjiang UANSAO 11/10 16/10 18/10 /VOffTRANS togrf>U»rSer*fc»TetaN§hofciU«NCl^w| Mufti-Purpose RO/L0 Carrier Acceptng: RO/RO, Ramp Capacity opto 40 tons Heavy Lift upto 68.5 tons Bnak Bui /Contaim/Reehn Coahmen Thai Flog Status Ask Express VjM 10-12/10 16-19/10 15-16/10 22-24/10 Asia Express VJ4A 22-24/10 2S-31/10
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      2078 35 3 SAIUNGS PER WEEK FOR SINGAPORE EUROPE SERVKE 1 [SINGAPORE'S GENERAL AGWR: 4SHENTON WAY TIL 224 1400 «LX:2241 OU OUTWARO(O/U S 4205M2 imi cui m> COSTAR SHIPPING PTI LTD ii7-oi d*s hdc saus/mgs *****41/43 mwiDHniD/t): *****05 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD CRNO: H*****0000M TOWER TWO (04M04) CONVENTIONAL 420S4SQ/S3 T/SMMT DEW
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      1111 36 VESSEL VOYAGE SCf OUC AMI DMN lAN KWT lAI VISSU VOYAGE DM AW MAM lAN SGf I UNI ONWARD 0474-073* 11/10 71/10 73/10 74/10 74/10 IHH COMMA *****37E 7»/W JO/M 01/10 01/10 14/10 H luwcoNan 0475-o?*w 17/10 77/10 71/10 71/10 30/10 Ji/10 M/ 10 ui« chart 0477 03* ot/to 07/10
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