The Business Times, 6 February 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/12/96 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes SINGAPORE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1997 854
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
    71 1 BXCBAM6E BATES uss ss U8S_ 1.414 f 1.12$ 1296 DM 0.609 0.860 YEN IN 1813 1.149 MS 0.401 0.664 HKS 9.129 0.182 BAHT 0039 0066 RUP1AH 100 0.042 0.060 PB1ME BATES SINGAPORE* 6.44 KUALA LUWUR. 9.25 JAKARTA 18.00 BANGKOK 13.25 MANILA 13.50 HONGKONG 8.50 TAIPEI J.25 SYDNEY 10t TOKYO,.
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    Lock icon Yen slides as hopes fade of G-7 intervention
    354 1  -  Japanese currency hits 4-year low against US dollar Fromi Anthony Rowley in Tokyo WITH little prospect in sight that G-7 finance ministers will decide at their weekend meeting in Berlin to intervene in currency markets, the yen continued its remorseless slide in
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    Lock icon Wall St shares firm as investors await FOMC rate move
    292 1 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Share prices were firm on Wall Street yesterday as many investors await the outcome of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on interest rates. At 2pm EDT the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 11.55
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    Lock icon 30-year labour for luck
    52 1 [SINGAPORE] Ang Lay Hong, assistant product manager for Noel Gifts Int7 Ltd. with one of 20 bonsai plants that took 30 years to craft and grow into the Chinese character for "luck "or "prosperity The unusual item sells for $888 from the gift and hamper distributor.
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    Lock icon S$ hits 3-month low against US$
    262 1  -  By. Larry Woe [SINGAPORE] The Singapore dollar hit a three-month low against a surging greenback to touch $1.4145 at Asia's close yesterday. Interbank traders cited continuing yen weakness against the US dollar as a factor in the move. According to one leading player, Tuesday's
    Source: Dow Jones Telerate; ALLAN  -  262 words
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    Ministers, top civil servants to take 2-7% pay cut
    474 1  -  Redaction, to take effect on July 1, is in line with fall in private sector pay By i Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Salaries of ministers and senior civil servants will be cut from July 1, in line with a drop in
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      126 1 mama (Svtijaiy nta OJStapi O J Simpson was found liable yesterday in the civil law suits brought by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. In an unanimous decision, the jury awarded the Goldman family USsB.sm (Ssl2m) in compensatory damages, Pg6 MHWITIIPB Yoi to mw 4-jrear law igriMt
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • Article
      GE Life loses 100 of its 4,500 agents over changes
      391 2  -  By I Siow Li Sen MORE than 100 agents have left Great Eastern Life Assurance recently, unhappy with its new range of products and the slash in commission rates which came into effect this year. The changes at GE Life,
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      Close the cracks that were opened during polls: PM
      532 2  -  We can't afford to be divided between English and Chinese-ed, between religions, he says By( Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPOREANS should now close the cracks that were opened up in the heat of the recent election, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said
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      Lock icon Glass act
      84 2 A member of an acrobatic team from Shandong, China, balancing wineglasses with her hands, feet and mouth at the Singapore River Hong Bao '97 launch yesterday. The annual event to celebrate the Chinese New Year was officially opened last night with a lighting-up ceremony by President Ong Teng
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      CD-ROM dealer fined $181,600 for piracy
      200 2 A NEW Hongkong-based software anti-piracy body has bagged a win here with a Singapore district court convicting a software dealer with a fine of $181,600 or 27 months in prison in default. The sentence is among the stiffest handed out for software piracy here.
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      Paulaner Brauhaus to open 2nd outlet in Wheelock Place
      435 2  -  By Jenny Lam GERMAN microbrewer Paulaner Brauhaus will open its second outlet here, this time in Wheelock Place which is in a quiet stretch of Orchard Road that is fast turning into a glitzy entertainment hub. The company, which runs a
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      Dramatic rise in job seekers
      320 2  -  ETE ON THE ECONOMY Labour By, Anna Teo THE number of job seekers at least those who sign up with the Ministry of Labour's employment service shot up dramatically in the last quarter last year due to a tripartite effort to get older unemployed people
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      Lock icon Royal Brothers buying into Pacific Plaza owner
      388 2  -  Hie deal is expected to price the baMng above its most recent valuation of $IsBm By) Michelle Low THE Royal Brothers are buying into the company that owns Pacific Plaza, a Scotts Road retail and office complex, sources said. Although talks are still
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        $29.5m arterial road contract
        52 2 THE Land Transport Authority has awarded a $29.5 million contract to Bored Piling to build an arterial road from SLE/BKE Interchange to the Woodlands Road/Kranji Road junction. Work will start on Feb 17; with phase 1 due for completion by December 1996 and phase 2 by
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        Construction safety record award
        62 2 SINGAPORE Aromatics Company saw its petrochemical complex on Pulau Ayer Cha wan start up last month with a better-than-targeted construction safety record. A total recordable injury rate of 0.53, or 0.53 injuries per 100 people working one year, was achieved. The primary contractor, Poster Wheeler, was
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      223 2 I 9-1S Frtruary 1997 Praqati Maidan, New D>IM India r Partner Country Japan Industry Fair Participants from 34 countries 3 Concurrent Fairs a m hiW |ir J Encon-Envlronment '97 m Enterprise '97 m Microtecnic India '97 ICTC'O7I Construction, Consultancy, Pleas* exchange your bueiness IE 11 II Consumer Durables, Dairy, card
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  • REGION
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      Lock icon Tokyo land beckoning Asian investors
      598 4  -  TOKYO GICs investment in a prime Tokyo site makes soand business sense, say analysts By Anthony Rowley THE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation's foray into Tokyo's property market appears to be only the tip of the iceberg of Asian investment in Japanese land and real
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      Lock icon New leader expected to favour business
      460 4 PAKISTAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS FT [ISLAMABAD] They call him the "businessman prime minister", not just because Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's next leader, is an industrialist but because he is widely believed to favour policies that are good for business. As if to confirm the point,
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      Lock icon Nawaz Sharif wins by a landslide of 134 seats
      229 4 AFP NAWAZ Sharifs Pakistan Muslim League (PML) has won a landslide victory of 134 seats against 17 secured by deposed premier Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), according to the final official count of votes late Tuesday in the general election.
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      Lock icon Bank chiefs in Hanbo scandal to be arrested
      229 4 SEOUL AFP SOUTH Korean prosecutors are to formally arrest two bank heads and a former bank chief on charges of taking bribes from the debt-stricken Hanbo Group, officials said yesterday. "We're going to seek arrest warrants for the banking heads today," an
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      Lock icon Bond jailed 4 vears for corporate fraud
      265 4 PERTH AFP AN Australian court yesterday sentenced disgraced former tycoon Alan Bond to four years' jail after he pleaded guilty to a massive corporate fraud. Bond showed no emotion as Supreme Court judge Michael Murray sentenced him for his part in cheating Bell
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      Indonesia's inflation up while trade surplus slumps
      482 4  -  JAKARTA Continued fell in non-oil exports worrying economists By I S N Vasuki INDONESIA reported higher inflation and a sharply lower trade surplus yesterday in line with the expectations of most economists. But economists cautioned that the continued faU in nonoil exports was
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      Lock icon 7.1% growth likely despite spending cuts: BOT governor
      264 4 BANGKOK AFP THAILAND'S central bank said yesterday it expected to achieve its 1997 target for gross domestic product growth of 7.1 per cent despite planned government spending cuts. Budget cuts totalling 99 billion baht (555.4 billion) would boost confidence, particularly among foreigners.
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      Lock icon Jakarta tightens grip on campaign before May poll
      327 4 JAKARTA Reuter THE Indonesian government has ftuther tightened its grip on political activity ahead of the May 29 general election, saying officials will vet speeches broadcast on television and radio during the prepoll campaign. "A team which includes officials from the Home
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon China's WTO talks in final phase
        76 4 Reuter [PARIS] World Trade Organisation director-general Renato Ruggiero said on Tuesday that talks on China's application to join the Geneva-based trade body were nearing their final phase. But he could not say when negotiations would end. Mr Ruggiero told a French Senate committee that
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        Lock icon Manila to revise CPI composition
        84 4 Reuter [MANILA] The Philippines' National Statistics Office (NSO) yesterday said it would change the weightings and composition of the consumer price index (CPI) by June this year. NSO administrator Tomas Africa said the revision was necessary since the consumption pattern of Filipino families has altered
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        Lock icon Govt to contest Manila Hotel ruling
        68 4 AFP [MANILA] Philippine President Fidel Ramos yesterday said his government would contest a Supreme Court decision which rendered void the sale of the Manila Hotel to Malaysia's Renong Bhd. He said government lawyers were ordered "to file a motion for reconsideration with the Supreme
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        Lock icon No new HK trading law before handover
        100 4 Reuter [HONGKONG] A securities and futures bill designed to update Hongkong's trading laws is unlikely to be put to the legislature before the territory returns to Chinese rule, a Financial Services Branch official said yesterday. "We had planned to slot this in sometime
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      Taiwan privatisation plan may spark more strikes
      504 5  -  TAIPEI Scheme dogged by delays caused by onions worried about lay-offs By\ Bruce Cheeseman A GOVERNMENT plan to privatise 104 companies with billions of dollars in assets is expected to lead to increased labour unrest in the affected companies, observers here said. The
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      Lock icon Deng calls for smooth HK transfer in New Year message
      242 5 BEIJING AFP CHINA'S paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has called for the smooth transfer of Hongkong to Beijing in a rare message for the Lunar New Year. The ailing 92-year-old, not seen in public for three years, conveyed his wish along
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      Lock icon Tung gels secret files on top civil servants
      239 5 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG'S future chief Tung Chee-hwa has received sensitive files on top civil servants despite deadlock between Britain and China over the confidential reports being passed on to Beijing, Mr Tung's office confirmed yesterday. However, Mr Tung reiterated Beijing's demand that
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      Apolitical stitch in time
      749 5  -  CHDf A WATCH The Slno-US textile deal angora well for the New Tear By Lu Ning WHEN two major powers with vastly different ideological and cultural backgrounds like China and the United States deal with one another, it is often very difficult to tell what is
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      Lock icon Here's looking at you
      46 5 [OSAKA] A Shanghai woman doing shadow boxing exercises near two Chinese opera masks hung on a tree in a park in central Shanghai on Monday. The masks were part of the city's decorations for the Chinese New Year which begins tomorrow. REUTER
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      Lock icon Australia to get tough on restrictive trade barriers
      284 5 CANBERRA Reuter AUSTRALIA yesterday criticised major trading partners, including the United States and Japan, for restrictive trade barriers, warning it would fight hard to reverse its falling share of world exports. In its first annual trade report, the year-old conservative government listed
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      US scuttles Taiwan's WTO hopes
      523 5  -  TAIPEI Fresh US demands to open the agricultural sector is certain to delay Taipei's entry Hy\ Bruce Cheesman TAIWAN'S World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiators have had a week of mixed fortunes striking out with the US and scoring a home run with Japan. The week
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      Lock icon HK minorities unlikely to leave despite UK passport decision
      316 5 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG'S ethnic minorities are unlikely to leave for Britain en masse despite London's decision to give them passports before China takes power here on July I, community leaders said yesterday. "In my community, to the best of my knowledge,
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      186 4 J INDIAN INTECHMART J for the Southern Region J J Bangalore 19-22 March 1997 J a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), J P in collaboration with the Government of India, organizes this I 4 event for the four southern States of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, a Kamataka, Tamil Nadu and
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  • THIS WORLD
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      Lock icon Dean Witter to merge with Morgan Stanley
      458 6 NEW YORK USs9.9b stock deal will create biggest US securities firm with USs2lb market cap Bloomberg Business News DEAN Witter, Discover Co will buy Morgan Stanley Group Inc for US$9.B6 billion (5513.9 billion) in stock, forming the biggest US securities firm in terms
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      Lock icon US Dec factory orders fell 1.3%
      193 6 WASHINGTON Bloomberg Business News ORDERS placed with US factories dropped in December as demand slumped for electronic, electrical and communications equipment, government figures showed yesterday. December's 1.3 per cent drop in factory orders took it to a seasonally adjusted U*****.93 billion (*****.3 billion). For
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      Lock icon Simpson found liable; jury awards Goldmans US$ 8.5m
      398 6 SANTA MONICA NYT THE case that has riveted America for two-and-a-half years, divided the nation by race and sex, and raised troubling questions about the power of celebrity and the nature of justice ended on Tuesday night when O J Simpson was
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      Lock icon Italian PM upset by plan to delay EMU entry
      244 6 BRUSSELS Reuter EUROPEAN Union officials yesterday said a plan to delay Italy's membership of a European single currency was under consideration, but Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi angrily rejected the idea. Mr Prodi said Rome was "solemnly committed" to meeting membership
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      Lock icon Clinton wants to extend 'fast tack' authority
      431 6  -  WASHINGTON President seeks to expand ties with emerging economies By: Leon Hadar US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton called on Congress on Tuesday night to extend his "fast tack" authority to conclude new trade agreements, so that the US can move forward to expand its
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      Lock icon Clarke's hint of increase in UK rates bolsters pound
      357 6 LONDON Bloomberg Business News THE British pound set a fouryear high against the yen, a one-week high against the US dollar and a 13-day high against the mark, boosted by talk that the UK may have decided to raise interest rates.
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Netanyahu visits crash site
        71 6 Bloomberg Business News [JERUSALEM] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting the northern Israel site yesterday where two helicopters crashed and killed 73 people, said he did not know what caused one of the worst air disaster in Israel's military history. Two military transport helicopters flying though fog
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        Lock icon Swiss banks set up Holocaust account
        76 6 Bloomberg Business News [ZURICH] Switzerland's biggest banks yesterday said they had set up an account of 100 million Swiss francs ($99.2 million) for Holocaust victims, making good on their promise not to drag their feet any longer over compensation. Union Bank of Switzerland, Credit
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        Lock icon Group preparing encryption guidelines
        79 6 Reuter [WASHINGTON] An influential economic research group is preparing guidelines on computer encryption for its member countries but will duck some of the most contentious issues involved, according to a draft obtained by Reuters. On perhaps the most difficult issue, the draft guidelines do not favour
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        Lock icon US ambassador to France dies
        61 6 AFP [PARIS] The US ambassador to France, Pamela Harriman, died yesterday two days after suffering a stroke, the US embassy here said. Ms Harriman, who played a major role in propelling US President Bill Clinton into the White House, was taken ill at about 7
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      271 6 &*@~~{;`~*[-'[=&}*:<<>*.+;{!:`< THE COMPANIES ACT, CAPSO CAM-AUDIO MMKETMB IS) PTE LTD (In Voluntary Wintftng-Uo) II riJwiiMliini i 1 IhA'nn nlHia n it txtracxttnafy benerai Meeting ot me atXMWiHd company hrid on tie 3rd itay of February 1997, he Honing Special Resolution ms duly pissed: 'THAT the company be wound up volunianiy
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      236 6 THE COMPAMES ACT, CAPSO ELECTRO-AUDIO PTE LTD (hi Vokrtary Wlnding-Up) At an Ertaxdmary General Meeting ol the abownamed company held on the Special Resolution was duly passed: 'THAT the company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to Section 290(1)(b) of the Companies Ad, Cap. 50 and fhat Mr Cheng Tung Woh
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      245 6 THE COMPAMES ACT, CAPSO P.L ELECTDOMCS PTE OH (mvokrtary Winding-up) At an Extraordinary General Meeting ol the abovenamed company held on the 3rd day d February 1997, the following Special Resolution was duly passed: 'THAT the company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to Section 290(1 )(b) of the Companies Ad,
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      559 6 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Leng Kah Poh of Blk 213 Bishan St 23 #07-241 Singapore *****3, have applied for a Ist class Public House in respect of M/s Bistro Europa Pte Ltd TS2S Lots 438, 290 282 located at Claymore Hill/Orchard Road adjacent to International Building, Singapore *****9
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      US and Japan in unhealthy relationship
      744 7  -  188 BOTTOM LUTE OPINION By Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent IT USED to be said in the days when the United States was running chronic current account and budget deficits and Japan huge external surpluses that the two were like drunken
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      130 7 'Only somebody this vulgar could take the British royalty into this find of situation/ Hugh Trevor-Roper British historian on Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. 'With you, decency, honesty and sincerity will be the three suckling breasts of Vitrolles.' Brigitte Bardot former film star, pledging support to
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      Wearing investors down
      622 7 EDITORIAL PRESIDENT Fidel Ramos has every reason to rue the decision of the Philippine Supreme Court to rule against the sale of a historic hotel to a Malaysian company. Worse, the verdict came within days of another court issuing an interim restraining order against two major waterworks
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      Lock icon Global players' games
      916 7  -  Mqiyfola at Davos was discussion on mergers and acquisitions By] Kenneth James The writer is BT's technology editor who attended the 1997 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland LAST THURSDAY, the 1997 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicked off with
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      Fear that Bering might bilk Hongkong's banks
      450 7  -  MAILBOX Richard AIbert Lelte ON JULY 1, Hongkong will revert to Chinese control. As the deadline approaches, a flurry of articles has begun to appear in the Western press, discussing the possibility of continued stability and prosperity in Hongkong after the British relinquish
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      456 7 FROM one of the deepest shadowlands, the lush Asian nation of Myanmar, came a soft-spoken former graduate student of English literature named Aung Naing 00. Eight years ago, at the age of 24, he joined thousands of his comrades to demonstrate against Myanmar's dictatorship. When the
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Not made in Japan
      440 8  -  Singapore may see more Japanese cars which aren't made in their homeland, says Christopher tam CHRISTOPHER TAN IN THE next few years, it is foreseeable that a quarter of Japanese cars available in the Singapore market will be imported from locations other than the Land of
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      How the Soluna, City match up
      404 8  -  Hie cars look basic both inside and out, with outputs at about 95hp By i Christopher Tan HOW does the Toyota Soluna compare against the Honda City, which was launched in Thailand some nine months ahead of it? As I have not test-driven either,
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      Lock icon It's no longer independents' day
      651 8 m FILM The Washington Post THE independent movie industry, it would seem, has a hangover. After a year in which distributors paid millions for niche movies that barely made back their investments at the box office, studio executives are thinking twice before reaching too deep
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    • BUMPER to BUMPER
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        More Evolution Lancers coming
        122 8 CYCLE Carriage will be bringing in more Evolution-series models of the Lancer, according to divisional manager in charge of Mitsubishi Nicholas Ng. These high-performance cars will not come cheap, though. Each will cost just below $300,000. Mr Ng said he wanted to re-enter the motor sports
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        Cause to celebrate at Mercedes-Benz
        53 8 MERCEDES-Benz Ag's plants in Germany reached two milestones last year: the 150,000.000 th passenger car rolled off its Sindelfingen plant, in service since 1946, and its other plant at Bremen celebrated its 1,000,000 th C-class car. The year also saw a sales record over 630,000
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        Porsche's $L3m oar
        132 8 PORSCHE has released the price of its latest super high-ender: a street-legal version of the GTI, the Le Mans champion. According to sources, the factory price of the car is 1.55 million marks (511.33 million). One is already on the way here. And if put on the
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        GM sales in Asia-Pacific down
        89 8 GENERAL Motors experienced a 4.7 per cent dip in Asia-Pacific sales last year. It sold 192,000 passenger cars in the region compared with 201,500 in 1995 because of "particularly difficult market conditions in Taiwan and Thailand, where industry sales were down 13 per cent and
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        Holden to get new chairman and MD
        56 8  -  Compiled by Christopher Tan JAMES Wiemels has been appointed chairman and managing director of Holden, following the retirement of W J Hamel. Mr Wiemels' appointment takes effect March 1. He is a vice-president of General Motors and is currently a general manager of
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      Lock icon DNA tests shed new light on Fugitive case
      369 8 PEOPLE A third person may have been present at death of doctor's wife Reuter [CLEVELAND] A DNA expert said on Tuesday that a third person may have been present at the bludgeoning death more than 40 years ago of the wife of
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      209 8 THE WEATHER Singapore: Showers with thunder are expected in the afternoon. Temperature (32-23). Arik-Padßo HVLo* Cood. Europe HVLo* Cood. America HVLo' AurUand IX 14 (lnody Xmslerrtam 041)1 (loudv Atlanta 14,11 (loudy Bangui XXrtS Sunny Aflns mini (loudy Bam Aires 3220 Sunny •"-> <Vi«d\ Berlin (11-2 Smm Chra») _(IH (loudy Bombay
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      129 9 Luna Coffee House 6 FEBRUARY- 10 FEBRUARY 97 Buffet Lunch with Chinese New Year Delicacies 12 noon 2.30 pm Adult $24.80 Child $15.80 Buffet Dinner with Chinese New Year Delicacies 6.30 pm 9.30 pm Adult $25.80 Child: $16.80 i 7 FEBRUARY• 10 FEBRUARY 97 High Tea with Chinese New Year
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      Pidemco has 30% stake in Canary Wharf project
      340 10  -  By Agnes Wee [SINGAPORE] Pidemco Land has taken a 30 per cent stake in an upmarket property project in London called Canary Wharf Riverside Development 'its first in Europe. The project's other owners are Hotel Properties Ltd (HPL), with 50 per cent,
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      Lock icon Ekran gels nod to float Bakun Hydroelectric
      406 10  -  The IPO of Lsb shares will raise Ms3b, while rights issoe will raise at least another Ms3b From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur EKRAN Berhad has received the official nod to float Bakun Hydroelectric Company (BHEC), owner of the Bakun dam in Sarawak,
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      A generous Ting to do
      134 10 EKRAN staff and journalists were yesterday given a surprise Msl,ooo (*****) hongbao each by the company's chief, Ting Pek Khiing, who was delighted at getting the green light for the flotation of the Bakun Hydroelectric Co. Mr Ting, who was in Kuching yesterday, had earlier
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      APB report shows high start-up cost of overseas business
      651 10  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Lee Han Shih ANYONE who still thinks it is easy to make money overseas should take a long, hard look at the latest annual report of Asia Pacific Breweries (APB). APB has always been very open about how
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      Philippines probes stock scam
      487 10  -  SEC to investigate reports that firm is selling bogus US stocks to S'poreans From, Al Labita in Manila THE Philippines' official corporate watchdog will investigate reports that a Caucasianrun securities firm here is selling bogus US stocks to Singaporeans. an official said yesterday. "We were already
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      Court summons Amcol's ex-partner
      258 10  -  By, Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Amcol Holdings' ex-partner Roland Maurel has been summoned to appear before the Mauritius Supreme Court today. A Mauritian source said Mr Maurel will have to explain why the notices of attachment served by Amcol to him on his companies and bank accounts
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        Lippo moving in on retail
        520 11  -  Takeover of largest department store chain will also signal it's not cashing ont of Indonesia: analysts Frorn S N Vasuki in Jakarta INDONESIA'S Lippo Group has positioned itself as a major player in the retail sector with last week's acquisition of a 50.1 per cent
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        Lock icon Jimmy Lai get sHK nod to list Next Media
        274 11 AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong tycoon Jimmy Lai's Next Media Group has gained approval from the listing committee of the Hongkong Stock Exchange, it was reported yesterday. The listing will include three weekly magazines among the popular Chineselanguage Next magazine, the Hongkong Economic
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        Lock icon The crackers are back
        67 11 [BOSTON] Ten-year-old Tom Damon holding a free crate of Nabisco Crown Pilot chowder crackers as he watches a ship arrive at Boston Harbour after a Feb 4 announcement onboard by Nabisco that a campaign to save the cracker has been successful. Damon's family and neighbours in
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        Pac Gan to diversify into optical business
        253 11 [SINGAPORE] Locally-listed Pacific Can Investment Holdings (PCIH) will hold some 51 per cent of the enlarged share capital of First Country under three agreements signed by the two companies on Tuesday. First Country, in turn, will own a majority of Kingdom Corporation Pte
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        Lock icon Indosat posts 13% rise in 1996 profit
        251 11 Bloomberg Business News [JAKARTA] PT Indosat, Indonesia's dominant international phone company, reported that 1996 profit rose a faster-than-expected 13 per cent as costs were controlled and profits jumped at its subsidiaries. The profit jump, to 523.5 billion rupiah (Ss3l4 million), or 505.6 rupiah
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        Lock icon Apple shifts top management
        420 11 Bat fails to announce much-anticipated restructuring NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] Apple Computer Inc shifted its top management on Tuesday, but failed to announce its muchanticipated reorganisation, and company officials said they were still not ready to say if they would lay off more workers or sell any
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        Lock icon Bill Gates confused by Apple strategy
        279 11 Reuter [FRANKFURT] Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday said he wanted to maintain existing ties with struggling Apple Computer, but said he was confused by its strategy for its core computer technology. Mr Gates, in Germany for a new product launch, also said he
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        Lock icon Somprasong defaults on US$ 3m interest payment
        493 11 Developer is first Thai firm to default on its foreign debt Bloomberg Business News [BANGKOK] Somprasong Land pic, a Bangkok-based property developer, missed a US$3.l million (554.3 million) interest payment, becoming the first Thai company to default on its foreign debt. The company
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        Lock icon Asad blocked uncles looking into Lion City books: counsel
        496 11 THE JUMABHOT CASE Lawyer calls him 'an emperor of his little empire' The Straits Times COUNSEL for Rajabali Jumabhoy yesterday attacked the patriarch's grandson Asad, calling him "an emperor of his little empire" for blocking attempts by his uncles to investigate
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        Shangri-La's associate loan to total US$ 20.5m
        193 11 [SINGAPORE] Shangri-La Hotel will contribute an additional US$l.5 million (Ss2.l million) as shareholder's loan to its associate company, Traders Yangon Company Ltd (TYCL), by Feb 11. Shangri-La said in a statement that its share of the shareholder's loans granted to TYCL as at
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        Keppel, Fels to sell 50% stake in Petrodrill
        130 11 [SINGAPORE] Keppel Corp Ltd and Far East Levingston (Fels) are planning to sell their 50 per cent stake in Petrodrill Holdings Inc. Keppel said yesterday that the two companies had signed a letter of intent, through subsidiary Keppel Asia Ltd, to dispose
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          Alliance tie-up, govt in Ubin land deal
          95 11 [SINGAPORE] Übin Lagoon Resort —a joint venture between a subsidiary of listed Alliance Technology and Development, North Shore Marina and Ponggol Marina jjhas entered into a building agreement with the government for a 15-year lease on a Pulau Übin land parcel. Alliance said
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          Pacific Can's executive director
          29 11 [SINGAPORE] Pacific Can Investments has appointed Chong Ah Kian Chong Lian Him as its executive director and deputy chief executive officer with effect from Febl.
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          Stamford Tyres appointment
          35 11 [SINGAPORE] Wan Soon Bee has been appointed a non-executive director of Stamford Tyres, a Comfort Group unit, with effect from yesterday. Dr Wan replaces Sam Chong Keen, who has resigned from Comfort.
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          Settling ASJ trades
          41 11 [SINGAPORE] Trades on ASJ Holdings cm a "when Issued" basis will be due for settlement on Feb 19, which is also the first settlement date for "ready" trades. Trading will start on a "ready" basis on Feb 12.
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        BNP completes deal to acquire 70% of Prime East
        307 12  -  BNP Prime East and BNP Intl will ran French bank's Asian in vestment banking By\ Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) has i completed its move to control Prime East Capital, an Asian stockbroking and corporate fi- i nance
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        Lock icon Fed bars ex-BCCI official from US banking
        209 12 Reuter [WASHINGTON! The Federal Reserve on Tuesday announced it has permanently barred a former officer of scandal-ridden Bank of Credit and Commerce International from US banking and fined him US$37 mUlion (Sss2 mUlion). The Fed said Ghaith R Pharaon, a Saudi Arabian resident,
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        Lock icon HK exchange mulls scrapping transaction levy
        353 12 Move would pave way for drastic cot in dealing costs SCMP [HONGKONG] The stock exchange finance committee is studying abolition of the transaction levy, increasing pressure on the government to remove stamp duty and paving the way for a drastic cut in dealing costs.
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        Lock icon Nippon Credit shares plunge 18%
        526 12 Fall shows concern abont bank's financial stability Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO] Shares of Japan's Nippon Credit Bank Ltd plummeted as much as 18 per cent, dragging down the broader market, on concern over the long-term credit bank's financial stability. Nippon Credit's shares started diving after
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        Lock icon Chase names new head of global services, makes changes at top
        357 12 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Chase Manhattan Corp named new heads of its global services and private banking units, reshuffling top management of two major businesses. The nation's largest bank told its employees that James Zeigon, 49, will oversee
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        Lock icon California, insurers agree on insurance firm bail-out
        249 12 Bloomberg Business News [SACRAMENTO, California] California regulators approved a plan to save Golden Eagle Insurance Co less than a week after they seized it on charges that executives tried to hide a US$138.5 million (S$195 million) loss. "We took control of Golden Eagle
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        Lock icon M'sian corn down as supply rises
        273 12 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Domestic Malaysian corn prices have been hit by mounting supply and aggressive selling over the past week, while corn quotes in other regional markets were steady to firmer, traders said yesterday. "Prices have been on a downward trend mainly because there
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        Lock icon China looks to S Korea for its gas oil supplies
        323 12 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [SINGAPORE] China is turning to South Korea for its gas oil supplies for end-February and early March as prices here were still deemed too high despite recent large falls, traders said yesterday. They said at least two
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        Lock icon CURRENCY REPORT
        175 12 Reuter AFP THE dollar chalked up gains as operators said they did not expect the G-7 to call for a halt to the dollar uptrend. The dollar was up in early afternoon to 1.6504 marks against 1.6471 on Tuesday. It rose to 123.38 yen against Tuesday's 122.42. The
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1626 13 8IC0M FUTUKBS Feb 6 RWtCI (Mwwcta*|««l 13HM KSICOMTKACTcScMhAt) CJo» Votem Opon Math M«k Low Sott (twws) tatomt Mar 97 ***** ***** ***** 250 IS2S Apr 97 (74.00 ***** 173.75 200 1200 May 97 ***** 175.75 ***** 100 1350 Jon 97 ***** ***** 175.75 100 1200 JWS«p97 ***** *****
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2366 13 lonoon SfiflMi I Mntriilt Nti Nki AB Ports 307 2 AMwy National 782 -7 AMadOomacq 426.400 *2 Amac 102.400 unch Asda Croup 122.400 2 400 SAT Ind 481.400 -.600 BKC 282 *1 BOC Croup 948.400 -14.600 BR Patroiaum 748 -.400 8TR 255.400 *1 Bank of Scotland 339.400
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      1681 13 Reuter CI Nikkei 225 -***** STOCKS ended down yesterday, but well off their lows, as they were unable to recover completely from renewed rumours about the financial health of Nippon Credit Bank, which made the bank sector drop with a thud in the morning, brokers said. The 225-share Nikkei
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      713 14 AFP P|OwnDQgtelifci 4B SHARE prices closed higher yesterday as foreign investors entered the market following a drop the previous day, dealers said. "Yesterday was just an excuse for profit-taking. But we bounced back all over the market today," said a trader. "There was a lot of foreign buying, not
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      833 14 AFP □seriate -20.83 SHARE prices fell 2.7 per cent yesterday to a 54-month low on concerns, later confirmed, that a property developer would default on interest due to holders of a bond issue. The news highlighted bad debt problems overhanging the Thai market and added to persistent worries over
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      Lock icon MANILA
      310 14 AFP PManila -MS SHARE prices closed lower yesterday as investors locked away profit from recent gains. The PSE Composite Index fell 2.85 points to 3,396.04. Turnover was 9.2 billion shares worth 3.5 billion pesos. SM Prime Holdings dropped 40 centavos to 7.60 pesos. San Miguel Corp B eased Five
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      Lock icon SEOUL
      409 14 AFP n Composite Intel +2J5 SHARE prices closed slightly higher yesterday as late profittaking eroded an early gain amid an uncertain outlook. "There seems to be no consensus on how the market will move after the Lunar New Year holiday," said a trader. The Composite Index rose 2.65 points
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      613 14 AFP F1 AH Primaries +217 BLUE chips led the share market to a 1.1 per cent rise yesterday in quiet trading. "It's been a very buoyant day. Volumes weren't as high as yesterday but the market was certainly driven by leading stocks," said a broker. The All Ordinaries Index
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      Lock icon WELLINGTON
      254 14 Reuter n Wellington -158 SHARES closed weaker yesterday although trade was somewhat subdued after Tuesday's 1.6 per cent sell-off. The NZSE-40 Capital Index fell 9.58 points to 2,330.36 on volume of NZ$43 million. Reuter f«i us *h rati ANZ Bo#*mg.. 9.05 0.05 2033 M«inl(9nHMti L36 unc* 7400 A*N»«ZMUn*(A) 2.73
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      Lock icon HONGKONG
      1575 14 AFX-Asia F1 Hang Sen* +***** STOCKS closed higher yesterday in quiet trade and on improved sentiment ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday today, dealers said. They said the underlying sentiment of the market was positive. The Federal Reserve meeting, closing last night in the US, is expected to
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        Lock icon Foreign buying sends shares higher
        536 15 AFXAsia Composite Index +&59 SHARE prices closed higher in moderate trade yesterday on the back of selective buying interest by foreign funds as retailers took to the sidelines ahead of the long holidays. Dealers said local funds were also clearly absent with many brokers already
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        8330 15 em PriHwu fflim '***** 1235.36 *6.59 NST Industrie 6357.90 6329.83 <-26.07 M5T Fintnc* *****.71 *****.91 *56.80 25If ,oc rt 3163.29 3146.83 *16.46 M5T Mmmq 3152.39 3'-43 *36.96 Tl»—'Wfroooi J«*n Board Volum** 191.635 188.381 *3,254 WatnBo«rdVll(M$) 1,181,350 985.430 *195,920 Consumer Prod 10,380 11,943 -1.563 k»du»tri«li Prod 29,948 18,880 *11.068 constmtt on
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        DCB warrant offers inexpensive exposure to a good counter
        166 16  -  WARRANT WATCH f*y' Yen Sreenivasan ONE of the best performing warrants yesterday was that of DCB Holdings, which rose 19 cents to $2.59 on the Singapore over-the-counter market and 22 sen to M 54.46 on the Kuala Lumpur bourse. The instrument
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        3760 16 BONDS. LOANS ft WAMANTS Wt 1990/1997 Last Vol Day LMt Oust* *1 H«jh LOW StM Company Sal* ♦or- (000) M«h Low Buyar «—f Prtca 65 47 m 3000 M < aftS 52 61.S 60 61 61.5 51.5 39 3160 "Ac*r ******1USS 47 -1 1 47 47 47.5 48 109 86.5
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2274 16 MALAYSIA* STOCKS Gr fir 1996/1997 Last Vot Day Last Ouot. ON Mv VM MM M Ca» High Lav Stno Camp any SaM COOO) High La« Buyer S»l»r Cvr P/t $mt 625 360 msSOOO AIS850C 406 *B 13 406 402 404 408 53 4.9 0.4 84.2 416.5 126 84
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        1553 17 TUtNOVER rOOO) VALUC COOO) utote cm itm MI* cm WNt Industrial 43,303 24,209 67,511 9M» MJU 134,592 FImbci 4.299 22.904 27.203 9X190 25.901 79,990 Mot»U 1.319 U229 2.544 3,947 i443 M« Prop«rtt«» 3,459 19.944 22.404 17.492 ***** 53.034 Plantation 1,941 1,941 4.99* 4.944 Mlnmfl 875 979 2,592 2.592 9LN 3.761
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        MAIN BOARD
        4964 17 Or Or mm 1996/1997 Last V«* Day Ltit Ouott Dtv Di* VM Net Ca« Art) High Law StNo Company Sale COOO) Hlfh La* Buyer Seller C'vr P/t $nH Price INDUSTRIALS 5144 ASE NTSlO 200 US- 1000 900 1275 ASF USS0.***** US900 835 90.0 214 165 1256 AcarSOc US168
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        SESDAQ
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        HOT STOCK
        64 18  -  -bf Shiv Taneja FACB Bhd, which closed three cents higher at 78 cents on a volume of 1.72 million units yesterday, is not likely to see much more upside in the days ahead. Weekly RSI and stochastics are overbought, and directional indicators are also looking toppish. Volume is
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        228 18 Stocks Volume •MBf Hldqs 50c 14,904,000 SMB United 10c 12,496,000 •Lien Hoe TSR97 10,080,000 Jade Tech 50c 6,667,000 •Promet 5,489,000 HKLand US$0.1 5,382,000 •Renong WtOO 5,055.000 *KL Industries 4,851,000 'Berjaya Ind 4,841,000 *101 Corp Wt 4,471,000 Stocks DBS Foreign 16,659,803 •Lien Hoe TSR97 15,873,830 HK Land US$0.1 15,536,379 *KL Industries
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        Market marks time as many players stay away
        632 18  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY KL-listed second-liners see active trading and most brokers expect OTC counters to remain in play in Singapore trading today By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The stock market here had another quiet day with blue chip stocks generally lower as institutional
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
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          Heard in the corridor
          125 18 MICROSOFT, which is doing work for Malaysia's Multimedia Supercorridor, is a company equally at home on both sides of the Causeway. Said John Lauer. the company's South-east Asia director based in Kuala Lumpur: "In the popular press, the MSC is viewed as a Singapore versus Malaysia
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          Calling all investors
          97 18 EXPECT some movement in the price of regional telecom stocks come March. That would be the time when Salomon Brothers Asia-Pacific undertakes its telecommunications investor tour. The roadshow will start on March 14 in Melbourne, going to Jakarta on March 17 and 18, Singapore on 19, Hongkong
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          Waiting for the market to turn
          117 18 WHAT goes up must come down seems to be the expectation of many fund managers in London. A number of funds are hoarding cash, waiting for the stock market there to crash so they can snap up bargains. PDFM, one of the biggest outfits
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          Yam Seng
          57 18 ACCORDING to its latest annual report, Asia Pacific Breweries introduced a new beer in China last year called Baiter. This beer was launched "after conducting extensive market research" and is targeted "mainly at consumers in night clubs, restaurants and karaoke lounges in Fuzhou and Baxian". Wonder what beers
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          China to the rescue
          158 18 EDMUND HO, the man hotly tipped to be the first executive of Macau, is one of the richest men there. His family owns the second largest bank in Macau after the Bank of China. In the mid-80s, the bank got into financial trouble and had to
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          Tough call for Clinton
          102 18 THOUGH you don't hear Bill Clinton talk about it in his State of the Union address, his administration is facing a tough decision on housing. Reports said housing subsidies given out under a scheme called Section 8 started during the Nixon days are expiring. The problem
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
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      Lock icon DAILY FREIGHT
      292 19 Bridge News. TRADING remained sluggish on the freight market with reports of fresh business still in short supply ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. Biffex proved that the shipping market really does not know which way it should be going, with most players standing aside waiting for
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      MARITIME STOCKS
      265 19 M! U T? CWT OMrfeutton 124 *0.02 23 Chuafl Hyp 0.94 unch IIS Caaca fcwas Iin4 —152 -0.01 44 FELS MO unch 52 FraMtt Links —< 0.73 unch 152 UIWNl 0.90 -0X05 34 Hal Sun Nap UM *009 MS HttacMZasan 0X0 mth OS IMCHaMbtgs HKSXO jfmmm los -0x2
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      Laem Chabang starts Ist stage of 8b baht upgrade
      485 19  -  Move to reduce country's dependence on S'pore; new basin to be built at port From Alan Boyd in Bangkok LAEM CHABANG port in eastern Thailand has started the pre-selection process for the first stage of an eight-bil-lion-baht (***** million) upgrade aimed
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      Lock icon Talks on tanker freight futures contract being held
      332 19 Contract may be modelled on dry bulk futures contract on Biffex Reuter [LONDON] Futures and options brokers CIS is discussing with the London International Financial Futures Exchange (Liffe) the pooibility of launching a tanker freight futures contract. A company official said last
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      Lock icon EU, Tokyo discuss port access
      107 19 Bloomberg Business News (TOKYO] European Commission and Japanese officials began talks on a dispute over foreign shipping companies' access at Japanese ports. The talks follow a complaint filed by the European Union in October with the Ge-neva-based World Trade Organisation, a global commerce watchdog body.
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      Class societies need to win trust of all parties: DNV head
      753 19  -  SHIPSHAPE By Felix Chan THE CHALLENGE for classification societies in this day and age is to create trust in what they are doing. So says Sven Bang Ullring, president and chairman of the executive board of Norwegian classification society
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      Lock icon Kaohsiung's cargo volume up 0.2%
      129 19 [HONGKONG] Kaohsiung, the world's third largest container port, registered a flat growth of just 0.2 per cent in container volume last year. The Taiwanese port posted total cargo throughput of 5,063,048 TEUs (20-ft equivalent units), up from 5,053,183 TEUs in 1995, a sharp drop from
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      Japan oil spill: cost of damage estimated to be 17b yen
      291 19 [TOKYO] A massive oil spill from a wrecked Russian tanker in the Sea of Japan is estimated to have caused around 17 billion yen (*****.5 million) in damage, an expert quoted by Kyodo News said yesterday. The Japan representative
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      France to end use of 160-year-old Morse Code
      182 19 [PARIS] "Dot-dot-dot-dash-dot-dash," over and out. French maritime radio authorities on the Atlantic coast have just sent out their last message in Morse Code, shutting down the 160-year-old system in favour of radio and Satellite communication. Morse, abandoned by the US Coast Guard
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      156 19 [DHAKA] Cargo handling at Chittagong port, the biggest sea port in Bangladesh, declined last year for the first time in four years. A Xinhua news report quoting port authority sources said the drop in throughput amounted to 12.17 per cent. The sources also said the
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        84 19 [SINGAPORE) NKK Corporation has been commissioned by Japan's Fishery Agency to design and build a 2,000 gross-ton (gt) third generation fishery research ship to replace its flag ship, the 1,363 gt Shoyo-maru. This was announced by H Kajitani, NKK International's Singapore-based managing director.
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        72 19 {TIANJIN] The TianJin Oriental Sea Land Container Port Service Co Ltd, a joint venture between TianJin Port Office and the US Sea and Land Service Co Ltd, has officially opened in the port city ofTianjin. The new company, with a total investment of U5529.2 million
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        79 19 [KOBE] A Japanese freighter left Kobe for China on Monday afternoon as part of a government project to strengthen economic exchanges with the Shanghai-Yangtze River area and promote the rebuilding of the western Japan city hit hard by the 1995 earthquake. The 5,600-tonne Fortune River,
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        85 19 Reuter [SEOUL] South Korea's Seyang Shipping Co Ltd is considering seeking court receivership or looking for a buyer as it faced financial trouble. A Seyang statement said financial institutions started avoiding deals with the company because its largest shareholder had links to the debt-stricken Hanbo
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      869 20  -  MARKET EXPANSION: FIRST CHINESE AIRLINE TO LIST ON NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE China Eastern intends to expand dramatically in the next few years, but larger questions linger as they do for many Chinese companies trying to straddle the old, planned-economy way of doing things and
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        223 33 Feb 6 New Zealand: Waitangi Day. Feb 7 Brunei: Chinese Year Day. China: Chinese Year Day. Hong Kong Lunar Chinese Year Day. Malaysia Chinese Year Day. Singapore Chinese Year Day. Taiwan: Lunar Chinese Year Day. Feb 8 Brunei Chinese Year Day. Chinese Chinese Year Day Holiday. Hong Kong
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        781 33 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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        447 34 4 v More capacity needed as air cargo industry continues to grow: report (WASHINGTON] As growth in tiie air cargo industry continues through the year 2000, carriers will increasingly rely on converted passenger aircraft tt> provide the capacity they geed, according to
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        58 34 [XPACH, France! A French Railway employee investigating the carriage of a train transporting spent nuclear waste from Germany to England which derailed in the eastern French town of Apach on Tuesday. Officials said no leakage was reported qnd there was no danger to the local
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        206 34 Bloomberg Business News [FAIRFIELD, Connecticut] peneral Electric Co said it repeived orders valued at US$96 million (*****.4 million) for 48 CF34 turbofan engines, from airlines in China, France and the US. ►>The engines will power 50(tfidt jetliners made by Bombardier Aerospace of
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        273 34 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] American Airlines said a threatened 60-day strike by its pilots would cost the US economy US$5 billion (S|? billion), while the union sai(t the carrier can meet pay (femands and still retain 8 per cent annual earnings
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        260 34 Anssie city's air traffic forecast to double in 13 years Reuter [CANBERRA) Airline traffic moving through Sydney will double in 13 years, showing that the city needed a second big airport, not the small overflow operation previously planned, the government said yesterday. By
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        193 34 [TOKYO) Japan's transport ministry on Tuesday cautioned Japan's four domestic airlines to check engines on some of their jumbo jets to correct a mechanism that could start engine fires, according to a report from the Kyodo news service. The ministry instructed the
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        153 34 AFP [PHNOM PENH] The Chinese government has protested against the reported signing of a deal between Cambodia and Taiwan which would result in direct flights between Phnom Penh and Taipei. "The Chinese side is firmly opposed to those countries having diplomatic relations with
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        168 34 Reuter [BRUSSELS] Passenger traffic carried by major European airlines rose 7 per cent year-on-year in 1996 due to consistently higher growth in longhaul travel, the Association of European Airlines (AEA) said on Tuesday. Growth in passenger-kilo-metres, the industry's key measure of travel volume,
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        225 34 AFP [BUCHAREST] Daewoo of South Korea intends to invest US$45O million (Ss63o million) in the Romanian car industry this year, company executives said here on Tuesday. "Daewoo Automobile Romania will invest US$45O million in the production of engines and gear
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          73 34 AFP [HONGKONG] China's Xinjiang Airlines is to take delivery of one Boeing 757 this year, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group said in a statement issued here yesterday. The airline, based in China's western city of Urumqi, is to take delivery of the Boeing 757 in
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          74 34 Bloomberg Business News [BEIJING] China's Ministry of Machinery Industry has set deadlines to close or merge 30 uncompetitive state-owned auto plants unless they find ways to restructure their operations, the official China Daily reported, citing Zhang Xiaoyu, director-general of the ministry's automotive industry department.
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          76 34 Reuter [ZURICH] Swissair AG said the results of its flight operations deteriorated in 1996 due to the continued erosion of fares and the significant rise in fuel costs. "For 1996 the financial contribution from scheduled services may not equal that of 1995," Swissair said. Swissair
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          64 34 Reuter [TAIPEQCargo handlers at Taiwan's main airport on Monday J>egan refusing to work overtime or off-hours, saying that authorities had ignored their interests in privatising a state-run cargo centre. The protest will hamper the handling of some 2,000 tonnes of exported and imported goods a
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      1954 21 HANJIN SHIPPING USA CANADA* «A IfMlnw |ToP|Oo|PTT|oaijPtt|tWl IMMI ws 1 KT( I w TVt TTZ TVI TTC TEG I 27/07 01/03 20/02 07/03 07/03 04/03 01/03 04/03 05/03 04/03 04/03 01/03 05/03 05/03 04/03 03/03 -Jl/W 13/02 ot/03 00/03 07/03 01/03 01/03 11/03 01/03 ,1/03 IV* ,1/M ~/at 01/03 12/03
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      69 21 rim) ORIENT EXPRESS LINES (U.K.) LIMITED llyj, (MANAGER FOR SHREYAS SHIPPING LIMITED) J WEEKLY SINGAPORE/MUMBAI (BOMBAY) SHUTTLE VKttl VOT SINWWI IOWMt VtSStl VOT IOMMY SWCtfWt lEERORT 913 11/02 19/02 LEERORT 912 04/02 11/02 StNAR TQ6A 207 19/02 26/02 SINAR TQ6A 206 11/02 19/02 NORDKAP 407 26/02 05/03 NORDKAP 406 18/02
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      1267 22 <r DSR-SENA TOR jin Round the World Container Services TO UK/CONTINENT FROM UK/CONTINENT vtsgt vot [aT am buy ham fu I wit I Ivissti Ivor km "htm Imv ham fu mtt jm CHOYMM3 VOLGA *F7M 178 27 02 SB 01 03 CO 2t 02 06 03 VLADIVOSTOK SIMATOB EE7O7 15
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      832 22 NOR/VSIA Wishes all our Valued Customers, Business Associates Friends *&catan, Ifectt 'fyettn, SINGAPORE NSA SHIPPING PTE LTD f&fr&h TEL: *****83 FAX: *****90 CR NO: **********0 C [M2nj THAILAND PB AGENCIES CO LTD TEL: 662-*****88 INDONESIA PT HALUAN SELATAN NUSANTARA TEL: 21-*****82 (JAK) TEL: 31-*****88 (SUR) MALAYSIA CEMERLANG SHIPPING SDN. BHD.
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      301 22 Direct Container Service to Fangcheng Zhanjiang Vessel S'pore Fangcheng Zhanjiang UANBAO 22/02 27/02 01/03 I Tr /VOffTRANS CONVENTIONAL SERVICE TO THAILAND AND MALAYSIA BREAKBUIK, RO/RO AND HEAVYUFT ANY WBGHT THAI FLAG STATUS PRIORITY BERTHS AsiaExyressV.4lA SAAB) 10-11/0? 04-10/02 Am Express V.42A 14-16/01 25-26/02 19-20/02 20-22/02 Aria Express V.43A 27-01/03 04-05/03
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      1310 23 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Ho« Chiang Road #11-01 Kappal Towars Singapore *****5 Tal: *****88 Fax: *****17 SABAH ft BRUNEI COHVINTIONAI SERVICE |H0 CHI MINH FULL CONTAINER SERVICE =T S SS Ivcsn VOT I Ismmsm rtTOx I 00/oi n/oi 11/01 MUHMB I "/w IsmmsTMi wm I io/oi n/oi n/oi
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      1227 23 3 SAUIN6S m WEEK FOR L $mcAFO« -mm iiroci I 6 SHINTO* WAY TIL- 224 1900 FAX: *****00 OUTWARD (BA) *****02 JOHOOF OFFKF: *?117I7«*****M *****41/43 INWARD DifT (D/ 0) *****15 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD COWVHITIOIiiAi g__4205<50/S$ T/SHPMT DCFT *****25 TIL 02-07-35 M 144 FAX: 02-07-*****70 I we vu w
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      463 23 /-/LIPERKAPALAN DAI ZHUN A jf §y TONG JOO SHIPPING PTE LTD CR NO: **********0 C REGULAR CONTAINERISED SERVICES TEL: (65)535 7793 FAX: (65) 533 2952 KItCMIMG-fASTtST TWAMSIT/ f MIJUtA-HUOtITY KITH j HO CKI MHUhDtDKATtD ~7 Ami ***** 12/02 GUOO t742 09/02 G4HUAT A 5047 of/02 GISWH 9760 13/02 G4WIII 9757
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      1038 24 EUROPtAHC/SCAIHMNAVIA/HMUUiD^USSIA S6P ROM ANW HBG TMP ZEE LHV LHV TUP ROM ANW HBG PKL SGP E. REACH RW-012 04/02 2S/02 05/03 81/S3 03/03 84/U >5/03 E. GUEST RE-OU 14/01 10/01 15*1 17/01 14/01 IW2 11/02 E ROUNO RW-824 15/02 07/03 12/W 04*3 10/03 11/03 12/03 E GLEEFUL RE-047 20*1 23/41
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      102 24 SENLIM SHIPPING PTE. LTD. 133, New Bndge Road. *06-09. Chnatown Pont S pore 059*13. Tat *****00 Fax: *****04 Telex: RS ***** SENLIM wnur MGUUJt SOVKEIO EAST/WEST M*SU (kiaaha| CiMiam mi Cwneehwl Carp) vcssa vor msM sau worn psmng pjehamg MM \kfll 14/7 14/7 sb aixa y»; ivi \in 11/7 SIMM
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      42 27 To retrieve more schedules, just follow these simple steps... document i be the port Step key in the four number /Jb #Jf digit code Key in your Example: r-L-» fax number To NEW YORK (NYC) 2275 for calls within Singapore Ullited States
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