The Business Times, 8 July 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/12/96 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes TUESDAY, JULY 8,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon POSBank plans Internet banking by year-end
    618 1  -  Bank to strive for better yields and deposit rates; enhance services across the board By i Conrad Raj POSBank, previously called the Post Office Savings Bank, plans to offer banking through the Internet and a slew of other new services as part of its
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    Wishful thoughts on the budget
    660 1  -  COMMENTARY Income tax isn't the only burden on businesses, says guest writer David Mason, an old hand in S'pore's financial services sector David Mason, IT IS widely assumed that the forthcoming budget will not contain radical measures to change the current taxes on business in
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    Lock icon Indonesia bans new bank credit for land acquisitions
    461 1  -  Central bank acts to cool overheated property sector From S N Vasuki in Jakarta THE Indonesian central bank yesterday announced stiff measures to cool the property sector that included an outright ban on new bank credit /or land acquisition. The measures by
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Private housing rents in March down 6.7% from July last year
      496 2  -  IRAS'residential rental index at lowest level in more than 3 years By Diana Oon PRIVATE housing rents fell by 6.7 per cent from July last year to March this year, according to latest data from the Inland Revenue Authority
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      BA strike will affect less than 30 flying to and from S'pore
      340 2  -  By, Ang Wan May A THREE-DAY strike by British Airways cabin staff scheduled from tomorrow will disrupt the majority of the carrier's flights out of London's Heathrow airport. But less than 30 passengers flying to and from Singapore
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      US$25m loan for Viet-S'pore venture
      224 2 THE Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park Joint Venture Company (VSIP) yesterday signed a US$25 million (5535.9 million) syndicated term loan facility here. VSIP is a tie-up between a Singapore-led consortium and AV > Binh Duong Export and Import Trading Company of Vietnam. The consortium consists of
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      Lock icon Manufacturing output fell 1.6% in May
      417 2  -  By, Jennifer Lien MANUFACTURING output returned to negative territory in May, falling 1.6 per cent year-on-year after April's revised 1.4 per cent rise. May's fall continues the negative trend started last August, when the Industrial Production Index fell 7.2 per cent against a 1.7
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      Inchcape Healthcare to market US dental software
      317 2  -  Tie-up with US firm aims for USs2om in sales in next 2 years By Raju Chellam INCHCAPE Healthcare, a division of listed Inchcape Berhad, has tied up with an American company to market Dental Aide, a comprehensive dental management computer software, in South-east
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      Lock icon Catering trade slowed in April
      341 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Commerce By, Jenny Lam AFTER a slight pickup in March, April's catering trade index slowed again to 1.2 per cent in volume terms compared to the same period last year due mainly to a poor performance by restaurants. At current prices
      Source: Dept of Statistics  -  341 words
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      Lock icon Shell cuts production at Bukom plant by about 17%
      379 2  -  Hove comes after Esso's 10% redaction m crude runs By] Ronnie Lim THE largest oil refiner here, SheU, said yesterday it is cutting production at its Pulau Bukom refinery by about 17 per cent this month. The cuts will be maintained,
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      Eager crowds make quick work of M1's $188 handphones
      328 2  -  By] David Boey HANDPHONES touted by Mobile One (Asia) at a special price of $188 last Friday were all snapped up the very next day, said Janet Loh, Mi's public relations manager yesterday. Singapore's second cellular and paging service provider advertised
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      10 2 River Valley rents buck trend in prime areas, Pg 5
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      End in sight for RDC suit
      587 4  -  THBmOPBRTT OOLUMV Neither MMD nor TDK is likely to omorgo smiling from the long, expensive tnssle By Lee Han Shih THE longest-standing lawsuit in Singapore's construction industry may soon come to an end. For the first 12 days of September, there will be a
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      Lock icon Office rents seen rising from mid-98
      364 4  -  Upward pressure due to expected higher liomanH and shortage of supply: consultant By Diana Oon [SINGAPORE] Office rents are expected to rise from the middle of next year due to increasing demand and a shortage of supply, says Knight Frank research director Tay Kah
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      Lock icon River Valley rents buck trend
      611 5  -  Prices in other prime districts hold steady, but here, they've fallen at least 10% since late last year By. Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] ApartMENT and condominium rentals in districts 10 and 11 continue to hold their own, although rents in the equally prime River Valley area
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      128 4 You may have been unable to get your copy of The Business Tunes, The Straits Tunes, The Sunday Times, LianHe Zaobao and other daily newspapers from your usual newsstand because of the higher demand lately. To ensure a daily copy, call Customer Services Section on 1800-749-2577, and ask for home
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Indonesia unveils major deregulation package
      527 6  -  JAKARTA It slashes tariffs on 1,600 products, ends state body's monopoly (Mi sugar imports ByS S N Vasuki INDONESIA yesterday slashed tariffs on 1,600 products, abolished a state agency's monopoly on sugar imports and lifted restrictions on the import of second-hand fishing vessels as part
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      Thai stock rally expected to run out of steam
      301 6  -  BANGKOK By\ Harish Mehta THAI stocks fell sharply yesterday as investors took profit after three days of hectic trading that drove the market up about 24 per cent and restored some confidence in the battered bourse. George Morgan, the country manager
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      Lock icon Hun Sen takes over Phnom Penh
      503 6 CRISIS IN CAMBODIA Bat Prince Ranariddh vows to organise resistance in and oat of Cambodia Reuter, AFP [PHNOM PENH] Cambodia's Second Prime Minister Hun Sen took complete control of Phnom Penh and its outskirts yesterday, but his ousted rival First Prime Minister Prince Norodom
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      No immediate evacuation by S'pore investors
      282 6  -  SINGAPORE By Ronnie Lim BIG Singapore investors in Cambodia like Asia-Pacific Breweries (APB) and Raffles International (RI) yesterday said the situation has quietened down after two days of fighting, and while they had no immediate plans to evacuate staff, they are monitoring developments. Both
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      Lock icon Asean to meet on Cambodia's entry
      186 6 MANILA Reuter, AFP THE Association of South-east Asian Nations is to hold an emergency meeting on Saturday to decide whether to "reverse" Cambodia's scheduled entry, Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon said yesterday. Mr Siazon said the meeting would bring together Asean senior officials "and
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      Lock icon Manila ups overnight rate to fight peso speculators
      352 6  -  MANILA Forex dealings jump; central bank denies talk of devaluation By. A Labita THE Philippines central bank yesterday raised its overnight borrowing rate from 24 per cent to a record 30 per cent to counter renewed speculative attacks on the peso. The
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      436 6 Bn I H'IH I |M I |«ll H tM I k I iv Hk IH 2 S~\ An J WHAT YOU CAN LOOK /1 jy C> FORWARD TO j© Singapore Oil Lecture ItW m j 1 APPEC Cocktail Reception fXr I fA P I hi t Ministerial Keynote Address n
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      181 6 Empower your Finance Manager. Authorise him to upgrade to Real-Time Accounting Trust his professional judgement. He wants to do his job better. He is keen to monitor the company's financial health on an ongoing basis, as sales take place and collections come in. He has been dedicated to his job
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      8 6 Ceasefire is Cambodia's first need, Editorial, Pg 12
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China stocks plunge after HK party fever ends
      430 7 SHANGHAI Investors who rode on strong sentiment are fleeing the markets on romonrs of govt curbs Reuter CHINA'S stock markets plunged yesterday after investors fled the market and declared the Hongkong handover party well and truly over, brokers said. The return of
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      Lock icon Tycoon's US$400m fund
      235 7 TAIPEI Reuter TAIWAN tycoon Jeffrey Koo has raised US$4OO million (*****.3 million) in international capital and formed a private Asia-Pacific investment fund, Crimson Asia Capital Holdings Ltd, his aides, said yesterday. The fund went into operation on July 1 with Mr Koo as its chairman and his
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      Lock icon Martin Lee calls for UK probe
      307 7 HONGKONG Democrat leader wants inquiry into Patten's poll remarks AFP THE leader of Hongkong's Democratic Party called on Britain yesterday to hold a formal inquiry into an alleged decision to defer the introduction of direct elections here until 1991. Democrat leader Martin Lee was
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      Lock icon China may cut PLA presence in HK
      227 7 HONGKONG AFP CHINA is considering reducing the 5,000-strong People's Liberation Army (PLA) presence in Hongkong, in a bid to cut back on the cost of keeping the troops in the territory, it was reported yesterday. Within a week of the territory returning to
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      Renminbi set to appreciate, says JP Morgan
      345 8  -  SINGAPORE Rising trade surplus and portfolio capital inflow pot pressure on yuan to rise By. Lu Ning WEAK domestic demand coupled with a trade surplus and portfolio capital inflow will force the renminbi to appreciate, predicts JP Morgan in a recent research report.
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      Lock icon Some leeway in foreign affairs for HK
      296 8 HONGKONG It is allowed to negotiate some bilateral agreements Reuter, AFP HONGKONG's new government has been given some leeway in certain foreign affairs matters, which are Beijing's preserve under the territory's mini-constitution, China announced yesterday. The local authorities will be authorised to negotiate
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      Lock icon In memory of Deng
      45 8 [HONGKONG] John Chiu, 10, displaying a Hongkong handover commemorative stamp yesterday featuring late paramount Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. The stamps, which have a face value of 50 yuan (558.60), were issued by China to mark Hongkong's return to Chinese rule. REUTER
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      Lords of the Rim in action in China
      620 8  -  urrmnoM HONGKONG Overseas Chinese, for historical and cultural reasons, have an edge By Quak Hiang Whai I WAS in Shanghai recently at the invitation of Hongkong-listed Tem Fat Hing Fung (TFHF). Controlled by the Chan brothers whose founder-father was a Teochew from
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  • ASIA
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      New Zealanders snub retirement annuity plan
      548 9  -  AUCKLAND Scheme won't provide enough money to cover retirement needs, say analysts By\ David McLoughlin NEW Zealanders appear unimpressed by a government proposal for a compulsory superannuation scheme which many analysts say would not provide enough money to cover most people's retirement needs. Treasurer
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      Lock icon S Korean economy to surge in 2nd half
      367 9 SEOUL Bloomberg SOUTH Korea's economy will roar ahead in the second half of this year at a faster rate than the previous half, thanks to brisk exports and greater investment in construction works. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth will rise to 6.3
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        Lock icon No S&P upgrading for Australia yet
        65 9 Reuter [SYDNEY] The Australian government will need to keep up its tough fiscal stance over the next few years before Standard Poor's will consider upgrading its rating, an SAP official told Reuters Financial Television. SAP affirmed Australia's AA long-term and Al-plus short-term ratings on
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        Lock icon Manmohan Singh calls for more reforms
        61 9 AFP [NEW DELHI] Former Indian finance minister Manmohan Singh, architect of the country's free-market reforms, yesterday said the next three or four years are crucial and called for new reforms. "We have crippling shortages of power, port capacity and road capacity. We have to
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        Lock icon India to open up Internet access
        59 9 Reuter [NEW DELHI] India won't charge a licence fee for Internet access providers or limit the number of service providers, a Department of Telecommunications official said yesterday. "We have taken a decision to open up Internet access.. .we will issue the final draft of
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      Lock icon Kim's son admits accepting donations
      206 9 SEOUL Bloomberg A SON of South Korean President Kim Young Sam told a Korean court he accepted donations from businessmen, but denied his alleged return of favours. In the first session of the bribery and tax-evasion trial at the Seoul District Court, Kim Hyun Chul,
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      Lock icon Japan may lift Internet phone ban next month
      247 9 TOKYO Bloomberg THE Japanese government may lift a ban on Internetbased phone services next month, said a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications official. This could reduce the cost of calls between the US and Japan by as much as 90 per cent.
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      Lock icon Yen rises sharply against US$
      428 9  -  TOKYO News that Japan's June trade surplus jumped 129% propels yen to close By Anthony Rowley THE yen moved sharply higher against the US dollar and other leading currencies yesterday on news that Japan's contentious trade surplus more than doubled in June, although the rate
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      Lock icon Fate of Indian ruling coalition in the balance after split
      380 9 NEW DELHI Gall for new polls after connption-tamted leader's exit AFP THE fate of the Indian government hung in the balance yesterday as allies of the ruling coalition took stock following a major weekend split in the dominant party. The
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon UK manufacturing output down 1.1% in May
      450 10 LONDON Weakest showing since 1993 suggests strong sterling is hurting industry Bloomberg MANUFACTURING output in the UK fell an unexpected 1.1 per cent in May from April as production declined in almost every industry, the Office for National Statistics said. The monthly decline
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      Lock icon Lippo unit a conduit for US poll donations: report
      338 10 WASHINGTON Democrat fond-raiser John Haang ran firm before joining Commerce Dept Reuter A REAL estate holding company run by former Commerce Department official John Huang while he worked for financial conglomerate Lippo Group apparently was used to funnel money from Indonesia
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      Lock icon Rookies may cause market crash: Soros
      200 10 MUNICH Bloomberg INTERNATIONAL financier George Soros said that world stock markets may be headed for a crash caused by a panic among "inexperienced" investors, the weekly magazine Focus reported. "Lots of new investors are appearing who have only a little experience with financial markets,"
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      Lock icon Neeman to be Israel's new finance minister
      257 10 JERUSALEM Reuter PRIME Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hoping to quell a cabinet crisis, chose former justice minister Yaacov Neeman as Israel's new finance minister yesterday. Cabinet minister Ariel Sharon had been tipped as the leading contender for the post, vacant since Mr Netanyahu's party
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      Lock icon US seeks Europe's support for Internet free trade zone
      388 10 BONN Reuter' US COMMERCE Secretary William Daley, carrying President Bill Clinton's proposal for an electronic free trade zone to Europe, said yesterday that governments should let the market decide on technical standards for the Internet. Mr Daley urged delegates at a
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      Lock icon It's fiesta time
      77 11 [PAMPLONA, Spain] A spray from a sparkling wine erupts as a woman sitting on shoulders above the crowd opens another bottle when the famed Pamplona fiesta began on Sunday. The week-long fiesta, notorious for its drinking and jubilant spirit and popularised by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The
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      Lock icon Greenspan more tolerant of faster growth: report
      216 11 NEW YORK Fed chief sees dramatic in US productivity Reuter FEDERAL Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan appears more tolerant of faster growth and lower unemployment than the central bank has been in the past according to an article in Business Week. The story quoted
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      Lock icon Belgium's new telecom operators gearing up for 1998 liberalisation
      437 11 BRUSSELS Competitors slicing up the telecoms turf while Belgacom gets ready to fight back Reuter WITH six months to go until Europe's telecommunications market is opened fully to competition, challengers to Belgium's partly-privatised monopoly provider Belgacom are lining up on its
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      Lock icon Mexico's ruling party in for worst electoral defeat
      385 11 MEXICO CITY Bloomberg MEXICO'S ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is headed for its worst electoral defeat this century. Having lost the Mexico City mayor's race in Sunday's voting, the PRI now seems likely to have also lost control over the Chamber of
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      Lock icon Buba's Tietmeyer on European joblessness
      190 11 BASEL AFP EUROPEAN unemployment is structural and it is not the business of monetary policy to solve that problem, German Bundesbank president Hans Tietmeyer said yesterday in Basle. The chairman of the central bank governors' committee that meets in Basle every month insisted, in speaking
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      Lock icon UK starting online trading in phone time
      241 11 LONDON FT AN electronic trading exchange for "telephone minutes" will be launched in the UK this week, marking a further step in the liberalisation of the telecommunications market. The venture, called Band-X, will allow Britain's 150 licensed carriers to buy and sell capacity
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Is Singapore headed for a power surge ?
      835 12  - Is Singapore headed for a power surge THE BOTTOKLDVE OPINION By Ronnie Lim The writer is BT's trade and industry editor WILL Singapore face a power surfeit? Just last month, plans for two more power stations here, albeit small ones, were announced Is there sufficient demand to absorb all the
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      142 12 They kicked our butt and they've taken lots of profits away that we might have had. They did a masterful job squeezing us out' Stealer DraduurfOer chief investment officer for Soros Fund Management who was applauding the Bank of Thailand's efforts to beat back currency speculators before
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      Ceasefire is Cambodia's first need
      619 12 EDITORIAL WITH Asean foreign ministers due to meet in Kuala Lumpur in two weeks' time, Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas' suggestion of an early meeting to discuss Cambodia's turmoil implies that two weeks might be too long to wait for a rapidly developing crisis. While
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      Lock icon Pollution fighters zoom in on motorcycle
      907 12  -  Taiwan authorities want to replace popular fnme-belcher with cleaner electric version By Laura Tyson FT ENVIRONMENTAL authorities in Taiwan are faced with a daunting task cleaning up the unpleasant side-effects of the country's "econom ic miracle". But to those who are enterprising, such problems
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      Benefun International is not related to Heshe
      141 12  -  mailbox Tan Sim Chew Chairman Benefun International Holdings Limited WE REFER to your article "FCC sells entire stakes in Heshe and Benefun" (BT, June 25). We wish to bring to your attention that Benefun International, which was listed earlier this month, is neither
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      582 12 afcahffciihgttelHi HOW delightful it must be these days to be a member of the Chinese Communist Politburo! Every time they get together, they must laugh and laugh and laugh. Every day, they hear the highest American officials, members of Congress, the press, intellectuals, the lot of
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      837 13 TV&BAPIO 11.00 Perspective. 130 Paramapadam. QQ2222»2llill23^HH^^^^^^lH!^Pi^^lPPHPfll IL4S Tuesday Features 7M Thirai Arangam. 2 oo V!, Innovations. -Crime Of Passion: 7.30 TamilSeithi (News). 2*30 The Winners. Voices From The Grave. 8.00 Berita 12 (News). ML X. *.00 Money, Money, Money. (See Our Choice). 830 GempaTV. JP PW JPJP JPJ How To
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      237 13 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Arrof? 1 Forestall an involuntary move- ment, one with head (10) U W HI 6 Bit of cotton wool was horribly 9lt may give the meal a bit of lift 10 Boy to become a singer (4) brought back (7) 15 HBI6 15 Secured mineral supply held —^1
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      Talented and energetic 'brides'
      787 14  -  As a playwright Pek Siok Lian may have opened too many cans of worms, but as a director, she excels, says bbn bcumbob BEN MUNROE A THAI prostitute looking to get out of the bars of Patpong, a Filipina trying to shake off the shackles of
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      Lock icon US publishers plagued by unhappy returns
      853 14 BOOKS They suffered record returns of unsold books and fall in adnh trade sales last year NYT [NEW YORK] In a watershed year for the business of books, the publishing industry is struggling with record-break-ing returns of unsold copies, a steady decline in adult
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      736 14 f (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of Rothmans Industries Limited (the "Company") will be held at its registered office, 15 Senoko Loop, Singapore *****8 on Friday, 25 July 1997 at 11.45 a.m. (or immediately after
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      QAF shares rise on rumours of asset injection
      345 15  -  W Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] QAF Ltd's share price shot up in the stock market yesterday amid speculation that its controlling Indonesian shareholder was planning to inject several businesses into the Singapore food group. QAF shares closed 18 cents, or 11 per cent
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      DBS strikes deal for controlling stake in Sri Dhana
      468 15  -  Aim is to create a 'super' finance firm and ultimately to get a banking licence From Harish Mehta in Bangkok DBS Bank has struck a deal to take a controlling stake in Sri Dhana Finance Public Co Ltd, with the aim
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      Scotts says it knows need for independent directors
      309 15  -  Bnt resignations had earlier reduced number, it explains By I Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Scotts Holdings yesterday responded to last week's censure of three of its directors by the Stock Exchange of Singapore, stating that it recognises the need to safeguard the interests
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      A sizzling Footsie may burn some fingers this summer
      692 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Neil Behrmann THE London stock market is still bathing in the sunlight of the new Labour government, even though its economic policies are likely to crimp corporate earnings in the coming year. The FTSE 100 index, currently at
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      Lock icon Stamford Tyres gets $5m interim fire insurance money
      338 15  -  By] David Boey [SINGAPORE! Stamford Tyres has received an interim payment from its insurers for losses sustained in a fire that razed one of its four warehouses recently. The Sesdaq-listed company said yesterday that Citystate Insurance made a payment of $5 million
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      VDH wins US$75.2m of contracts in Bali deal
      192 15 [SINGAPORE] Engineering and infrastructure group Van Der Horst has secured U5575.2 million (SsloB million) worth of contracts for an oil pipeline project in Sanggaran, Bali, Indonesia. Its wholly-owned units, Van Der Horst Technologies Pte Ltd (VDHT), PT VDH Teguh Sakti (TS) and
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        Ho Wah shares in dull trading despite impending takeover
        446 16  -  The Nairs, through Bariston may end up with a combined stake of 41% By Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] An impending takeover of Ho Wah Genting International (HWGI) has done little to lift the company's stock which closed yesterday at $1.18, up
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        Lock icon Finance One risks loss of licences as share sale flops
        413 16 Three weeks left to find bail-out buyer or submit revamp plan Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Finance One pic failed to raise cash by selling shares to stockholders. That gives it three weeks to find a buyer to bail it out or face
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        KFC (M) keeps most franchise terms
        248 16  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur KFC Holdings (Malaysia) Bhd has finalised its new franchise agreement with most of the terms unchanged. Executive director Harris Beh told BT yesterday that the only major change was the transfer of the franchise operator title to Ishak
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        Lock icon RHB Bank set to be global player
        337 16  -  It will enable clients to Up regional and world markets From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur RASHID Hussain, the businessman who packaged the first bank merger deal in Malaysia, is gearing up to make RHB Bank ready for global competition. RHB Bank created
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        Lock icon M Stanley trims M'sia weighting
        235 16 WHITHER KL BOURSE? Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Morgan Stanley Dean Witter has reduced its weighting for Malaysia in its Asia/Pacific model portfolio. Morgan Stanley said it reduced Malaysia's weighting to 7 per cent from 8 per cent on July 3. The model portfolio is a recommendation
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        Lock icon Asian Prop: sale of President stake not completed
        200 16 Reuter [WELLINGTON] Asian Properties Ltd said yesterday the sale of its interests in Malaysia's President Hotel Sdn Bhd was not completed on Friday. The sale of its one third interest for NZ556.7 million (Ssss million) was announced in October. When the board
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        Lock icon Rashid Hussain expects recovery in second half
        275 16 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Rashid Hussain, executive chairman of RHB Capital Bhd and Malaysia's biggest institutional broker, said yesterday the Malaysian stock market was expected to recover in the second half of the year. The fall in stock prices over the last few months
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          Cheong Khee San quits San Teh
          57 16 [SINGAPORE] Cheong Khee San, who was charged last week for allegedly conspiring to cheat Cam co-auditor Ernst Young, has resigned from San Teh Ltd as director and audit committee member. The resignation took effect from July 3. His case will next be mentioned on
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          Paragon purchase completed
          37 16 [SINGAPORE! Orchard 290 Ltd, a joint venture company between Times Properties Pte Ltd, Lum Chang Holdings and SC Global Investments Pte Ltd, has completed the purchase of Paragon By Sogo at 290, Orchard Road.
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          Pan Malayan Hldgs now called TLB Land
          39 16 [SINGAPORE] Pan Malayan Holdings Ltd has changed its name to TLB Land Ltd. The short and abbreviated names of the company on the stock exchange will be "TLB Land" and "TLBLAN" respectively.
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          Lock icon Bakrie Indonesia raises FRN issue
          65 16 Reuter [HONGKONG] Bakrie Indonesia's floating rate note issue has been increased to US$l35 million (*****.9 million) from US$l25 million, arranger Sumitomo Finance Asia said. The deal is guaranteed by PT Bakrie Investindo. The facility has a final maturity of four years. The issue was priced
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          46 16 AFX-ASIA, AFN [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecommunications unit Sing Tel Paging said it has launched a service called Mobile No-Miss which will automatically send the caller's telephone number to the customer's pager when his or her handphone is busy, unanswered or switched off.
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        Lock icon Samsung, Hyundai, LG to cut chip output by a third
        495 17 Loll may pull up chip prices from year lows bnt Hyundai denies production collusion Bloomberg [SEOUL] Samsung Electronics and two other SoAth Korean semiconductor manufacturers" said they will cut production of their mainstay computer chips by one third during the
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        Lock icon HK bourse queries four over unusual trading
        97 17 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Hansom Holdings Ltd, Singapore Hongkong Properties Investment Ltd, Leung Kee Holdings Ltd and Cheong Ming Holdings Ltd are all the subject of Securities and Futures Commission inquiries into unusual trading movements in their underlying shares, the Stock Exchange of Hongkong said.
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        82 17 [WINGENE, Belgium] Dirk De Soete, manager of meat export company Tragex-Gel, posing next to carcasses in Wingene, northern Belgium, on Thursday. European Commission veterinary experts searched his company as part of investigations concerning illegal exports of British beef. The European Commission said late
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        328 17 Reuter [SYDNEY] Brierley Investments' attempt to reap As22o million (*****.6 million) through a float of its main Australian oil asset suffered another blow yesterday when the float vehicle traded below its issue price on its first day. The New Zealand investment group's plan to
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        433 17 Several major firms announce earnings shortfall Reuter [NEW YORK] Investors are increasingly jittery about upcoming second-quarter earnings reports for technology companies after a barrage of earnings shortfall announcements which foreshadow a summer slowdown. Earnings get into full swing with Motorola and Advanced
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        Lock icon Bullion slump takes shine off gold market
        634 18 Talk of mine closures, corporate takeovers gnggftgfg rhangAg in market structure FT [LONDON] The slump in the bullion price to its lowest level in more than 11 years has led some analysts to suggest a significant change in the gold market as the
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        78 18 [HANOI] Gold buying-sellingprices in Hanoi's jewellery shops, as displayed on a board yesterday, havefallen under 4.Bmillion dong (SSS9I) for one "lang" (37.5 grammes). This makes it the lowest price recorded since gold prices began falling in the beginning of this year. The slide, due in
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        195 18 Bloomberg [WELLINGTON] The New Zealand Futures Options Exchange plans to introduce a futures contract based on the nation's trade-weighted index (TWI), a measure of the domestic currency against the currencies of major trading partners. The exchange said quarterly contracts will be traded. A December
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        431 18 Analysts downgrade Public Finance and Arab-M'sian Finance Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] With Malaysian interest rates rising, finance companies are confronted with a no-win situation. Rising rates are bad news for most finance companies, whose fixed-rate loans lock them out of gains from higher rates.
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        254 18 Reuter [LONDON] Return on capacity for the Lloyd's insurance market could fall to 4.9 per cent this year compared with 10.9 per cent in the recently released results for 1994, one analyst said yesterday. "Rates and conditions are worse than they have been for many
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        265 18 SnKEKJieport Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures edged higher in slow trade yesterday as Tokyo stocks continued to lose ground on worries about bad loan problems and the dollar's fall against the yen. The dollar slid below 113 yen on news that Japan's trade data for
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        Futures just shy of breaking 400-point level
        163 18  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES -By Perry Gilbert Perry Gilbert, vice-president, Refco Singapore Pte Ltd [SINGAPORE) The Simex MSCI Taiwan Index futures finished stronger yesterday on moderate volume. The July contract ended 4.6 points higher at 399.0, just failing to break the 400-point resistance level.
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        193 18 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [SINGAPORE] Motorists in Asia are benefiting from falling petrol prices as oil firms fight for market share amid falling international prices, industry sources said yesterday. And further fall is possible with oil prices expected to weaken. "Excess Chinese and Korean barrels
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        288 18 Reuter, AFP London THE US dollar was flat against the mark and yen in mid-after-noon trade while sterling staged a mild rally after having fallen in reaction to a dip in UK manufacturing output. At 1220 GMT, the dollar was trading at 1.7449 marks against 1.7587 on Friday.
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      COMMODITY PRICES
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      1979 19 LONDON ■■■■■HI MT Pmh 31 Group 505 1.400 AB Port* 255 1 AMWy National 076.400 -H600 AlBad Oomecq 442.400 7 Amac 161.400 unctl AM Group 134.600 2.200 BAT Ind 550 -5 BG Ptc 232.400 unctl BtCC T77 -3 BOC Group 1053.400 -8.600 BR Petroleum 787.400 8TR 194
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      1599 19 AFP Q Nikkei 22S -ana JAPANESE share prices closed 1.3 per cent lower yesterday amid poor sentiment surrounding construction and banking issues after the failure of a mid-sized contractor, brokers said. "The Tokai Kogyo shock is still weighing down the market," a broker said, referring to the failure of
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      1529 20 AFP P Bug Seng +36J1 SHARE prices rose 0.2 per (feftt yesterday on bargain hunting of selected banking and property stocks, ending two consecutive days of losses the previous week, dealers 9aid. "Trading was volatile, but there was a spate of bargain hunting on selective banking and property stocks
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      647 20 Reuter CI Shenzhen B Index -7.71 SHENZHEN shares plunged yesterday, amid unexpected bearishness that has swept away buying interest since the return of Hongkong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1. The B Index lost 7.71 points, or 5.7 per cent, to 127.69 on turnover of HK$5O million. The A
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      386 20 AFP Hwpm« *Ka INVESTORS sought promising electrical issues yesterday, sending the key index to its highest close in more than seven years, brokers said. Optimistic investors expect higher earnings for the electrical sector in the second half of this year, dealers said. The TSE Weighted Price Index rose 64.21
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      260 20 Bloomberg nWaDmgton -12J87 SHARES fell yesterday as the slump in gold prices had a major impact on miners. The NZSE Top 40-share Index fell 12.87 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 2,513.78. Trading was valued at NZ555.6 million. Bloomberg *2 rooti AN2 Bonking 10.80 unch 6082 AOvontogos MkXp 1.05
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      818 20 AFP n SET Mm -am SHARE prices slumped 3.8 per cent in heavy profit-taking yesterday on the back of last week's sharp gains when the currency was floated. "There was profit-taking particularly in banking and telecommunications stocks after the buying spree last week," said an analyst. The SET Index
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      406 20 AFP pOwnpoßteliig -6.73 SHARE prices closed 0.7 per cent lower yesterday, with blue chips and Financials losing ground on institutional selling. Dealers said concerns over a larger stock supply in July and the government's plan to sell its shares in public companies kept buyers out of the market. The
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      574 20 AFP PAllorfairia« -2014 SHARES eased yesterday under the leaden weight of lower gold prices which infected stocks across the board. A broker said the drop in the gold price to its lowest level in a decade had adversely affected commodity prices, which had in turn flowed onto the general
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      705 20 AFP OCtoqMftshia +L4l <n SHARE prices closed 0.2 per cent higher in cautious trade yesterday, with investors awaiting a new deregulation package and further developments in the Philippines. "The market was largely driven by local interest in sec-ond-liners," a dealer said. The JSE Composite Index rose 1.41 points at
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      340 20 AFP Q Manila -&81 THE market fell yesterday after the central bank raised overnight borrowing rates to 30 per cent and because of growing concern over the possible devaluation of the peso. The Composite Index fell 5.81 points to 2,753.15. Turnover was 3.5 billion shares worth 1.5 billion pesos.
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        7938 21 CwttMMf praiacts IMT Last Val Day Nat Cap WH> law Ciwpwy »ata -000 wm> low PH 790 580 AJInomoto 540 31.0 227.0 444 293 Aogkasa 312 unch 6 312 312 9J **£-2 90S 690 ApoNo Food Htq 700 30 42 700 660 2800 428 189 Barjayaind 304 9 ***** 314
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        Lock icon Shares slide on heavy foreign selling
        485 21 AFX-Asia f3 Composite Index -12.78 SHARE prices closed lower yesterday on heavy foreign selling with blue chips and financials among the worst hit following a Morgan Stanley downgrade on Malaysia, dealers said. The KLSE Composite Index closed down 12.78 points at 1,060.53. The Emas
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        3555 22 BQNPS, LOAMS ft KMMNTS m 1997 L«t Vol D.y **8 Hlqh Low St no Compony Solo Mr COOO> Ht«h Low Buyor So«or Prtc. 68 443 m~ 3000 m AMDB c5.5*0202,6 _I_ 46 44.5 *7 415 3160 A Acor ******1 OSS 53 »1.5 5 53 53 52-5 53 131 70 3164
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        QAF wrt riding high on rumours
        226 22  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock and warrant of QAF have surged in recent days amid speculation that its controlling shareholder, the Salim group, plans to inject several foodrelated businesses into the bread-maker and supermarket operator. The stock has already jumped 25 cents
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2243 22 Transaction Date Jul 7j Cr Or >997 LMt V« Day Laat Quota Mr 0»v VM Nat M Cap H4» Law Stm Campny Mt *h COOP) HUh U» Bwyor u—r Cw HI M 478 296 m» 5000 AISBSOc 296 < 7 300 »6 291 3» 10 4.9 0.5 613
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        1467 23 TURNOVft COOO) VALUE fOOO) wto g»» Tom *m em T«MI Industrie 101,698 31.315 133.013 192,505 40,878 233,4*4 rm«c« 8,418 2,372 10.7*0 93.4*1 4,669 *>60 Hotota 2,636 898 3.534 6.219 1347 Proportion H.573 3,023 14,596 63.035 3.596 66,631 Ptortotton 2.289 2.289 4.8* 4.8* MMna 77 77 183 183 8LW 8,958 3.129
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        MAIN BOARD
        4945 23 Transaction Date: JuJ 7] Cf Ot um LMt Vol My Last Owtl Mv OMr YM Not C* Avg Hlfh Urn stNo Company Sot* COOO) High Low Buyer Sollec C*r P/B Price MOUSTRIALS 5146 ASE NTS10 200 US- a., I 5S! «l !IU icS 100 5 c< 35 >75
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        1122 23 Of Of M Wt 1997 Last VaI Day LMt Owtl W* Dtv YM Nat Cap Av« n» i— im» c—p—r w» rooo* u» *tt trnm cw pft 186 76 a 2000 ABAHM«»9c K>S -3 5» 107 103 105 106 3.0 6.0 0.1 190.0 46.7 107 200 144 a 2049
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        229 24 Stocks Volume 'Berjaya Ind 15,630,000 Tye Soon 10c 13,444,000 Popular 10c 9,427,000 TJanjin Zhonq 6,611,000 •MulphaR 5,782,000 Kuan HsinUS20c 5.183.000 PohLianlOc 4,228,000 HX Land USKk 3,599,000 MM I Hldqs 10c 3,357,000 New Toyo 25c 3,189,000 Stocks SIA Foreign 35,355,995 DBS Foreign 33,559,868 •Berjaya Ind 26,654,160 U06 Foreign 25,959,390 CKy Dev50c
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        63 24  -  br' Ven Sreenivasan OAF jumped 18 cents, or 11 per cent, to f 1.80 yesterday as 411,000 shares changed hands. Although the weekly RSI is in overbought territory, the monthly RSI is still below neutral, suggesting that there is further upside ahead. The momentum indicators also point to
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        Shares see best gains in months as rally continues
        686 24  -  STOCE MARKET COMMENTARY Analysts attribute rise to general pick-np in market sentiment after a slew of npbeat economic forecasts for the second half By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Stocks here extended Friday's gains yesterday as broadbased buying gave most key market indices
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          191 24 IF YOU are a truly gullible consumer, never fear. The Singapore Code of Advertising Practice which sets out the do's and don'ts for claims in advertisements, goes out of its way to protect you. The 56-page Code makes for interesting reading and contains enough prohibitions to drive the
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          High-tech push from US Embassy
          115 24 WHILE Singapore high-tech companies try to set up alliances in the US, the reverse is also true, with some help from the US Embassy in Singapore. The embassy staff recently helped America's Strategic Informatics Research Corp And a local partner Inchcape Healthcare's Dental Division—to market
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          Eat this
          72 24 BRITAIN'S Guardian newspaper recently reported how David Chu, a property developer in Hongkong, went about handing out invitations to a free lunch in a year's time. Mr Chu called this the "I told you so lunch", which had this stylish retort to all the doomsday prophets, predictions, analyses
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          Love is in the air
          109 24 A SENIOR catering sales manager has been pronounced "Director of Romance" for the Westin Stamford and Westin Plaza hotels. The wedding expert with a big smile will dream up the perfect wedding for lovebirds. Organising a wedding is not just work, says Dannis. "1 do
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          64 24 A LITTLE bird told us that the former chief executive of a listed company had just sold his Rolls Royce Silver Spur last month. The Rolls, which was bought about 18 months ago for around $900,000, was sold for only $600,000 and had about 5,000 km on its
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      614 24 BUSINESS Notices IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 80 ANO IN THE MATTER OF NATURAL SEASONING FOOD PTE LTD (IN LIQUIDATION) Extract of the Minutes of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 1 at day of July, 1997:•SPFniAL RESOLUTIONThat the Company be wound up
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      277 24 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 80 ANO IN THE MATTER OF ECL SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE LTD (IN LIQUIDATION) Extract of the Minutea of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 30th day of June, 1997:- SPECIAL RESOLUTIONThat the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant
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      378 24 ■I THE MATTER OF THE COMPARES ACT, CAP 50 AND M THE MATTER OF ZEK SOURCE MARKETMG PTE LTD (In Umbo*' Voluntary Wlndtog-Up) SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED ON 7th DAY OF JULY 1997 At a/i Extraordriary General Meetng of tw Company held at 116 Lavandai Street *04-15 Pafc Chuan Building Singapore
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      491 24 THE COMPANIES ACT. (CHAPTER SO) INNOGRATED TECHNOLOGY PTE LTD (la Members' Voluntary Liquidation l At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovementioned Company duly convened and held at 7500 A Beach Road #16-317 The Pla/a Singapore *****1. on 29th June 1997. the following Special Resolutions were passed 1) RKSCM VED
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      350 24 NOTICE OF SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS SCAN COIN PTE LTD Al an KiinordiMf) General Meeting of mem hen of SCAN COIN PTE LTD duly convened and held al 112 Middle Road *07-0.1 Midland House Singapore *****0 on .1 July 1997. the following revolutions were duty pasted. SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS "RESOLVED THAT pursuant lo
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      299 25 Bridge News, Reuter THE grain trades dominated activity with rumours of firmer levels being paid on the key US Gulf to Japan run. Although these proved to be unfounded, rates remained strong in the Atlantic. The slumbering Baltic Freight Index has risen steadily and evenly, ending up 6
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      434 25 Ifot construction of port on Lantan Island will depend on demand and growth rated container throughput Reuter (HONGKONG] Hongkong will require a new container port early in the next century but actual construction of the port will depend on demand, Deputy
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      338 25  -  Tanker collides with freighter off northern Japan; no danger of oil spill By Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Cleanup efforts from the grounding of Diamond Grace in Tokyo Bay have already been completed, an official from the Japan Association of Marine Safety said yesterday. Singapore-based
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      284 25  -  By' Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] P&O Nedlloyd's board director Leo Berndsen resigned as director of Europe Combined Terminals (ECT) amid the ruckus raised by P&O Nedlloyd over the construction of a dedicated terminal for Maersk Line at the port
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      Congestion returns to Madras port with scrapping of berth reservation scheme
      389 25  -  By\ Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] A decision by the Chennai (Madras) Port Trust to scrap its berth reservation scheme (BRS) at the end of May has resulted in congestion returning to the South Indian port again. While the Indian government
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      223 25 Reuter [CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh] A violent strike by dock workers crippled Bangladesh's main Chittagong port for a fourth day on Sunday and officials said only intervention by Prime Minister Hasina could break the stalemate. "It looks like dragging on until the prime minister intervenes to solve
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      895 26  -  XMDXA PORTS: SHIPPING BOOM With India's opening up, high trade growth has led to bottlenecks at ports with limited capacity and infrastructure By. Marcus Hand RECENT reports of increased activities on shipping routes to and from India raises the question of the ability of the country's
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        863 39 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges In US dollars in stead of single prices for a more com pre hen live description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index
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        420 40 Thursday's E6M will seek support of investors for £&5b restructuring plan FT [PARIS] Eurotunnel, the operator of the Channel Tunnel, is to face criticism from shareholders this week over the remuneration of its executive directors. The challenge will come at an extraordinary general
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        285 40 AFP [SEOUL] Thousands of car workers at South Korea's Daewoo Motor Co went on partial strike yesterday after a breakdown in negotiations for higher pay, as Seoul subway workers threatened to follow suit. Unionists at Daewoo's west-coast Pupyong plant walked off the job
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        191 40 Bloomberg (SEOUL] Hyundai Motor Co, South Korea's largest automaker, will raise US$2 billion (Ss2.B billion) to US$3 billion in September possibly through overseas securities issues. Park Byong Jae, Hyundai's president, said the company will raise the capital to subsidise offshore projects such as
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        217 40 Reuter (NEW DELHI] Japan's Suzuki Motor called for a mutually acceptable managing director in its Indian car venture after the government, an equal partner, insisted on naming the next choice for the post. A tug-of-war between the two has raised questions on
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        147 40 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Chrysler Corp, the third biggest US automaker, will close its Beijing office because the company sees little room for expansion in China's sluggish auto market. Larry Burger, director of China projects, said Chrysler decided that current market opportunities in China meant it no
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        221 40 Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airways pic said it will cancel more than half of its intercontinental flights from London's Heathrow Airport and three-quarters of European flights from the airport starting tomorrow after talks on preventing a 72-hour strike by cabin crew broke
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        Korean Air's new operations centre
        101 40 [SINGAPORE] The new Korean Air Operations Centre at Kimpo Airport was recently completed. The new centre centralises the airline's entire range of operations and includes an ultra-modern aircraft hangar that can accommodate two 8747-400S and one A3ooaircraft at the same time. The centre covers 135,9605qm
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          105 40 [BEIJING] A Chinese airilne has named one of its new passenger planes "Return of Hongkong" to commemorate the return of the former British colony to Chinese rule on July 1, the People's Daily Overseas Edition said yesterday. The Airbus A 320 was turned over to
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          99 40 AFP [CAIRO]- A British Airways 747 with 250 people on board was severely damaged on Sunday when a fuel truck struck its wing on the tarmac at the Cairo airport, but there were no injuries, officials said. The plane was preparing to
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          71 40 AFX-Asia [TOKYO] Mazda Motor Corp will entrust all of its planned work on the next generation of electric vehicles to Ford Motor Co, the Nihon Kogyo newspaper reported. Mazda is already behind in work on next generation electric vehicles, it reported. The Japanese
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          92 40 AFX-Asia [HANOI] Work to upgrade a highway linking Ho Chi Minli City and the Cambodian border is due to begin next year, the Vietnam News reported. The construction of the 80km Vietnamese section of the highway which was approved by Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet last
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        Lock icon Navies start exercise to protect shipping
        152 40 AFP .[SINGAPORE] The US and Singapore navies yesterday launched joint exercises to promote cooperation against mine warfare and boost their readiness to protect international shipping The mine counter-measure exercise, codenamed Ex Mercury, involves a total 0f350 officers and men, with two Ja-pan-based US Navy
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      17 25 India ports high trade growth strains services Bottlenecks at ports with limited capacity and infrastructure. Page 2
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      284 25 Eurotunnel holders to slam directors' pay rises EGM will seek support of investors for £8.5b restructuring. Book Pife Pe0p1e..... John Lu has taken over from Tan Puay Hiang as chairman of the Singapore National Shippers' CoundL Mr Tan now assumes the position of honorary adviser. WNHamOnq and OngSlongKai are Ist
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      442 29 /jLIPERKAPALANDAI ZHUN Uff TONGJOO SHIPPING PTE LTD CR NO; **********0 C REGULAR CONTAINERISED SERVICES TEL: (65)535 7793 FAX: (65) 533 2952 KUCMMt-fASTEST TWAMSIT/ MVJUtA-HtMHUTY UNH HO CM! MUHbMPICATtB GIKIM 9757 Of/07 GJWI ***** 15/07 GWOa 9714 IS/07 GISOON ***** 11/07 GW 9751 15/07 GOKXI 9717 22/07 OHO ***** 15/07 GIWI
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