The Business Times, 11 June 1997

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  • 862 1  -  Domestic users to pay 120% more orors years, businesses 30% more By Ven Sreenivasan (SINGAPORE] The government yesterday announced a major restructuring of water tariffs and related charges over the next three years, but spared companies from the brunt of steep price increases.
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  • 452 1  -  Premiums are on average 53% higher than levels a year ago By Christopher Tan (SINGAPORE] The upward trend in COE premiums this year has continued, with the tender for July certificates of entitlement to own cars resulting in prices rising by as much as $6,600
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  • 390 1  -  Grouping to start cross-country trials in September By] Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Top Asian telecom and multimedia players, led by Japanese powerhouse Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTH, yesterday launched a grouping that could usher in a new era in regional cooperation
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 617 2  -  Work on plan will begin at Asean economic ministers' meet on Fri: PM Goh /tyi Conrad Raj in Manila SINGAPORE and Manila have fembarked on an action plan to Improve bilateral ties. The Philippines-Singapore Action Plan (PSAP), proposed by President
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    • 301 2 N&tSteel involved in study of Manila Bay's urban renewal PHILIPPINE President Fidel Ramos and Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday witnessed the signing of several memoranda of understanding and the launch of Keppel Corp's scholarship programme. The first MOU, for cultural cooperation,
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    • 278 2  -  Ry> Jennifer Lien GLOBAL electronics group Philips is investing a total of US$lOO million (Ssl42 million) to set up and expand its cellular phone and pager factory here. The group's Philips Consumer Communications unit yesterday opened its facility, which is housed in
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    • 269 2  -  EYE OK THE ECONOMY Construction By\ Diana Oon ABOUT $3.7 billion worth of progress payments were made in the construction industry in the first quarter, according to latest figures from the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB). This amounts to a year-on-year growth of 5.9 per cent
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    • 402 2  -  Water from Rian, desalination plants costs six times more By' Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE can be self-suffi-cient in water if it chooses to be but the cost of achieving this will be extremely high. Deputy Prime Minister BG Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday.
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    • NEWS Roundup
      • 71 2 Al5-MEMBER team set off for Europe yesterday to promote Singapore as an exhibition centre. This will be the,, first in a series of such trade missions. The new exhibition centre at Changi, Singapore Expo, will be among the selling points highlighted. Besides representatives from
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      • 52 2 SINGAPORE has ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The convention, which aims to stabilise lobal level of greenhouse gases, will come into force gapore on Aug 27. Singapore will havetoBUbmita jnal inventory of its greenhouse gas emissions to thee nvention secretariat within
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      • 58 2 The Straits Times TWENTY-three people from Singapore have contracted malaria on Bintan island since March this year, the Environment Ministry said yesterday. Responding to queries from The Straits Times, a spokesman said that 17 were guests of hotels in the Bintan Beach Resort The other
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    • 538 3  -  He sees high-tech Industries as possible area in which the two can work together From Yang Razali Kassim in Johor Baru JOHOR Mentri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman yesterday called for a new phase of economic cooperation between Johor and Singapore. Couching
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    • 329 3  -  By< Ang Wan May JAPANESE arrivals to Singapore slowed another 10 per cent during the popular Japanese Golden Week holiday season this year, tour operators said. According to a survey by the Japanese Tour Operators (JTO), Singapore fared badly in attracting the yearly exodus
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    • Article, Illustration
      31 3 [SINGAPORE] No registration, no COE, RPS, etc. This minibike—a new way to beat all road taxes was seen on its way from Newton Circus towards Orchard Road. CHRIS LOH
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    • 263 3  -  Expert performance has improved qualitatively: TDB By* Audrey Tan HIGH-TECHNOLOGY exports grew 16 per cent each year between 1990 and 1996 faster than the corresponding 11 per cent in total non-oil domestic exports. Last year alone, exports of high-tech products grew around
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  • FOCUS: PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
    • 271 4 Rtcommtnd»d portfolio weights/or BT-SRI Stocks 9f3i«»»SSa™. tmr UM1.98 Aaumulau 0.56% I>ll m* MMO itewialMt 3.07% —IM °-M% USW.78 QMS ***—r sm 8W«*> 82H slm* VtMWuakfF) 5.56% SI18.60 DBSS'parent 5.56% H>rh« l.a>% UM0.736 *>M 1.36% fmiTTW» nm PM3.00 Accumulau 0.86% —tAMMl 087% US85.56 Accumulate—QJ9% Ml 1.09% S84.78 «2« 074%
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    • 534 4  -  nmunuAL tihwfoimt Peg resistance at 2,080 and expect downside to test 1,980 initially By Naresh Verma The writer is a manager of technical analysis advisory (South-east Asia) at Dow Jones. The opinions in this column are personal and do not represent the views
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    • 592 4  -  BYBOIV THERMION! MALAYSIA Lack of choice will pot firms in corridor at disadvantage By i Greg Feldberg The writer is a Hongkong-based investment analyst with ABN-AMRO Hoare Govett DON'T be fooled if you don't see much of Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) right now.
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  • ASIA TELECOM 97
    • 414 6  -  Unilateral redaction of np to 70% if no consensus in next two months: FCC By] David Boey THE US reiterated yesterday that it would proceed to unilaterally slash its international telecommunications settlement rates possibly by up to 70 per cent if a
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    • 179 6 ASEAN telecommunication companies (telcos) have combined their resources to offer regional telecom services, Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel) CEO, BG Lee Hsien Yang, announced yesterday at Asia Telecom 97. Customers can now order business telecom services in the six participating countries from any
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    • 453 6  -  By Catherine Ong IRIDIUM World Communications, which aims to be the first to launch a global satellite handphone and pager in September 1998, has raised US$24O million (***** million) through an initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq yesterday. Trading will begin today in
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    • 415 6  -  THal allows unlimited Net and other access for flat $35 a month Byi Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Cable Vision's high-speed cable modem service is set to give the traditional phone dial-up modem a run for its money with the launch of a public trial which will
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    • 368 6 Carriers most act to share; experts Reuter TELEPHONE calls via the Internet are now so cheap and efficient they will soon dominate the global telecommunications industry, electronics industry executlvesasliifrwiNU terday "The Internet is already seen as a big part of telecommunications.
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    • 285 6  -  By 1 Toh Han Shih EUROPEAN space launch agency Arianespace is riding high on the booming telecommunications industry in Asia. Of the 18 satellites scheduled for launch this year, five are for Asian customers. Last year, Arianespace launched four Asian satellites out
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    • 265 6 BELGIAN telco Belgacom SA has marshalled Singapore Telecom's (SingTel's) expertise to help spearhead its push into the Chinese telecom market. John Goossens, Belgacom's chief executive officer, disclosed this at a press briefing yesterday. *'It is our intention to expand substantially our activities In
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  • FOCUS
    • 1271 8  -  Leader surprises with first post-election cabinet changes, which are believed to be part of his battle plan for next year's presidential elections By Yang Razali Kassim The writer is BT's regional analysis editor. [SINGAPORE] THERE you have it vintage Suharto at work, once again. While the
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 582 9  -  BANGKOK New roles require foreigners dealing in Thai stocks to settle in US dollars By] Harish Mehta THE Bank of Thailand (BOT) yesterday fired another shot in its battle against baht speculators. It closed a loophole in the two-tier currency exchange
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    • 239 9  -  ■BANGKOK By\ Harish Mehta THAI Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has named farmer prime minister and coalition partner, Chatichai Choonhavan, as the head of the government's team of economic and trade ministers. The move is aimed at defusing simmering tensions in the six-party coalition
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    • 184 9 BANGKOK AFP THAI authorities have approved a private consortium's proposal to form a national airline to compete with stateowned carrier Thai Airways International, government aviation officials said yesterday. A private consortium led by Thai transport specialist JVK Holdings Company Ltd was
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    • 53 9 [LANGKA WI ISLAND] A cow wearing a pair of safety reflecting earrings in Malaysia's north-eastern holiday resort of Langkawi island yesterday. This bovine beauty is on trial for a pilot road safety project in the wake of increasing road accidents at night due to
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    • 127 9 PHNOMPENH Reuter PRIVATE investment in Cambodia totalled U*****.3 million (Sssls million) in the first four months of this year, more than double that recorded in the same period in 1996, the state investment board said yesterday. The growth was mainly driven by the approval late last
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    • 256 10 HANOI FT VIETNAM and the European Union are set for a tussle over textile quotas, with Hanoi determined to win greater market access for its booming garment industry and Brussels under pressure from textile federations to stem a rising tide of Vietnamese
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    • 428 10 MANILA The Supreme Court bars petition to amend constitution to allow president to ran again Reuter THE Philippine Supreme Court yesterday threw the race to succeed President Fidel Ramos wide open by denying him any hope of running for a second term. The
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    • 345 10 HANOI Newcomer to be In manufacturing, networks, mobile phones and pagers Bloomberg VIETNAM has moved to end its existing telecommunications monopoly by issuing a licence to a start-up provider belonging to other state-owned companies. Saigon Post and Telecommunications Joint Stock Corporation (Saigon Postel
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    • 329 10 JAKARTA Bloomberg AFP HARMOKO, who was replaced as Indonesia's Minister of Information last week after nearly 15 years in the post, has been told by President Suharto his first new duty will be to brief incoming members of the Indonesian House of
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    • 264 9 Wi i HUNTER VALLEY GOLF COURSE A COUNTRY RESORT Picturesque 18 hole championship goVcoune (6000m/Par 72) nested against its own 10 aae vineyard Strata approved DA/BA for 150 room hotel 4 conference ioofiljff golf clinic, tennis focEho fitness centre 65 hectares of land odjocent to Block Creek Informal lender closes
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  • CHINA – HONGKONG – TAIWAN
    • 410 11 HONGKONG "But property stocks r dm to a low amid worries over future credit tightening Bridge News, Bloomberg AVERAGE office rents continued to rise in May in all three of Hongkong's premier office districts, the latest Vigers/Bridge Hongkong Property Index showed, with
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    • 279 11 K 'li BEIJING Reuter CHINA yesterday warned Tokyo to act carefully to avoid destabilising the Asia-Pacific region with moves to boost its military profile and strength- en a security alliance between )f Japan and the United States. I, Washington and
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    • 254 11 BEIJING Domestic companies controlling some n 40-50% of the market AFP CHINA'S personal computer (PC) market is expected to top three million units this year, up 50 per cent on 1996, as fierce competition drives prices lower, a report said yesterday. Chinese
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    • SINO Briefs
      • 61 11 Reuter [BEIJING] China hopes to expand trade with Japan to US$lOO billion (Ssl42 billion) a year by the end of the century, Chinese Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Wu Yi told her Japanese counterpart Shinji Sato on Monday. China-Japan bilateral trade
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      • 42 11 Bridge News [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Investment Commission approved 12 inward foreign investment projects yesterday, valued at U*****.5 million. It also approved three US$75 million outward investment projects and 17 indirect investment projects to China worth US$BO.7 million. —Bridge News
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      • 70 11 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwan gave approval for President Enterprise Corp, the island's biggest food conglomerate, to invest US$l2 million to partially help set up a hypermarket chain in China. The Ministry of Economic Affairs also let nine others invest U5530.47 million In China, a statement said.
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    • 244 11 BEIJING FT CHINA has begun final evaluation of bids for the supply of turbines and generators for the US$3O billion (5542.6 billion) Three Gorges hydro-pow-er dam on the Yangtze river, but it will not meet a June 30 deadline for selection of the successful bidders. Zhang
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    • 129 11 BEIJING AFX-Asia CHINA'S Prime Minister Li Peng said he sees a bright future for Sino-Japanese relations, as long as the two countries respect promises made when they normalised relations 25 years ago, the Xinhua news agency said. The joint communique, signed in September 1972,
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    • 342 12 HONGKONG P«Mcr»tte Ptfty*! ■mkuKllli chaaeetfnecMß, ay leg*] experts Reuter HONGKONG'S Democratic Party filed a court injunction yesterday to challenge the constitutional legality of Beijing's hand-picked shadow legislature set to replace a demo-cratically-elected assembly upon Hongkong's return. Legal experts said the move, just 21 days
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    • 272 12 HONGKONG OttorWestern countries may follow suit diplomat Reuter THE US has blown a hole in China's plans by boycotting the investiture of Hongkong's new unelected legislature when Beijing takes over from Britain in three weeks, diplomats said yesterday. Hongkong's future leader Tung
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    • 155 12 LONDON Reuter HONGKONG'S future chief executive Tung Chee-hwa said on Monday he would not allow Hongkong to become a base for destabilising China. But Mr Tung, who takes over from Governor Chris Patten when the British pull out on June 30, said he would allow
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    • 293 12 HONGKONG Prawn tek&ligjrt event's mipaUnnl* Beqmg, says paper AFP CHINESE President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng will attend the ceremony for Hongkong's return to show the importance the government attaches to the reversion, it was reported here yesterday. Mr (Jiang will fcrHve in
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  • ASIA
    • 250 13 SEOUL AFP SOUTH Korean officials yesterday stepped in to end a feud among domestic auto makers, vehemently denying that the government supported alleged attempts by the Samsung Group to absorb an existing auto manufacturer. "It is undesirable for the auto industry to get
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    • 74 13 [SYDNEY] Two Australian paralympians, basketballer Lisa O'Nion and sit-skier David Munk, abseilling down Sydney Harbour Bridge yesterday with the help of two police rescue officers. The pair were publicising the news that the Motor Accident Authority (MAA) has signed as the first official partner of the 2000
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    • 397 13 TOKYO Payoff scandal sees arrests of another three bank execs and Jusco's president AFP, Reuter Bridge News PRIME Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto hinted yesterday that the government should review the monopoly enjoyed by Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB) as the sole sales agent for
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    • 156 13 SEOUL Bloomberg SEOULBANK president Chang Man Hwan said he will resign, ignoring requests from the bank's board to reconsider his decision. The board voted unanimously yesterday to reject Mr Chang's resignation request, which results from allegations that he is linked to the bribe-for-loans scandal that
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    • 457 13  -  NEW DELHI Late rains caused concern as nearly 70% of India's agricultural land depends on them By Rajendra Bajpai AFTER a nine-day delay, India's monsoon rains finally broke over the coastal areas of the southern state of Kerala as well as the north-east on
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    • 293 13 WELLINGTON Reuter ECONOMIC growth in New Zealand eased to a five-year low of 2.6 per cent in the year to March 1997, the National Bank said yesterday. "For the first time since 1995 year-on-year growth simultaneously slowed in all 14 regions," the
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    • 388 13  -  TOKYO But with Tokyo trade data due today, yen faces more turbulence By, Anthony Rowley THE YEN stabilised against the US dollar yesterday and Tokyo stock prices rebounded sharply following assurances by senior US Treasury officials that Washington still favours a strong
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    • 400 13 TOKYO Negative impact of consumption tax rise within expectations AFP, Bloomberg JAPAN'S economy has stayed on course for recovery with the negative impact of a rise in consumption tax remaining within expectations, the government said yesterday in a monthly report. "The economy
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  • THE WORLD
    • 439 14 WASHINGTON Republicans, Wall St hail USsBsb package, but White House, Democrats say it favours rich Bloomberg US HOUSE Ways and Means Committee chairman Bill Archer on Monday proposed the biggest US tax cut since 1981 a five-year, US$B5 billion (Ssl2l
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    • 187 14 WASHINGTON Reuter FOREIGN investors spent a record US$BO.5 billion (*****.9 billion) to buy or set up businesses in the US during 1996, the Commerce Department said on Monday. That was a 41 per cent increase from the U5557.2 billion spent a year earlier in
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    • 52 14 [MOSCOW] A worker adjusting his face mask as he takes a break yesterday from painting steel parts of a Moscow bridge decorated with flags in Russia s national colours. Authorities are stepping up efforts to smarten up the capital far its 850 th anniversary later this
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    • 186 14 BRUSSELS AFP THE European Commission has outlined a deal aimed at defusing the potential crisis in preparations for monetary union created by France's lastminute demand for changes to the rules that will govern how the euro is run, senior officials said yesterday. Under
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    • 170 14 WASHINGTON Reuter US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Congress yesterday that revoking normal trade relations with China could end cooperation with Beijing on some security issues and on the environment. "The revocation of normal trade relations would eliminate prospects for US-China cooperation on
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    • 519 14  -  LONDON Boomtime causing sellers to poll oat of agreed sales for higher offers Dy] Neil Behrmann WITH London property prices booming, the Labour government is set to pass legislation preventing so-called gazumping when sellers reneg on agreed sales in favour of higher offers
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 725 15  -  THE BOTTOM LDTE OPINION By Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent THE 2000 US presidential race has produced its first victim. President Clinton has decided not to ask Congress to renew his authority to negotiate new trade accords in the face
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    • 102 15 The stock market has done a year's work in six months.' iiM MiAi—taap an investment officer who was questioning whether the US stock market can sustain this year's gains. 'Most of them are so busy carrying out business deals that they have no time to implement the
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    • 640 15 EDITORIAL HAVING waited so long for information on the new security arrangements between Japan and the United States, there will no doubt be some who will be disappointed by the lack of details in the seven-page interim report released in Hawaii last week. Perhaps the
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    • 1133 15  -  No winners in Australian PM's decision to slow pace of car tariff cots By Peter Lynch The writer is a Sydney-based journalist who contributes to BT IF AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard thought he had headed off a politically damaging debate by slowing down the pace of
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    • 879 15 ChrflUn control tor Japan WHAT politics must do now is ensure that genuine civilian control is established in Japan in regard to review of the security guidelines in the public interest. An egregious precedent of military-led planning over civilian initiative was set in the early 1960s
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 780 16  -  Peter plays a character like his father in his new film, says JAMTTi DIAMOND JAMIE DIAMOND NYT HIS voice shook at first, and he reached for his drink. "Sherry," said Peter Fonda, the man who became an icon of the 1960s as the marijuanasmoking,
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    • 336 16 FILM Jiang said to have given his personal approval for the que AFP [BEIJING] China has staged the premiere of a much-her-alded film epic depicting Britain's colonisation of HongkonMHMfrtfean fl sfiJomgo. i+jjmdpy's sereeritngof OpmmmirTnthe Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square included Chinese
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    • CHATTER Box
      • 92 16 Reuter [LONDON] A "lost" play by US dramatist Tennessee Williams, who died in 1983. is to get its world premiere in London next year, the Royal National Theatre said yesterday. The play Not About Nightingales was written in the *****. Set in a men's prison, it
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      • 90 16 Reuter [LONDON] Rock superstar Mick Jagger's wife Jerry Hall is expecting a baby just a few months after they were reconciled, said The Daily Mirror. It quoted doctors as saying Hall, who will be 41 next month, was nearly three months pregnant. Jagger and Hall,
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      • 97 16 AFP [WASHINGTON] Christopher Reeve, the star of Superman who was paralysed in a horseback riding accident two years ago. is getting some feeling back to his lower body thanks to a new drug called methylprednisolone. Reeve surprised doctors by saying he can feel the touch of
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    • 659 18 GOLF Gelfs biggest hitter has the dent to play at the US Open, but can he harness the power? Reuter [BETHESDA, Maryland] You always needed plenty of clout to play at Congressional. And that's what Tiger Woods is banking on as he gears up
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    • 296 18 GOLF Reuter [SEATTLE] Golf star Greg Norman said on Monday that he has signed a seven-year, multimillion-dollar deal to be an "ambassador" for Boeing Company and especially its new line of business jets. Norman also announced an agreement to buy one of the
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 456 19  -  Turnover rose just 6% due to China economic slowdown, but market seen to be better this year By Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Mainboardlisted Thakral Corp Ltd (TCL) turned in a better than expected 20 per cent jump in net profit to $68.6 million
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    • 257 19 [SINGAPORE] A Californian court has ruled that Creative Technology cannot prevent the use of a Windows 95 audio driver in computer systems based on Cyrix's MediaGX processor. Cyrix Corp announced on Monday the decision by the US r District Court for the
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    • 182 19 [SINGAPORE] Small investors will receive just under half of telephone cord maker Huanlisin's eight million IPO (initial public offer) shares available to the public. Those who applied for nine lots ofiless of the US dollar-de-nonJfc||d shares will receive of the public tranche.
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    • 171 19 [SINGAPORE] First Capital Corporation (FCC) has teamed up with Indonesian heavyweights to develop a prime Jakarta site. They are Indonesia's Ekaprana Group, Salim Group Unggul Indah Corpora-iC3!teW-wKH them, FCC will develop a commercial, office and residential complex on a 31,010 q
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    • 577 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Meera Tharmaratnam TAP-dancing around banking rules was never supposed to be this easy. But with the list of exemptions to Bank Negara's restrictions on loans for buying property and shares, many believe that banks can do just that. After
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    • 225 19  -  By. Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] DBS Land shares closed at a six-month low of $4.56 yesterday, down 8 cents, after slipping as low as $4.46 in intra-day trading. Some 6.57 million DBS Land shares were traded. Last week, the property group made a placement
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    • 472 19  -  It warns of tough 2nd hall, dashing hopes of double-digit growth By Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE) Blue-chip food company Cere bos Pacific Ltd last night dashed market hopes of a double-digit growth in earnings, with an unchanged operating outcome at the halfway mark and a
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    • COMPANIES
      • 500 20  -  Move seen as showing faith in Baknn dam, goodwill to underwriters ahead of BHC float From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur IN an unprecedented move, Ekran Bhd chief Ting Pek Khiing is expected to mop up a big chunk of his company's
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      • 304 20  -  Prom Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Bank of China is set to return to the Malaysian banking scene after a 32-year absence, following the successful merger of United Overseas Bank's two Malaysian units. The licence to BOC will come from the
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      • 228 20 [SINGAPORE] A squeeze on margins due to keen competition saw lift and escalator maker Chevalier Singapore's net earnings fall 7.6 per cent in the full year to March 31. The profit fall came despite a jump in turnover during the year. The
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      • 265 20 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The Securities Commission said it opened 21 investigation papers following complaints of improper practices in dealing with securities or regarding the conduct of member companies, issuing houses, public listed companies and other relevant groups. The SC, the watchdog of
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      • COMPANY Briefs
        • 73 20 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Zaitun Bhd, which made a name for itself with the manufacture and marketing ofhalal cosmetics and toiletries, will list on the Second Board Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange this Friday. It will be admitted under the consumer products sector, the company
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        • 78 20 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Mega Pascal Bhd shares more than doubled in their debut on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday. The stock, the day's biggest gainer, rose as high as M 17.75 (554.38), from the sale price 0fM53.50 in its initial public offer, before
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        • 50 20 [SINGAPORE] Goldtron subsidiary Goldtron Telecommunications has signed an agreement with Norway's Nera ASA to jointly develop a mobile satellite communications terminal with digital wireless PBX capability. The final product would be a so-called "virtual wireless PBX" which can be used in remote geographical areas.
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        • 69 20 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Peregrine Investments Holdings Ltd said unit Peregrine Nithi Finance Securities Ltd is closing its retail dealing rooms at its Nonthaburi and Sindhorn branches. The company said the decision to close the p dealing rooms reflects the "tough economic and market conditions that face
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      • 131 20 [SINGAPORE] Chemical Industries (Far East) yesterday announced a $50 million issue of five-year unsecured bonds with warrants. The bonds will bear interest at a fixed rate of 2.5 per cent per annum. OCBC Bank, which is managing the issue as a bought deal, will place
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      • 405 20 Move will give US firm a share of over 40 hotels in Thailand Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Goldman Sachs Co said it will pay 750 million baht (Ss44 million) for almost a third of Thailand's largest hotel company. The 29 per
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      • 514 21  -  Money to be spent on new corporate identity, new services, products, Jets and facilities By\ Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] British Airways (BA) will spend £6 billion (Ssl4 billion) in a threeyear investment plan that includes a new corporate identity, new services, products, aircraft, facilities and
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      • 528 21 Prices see biggest one-day fall in 7 years en concerns em new China stake Bloomberg, Reuter [HONGKONG] Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd shares posted their biggest one-day fall in seven years on concern its new China shareholder will save the best projects for itself and its parent
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      • 438 21 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] ICI Australia Ltd's managing director Warren Haynes died yesterday after a short illness, just weeks before the chemicals producer is to be cut loose from its parent, Imperial Chemical Industries pic. UK-based Imperial Chemical Industries is about
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      • 369 21 Bloomberg [KANSAS CITY, Missouri] Sprint Corporation said its board approved a new "poison pill" plan to either deter unwanted takeover offers or to get the highest price for shareholders if the phone company is acquired. The plan calls for existing shareholder stock-purchase rights to
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 465 23 Debt-bnrdened company may have trouble with US$2L5b lump som payment Bloomberg [NEW YORK] For RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp, settling the tobacco litigation may be like buying a house: the hard part is producing a down payment. The tobacco company and major
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      • 284 23 Reuter [LOS ANGELES] Hilton Ho tels Corp has launched a fresh barrage of attacks aimed at ITT Corp in an effort to press its US$6.5 billion (559.3 billion) takeover bid for the rival hotel and gambling company. Hilton chief executive
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      • 312 23 Reuter [NEW YORK] PepsiCo has named its 72-year-old former president to the top management job of the US$lO billion (Ssl4 billion) fast food restaurant company it will spin off later this year. Andrall Pearson, a partner at the New York leveraged buyout company
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      • 265 23 Citicorp joins move to ward off hostile bid from Sftpnto Group Reuter [MILAN, Italy] Parmalat, a major Italian food company, has offered nearly US$3OO million (***** million) to buy Canada's Ault Foods, topping a rival hostile takeover bid from another
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      • 179 23 AFP [TOKYO] A subsidiary of General Electric Co (GE) of the United States failed to report about five billion yen (5562.8 million) in taxable income in Japan, news reports said yesterday. Connecticut-based General Electric International Inc (GEII), a wholly-owned subsidiary
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 467 24 Taiex stock index chosen for first contract as it's best known local index FT [LONDON] Taiwan should be ready to launch its first financial futures contract, based on the Taiex stock index, by the end of this year or early in 1998.
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      • 418 24  -  Largest amount raised at a launch by a foreign fund manager Hy! Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] Templeton Asset Management's Global Growth Fund raised $135 million at the end of its four-week promotion the largest amount raised at a launch by a foreign fund manager here.
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      • 521 24 The USsl.6b deal will help it buy an investment bank NYT [NEW YORK] Bank America Corp, continuing a revamp that began last month, said on Monday that it was selling its consumer finance unit, Security Pacific Financial Services, to the Travelers Group
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      • 124 24 [SINGAPORE] Caisse Nationale de Credit Agricole (CNCA) and its acquisition Banque Indosuez said yesterday they have combined their asset management expertise to create one of the largest asset management firms in the world. The new firm, called Indo- cam, will manage US$l24 billion (Ssl77 billion) worth
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      • 406 24  -  By! Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Despite a less-than-receptive market for Thai debt issues, telecommunications company Samart Corp plans to tap the market for a US$75 million (Sslo7 million) syndicated loan. This follows its joint-ven-ture deal with Telekom Malaysia which was inked on
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      • 210 24 SlMim Report Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures gained ground yesterday after the release of weaker than expected machinery orders data dampened expectations of an impending Japanese rate hike. Japan's core private machinery orders for April rose 7.2 per cent month-on-month, against market forecasts of a
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      • 165 24  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES -By Ric Trotta Ric Trotta, Floor Manager, Refco Singapore Pte Ltd [SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan Index futures posted strong gains yesterday. The June contract ended 5 points higher, while the cash index rose 25.5 to 8,393. The only news contributing
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      • 256 24 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [DUBAI] Oil powerhouse Saudi Arabia will supply China with more crude from the second half of this year, Saudi sources and Chinese officials said here yesterday. "An understanding has been reached that Saudi Arabia will supply China with whatever they
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        1331 24 PtTERBAMK CROSS RATES junlO M z z z z «r JLjaaaat s t100 t£250 %Mt d.4M ®.l55 Canada 0.946 5.998 0.635 4.178 1239 5.585 25.804 17.520 0H5 6.429 L812 1045 29.168 19.027 1025 1250 L04I 20.104 17.494 1441 0.721 CNna 0.156 0.167 0.106 0497 0.207 0.931 4302 2.921 0.136 1.072
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      • 264 24 Reuter, AFP THE US dollar gained a bit of ground against European currencies, but was off against the yen ahead of today's anrfbuncement of Japanese trade figures, traders said. But the changes were minor as the market waited for the European Union summit meeting to be held in
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    • 1593 25 81C0M FUTURBS Jun "> RMDMpiiMMM uops) micaRMatscMUM c*oo w—» .°p» mm M# U» Sott (tomes) totoroct Sif? *2J0 5i5o *55 55 Am 97 *4.00 *20 2ft *5.00 *20 OcUoelT **J0 75 380 JM/Mv M *9.50 7425 Apr/JM N *925 *8.75 *9.00 1575 ***** 55 KB 8 £8 "ST
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    • 1662 25 Reuter O Nikkei 225 ******3 STOCKS closed moderately higher yesterday as participants were relieved by a stable yen after its sudden surge hammered the key stock index lower on Monday, brokers said. The 225-share Nikkei Average climbed 308.73 points to 20,532.55. Its June futures ended 330 points higher at
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    • 2274 25 J—M hw *f31 Group 517.400 1.400 AB Ports 255 -5 AbPey Nat>orv»l 895 *13 AMD Domecq 423.400 .400 Aiimc 142 *1 Aid* Group 128 *2 BATmd 571 16.600 BCPk 219 K) BtCC 173 -4.400 BOC Group 1030 *1 BR P»troteum 742 -9 Bank of Scotland 404.400 19.400
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      1460 26 AFP -215.43 SHARE prices slumped 1.5 per cent in post-holiday trading yesterday amid profit-taking on utility and property stocks, traders said. The benchmark Hang Seng Index lost 215.42 points to finish at 14,439.71. The stock market was closed on Monday for a public holiday. Turnover was HK$2O.9 billion, down
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      651 26 Reuter Q Shenzhen Blafcx -2J5 CHINA stocks fell as investors worried that a government limit on using bank loans for stock investing will curtail demand for equities. The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, said on Friday that it would ban commercial banks from extending credit for
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    • 359 26 QwPhfax *25Ja SHARE prices finished higher yesterday as investors bought bargain-priced textile and foods issues. "Many investors sold highcost electricals and switched to cheaper textile and food counters," said a broker. The TSE Weighted Price Index advanced 25.52 points to 8,392.96. Turnover was 2.4 billion shares worth NT5138.12 billion.
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    • 263 26 Reuter PWeflmgtoo 41? SHARE prices turned down towards the end of a lively session yesterday to leave the key index just below its previous closing level. The NZSE4O Index closed 3.47 points off at 2,367.55. Reuter jm 10 bs rmm ANZB**inq 10 35 0.20 ***** A#rantag*s HMqs 12' -0.01
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      817 26 AFP □set Mm -IM SHARE prices fell yesterday, but closed off their lows on late buying of Financials ahead of the release of new rules on new mergers, analysts said. Investors and the authorities are counting on mergers to shore up weaker firms in the cash-strapped finance sector. They
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    • 394 26 AFP Q(kn«HMB -6JB SHARE prices closed lower yesterday with increased prof-it-taking by institutions pulling the leading index below the 770-point resistance level. The Composite Index lost 5.18 points at 769.83 on a turnover of 67 million shares worth 852.1 billion won. Falls led rises 444 to 362 with 110
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    • 591 26 AFP fjAllorikariß« *28J SHARES rose to a record high close yesterday as a booming Wall Street combined with improved employment prospects to boost the bourse. A broker said the Dow had gained more than 2 per cent in two days and this helped the local market. The All Ordinaries
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      762 26 AFP QPiMteMB -2.73 SHARE prices closed lower yesterday with ftind managers reassessing their portfolios amid a lack of regional leads. "Fund managers are trying to gauge the effect of Thailand on their portfolios and that also means cash flows are slowing," a dealer said. The JSE Composite Index fell
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    • 274 26 AFP Q Manila -3J» SHARE prices closed lower yesterday as the market consolidated in lacklustre trade. "The market is still consolidating, nothing spectacular is happening," said a trader. The PSE Composite Index fell 3.26 points to 2,775.11. Turnover was 11.8 billion shares worth 2.1 billion pesos. Petron Corp fell
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 481 27 AFX-Asia POomwßteMM SHARE prices closed slightly lower in moderate trade yesterday on a lack of fresh leads with activity focused on special situations, dealers said. The KLSE Composite Index closed down 6.84 points at 1,110.36 on a volume 0f224.5 million shares worth M
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      • 7745 27 MMSTHMJ Cohmw pntets 1997 Lest Vel Day Net Cap HH> Law ClWpmy Sale 'OOP Htgk Lear PH $W 790 540 Apnomoto 600 unch 4 600 600 33 2 243J 446 293 Angkasa 318 unch 3 310 318 9.4 468.9 905 610 Apollo Food Hlg 650 unch 7 655 650 260.0
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      • 3572 28 ■ONOS, LOAMS ft WAMANTS 199? Last Vai Bay Laa* OMla *1 H««h Law St no Campany Sata aar- COOO) M*h Lao Byyar «a8a» Prtca 68 44.5 m 3000 mAMDBcS 5******6 47 45 47 67 41.5 3160 "Acar ******1USS 53.5 *2.5 K> 53.5 52 52.5 56 131 74.5 3164 Acma ******4
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      • 177 28  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy WE HAVE featured Malaysian property Arm Country Heights' warrant in this column twice before, but because it's such a fascinating example of the shenanigans that sometimes go on in the local market, here's an update. The shares
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    • 2026 28 MALAYSIAN STOCKS Or Or 1997 La*t Vot Day Lact Ouete M* 01* VM Nat MCap HKjh Low Stna company Sale COOO) Htqd Lew Buyer Seaer CV P/l 478 298 m s 5000 AIS8 SOc 306 -4 53 310 306 306 3W 5.0 6X4 313.9 137 90.5 ms 5001
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      • 1467 29 TURNOVER COOO) VALUE (*000) Mate a— r«w win a«> Tfl Industrial 32.427 7.315 39.742 88.727 13.070 W.797 F inane* 3.677 6.755 10,432 36.408 7,799 44.203 Motals 3.052 267 3J19 '5.474 457 >5 931 Propartias 10.709 3.633 >4,342 51.535 4£73 55.608 Plantation 2.09* 2.096 8J40 1840 Minmo 32 32 -MM BLW
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      • 5223 29 Gr Gr M Wt ,997 Last Vol Day Last Quete Ohr Div VM Nat Cap Avg High StNo Company SUf COOP) HlgH Law Buyer Seller C'VT P/C Smll Price INDUSTRIALS 5146 ASE NTSIO 200 US- aas ass 1275 Asr ustc 100 usees 885 se s 203 155 1258
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      • 1073 29 •w Last V* On LMt OuaU M OK nt IM Cm A«| L— SMO Cifi hh fOOO) Mini t— mrr— «—m Cw H Pft $3 Mw 186 99.5 2000 ABR Mtdqs 5c 103 CO -2 154 109 102 102 103 10 6.0 0-2 147.1 454 106 280 144 2049
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      • 230 30 Stocks Volumt K»ppel LandWOO 13,083,000 Datapulse 5c 11,094,000 HK Land USIOc 8,332.000 Sioqamas HKIOc 7,390,000 DBS Land 6,573,000 FHTK Hldqs 20c 5,320,000 •MBf Hldqs 50c 4,494,000 JSH Wt97 P 4,306,000 JMH US25c 400 2.437,000 New Toyo 25c 1,991,000 St* 1 DBS land 29,789,740 HK land USIOc 23,949,350 JMH US25c 400
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      • 704 30  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Despite US bonds and the Dow gaining strength in the past week, the local bourse has moved in the opposite direction R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] The slide in local equities extended to a fifth consecutive session yesterday, with a program
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        60 30  -  *«y Shiv Taneja DATAPULSE TECH, which closed 0.5 cent higher at 74 cents yesterday on a volume cf 11.09 million shares, may trade up in the next few sessions. However, the longer term trend is decidedly down, and investors should begin taking profit on any further upside. The
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 112 30 DO INNO-PACIFIC Holdings shareholders know that they have $20 million—about one-third of the company's shareholders' fund invested in MBf Growth Fund? This was revealed in the latest Inno-Pac annual report, which stated that the $20 million was a reserve fund to cover contingencies related to the
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        • 202 30 LAST Friday, we featured Malaysian property stock Country Heights in this column. We pointed out that it was odd that although the firm had jtast proposed a bonus issue, its shares collapsed by 19 per cent to M 514.50. We also said that maybe this wasn't so odd
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        • 94 30 TEMPLETON Asset Management yesterday reported that its latest unit trust offering, the Global Growth Fund, raised $135 million at the end of a four-week launch period the largest amount raised by a foreign fund manager at the end of a fund's launch period. Well done, but we would also
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        • 127 30 IN CASE you are wondering why the Japanese currency strengthened 2.8 per cent against the greenback on Monday, here's the street talk. The surge in the yen was attributable to American fund managers who believed that they could have it both ways—by selling
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        • 109 30 THAI companies must be pretty brave to be tapping capital markets for ftmds nowadays, given that there is no let-up in all the bad economic news coming out of the country. Chamchai Charuvastr, president and CEO of Samart Corp, a Thai telecommunications group, told a roomful of
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    • 535 20 Q VIKAY VIKAY INDUSTRIAL LTD j (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Board Room, Vikay Industrial Building, 1100 Lower Delta Road, Singapore *****6 on 26 June 1997 at
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    • 536 30 BUSINESS Notices APOUO ENTERPRISES LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 29th Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held on Friday, 27 June 1997 at 10.30 a.m. at the Luna Private Room, Apollo Hotel, 2nd Level, 405 Havelock Road,
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 501 31  -  Reeent new services not expected to pat pressure an already depressed rates By] Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Increased activity on Singapore-India shipping routes is unlikely to drive already depressed rates down further. In recent months two new operators have entered the fray with South
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    • 252 31 Bridge News, Reuter $HE PACE quickened for Eiaxeefrom east coast America with i ships fixed, but brokers noted a couple of Sot ships still available. With expectations for the Baltic Freight Index wing in die plus or minus 3 fitea, Monday was hardly appected to be buoyant for
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    • 383 31 Bloomberg [MANILA] International Container Terminal Services Inc said volumes at the Manila port terminal it operates have begun to improve following a disappointing first quarter. ICTSI said it handled more than 75,000 20-foot equivalent units or TEUs through the port in both April and
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    • 91 31 Bridge News [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) said yesterday it is optimistic the Cabinet wUI sapn approve a plan to allow majority Chinese-owned ships to ply semi-direct crossstrait routes. The Chinese-language Economic Daily News said on Monday the Cabinet has already
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    • 745 31  -  STRAIT TALK By\ Seafarer HERE we go again. Twelve years ago the European Commission (EC) gave the International Group (IG) of P&I clubs exemption from Europe's anti-cartel laws. The exemption lasted 10 years and so needed renewing in 1995.
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    • 754 31 We reproduce betow an editorial in the influential international shipping newspaper, Lloyd's List TWO influential Malaysian shipping associations are urging local Importers and exporters to use domestic ports and bypass Singapore as a point of entry and exit The forwarders and ships' agents sasociatftoos have called on
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    • 94 31 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Daewoo Heavy Industries Co of South Korea said it won orders from Luxembourg and Iran to buUd seven oU tankers for US$47O million (***** million). South Korea's second-larg- est shipbuilder said on Monday it will supply two 300,000tonne oil tankers to Euronav Luxembourg
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    • 888 32 INDEPENDENT TANKER OWNERS: CHANGING TACK Intertanko, under the leadership of Dagfinn Lunde, is reshaping itself into a high profile organisation with influence Journal of Commerce A quiet revolution is taking place in the suburbs of Oslo. The organisation that represents tanker owners is being transformed
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      • 170 47 tall Philippines: Independence Day. taM Hong Kong H.M.The Queen's Birthday. taaa Sweden: Midsummer Day. Ml Canada Canada Day. M( United States: Independence Day. JtfM France: National Day. United States: Independence Day. MIB Brunei: H.M. The Sultan's Birthday. Brunei: Maulud Rasul. Indonesia Birthday of Prophet Mohammed. Malaysia Brithday of
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      • 761 47 THIS report compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges In US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description at the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movement* are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the Individual
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      • 343 48 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The seven largest US airlines vow to fight provisions in a new omnibus tax proposal that they say will increase airline taxes by as much as US$5 billion (Ss7.l billion). "We are not happy with this," said Elliott Seiden, Northwest
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      • 180 48 Reuter [SEATTLE] Orders for a new business version of Boeing Co's 737 jet are running far ahead of expectations less than a year after the model was launched, a company executive said. Borge Boeskov, president of Boeing Business Jets, said in an
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      • 291 48 Bloomberg [PARIS] .Daimler-Benz Aerospace contested Aerospatiale's claim that it has been decided, with the other Airbus Industrie partners, to keep plane making assets at the partners' companies rather than moving them to a new standalone Airbus company. Yves Michot, chairman of state-owned Aerospatiale,
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      • 158 48 Reuter [MOSCOW] Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines plans to lease a DC-10 freighter to expand its international cargo operations, a senior company official said on Monday. Yevgeny Blinov, deputy chief of Aeroflot-cargo, said that the freighter would be leased later this year. "We have a big
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      • 535 48 System will be made available initially to 3,000 Maybank ATM cardholders for domestic routes AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airline System Bhd yesterday introduced ticketless travel in a move to cut costs and enhance the competitiveness of the local aviation industry. The
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      • 241 48 Bloomberg [LONDONJAtIas Air Inc said it ordered 10 Boeing Co 747-400 freighter aircraft to expand its fleet through 2001 in a transaction worth about US$l.7 billion (552.4 billion). The Golden, Coloradobased freight airliner also took an option to buy 10 additional
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        • 80 48 AFP [MANILA] Philippine passenger car sales dipped 5J per cent from a year earlier to 33, 912 units in the five months to 1 May amid a retail lending squaese and a ahift in customer preferenceeto commercial vehicles, an industry group said yesterday. Saleeroee 4.5
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        • 65 48 Reuter [JERUSALEM] The US told Israel and state airline El Alan Monday it had reauthoriaed three El A 1 routes between U8 cities and Tel Aviv, Israeli officials said. The El A 1 routes include flights from Baltimore-Washington, Orlando, Florida, which was dua to operate
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        • 63 48 Reuter [NBW DELHI] IndJa'o Jet Airways to duo to take delivonr of twodry-leaae Boeing737-400S this month and has placed an order with Boeing for six 8787-800s and four 8737-400S, a Jet spokesman said. The dry leases have the usual cation to purchase
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        • 82 48 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] The Thai government granted a licence to JVK Holding Co to start and manage a second national airline, which win compete with Thai Airways International ppl, The Nation newspaper reported. The company will start with initial capital of 3 billion baht (BH74mfflftoa)
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      • 231 48 Bloomberg (WASHINGTON] British Airways pic and AMR Corp's American Airlines said on Monday the US government has made unreasonable demands regarding their application for antitrust immunity for their proposed alliance. In a filing with the US Department of Transportation, American and
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    • 147 46 HotNBUtK 12AM RdnVAtwAJMtan I ■SEACONCERT ISAM 20AM FttrVAtWUK/Nwi I ■SAMMI FORTUNE 01/07 06AJ7 HdnVANvAJK/Nan I B- Loads E7W Matoyaw. Indona— I SAMMI FRONTIER HodattatVJaddatVAqitoa/Egypt I ■FNKAS Dubai/Doha/BahrajrVDamman/Kuwait I ■AGIASOFIA Dubai/AOhabt/Bahrajn/Damman/Kuwait I ■LEOPARD 1 Aden/Jaddah/Aqaba I ■K. KAIKAVAN Jaddah/Aqaba/Egypt/Aigaria I Toads Sjnflaporß. EVW. Molaywa. tndamsis I Loacfngfer ■HUAGUANG Loa Angslas/New Ortaan/ChartaataV
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    • 121 47 LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperoture C A V Shomjj Weother Wind drection with speed in knots RcMn Cloudy Sky Wov« height Surfoot oMI or* indicated by arrows which Hy with Mm wind (j) Ono ful circle represents cotm or kght and voriabte winds On* half Heche represents 5 knots I—•- One
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    • 154 48 M.V. "LION HEART" Vl4 ARRIVED 1 JUNE 1997 M.V. "JUPITER ACE" Vtt ARRIVED 3 JUNE 1997 M.V. "ORIENT KING" Vtt ARRIVED 5 JUNE 1997 Consignees of all damaged cargoes ex the captioned vessels are hereby notified that a general survey will be held on 12 June 1997 *****200 hours at
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