The Business Times, 26 November 1996

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/95 85« SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26,1996
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    MARKETS FINANCE
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    Govt to review thoroughly Singapore's competitiveness
    578 1  -  PM Goh: study will cover competition from elsewhere, Sings, wages and rentals From Yang Razali Kassim in Manila THE government is to undertake a thorough review of Singapore's economic competitiveness over the next five to 10-year period, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said here
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    Lock icon NYSE eyes 20 to 25 S'pore firms for Wall Street listing
    532 1  -  By' Ven Sreenivasan Source: NTSE [SINGAPORE] The New York Stock Exchange has identified between 20 and 25 Singapore companies as potential candidates for a listing on Wall Street, said its chairman and chief executive officer Richard Grasso yesterday. Mr
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    Lock icon Stocks rise on institutional buying
    332 1  -  S'pore, Hongkong and EL up while Bangkok retreats By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Stocks in Kuala Lumpur, Hongkong and Singapore rose on strong institutional buying yesterday, but Bangkok bucked the trend. In Hongkong, the Hang Seng Index hit its fifth record high in a week on
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    Nobel ends debut day with 62% premium
    409 1  -  m Counter wis most active stock making np 37% of volume with 66m shares traded By. Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] Nobel Design Holdings made a grand entrance on Sesdaq yesterday, closing 62.1 per cent above its offer price. The ftirniture and design firm's
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      129 1 maum i Wt T*V SGS-Thomson expects record sales erf more than US$l.l billion la Asia Pacific (except Japan), says Jean-Claude Marquet, corporate vice-president and president for the Asia Pacific, Pf 2 nmuuns pt fciwi tiostttooniy at the margins, as if s new prooiicts that the ftiture 20. Hanking stocks currently
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      7 1 Prestige, liquidity of NYSE beckon, Pg 19
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      89 1 Apec launches 3-pronged plan, Pg 10 TTA get* new lease of l]fe, Pg 10 20% oat in port dues extended, Shipping Times Pg 1 bezel set with diamonds, 1 ~i i mechanical or electronic movement. w Bto>-|, a^v JOAILLIER EN HORLOGERIE < |J "f o V 1 Roy Eastern Watch
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon SGS-Thomson sees 1996 Asian sales of over US$1.1b
      624 2  -  tU*gjnn to account for more than 28% of group turnover by end of the year By\ Genevieve Cua SGS-THOMSON expects its sales in Asia Pacific (except Japan) to exceed a record US$l.l billion (551.54 billion) this year, a growth of about 18
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      EDB and Siemens launch scholarship scheme
      197 2  -  Two students to be sent to top German technical universities Ry\ Raju Chellam THE Economic Development Board and Siemens AG yesterday launched a scholarship programme for Singapore students to pursue degrees in electrical engineering in top German universities. "This is the first time that
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      Lock icon Morgan brighter on GDP growth
      390 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY GDP By, Anna Teo JP MORGAN now thinks its forecast of 5 per cent gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 1996 "unduly pessimistic" and has revised it back up to 6.4 per cent. At the same time, the market average forecast
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      Lock icon PUB's $64m suit settled out of court
      294 2 The Straits Times THE Public Utilities Board's $64 million suit against Australian businessman Lee Peng Siong has been amicably settled. Lawyers representing both sides told Justice Warren Khoo of the settlement in chambers yesterday. Among the settlement terms is the discharge of the
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      Singapore Power enters fuel oil storage business
      373 3  -  Group in Seraya venture with storage tank operator Oiltanking Singapore By, Audrey Tan SINGAPORE Power (SP) made its first venture into fuel oil storage with the signing of a joint venture agreement with storage tank operator Oiltanking Singapore yesterday. The 50-50 joint venture,
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      Keep an open mind to foreign ideas, says Rear-Adm Teo
      226 3  -  But be wise enough to understand what is best for ourselves By 1 Toh Han Shih ASIAN countries should not maintain isolationist attitudes amid an onrush of international ideas and influences, Environment Minister Teo Chee Hean told the opening of
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      Habitat Properties to launch Bedok project
      164 3 HABITAT Properties, which is linked to the Indonesian Nursalim family which controls the Tuan Sing group, will soon launch a small landed project at Bedok Reservoir Road. Reservoir Villas offers four terrace houses starting at $1.3 million and 10 semi-detached houses priced from $1.7
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      PSB, SNEF tie-up to help raise productivity
      149 3 THE Singapore Productivity and Standards Board (PSB) and the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) have developed a package of initiatives to help bosses tap government aid schemes and raise the productivity of workers. The PSB, in a statement yesterday, said the package covers
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      Lock icon Regional jobs keep crane operator Tat Hong busy
      353 3  -  spotlight on GSfrgy Singapore's best: By < Conrad Raj ALTHOUGH the property market in Singapore is undergoing a slowdown, there are more than enough jobs in the region to keep heavy equipment operators busy. In fact, crane operator Tat Hong Holdings has
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      158 2 •t: r 1 nov*lu<--i 7;-' Ik, Din 1995, L6 1 s annual sales grew 40Z to over US$64 billion. m It's nle« to MMt you. Today computer ckips eitker evolve at an astonishing pace or tkey become as antiquated as tke dirigibles once koused at Moffett Field. LG Semicon, in
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      225 3 WHEN THE WORLD'S YOUR PLAYING FIELD, YOU ALWAYS HAVE HOME GROUND ADVANTAGE 1,4 jr ijkA.fikfjk .I lif* tir iiff'tl vJTJI9B fl H| This is our top currencies expert in Singapore. So movements at the end of one trading day That s him in the business suit. alert his counterparts at
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon Time to take stock of China deals
      1079 4  -  SINGAPORE INVESTMENTS ABROAD Although still at a blistering pace, S'pore investment in the first half of 1996 is lower than the second half of 1995, due to some major Chinese policy changes Reports 1 Lu Ning [SINGAPORE] FOLLOWING a year of record growth,
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      Back to sustainable levels
      486 4 High investment growth dne to rush to beat deadline for dnty free capital imports Chinese diplomat [SINGAPORE) Singapore investment in China is expected to return to a more sustainable level after a period of "extraordinary" growth in the past two years, said a senior Chinese diplomat
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      246 4 H if s I PERKS FACT fl™ 8 11 Totally Integrated j PERKS can be implemented in any company, in any industry and in any country. Straight out of the box -no customisation required. '"SI .--1 S |It handles complete leave records, stores all the employee no-compromise records, can be
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Grand Hotel in A$243m deal to buy hotels
      364 6  -  Group buys Perth Hyatt, 50% of Melbourne Grand Hyatt By. Agnes Wee [SINGAPORE] Australia's Grand Hotel Group has signed a A 5243 million (***** million) hotel deal which is one of the largest hotel and investment deals in Australia since the late
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      Has HK's property market entered a new golden age?
      618 7  -  THE PROPERTY COLUMN Or is this a case of being carried away by a single deal? By Lee Han Shih ONE swallow does not a summer make, but one property deal sure can raise the expectations of an entire market. Hongkong's
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      CDL in US$80m Indon condo venture
      328 7  -  By\ S N Vasuki [JAKARTAJ Singapore-listed City Developments Ltd (CDL) is joining a long line of foreign property developers investing in Jakarta's condominium market. The property firm a member of the Hong Leong group said yesterday that it is part of a group developing
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      380 6 Prime East Coast Residential Development Site Location The site is prominently located r~~ at the junction of Fort Road and Meyer Road. Dunman fort Rnin High School is nearby as is the o ruMI WUAU Singapore Swimming Club. < mmm q Legal Description Lots 3396,3624,4945,292-6, WHM J 292-8, 292-3, 292-2,
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      104 6 Vancouver. Canada "One of the most beautiful cities in the world!" Sheraton H |j IP »ii II HI! 9| Le Soleil is close to world-famous Stanley Park and Canada Place...and only moments away from majestic mountains and a lively ocean harbour. Super prime location in Vancouver's downtown financial district Pre-approved
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      751 7 Prime Freehold Land X DGP plot ratio of 1.4; Up to 4 storeys /if **TTtN Land area: 4,129 sq m (Approx) "7,/ ItSHELTORo/ sSa Exclusive Hilltop Condominium <soufof Near reputable schools, institutions and amenities 7 Tllil I i«)rTjg*wE>wi ill iScf Tender Clom: a o«c (Tu») «t 4.00 pm For investment
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      146 9 )ashCard? Who is behind Cash Card? mew electronic cash payment service which you can use Cash Card is brought to you by Singapore's seven largest local banks and NETS. ;fc It gives you the power of cash in a card. You can use variety of outlets: from supermarkets and convenience
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Apec launches 3-pronged plan
      692 10  -  MANILA Leaders urge WTO to build on Apec's liberalisation drive to farther open np global trading system Ky Yang Razali Kassim ASIA-PACIFIC leaders, concluding a substantive summit here yesterday, launched Apec into an action phase with a three-pronged plan for free trade and investment, starting Jan
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      ITA gets new lease of life
      560 10  -  APEC SUMMIT MAMUJk But It's still a case of touch-and-go Yang Razali Kassim AN information technology pact by 2000 may be within grasp at the upcoming World Trade Organisation meeting in Singapore, following a carefully-crafted compromise by Asia-Pacific leaders to back the US-led proposal.
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      Lock icon King appoints Chavalit as Thailand's 22nd PM
      132 10 BANGKOK Reuter THAILAND'S King Bhumibol Adulyadej yesterday issued a royal decree appointing New Aspiration Party (NAP) leader Chavalit Yongchaiyudh the country's 22nd prime minister, the parliament president said. Wan Muhamad Nor Matha, who is also deputy NAP leader, said the decree, which was
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      Lock icon Proton plans Lotus variant
      328 10 KUALA LUMPUR New model expected to boost Proten's image aid sales AFP MALAYSIA'S Proton Bhd, which last month acquired control of the renowned British sports car maker Lotus, is planning to produce an upmarket Proton-Lotus variant, a report said yesterday. Perusaahaan Otomobil Nasional Bhd (Proton) chairman
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      Lock icon Vietnam widens dong's exchange fluctuation band
      252 10 HANOI Reuter VIETNAM has widened the official exchange fluctuation band for its currency, the dong. leaving room for market pressure to take it lower against the US dollar, bankers said yesterday. There was no announcement of the move from the central State Bank of
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      Lock icon Thai current account deficit widens
      202 10 BANGKOK AFP THAILAND'S current account deficit in the eight months to August widened to 270.4 billion baht (5514.8 billion) from 217.9 billion baht a year earli-- fl er, according to the Bank of Thailand. In a statement yesterday, the central bank said the balance of
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Shell, Occidental to tap gas field
        74 10 AFP [MANILA] Subsidiaries of Royal Dutch Shell and the US firm, Occidental Petroleum Corp signed a US$2.5 billion (553.5 billion) agreement yesterday to tap a massive offehore natural gas field in the Philippines. Under the memorandum of understanding, signed with the state-owned National Power
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        Lock icon Jakarta to speed up debt repayment
        63 10 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia is speeding up the repayment of its foreign debts with interest rates of at least 9 per cent, Finance Minister Mar ie Muhammad said yesterday. "If this speeded up repayment can be completed, there will be a saving in interest payment
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        Lock icon Delay in passing of Philippine tax bill
        38 10 AFX-Asia <^ on 8 r ss to likely to pass the tax reform bill by mid-1997 and not by end-1996 as previously expected Senate president Ernesto Maceda said. "I think we will
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        Lock icon Returning Viets banned from politics
        60 10 AFP [HANOl]Vietnam has announced formal regulations on citizens living overseas who return here including" ball on all types of political activity, press reports said yesterday. Overseas Vietnamese must get a guarantee from a government agency or family members to return here and must have their
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      144 10 'HI ■<< 1 Presenting tta Ciejs oj Triple 3. We know they might not look Every month you can feast on different like chels but believe us, they are dishes in a buffet that combines the grace of dressed appropriately. Rembrandt, the originality of Picasso and the You see, these
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      8 10 EU wants more out of WTO, Pg 13
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China hints at end to 3-year austerity programme
      422 11 BEIJING Key goal next year is te speed up reform of ailing stale enterprises Reuter CHINA gave new hints yesterday that its three-year austerity programme was over, pronouncing its anti-inflation fight a success and saying the new task was ensuring stability as
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      Lock icon China to cut duties by 1/3 to 15% by 2000: Jiang
      226 11 M MANILA Aumncemeiit may ■rate US criticism of Chinese trade surplus Bloomberg Business News CHINA'S President Jiang Zemin said yesterday that the country will cut average import duties by one-third to "around 15 per cent" by the year 2000.
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      Lock icon Standing up for tolerance
      140 11 HONGKONG Reuter A FORMER top judge who is vying to lead Hongkong after China takes over next year has said the territory needs a neutral and impartial leader rather than a well-connected tycoon, and one who is tolerant towards dissent. "I'm for tolerance," said Yang Ti
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      Lock icon US taking practical approach to Beijing?
      194 11 WASHINGTON Bloomberg Business News THE US is moving towards a more "practical" view in its relations with China, Senate minority Leader Tom Daschle said on Sunday. While the country's spotty record on issues like human rights and labour practices is important, "we have to
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      Lock icon China, UK reach pact on HK land
      105 11 HONGKONG Reuter THE Hongkong government yesterday said China and Britain have agreed to double the amount of crown land disposable in the current fiscal year ending March 31. The two sides, working closely in the run-up to China's takeover of Hongkong in mid-1997,
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      44 11 Auction 24A King Albert Park Trustee's Sale by Auction on 5 December 1996 Single-storey bungalow with pool Close to Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Mac Donald H.Q. Land area: 18,833 sq ft, freehold For more information, call Siow Wern Zhi tel 393 2355/pg 9312 5561
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      201 11 Editorial: Relations on the mend, Pg 15 The perfect place to anchor your business* Being situated along the West Coast Highway makes getting to PSA Vista plain sailing you won't be encumbered by traffic jams or Area Licensing Scheme fees. Along with convenience, tenants will enjoy a wealth of modern
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Japanese executives expect higher profits
      417 12 TOKYO But quarterly BO J survey also likely to reveal pessimism over recovery Bloomberg Business News EXECUTIVES from 10,000 Japanese companies generally expect higher profits, plan to spend more on equipment and are more confident than they were three months ago, a Bank of Japan
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      Lock icon US will deploy 'overwhelming force' to protect S Korea: Lake
      263 12 WASHINGTON AFP THE United States would deploy "overwhelming force" to protect South Korea from an attack from the North, which it wants to keep free of nuclear weapons, a top US official said on Sunday. "We have a treaty commitment
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      Lock icon Indian PM rapped for taking relatives on official trips
      259 12 NEWDELHI AFP INDIAN Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, a self-described "humble farmer's son", was flayed by a communist partner in his coalition government for taking relatives on official trips abroad allegedly at the taxpayer's expense. Sitaram Yechuri, a senior Politburo
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        Lock icon Jiang to visit Japan next year
        75 12 AFP [TOKYO] Chinese President Jiang Zemin will visit Japan as early as April next year, a Japanese newspaper reported yesterday. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said his visit, the first in four years, will be preceded by a visit to China by Japanese Foreign Minister
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        Lock icon India to fine those who employ kids
        93 12 AFP [NEW DELHI] Indian officials yesterday issued a public notice to 1,315 entrepreneurs illegally employing children in New Delhi giving them two weeks to clean up their act. The unprecedented notice, published in a newspaper and issued by New Delhi's labour commissioner, said
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        Lock icon Ousted Benazir's demand
        99 12 Reuter [ISLAMABAD] Ousted premier Benazir Bhutto has demanded that any agreement on an IMF restructuring loan being negotiated by Pakistan's caretaker government be approved by top political parties, her party said yesterday. It released a trenchant letter from Ms Bhutto to President Farooq Leghari saying the caretaker
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        Lock icon EC-Korea telecoms deal
        64 12 Reuter [BRUSSELS] The European Commission (EC) yesterday < said it had reached a deal with South Korea that would open up the Korean telecommunications equipment market to European suppliers. "European companies will I now be treated as fairly as their Korean counterparts when bidding for contracts to
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        Lock icon Police free Miss World protesters
        93 12 Reuter [BANGALORE] Indian police yesterday said they had released hundreds of protesters detained before Saturday'! Miss World beauty pageant which ended here without threatened self-immolations. Police had held 1,500 demonstrators, including three opposition Members of Parliament from New Delhi who were released on Sunday as
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        Lock icon Woman blows herself up
        70 12 AFP [COLOMBO] A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up in front of a police vehicle in north-east Sri Lanka yesterday, killing herself but failing to inflict serious casualties on police, officials said. One constable was injured in the blast in the heart of Trincomalee town,
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      Lock icon Seoul to ease curbs on foreign trust funds
      126 12 SEOUL Bloomberg Business News THE South Korean government will allow foreign invest-ment-trust companies to set up branches in the country without getting official approval, starting next month. A Finance and Economy Ministry official yesterday said the plan has already been presented to
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      Lock icon Cabbage patch vendors
      44 12 [SEOUL] Vendors unloading tonnes of cabbages at Seoul's agricultural wholesale market yesterday. The onset of cold weather heralds the start of the season to make kimchi the hot, spicy, pickled cabbage that is an essential part of every Korean meal. AFP
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      Lock icon S Korean president due in KL
      154 12 KUALA LUMPUR AFP SOUTH Korean President Kim Young Sam is to arrive in Malaysia today for a three-day state visit, during which he will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. The Malaysian government yesterday said Mr Kim will be accompanied by a
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      Lock icon Investment to boost Aussie economy in 1997
      543 12 SYDNEY Fignres suggest that investment may even exceed govt forecast Reuter AUSTRALIAN business investment is booming, particularly in the mining and telecommunications sectors, and this should ensure economic growth accelerates in 1997 after a modest slowdown this year, analysts said yesterday. Capital expenditure
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon EU wants more out of WTO
      403 13 BRUSSELS It wants more ambitions outcome than that contained in Singapore draft declaration Reuter EUROPEAN Union foreign affairs ministers yesterday urged next month's Singapore meeting of World Trade Organisation leaders to push for more ambitious targets. "They have agreed on their draft conclusions which
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      Lock icon A drink to call their own
      63 13 [MEXICO] Distillery workers mixing cooked and ground agave in warm water to release their sugars at a tequila distillery during the production ofMexico'sfamous liquor. Tequila gained the European Union's rules of origin status last weekend which means its providence is guaranteed and the drink
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      Lock icon Italian lira back in EU exchange rate mechanism
      302 13 BRUSSELS Reuter ITALY, unceremoniously dumped from the European Union's currency grid four years ago, has returned to the bloc's currency fold, but only after EU partners made clear they have no time for weak currencies. Two days of hard bargaining in Brussels
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      Lock icon Opec gets windfall from oil price rally
      351 13 VIENNA Cartel to earn extra USs3ob in export revenues this year Reuter OPEC oil ministers gathered in Vienna for a conference in buoyant mood, thanks to an oil price rally which has boosted petroleum export revenues by nearly a quarter this year. Responsible
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      Lock icon Talks on biological weapons open
      214 13 GENEVA AFP EXPERTS from more than 100 countries opened talks yesterday aimed at strengthening a global treaty banning biological weapons, the only multilateral disarmament accord without a mechanism for probing violations. Experts from 139 countries have until Dec 6 to try and agree on ways
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      Footsie surges on expectations of tax cut
      458 13  -  LONDON Market looks forward to conservative budget Neil Behrmann THE London stock market is booming in anticipation of a conservative budget to be announced today. In the past two days, the FTSE-100 Index broke through the 4,000 barrier decisively, once again on expectations
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Lock icon Nuclear terror a very real threat to US
      729 15  -  THE BOTTOM LDVE OPINION By A M Rosenthal The writer is a columnist for The New York Times MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ***** NYT ALEXANDER Lebed is the Russian general who became a politician and has no doubt that he will be
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      141 15 The film is sexual but not violent I don't think somebody is going to see this film, copy it and go and look for car crashes to get off on.' David Crooenberg Canadian director renowned for turning horror into high art on his movie "Crash about car
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      Will US and China seize the day ?
      614 15 Will US and China seize the day EDITORIAL THE outgoing US Secretary of State Warren Christopher has concluded his second and last official trip to China and President Bill Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin have met again at the Apec summit in Manila, signalling that relations between Washington and
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      French revile Daewoo
      1142 15  -  Hostility toS Korean giant's deal to boy Thomson Multimedia smacks of xenophobia By Salil Sarkar The writer is a Paris-based journalist who contributes to BT "l'M astonished, even hurt, by the hostility in France to Daewoo taking over Thomson Multimedia," says Kim Fang Yong, Paris correspondent for
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      848 15 UM BMds urfMt rtform THE United States has vetoed a second term for UN sec-retary-general Boutros Bou-tros-Ghali, the only one of 15 council member states which nixed his re-election. While the US claims Mr Boutros-Ghali has failed to reform the UN, the real reason is that
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      Pictures that breathe
      590 16  -  Shanghai artist Hong Zhu brilliantly meshes Eastern and Western aesthetic sensibilities in his paintings, says lOLAiais IOLA LENZI THE art of Hong Zhu is difficult to describe. Indeed, it is hard to photograph as well. It palpitates, breathes and, like people, changes. Anyone returning several times to
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      Lock icon Crash sparks morality war in Britain
      857 16 CINEMA Is the film sick and wicked or a strange existentialist romance? Reuter [LONDON] Crash, a film about car accidents and sexual desire, has hit the barriers of British censorship and become the latest focus of a political battle over morality. Awarded the Jury
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      Lock icon On the 1st of Christmas .. .check the wage levels
      552 16 On the 1st of Christmas .check the wage levels FESTIVALS Spread in 12 Days of Christmas cartl costs &2% more, says fan festive index Bloomberg Business News [PHILADELPHIA] The turtledoves won't cost any more this year than in the Christmas past, but the nine ladies dancing are going through the
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      151 17 CKVPTIC CROSSWORD 1 Unsociable as a rugby-play--7 Part of horse is shrivelling _JHL_ 23 Sorry about church involved K ol in witchcraft (7) r (7) J YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 24 Danger light activated at ninety degrees (s*) 9 Shlft f"jpty lorry in suitable DOWN W3y iTrfilafßnßcWAß^Bßrff^l •B 13 Little devil dying
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      1554 18  -  Australia's Royal Pines West Course has some unusually difficult holes, says miokl&tts D'CRUZ NICKLAUS D'CRUZ The writer is editor of The Asian Golf Review. This review and further information about golfing in Asia are available on the Internet at the BT-Asian Golf Review site (http://www.asial.com. sg/bizcentre/golf) AU
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      STIC plans Indon industrial park
      344 19  -  Surabaya venture with Dharmala group will be STICs fourth industrial park By < Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Singapore Technologies Industrial Corp plans to build a joint-venture industrial park in the Indonesian city of Surabaya. The first phase is estimated to cost $285 million. STIC will team
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      Marco Polo interim profit up 62%
      479 19  -  By Agnes Wee [SINGAPORE] Marco Polo Developments yesterday reported a 62.2 per cent rise in group net profit to $4.98 million for the first half ended Sep 30, compared to the first six months of the last fiscal year. The hotel operator and real
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      Prestige and liquidity of NYSE beckon S'pore firms
      638 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Conrad Raj THE world's biggest and most liquid capital market is trying to entice Singapore companies to list there. Will the companies want to? After all, those which qualify, probably the top 25 companies here and most of them
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      Creative to get boost from weakening yen
      313 19  -  By\ Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Creative Technology stands to make good gains from the weakening of the Japanese yen, if comments in its latest annual report released yesterday are anything to go by. The sound card maker said under the column "currency fluctuations"
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      Hong Leong, S'pore govt buy 80% of HK Marriott
      276 19 Purchase price not disclosed, but reports peg it at HKs2.2b (SINGAPORE) The Hong Leong group has joined forces with the Singapore government to buy an 80 per cent stake in JW Marriott Hotel Hongkong. The deal, speculated in media reports last
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      Lock icon SembCorp shares unchanged, JSL down
      186 19 [SlNGAPOßE] Shares of Sembawang Corp, which rose as much as 11 per cent last week, closed unchanged at $7.75 yesterday amid sharply higher turnover following news of its proposed takeover of Jurong Shipyard Ltd (JSL). Some 976,000 shares were traded nearly double the six-month daily
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        S'pore banking system to remain least risky: S&P
        413 20  -  It will also stay strongest capitalised and amongst most profitable in Asia By I Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] Singapore's banking system will continue to be the least risky, the strongest capitalised, and one of the most profitable within Asia, according to rating agency
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        SIA's new building may bring in $25m rent a year
        358 20 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines's new building at 77 Robinson Road is expected to bring the group about $25 million in annual rental income once it is completed. The figure is based on the assumption that the 35-storey office tower has 95
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        Lock icon Accord on sale of Kwong Yik reached
        298 20 RHB to pay M&yb&nk Ms2b for 75% stake: analysts Bernama, AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malayan Banking Bhd announced yesterday that it has reached an accord on the sale of its 75 per cent subsidiary, Kwong Yik Bank Bhd. Maybank managing director Amir Sham A
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        Lock icon Ex-director sells 3m Aztech shares
        167 20 Bloomberg Business News [SINGAPORE] Loh Ngiang Guan, a former director of Aztech Systems Ltd, sold three million Aztech shares for $1.33 million, Aztech told the stock exchange. The regulatory disclosure statement showed that Mr Loh sold 2.049 million shares at 44.14 cents last Thursday, and
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        SSL to raise $400m for two condo projects
        271 20  -  By. Michelle Low [SINGAPORE] Straits Steamship Land yesterday said it was raising $400 million to part finance its local property developments, in particular two condominium projects in Choa Chu Kang and Jurong East. The issue, to be arranged by Keppel Bank, comes
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        Lock icon Renong to bid for Indian project
        238 20 Bernama [TAIPING] Renong Bhd is among five companies shortlisted to bid for a portion of the US$45O million (Ss63o million) highway project in the state of Maharashtra in India, Works Minister S Samy Vellu said. While the entire highway spans the distance between Bombay
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        Jumabhoy trio allowed to change boards of SIS units
        301 20  -  Bat on condition that Ameerali and Iqbal are not removed Byi Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The Jumabhoy saga continues with former Scotts Holdings managing director Rafiq and his uncles, Yusuf and Mustafa Jumabhoy, now being allowed to change the composition of the
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        Beijing court upholds Tuan Sing decision
        216 20 [SINGAPORE] Listed Tuan Sing Holdings said yesterday the Beijing Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the Shanghai High Court that it should get its money back from a failed China property deal. Tuan Sing subsidiary Shanghai TS International Real Estate Co Ltd took
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          FCC launches devt,sells Mimax stake
          88 20 [SINGAPORE] First Capital Corp yesterday launched a 268-unit condominium development, Stratford Court, at the junction of Upper Changi Road East and Bedok Road. In another statement, FCC said it was disposing its 74 per stake in Mimax Ribbons to Mimax's other shareholder, Sng Chin Watt.
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          Hup Seng Huat amends results
          68 20 [SINGAPORE] Hup Seng Huat has amended its results for the year ended July 31, after discovering that a gross dividend income of $541,000 from an associate company had not been deleted from the accounts. In the amended results, HSH posted an 18 per cent rise
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          Wing Tai subscribes for USI shares
          63 20 [SINGAPORE] Wing Tai Holdings—through two subsidiaries—has subscribed for shares in its listed HK associate USI Holdings' one-for-two rights issue at HK$2.2O per share. Wing Tai said wholly-owned subsidiary Wing Tai Garment Manufactory (S) has subscribed for 490,000 shares for HK$l.OB million, and 89.47 per
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        Lock icon NZ brewer DB Group may make capital refund
        356 21 Bloomberg Business News (WELLINGTON] DB Group Ltd has between NZ$9O million (Ss9o million) and NZ$95 million in surplus cash and the New Zealand brewer may announce a return of capital to shareholders when it issues its full-year results in December, a company
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        Lock icon Japan trust banks' profits soar 5-fold, long-term banks' up 36%
        474 21 Govt move to allow trust banks to draw on special reserves to dispose of bad loans helped boost earnings Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO] Pre-tax profits at Japan's seven trust banks surged five-fold in the halfyear ended September, as the government
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        Lock icon Shareholders approve Cepa privatisation
        312 21 Hopewell will maintain a minority stake of 12J-20% Reuter [HONGKONG] Consolidated Electric Power Asia Ltd (Cepa) said yesterday its shareholders and those of Hopewell Holdings Ltd have approved the privatisation scheme as offered by Southern Co of the United States. Hopewell shareholders voted unanimously in favour
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        Lock icon Re-elected HKSE chief vows to keep market's integrity
        209 21 AFP [HONGKONG] The newly reelected chairman of the Hongkong Stock Exchange, Edgar Cheng, yesterday vowed to "maintain the integrity" of the local bourse over the coming year. Mr Cheng, who was reelected for a one-year term yesterday, said in a statement this
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        Lock icon Party at McDonald's
        55 21 (HOLLYWOOD) Actress Rene Russo and her daughter Rose being greeted by "Ronald McDonald" holding a spotted paint-roller, at a party following the Los Angeles premiere of Walt Disney Pictures'"lol Dalmatians" on Sunday. McDonald's restaurants have a tie-in promotion with the new movie and are offering "101 Dalmatians"
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        Bank Negara Indonesia shares shine on debut
        489 21  -  This shows foreigners will pay premium for a highly liquid bank stock, say analysts From\ S N Vasuki in Jakarta IN AN impressive debut, shares of state-owned Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) soared to 1,250 rupiah (550.75) on the opening day of trading yesterday,
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        Lock icon Blaze rekindles Eurotunnel financial fears
        481 21 Shares hit as fire damage may be worse than expected AFP IPARISI The price of shares in Channel tunnel operator Eurotunnel dropped sharply yesterday as investors worried that a fire in the Franco-Brit-ish link may have caused more damage than initially believed. Amid reports that
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        Lock icon Applied Materials to buy two firms
        170 21 AFP [WASHINGTON! Applied Materials, a major supplier to the semiconductor industry, announced on Sunday that it will acquire two other firms in the sector for a total of US$2B5 million (*****.2 million). Applied Materials said it was acquiring Opal Inc for approximately US$l75 million
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        Lock icon Sweden's top insurer, largest mortgage bank in merger move
        364 22 Sk&ndia Insurance bids 23b kronor for St&dshypotek Bloomberg Business News [STOCKHOLM] Skandia Insurance AB, Sweden's largest insurer, said it bid 23.1 billion kronor (Ss4.B billion) to acquire Stadshypotek, Sweden's largest mortgage bank, a move that would form the Nordic region's largest
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        Lock icon First Chicago's 2nd US bank to open branch in Beijing
        263 22 Bloomberg Business News [BEIJING] First Chicago NBD Corp, America's ninth-biggest bank, opened a branch here, becoming the second US bank, after Citibank, permitted to operate in China's capital. The bank's operations in Beijing include trade finance, remittances, onshore foreign exchange
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        Lock icon Bank Pertanian to be privatised in '97
        260 22 Agricultural bank bracing for greater independence NST [KUALA LUMPUR] Stateowned Bank Pertanian Malaysia, set up 26 years ago largely to help boost the agricultural sector, will be privatised late next year. Its assistant general manager (branch operations department) Abdul Aziz Ibrahim said the
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        Lock icon Japan lifts curbs on Daiwa Bank operations
        349 22 Ban in US, imposed for hiding trading losses, still in force Bloomberg Business News Reuter [TOKYO] Japan's Ministry of Finance withdrew disciplinary measures imposed a year ago on Daiwa Bank following the bank's disclosure of hidden losses at its New York branch in
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        Lock icon Daiwa Securities to incur 120b yen abnormal loss
        256 22 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Daiwa Securities Co yesterday said it would suffer an extraordinary loss of 120 billion yen (SSI.S billion) in the year to March following aid extended to a troubled affiliate. Daiwa said the sum would be used to help write
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        Lock icon Merrill values HSBC at HK$500b
        184 22 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Merrill Lynch said it flagged the fair value of HSBC Holdings pic at HKSSOO billion (5590.6 billion), or HK$l9O per share. In its latest research report on HSBC, it said that valuing HSBC as a conglomerate, by taking each of its major geographic
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        Lock icon Euroyen, JGBs trade listlessly
        218 22 ruin mi Report Reuter [SINGAPORE) Simex Euroyen and Japanese government bond futures (JGBs) remained in a tight range on very low turnover yesterday, as players began their watch for the Bank of Japan's quarterly tankan survey. Dealers said that the market failed to react to comments
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        168 22 Reuter, AFP London THE dollar was buoyant against the mark and just below session peaks against the yen, riding on the back of the lira's re-entry into Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism. "The lira is strengthening. Money is flowing out of the mark and this is having an effect
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        Lock icon Ethnic tensions a threat to Caspian oil exports
        282 22 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [MOSCOW] From Russia's volatile Chechen republic to Georgia's separatist Abkhazia region, Caspian Sea oil faces an increasingly tough obstacle course of geopolitical hurdles as it seeks safe routes to Western markets. A multinational consortium that will soon begin tapping
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      2235 23 IMHHM MutfMs nk> AB Ports 284 3.600 AbPey National 674 10.600 Allied Domecq 445.400 3 Amec 97.400 *.400 Asda Croup 118.400 -.600 BAT Ind 458.200 6.800 BtCC 282.400 .400 BOC Group 875 -15 BR Petrolaum 699.200 2.800 BTR 238.200 -.800 Bank Of Scotland 293.400 4 Barclay* 997
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      1601 23 Reuter HffittaHS +77^ STOCKS finished yesterday's session with moderate gains, mainly from blue-chip shares, brokers said. They added, however, the key Nikkei benchmark was still in a boxed range and likely to remain so until a key business sentiment survey comes out later this week. The 225-share Nikkei Average
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      1673 24 AFX-Asia Q&mgSpig *122.60 SHARE prices closed higher yesterday, led by properties and Financials but with losses in the utilities sector. The Hang Seng Index closed up 122.60 points at 13,239.39. Turnover remained strong at HK57.55 billion. A trader said the market was following the same pattern set at the
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      Lock icon CHINA
      704 24 Reuter n Shenzhen B Share Index >15.6 THE Shenzhen B market closed up 13.3 per cent in heavy trading yesterday due to continuing rumours that Beijing was drafting measures to boost the market. The B Index surged 15.6 points to 133.42, with turnover expanding to HK5347.13 million from HK5147.07
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      Lock icon TAIPEI
      401 24 AFP QWP Index +96.71 SHARE prices finished 1.4 per cent higher yesterday on active trading, boosted by good performance of heavyweight banking issues, brokers said "Retail investors followed domestic fund managers to pursue lagging banking issues," said a trader. The Weighted Price Index rose 96.71 points to 6,938.87. Turnover
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      271 24 Reuter Q Wellington -12J6 SHARES turned on a lacklustre performance yesterday, in stark contrast to the strong markets in the US on Friday. The NZSE 40-share Capital Index fell 12.96 points to 2,339.17. Hot IS US *h COOO) ANZ Banking J 9.00 *0.20 ***** Advantages Hlogj 1.27 -0.02 2000
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      838 24 AFP □set lata -Z53 SHARES declined 0.3 per cent yesterday with most investors sidelined waiting to see who will take the key economic portfolios in the new cabinet, brokers said. "There is a lot of uncertainty about who will get the commerce and foreign affairs portfolios," said a broker.
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      419 24 AFP fl Composite Index -14J9 SHARE prices closed down 2.1 per cent yesterday, with weakening sentiment dragging the market to its lowest point in three years. Most investors adopted a cautious approach after the introduction of a new computerisation system for stock trading yesterday, leading to extremely light turnover.
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      624 24 AFP rl All Ordinaries +IL3 ANOTHER record-breaking rise in the US blue chip index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, boosted Australian shares by 0.5 per cent yesterday. The All Ordinaries Index rose 11.3 points to 2,394.7 after an earlier high of 2,403.2. Turnover was 327.9 million shares worth Ass7B
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      738 24 AFP rl Composite Index +1&38 STOCKS closed 2.5 per cent higher yesterday on Bank Negara Indonesia's (BNI) listing and gains in blue chips, with rumour-driven buying pushing the market upwards. "The market was quite strong today but I don't think that it was just because of BNI. We see
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      Lock icon MANILA
      310 24 AFP □Manila +2JO SHARE prices barely rose yesterday in the absence of foreign buying and fresh news. The PSE Composite Index rose 2.10 points to 3,104.46. Turnover was 4.5 billion shares worth 2.18 billion pesos. PLDT fell 10 pesos to 1,590. San Miguel Corp A rose 1.50 pesos to
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        Lock icon Buying interest continues
        8315 25 AFX-Asia fl Composite Index ♦7.66 SHARE prices closed higher on continued interest in blue chips and smaller stocks on the main board, as the second board continued to see heavy profit-taking, dealers said. The KLSE Composite Index closed up 7.66 points at 1,225.62 on volume of 1.34
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        Accumulation of Antah warrants could prove beneficial
        169 26  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan WITH the Malaysian Second Board looking poised for a correction, it might be worthwhile exploring opportunities on Clob International, which has been quiet for far too long. In this light, let's look at Antah's 1999 warrants, which were
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
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        1555 27 TURNOVER COOO) VALUE ('000) M«tn C(o> T>t«l M«ln Clo* T»<«4 Induitritl 33.985 V4.343 48,328 tOO.131 34,940 135,090 fUmco 4,886 12.590 17.476 48,922 16.834 65,756 Hotrts 1,m 838 1.949 2,824 1,343 4.168 Proporttot 5.820 14.165 19.985 29,660 16.874 46,534 Plantation 1,257 1,257 3,537 3,537 Mining 439 439 1.210 1.2K> »IW 6.766
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        HOT STOCK
        68 28  -  Shiv Taneja HTP HOLDINGS, which closed four cents higher yesterday at 88 cents on a volume of 167 million shares, has been trying to break past the 90<ent mark for the better part of the past six months with little success. This time around it may just make
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        Institutional buying pushes STII over 2,200-point level
        879 28  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Dealers said a combination of attractive valuations and optimism that the Singapore economy is showing strong resilience spurred buying interest By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Stocks rose on the back of selective buying of blue chips by institutions yesterday. The Straits
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          Creative silence
          95 28 ANALYSTS waiting for more light to be shed on Creative's successful lawsuit against Aztech in the former's annual report, which we received hot off the press yesterday, will be disappointed. The high-profile copyright infringement case was not even mentioned by name. Instead, on page 35 of the report,
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          The young and the old
          93 28 THE CPF BOARD'S first public seminar on annuities held over the weekend was a sell-out. More than 200 people turned up for the half-day talk on how would-be retirees can use their CPF minimum sum to buy annuity products offered by insurance companies. One of
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          Newspapers don't die
          131 28 NEWSPAPERS don't die, they get resurrected to haunt business rivals. Hongkong's newspaper readers were rather bemused last week to see the Eastern Express (EE) revived as a two-page insert in its Chinese-language sister paper, the Oriental Daily News. EE is of course the third English language newspaper
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          Bonham denies curry puff report
          93 28 BONHAM Cafe Pte Ltd, in response to an item in this column last week, has written to say that not only has it ceased selling curry puffs for about a year, but that its curry puffs were never bought from Delifrance and that its selling
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          Gloomy forecasts for bonus
          92 28 ITS getting to be that time of the year when bonuses are on everyone's mind and one stock market participant said brokers here must be salivating reading last week's report that more than 300 Wall Street players are looking at US$3-US$4 million (554.2-555.6 million) in bonuses
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      MAIN BOARD
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      309 29 Reuter, Bridge News. DETAILS of concluded business at firm levels continued to emerge for Very large crude carriers loading from the Persian Gulf, brokers said. < Cargoes destined for discharge in Japan continued to be the main area of activity with Jomo booking the Golden Stream at a
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      489 29  -  Second phase ofVTIS launched to further enhance level of navigational safety By Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) will extend the 20 per cent concession on port dues for container ships, announced in
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      328 29 Its chief says transit dues for *97 will remain unchanged Reuter [ISMAILIYA, Egypt] The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced on Sunday a package of bargains it hopes will lure traffic away from alternative routes and back to the strategic waterway that
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      227 29 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News [LONDON] Worldscale shipping rates will rise by 6 to 9 per cent from Jan 1, the Worldscale Association has announced. Worldscale rates are the internationally recognised benchmarks against which the costs of shipping oil and oil
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      Lock icon Feud as ship lines go after set-aside cargoes
      241 29 Journal of Commerce. [NEW YORK] A feud has arisen over what used to be a gentleman's agreement that established shipping lines would avoid cargoes handled by consolidators or non-vessel-oper-ating common carriers (NVOCCs). The NVO trade has always been a mainstay of the
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      Lock icon PSC Marine to start ferry venture in Philippines
      223 29 Bernama [MANILA] PSC Marine Sdn Bhd has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nurshah Shipping Corporation, a member of the Minsupala Fastrack Development Corporation of Mindanao in the Philippines, to start a ferry service between Zamboanga City to Jolo and Isabela at
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        105 29 AFP [JAKARTA] Six officials will face trial over the sinking of a state inter-island ferry in Aceh in January which killed hundreds of people, reports said yesterday. They included five employees of the Aceh branch of the ferry company FT Angkutan Bungal
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        86 29 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] A Malaysian cargo boat, Promex Aman, was yesterday reported to be adrift in the South China Sea, between the Philippines and Hongkong, after its crew abandoned the vessel for reasons yet to be established. According to Lloyds shipping officials in London,
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        85 29 AFP [CALAIS] Striking French lorry drivers blocked off access for lorries to ferules at the port of Calais overnight and have sealed off two main motorways in northern France, officials and truckers' leaders said early yesterday. They said the lorries blocked access to Calais
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      Pan-U to build 2 double-hulled tankers
      140 29 (SINGAPORE] Pan-United Shipyard has won two contracts to build two doublehulled tankers for use by Indonesian oil ma)or Pertamina. The contracts, worth about $66 million, were awarded separately by shipowners Asian Eternal Shipping and Labroy Marine, both of which will be chartering the vessels
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      1072 30  -  MARITIME SERVICES: HOW LONG WILL LONDON STAY ON TOP? London continues to be pre-eminent in maritime services but the growing importance of South-East Asia and the Far East, in trade, output, and shipping fleets, and progress on European monetary union threaten its success uy Tony Gray
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      15363 36 EXPORT This guide lists the sailing destinations from Singapore. The first date indicates the ETA at Singapore followed by the ETA at the destination. The telephone numbers of the advertisers are provided for vour convenience ETA ETA Adv*rtis#r V#*st« Voy®Q« T«*ptvo<» ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA
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        211 43 Not 28 Panama Independence from Spain. USA Thanksgiving Day. NYSE, New York Cotton Exchange, NYMEX Coffee Cocoa Sugar Exchange, American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq closed. NOT 22 USA NYMEX Coffee Cocoa Sugar Exchange closed. Yugoslavia: Republic Day. not at Philippines: Boniflcio Day. Yugoslavia: Republic Day. Dw 2 Romania:
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        822 43 THIS report compiled by Cockett Marine OU Ltd. shows price ranges In US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Price* shown are baaed on average-sued stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        Lock icon Aircraft market booms after 4-year depression
        500 44 lata says air traffic will rise 7J% a year up to the year 2000, with an 8.7% increase inAaa AFP [PARIS] Big orders this month for Boeing aircraft and the European Airbus have put new life into the civilian aircraft industry after four years
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        48 44 [BEIJING] A man repairing one of the many bicycles in his shop in Beijing on Sunday. Beijing has an estimated over five million bicycles, nearly one for every two residents, making the bicycle business one of the most lucrative in the capital city. AFP
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        Lock icon FedEx sees US-Japan air rights talks in early '97
        296 44 It says however tensions between the govts have eased Bloomberg Business News [SYDNEY] Federal Express Corp said it expects the US and Japanese governments to wait until early in the new year before holding formal talks in an attempt to resolve
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        Lock icon Thai, Malaysian airlines opt for Boeing superjumbo: report
        177 44 Reuter [LONDON] Thai Airways and Malaysia Airlines have signed letters of intent to purchase the planned stretched "superjumbo" version of the Boeing 747 that can carry nearly 600 passengers, the Independent on Sunday said. The UK paper described the plans as an
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        Lock icon KLM,govt confirm talks on sale of state's stake
        216 44 Reuter [AMSTERDAM] KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and the Dutch government yesterday confirmed they were in preliminary talks on the possible sale of part of the government's stake in the Dutch national carrier. "The Dutch state and KLM confirm that orientation talks are
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        Lock icon Australian govt awaits bidders to decide on mode of rail sale
        241 44 Reuter [CANBERRA] The Australian government will thrash out with potential buyers details of how it will sell its debt-lad-en rail businesses, a spokesman for Transport Minister John Sharp said yesterday. The spokesman told Reuters the government had not yet
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        Iata endorses Indian Airlines' safety
        277 44 It denies branding IA a high risk airline as reported in the press [NEW DELHI] The International Air Traffic Association (lata) has given a clean bill of health to Indian Airlines on its safety record, laying to rest a recent controversy over a report that
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        Lock icon Labour row may upset PAL's Boeing order
        204 44 Bloomberg Business News [MANILA] A labour dispute at Philippine Airlines Inc may prevent the carrier from raising the US$l.lB billion (551.65 billion) it needs to buy seven Boeing 747-400 jets, the company said. "The upgrading and retraining of pilots is a major factor
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        Lock icon System to avoid collisions urged on cargo planes
        165 44 Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON] Cargo companies should install collisionavoidance systems in their planes, as large commercial carriers are required to do, said Robert Francis, vicechairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. "There's no excuse" that companies like Federal Express Corp and United
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          Lock icon Malaysian Airlines mulls 3% fare hike
          92 44 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airlines System Bhd is considering imposing a 3 per cent passenger airfare hike in line with a similar proposal by the International Air Transport Association, industry sources said. The sources said: "If the industry is going to do it, then
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          Lock icon Chief of Volkswagen unit dies in crash
          85 44 Reuter [PRAGUE] Ludvlk Kalxna, the chairman of Volkswagen AG's Czech unit Skoda Auto was killed late on Sunday when his car crashed into an oncoming truck, a company spokesman told Reuters yesterday. Milan Smutny, confirmed that Raima's Skoda Octavia was hit by the
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          Lock icon Delbros plans cargo services at Manila
          94 44 AFX-Asia [MANILA] Delbros Inc said it and United Parcel Services Inc are to start operating a cargo handling service at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport by mid-1997. Delbros said it and United Parcel will invest US$2OO million (Ss2Bo million) for the development of cargo
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          Lock icon 19 die in Indian bus accident
          68 44 Reuter [NEW DELHI] At least 19 people were killed and 11 injured when a bus fell Into a deep gorge in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, the United News of India (UNI) reported yesterday. The accident occurred at Bhora village, SO-km northeast
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          Lock icon Nissan importing hampers from M'sia
          74 44 AFP [TORYO] Japan's Nissan Motor Co Ltd said yesterday it had begun importing bumpers from Malaysia, its first replacement part imports from a member of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean). Nissan is cutting costs by importing front and rear bumpers for use on
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      19 29 Maritime services how long will London be on top? Challenges arise from S E Asia and Far EasLPage 2
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      234 29 Aircraft market booms after 4-year depression lata sees traffic rising 7.1 a year up to 2000. Book Page FLEH appoints I director Freight Links Express Holdings (FLEH) has named Lok Kim Hung, 45, as one of its directors. He is founder and managing director of the Vincent Group. FLEH holds
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      561 30 Linea A aervfcas represented J by Members of the Registry of Members of tie Accredited Shipping Agents. Singapore Freight Forwarders' S-pora National Shipping Assoc Aaeoctaion. j SjOTPDJGI^ffiSONLDffi Just talk to us... Iris Lim 740-2044 Tan Lip Chuan 740-1645 «Jarrod Leong 740-2089 «Philip Koh 740-2382 3 i «P an Hongkong 1
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      1464 33 §f STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD mtBS MM 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11 -01 Keppel Towers Singapore *****5 Tol: *****88 Fax: *****17 SAIAH 8 BRUNEI CONVINTIONAL SERVICE HO CHI MINH FULL CONTAINER SERVICE VPSE VOT r« I IK I WSSIL VOT nOMOinWS) 1 smiwsm vh:ti I a/n I 01/12 1 oyi2
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