The Business Times, 11 November 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, NOVEMBER 11,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    SingTech gives up money-losing Micropolis
    552 1  -  Price Waterhonse to help seO or dissolve wholly-owned disk-drive subsidiary By\ Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Pummelled by cut-throat competition in the computer disk-drive sector, the Singapore Technologies (Sing Tech) group has decided to cut losses and bow out of the business. Sing Tech yesterday said
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    Developers list measures to cushion falls
    649 1  -  Moratorium on project completion, lower stamp duties sooglit By, Abdul Hadhi, Jenny Lam (SINGAPORE] A moratorium on project completion, as well as lower stamp duties and property tax, could be among the steps the government might take to cushion steep price falls, said property
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    Lock icon Won plunges to 999 against US$
    421 1  -  Byl Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] South Korea's won plunged to a record low of 999 to the US dollar yesterday, but the stock market recovered on a promise of government help. Dealers said stockmarket recovery could be but a respite as more corporate bankruptcies can
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    Lock icon HK in test of public confidence as bank suffers 'minor run'
    1109 1  -  Usted IBA reassures customers after hundreds scramble to withdraw money From* Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong AFTER putting up with months of financial turmoil, Hongkong faced its first serious test of public confidence yesterday when the listed International Bank
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      99 1 The company whose dream Is Korea's future, issg, across the fcfcard as (wiwii wr cartpiungea to Guff Wfcr levels, IfeS is£ r QMM£mmi WVlbnhb The new Oman Leekpai government, due to minnri tts cabinet today, received a cautious welcome from Thailand's twin— community, Tg7 ir:} vt; k Tit pinytv CblmO
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      15 1 More reports on Markets in Turmoil, Pg 5 Sooth Korea in a pickle, Pg 12
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      185 1 I I j DANIEL ROTH i a c > t J S/eef: Onfy can ium into a precious metaf. ;.Jrjr UNWAVERING IN PRECISION AND TREASURED At A RARE EVERY DANIEL TIMEPIECE ALL I t Daniel Roth's first-ever Sports Watch, water- While the components of the fully automatic resistant to 30
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      50 ha of land next to CBD designated for mixed devt
      595 2  -  Total space coming up will take 20-30 years to be absorbed, say analysts By i Diana Oon FUTURE sales of 50 hectares of "white" sites in the New Downtown next to the existing Central Business District are expected to
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      December COE premiums for all categories plunge
      424 2  -  Piwtnritl wirfart turmoil, Customs probe blamed By i Christopher Tan CERTIFICATE of entitlement (COE) premiums for the December tender fell across the board as demand for cars plunged to Gulf War levels. Trade sources pointed to the stock market and currency turmoil as
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      Smooth start to giant matchmaking exercise
      651 2  -  263 EU firms, 169 from Asean attend first Partenariat outside Europe By' Yang Razali Kassim AT LEAST 40 Asean companies victims of the recent regional currency turbulence pulled out of the Asean-EU Partenariat which opened in Singapore yesterday. With the Thai baht, Indonesian rupiah
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      Building deals down 40% in Aug
      325 2  -  EYE OH THE ECONOMY Construction By\ Diana Oon THE volume of new construction work awarded in August dipped by almost 40 per cent, due to a sharp fall in public civil engineering contracts, preliminary figures show. The latest figures from the Construction Industry Development
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      Asian miracle alive, well despite recent crisis: BG Lee
      323 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming THE "Asian miracle" is still alive and well despite the recent financial crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in an interview last week. The long-term prospects for the Asian economies are good and their fundamentals
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      Singapore's highest corporate award presented to Hitachi
      416 2  -  Reports by* Conrad Raj in Tokyo JAPAN'S Hitachi group was yesterday given Singapore's highest corporate award for its contributions to the Republic's economic development. In giving the "Distinguished Partner in Progress Award" to Hitachi, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong noted that the
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      Crisis won't affect Japan investment
      425 2 THE level of Japanese investments in Singapore is unlikely to be affected by the regional currency and economic crises, at least for the next two years, said Economic Development Board chairman Philip Yeo last night. "They are in it for the long haul," he added,
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Providing for unsold units
      662 3  -  THE PROPERTY COLUMN Developers may have to make palnfal decisions if prices fall below costs By Lee Han Shih IN four months, most of the listed developers will be filing their final results, and in seven months, their annual reports will be released. It will be
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      New suburban malls well sought by retailers
      443 3  -  By Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] Amidst apparently weak economic sentiment, half of the shopping space coming up next year has been bagged by retailers. Suburban malls opening next year are seeing the best take-up rates of about 65 per cent, said property consultant
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      Low-end condo developers tap exec-condo market
      567 4  -  Price gap said to be small after HDB levy, stamp duty saving By< Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Developers of low-end private condominiums are zeroing in on potential buyers of executive condos. The latest flyers promoting private condos such as Keppel Land's Palm Gardens in Choa
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      326 3 FOR QAI F run omlc COMMERCIAL BUILDING AT KAMPONG BAHRU ROAD l Prominent location /X' Freehold H W •Land Area :3,5355qft Lettable Area: 11,402 sq ft (approx) •Close to OutramMßT, just outside CBD j§\ Excellent accessibility via \X CTE/AYE/ECP 111 LLI 0. For more details, please contact: Nicholas Wong, 228
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      373 4 >■*»»*. v ~nHE» f 1 fll MJI 1 v Jr YOUR SEARCH FOR NEW BUSINESS PREMISES HAS ENDED. v *j| If you're looking for a new place to locate l I your company, then look no more. At 1 CITYNEON Building, you'll find 7 storeys of g ts\\ J! state-of-the-art
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      137 4 I CHEN YUAN DRAGON pearl I RIVER VALLEY VIEW I 1 111 > g CombinedSUeAm :ApproifO l St7sqll I S k( Pttflafo :ll I 2 BuMng Height l/p to 30-storeys I Tenure '.Freehold I For further details tender document, please contact Sole MarketingAgenT^^M FOR SALE BY TENDER Individually or On
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      382 4 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE BY TENDER 13 JALAN KILANG TIMOR I (OFF JALAN BUKIT MERAH) Land Area Approx. 120,000 sq ft Built-in Area Approx. 135,400 sq ft •Tenure 99 years w.e.f. 1 Jul 1962 Zoning Clean Light Industry Plot Ratio 2.5 Main road frontage Easily accessible from CTE, AYE Near
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  • MARKETS IN TURMOIL
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      Mahathir: Eulogies premature, Region shall Overcome turbulence
      407 5  -  Front. Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said eulogies on troubled e(jonomies in the region are pi^mature. "I have not a shadow of a doubt that we shall overcome. We shall overcome the turbulence," he said. The premier
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      Lock icon Mexico gets US$2.5b emergency credit
      287 5 Foreign banks extend help to gnard against market turbulence Bloomberg [MEXICO CITY] Mexico said it got a US$2.5 billion (553.9 billion) creditline from 31 foreign banks in a bid to guard it against "unforeseen" financial market turbulence. i The funds, which can be tapped for
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      Half of UK fund managers see HK$ floating after '99: survey
      452 5  -  also more positive about Asia's long-term outlook From. Neil Behrmann in London ALMOST half of British fund managers believe that the Hongkong dollar will float freely after 1999, a Gallup poll shows. Yet two-thirds of the 71 institutions controlling
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      Lock icon Painful higher rates but if s only for short term: Tung
      243 5 AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong Chief Executive Tung Cheehwa said yesterday that higher local interest rates, while painful, would only stay for a "short term". Mr Tung told a conference organised by the Hong Kong Federation of Industries that high rates
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      Lock icon Are Japan investments trapped in Asia?
      500 5 Direct investments making it tougher for Japanese to reduce exposure AFP [TOKYO] An extensive network of factories and joint ventures in South-east Asia makes it very difficult for Japan to reduce its exposure to the regional financial crisis, analysts say. Unlike the United States,
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      Lock icon Soros funds among biggest losers; Tiger makes a killing
      318 5 Fortunes of world's top two bed# funds wt|y different in last month's crisis FT [LONDON] The world's two largest hedge funds experienced strikingly different fortunes during October's market turmoil, according to independent data. Tiger, a New York-based group which is thought
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Bank Negara to raise RM2b through 5-year bond issue
      455 7 KUALA LUMPUR Move aiguris that interest rates will remain high: analysts Reuters, AFP MALAYSIA'S central bank yesterday announced a two billion ringgit (*****.6 million) government bond issue, signalling that interest rates will remain high, analysts and money market dealers said. The
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      Lock icon Banks will be liquidated, asserts Mar'ie
      688 7  -  JAKARTA TkUH 18M minjfftftr says closures necessary, govt set for all GMMeqwnoBB By\ S N Vasuki IN A combative speech to Parliament, Indonesia's Finance Minister Mar'ie Muhammad yesterday asserted that the government would carry out its decision to liquidate 16 ailing banks and was
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      Lock icon US has no right to penalise Petronas over Iran deal: minister
      351 7 KUALA LUMPUR AFP. Bernama THE United States has no right to impose sanctions on Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) over its business dealings in Iran, a Malaysian minister said yesterday. Abang Abu Bakar Mustapha, Minister in the Prime Minister's
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      Lock icon Chuan govt gets cautious welcome from Thai businessmen
      641 7  -  BANGKOK Baht strengthens but stocks tumble on worries over unresolved economic crisis By\ Harish Mehta THAILAND'S business community gave a cautious welcome to the new Chuan Leekpai government which is due to announce its cabinet today. But while the baht continued to
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      Lock icon Clashes over takeover of Viet church land
      208 7 HANOI Protests over govt building programme in coastal district AFP SEVERAL thousand Catholic demonstrators clashed with police at the weekend in Vietnam's Dong Nai province where the authorities have confiscated church land to construct public buildings, officials said yesterday. Four demonstrators and one
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      Lock icon Two M'sian states seen facing water crisis in 2010
      160 7 KUALA LUMPUR AFP TWO Malaysian states are likely to exhaust their water resources by 2000 and shortages are expected to reach crisis point in 2010, a newspaper reported yesterday. The Sun also quoted Nature Society president SaUeh Mohamad Nor as saying
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      328 7 Editorial, Pg 12 STAY WITHIN SIGHT OF SINGAPORE'S BUSINESSES, WITHOUT OUT-OF-SIGHT BUSINESS EXPENSES. Now, when you stay at Merchant Court Hotel, What's more, you can enjoy a host of privileges, you'll enjoy the convenience of being just minutes Express check-in and check-out. Unlimited local from Singapore's business district, at an
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Japan investments in Pudong zone exceed US$4b
      385 8 SHANGHAI Amount accounts for 18% of total investment in Prolong, says China official AFP JAPANESE businesses invested US$4.l3 billion (556.5 billion) in 638 projects in Shanghai's Pudong New Area development zone by the end of September, Chinese officials said yesterday. Kang Huijun, director
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      Lock icon Top Taiwan trade team in China, may meet Jiang
      171 8 TAIPEI AFP A HIGH-powered Taiwanese business delegation has arrived in Beijing for a trip expected to include meetings with leaders such as President Jiang Zemin, officials and reports said here yesterday. The delegation is led by Hsu Cheng-fa, head of the
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      Lock icon Jiang, Yeltsin sign historic border treaty
      525 8 BEIJING Centuries of border disputes end with mapping <rat of frontier AFP CHINA'S President Jiang Zemin and his Russian counterpart Boris Yeltsin ended centuries of border disputes here yesterday with a historic accord mapping out their frontier for the first time. The two presidents
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      Lock icon Shanghai store's failure a warning?
      220 8 SHANGHAI AFP A SHANGHAI department store's closure last month after heavy losses is a signal of similar problems at other big enterprises, a newspaper commented yesterday. The Business News Daily reported that it only took Shanghai Qiancun Department Store a year and a half after
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      Lock icon Clinton upbeat about China ties after summit with Jiang
      140 8 WASHINGTON AFP US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton gave an upbeat assessment of US-China relations in a Sunday TV broadcast here and spoke in glowing terms of his summit with Chinese President Jiang Zemin. He said Washington still had differences with Beijing over
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      353 9 V r^mg^m^ w v fttXHl r WfBH I FINALLY, AN MPV THAT DRIVES LIKE A LUXURY SEDAN. Thankfully, the engineers at Honda and performs like a sedan. have never been one to follow Inside, the Odyssey is spacious tradition. In their relentless pursuit of enough for your wife, kids and
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Aussie aborigines unfazed by Howard's threat of early polls
      260 10 SYDNEY AFP ABORIGINAL leaders told the government yesjterday they had strong sup- port in their battle over native n title and were not afraid of the prospect of an early election on the issue of race. The prospect loomed closer after
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      New Indian policy clears way for Bangalore airport
      421 10  -  NEW DELHI Govt nod expected soon for project involving STpore investors, Raytheon and Tata By\ Rajendra Bajpai THE Indian government has laid down a new policy which effectively clears all hurdles in the way of an airport project which involves the Tata
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      Reforms transforming India for the better
      569 10  -  URB FBOM MBW DBLHI But dflgptta tho taut paixi of flrowtlmul trfnlhlfl «i|pm of pmnpaHty, Mima thing* h«i»» wtayaA nnot.nnpxl By Aruna Srinivasan ECONOMIC reforms are changing the face of India gradually. The man-in-the-street appears to be more flushed with 4noney. The vegetable seller
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      Lock icon Banks to give 200b won loans to two Kia firms
      191 10 SEOUL AFP CREDITOR banks yesterday decided to extend emergency loans of 200 billion won (Ss32o million) to South Korea's Kia Motors Corp and Asia Motors Co, a lead creditor bank said. The Korea Development Bank (KDB) said 25 major creditor
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      Lock icon Examination fervour
      62 10 [SEOUL] A South Korean mother lighting a candle at a Catholic church here on Sunday before joining other mothers in praying for their children to succeed in the nation-wide university entrance examination to be held next week. Education is considered top priority in Korea and parents go to
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      Lock icon Bangladesh textile, jute workers block roads in strike
      281 10 CHITTAGONG Reuters ROAD and rail traffic ground to a halt across much of Bangladesh yesterday as jute and textile mill workers began a two-day transport blockade in protest against government privatisation plans. Worst hit was the port of Chittagong where all goods
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      127 10 It could be any number of anniversaries, ISO certification, pages but the cost of a special JL K JL Jl 1.1. ground-breaking ceremonies feature in our newspapers and topping-up ceremonies, will remain the same for you: $0. We will Since you have so much to gain and nothing organise sponsorship
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Russia to change rouble policy, raises key rates
      309 11 MOSCOW Reuters RUSSIA'S central bank, vowing to shore up the rouble and the economy against any Asian-style financial or currency crises, said yesterday it was raising key rates and would change its rouble policy from next year. Central bank chairman Sergei Dubinin,
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      Lock icon G-10 sees equity market blip as beneficial
      337 11 BASLE, Switzerland Central bankers also say global outlook for inflation is positive Reuters BUNDESBANK president Hans Tietmeyer yesterday said the Group of 10 central bankers have concluded that the recent developments on equity markets were more beneficial than a cause for concern. Speaking
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      Lock icon Dutch to tighten checks on investment industry
      178 11 AMSTERDAM FT DUTCH financial authorities are to tighten controls on the investment industry after acknowledging that evidence of fraud, insider dealing and money laundering by operators on the Amsterdam stock exchange has revealed holes in a newly revamped regulatory system. Finance Minister Gerrit
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        Lock icon Brown pledges UK support for euro
        76 11 AFP [BIRMINGHAM, England] British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown yesterday launched preparations for the single European currency with a pledge that British banks would work in euros from their launch in 1999. His address to the Confederation of British Industry annual conference stood
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        Lock icon US spy plane flies over Iraq
        59 11 Reuters [WASHINGTON] A US U-2 spy plane, carefully watched by other American warplanes, yesterday flew over central Iraq on orders from the United Nations without incident, US defence officials said. The officials, who asked not to be identified, said the Iraqis did not try
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        Lock icon Plans to cut 28,000 US military jobs
        78 11 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Defence Secretary William Cohen has approved a plan to cut 28,000 jobs from the US military's civilian bureaucracy and put 120,000 other jobs up in a bid to save billions of dollars for new arms, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Disappointed Clinton to put off 'fast track' bill to next year
      460 11 WASHINGTON Intense personal lobbying fails to get him enough votes in House of Reps Reuters SUPPORTERS of President Bill Clinton's bid for fast track power to negotiate trade agreements were regrouping yesterday after he came up short of the
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      EU's dangerous tack on Asian labour laws
      792 12  -  OPINION THB BOTTOM LIMB By Shada Islam The writer is a Brussels-based journalist who contributes to BT ASIAN nations worried about Western efforts to link trade and labour rights may have succeeded in keeping the issue off the agenda of the Geneva-based World
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      129 12 'It was going to happen anyway: anyone with a sense of history knows feat' John Kenneth Galbraith US economist on the market turmoil around the world. 'Araskog was prepared to destroy the village in order to save it All Rand wants to do is to put off
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      For Thais, the worst isn't over
      583 12 EDITORIAL NOW that Chuan Leekpai is back in the saddle as prime minister, Thais will hopefully be spared further gross mismanagement of their economy, and the spectacle of a government stubbornly clinging to power as the country is collapsing like a house of cards.
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      Lock icon South Korea in a pickle
      1224 12  -  One of Asia's miracle economies finds itself floundering in a sea of bankruptcies, bad debts and tigfrt credit By Nicholas Kris NYT RELAXING ON a couch in the basement of the upscale department store he manages in Seoul, Kwak Yang Seo sat back and mused
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      830 12 THE frequency with which the Hongkong police is finding itself the target of criticism for unacceptable conduct appears to be directly related to their lack of public accountability. If the force had been subject to the rules recommended by the Law Reform Commission in 1992, its
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Tap your roots on Land and at Sea
      803 13  -  A double bill from The Necessary Stage will leave you contemplating issues of home and belonging long after the lights go down, says ben bcumbob BEN MUNROE THE Necessary Stage presents Land, written by Haresh Sharma, and Sea, co-written by Sharma and
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      Lock icon The Black Age
      816 13  -  BOOK REVIEW By\ Robert Thomson FT [LONDON] There is a fashion statement of a scene in the just released, ludicrous film Fcux/Off in which the lead actor, Nicholas Cage, a doe-eyed darling of a killer in a customary binary role ("look innocent", "look lethal"), strolls down an
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      Lock icon Gene therapy seen working on heart cases
      607 13 HEALTH DNAjabeleadtonew artery growth, keep bypass grafts from clogging researchers Reuters (ORLANDO] Scientists reported on Sunday that genetic engineering had been used successfully for the first time in human beings as part of two projects designed to treat blocked arteries. One research team
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      Lock icon Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie wins
      158 13 FILMS AFP [TOKYO] A South Korean film depicting disoriented youth and the homeless has won the Asian Film Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival, beating 13 competitors from five other countries, organisers said yesterday. Directed by Jang Sun Woo, the film, Timeless Bottomless Bad
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      18 13 FILE PHOTO Hie primary choice: Tommy Lee Jones in the film, Men In Black today vuanheZaolKio K&%#lMgl. 03U&&ifl?
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      186 13 THE WEATMUR Singapore Showers with thunder over most areas. Clearing around 9pm. Temperature (27-24) HVLf Good. Europe Hl/Lo* Oood. *MurU» B/U* Good. Auckland 18/14 Ooudy Amsterdam I<VO6 Sfcmm Buenos Aw Ul6 Clnudv Bangkok UK Skmm Athens Wtt Cloudy Beyug 14*1 Sunny Bert* OK 04 Cloudy (!<*•> Bombay «/il Sonov Bom
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      Nail-biting finishes on a lush course
      745 16  -  Be prepared for tricky play on Dubai Creek, says MicnDLAUSD ORUB NICKLAUS D'CRUZ IN the blistering, energy-sapping desert sun, golf can be a tough call. Unless you happen to be at the fabulous Dubai Creek Golf Yacht Club in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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      Art form of the 20th century
      674 16  -  A look at how the design of golf courses has evolved By: Nicklaus D'Cruz A WELL-DESIGNED golf course should not be a promotional exercise in imposing landscaping or grandeur but a natural haven for the joys of the game. To some, golf means keen
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      Club prices not hit by turmoil
      333 16  -  BT GOLF INDEX By Ven Sreenivasan THE regional currency and stockmarket turmoil seems to have had minimal impact on the price of golf club memberships, with the eight clubs in the BT Golf Index edging down just 0.38 point in October. Falls in the
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      439 17  - World's largest computer supplier has option to buy another 8.4% stkke By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Ingram Micro, a multi-billion dollar US-based Arm, is buying into Electronic Resources in a $116 million share deal which confirms a BT report last Saturday. Under the deal, the world's largest wholesale distributor of
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      Thakral interim profit up 9.3% despite drop in turnover
      298 17  -  Seasonal decline, yen weakening cited for fall in turnover By I Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] Thakral Corporation has managed higher earnings despite a drop in turnover for the six months ended Sept 30. The consumer electronics distributor last night announced a
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      More on Bt Sembawang's land handover
      224 17 [SINGAPORE] Bukit Sembawang Estates has given further details on the handing over of 1.7 million sq ft of its land to the government. Its first announcement on the matter was made last month. In granting development permission under the Singapore Planning Act, the government
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      Countryside 3 project gets good response
      191 17 [SINGAPORE] The OCBC group's Countryside 3 landed property project has met with good response from buyers at its soft launch last week. OCBC Property Services said 75 per cent of the 40 units of luxury freehold semi-de-tached houses and five bungalows were sold within
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      Tenaga opts to bite the bullet in forex loss treatment
      615 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Meera Tharmaratnam TENAGA Nasional Bhd, Malaysia's second biggest listed company, shocked analysts with a 140 million Malaysian ringgit (5566.33 million) net loss on Friday, because the utility company decided to be prudent and provide for foreign exchange
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      Govt invests US$125m in plane leasor
      543 17  -  Temasek Hldgß, GIC take 145% stake each in S'pore Aircraft Bntorprjff By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) will pump a total of US$l25 million (*****.35 million) into Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (Sale). With the capital
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        Stay slightly underweight on S'pore: Indosuez
        349 18  -  Bit now is the time to start'bottom fishing for some banking and property stocks Reports by Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Indosuez WI Carr Securities is recommending that investors stay slightly underweight on Singapore and accumulate companies which have a smaller dependency on the region. At
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        Economist sees opportunity for S'pore to engage the region
        373 18 [SINGAPORE] The regional financial crisis provides Singapore with an opportunity to aggressively engage the region and use its surpluses to accumulate cheap assets which will pay off in the longer term. This is the message Indosuez WI Carr Securities' chief economist,
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        Progen offers 20m shares at 36 cents each
        415 18 [SINGAPORE] Sesdaq-bound Progen Holdings is tagging its initial public offer (IPO) at a low price and allotting only 5 per cent of its float to the general public to ensure a warm reception in a bear market. The air-conditioning supplier and installer's
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        Lock icon Saudi prince buys 3% stake in Proton
        226 18 Reuters [RIYADH] Saudi billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal has bought a 3 per cent stake in Malaysian carmaker Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional (Proton), the prince's Kingdom Holding Co said yesterday. "The investment is worth over US$46 million (5572.3 million) This investment is the prince's
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        MESB in deals to buy controlling stake in SmarTel NZ: report
        297 18 [KUALA LUMPUR] MESB Bhd, which builds transmission lines and sub-stations, has proposed to acquire a controlling stake in a New Zealand telecommunications company, the Star newspaper said. MESB, listed on the Second Board in Malaysia, said it had entered
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        Hospital Pantai to buy 88% of Perdana Fin for RM77m
        206 18 [KUALA LUMPUR] Hospital Pantai Bhd (HPB) has proposed to acquire 88 per cent equity in Perdana Finance Bhd (PFB) from Perdana Merchant Bankers for 77 million Malaysian rlnggit (5536.5 million) cash, the Star reported. The terms for the acquisition of
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        JTT's initial public offer 41.4 times subscribed
        147 18 (SINGAPOREJ Home-grown contract manufacturer JIT Holdings' initial public offer was 41.4 times subscribed when it closed yesterday. Despite its launch in the midst of stock market turbulence, JIT received applications for 707.9 million shares for its 17.1 million public shares on offer. It
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          Sullivan's unconditional offer for ABR
          128 18 (SINGAPORE] Schroder International Merchant Bankers yesterday said Sullivan Development' general offer for ABR Holdings hat become unconditional as theofleror and its concert parties now have in hand thane and acceptances totalling 51.7 per cent of fee company. 2b a separate announcement yesterday, NM Rothschild 4
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          Keppel FELS wins $30m conversion job
          76 18 [SINGAPORE] Keppel FELS has clinched *30 milikm Job to convert a jack-up rig for Atwood Oceania Australia Ply Ltd, which la a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atwood Oceanics Inc. Under the contract, the Keppel unit will change the rig from a slot-type to an extended
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          AV Jennings profit surges 62%
          74 18 [SINGAPORE] Jack Chia-MPH subsidiary AV Jennings posted a 62 per cent jump in net profit to US$5.4 million (SsB.s million) in the first half ended Sept 30. Sales rose 31 per cent to US$2ll million. Theoorapaay expects second-half earnings to exceed the firaNtalfieeuHs. Chief executive
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          LTK Industries raises issued capital
          69 18 [SINGAPORE] GPE Industries' 46 per cent owned associated company, LTK Industries Lid, Ims raised its issued capital by HK|a6,9e6.OOO(S$BJL million) to HKSSO million by the issue 0f2£06,600 ordinary shares cfHKflO each at par GPE had subscribed for its 46 per cent share totalling 1,466,661 shares.
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          CMB Asia to sell Shanghai CMB stake
          155 18 [SINGAPORE] CarnaudMetalbox Asia has reached conditional agreement with Maling Foods (Group) Corporation Foodstuff Industry Metal Printing Factory, its Joint venture partner in Shanghai CarnaudMetalbox Co, for the sale of its entire 65 per cent stake in Shanghai CMB to Maling and/or its nominees.
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        Lock icon Samsung's dangerous road
        1151 19  -  USssb car venture seems to be based more on grand ambitions than market realities and is unlikely to help a poor profit record Reports by] Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] WITH sales of U5592.7 billion (*****.6 billion) last year, Korea's largest chaebol, or privatelyowned industrial conglomerate, outperformed all but
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        Successful business is not all about size
        534 19 Korean model falters In borderless world trading STEP ASIDE Joseph Schumpeter. It's Big that's beautiful. The bigger the better. At least among South Korean chaebols, or industrial conglomerates, this remains the case though like the dinosaurs, their days now appear to be numbered.
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        Making sense of a vast industrial empire
        625 19 [SINGAPORE] Samsung management has tried a simple classification of group activities: functionally into five main industrial sub-groups; geographically into five regional divisions. But 60 years of unbridled expansion across the whole gamut of commercial and industrial enterprise spawned by a rapidly developing economy
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        Lock icon MCI agrees to accept WorldCom's US$37b offer
        391 21 New giant formidable competitor to AT&T; British Telecom's ties with MCI end Reuters, Bloomberg [JACKSON, Mississippi] MCI Communications Corp yesterday agreed to be acquired by World Com Inc after the upstart US telecommunications company raised its takeover bid for MCI to US$37 billion
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        Lock icon Cost-cutting, exports raise Nissan's pretax profit 47%
        455 21 Company manages to offset sales slump at home in the first half Bloomberg [TOKYO] Nissan Motor Co, Japan's second-largest carmaker, said first-half pretax profit rose 47 per cent as cost-cutting and exports offset a slump in sales at home, where consumers are reluctant
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        Lock icon India eases rules for share deals
        360 21 AFP [BOMBAY] India yesterday launched relaxed rules for buy-now, pay-later share deals in a bid to increase the flow of funds into the stock market. The new rules for carryforward trade enable dealers to settle more business within a period of 90 days. Previously
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        Lock icon CSR posts A$222m interim loss after asset write-downs
        361 21 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] CSR Ltd, an Aus-tralian-based building materials, sugar and aluminum company, said it posted a loss of A 5221.5 million (*****.2 million) in the first-half, dragged down by a A 5397.6 million write-down of assets. CSR's trading profit increased 14 per
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        Lock icon Monitoring system at CBOT 'deficient': regulator
        379 22 Clash in the making as CBOTs told to change terms of some contracts, chairman lashes out at rulings FT [CHICAGO] The Chicago Board of Trade, the world's biggest futures market, is set for a clash with its regulator after being told its trader monitoring
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        Directors' liability among new products S'pore insurers urged to consider
        405 22  -  Need to innovate to sustain industry's growth: GM of ICS By I Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE! A top insurance manager has urged Singapore insurers to consider the potential of products such as directors' liability, products liability and health insurance as
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        FIC's US$220m issue gets best rating
        201 22 [SINGAPORE] Despite the difficult market conditions. First International Computer (FIC), one of Taiwan's top three producers of notebook personal computers and motherboards, has raised US$22O million (*****.73 million) to fund its expansion plans. The issue was structured as zero coupon credit-en-hanced convertible bonds due
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        264 22 fSBKELReport Reuters [SINGAPORE] Simex Eurodollar futures shed some of their recent bullishness yesterday as players turned cautious after the release of unexpectedly strong US jobs data. Dealers still did not expect the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates at its meeting tomorrow, but
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        Futures higher after starting on nervous note
        153 22  -  MS&TAXWAJf FUTURES Perry Gilbert day. Perry Gilbert, vice-pres-ident, Refco Singapore Pie Ltd.. [SINGAPORE) The Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures contract closed higher yesterday after a nervous opening. Positive sentiment regarding Taiwan-China relations on the back of the Chinese president's recent US visit,
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        239 22 ENERGY REPORT Reuters (LONDON] Oil prices were marked higher in early business yesterday as traders braced for the possibility of a military confrontation in Iraq. North Sea Brent blend crude at 1045 GMT were 28 cents higher at U5520.07 a barrel. Dealers were concerned
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        279 22 Reuters THE US dollar was stable against the yen and the mark at mid-session after a rise in the first part of the day thanks to Asian markets' weakness and poor Japanese economic indicators, dealers said. At 1245 GMT, the dollar was at 1.7172 marks against 1.7127 in
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      2239 23 T~- LONDON Mwtrials ■aatt hw *h 31 Group 466 -2 AB Ports 281 *3 Aboay National MMH 16 AHiad Domecq 481 -2 A mac 138 -1.400 Asda Croup 160 3.600 BAT lod 545 8600 BG PIC 259.400 -4.600 8ICC 160 -4 BOC Group 985 *6 BR Petroleum
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      1653 23 AFP Daua -i3u« JAPANESE share prices closed 0.9 per cent lower in erratic trading yesterday, pressured by selling in futures contracts and banks, with declines in Hongkong stocks also weighing on sentiment. The market recouped a large part of the losses suffered at the start of trading, but investors
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      1526 24 AFP Pw*nffSeag -iim SHARES fell to below the key IQ.OOO-point mark yesterday on futures-led selling due to high interbank rates following a! weekend fall on Wall Street. "Investors are still haunted by higher interest rates," s*(d an analyst. "Trading reraains volatile." The Hang Seng Index recouped part of its
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      621 24 Reuters n Shenzhen B latex -211 THE Shenzhen B share market ended lower yesterday with sentiment overshadowed by another fall in the Hongkong market. B shares were also hit by falls in A shares, which were plagued by apprehension over a spate of forthcoming domestic stocks. The B Index
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      385 24 AFP HWPMn «M3B STOCKS rose yesterday on strong buying of technology issues after two days of decline, dealers said. "High tech shares staged a technical rebound after dipping on Friday and Saturday," said one dealer. The TSE Weighted Price Index rose 96.38 points to 7,767.14. Turnover was 1.8 billion
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      675 24 AFP Q Composite Index -3.43 SHARE prices fell 0.7 per cent yesterday in a sellers' market devoid of buying incentives. "People were just selling and selling," a dealer said, adding that there were no signals that the bearish mood in the broad market was likely to end in the
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      831 24 AFP P SET lain -SJO STOCKS fell yesterday as prof-it-taking set in following euphoria the previous trading day on the prospect of a new government. Analysts said a sharp rise at the opening fell prey to profit-taking as the 10 per cent increase in prices last week had already
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      300 24 AFP Qlub -4LM SHARE prices closed lower yesterday on projections of lower corporate earnings this year and the effect of a court ruling reversing the oil industry's deregulation. The PSE Composite Index fell 41.64 points to 1,851.97. Turnover was 626.7 million shares worth 1.1 billion pesos. Petron Corp slipped
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      397 24 AFP rl Composite lite *21J2 SHARE prices closed 6 per cent higher yesterday as retail investors bought actively in anticipation of a government market stabilisation package. The Composite Index rose 29.62 points at 525.32. Turnover was 62 million shares worth 684.8 billion won. The market rose after the government
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      594 24 AFP PmOrfliariM +aa SHARES rose a modest 0.3 per cent yesterday after reversing early trends and defying predictions of a slump in line with Asian and US markets. Takeover rumours surrounding some major resource stocks sparked strong buying in resource shares. The All Ordinaries Index rose 8.2 points to
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      255 24 Reuters Q Wellington -*38 STOCKS ended lower yesterday in response to renewed turmoil on major international markets. The NZSE-40 Capital Index shed 66.38 points to close at 2,419.12. Telecom, which lost 58 cents to NZ$B.37, was the main driver as it re-aligned with its price in the US. Reuters
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        Lock icon Shares ease amid rising rate concerns
        243 25 AFX-Asia Q Composite ladei -17J3 SHARE prices closed lower yesterday on continued regional uncertainty and rising interest rates in the domestic front, dealers said. The KLSE Composite Index closed down 17.93 points at 689.52, off an intra-day low of 682.84 points. The Emas Index
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        RHBC warrant holders confident shares will move upwards
        161 26  -  WARRANT WATCH By Louis Beckerling A MEASURE of the low market volume yesterday was that three million RHBC warrants featured among top-volumes though at this level they were trading at around one-third their 10-day moving average. On the day, RHBCW99 ended down
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        60 28  -  -by Shiv Taneja MANDARIN ORIENTAL closed one US cent lower yesterday at 76.5 US cents on a volume of 1.9 million shares, about twice its 104 ay traded average. In the near term, there might be some upside, but in the longer term the trend is negative. Investors
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        Investors still wary as currency crisis lingers on
        639 28  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Daw's 102-point fall and HK market's continued weakness also prompt players to stay away; property counters still under selling pressure By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] It was back to a case of the Monday blues for the stock market yesterday,
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          Parisian bargains
          56 28 WE HEAR the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation is sniffing around Paris looking for some bargains in the French capital's bombed-out real estate market. Perhaps it is following in the footsteps of Brunei which has bought an office block near to the Rite Hotel. The building will house
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          Teddy's out, Tommy's in?
          154 28 "TEDDY" RACHMAT, the affable president director of PT Astra International, Indonesia's largest car-maker, appears to be the favourite target of punters in the Jakarta stock market. Yesterday, Astra shares plunged 225 rupiah to 2,275 on rumours that Pak Teddy was leaving because of "serious differencos" with
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          A long medium term
          132 28 IN MARCH, David Scott, Indosuez WI Carr Securities' regional strategist, said that for the first time In three years his Arm was overweight in Thai stocks. He said that though all the bad news on Thailand may not be out yet, stocks there are still likely
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          Better late than early
          91 28 IF AFTER all you have heard about the financial bloodbath in Thailand, and you still have the stomach for buying Thai stocks but are not sure which ones, Templeton Asset Management is launching a locally-approved Thai country fund next week. This will be the eighth sub-fUnd
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          To great heights
          82 28 WHAT do handbags and Petronas Towers, the world's tallest building, have In common? Perhaps nothing, but Bon la Corporation, which makes leather handbags and fashion accessories, believes otherwise. The Second Board company featured the 88-storey twin towers on the cover of its latest annual report, saying that
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          New man in Tokyo
          36 28 SOCIETE GENERALE Group has Asian equities business in Japan** tie will be based in Tokyo and was until recently MO of the Europe tank's j|_ LL ll 1..1. 1 I j market
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      322 29 Bridge News, Reuters A SLOW end to the week saw rates on the key US Gulf-Japan grain run now under U5522.00 and timecharter rates for large modern Panamaxes in the east under US$lO,OOO daily for round voyages, brokers said. The week has seen a continued slide on all
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      414 29  -  Republic should overtake Hongkong as world's largest container port next yean Salomon Bros By) Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Container throughput at the Port of Singapore grew by 8.95 per cent for the first nine months of this year, putting the port
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      237 29 Winning offer for shipbuilder expected to be close to £350 m: report Reuters [LONDON] British electronics group General Electric Co pic is the front runner to buy shipbuilder Vosper Thornycroft Holdings pic, which may be the target of a near £350 million
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      396 29 Reuters [KARACHI, Pakistan) The famed British cruise liner Canberra has sailed more than 4.8 million km in its lifetime, but cannot quite complete its final journey to the scrapyard. The elegant old liner stands aground waiting to be scrapped at the Gaddani scrapyard on the coast
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        976 30 SPEECH BY DR JOHN CHEN, MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE THIRD ASIA-PACIFIC TRANSPORT LOGISTICS CONGRESS 1997 ON NOV 11,1997. It gives me great pleasure to be here for the opening ceremony of the Third Asia-Pacific Transport Logistics Congress 1997.
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        979 30 The Third Asia-Pacific Transport Logistics Congress explores developments, trends and technologies in the industry into the next century. Martin Lim reports. Policy makers and industry leaders from all sections of the transport and logistics industry are meeting here to identify and discuss the latest trends and technologies
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        718 31 PSA Corporation is capitalising on its IT and warehousing expertise and highly-skilled personnel to aive value-added service to multinational companies in the region. Lcgistics is a multi-bil-lion dollar business. It is estimated that US companies spend about US$67O billion on logistics each year. In
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        175 31 TransConnect for Shipment Management, a network based solution from IBM, offers an Integrated solution that optimises the processing cycles of a shipment from the manufacturing plant to the retail store. In the process, shippers better utilise their transportation resources, reduce administrative costs, make fewer errors and
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        488 31 Information Technology (IT) has played a pivotal role in PSA Corporation's (PSA) competitive edge in the logistics industry. Developed in-house, PSA's Fast Connect system for transshipment boxes has been refined to an art The time lapse for intra-terminal connections has been reduced to two
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      839 32 EUROPEAN AEROSPACE INDUSTRY Bonn identifies three possible structures for an integrated European aerospace industry based on Airbus consortium FT THE German government has identified three possible structures for an integrated European aerospace industry based on the present Airbus consortium. It also wants agreement on future
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        161 45 M*v 11 Angola Belgium: Remembrance Day. Canada: Remembrance Day. Prance: Anistice Day. United States (banks, govt offices) Veteran's Day. NnU India Taiwan Dr. Sun Yat Sen's Birthday. NHM Iran, Jordan, Sri Lanka Not IB Brazil Not 17 Azerbaijan, Colombia Not 18 Latvia. Morocco, Oman Not M Mexico Not
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        858 45 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. thowi price ranges In US dollar* Indead of tingle p rlcet for a more comprehen slve description at the market Price* shown are based on average slsed stem Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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        384 46 Airbus clinches another customer for its new long-range model Bloomberg [TOULOUSE] EVA Airways Ltd of Taiwan plans to buy at least six long-range A 340 aircraft from Airbus Industrie in an order worth US$9OO million (Ssl.4 billion), giving the European plane
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        330 46 UPS launches inaugural flight to Bayan Lepas airport Bernama [PENANG] Penang's Bayan Lepas International Airport is expected to handle 25 per cent more air cargo to more than 120,000 tonnes this year from 96,000 tonnes last year, said Penang chief minister Koh
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        184 46 AFP (SEOUL] The union of South Korea's largest car maker, Hyundai Motor Co, warned yesterday of a strike over the company's downsizing programme which would affect 9ome 30 per cent of its executives and thousands of workers. "The restructuring programme is seriously threatening our job security,"
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        186 46 Reuters [LONDON] A British advertising watchdog said yesterday it was banning advertisements in which airlines promoted air fares that excluded tax, duties or other charges that consumers had to paid. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the industry self-regulatory body for press
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        263 46 AFP {SEOUL] South Korea's car exports slumped 5.4 per cent year-on-year to 116,242 units in October, marking the fourth consecutive monthly setback, officials said yesterday. The fall in exports, coupled with a protracted slump in domestic sales, underscored lingering jitters here over
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        170 46 Bridge News [HONGKONG] China's State Council has approved the third-phase of construction for the Shenhua project aimed at helping to expedite coal transportation from the country's central-western region to the east, the official Xinhua news agency reported. It said the third phase of
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        36 46 [TOYOTA] A driver demonstrates a grand prix prize winning vehicle in the Toyota Idea Car contest held in Toyota, central Japan. The vehicle can travel in any direction on four independently controlled wheels. REUTERS
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        171 46 AFP [TOKYO] Narita international airport took a step closer to building its second runway after one of three holdout farmers agreed to sell his land, a daily said. Kiyoshi Kato, 72, signed an accord with the New Tokyo International Airport Authority on Friday, leaving
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      18 29 Aerospace industry; Germans call for unity Bonn identifies 3 possible structures for an integrated European industry. Page 2
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      272 29 mop PiKucv m Honqkonq Shipowners Association's IMO Sub-Committee has developed a questionnaire for a Survey of Pilotage Practices which has been posted on the Internet to enable distribution and completion electronically. The form is available at URL:http://www3.mistral.co.uk/charlesw/index.html Information on port requirements for pilot training and pilotage practices is being collected
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      147 29 EVA Air to buy six A 340 planes worth USs9oom Airbus clinches another customer for its new long-range model. Rack Pag© Si 'B' Gf R D#R less! >*» «<,.^j.,:■•**> <♦" -/'<-'. j v'- x jj c When the leaders ot nations and celebrities traveled to the East NYK provided the
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      156 30 TAMADAM BONDED WAREHOUSE BERHAD I—llil "JdAMCO NedNoyd Oistrioenters Nedlloyd Districenters is company Damco Maritime is a member of the Royal Nedlloyd N.V. of The Royal Nedlloyd N.V. pOur Services include: Public Bonded Warehouses No.34jaianssi9/6, I* Subang Jaya, *****0 Petaling Jaya I Selangor Darul Ehsan, I I Malaysia I Coldrooms I
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      16 30 All articles in this special feature were written, except where indicated, by freelance writer Martin Lim.
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