The Business Times, 22 September 1997

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    21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 029/12/96 85t S I N G A P O R E Internet; http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Dr Hu: dual listings to go when firms quit key areas
    423 1  -  Shares will gradually be mergod once firms move oat of defence, strategic industries From Quak Hiang Whai m Hongkong SINGAPORE companies with dual share listings on the local bourse will gradually merge their Foreign and Local tranches once they
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    Lock icon Anwar allays market fears of change in forex rules
    365 1 Move to cafan market after Dr ITs remarks on forez restrictions Reuter, Bernama, AFP [HONGKONG] Malaysian Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday acted quickly to calm market fears that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was about to restrict foreign exchange dealing to the
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    Soros: Dr M a menace to Malaysia
    363 1  -  From Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong IN A stinging personal attack on the Malaysian Prime Minister for the first time, financier George Soros yesterday labelled Dr Mahathir Mohamad a menace to his own country and derided his proposal to ban currency trading as
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    IMM may not seek judicial management alter all
    615 1  -  Talks with financiers may avert need for recourse to courts By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] International Merchandise Mart Ltd (IMM), the controlling shareholder of Sesdaq-listed IMM Multi-En-terprise (IME), may not have to seek judicial management after all, according to a company spokesman. The
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      94 1 Anew customs valuation methodalgy is expected to benefit motor traders, and perhaps, even car buyers In January next year, v Hewlett-Packard expects the number of personal oumpuUac workstations baaed on Windows NT to mMtatafloni by the turn of the century, P* 11 -ma I HHa i' 5555 d& hopes to
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      8 1 Run-np to IMF/ World Bank meetings, Pg 4,5
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      50 1 Dr Hn urges India to keep up economic reforms, Pg 5 Crown Melbourne, the spectacular new entertainment complex ready to and your every a entertainment for you to Australia's largest casino, an star deluxe luxury promenade a array class Crown Resort Melbourne ■■■■■HHHHH holiday CROWN RESORT, H^| MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. AWoRLDorENTEimuNMEKr
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      S'pore investors cut stakes in US by US$100m in '96
      412 2  -  Reduction contrasts with 12% jump in total stock of foreign investments in US toji Chuang Peek Ming SINGAPORE investors reduced their stake in corporate America in 1996, a year that saw capital inflow to the United States rise to a
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      Lock icon Motor traders to gain from new customs valuation
      399 2  -  Method expected to lower import values and duty costs By\ Christopher Tan A NEW customs valuation methodology to be adopted in January next year is expected to benefit motor traders, and perhaps, even car buyers. According to John Grice, a Coopers Lybrand
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      Lock icon Currency turmoil won't hit growth this year: poll
      368 2 Economists up GDP growth to &9%, but cut forecast for'9B Reuter SINGAPORE should remain largely unaffected by the turbulence in South-east Asian financial markets this year, but its growth is likely to be curbed a little in 1998, a Reuters poll suggested
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      Lock icon GDP growth around 7%: UOB
      282 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Outlook By Audrey Tan UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) has firmed its full-year economic growth forecast to "around 7 per cent", from an earlier estimate of 6-7 per cent. In its latest Economic and Financial Quarterly, UOB said the change was due
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      EXECUTIVE MOVES
      290 2  -  Conpiled by 1 Doris Yeo VIJAY RPAREKH has been appointed regional president for American Express Asia/Pacific/Australia Region. He was previously executive vicepresident and general manager of customer recovery, as well as chief credit officer of the US Consumer Card Services Group. Before joining American Express, Mr Parekh was
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  • REGION
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      Lock icon 500,000 Filipinos march to warn Ramos not to run for 2nd term
      477 3 MANILA But rally tarns conciliatory as Cardinal Sin diffuses church-state rift Reuter HALF a million people opposed to a second term for President Fidel Ramos marched in Manila yesterday, warning they would never allow a return of dictatorship
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      Lock icon Thai finance minister bints of new polls this year
      340 3 HONGKONG AFP, AFX-Asia THAI Finance Minister Thanong Bidaya said there "might be" new elections in Thailand this year. In comments on the sidelines of the World Bank/IMF meeting, he said he is "quite confident that by the end of the month
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      Lock icon China vows to open retail sector but sets no date
      269 3 BEIJING AFP CHINA promised yesterday to open its wholesale and retail sector to foreign investment to comply with WTO requirements but gave no date. "Retail and wholesale will open wider to foreign investors in due course," Yu Xiaosong, vice-minister of
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      Lock icon KL orders firms involved in Indon fires to bear cost
      284 3 KUALA LUMPUR 43 infra Unas hate pacts ti clmut lata Uad ftr caltfoatka NST, Bernama MALAYSIAN companies involved in open burning to clear land in Indonesia have been ordered to bear the costs incurred in fighting fires there, the New
      NST,; Bernama  -  284 words
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      Lock icon Japan's new economic stimulus package expected as early as Oct
      417 8 TOKYO Feau likely te be en deregulation as it meres tespur denies! ii AFP, Bloomberg JAPAN is likely to draw up a new package to stimulate its economy as early as October in line with its pledge to Group of
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      Lock icon Top Nikko execs set to quit over racketeer scandal
      275 8 TOKYO President, chairman will stop town to take responsibility for scandal, says report Reuter THE president and chairman of the Japanese brokerage Nikko Securities Co Ltd were expected to resign to take responsibility for a scandal over alleged payments to a
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      Lock icon Aussie govt tells bosses to be firm in dealing with unions
      435 8 ■SYDNEY Call comes as firm loses fight to employ non-onion staff Bloomberg THE Australian government, disappointed by the sudden collapse of an initial attack on the county's powerful waterfront union, has called on companies to show more courage in
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      Lock icon Creditors' move may save Kia Motors, says group
      303 8 SEOUL AFXAsia KIA Motors Corp could be saved from insolvency after creditors backed away from their hardline position on loan repayments, Kia Group said. "With time running short before the Sept 29 deadline, both creditors and Kia's management took a step backward,"
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      134 3 IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT ONLY THE SKY KEEPS UP WITH YOU. v.* v "> 1 yj t^ri Ji' TC* ✓*—^9hbb^ Bfcsti, Av mu -^o^siiSi Sit behind the wheel of the Bentley Azure and you'll simply leave the world behind. At the touch of a button, the Azure's soft-top smoothly stows itself
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  • FOCUS
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      IMF to have control over capital market liberalisation
      606 4  -  RUN-UP TO IMF/WORLD BANE MEETINGS New role approved by policy-making panel in the wake of currency crisis From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo A MOVE aimed at giving the International Monetary Fund control over capital market liberalisation so that the process becomes "orderly
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      Lock icon HK$ peg to US$ secure from traders: Soros
      351 4  -  HONGKONG HE backed by huge forex reserves of USsB&3b as at Aug 31 By Loh Hui Yin THERE are lots of foreign currency reserves to back up the Hongkong dollar and as such, its peg to the US dollar is not in
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      Lock icon G-10 outlines agenda to tackle instability
      343 4 HONGKONG Reuter THE GROUP of 10 (G-10) rich countries yesterday outlined an agenda for joint efforts to deal with instability in emerging market economies. A communique after the G-10 meeting said the recent turmoil in South-east Asian financial markets was rooted in weak financial
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    • ON THE Sidelines
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        Lock icon Financial 60-90 days crucial
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        Lock icon China seeks World Bank for
        38 5 AFP •3771 rrT^ r >r: "zr* jaiOWOEOMQ} mhnwPi Inn Mtnblw UPwgQg faterday asked for World Bank help to rstoraHh tn lla WiiWTViti Oi iiiilmHwmii WSflbamoja on China's ptaaelo adept a)o*nl ■tockyHia j»- "T^.;
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        Lock icon Philippines may
        18 5 AFP cutriocki was easing sod Msowmliy'i gunsiuuilt JuHtltia, hetold AFX-Asia. Tin cantnd bank fctcqtasMguidltyreearvsrequlrntnantonbankdepoolti nMlWrflltVn«iTlni«iar<—r IfT
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        Lock icon HKMA regional resume
        46 5 Reuter iIMJMIIMSVIi] AUUIflf ttaad ftrrtllfiflfuwf —h si—loo tw* nt hm proco*^Wh^^ efcecotlse Joseph Yan said. **We hope that a pnnedMt has not been set that if the Mexican crisis was an jfobtau.the'niaiertais an Altai one, t)» next case will be SIMMti wIMd JhjplpiP
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        Lock icon Currency Japan asks China to help
        55 5 AFP iTyi. l kiiiiigßtii aMI M Ttokyo 111 —<Ulm Aiis'srmtnntwl run GhJnsee shottd of poveranSßt fcr the hsst coutry. "Ttaprthmr with Chbia, in tflhrt mmrwuthwi 11m lid prwuw ilkai tn mmsmy gists," Mr Mltsnsnlca was qpotsd J*>ansee official as aayti«. Mr Li did notnute*ny
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      Sharp clash ahead as Dr M fires first salvo
      684 5  -  bow-op to anywoßi.n bamk nmrrmus Whfla n«i»«»i»h» *wmw carwey *""f 7, sees it as an integral ftmctkm in a global economy By Loh Hui Yin A SHARP clash of views on how financial markets should develop in emerging markets is brewing
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      Dr Hu urges India to continue its economic reforms
      194 5 Cwseasas«ip«iteies neeMt* lift foreign direct in vestmea ts [HONGKONG] Singapore Ki nance Minister Richard Hu urged his Indian counterpart, Palaniappan Chidambaram, on Saturday to continue to push for economic reforms which have already borne fruit for the country. Speaking at a
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      Lock icon Japan backs Asia fund: Thai finance minister
      219 5 HONGKONG Reuters, AFX-Asia, AFP THAI Finance Minister Thanong Bidaya said yesterday Japan showed its willingness to support the idea of a ftind to support crisis-hit Asian economies. He told reporters after a meeting of Japanese and Asean finance ministers that he was disappointed
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      641 4 (Business Continuity PlanniKg^l m I I v»u A pi gQG v Marina Mandarin Hotel SinggßSSL**^ 2 i-1 The Business Continuity Group, a Technology/Industry Chapter of the Singapore Computer Society, is pi announce its annual conference and exhibition, and for the first time in Singapore, a review course and for the
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      28 4 Escalating To New Heights In Hospitality... 1 mMm rAc above prices are subject to 10% service charge and existing government taxes including G.S.T. Reservation is subject to availability.
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      573 8 I A DREAM ""1 yean ago, was moonlighting for a large Japanese I I in Jurang. On a starry evening while walking to I I motorbike, suddenly I had a strange feeling. I was I I standing all alone in the huge empty carpark looking I I at a large
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Price Waterhouse-Coopers merger worries finance directors
      422 9 LONDON Increasing conflicts ofinterest in consultancy, reduced competition cited FT EXECUTIVES at some of the world's leading companies have expressed concerns about the global merger planned by "Big Six" accountancy firms Price Waterhouse and Coopers Lybrand. Opposition to the merger, which still requires the
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      Lock icon Justice Dept to review Clinton's role over fund-raising
      269 9 WASHINGTON Bloomberg US Attorney-General Janet Reno launched a 30-day review of President Bill Clinton's role in alleged fund-rais-ing irregularities during the 1996 presidential campaign, a first step towards naming a special prosecutor. "The Justice Department is reviewing whether allegations that the president
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      ING Baring under SEC, NYSE probe: report
      235 9  -  LONDON By\ Neil Behrmann ING Baring is being investigated by the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), reported the Sunday Telegraph yesterday. The newspaper said SEC investigators visited the New York brokerage arm of ING Baring on
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      Lock icon Foreign direct investment in S-E Asia to grow: Unctad
      379 9 GENEVA Turbulence unlikely to ha ve lasting impact on inflows Reuter THE United Nations trade and development agency Unctad forecast yesterday that foreign direct investment (FDI) in South-east Asia would grow this year despite economic slowdown and currency turmoil in the
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      Lock icon Investment flows to developing world hit record last year
      263 9 GENEVA Reuter UNITED Nations economists yesterday reported a sharp slowdown last year in the rate of growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows around the world. But record levels flowed to the developing world thanks to liberalisation, privatisations and growth, although
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      71 9 MOTOR ULTIMA 15 Queen Street #01-01 Tan Chong Tower Tel: 338 3844 Fax: 5"3 4 3877. Showroom hours 9 am 6 pm weekends, 9 am 8 pm weekdays. Come down today for a test drive. Authorited dealer: SIN HOCK LEE CARS ENTERPRISE. 165 Upper Ptyi Lebir Road, Singapore 53 48
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      HP predicts sea change in workstations
      682 11  -  NT-based systems 'to overwhelm Unix workstations by torn of century' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Personal computer workstations based on Windows NT will sell in larger numbers than Unix workstations by the year 2000, Hew-lett-Packard, the leading producer in this new but fast-growing category of
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      Lock icon New chip promises more affordable digital cameras
      200 11 Reuter [LONDON] Digital cameras and Internet-enabled television sets will soon be more affordable because of Intel Corp's powerful new chip, experts said last week. They said the 64-megabit "flash" memory chip would help mobile telephone manufacturers such as Sweden's Ericsson and Finland's Nokia
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      Novell to be profitable this quarter and next year, predicts sales chief
      645 11  -  Official denies rumours that firm is up for sale By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Novell will be profitable this quarter (August to October) and through 1996, after a net loss of US$l22 million (SslB3 million) last quarter, Novell
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      IBM's new database server to ship this month
      281 12  -  New DB2 Universal Database now links images and works on the Web By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] International Business Machines Corp will begin shipments of its new DB2 Universal Database, with a revamped, open look and links to digital images, video, audio, the
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      Local CD directory company opens shop in Malaysia
      252 12 [SINGAPORE] Local firm CDBiz Directories has started business in Malaysia, after a profitable year in Singapore. It will launch a commercial and industrial CD-ROM directory there by the middle of next year, CD-Biz director Oliver Tham told BusinesslT. Early this year, the
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    • IT TAKES
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        IT in health-care seminar today
        44 12 [SINGAPORE] Sun Microsystems and CSA Automated ire sponsoring a seminar on "Information Technology In Health Care", aring Java and the Internet in health care, at the Pan Pacific Hotel, today from 9amto 5 pm. V* Admission is free. 1
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        Malaysia's first SET trial on
        74 12 [SINGAPORE] The first Secure Electronic Transaction iU (SET) trial in Malaysia was announced last week by Southern Bank in collaboration with Visa International, ,RI Sema Group Asia Paciflc/Trintech and Microsoft Malaysia/PDX Infoworld. Visa said that the scheme udO be 01 launched throughout Malaysia after the
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        Focus on Building Enterprise Networks
        34 12 [SINGAPORE] Unisys will hold a free, one-day seminar "Building Enterprise Networks" on Wednesday, for MIS m managers and network consultants. For details, call Jolle Tan at *****04, fax *****18. >
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        Informix Q2 revenues up 23%
        79 12 [SINGAPORE] Informix Corp has announced that revenues for Q2-*nding June 29 were U*****.7 million JtUa (*****Q million), up 25 per cent from Ql, and net loss was l T The company took a M reductions and writedown of Certain assets" InformJKateOni announced it has "discovered
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        Aimquest,Digital tie up for intranets
        71 12 W :<1 [SINGAPORE] US-based Aimquest Corp hat announced a .?<r tie-up with Digital Equipment Corp to oflfcr intranet. jij solutions that lets companies provide travelling aaeeuU ve«g global remote access to their corporate intranets. Tfce tn solution will be available only from Internet Service ins
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        SCO's Tarantella to debut this year
        68 12 [SINGAPORE] SCO Inc win this year debut Tarantella, a server solution that allows existingapplicationson mainframes, Unix and NT fervers to Mdeiiwedtp any Java client or to a Network Computer or a Java virtual machine running on Windows, Unix or Mac. SCO said Tarantella also
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        C&L to vend Systems Union software
        56 12 [SINGAPORE] UK-based Systems Union Software tea fff appointed Coopers Lybrand (CAL) to distribute and support the former's business and financial management software in Singapore. Systems Union develope specialised multi-currency software caDtfSunSystems software, thalf I runs on Unix systems and PCs and is available in
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        Platinum Technology seminars
        48 12 [SINGAPORE] Platinum Technology will kick off one-day seminars on "Managing The Rising Complexity Of Database Administration" in nine cities in the Asia-Pacific, from Oct 14. In Singapore, the seminar will be. held on Oct 17. For details, call Pui-San Wong at *****80, fax *****31. V,
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        IBM to sponsor travel congress
        60 12 [SINGAPORE] IBM will sponsor the third Asia-Pacific Transport and Logistics Congress In Singapore from 7° Nov 11 to 13. The theme this year is "Into Hie millennium Exploring New Frontiers In Asia-Pacific". IBM said It is working with the Chartered Institute of Transport to lost
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        Wireless Showcase Asia next year
        63 12  -  -CoupMfcyl Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] A trade show and conference dedicated to :m digital wireless technologies and products *ifl be held early next year. Called Wireless Showcase Asia'M.lt wIB be organised by MP Asia Pte Ltd, sponsored by the Personal Communications Industry Association and held at
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      And now, Microsoft goes after the enterprise market
      697 13  -  Massive onslaught mainly against Unix which rules the roost Bu 1 Raju Chellam SOFTWARE giant Microsoft Corp has now a gigantic dream it wants to grab a huge slice of the massive enterprise computing marketplace. That's an arena where Microsoft is not
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      Lock icon Cyberspace market splitting into sophisticated and simple users
      379 13 Reuter [NEW ORLEANS] The cyberspace market may be splitting into users who want more sophisticated computer services and users who want things kept nice and simple, AOL Networks chief executive Robert Pittman said last week. "The market may be segmenting, with professional
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      Software metering tools can keep you legal and save money
      549 14  -  By Chris Crane The author is general manager (South-east Asia), WRQ Software Pte Ltd. RECENT high-profile raids on local companies by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) underline the risks involved for companies using pirated software, even accidentally. Offending organisations are
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      New printer from Epson breaks price barrier
      191 14  -  Uiwtt c—tfw cdwriß^Btpriat«r«»f>r Bu Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE) Epson Singapore last week launched the Epson Stylus Color 300 with a retail tag of SS26B. "which is breaking the price barrier for four-colour printers". It said its offering is as price competitive as an entry-level
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      HP launches family of Kayak PC workstations
      295 15  -  Range targeted at both npsizers and dowmrizers. By 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] HewlettPackard (HP) last week launched In Singapore its family of Kayak personal computer (PC) workstations, a new generation of PC workstations based on Microsoft NT operating system and Intel Pentium
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      Tektronix unveils new printer for designers
      181 15 [SINGAPORE] Tektronix South-east Asia last week announced the Phaser 380, a tab-loid-size colour solid-ink printer, specially targeted at design shops, advertising agencies, magazine publishers and printing professionals. The 5515,448 printer comes with Adobe PostScript image processing software and deliv- ers llxl7-inch output at two
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    • ON THE SHELF
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        Intel's Fast Ethernet adapter here
        48 15 INTEL has announced the availability of its EtherExprees PRO/100+ adapter (above), calling it the first based on Intel's ***** T 1 X the adapters deliver up to 30 per cent improvement in performance efficiency, provide adapter feult-tolerance support, and wiß retail at SJI4B.
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        New motherboards with virtual drives
        62 15 EXPRESSION Technology has come up with four models of its new Azza motherboards equipped with "virtual drives that enable CD-ROMs to run at lOfrspeed, save 4060 per cent of hard disk space, and replace the expensive CD array devices", the company said. The motherboards are
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        ALR's new departamental server out
        56 15 ALR International's new departmental server, the ALR Revolution 2XL, is here. With prices starting from 5)6,620, it is the first server to offereither Pentium Pro or Pentium D processor configurations, ALR said. It iaavailahle from ALR'sfWe distributors in Singapore and is manufactured in the US,
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        Adobe's Action Pack free for new users
        55 15 ADOBE Systems has announced the free availability of the Adobe Action Pack for new customers buying PageMaker 6.5, Photo Shop 4.0 and Illustrator 7.0. Adobe said the promotion lasts up to the end of this year. Action Pack comes with three CD* that
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        New notebooks from NEC
        82 15 NEC Singapore has introduced three models under its Versa27oo Series notebook, with end-user prices ranging from 553,199 through 554,799, to the market The models— 2730 M, 2750MT and 2760 MT —come with MMX-enabled Pentiums running at 133 MHz, 150 MHz and 166 MHz respectively, and will
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        Canon's new printer-cum-scanner soon
        69 15  -  -OonplMfej Raju Chellam CANON has announced that its new colour bubblejet printer, BJC-80, that also offers scanning, will make its later this year. "By replacing the printer's pHnthead with the IS-12 scanner cartridge, the printer becomee a colour sheet-fed scanner offering3Bodots per inch with 24-bit colour,"
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      524 19  -  Company's acquisitions to focus on Thailand, Malaysia, inHnimgi* From, Neil Behrmann in London UK CONGLOMERATE Wassail pic plans to capitalise on the currency and stock market crisis in South-east Asia by buying companies in the region at bargain prices. The company will focus
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      197 19 [SINGAPORE] Marco Polo Developments' wholly-owned Firstbilt has bought a 33 per cent stake in British real estate services company Hamptons Group. It bought 353,416 shares from existing shareholders of Hamptons for £7.95 million (5119.4 million) last Friday. Hamptons has 47 offices in the
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      727 19  - Changes in corporate M'sia ■itIHTMARBBS flraaAar tr«inif>raiiqr T anmpaHttan win fatfan By Eddie Toh PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his economic advisers have been going on a series of road shows, a role normally undertaken by the stockbroking sector, to woo investors back after the recent market meltdown. The determination
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        412 20 Official says govt in vestment firm will stagger buying »o as to build up sentiment Bernama, AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Khazanah Nasional Bhd has entered the KLSE to support the market, mainly blue chips. Bernama news agency quoted an unnamed Khazanah official as saying, "Khazanah
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        297 20  -  HK firm can Iray up to takeover level, but it has not decided yet From Surinder Singh in Sydney HONGKONG'S Mingly Corp has received approval from the Australian Foreign Investment Review Board to take its stake in Australian company National Foods
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        257 20 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Lien Hoe Corporation Bhd has entered into an agreement to acquire two lots of 51.6 ha commercial land in the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) along the Da-mansara-Puchong Expressway, for 238 million Malaysian ringgit (Ssll9 million). The proposed acquisition would provide
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        207 20 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Guangzhou Investment Ltd, the investment unit of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, announced on Friday a 10 per cent growth in net profit for the first half of 1997 to HK1230.3 million (5545.12 million). Earnings per share fell by 8.3 per
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        363 21 Hat quarterly results, linge cost over-runs in project lead investors to damp shares AFP [SYDNEY] The chief of Australian resources giant Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd (BHP), warned on Saturday there would be more tough times ahead for the beleaguered company, particularly
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        174 21 Reuter [TOKYO] Two leading US companies turned their backs on the lacklustre Tokyo stock market on Friday, as they applied to delist shares from the bourse. US beermaker AnheuserBusch Cos Inc and carmaker Chrysler Corp said that they have applied for the delisting,
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        352 21 It declines to name partner; sees surge in Asia-Pacific business Reuter [HONGKONG] Germany's Dresdner Bank AG said yesterday that it was about to strike up a joint venture with a Chinese securities company but declined to name the company concerned or give
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        270 21 Bloomberg [BOMBAY] KEC International, the world's second-biggest power transmission equipment maker, said it decided to acquire RPG Transmission in a bid to compete with industry leader SAE, a unit of ABB AG of Sweden. The new company, which will be formed after RPG Transmission
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        131 21 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] CCT Telecom Holdings Ltd said yesterday it would acquire a 3 per cent stake in China Internet Communications from Golden Tripod (Holdings) Ltd, the Hong-kong-based window company of Xinhua news agency for US$6.4 million (559.7 million). In a statement
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        Lock icon Westinghouse to buy radio firm for US$2.6b
        341 22 Purchase will strengthen market grip of largest US radio station Bloomberg [PITTSBURGH] Westinghouse Electric Corp agreed to buy the broadcast operations of American Radio Systems Corp for US$2.6 billion (553.9 billion), giving the largest US radio station owner a stronger grip on markets
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        318 22 Plaaispartaf strategy to buy stock at attractive prices Bloomberg (BOSTON] Gillette Co plans to buy back as many as 25 million shares, or about 4.5 per cent of its shares outstanding, at a time when the consumer products company's earnings are under
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        311 22 Artemis launches US$5b hostile bid for Worms Cie Rival bids fer French financial, industrial group expected FT [PARIS] Artemis, the holding company of the French businessman Francois Pinault, last Friday launched a 30 billion French franc, or US$5 billion (557.6 billion), hostile bid for Worms Cie, the French financial and
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        185 22 Bloomberg [WHITE PLAINS, New York! Texaco Corp said last Friday its subsidiary, Texaco Development, had purchased a 24 per cent stake in a US$75O million (Ssl.l billion) power plant currently being built at Anonima Petrol! Italiana refinery in Italy. Texaco will license technology
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        416 22 NYT [NEW YORK] Home Depot, the home improvement discount chain accused of parking women behind cash registers instead of putting them on the sales floor and promoting them, agreed last Friday to pay a US$B7.5 million (S$l3L7 million) settlement and reform
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        Lock icon SBC, LTCB scale back plans for shares link-up
        410 23 They now plan to buy only 1% of each other's shares instead of original 3% FT [TOKYO] Swiss Bank Corporation and the Long Term Credit Bank of Japan are to scale back their plans for an ambitious cross-shareholding alliance. After conducting due
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        GIC-linked firm raises HK$6b loan for project
        285 23  -  Honey to be used for airport-railway station project FYomi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong A PROPERTY company, whose shareholders include the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, has raised a HK$6 billion (Sll.lB billion) loan to finance its air-port-railway station project Tung Chung Station
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        436 23 FT [MOSCOW] Russia is set to export part of this year's grain harvest after importing wheat for 50 years. President Boris Yeltsin, trumpeting the country's return to "the glory of a great grain power", said he expected a harvest
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        232 23  -  By Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] The first South Korean securities house makes its official debut here today with the opening of Daewoo Securities (Singapore). The Singapore subsidiary was set up by Daewoo Securities as part of its global expansion push and ambitious campaign to become
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        470 24  -  Weeklyßoundup Sharp slowdown in Japan's growth ahw seen to be of ofial concern Callum Henderson [SINGAPORE] The G-7 looms once again and with it the automatic potential for trade friction between the US and Japan. In the past, the US would have used the occasion
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        905 24 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] The palm oil market came to a boil last week as drought across South-east Asia, where two thirds of world supplies are produced, raised market fears over next year's harvest. Dealers on the Kuala Lumpur
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        253 25 SES Singapore stocks fell throughout the week, with the Straits Times Industrial Index pulling back 2% to close at 1894.73. The market erased last week's gain due to renewed selling pressure in the regional currencies and will continue to watch the curency markets for trading cues. Regional currencies
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        78 25 Results were slightly below market consensus (FY $57 mil) but core healthcare turnover managed a higher than expected 9% growth. Company is still the regional healthcare leader with future earnings increasingly coming from its Indonesian Indian joint venture hospitals. Although currency turbulence may have a negative impact on
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        259 25 Source: Analysed by Peter Coker, a director of Bridge Int'l Broking RSI measures the rate at which prices move. As a rule, an RSI above 80 indicates an overbought condition while RSI below 20 indicates an oversold market. RSI is more effective in detecting divergences (sell signals).
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        63 25 Interims only slightly below concensus (FY *97 $30 mil). Selldown of stock to US$l.96 not justified. Company is trading at 97 PER 16 times and 1998 PER 13 times. Management is conservative with its PCB outlook although foreign manufacturers are bullish constrained by capacity. Also new plant should
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        241 26 HONGKONG AFP SHARES on the Hongkong Stock Exchange were expected to remain sluggish this week in the absence of fresh incentives, dealers said. "Trading will remain sluggish," said Sean Li, associate director at Amsteel Securities. "I think the most important is the
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        781 26 NEW YORK Question is whether the growing demand bear equity market FT, Reuter RECORD lurches on Wall Street are beginning to get boring. Just as the equity market appeared to be settling in to a new trading range, with blue chips around
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        382 26 TOKYO Investors show subdued reaction to the Yaohan collapse Reuter, AFP THE Tokyo stock market's key index is likely to cling to the 18,000 mark this week, with the focus on mundane issues such as book-squaring rather than the geopolitical
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        Lock icon Footsie tops 5,000 level but investors still on tenterhooks
        334 26 LONDON AFP THE London stock exchange followed Wall Street higher last week and burst back up through the 5,000 mark for the first time in five weeks. The Footsie-100 index of leading shares rose by 175.6 points, or 3.6 per cent
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        878 26 THE Australian stock market would ride on expectations of an interest rate cut this week, brokers said, after strong gains in banking stocks in recent sessions. The All Ordinaries Index gained 3.4 per cent to 2,730.4 points during the week. "It's really going to be a case
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        1240 26 QPvta -ÜB% FRENCH stocks will likely trade mixed in the days ahead as investors prune holdings to make room for France Telecom shares and for stocks involved in a recent rash of takeover activity. Oil Friday the CAC-40 Index fell 1.19 points, or 0.04 per cent, to
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        Lock icon KL market seen choppy with upward bias
        284 27 AFP flOapMiUhiß MM THE Malaysian stock market is likely to be choppy but with a slight upward bias after falling 7.5 per cent in the past week, analysts said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-share weighted composite index shed 64.24 points over the
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        High gearing among factors making F&N warrant a gem
        179 28  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan THE market may be bearish but there are still gems to be found. Take the Fraser Neave warrant. It slipped three cents to $1.85 on Friday, compared to its 52-week low of $1.20 reached on Aug
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        630 30  -  THBWHHK AHEAD PE ratios have hit historic lows but investors are hesitant amid poor corporate results and earnings outlook By Ven Sreenivasan ALTHOUGH the Singapore market is now trading at a historically low price of 14 times this year's earnings and 13 times
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        47 30  -  ■W Ven Sreenivasan OUB FOREIGN, which Jumped 40 cents to $6.95 but Friday, is still in oversold territory. The technicals indicate that the count* could mane up to S7.S0. Further gains beyond that would depend on the counter building up support at that koeL tofn
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      184 31 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young PANAMAX bulk carriers continue to dominate the market, the twin engine, 226.0610 a m/v Nephele (71,987 tdw bit 83 Verolme) is reported sold to clients oi GentatXJoydfor USgMjWfcOOO.The Japnn—e rnm trolled Crystal Grance (64,975 tdw bit 86 Hftochi) attracted firm interest and achieved
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      Europe terminal operator seeks overseas projects
      539 31  -  Europe Combined Terminals in technical, commercial knowledge exchange deal with PSA From Felix Chan in Rotterdam EUROPE Combined Terminals (ECT) will increasingly focus on port-related projects outside the Netherlands in its bid to reinforce its position as the leading terminal operator here. For a
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      218 31 Bridge News [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications plans to turn the Kaohsiung Harbour Bureau into a corporation as part of plans to place the bureau under the central government rather than the nation's provincial government, a ministry official said. The body is
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      More consolidation expected; laying a dormant Eata to rest
      737 31  -  LDIBR SCEMB By David Hughes THE chairman of major UK shipping group P&O, Lord Sterling, is not one to mince his words. At a press conference in London last week he was characteristically to the point about the future of the
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      China's shipping industry expected to rationalise
      220 31  -  Cosco Pacific, Shanghai Hairing, China Merchants Intl possible targets From, David Taylor in Hongkong RATIONALISATION of China's shipping industry, in the form of mergers and asset swapping, are expected to follow the conclusion of the 15th Communist Party Congress in BeUing as proposed "privatisation"
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      Christening of 2 NOL ships
      90 31 [SINGAPORE] National carrier Neptune Orient Lines announced the christening of two newbuiklings (above) at Jurong Shipyard yesterday. The two vessels, both 831-TEUcontainer ships, pre schedqj&tfor delivery in October and December. NOL said tip new buildings, Jurong. Bebaru and Jurpng Begonia, are part of its upgrading
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      Seminar to mark World Maritime Day
      139 31 [SINGAPORE] To mark World Maritime Day today the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) is holding a seminar on the implementation of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code. The theme of this year's World Maritime Day is "Optimum Maritime Safety Demands a focus
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      775 32  -  SHANGHAI SHZPPKMO EXCHANGE International shipping firms have condemned the agency for meddling in the market by setting rates 44 Tim Sansbury Journal of Commerce ANGRYshipp e r s around the world have come out against a newly created Chinese government maritime agency, the Shanghai Shipping Exchange.
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
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        174 47 ■apt 23 Japan .-Autumn Equinox Day. Sept 28 Taiwan: Birthday of Confucius. Ootl China: National Day. Oct 2 'China: National Day Holiday. Oot Australia: Labour Day. Oct 10 Hong Kong Chung Yeung Festival. Japan: Sports Day. Taiwan Double Tenth National Day. Oot 13 Canada Thanksgiving Day. United States:
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        898 47 THIS report, complied by Cockett Marine OU Ltd. shows price range* in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown an based on average-sited stem Market movements are Indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        378 48 Commission's initial review finds carrier has broken competition law Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] The European Commission said it has not decided yet whether to seek any remedies against British Airways pic after finding in an initial review that some of the carrier's bulk
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        Lock icon New Swiss airline to start flights to US in December
        301 48 Reuter [GENEVA] Swiss World Airways (SWA) will start transatlantic flights in December beginning with New York and Miami, the company said in a statement. SWA was created to fill in the gap left by national carrier Swissair's controversial decision last
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        First B777-300 rolls out
        223 48 [SINGAPORE] The first Boeing 777-300 made its first public appearance earlier this month at a roll-out ceremony in Everett, Washington, marking the completion of manufacturing and the beginning of flight tests. Decked out in Cathay Pacific colours the launch customer for the aircraft type the twin
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        Lock icon United Air expects new Star Alliance members
        191 48 Reuter [FRANKFURT] United Airlines president and chief operating officer John Edwardson said that he expected new members to join the Star Alliance cooperation agreement within three to six months. "We have had requests from other airlines to join the Star Alliance. We should
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        Lock icon Porsche sells out entire output of 38,000 cars
        299 48 AFP [STUTTGART] German sports car manufacturer Porsche AG now has firm orders for every one of the 38,000 cars it plans to make in the year to next July, chairman Wendelin Wiedeking said. During that period, he said, Porsche will produce 20,000
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        Lock icon Two Russian Far East airlines plan to merge
        157 48 Reuter [VLADIVOSTOK, Russia) Two Russian airlines based in the Far East AO Vladivostok-A-via and state-owned Sakhalinskiye Aviatrassy (Sakhalin Airlines) have signed a merger memorandum, a Vlad-ivostok-Avia official said. Finance director Alexei Katashonov said that under the deal both carriers would register a
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        Lock icon Hyundai opens assembly plant in Turkey
        73 48 [IZMIT, Turkey] South Korean and Turkish technicians assemble pieces of joint venture Hyundai sedan cars in South Korean car maker Hyundai's US$335 million (*****.5 million) Turkish plant in the western Turkish city of Izmit. The joint venture plant, completed in 14 months, will sell
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        Lock icon Lufthansa woos retail investors to its share offer
        420 48 Carrier aims to ensure that it stays in German Reuter [FRANKFURT] German airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG have issued details of incentives it will offer to retail investors seeking shares in next month's offering, Aimed at ensuring the airline stays in German hands.
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        Lock icon Kuching airport opens as haze clears
        275 48 Bernama, AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Kuching airport in the Malaysian state of Sarawak reopened yesterday after smog caused by forest fires partially lifted. Malaysia Airlines (MAS) said all flights to and from Kuching will resume as scheduled after the Kuching International Airport reopened yesterday. However,
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      19 31 Shanghai Shipping Exchange actions arouse lines' ire Agency condemned for meddling In the market by setting rates. Page 2
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