The Business Times, 3 May 1997

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 02« V 12/96 85f SINGAPORE Internet- http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes WEEKEND EDITION, MAY 3-4,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Jakarta to build shopping district to rival Orchard Rd
    610 1  -  Major developers taking part in multi-billion dollar project that will take 10 years to complete Prom S N Vasuki in Jakarta A GROUP of major property developers has embarked on an ambitious project in Jakarta to replicate Singapore's Orchard Road in
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    Lock icon Markets comfortable with UK Labour's big win
    603 1  -  Decisive victory expected to keep party's economic agenda moderate From. Neil Behrmann in London CURRENCY and stock markets took the historic Labour landslide in the British elections in their stride, confident that the astounding Labour victory would give the new Prime Minister, Tony
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    Keppel Land bags big Newton site for $262.2m
    276 1  -  By Diana Oon [SINGAPORE] Keppel Land has bought a 131,000 sq ft freehold redevelopment site in the Newton area for a benchmark price of $262.2 million. The sale price works out to $717 per sq ft per plot ratio (psf ppr) after
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      116 1 DUMB fhmmcum China continues to enjoy a high torel of confidence in its leadership after Deng's death, says Mr Goh, P|7 [IB RiflWi Oumtwi Computer wunderkind Michael Dell tells Kenneth James about his unconventional rood to anccefw. EL 2 The Hongkong market is no longer a bargain with the Hang
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Q1 residential property prices slide 3.7%
      419 2  -  Volume lower; apartment, condo prices fall most By< Abdul Hadhi RESIDENTIAL property prices slipped 3.7 per cent during the first quarter of this year compared to the previous quarter amid lower volume, according to the latest property price index figures. Prices of apartments and
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      China has full faith in its leaders: PM Goh
      754 2  -  Factions and political chaos are written lip by some Western press Reports from Quak Hiang Whai inSitzhou CHINA continues to enjoy a high level of confidence in its leadership after the death of Deng Xiaoping and reports of factions among the
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      US$200m boost for Suzhou park from 13 companies
      539 2 More than half of new investments to come from Glazo-WeOcome THE China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park received a big boost yesterday when 13 companies committed themselves to fixed asset investments worth US$2OO million (Ss2BB million) in all. More than half the new investments
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      Lock icon Tycoon Khoo out to sell Ladyhill for over $185m
      472 2  -  By Jenny Lam FRESH from selling Boulevard Hotel, property magnate Khoo Teck Puat's family is now seeking buyers for the Ladyhill Hotel off Orange Grove Road at an asking price of over $185 million. Industry sources said the Khoo family is
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      Neighbourly hand for Ampro
      279 2 Prominent regional businessmen to head investment unit Gema AMPRO Holdings Singapore the economic arm of the Association of Muslim Professionals has roped in prominent regional businessmen such as Aburizal Bakrie, Fadel Muhamad and Kamarudin Jaafar to head its investment vehicle. Gema Holdings. Mr Aburizal is chairman
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      Ministry tenders to go on the Internet
      116 2 OPEN tender invitations by ministries and statutory boards will be available on the Internet, the Finance Ministry said yesterday. Interested contractors will be able to access tender information on the Web site, which also allows the downloading of registration guidelines and application forms.
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      401 2 THE WEATHER "TP— Showers with thunder in the afternoon, mainly over Northern and Western Singapore. Temperature (34-25). Aate-Padfle HU/Xo* K Cni Par if HVLo* Goad. America HOC OmmL Aurktand IVM CVwdy Amsterdam 13/06 Cloudy iw™ i™, mju simwen Bangkok 3&tt Cloudy Aims 17/12 Cloudy Skwas Bepg 25/11 Sunny Berlin 15/04
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  • FOCUS: PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
    • BULL'S EYE
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        Lock icon BT Sentiment Index
        656 3 City Developments Ltd ♦(Accumulate) Fraser Securities, April 30 CITY Dev. together with its parent Hong Leong Holdings, has purchased the much-sought-after Boulevard Hotel site for $410 million. The site area is 130,535 sq ft, which works out to about $1,120 psf based on a revised plot ratio
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        In My Opinion
        380 3  -  Irene Cheung Roonnmlrt, Merrill Lynch um HE soft landing of the I Indonesian economy X in 1996 has allowed the authorities to ease monetary policy. An indication is the 30-day SBI (Bank Indonesia Certificates) rate which has fallen by over 200 basis points to 10.625 per cent
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      Lock icon Caution is keyword for HK
      855 3  -  Stockmarket is above fair value level and low rental yields in the property market may not be sustainable Andrew Look The writer is a portfolio manager at Prudential Portfolio Managers Asia [HONGKONG) HONGKONG was a "safe haven" in 1995 and 1996, sheltering equity investors from
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      Standard Chartered's unit trust reward-risk rankings
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      Lock icon Sleepless in the US —over annuities
      597 3 Variable annuities seem worth a lot less whenever the Dew takes a dive Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The stock market has been giving sleepless nights of late to people in the US who had looked to it to provide a smooth ride to a worryfree
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      Lock icon Merrill taps baby boomers
      306 3 Bloomberg [NEW YORK) Merrill Lynch Co is selling a new package of retirement management services to baby boomers. For a flat US$5OO (Ss72o) a year, it said, investors get help preparing financially for retirement, and a package of related services, including assistance with ageing parents. The
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  • THE REGION
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      Resistance to moves to free Thai condo market
      476 4  -  BANGKOK Opposition MP, some businesses s&y plan will give foreigners control of property By] Harish Mehta THE Thai government's decision to allow full foreign ownership of condominium projects is facing resistance from some quarters. An opposition politician and sections of the Thai
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      Asean-based US diplomats to go on roadshow to market region
      306 4  -  SINGAPORE Ambassadors will tour Irvine, Detroit, Boston next month By Yang Razali Kassim US AMBASSADORS and senior commercial officials based in Asean capitals will be touring three major US cities to draw the attention of American businesses to market opportunities
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      Lock icon Taiwan's listed firms' profit up 43% in Q1
      230 4 TAIPEI Reuter TAIWAN'S economy was recovering, with all 386 listed firms' net profit surging 43 per cent in the first quarter to NT570.62 billion (553.67 billion) from NT549.29 billion a year earlier, the Commercial Times said yesterday. The paper attributed the high
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      Lock icon Forget bulls and bears, here come rats
      63 4 [SYDNEY] Officer workers and stock brokers jump the start of the annual Rat Race through the streets of Sydney yesterday to raise money for the Australian Red Cross. Several hundred of the well-heeled white collar elite competed for the first prize of a
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      New export insurance for HK SMEs
      295 4  -  UHONGKONG By\ Loh Hui Yin SMALL and medium-sized enterprises, which form the backbone of Hongkong's economy, now have a new export insurance policy that provides more protection for their exports. The policy, aimed at firms with annual turnovers of under HK$5O million (559.3 million),
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      Lock icon PPP boycotts Indon election campaign
      174 4 JAKARTA AFP SEVERAL branches of Indonesia's Muslim-led United Development Party (PPP) staged a one-day boycott of the election campaign yesterday to protest against attacks on its offices, a party official said. "Our office has been destroyed by (ruling) Golkar masses, and the authorities do nothing
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      1800 4 FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) >yr NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY QIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at 62 Toh Quan Road, #05-00, Freight Links Expreae Diatripark, Singapore *****1 at 11.00 a.m. on 16 May
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  • UK ELECTION
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      Lock icon The shift of politics to the centre
      949 5  -  Tory rout shows voters want middle-of-the-road policies to cope with unemployment, health and other insecurities By\ Neil Behrmann Source: AFP [LONDON] BRITISH political analysts are assessing why Tony Blair's Labour Party has confounded even its most avid optimists by sweeping into power with
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      What they say
      276 5 A new dawn has broken, has it not? We always said that if we had the courage to change then we could do it. And we did it.' Tony Blair, Labour leader, on victory 'Tonight we have been comprehensively defeated. We will listen to the voice of
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      Lock icon Sure win, unsure future
      773 5  -  Will Blair be able to address Britain's real political needs? By Anthony Lewis NYT WILL a tamed Labour Party, in power for the first time in 18 years, be bold enough to address Britain's real political needs? That is one question raised by Tony Blair's landslide
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      Time to mend fences with EU
      624 5  -  Brussels sees Blair taking more positive view of integration Frotn Shada Islam in Brussels FOR most of the last 18 years of Conservative rule in Britain, London has clashed with its European Union partners over foreign policy, defence, agriculture, trade and claims that Eurocrats
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  • REGION/WORLD
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      Lock icon US April jobless rate hits 23-year low of 4.9%
      445 6 WASHINGTON But the number of non-form jobs created was for fewer than expected Reuter THE US unemployment rate fell to 4.9 per cent last month its lowest rate in more than 23 years from 5.2 per cent in March, even though
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      Lock icon Leading US index up 0.1% in March
      303 6 NEW YORK Bloomberg THE US index of leading economic indicators, intended to project economic activity over the next half year, increased in March for the 14th consecutive monthly gain. The Conference Board's index rose 0.1 per cent in March after rising an unrevised
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      AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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      Lock icon Taking it easy in jail
      62 6 [WEITERSTADT, Germany] A prison officer points to the modern swimming pool at the Weiterstadt jail at near Frankfurt The jail was rebuilt after being destroyed in 1993 in a bomb attack by leftwing guerillas. The jail, regarded as one of the most modern in Europe,
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      Lock icon Kim's son faces arrest on May 10: reports
      178 6 SEOUL AFP SOUTH Korean President Kim Young Sam's son and his associates are suspected of hiding tens of millions of dollars and prosecutors plan to arrest the son on graft charges on May 10, reports said yesterday. The prosecutors also found that
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      Lock icon Nikkei rises to its highest level this year
      400 6  -  TOKYO March unemployment figures fuel hopes of recovery By Anthony Rowley TOKYO stock prices rose sharply yesterday to their highest level this year as favourable employment figures for March added to growing optimism about Japan's economic recovery. The Nikkei-225 Average closed 239.42
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      Lock icon Tech stocks slide, Taiwan index tumbles
      152 6 m TAIPEI Bloomberg TAIWAN stocks took their biggest tumble in almost a year, as a slide in Advanced Semiconductor Engineering and other technology companies cast doubt over one of this year's biggest stockmarket rallies. The benchmark Weighted Price Index fell 3.5 per cent yesterday.
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      Taiwan-China spat over consulates in HK
      459 6  -  TAIPEI Beijing using issue as bargaining tool in shipping talks Byl Bruce Cheesman TAIWAN fired off another salvo yesterday in the war with Beijing over the status of the consulates of its main diplomatic allies in Hongkong after the July 1 transition to Chinese
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      Lock icon Millennium bomb may cut phone links
      276 6 LONDON FT MAJOR telecoms operators have warned that it could be impossible to telephone some countries after the turn of the century because of the so-called "millennium bomb". While large operators in the US and UK are investing heavily to ensure their systems are
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Keppel to inject more funds into Manila bank
      387 7  -  Group hopes to open 6 branches within first year of Monte de Piedad re-opening By i Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The Keppel Group expects to invest additional financial and human resources to build and expand its recently purchased bank in the Philippines. Under
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      Lock icon Tye Soon likely to rate high among new listings
      490 7  -  Anto parts trader wpurt^^liniUll IPO on Monday Byi Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] If the success of Mercedes-Benz is anything to go by, auto parts trader Tye Soon should get star rating among new listings here. The 64-year-old homegrown company, which just got
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      Nera will not issue new shares in secondary listing on SES
      362 7  -  Trading in the US$ shares to start next week on mainboard By Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Oslo-listed Nera ASA yesterday announced it will launch a secondary listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore, but will not be issuing any new
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      Was there bear raiding of KLI, Rahman Hydraulic shares?
      831 7  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW R Sivanithy THERE'S a very fine line between panic and opportunism in the stock market, one that gets shaved even thinner during periods when sentiment is weak, as it has been in the past week. With market observers
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
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        Great River ties up US$175m five-year financing package
        346 8  -  Indonesian company keen to penetrate markets in S'pore, Thailand, Malaysia By\ Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] PT Great River International, one of Indonesia's leading apparel distributors and manufacturers, yesterday concluded its largest ever financing package here worth US$l75 million (***** million). The five-year revolving
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        Lock icon MBf Capital, Suria surge on merger talk
        316 8 Suria Canital shares up 43 sen, MBf Capital stock soars 88 sen Reuter, Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian financial services houses MBf Capital Bhd and Suria Capital Holdings Bhd were activelytraded yesterday on rumours of a possible merger between them, analysts and dealers said.
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        SingTech firms' foreign share limits raised
        275 8 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Technologies' listed companies have received approval to raise their foreign shareholding limits to 49 per cent, but there are no overseas fundraising projects in the works, said a group spokesman. "This approval to raise foreign limits would give flexibility to oyr companies
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        Lock icon Berjaya to sell its 80% stake in Berjaya Singer for M$1.2b
        214 8 Bernama, Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR) Berjaya Group Bhd is selling its 80 per cent holdings or 225.7 million shares in Berjaya Singer Bhd (BSinger) for Msl.2 billion (Ss69l million) or MJ5.30 a share. The proposed sale is expected to yield
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        Lock icon Lager than life
        50 8 [TOKYO] A cleaner perches on top of a gigantic object symbolising Japan's leading beer company Asahi Beer Co. The object, 44 metres in length and 14 metres in height, sits on top of Asahi Beer Co's headquarters building and has become one of Tokyo's tourist attractions. AFP
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        Lock icon Westmont Ind plans 2 for 5 rights offer
        139 8 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Westmont Industries Bhd plans to make a rights offer and a special share sale to raise M 5307.8 million (*****.3 million) to repay bank debts. Westmont, a Malaysian engineering and ship repair company, said it will offer two new
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        Lock icon More details on MSCI S'pore index changes
        458 8 New figures give the amount of adjustment for foreign shares Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Morgan Stanley Capital International announced more details on changes to one of its Singapore indexes, giving additional information about how the index will be calculated. In February, the company, known as
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        Lock icon MAS plans to retrofit its existing jets
        115 8 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airlines is to retrofit its fleet of Boeing 747 and Airbus 300 jets as part of its efforts to become a top class airline, The Star reported. It quoted the airline's chairman Tajudin Ramli as saying the two-year programme
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        Lock icon Higher loss on sale: Wing Tiek
        257 8 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian industrial group Wing Tiek Holdings Bhd said yesterday it made a loss of Msl46 million (SsB4 million) after the sale of two Philippines companies. Wing Tiek said in a statement the losses were incurred by the sale of Philippine steel
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        Lock icon Proton in talks to make more models
        267 8 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] National car maker Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Malaysia (Proton) yesterday confirmed that it is in discussions with Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corporation and its key partners to manufacture a wider range of cars. Proton's chief executive officer. Tengku Mahaleel Tengku Ariff, told
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    • REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
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        Lock icon Hyundai to recall 75,000 cars in US
        261 9 Faulty wipers prompt biggest US recall for S Korean carmaker Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hyundai Motor Co, South Korea's largest carmaker, will recall 75,000 cars in the US, saying they have faulty windshield wipers. That's the biggest US recall for a South Korean carmaker and
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        Lock icon Unilever Q1 profit disappoints
        264 9 Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] Unilever NV said first-quarter net profit rose a worse-than-expected ll per cent, as provisions for restructuring in Europe and extra marketing expenses in the US held hack earnings growth. The maker of products such as Persil detergent, Calvin Klein perfume and Magnum ice cream
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        Lock icon Court frees IBM from 1956 anti-trust curbs
        347 9 Computer giant no longer brand by law to separate computer sales and service ops Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] A federal judge has approved an agreement between International Business Machines (IBM) and the Justice Department that ends the last remaining terms of a 1956 anti-trust decree.
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        Lock icon Nike goes to their heads
        45 9 [BEIJING] A group ofout-of-town visitors sporting Nike baseball caps but not the matching shoes during a visit to Beijing's Tiananmen Square yesterday. America's Nike is just one of many foreign sporting goods companies aggressively marketing their goods in China. AFP
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        Lock icon AT&T abandons bid to launch new class of satellites
        272 9 US firm wrtiwg satellite operations to focus on core business Reuter [NEW YORK] AT&T Corp has said that it withdrew its application with the US government for a licence to launch a new generation of communications satellites. AT&T's decision to cancel
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        Lock icon Westpac shares rise 2%
        128 9 AFP [SYDNEY] Shares in Australia's Westpac Banking Corp Ltd jumped more than 2 per cent yesterday on news it planned to buy back up to 50 million shares on the market. Westpac said the scheme was an extension of one announced in November which had to
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
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        CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        Lock icon Simex not threatened by Taiwan's futures market
        358 10 Taiwan contracts traded here aimed at international funds, says Simex president Reuter [SINGAPORE] Taiwan stock index futures traded on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) will survive the opening of Taiwan's own futures market, a Simex official said yesterday. "As far as we're
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        Lock icon US$ seen shedding some gains
        412 10 USB/mark: The greenback started the week on a strong note, trading to a high of 1.7395 on Monday, only to lose more ground to touch 1.7165 by Thursday. The technical perspective seems to suggest that the greenback could see more downside risk in the shortterm.
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      • Article
        Quotation of Singapore Government Stocks (Apr 30,1997)
        356 10 INDICATIVE NUMBER MIDDLE PRICES 5*U?5£SI ftr^S?°r (EXCLUDING CK08S MATURITY '1. YEAH RAISED I AM °2S ACCRUED ACCRUED REDEMPTION MATURITY YEAR RAISED (SPA) «M> DATES {NTBUEST INTEREST) YIELD f% PA) 1.5.97 Loan 1 1977 61/4 508.19 1/5 1/11 180 100.00 6.06 15.5.97 N*****0E 1992
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        Lock icon Deutsche Bank buys NSW's Axiom
        245 10 Reuter [SYDNEY] The New South Wales state government said yesterday that it would sell the Axiom fund management business to Deutsche Bank Group for As24o million (Ss27o million). "The government found the Deutsche Bank Group's proposal was of the greatest long-term benefit to taxpayers and
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        Lock icon Dillon Read resisting ING offer
        152 10 FT [NEW YORK] Dillon Read, the Wall Street investment banking partnership, said it is resisting attempts by Dutch financial group ING to boost its current 25 per cent shareholding to full control. The statement follows ING's confirmation of reports that it is seeking full control
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        Lock icon Euroyen down on Japan jobs data
        207 10 SIMEX Report Reuter (SINGAPORE) Simex Euroyen futures were slightly easier late yesterday following an improvement in Japan's March unemployment rate, but dealers said trade was largely technically driven amid a lack of fresh leads. December Euroyen stood at 99.00 at 1110 GMT against its
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        Futures down sharply on earnings concerns
        176 10  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES By Perry Gilbert THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Index futures plunged yesterday amid depressed sentiment and concerns over profits of lead ing Taiwan blue-chip compa nies. The main market index closed down 3.52 per cent yesterday. its biggest fall for 1997. High
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        Lock icon Oil prices lower on rising supplies
        237 10 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON) Oil prices lost ground for the second day in a row yesterday as rising crude supplies and the end of seasonal refinery maintenance got the better of demand increases. London June futures for bellwether North Sea Brent blend slipped 34
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        Lock icon CURRENCY REPORT
        263 10 Reuter, AFP THE dollar closed higher against the mark after shrugging off the US jobs figures which, had they been stronger, might have helped prompt a US interest rate rise which would have been good news for the dollar. The US jobs report, gave mixed signals and pushed
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      COMMODITY PRICES
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      1614 11 Bloomberg OWkktiaaS ****** STOCKS rose for a fourth day as banking shares gained on increased optimism about the outlook for the industry and a weaker yen boosted exporters. Exporters gained as the dollar strengthened in Asian trading to 126.70, up from 126.45 earlier in the day. A stronger dollar
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2396 11 LOWOOW Mwtriais Kay 2 Naca *h 3ICr«*" 517.400 *6.400 AB Ports 274 1.600 AtXwy National #37 -7.400 AINadDamacq 424.400 -7.600 Amc 143.400 .400 Aidi Group 116.400 1-200 BAT Ind 522 *7 BGPtc 181 *.800 BICC 221 1 0OC Group 949.400 1.400 BR Patrolaum 703.400 -3.600 BTR 261
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      1611 12 Reuter PJ Hang Seng *60 JB STOCKS ended higher for the third day in a row yesterday, with a rally in property and bank stocks keeping the Hang Seng Index well above 13,000 points, although momentum began to slow after a strong week. The Hang Seng ended 60.92 points,
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      398 12 Reuter □*p Index -296.tt STOCKS tumbled yesterday as investors dumped shares they saw as overvalued, and analysts said they expected further declines amid political and economic uncertainties. The Weighted Price Index fell 298.66 points to finish at 8,187, marking the heaviest single-day loss in 15 months. Turnover was an
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      256 12 AFX-Asia n Wellington +1L42 The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed 11.42 points higher at 2,277.53 amid prospects of an easing in monetary policy, dealers said. Turnover was valued at NZ557.17 million. -AFX-Asia 2 us com) AW Banking 9.30 0.10 ***** Adv*nt*gn Hldgs 1.38 0.08 *****0 Air Htm Z»*und (A) 2.91
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      816 12 Reuter □set Index -Ll» THAI stocks dipped marginally in thin trade as investors sold large capitalised communication and finance issues ahead of a long weekend, brokers said. The composite SET Index eased shortly after the market reopened in the afternoon and it closed 1.19 points lower at 660.10 on
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      410 12 Reuter H Composite Iniex *187 FOREIGN investors focused their buying on South Korean blue chip shares yesterday, the first day of the latest increase in the ceiling on for-eign-owned stocks, as domestic institutions fed their demand, brokers said. The ceiling, which rose to 23 per cent from 20 per
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      596 12 AFP Primaries +&2 SHARE prices firmed 0.2 per cent buoyed by a rally in the banking sector that was sparked by leading bank Westpac Banking Corp's announcement of a massive stock buyback. The All Ordinaries Index closed 6.2 points firmer at 2,491.6. Turnover totalled 280.8 million shares worth AJ744.2
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      747 12 AFX-Asia Q Composite Index -2JT7 SHARE prices closed lower yesterday on profit-taking in select stocks, with trade dominated by second- and thirdline stocks. The Composite Index closed down 2.57 points at 647.89 on estimated volume of 200 million shares worth 379.02 billion rupiah. An institutional sales representative with a
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      323 12 AFP □Manila -4152 SHARE prices fell 1.6 per cent to a 16-month low due to concern over the property and banking sectors and disappointing first quarter corporate profit reports. The PSE Composite Index fell 42.52 points to 2,605.65, the lowest close since the index Finished at 2,578.97 on Jan
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        474 13 Reuter El Composite Index ♦17.71 SHARES rallied towards the close yesterday as foreign institutional funds selectively bought blue-chip stocks after sharp falls in recent weeks, dealers and analysts said. The Composite Index gained 17.79 points to 1,097.96. "We have been net buyers today (Friday). There
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        195 14  -  WARRANT WATCH By\ R Sivanithy JUDGING by reports from brokers, Malaysia looks set to take off next week and in all likelihood, should outperform Singapore. It therefore makes sense to trawl the market there for value. Our search yields a warrant
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        HOT STOCK
        59 16  -  -by Shiv Taneja UIC LTD, which closed two cents lower yesterday at $1.07 on a volume of 2.21 million shares, will face more downward pressure in the days ahead. There is support for the stock at just above the £1 mark, and long-term investors should begin accumulating the
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        217 16 SUcta Vetamt *MBf Hldgs 50c 13,934,000 HK Land US$0.10 7,098,000 •MBf Capital 5,485,000 SingTel 15c 4,911.000 •MBF Land 8hd 3,232,000 Keppei Corp 3,129,000 U08 Foreign 2,284,000 UIC 2,216,000 •Renong Bhd 50c 2,205,000 Keppei Land 50c 2,184,000 (JOB Foreign 31,724,728 Keppei Corp 19,631,595 City Oev 50c 19,580,696 SIA Foreign 17,462,293 DBS
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        Shares recover further, led by bank, electronics stocks
        654 16  -  STOCK MABXET COMMENTARY Modest firming too of property counters as worries over talk of HDB curbs recede; firm US bond market underpins bny programmes By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] The local stock market's recovery from a 27-month low continued into its second day
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          Drivers decide the comfort
          118 16 WE hear that NTUC Comfort has been carrying out a flourishing business exporting its old taxis, which the publicly-listed transport company is obliged to take off the roads once they reach seven years. A developing country that has been buying the übiquitous blue taxis is Myanmar.
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          Yeo Seng Teck is out
          93 16 AND who should we chance upon at Tresors, the recent arts fair at Suntec City? None other than Yeo Seng Teck, former chief executive officer of the Trade Development Board, who has quietly finished his term at Changi Prison and is now a free man.
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          A remarkable blunder
          158 16 IT was a remarkable blunder by any measure. Journalists who attended the recent press conference in London to announce the membership of Portugal Telecom in the British Telecom-MCl's Concert alliance were given a major "scoop" by default. It seems the publicity people at Portugal Telecom had given
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          British-born but Asian-bred
          108 16 AMONG the 10 London-listed companies with high exposure to Asia-Pacific are Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC Holdings and Cable and Wireless, according to a Financial Times survey. Standard Chartered derived 69 per cent of its revenue from the region compared to 19 per cent from the UK while
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          Different angles
          137 16 JOURNALISTS and bureaucrats have an interesting relationship because they tend to look at things from different angles. Here are two examples. Recently, a news agency quoted Malaysia's central bank deputy governor Fong Weng Phak as saying that 26 V out of the country's 37 commercial banks haven't exceeded
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      1519 17  -  Stress at work may be on the rise, but executives today can also turn to an ever-growing number of enterprises offering innovative ways to help them work off that stress, ben mukrob reports BEN MUNROE Stress is automatically blamed as the cause of many a
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        53 17 WORKING at Planet Hollywood seems to have turned some waiters into aspiring stand-up comedians. Like our "server" at the Liat Towers outlet who, when we asked to hold on to the menu, said: "Sure, but please don't eat on it." Then again, he might not
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        Corporate secrets
        88 17 HAVING problems in the office? Perhaps you're not familiar with the unwritten rules of work, as defined by that long suffering employee, Dilbert: A pat on the back is only a few centimetres away from a kick in the butt. You can go anywhere if you look serious
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        Discrimination
        93 17 A DOORMAN at a five-star hotel in the CBD area seems a little selective when it comes to providing "umbrella services" for guests. One wet afternoon, three local journalists who joined the hotel's taxi queue were glad to see how the doorman was cheerfully using his huge umbrella to
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        1610 18  -  Computer wunderkind Michael Dell tells bbmmbth jambs how he gained success by breaking with convention and why his unorthodox approach makes sense KENNETH JAMES THERE he sits, his back to the Singapore skyline, a clean-cut, fresh-faced young man in crisply pressed shirt and tie. You have to
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        Maverick approach to doing business
        894 18 AT 32, Michael Dell heads a multi-billion dollar company that looks like it's going to keep growing like wildfire. "So where does someone like you go from here?" you ask. "To Penang," he shoots back with a grin. He's being literal, of course; the north
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        574 18 CHILDREN are becoming more savvy about computers, and that's a good thing, Michael Dell believes. "I think computerisation in schools is incredibly important. This is the language of the future. All the evidence suggests that when you get children exposed to computers, they learn very
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        930 19  -  More than any other Asian religion, Buddhism has travelled farthest afield and held the greatest sway over the region' art and culture, mt mm views an exhibition that traces the artistic consequences of this religious movement IOLA LENZI IN THE COURSE of history, over half the world
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        834 19  -  Tamagotchis easy to raise, hot it's also a virtual bore By, Jaime Ee IAM used to receiving my pets in newspaperlined boxes, baskets, or tied to my door with rubber bone in mouth. What I am not used to is getting a pet
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      619 20  -  CINEMA If yon see just one gangster movie this year, make it Donnie Brasco. It has trne grit, lots of gats, and a surprising amount of heart By David Boey POOR service just doesn't pay, as the maitred' of a Japanese sushi joint deftly demonstrates in the prelude
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      Sinning in more ways than one
      769 20  -  CINEMA What in heaven's name has happened to The Saint? He has lost both wit and style in Phillip Noyce's big-screen revival. Worst of all, he isn't even English anymore By! Shahiron Sahari THE SAINT, for those of us familiar with the 1960s television
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      534 21  -  NIGHTSPOT This hangout at Changi Garden will soon pat yon in the right mood for fan By, A Surendren IF SOME guy tells you that he sings the blues at the Crazy Elephant and Saxophone on Sundays, then runs a place out east where "we
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        71 21 Singapore Sinfonietta Made up of some 20 musicians from the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Singapore Sinfonietta will perform Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 5, Barber's Adagio for Strings, Korngold's 'Much Ado About Nothing' Suite Op U and Gershwin's Just Another Rumba and Love is Here to Stay. May 6, 8.15pm
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        125 21 Sheep A visual dance performance by Dance Dimension Project. The seats from the Guinness Theatre will be removed to allow audiences to take part occasionally during the performance. Until May 6, Bpm daily at The Substation, Guinness Theatre. Tickets at $15 available at all Ticket Charge outlets. Call Dance
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        125 21 Wong Keen and Zhuang Shengtao The semi-abstract oil paintings of New York-based Singapore artist Wong Keen, and the contemporary abstracts in Chinese ink by Singapore artist Zhuang Shengtao will be on display. May 2 to May 24, 10am to 6pm daily (Monday to Saturday) at Shenn s Fine Art,
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        42 21  -  Compiled by M Yasotha Chinese Clan Associations In Singapore This talk takes a look at how these associations play a part in Singaporean Chinese cultural practices and cosmology. May 5, 9.30 am Ham at National Museum, Audiovisual Theatrette. Admission is free.
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        837 22  -  Desa Kartika goes easy on the coconut milk and lets the spices, rather than the cholesterol, do the talking, mime be samples the results JAIME EE INDONESIAN food, going by what is served in restaurants here, seems to consist essentially of tauhu telor, ikan
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        280 22 BUMBU started out as this odd little Indonesian cafe at Delfi Orchard that had aspirations to become another Hard Rock Cafe in addition to satay and nasi goreng, it sold baseball caps with a chilli emblem. Talk about tackiness personified. Recently, the restaurant
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        873 22  -  WINE CONNOISSEUR An authoritative panel pats same Californian, French and Australian wines to the test By N K Yong NORTHERN Rhone's Hermitage (Syrah) was, at the turn of this century, among the most expensive wines of France. Today it is somewhat overshadowed by Bordeaux and Burgundy, but
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      1132 23 Bemhola. Italian movie full of promises and excesses. R(A). Yangtze: 11.30pm. Breaking The Waves. A puritanical Scottish community threatens to scuttle a troubled marriage. Oscar-nominee Emily Watson turns in a riveting performance. R(A). GVMarina: 1; 6.9. Lido: 11;2;5.45;8.45; 11.45. Oriental: 11;2;5.45; 8.45, 12am. The Crueible. Pagan rituals exact a
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        1713 24  -  jSpas in Australia are attracting not just the local crowd but overseas visitors as well, uliam amo takes time off from sightseeing to enjoy a little pampering LILIAN ANG USTRALIA is A A better known for boxing kangaroos and sleepy koalas than mineral springs. But in
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      1756 23 TODAY'S TV IS Stars. MCOHIkaPiIBD fiawwfl 12.00 NN TV Innovations. Prince Valiant. LOO PM Tennis: ATP Tour 3 30 1116 Pastagums AnVIOP from oVer a famil V feud Things Highlights 1997 St. Pe *-00 Ya Alif!(r). get complicated when one tersburg Open 1997. 4 30 Columbus. Nanny Fine of the
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      236 23 RADIO Anatomy Of Addiction, BBC, he handles the buying and Saturday, L3opm selling of obscure strips of Why are humans prone to land. Then Katharine walks addiction? Some scientists say into his life, and for the first that instincts honed for time he starts to dream of survival over millennia
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