The Business Times, 4 March 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/12/96 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes TUESDAY, MARCH 4,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon Thailand acts to head off banking crisis
    604 1  -  10 finance groups told to op reserves; trading in hankingj finance stocks suspended From Alan Boyd in Bangkok THAILAND'S central bank ordered 10 struggling finance groups to shore up their reserves against bad loans yesterday, as it moved to head off a crisis
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    Lock icon Baht down, but not out
    285 1  -  By] Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] The Thai baht traded outside the Bank of Thailand's daily four-satang band yesterday but currency traders said another baht crisis was not a certainty. One senior market player said: "As long as the US unit doesn't strengthen too strongly against the
    Source: Dow Jones Telerate  -  285 words
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    KLSE to cut settlement period to five trading days
    365 1  -  Change will take place in third quarter of this yean SC chief From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE SETTLEMENT period for the Malaysian stock mar ket will be cut to five trading days after the transaction, and not to three
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    S'pore banks, investors rattled by suspension
    595 1  -  Byi Catherine Ong, Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Singaporebased banks and investors with exposure in Thailand are bracing themselves for a rough ride. Bond traders and stockbrokers said clients were rattled by the sudden halt in trading of banking and finance stocks. "The market took the
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      118 1 HHBDB m mSWm MIPOhMtk Gul Tech is raising $22m from the sale of 40.2 m new shares. At die IPO launch yesterday, CEO Jerry Rodrigues said he expects production capacity to reach 500,000 sq m per year by end-1997, P* IB MHWTALPB thispg. Volatility probably attracts contra players more than
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      15 1 Merger targets, Pg 6 Switch in roles for Finance One and Thai Danu, Pg 6
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  • SINGAPORE
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Pidemco buys Shelford Lodge, adjoining bungalow for $27m
      491 2  -  Developer now has one of the largest freehold redevelopment sites in Bukit Timah area Jenny Lam PIDEMCO Land has put together one of the largest freehold redevelopment sites in the Bukit Timah area with its latest acquisition of a fourth and a
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      Petrochem complex: Mobil to decide by June
      442 2  -  Company likely to expand its $lJb aromatics plant By: Ronnie Lim MOBIL is approaching "key decision time" regarding its proposed multi-billion dollar petrochemical complex here and expects to make the final verdict within the first half, a senior company official said yesterday. Andy
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      New web site offers benchmarking service
      189 2 THE Productivity and Standards Board (PSB) yesterday kicked off Productivity Week 1997 with the launch of a web site that includes a benchmarking service. The Productivity-On-Line Benchmarking service (Probe) gives users access to information on organisations with the best practices in Singapore. The Probe
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      Lock icon Tourist growth just 2.1% in Jan
      341 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Commerce By, Ang Wan May A DIVERSION of Japanese and Taiwanese holiday traffic to Hongkong in January saw Singapore's total visitor arrivals growing just 2.1 per cent in the month. The January volume of 612.264 visitors follows a strong 8.4
      Source: ST  -  341 words
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      TAS setting tough criteria for licences, say analysts
      428 2  -  Stringent demands on tenderers will mean a lot of competition for Sing Tel, they say iw Teh Hooi Ling THE criteria set by the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore (TAS) for shortlisting pre-qualified tenderers for basic telecoms licences will ensure top-notch new players
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      Lock icon Rafiq denies being at war with every member of his family
      496 2 THE JUMABHOT CASE The Straits Times RAFIQ Jumabhoy has clashed with every member of the Jumabhoy family in his quest to control the family's empire, counsel acting for patriarch Rajabali said yesterday. Harry Wee said in his cross-examination of
      The Straits Times  -  496 words
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      Lock icon QC to act for SM, BG Lee in suit against Tang
      286 2 The Straits Times SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. who are suing Tang Liang Hong for defamation, will be represented by Queen's Counsel David Eady, an experienced defamation lawyer. Mr Eady was admitted
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Apollo-linked company buys $39.8m building
      194 4 [SINGAPORE] Yong Shuey Holdings, an investment company linked to Apollo Hotel, has bought TAL Building along Jalan Pemimpin, off Bishan Road, for $39.8 million. The purchase price for the freehold industrial complex works out to $326 per sq ft (psf) per plot ratio, which is
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      Enter the GLCs
      629 4  -  THE PROPERTY COLUMN Key property players being increasingly challenged by GLCs By Lee Han Shih IN THE next few years, the private housing market could well be dominated by government-linked companies (GLCs). Until the mid-1980s, private housing was very much a private business that is, it was
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      F&N offers for rent office space in Valley Point
      284 4  -  By Diana Oon [SINGAPORE] F&N subsidiary Centrepoint Properties Ltd (CPL) yesterday launched the commercial space in Valley Point, the group's $150 million mixed development in River Valley Road. The F&N project comprises a 20-storey Grade A office block, some retail space
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      Kennedy Bay apartments go on sale soon
      384 4  -  By. Agnes Wee [SINGAPORE] The AS2SO million (***** million) Kennedy Bay Resort (KBR) in Western Australia being developed by a Singapore-led group will offer 42 units of service apartments at prices of under A 5200,000 per unit. The sales launch will be held
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      150 5 Banking will never be the same again. Because everything you once needed also access your money using your Bank 121 cheque book and internationally-accepted to do at a branch can now be done over the phone. Anytime, anywhere, person-to- ATM and credit card. For banking convenience that's one-to-one, why not
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  • THAILAND'S FINANCIAL CRISIS
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      Merger targets: three troubled small banks
      908 6  -  Doubts over asset quality, higher bad loan provisions cloud sector's '97 outlook From Alan Boyd in Bangkok AT LEAST three small commercial banks are believed to be a target of government efforts to encourage mergers or strategic alliances to boost stability in the financial
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      A switch in roles for Finance One and Thai Danu
      773 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Loh Hui Yin WHAT a reversal of roles between Thai Danu and Finance One, and in just a matter of months. When Finance One, Thailand's largest finance company, offered to buy a 20 per cent stake in
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      Lock icon Thai economy looking up
      666 6  -  January figures point to a rebound, easing pressure on troubled financial sector From Alan Boyd in Bangkok TENTATIVE signs of an economic rebound in January are expected to ease pressure on Thailand's troubled financial sector, but the government has cautioned against overoptimism. Preliminary figures released by
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      Lock icon Analysts hail moves, but say not enough done yet
      600 6 AFP [BANGKOK] Measures announced yesterday to shore up Thailand's ailing financial sectors were a step in the right direction, but the authorities have not yet done enough, analysts said. Thai financial authorities said 10 finance companies would be forced to raise
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Indonesia's 1996 trade surplus up 45%
      180 7 JAKARTA Dec figure's down 10% at USs9l6m, says official document \J.iJ pui V/i -AFP INDONESIA posted a whopping US$6.9 billion (559.87 billion) trade surplus for calendar 1996, up 45 per cent from the previous year, an official document showed yesterday. The trade surplus for
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      Lock icon Dr M backs plan for Asean emergency fund
      227 7 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama A FUND to help Asean countries faced with financial problems should be set up for use in times of need, said Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday. He welcomed the proposal made at the inaugural meeting of the Asean Finance
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      Lock icon Indonesian poll monitoring team ready for May 29
      542 7  -  JAKARTA PPP head threatens to ignore campaign rules unless they're changed By S N Vasuki INDONESIA'S parliamentary election on May 29 has entered a decisive phase with an independent election committee preparing to monitor the polls and a leading opposition party threatening
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      Lock icon KL minister hits out at alleged racism
      150 7 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Deputy Finance Minister Affifudin Omar has expressed regret over the action of an international audit firm in London for allegedly rejecting a youth's application to do articleship just because he is Malay. Dr Affifudin said the firm, which has a
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      Cambodia to introduce VAT, withholding tax
      407 7  -  SINGAPORE Corporate tax code changes part of financial reform By] Harish Mehta CAMBODIA is introducing two new taxes, a Value Added Tax (VAT) and a new withholding tax to replace a cumbersome system, and has clarified its corporate tax code, as part of sweeping
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      231 7 5- 8 March' 97 MOSPIMEDICA'97 10am 7pm (daily) wm Singapore Suntec Centre Medical Equipment it Supplies Exhibition l Held in conjunction with I HoSDimedica 97 the l»t Asia Pacific Inter-Science J IT Congress of Medicine I (Pleau tick and print) I I Please send Visitor-information. I Hospimedica which is the
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China loses another parly elder: report
      176 8 HONGKONG AFP CHINESE Communist Party elder Peng Zhen died in a Beijing hospital on Sunday, a Hongkong newspaper reported yesterday quoting rumours it said were circulating widely in the Chinese capital. Mr Peng, 94, died on Sunday evening, according to the independent Chinese language
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      SingTech vehicle in US$30m Shandong tie-up
      337 8  -  SINGAPORE Joint venture to make industrial chemicals in Zibo By] Lu Ning SINGAPORE has made its biggest investment in the Chinese city of Zibo in Shandong province, by way of a US$3O million (Ss42 million) joint venture to produce industrial chemicals. The investment was
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      Lock icon Groomed for rides
      54 8 [BEIJING] A man spring-cleaning his Bactrian camel by combing its thick winter coat. The Bactrian camel, a native of Asia, was once used extensively to transport goods and produce in remote regions of the country but this animal is employed to give children's rides near a local
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      Lock icon Call for Beijing to curb MNC investment
      291 8 SHANGHAI Reuter AFP THE State Planning Commission has urged Beijing to curb investment by multinationals in large Chinese firms to prevent foreigners from manipulating the domestic markets, the Business News said yesterday. A recent report by the commission said multinationals were highly competitive
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      Pudong to unveil measures to reduce costs for developers
      426 8  -  SINGAPORE New policy to include allowing instalment payments for land purchases By Lu Ning IN A bid to breathe life into its sluggish property market, Shanghai's Pudong New Area will soon announce a series of new measures which promise to ease
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      Lock icon US commerce official meets Chinese leaders
      210 8 BEIJING AFP US UNDERSECRETARY of Commerce Stuart Eizenstat yesterday embarked on a series of meetings with senior Chinese leaders, whom he has vowed to press strongly on market access and human rights. Mr Eizenstat, who arrived in Beijing at the weekend for a five-day
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      Lock icon China steel chief satisfied with bribery probe
      239 8 BEIJING Reuter THE chairman of big China steelmaker Capital Iron and Steel Corp said yesterday he was satisfied with the results of a graft probe linked to his company, and that most missing funds had been recovered. "I am satisfied with the investigation,"
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      Lock icon China faces uphill task to achieve 26% T-bond growth target
      357 8 BEIJING Market might not be able to absorb 248.6b yuan bills experts AFP CHINA'S announcement that its 1997 treasury bond issue would be 26 per cent larger than last year's may have seriously overestimated the market's ability to absorb so
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  • ASIA
    • ASIANotes
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        Lock icon Fate «{N Korean defector undecided
        71 9 Reuter [BEIJING] South Korea yesterday hinted that talks with China over the fate of a senior North Korean defector sheltering in Seoul's mission in Beijing could drag on while Beijing is busy with its annual parliamentary session. "We didn't get any resolution from the Chinese
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        Lock icon The secret garden
        50 9 AFP [SYDNEY) Carolyn Porter, a technical officer for horticultural research at the Botanic Gardens, examining some of thesoo immature Wollemi pine trees at a secret nursery guarded with lasers near Sydney yesterday. The 100-million-year-old species, previously thought extinct, will be available for commercial export by 1968. —AFP
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        Lock icon Protecting Japanese depositors
        52 9 Reuter [TOKYO] Both ruling and opposition parties share the view that public funds must be used to protect depositors when financial institutions collapse. "We will see panic if depositors cannot get their money back," Koichi Kato, secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said in a weekend
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        Lock icon S Korean trade deficit up 32% in Feb
        76 9 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's trade deficit jumped 32 per cent from a year ago to US$2.l billion (Ss3 billion) hi February as exports remained slack due to a slump in semicon- ductors, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said yesterday. Exports
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        Lock icon Aussie plan to simplify corporate law
        72 9 Bloomberg Business News [CANBERRA] Australian Treasurer Peter Costello yesterday wants the laws relating to liability suits changed to remove an overlap in legislation. He released a report from the Treasury Department yesterday that calls for the Corporations Law alone to govern liability suits based
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      Lock icon Top Aussie firms not focused on E Asia: survey
      284 9 ■SYDNEY Lack of interest despite boom in the region AFP AUSTRALIA'S top companies are shunning East Asia, despite the region having the fastest growth rate in the world, a study published yesterday found. Conducted by Sydney University's Research Institute for Asia
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      Lock icon Health of small Aussie films at 4-year low
      249 9 SYDNEY Reuter AUSTRALIA'S small business sector is at its lowest point in four years, with trading conditions steady but flat, unchanged since June 1995, the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (CPA) said yesterday. The CPA said its CPA Small Business Health
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      Lock icon India stocks erase day's sharp gains
      461 9 NEW DELHI Profit-taking sets in after shares rise 34% in response to pro-investment Doogßi Reuter AFP [BOMßAY] Indian share prices soared yesterday, with the Bombay Stock Exchange top-30 index reaching an eightmonth high on favourable reaction to the government's pro-growth, pro-investment budget even as
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      Lock icon Ex-mayor of Seoul tipped to be next PM
      295 9 SEOUL Appointment Koh Knntobeannoimced today, say reports AFP SOUTH Korean President Kim Young Sam has picked an outspoken ex-mayor of Seoul as his new prime minister in a planned cabinet reshuffle aimed at revamping his scan-dal-hit government, reports said yesterday. Mr Kim
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon WTO IT pact wins vital support to take effect
      436 10 GENEVA Six countries join 28 others to help meet condition for free trade agreement AFP A DRAFT pact to free trade in information technology products won vital support from six countries at the weekend and can now be put into effect,
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      Lock icon US manufacturing activity stronger than expected
      284 10 TEMPE, Arizona Bloomberg Reuter US MANUFACTURING activity improved in February from a month earlier as orders and production accelerated, a new report showed yesterday. The National Association of Purchasing Management's (NAPM) manufacturing index increased to a stronger-than-expected 53.1 last month from an unrevised 52.0
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      Lock icon Sole trader
      51 10 [GOMA] A Zairean used shoe saleswoman hawking her wares on the street in Goma yesterday as Zairean rebel leader Laurent-Desire Kabila said that rebels would open a corridor for the evacuation of the thousands of mostly Hutu refugees fleeing the rebel capture of Tingi- Tingi camp in Zaire.
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      Lock icon Bank of England concerned over wage and bonus policies of banks
      365 10 LONDON Reuter THE Bank of England yesterday said the salary and bonus policies of firms in the financial markets were an increasing concern to regulators, as they played a large part in overall risk management strategy. In its latest
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      Lock icon Joblessness turning into Achilles heel for EU
      376 10 BRUSSELS Single-currency issue forces some serious stock-taking Reuter JOBLESSNESS is emerging increasingly as the Achilles' heel for those European Union leaders driving their countries relentlessly towards monetary union in 1999. Analysts say that, rightly or wrongly, tough budgetary discipline and the pre-condi-tions for
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      Lock icon CIA officer pleads guilty to spying for Moscow
      145 10 WASHINGTON Reuter HAROLD Nicholson, the highest ranking CIA officer ever charged with spying, pleaded guilty yesterday to selling secrets to Russia for more than US$lBO,OOO (*****,000). Mr Nicholson, 46, was a 16year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine operations directorate where
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      Lock icon Why it's quite a job comparing jobless data in Europe
      315 10 Reuter [BRUSSELS] Is Germany's unemployment rate higher or lower than Sweden's? Does Finland have a jobless rate of 15 per cent or closer to 20 per cent? Was Belgium's unemployment rate 9.5 per cent in December, well below the European
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      265 10 ROBINSON POINTIT'S THE SMARTER BUSINESS ADDRESS. L businesses a rare privilege to be at one of Singapore's smarter business addresses This modern landmark features all the S qualities every astute businessman desires: I SMART BUSINESS LOCATION I IBiS B B Centrally located within the busy k Shenton Way, Mt fifl|''
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Opportunity knocks for the techno-sawy
      752 11  -  THB BOTTOM UMB OPINION By Kenneth James The writer is BT's technology editor WARNING bells clanged last week even as a high-level committee announced plans to make Singapore a global centre of international trade. The committee announced a brace of initiatives aimed at maintaining Singapore's
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      116 11 'We have 18- and 19-year-olds far away from home, thrown together in co-ed tents, and then wonder what happens? Well, in Bosnia, we now have a soldier getting pregnant every three days.' Elaine Donnelly president of the US Center for Military Readiness, a conservative policy group. 'Five
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      A voice for Asia-Pacific
      656 11 EDITORIAL THERE is a significant difference between the way that Japan describes today's scheduled first meeting of the new G-6 group of Asia-Pacific financial officials and the way that it is referred to by the United States. The difference reflects Tokyo's desire to see Asia play
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      Lock icon Cards yet to be played in game of Indian budget
      1094 11  -  It's too early to tell if fiscal deficit can be cot given the budget's giveaways By: Prem Shankar Jha The writer, former editor of the Hindustan Times, contributed this article to BT THE BUDGET for 1997-98 presented by Indian Finance
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      MAILBOX
      426 11 Ttmely and refreshing IT WAS refreshing to read the Hock Lock Siew column of Feb 28 headlined: "You did good, Greenspan." It seems rather clear that the governor could not have obtained his advice from this side of the Pacific with the complete prevalence of Goldilocks admirers everywhere to
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      383 11 MtaptaeedobeeMtoawtthstae ABOUT the closest thing to a big idea in the Conservative Party's election campaign so far is a promise to shrink the UK state. With public spending due to fall back to 40 per cent of gross domestic product next year, Prime Minister John Major
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Chelsea Clinton hits Broadway
      795 12  -  America's First Daughter celebrated her 17th birthday with a visit to New York during the weekend, uzbre alvarez reports LIZETTE ALVAREZ NYT IT MAY not have been the ultimate dream gift for a 17-year-old packing a recently minted driver's licence, but Chelsea Clinton's whirlwind birthday celebration
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      Lock icon Art of turning designer castoffs into trendy wear
      513 12 FASHION An LA store offers old pieces by well known designers at marked down prices NYT [LOS ANGELES] Jil Sander would probably like to forget that suit she designed with shorts so many years ago. Then there are those old pieces from
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      Lock icon Methodical Faldo wins Nissan Open by 3 strokes
      746 14 GOLF The three-time British Open champion wins his first tournament west of the Mississippi LATWP [LOS ANGELES] Nick Faldo's advanced course in golf geography took off in a new direction on Sunday. Get the map. He has won the British Open in
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      Lock icon Tiger Woods gets boost from dad's recovery
      505 14 GOLF The 21-year-old's happy to have palled off total score of 281 AFP [LOS ANGELES] Tiger Woods put the Los Angeles Open behind him with relief on Sunday, happy to have pulled off a respectable three-under total of 281 and downright delighted to
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      537 12 Keppel Telecommunications Transportation Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1996 The Directors advise the following consolidated results of the Company for the year ended 31 December 1996. These figures have not been audited. COMPANY GROUP 1996 1995 1996 1995 $'000
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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      Tuan Sing to redevelop Robinson Towers
      349 15  -  $200 m 35-storey tower will have 194,000 sq ft of net lettable area By Diana Oon {SINGAPORE] Tuan Sing, which yesterday announced a big jump in earnings, plans to redevelop its flagship Robinson Towers into a $200 million 35-storey tower. Managing director and CEO
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      Net earnings soar 140%
      421 15 [SINGAPORE] Diversified property group Tuan Sing Holdings posted a 140 per cent jump in group net earnings to $38.6 million last year thanks to the sale of a housing project and a warehouse in Singapore and some office space in Hongkong. 1 For the year ended
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      Lock icon Gul Tech to raise $22m from IPO
      557 15  -  PCB maker selling 4&2 m shares at 58cts each for Sesdaq listing By. Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Printed circuit board maker Gul Technologies yesterday said it is raising $22 million from the sale of 40.2 million new shares at 58 cents each which will
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      Keppel Telecom plans rights, warrants offer
      553 15  -  It aims to raise opto $124 m after posting 27% rise in earnings By* Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Keppel Telecommunications Transportation, formerly Steamers Maritime Ltd, yesterday announced a rights and warrants issue to raise up to $124 million after posting better-than-expected full-year results. Group net
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      Omni's IPO of 54m shares over 130 times subscribed
      300 15  -  Third highest subscribed public offer for year to-d&te By. Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Omni Industries' initial public offer of 54 million shares was more than 130 times subscribed at its close yesterday, the third highest subscribed IPO for the year to-date. The
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      Osprey's revenue surges 45%, net profit up 3%
      161 15 (SINGAPORE] Mainboardlisted Osprey Maritime's group revenue rose 45 per cent to U5585.75 million (*****.1 million) for the year ended Dec 31 1996, the company announced yesterday. Group operating profit climbed 27 per cent to U5531.63 million, while net profit rose 3 per
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        Lock icon HSBC lifts net gain by 26%
        711 16  -  Group benefits from all round improvement in global branches and major subsidiaries /•'m, Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkonq LONDON-BASED HSBC Holdings, which controls Hongkong's two largest banks, yesterday reported a 26 per cent increase in net profit for 1996, well in line with analysts'
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        Lock icon 20% fall in profit at Salim's First Pacific
        292 16 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Hongkong First Pacific Co, a Hongkong company controlled by Indonesia's Salim group, reported 1996 net profit fell 20 per cent as it missed one-time gains from the delayed share sale of its Philippine mobile phone unit. Net profit was HKSI.S9
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        CDL Hotels' unit profit up 63%
        360 16  -  By Aug Wan May [SINGAPORE] Hong Leong's European and American hotel chain Millennium Copthorne Hotels said its 1996 pretax profit was up 63.1 per cent due to cost-cutting and increased room rates. Pre-tax profit for the year ended December on a pro forma basis
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        Lock icon SBC Inc-Telekom group in talks for S African stake
        420 16 Negotiations to sell 30% of state-ran Telkom to consortium Reuter [JOHANNESBURG] South Africa is set to clinch the largest privatisation deal in Sub-Sa-haran Africa with a landmark announcement yesterday that a stake in state-run telecommunications group Telkom will be sold to
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        Lock icon Cable & Wireless in talks to sell HK Telecom stake
        174 16 Cable Wireless in talks to sell HK Telecom stake Bloomberg Business New [HONGKONG] Cable Wireless pic (C&W) is negotiating with "interested suitors" to sell part of its 59 per cent stake in Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd, a HK Telecom spokesman said yesterday. However, the spokesman, Anna Ngai, denied an Apple Daily
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        Lock icon Bakrie buys slake in Elang Realty
        204 16 Reuter [JAKARTA] Indonesia's pri-vately-owned Bakrie Group has taken a 70 per cent controlling stake in property firm PT Elang Realty in order to merge two banks belonging to the two firms, a Bakrie official said yesterday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity,
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        Lock icon Hutchison's HK$1.2b gain
        114 16 AFP [HONGKONG] Hutchison Whampoa Ltd will book a HK$l.2 billion (Ss22l million) one-time gain this year from the sale of its stake in Hongkong Electric Holdings Ltd, said managing director Canning Fok. Hutchison. Hongkong's biggest industrial conglomerate, sold the stake in Hongkong's second-largest utility to a sister
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          TAC profit up 44% to 2.7b baht
          97 16 [SINGAPORE] Singapore-listed Total Access Communication (TAC) posted a 44 per cent jump in group net profit to 2.74 billion baht (Sslsl million) last year on the back of a 51 per cent increase in operating revenue to 10.63 billion baht. Earnings per share
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          Hai Sun Hup 1997 warrants expired
          44 16 [SINGAPORE] Shipping and hotel firm Hai Sun Hup's 1977 warrants, issued in 1992 in conjunction with the launch of its five-year US$39 million (Ssss million) bond, expired on Feb 28. A total of 67.15 million warrants have expired.
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          Lock icon AT&T revises 1997 earnings downwards
          133 16 Reuter [NEW YORK] AT&T Corp yesterday shocked analysts with a sharp downward revision of its earnings forecast for 1997. It expects to earn U553.45 to U553.75 per share from core businesses in 1997, down from US$4.O6 in 1996. New ventures would remove another US$O.75 to
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        Lock icon News Corp and Softbank selling stake in Asahi TV network
        362 17 Move will allow them to focus on Japan Sky satellite broadcasting ventnre Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO] Australia's News Corp and Japanese publisher Softbank said they'll sell their holdings in a Japanese television network so they can focus on Japan Sky
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        Lock icon McDonald's US franchisees agree to slash burger prices to boost sales
        326 17 Franchisees worried about company's loss of market share FT [NEW YORKI US franchisees of McDonald's, the fast-food company, have overwhelmingly approved the company's plan to slash prices in an effort to stimulate flagging sales in the intensely competitive burger
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        Lock icon Nintendo-Sony video game price war set to go global
        379 17 AFP [TOKYO] Nintendo has launched a price war against Sony as its fast-growing rival digs in after grabbing the top position in the Japanese video game market. "Hand-to-hand fighting is expected between the two companies as Nintendo gives chase to Sony
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        Lock icon 'No' to nuke plant
        74 17 [TOKYO] Residents from Kong Liao in Taiwan shouting slogans during a protest rally in front of the headquarters of Japan's largest electric machinery manufacturer Hitachi in the Japanese capital yesterday to denounce construction of a nuclear power plant in Kong Liao. About 30 Taiwanese civilians demand
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        Lock icon AT & T sees 10% fall in Q1 per share earnings
        306 17 AT T sees 10% fall in Q1 per share earnings Targets foil below analysts' expectations Bloomberg Reuter [BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey] AT&T Corp said it expects per share earnings in the first quarter to be about 10 per cent below the fourth quarter's 76 US cents, sending its stock down
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        Lock icon Swiss Telecom to be privatised
        330 17 Up to 49 1 to be sold next year in IPO to raise 5b Swiss francs FT [ZURICH] T he Swiss government has given the go-ahead for the country's first big privatisation. 11 plans to sell up to 49 per cent of Swiss Telecom next
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        Lock icon Sumitomo launches risk control office
        171 17 Reuter [TOKYO] Sumitomo Corp said yesterday it had launched an office of market risk management for all commodities following the US$2.6 billion (553.7 billion) losses incurred by its former star trader. It said in a statement that the office, which began operations yesterday, is headed
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        Lock icon Japan pension funds look to Asia for better returns
        454 18 Fonds set to invest heavily in emerging markets for annnal retains of 5.5% Reuter [HONGKONG] Japanese pension fund money trickling into emerging markets will quickly turn into a flood of cash heading towards Asia, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) said last
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        Lock icon Prudential to invest US$1b in Asia
        127 18 Reuter [HONGKONG] British life insurer Prudential Corp said it was planning a direct investment fund of up to US$l billion (Ssl.4 billion) for Asian emerging markets. The Prudential Invest Direct Asia Fund would make direct investments in Asia, including China, India and Vietnam, Prudential
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        French bank to offer credit risk hedge
        327 18  -  By\ Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] French bank Union Europeene de CIC (UECIC) is setting up a specialised trading desk to offer a hedge against credit risk. Pierre Mathieu, its head of trading here for the last five years, has left for London to start
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        Lock icon The rise of Shanghai's financial centre
        65 18 [SHANGHAI] The new Shanghai Stock Exchange building in the Pudong Development Zone to the east of Shanghai's city centre. Construction is expected to be completed in the middle of the year. The city government has designated the area as a financial centre and is
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        Finance company loans up 3.1% in Dec
        214 18 [SINGAPORE] Toital loans given out by Singajx >re's finance companies rose 3.1 per cent to $16.8 bUlion in December, after dipping 0.4 per cent in November. The Monetary Authority of Singapore, in its latest statistical buUetin, attributes the expansion to a pick -up
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        Lock icon Share surge making US execs very rich
        290 18 Disclosures likely to stir renewed debate over executive pay FT [NEW YORK] The surge in US stock prices over the past two years has made some of America's top corporate executives seriously rich, according to recently released data. The value of many of
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        Lock icon Euroyen, JGBs ease on fund selling
        218 18 ftlbinn Report Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen and Japanese Government Bond (JGB) futures eased modestly late yesterday on fund liquidation but further losses were seen limited, dealers said. Recent weakness in Japan's stock market, with the Nikkei 225 testing 18,300-point support yesterday, reinforced market views
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        Futures lower on fear of interest rate rise
        203 18  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES By Perry Gilbert Perry Gilbert, vice-president, Refco Singapore Pte Ltd [SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan futures opened approximately unchanged yesterday and was sold off by Phillips Futures and ING Futures Options to a low of 331.0. Futures traded lower
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        Lock icon Oil prices bounce off seven-month lows
        211 18 ENERGY REPORT Reuter (LONDON] World oil prices rose tentatively yesterday after traders decided that the market looked inexpensive following Friday's sharp sell-off to seven-month lows that punctuated a 16 per cent drop in the month of February. But traders warned that an end to
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        262 18 Reuter AFP London THE US dollar was firmer as the mark was hit by reports of spiralling German jobless in February, but the German unit's losses were limited by concerns over the time-table for European monetary union, dealers said. The early dollar boost came as Sunday's Bild am
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        1339 18 DfTERBAMK CROSS RATES Mar03 AS C$ ECU Ffr D» HB l«8»8»Wi Yw W M$ IBOth PW S$ Iwi $fr jfft USS ustr f IU U)68 1178 0.643 4467 1323 4.052 28.003 *.734 0.944 4.74* 1941 1.123 3L410 20.572 LIB 1492 1156 21.520 20.252 0.480 0.782 a 0-*39 4182 5.466 *****
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      1797 19 sicomiwures Mar (XI RUBBER (Marts dosta? at 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS cwtsAg) Clost Volume Open Mowth High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Apr 97 173.00 171.00 173.00 100 550 May 97 174.75 975 Jun 97 175.75 175.75 175.75 50 825 Jlrf/Sep 97 177.25 5235 Oct/Dec 97 178.75 3750 Jan/Mar 98
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      2338 19 LONDON Mistrials ItarJ Nki *h AB Ports 318.400 *5 Abbey National 749.400 -9.600 Allied Domecq 432.400 -4.200 Amtc 120.400 .400 Asda Group 111.600 -.800 BAT Ind 542 5 BC Pic 170.400 BtCC 278 -1 BOC Group 998 4.400 BR Petroleum 677 -4.600 BTR 242.400 4 Bank of
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      1638 19 AFP ki Nikkei 225 -127.87 SHARE prices fell yesterday, with the key market barometer closing 0.7 per cent lower on continued selling in export-led blue chips due to the dollar's recent weak tone against the yen. "The dollar's fall to around 120.00 yen in overseas markets, although temporary, made
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      1614 20 AFX-Asia Fi Han* Sen* +108^8 SHARE prices closed higher yesterday, with properties helping to sustain most of the morning's gains after investors became cautious on financial ahead of HSBC's results. The Hang Seng Index closed up 108.58 points at 13,507.30. Turnover was HK$9.9 billion. The Hang Seng March futures
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      673 20 Reuter QShenzhen Blndex +2.48 THE Shenzhen B share market closed higher yesterday with prices moving in response to a steep rise in the A market which was boosted by positive forecasts on the economy. The A Index surged 15.59 points, or 4.1 per cent, to 398.22, with turnover rising
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      409 20 AFP □wp lata -***** SHARE prices finished lower yesterday as investors turned cautious following central bank remarks on the market. Central bank deputy governor Hsu Chia-tung hinted at moves to cool off the market on Saturday, telling investors "to think of the perils when shares are at high levels".
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      722 20 AFP CI Composite Index -526 SHARE prices closed lower yesterday following a correction in large cap stocks led by cigarette shares, dealers said. "We saw most foreign investors selling. It's just a technical correction. I still believe the weak sentiment was not directly affected by Wall Street's dip," a
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      277 20 Reuter n Wellington +L 54 SHARES firmed yesterday, buoyed by seven-cent gains in Telecom and in Lion Nathan. The NZSE-40 Capital Index added 1.54 points at 2,280.87, with Lion Nathan at NZ53.63 and Telecom at NZ56.56. Reuter Mar 3 MS 000) ANZ B«n«mg 8.75 -0.30 1515 Advantages HWqs 1.28
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      813 20 AFP P SET Into -20.32 SHARE prices dipped on very low turnover yesterday after trading in banking and finance stocks was suspended early in the first session. Analysts said Finance Minister Amnuay Viravan ordered the suspension following news that Finance One and Thai Danu Bank intend to merge amid
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      358 20 AFP o Manila +5J3 SHARE prices rose yesterday on bargain-hunting in blue chips at the close of trade. The PSE Composite Index added 5.13 points to 3,320.41. Turnover was 32.8 billion shares worth 4.2 billion pesos. The market was mostly down from the start of trading on fears of
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      431 20 AFP F1 Composite Index ♦111 SHARE prices closed higher yesterday, as a rally in secondliners offset the fall in blue chips, dealers said. The Composite Index closed up 3.11 points at 679.64. Turnover was 26.8 million shares worth 474.8 billion won. Risers beat falls 442 to 336, with 127
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      627 20 AFP Ordinaries -28.7 SHARE prices plunged 1.2 per cent yesterday as markets reacted to comments last week by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index lost 28.7 points at 2,421.2. Turnover was 336.4 million shares worth A 5804.8 million. Leading stocks were responsible for the
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        6067 21 INDUSTRIALS 1997 Last Vol Day Net Cap High Lew Company Solo OOO Hkjh Law P/t Smll 790 680 Ajinomoto 730 30 1 730 730 55.7 295.9 448 334 Angkasa 418 -2 303 428 416 12.4 616.3 905 750 Apotlo Food Hlg 775 -25 141 800 765 310.0 418 189 Berjayalnd
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        Lock icon Shares end lower on late profit-taking
        535 21 AFX-Asia C 3 Composite Index -1(123 SHARE prices closed lower across the board yesterday as late afternoon profit-taking capped gains on second-liners and blue chips after last week's gains, dealers said. They said plans to cut the settlement period to five days from the
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        3815 22 BONOS, LOANS WARRANTS m 1996/1997 Last Vol Day Llll Ouote Avg High Low Stno Company Sal* ♦or- COOO) High Low Buytr Seller Price 68 47 m 3000 m AMDB c5.5******6 62 5 61 65 62 39 3160 "Acer ******1 USS 51 -1.5 35 52.5 51 50.5 52 131 86.5 3164
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        Guthrie's nil-paid rights data against a buy recommendation
        177 22  -  WARRANT WATCH -By J R Sivanithy GUTHRIE's nil-paid rights to its recent warrant issue have been actively traded recently, so perhaps a review is in order. Unfortunately, the numbers aren't very flattering and a buy recommendation would be difficult. The instrument trades
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2451 22 MALAYSIAN STOCKS Or Qf 1996/1997 Last Vol Day List Ouott CHv Dtv YM N«t M Cap High Low Stno Company Sate COOP) High Low My* S—r C'»f P/E $«nM ~625 360 msSOOO AISB50C 428 M4 50 450 42t> 428 430 iZ 4.9 0.3 87.9 4390 137 84 ms
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        1710 23 TUMOVCR COOO) VALUE COOO) fcutn Cto» TgtK Mokl CIO* Tom todutfriai 75,633 40,796 116,389 126,622 83,764 210,366 Flntnco 7,328 14,222 21.550 79.212 21.917 101.129 HOWS 1,545 1,798 3,343 4.403 4,186 8.589 ProportJo* 4.543 23.989 28.514 37.058 65.572 PUnUtton 6,103 6,103 21,888 21,888 MMftf 1.864 1.864 6.488 6.488 BtW 6,224 35.616
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        5124 23 Or Gr M Wt 1996/1997 Last Vol Day Last Ouote Olv Dlv YM Nat Cap Avg MqH Low StNo Company Sola COOP) High Low Buyer Sallar C'vr P/E Smll Price MMHTRMLS 5146 ASE NT$10 200 US- 1000 900 1275 ASF US$0.***** US900 885 90.0 214 163 1258 AcorSOc
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        1203 23 Cf Cf M Wt •996/1997 Last Vol Day Last Ouott OK Dtv YM N«t Cap Ave HI«K Law StNo Company Sala COOP) Hm» Law Buyer titer C'vr P/t (mil Price SESOAQ 289 135 e 2000 163. -4 36 167 163 162 >63 3.0 14.2 0.1 101.9 72.S 166 193
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        228 24 Stacks Volume FHTK Hldgs 20c 14,830,000 •Berjaya Ind 7,716,000 Ossia Intl 10c 6,974,000 •MBf Hldgs 50c 6,899,000 •Promet 5,881,000 Guthrie GTSR 4,900,000 Wee Poh 20c 4,589,000 Nobel Design 5 4,363,000 •Kulim (M) Wt99 3,985,000 Chuan Soon Huat 3,925,000 Stocks UOB Foreign 21,619,720 OUB Foreign 18,046,106 'Berjaya Ind 17,716,290 DBS Foreign
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        HOT STOCK
        52 24  -  -fcfl Shiv Tanaja KEMAYAN CORP, which closed one cent up at J2.18 on a volume of 2.8 million shares yesterday, has been trading between $2.10 and $2.20 for the past month or so. In the near yerm, there is a chance that the stock will break past the
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        Players jittery over Dow's fall, poor company results
        666 24  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY M'sian stocks also fail on official annonncement of shortening of the settlement period for share transactions HU R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Second-liners from Clob International and several of the recent listings in the local market provided the main features in
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          3 Scots and a not-so-small fund
          99 24 GOT an idea? Put it to use. Three Scotsmen in the financial industry, one ex-Schroders, one ex-Crosby and one ex-LGT. last year set out to form their own fund to invest purely in small companies. When one of them told his friend of the
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          Whirlwind business
          68 24 REMEMBER HG Asia (KL) which in late February held a conference on the theme Malaysian Splash? Well, we heard that the closed-door sessions which excluded the press ("we didn't want any nosey reporters around", our source tells us) had a very ftaiitful week. The source tells us that
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          A one-cent hassle
          93 24 IS IT sheer honesty or just meticulousness. One private banking client is so thorough in scrutinising her accounts that even a one-cent excess did not miss her eye. According to a banking source, this woman client had phoned the bank to reconcile her statements and was curious
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          Small fish eating big fish
          89 24 LAST Monday, our Bangkok correspondent met Finance One chieftain Pin Chakkapak at the lobby of the Westin Banyan Tree here. A glum-looking Mr Pin was with a small party, which included his right-hand man Termchai Pinyawatn. Now we know why the takeover king was in
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          SET action angers investors
          52 24 STILL on the merger. The Stock Exchange of Thailand's decision to suspend all banking and finance stocks yesterday until the central bank has been able to clarify the cash flow situation of financial institutions has left investors fuming. A foreign investor asked if Thailand is a
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          One more to came?
          81 24 MERGER mania, anathema to Thai corporate culture, because face is all-important, has gripped the financial community now that Finance One is merging with Thai Danu. All kinds of combinations are being bandied. One of them is between two major stockbroking and finance houses, Phatra Thanakit and
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          Suspension leads to uncertainty
          106 24 THIS paper's Bangkok correspondent who is leaving her posting shortly, was due to have a farewell dinner with the chief representative of an American investment house. Thinking that her contact might be busy handling queries from overseas clients when those markets open, she enquired in the
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      323 25 Bridge News Reuter FEBRUARY and the Baltic Freight Index (BFI) settlement period have ended on a sour note for Paamax owners, brokers said. The BFI fell 11 points to 1,443 reflecting weaker conditions in the north Atlantic and Pacific. Fixtures TANKEHSc ♦Owners' confidence was restored this week, after
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      S'pore ranked one of world's top 3 cruise ports
      378 25  -  In a magazine poll, S'pore and Dover emerge runners-up after San Jnan in Puerto Rico By: Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Singapore has been voted one of the top three cruise ports in the world. In a poll conducted last year among cruise
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      245 25 Port Elizabeth needs 700 m rand in govt funds to start project Reuter [PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa] Plans are afoot for a brand new port on a windswept stretch of beach north of Port Elizabeth. A feasibility study will be completed
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      British firm says it developed new type of containers
      229 25 [AMSTERDAM] British company Sea Containers, the world's largest leaser of containers, recently announced that it had developed a new generation of ocean containers. The Sea Cell container offers the possibility of placing two standard pallets side by side, a Cargoweb News
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      Hongkong launches campaign to promote safe navigation
      214 25  -  By' Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] Hongkong has launched a marine safety campaign to remind mariners to observe navigational rules in its busy Central Harbour. The exercise, organised jointly by the Hongkong Marine Department and the Marine Police, aims to raise awareness of the
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      110 25 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries yesterday said it had out-bid Japanese rivals to land a US$33O million (Ss46B million) contract from Sea Tanker Corp of Norway to build four oil tankers. Hyundai said it was due to deliver the first two 300,000 deadweight
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      264 25 Reuter [COLOMBO] Colombo port will soon set up a company to handle transshipment business and compete with Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O) which is to lease one of its container terminals, officials said. "We will float a limited
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        77 25 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Hutchison Port Holdings, a unit of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, said it will pay U5522.2 million (5531.5 million) in annual rent to Panama for operation rights of Balboa and Cristobal ports. The company will also pay US$lO million for existing port equipment, Hutchison Port
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        53 25 [SINGAPORE] Zim Container Service (ZCS), Zim Israel Navigation Co's Tri-Continent division, is upgrading its existing service to a fixed day weekly service. The fixed-day schedule for all ZCS vessels calling at Far East, North American and Mediterranean ports will commence from mid-March in Hongkong with the
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        82 25 AFP [CARACAS] Air and sea forces on Sunday fought to recover more than 10,000 barrels of crude oil that leaked from the tanker Nisos Amorgos when it ran aground in the north-western Gulf of Venezuela, oil company officials said. Some eight km of coastline to
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      165 25 AFP [MANILA] South Korea's controversial Hanbo Group has withdrawn a proposal to invest US$l billion (551.42 billion) in a shipbuilding venture in the Philippines, officials said yesterday. South Korea's Nth largest conglomerate, which is at the centre of a major loan scandal after collapsing under US$5.B
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      995 26  -  JAPANESE PORTS: AMERICAN BID TO FORCE MARKET OPEN Shiro Takashima, the man who runs Japan's ports, has reportedly threatened to ban US ships from Japan in retaliation against US trade sanctions on Japanese shipping firms for Japan's failure to liberalise its port practices By, Sheryl WuDunn NYT
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        848 39 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jraihrt bom* 35* JO* »oogvo» 04 01/0800 Bt P T*or *****7 JO) Hongs** 04 03/0*00 BtSar IN *****7 JOI Hongs** 04.03/0100 C Express 02V97 J12 Hongstd* 04.03/0100 MasnanMi 97-901 jm Mongsio* K 03/1800 Ochk trm 4 JOS Hongs** 0J 03/1000 Ptas*tya Its
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        208 39 Mar 17 Australia: Canberra Day. lurao Japan: Vernal Equinox Day. lbr 27 Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Philippines: Maundy Thursday. Hat 28 Australia Good Friday. Canada: Good Friday. Denmark: Good Friday. Hong Kong: Good Friday. Indonesia Good Friday. Netherlands: Good Friday. New Zealand: Good Friday. Norway: Good Friday. Philippines: Good
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        754 39 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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        546 39 180 Mai 993.3 L0 16.8 0.13 106 0.08 Oantltr Watar testdue Art Aluminium Saflmant No above E25 2 0 8 4 1 0 HM/N 380 Ave 984.5 0.5 12.5 0.06 34 0.02 hm 380 Mai 995.9 1.9 17.9 0.32 83 0 07 Mrl %M/M %M/M m,
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        411 40 Airport received 8m passengers in 1996 and the figure is to double in 2000 AFP [DUBAIJ Dubai, the Hongkong of the Middle East, has embarked on a long-term airport expansion plan to ensure it remains among the top international airports into the next century,
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        251 40 The USslm incentive is to attract direct tourist flow to Alaska Reuter [ANCHORAGE, Alaska] A US$l million (551.42 million), two-year incentive package to attract direct airline passenger service between Japan and Alaska has generated interest among Japanese and US carriers, an economic development
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        151 40 NYT [TOKYO] Japan's new discount airlines may not fly unless more landing slots at Tokyo airport at Haneda are allotted to them, according to airline spokesmen. Before Pan Asia Airways joined the fray last week, there were already three new airline ventures.
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        350 40 It is meant to reduce controlled flight into terrain incidents [SEATTLE] As part of an ongoing effort to improve aviation safety worldwide. The Boeing Co has released to its commercial airplane customers its latest training aid package, designed to reduce incidents
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        45 40 [LANGKA Wl] A Cessna light aircraft standing upright after nosediving into the ground on the Malaysian resort of Langkawi on Sunday. The Air Mofaz-owned Cessna crashed while filming the final stage of Langkawi cycle race. Three people, including the pilot, were killed. AFP
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        242 40 [NEW YORK] A major conference on how the air cargo industry can benefit from the Internet will be held at New York's JFK Airport from April 22 to April 24. The sponsors, The Journal of Commerce and Air Commerce, said leaders in
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        295 40 The airship, 132 m long, plans a 10-day cruise to New York Reuter [JOHANNESBURG] A South African firm plans to build the world's biggest modern-day airship, twice the length of a Boeing 747, and take tourists on a 10-day cruise to New
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        199 40 [NEW YORK] Although regulations and prohibitions remain tight, chemical transport by air has been growing steadily. There are two main reasons for this: Producers and distributors are willing to go further to meet customer demands for just-in-time delivery and worldwide service; and more
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          70 40 AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] Negotiators from Taiwan and Russia are to meet in Moscow for two days from tomorrow to discuss setting up direct flight routes between the two countries, said Transportation and Communications Minister Tsay Jaw-yang, the United Evening News reported. The talks
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          UPS chosen for Olympian mission
          94 40 [SINGAPORE] United Parcel Service (UPS) has been chosen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to deliver the official 1998 Olympic Winter Games invitations to nearly 200 national Olympic committees worldwide. "UPS is pleased to share this experience with our people," said Rosemary Windsor-Williams. UPS vice-president
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          88 40 Bloomberg [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways Co, Japan's second-largest airline, will temporarily freeze a new pay system that links pilots' salaries with their job performance and working hours, a company spokesman said. The company implemented the new system in April 1996 as part of
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          60 40 Reuter [VANCOUVER] Air Canada subsidiary AirßC said on Sunday that it reached a tentative agreement with the union that represents its 300 striking pilots. A spokesman said the deal was subject to ratification by the union members. Ratification is expected to be completed
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          82 40 Reuter [TOKYO] Japan Airlines Co Ltd (JAL) and Nippon Cargo Airlines Co Ltd (NCA) said yesterday that they were separately negotiating with forwarders over possible increases in air cargo rates from April. Officials of the two companies said that the rate increases were necessary
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      16 25 Acartels's stranglehold The story behind Japan's defiance in the face cf US trade sanctions. Page 2
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      107 40 International freight tender is invited from vessel owners/agents/ brokers for transportation of 100.000 metric tons (SPCT MOL Supplier's Option) Murban crude oil from Jebel Dhana to Chittagong under lifting laycan 25-27 March. 1997 on account of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC). Tender schedule (details terms and conditions) may be obtained from
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