The Business Times, 10 March 1998

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    10 1 TheBusinessTimes MITA(P) 110/12/97 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes TUESDAY, MARCH 10,1998
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
    75 1 EXCHA1TOE RATES US$ SI ust im S 1.637 2.709 Ml 0A46 0.903 YKN1W 0.780 1591 MS *248 0.410 HKS §129 0.214 BAHT 0.022 0.037 RUP1AH 100 0.009 0.016 Interbank rata PRIME BATES SINGAPORE* 7.86 KUALA LUMPUR 1146 JAKARTA 22.00 BANGKOK 15.2S MANILA 27.80 HONGKONG 1028 TAIPH 8.80 SYDNEY Ml
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    Is Suharto just talking tough, wonder analysts
    779 1  -  Or are his comments against IMF reforms a sign of a major policy shift to come? From! S N Vasuki in Jakarta THE big question in town is this: Is Mr Suharto's tough talk against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a sign of
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    Lock icon Rupiah recovers to 10,800 after hitting 12,000
    498 1  -  By'. Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] The rupiah was forced to below 12,000 early yesterday on weekend news that a crucial US$3 billion (Sss billion) tranche of IMF funds for Indonesia would be delayed to at least April. But by the Asian close, the rupiah
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    EDB chief assailed by MPs for action against bond-breakers
    525 1  -  Bond-breaking is wrong, but publicity uncalled for, they say By. Diana Oon [SINGAPORE] The debate on the Finance Minister's budget statement was distracted yesterday by an unlikely subject: government scholars who break their service bonds. No fewer than four Members of
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    Lock icon Two bank chiefs express doubts over mergers
    509 1  -  Byi Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Two Singapore bank chiefs have expressed reservations over a government push to get local banks to merge, noting that size is not an all-important factor for successful banking. Wee Cho Yaw, chairman of United Overseas Bank, said yesterday: "I
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      169 1 111 SIDE 1997: a forgettable year far local banks The 1907 reporting season has turned out to be a season local banks would rather forget, as hefty provisions for problem loans to the region eroded earnings, F|l7 Hie Property Column When deckling on a property for investment you should consider*
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      4 1 More Parliament reports, Pg2
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      159 1 Election Watch, Pg 9 Best Cash Management Bank in Asia Bank Cash-Management Terbaik di Asia of A] o} Cash Management Bank T3?Tlc£lt<&M -7* NGAN HANG VOIDICH Vy QUAN L? TlfeN T$ TfiT NHAT 6 CHAU A Pinakamahusay na Bangko sa Pamamahala ng Salapi sa Asya Pengurusan Wang Tunai Terbaik di
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      10 1 UOB profit dives 30%; provisions hit $335 m, Pg 17
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Gap between private sector, govt views of turmoil: MPs
      588 2  -  YESTERDAY Df PARLIAMENT Public opinion is that budget did not deliver enough, j say several MPs By. Audrey Tan THE market's disappointment i with the budget reflects the gap between the private secI tor's assessment of the current economic turmoil and
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      What they say
      952 2 j OntheEßP i 'If everything remains the same, if transport companies continue to run their business in the same way without making any adjustments, then there will be an additional cost to them. But j this is precisely the reason why we are implementing the new system
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      Fewer firms closed down last year
      363 2  -  By. Ang Wan May THE economic slowdown notwithstanding, the number of business closures last year was down by almost a quarter, according to preliminary figures from the Registry of Com panies and Businesses (RCB). In a written reply to a question by an MP,
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      TCS will definitely launch digital TV: spokesman
      320 2  -  By 1 Toh Han Shih TELEVISION Corporation of Singapore (TCS) will "dcfinitely" be implementing a revolutionary TV format called digital TV, and is "very seriously" looking at implementing digital TV in buses, trains and taxis, a TCS spokesman told BT recently. Digital TV
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      Lock icon F&B revenue down 5.1% in Dec
      315 2  -  E7E ON THE ECONOMY Commerce By] Frances Lui FOOD and beverage revenue fell 5.1 per cent last December, in line with the general state of decline throughout the year, latest preliminary figures from the Singapore Tourism Board show. In December, which is the peak
      Source: Dept of Statistics  -  315 words
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      Cunard's Asia luxury cruise business growing
      390 2  -  It expects to doable region's revenue growth in three years By] Frances Lui SINGAPORE is a key destination for luxury liners Queen Elizabeth 2, the world's most famous ship, and the Royal Viking Sun, the world's top-rated cruise ship, says an executive of their
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      SUTL's serving up KFC in Vietnam
      424 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi UNFAZED by the regional economic turmoil, homegrown SUTL Corp has expanded into the fast-food industry in Vietnam and is looking further at Yunnan. China. SUTL which came in third in the inaugural Enterprise 50 rankings in 19% of Singapore's top 50
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      Deutsche Morgan Grenfell axes 4 analysts
      350 2 DEUTSCHE Morgan Grenfell (DMG), the investment banking arm of Deutsche Bank AG of Germany, has retrenched four research analysts in Singapore as part of a restructuring of its Asian equities business. And at local brokerage house GK Goh, one analyst and two dealers have
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Competing with their buyers
      748 4  -  THE PROPERTY COLUMN Where there are many unsold units, investors and developers may end up fighting f or game market By Lee Han Shih IN a down market it is just a matter of time before developers start to compete with those who have bought properties
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      Lock icon Freezing from the property crunch in Asia
      735 4 Small investors hit as rates go up, prices fall, projects halted Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Like many Singaporeans, 40-year-old Lim Siauw Chong bought a second home in Bangkok three years ago when he wanted to invest his savings. He thought a luxury apartment in Bangkok's
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      Bottoming out by early 1999?
      531 6  -  Private property seen recovering next year; prices may fall by 12% this year, says a developer By, Jenny Lam SINGAPORE'S private property market, in the doldrums for almost two years now, should bottom out by the end of this year or early next year. So
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  • MARKETS IN TURMOIL
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      Lock icon Howard urges IMF to be sensitive to Indonesia
      291 7 Reuters [CANBERRA] The Australian government, becoming increasingly concerned about its nearest neighbour's financial instability, yesterday urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be sensitive in its assistance to Indonesia. "We believe that the International Monetary Fund's package must be implemented with care
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      Lock icon S'pore bankers cool to US plan for Indon farm loan guarantee
      443 7 USDA's idea is not bad but times aren't normal, says one Reuters [SINGAPORE] Singapore bankers yesterday reacted coolly to a US Agriculture Department (USDA) plan to let banks in Singapore participate in a US farm export loan guarantee programme
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      Monetary policy stays tight, says Bank Negara
      419 7  -  Defending lowering of reserve requirement, it says cnt offset by other measures By\ Meera Tharmaratnam in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S central bank yesterday defended its recent stance on reducing the statutory reserve requirement as being consistent with its tight monetary policy. Bank Negara said
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      KL central bank clarifies Morgan Stanley report
      569 7  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Fong Weng Phak THE Business Times on March 9 quoted a report by Morgan Stanley that Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM)'s reduction of SRR (statutory reserve requirement) on Feb 16 amounted to a "generalised monetary easing". I would like to
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      Lock icon BI to probe Exim bank losses
      113 7 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Bank Indonesia, the country's central bank, will investigate the foreign exchange losses at Indonesia's Exim bank, said central bank governor Sjahril Sabirin. A director of PT Bank Ekspor Impor Indonesia, or Bank Exim, said on Friday the bank had run up foreign
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      Lock icon Don't push battered economies, Ramos tells IMF
      200 7 AFP [MANILA] Philippine President Fidel Ramos yesterday urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to avoid pushing battered economies into depression with its tough conditions. He acknowledged that "conditionally lending" was the IMF's usual way of doing things, but he urged the institution to
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      Lock icon Jakarta ups clove-cigarette taxes
      307 7 Move likely to slash profits of big cigarette makers Bloomberg (JAKARTA] Indonesia will increase the minimum retail price it uses to set taxes for its clove-cigarette industry by as much as 138 per cent on April 1, the tax office said. The move will likely slash
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      Lock icon Brunei buying assets in M'sia: Daim
      333 7 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] The Sultan of Brunei is buying assets in Malaysia, economic adviser to the government Daim Zainuddin said yesterday. He said that Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah was among various investors, mainly from the Middle East, who were buying assets in Malaysia. "They (Brunei)
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon I will not allow nation to break up, warns Abri chief
      347 9 Wiranto indicates he will take hard line against protesters JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA'S newly-appoint-ed armed forces (Abri) chief has signalled that he will take a hard line against protesters to ensure national stability, the bi-weekly Forum Keadilan magazine reported yesterday.
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      Lock icon M'sia tax authorities deny Astro probe
      191 9 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S tax department denied yesterday it was probing sole satellite broadcaster Astro for employing foreigners without work permits and not declaring their earnings. Inland Revenue Department spokeswoman Rozina Marican was cited as saying by the Malay-language Utusan Malaysia newspaper that she
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      Lock icon Estrada family taken in by scam: report
      225 9 MANILA AFP A MULTI-MILLION peso investment scam has claimed the family of popular presidential hopeful Joseph Estrada as one of its victims, a local newspaper said yesterday. Josephine German, the wife of a former top Estrada aide, is being sought in connection with
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      Lock icon Doing a Sukarno on IMF aid?
      713 9  -  BLBCTIOV WATCH President Suharto's standoff with IMF suggests a break Is likely If It Is not resolved soon By Yang Razali Kassim WHEN President Suharto recently signed the letter of intent with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a US$43 billion (5571.1 billion) aid
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Suzhou Industrial Park trying to break even this year: mayor
      1076 11  -  BEIJING He declines to specify measures; assures SIP will get priority over nearby rival Reports by Lu Ning THE Chinese partners in the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), Singapore's flagship investment project in China, will "take some positive actions" to strive
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      Lock icon China warns Taiwan over free trade pact
      424 11 CHINA yesterday issued a veiled warning to Taiwan not to make China an "exception" to the rules when the island negotiates its accession to the World Trade Organization. "If Taiwan invokes the 'non-application' clause (in WTO accession agreement), it will be detrimental both
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      Lock icon Hard times for HK if interest rates do not come down: analyst
      349 11 HONGKONG Real interest rates expected to hit levels not seen since 1984 AFP HONGKONG'S economy is expected to deteriorate in late 1998 if the interest rate environment fails to improve over the next three to six months, an
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      HK plans to sign tax agreements with US, Germany, Holland
      297 11  -  HONGKONG By\ Loh Hui Yin FINANCIAL Secretary Donald Tsang says Hongkong intends to sign avoidance of double taxation pacts with the US, Germany and Holland, foUowing a similar agreement with sovereign China. The US, he said yesterday, is Hongkong's largest
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      Lock icon Tung to assure Germany of HK's health
      225 11 BEIJING AFP HONGKONG Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa has arrived in Germany with a message of reassurance on the territory's economy amid the Asian economic crisis, the China's official Xinhua news agency reported early yesterday. Mr Tung arrived late Sunday at the start of
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      Lock icon China's civil servants told to shape up to compete in new era
      375 11 BEIJING Reuters WITH an axe about to fall on China's bloated bureaucracy, the People's Daily newspaper yesterday told civil servants to adopt "a sense of urgency and a sense of crisis". China needed officials who could help the
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon BOJ probes officials for leaking key information
      492 12 Banks said to have dined BOJ exec who gave oat data that could reap big money TOKYO Reuters JAPAN's central bank governor Yasuo Matsushita yesterday said the bank was investigating reports its officials may have released inside information in exchange for lavish entertainment.
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      Lock icon 90% supply comes with a warning
      384 12 POWER CRISIS Df AUCKLAND Bnt banks and brokers cautions as complete power isn't assured Bloomberg [AUCKLAND] With Mercury Energy Ltd now able to supply about 90 per cent of Auckland's electricity needs, many banks, brokers and other financial firms are beginning to move back
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      Lock icon Shareholders to sue Sumitomo Bank execs
      188 12 TOKYO AFP TWO Japanese shareholders said yesterday they wiU sue the board of Sumitomo Bank Ltd demanding back money the bank was alleged to have spent bribing finance ministry officials. Kazuyoshi Yuoka and Tadashi Matsumaru, both members of the Shareholder Ombudsman group based in
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      India's Congress party president Kesri resigns
      455 12  -  NEW DELHI Move paves way for Gandhi to play more important role By: Rajendra Bajpal SITARAM Kesri yesterday quit as president of India's Congress Party, paving the way for Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, widow of slain former premier Rajiv Gandhi, to head the party. Asked
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      Lock icon Japan budget may not be passed by end-March
      195 12 TOKYO Bloomberg, AFP JAPANESE Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka said yesterday it may be difficult for parliament to pass next year's 77.67 trillion yen (*****.6 billion) budget by the end of the current financial year on March 31. "The schedule is getting
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon German share index may hit 5,000 mark this month: dealers
      498 13 FRANKFURT High liquidity, new share bnyback scheme poshing stock prices np Reuters GERMANY'S DAX Index could reach the 5,000-point level this month, dealers said yesterday. Equity strategists were slightly more cautious, but did not rule out the possibility in light
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      Lock icon Demonstrating his point of view
      45 13 [YUGOSLAVIA] An ethnic Albanian man looking through an Albanian flag during a demonstration in Pristina, the capital of the disputed province ofKosovo yesterday. Some 100,000 ethnic Albanians demonstrated in the centre of Pristina to demand freedom and more rights. REUTERS
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      Lock icon UK Jan manufacturing output unchanged on strong pound
      345 13 LONDON Bloomberg MANUFACTURING output was unchanged in January from December as a strong pound weighed on exports, bringing manufacturers to the brink of recession. Output was expected to rise 0.1 per cent, according to economists polled by Bloomberg News. In the year
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      Lock icon UK starts inquiry into mad cow disease
      324 13 LONDON Reuters BRITAIN launched a wideranging inquiry yesterday to try to identify the causes of mad cow disease and its deadly human equivalent. The probe, set to last 18 months, will attempt to give a definitive account of one of Britain's worst public
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      Lock icon Asian crisis seen dampening G-10 inflation
      493 13 BASLE, Switzerland Central bankers also detect signs of better growth in Europe Reuters ASIA'S financial crisis is helping to dampen inflationary pressure, especially in An-glo-Saxon countries with strong economies, central bankers from major industrial countries agreed yesterday. The Group of 10 (G-10) central bankers
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      154 13 FOLLOWING THE BENCHMARK BUSINESS TIMES ARTICLE FRIDAY 27TH FEBRUARY 1998 PAGE 14 Mr Maurice Lidchi the Senior Trustee, The Consultancy Group in his present role as a Curator ad Hoc of The Sh. Sameyeh Collection will give an Important Talk/Seminar at The Singapore Art Museum (Patron's Club) SINGAPORE'S VITAL ROLE
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Patten's book returns to haunt Murdoch
      759 14  -  THE BOTTOM LIME OPINION By Neil Behrmann The writer is BT's London correspondent FEW will doubt that Rupert Murdoch, the publishing tycoon, is disliked by many a journalist for the way he runs his media outlets. But this time he has outdone himself and
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      130 14 The US economy is like an aircraft carrier. Once it gets going, it takes a long time to slow it down.' Kitty Cooper chairman of Cooper Capital Inc. commenting on the unchanged reading in the index of leading US economic indicators for the second month in a
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      Pay as you use the road
      659 14 EDITORIAL THE questions still being asked about the overhaul of the road tax structure that Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan announced last week only confirm that, commendable though the new scheme is, it is impossible to please everyone in a major exercise such as
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      Lock icon Clash of cultures
      1147 14  -  Chief titan of US high-tech, Microsoft chief Bill Gates, takes on the political elite in Washington By) Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent SINCE it was opened to the public about 10 years ago, the Hart Senate Office Building's main hearing room had never held
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      COE refund would inject cash into economy
      405 14  -  MAILBOX James Purves ALREADY smarting from the reduced second-hand value of our Toyota Liteace as a result of the sharp drop in COE prices over the last three months, I read last week of the revised tax structure for vehicles and received a
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      385 14 Suharto's threat to region President Suharto has baulked at implementing the IMF package of economic and financial reforms. Until now, this has been put down to his concern for the adverse effects on Indonesia as well as the likely dent in his family's vast fortunes. But
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      Tanjong tops local greens
      1109 16  -  Revamp pays off as Sentosa's course wins favour for second year, says mickxaus d'CRUZ NICKLAUS D'CRUZ SENTOSA's Tanjong Course remains the undisputed heavyweight champion in this year's ranking of local golf courses. Not only has it retained its premier status, it has also improved on its
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      UOB profit dives 30%; provisions hit $335m
      806 17  -  Group toppled by OCBC as most profitable bank Reports by I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank (UOB) yesterday reported a 30 per cent plunge in net profit to about $502 million for 1997, dragged down by a sharp jump in special
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      1997 a forgettable year for local banks
      598 17 Non-performing loans seen rising as current year progresses THE 1997 reporting season is finally over for the six local banking groups, with United Overseas Bank (UOB) bringing up the rear yesterday. It has turned out to be a season the banks would rather
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      Lack of understanding's still a barrier to bonds taking off
      756 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW R Sivanithy IT's heartening to see that the government is taking firm steps to boost bond trading in the local market with the extensive measures announced in the recent budget. It appears that hopes are high that
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      Aztech back in black with $2.3m gain
      462 17  -  Jennifer Lien (SINGAPORE) Aztech Systems yesterday returned to the black with a net profit of $2.3 million for 1997, against a net loss of $12.5 million in 1996. But the size of the turnaround was significantly below analysts' consensus forecasts of $7.8 million
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      Lock icon Berjaya sells healthcare interests
      179 17 Bloomberg IKUALA LUMPUR] Berjaya Group Bhd said it sold all of its shares in two healthcare com panies. Parkway Holdings Ltd and Alpha Healthcare Ltd. raising 82.1 million Malaysian ringgit (5533.5 million) to repay bank borrowings. Berjaya, a Malaysian diversified company, said it sold 7.881 million
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        Lock icon MISC buy not a bail-out: Daim
        212 18 Reuters, AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian International Shipping Corp Bhd's (MISC) purchase of shipping assets from a company run by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's son was not a bail-out, government economic adviser Daim Zainuddin said yesterday. He said in an interview that MISC's decision to
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        Lock icon Analysts expect CityDev to maintain earnings
        450 18 But DBS Land may make hefty provisions dne to its regional exposure, they say AFXAsia [SINGAPORE] City Developments Limited is expected to report later this month a net profit of $540-566 million, roughly in line with the $549 million for 1996, according to sector
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        Keppel wins US$100m Smedvig vessel deal
        307 18  -  By' Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Keppel Shipyard announced yesterday that it had won a contract worth over $100 million to build a self-erecting semi-sub-mersible drilling vessel for Smedvig Asia, one of the region's largest drilling contractors. When completed in April next year, the vessel to
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        Inchcape Motor on why results short of forecast
        207 18 INCHCAPE Motor yesterday explained why the full-year results for Inchcape Bhd, posted on Monday last week, fell far short of its own forecast in September last year. Inchcape Bhd was split into Inchcape Motor and Inchcape Marketing in January. Reporting its interim
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        Lock icon Colliers Jardine fires 116 people in Asia as property market slumps
        304 18 Jakarta office cuts staff strength by a quarter while S'pore unit lays off 25 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd's property agency arm, Colliers Jardine. has fired 116 people across Asia, including one-quarter of its Jakarta office staff, the
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        Stolt Nielsen to buy Dovechem stake
        152 18 [SINGAPORE] Norwegian transportation services group Stolt Nielsen has agreed to take a 24.99 per cent stake in Dovechem Terminals Holdings for $35.4 million, and may raise its interests to 30 per cent later. Stolt Nielsen, through subsidiary Stolthhaven Asia Pacific, will buy 22.7 million
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        ASJ Holdings posts flat net profit of $4.6m
        280 18  -  Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Resistor maker ASJ Holdings yesterday posted flat net profit of $4.58 million for the year ended Dec 31.1997. Turnover came to $35.3 million, down 6 per cent from $37.6 million, due mainly to the transition from DRAM and related
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        Lock icon OUE earnings slide 22.5% to $29m, well below expectations
        348 18 Asian currency tnrmoil hits room performance [SINGAPORE] The Overseas Union Enterprise group's earnings for the 1997 full year took a hit from the Asian economic flu, with net profit falling 22.5 per cent to $29.2 million far below analysts' expectations. Analysts
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          Lock icon Creative files suit against Aureal
          83 18 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Creative Technology yesterday said it had filed a patent infringement law suit against Aureal Semiconductor Inc. The suit for damages and injunctive relief was filed last month relating to PCI audio technology used in Aureal's "Vortex" AUBB2O PCI-based AC'97 digital audio processor, Creative
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          SembCorp sells interest in Tridex Inv
          56 18 [SINGAPORE! Sembawang Corporation has disposed of its entire interest of one share in Tridex Investments Inc to Jurong Shipbuilders, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jurong Shipyard, for $6.79 million. The disposal will not have any material impact on SembCorp's net tangible assets or earnings per
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          T Capital director resigns
          40 18 [SINGAPORE] T Capital, the financial services subsidiary of Singapore Technologies, yesterday announced the resignation of Rear-Admiral Larry Loon Leong Yoon as director with effect from yesterday. The company did not give any reasons for the resignation.
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          Heshe names manager for Kids' Star
          45 18 (SINGAPORE] Sesdaq's Heshe Holdings has appointed Chia Li Yoong as manager of its newly-registered sole-proprietorship, Kids' Star Child Development Centre. Ms Chia, sister of Heshe executive chairman Chia Shi Teck, is not a shareholder in Heshe or its subsidiaries.
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          SsangYong Cement awards $8m contract
          68 18 [SINGAPORE] SsangYong Cement yesterday announced it has awarded an 18.26 million contract to design and install a cement terminal at Pulau Damar Laut at Jurong to SsangYong (Singapore) Pte Ltd. It said its audit committee is "of the opinion that the terms of the transaction
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          Lock icon EPF holding 6.95% stake in AMMB
          41 18 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] AMMB Holdings Bhd said in a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange that the Employees Provident Fund currently holds 27.757 million shares or a 6.95 per cent stake in the company.—AFX-Asii
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        Corrections & clarifications
        62 18 Corrections clarifications SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace has clarified that it is only involved in the maintenance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), in response to our report yesterday headlined "Unmanned planes being developed". "There are as yet no UAV design and development programmes in ST Aero or its sister companies under the
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        Lock icon Hagemeyer looks to US acquisitions for growth
        439 19 Dutch company wants to reduce reliance on EU and Asian markets FT, Reuters [LONDON] Hagemeyer, the large Dutch trading house controlled by Hongkong's First Pacific Co, is seeking US acquisitions to reduce its reliance on Europe and to compensate for the weakened outlook
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        Lock icon Chaebol chief arrested for window-dressing accounts
        302 19 Shinhwa chairman accused of obtaining 109b won in illegal loans through fraud AFP [SEOUL] South Korean prosecutors yesterday arrested the owner of an insolvent minor conglomerate, the Shinhwa Group, on charges of fabricating balance sheets to acquire illegal loans. Lee Un Jo, chairman of
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        Lock icon JWT eyes ad agencies in crisis-hit Asia
        217 19 AFP [BANGKOK] One of the world's largest advertising agencies, J Walter Thompson (JWT), is considering a number of investment options in crisis-hit Asian economies, a report said yesterday. JWT Asia-Pacific chairman Alan Fairnington said the company the third largest ad agency in the
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        Lock icon RHB offers to buy KUB's stake in Sime Bank
        383 19 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's top brokerage Rashid Hussain Bhd (RHB) is moving quickly to acquire financially troubled Sime Bank Bhd from its two major shareholders. KUB Malaysia Bhd, the cooperative arm of Malaysia's ruling United Malays National Organisation, said yesterday it
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        Lock icon Foreign brokers dominate in Japan poll
        190 19 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Foreign brokerages grabbed seven of the top 10 spots in a survey by the Nikkei Financial Daily ranking the most respected stock analysts, strategists and economists in Japan. Nomura Securities Co's research unit ranked first for the fifth straight year, garnering almost
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        Lock icon Microsoft files its first suit in new Thai copyright court
        213 19 AFP [BANGKOK] Microsoft Corp has filed its first criminal law suit in Thailand's new copyright court, accusing a Thai computer dealer of illegally loading software onto hard drives, a report said yesterday. Microsoft is accusing Atec Computer Co Ltd of
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        Banque Paribas gears up fixed-income unit in region
        602 20  -  Rawfc taking advantage of current downtnrn to position itself for the fntnre By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] At a time when most foreign banks are putting expansion plans in Asia on hold, with some quitting the fixed-income business altogether, Banque Paribas is
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        ING Barings' review of global operations may lead to layoffs
        375 20  -  Froml Neil Behrmann in London ING Barings is conducting a strategic review of its global operations which may result in further cutbacks, said its Netherlands-based parent company ING. The disclosure follows the resignation last Friday of Peter Geraghty, ING Barings'
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        Lock icon Nomura, Czech bank deal
        124 20 AFP [PRAGUE] The Czech Republic has completed the privatisation of the Investicni a Postovni Banka (IPB), the country's third leading bank, selling a 36 per cent stake to Japan's Nomura group for US$9O million (*****.3 million). An agreement to this effect was signed on Sunday in
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        Lock icon Anonymous trading plan for Sydney futures
        172 20 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] The Sydney Futures Exchange said it signed an Asl million (Ssl.l million) contract with Computers hare Ltd, a financial software company, to introduce a new anonymous trading system to the exchange early next year. The Large Order Call Automated trading system (Locam)
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        Lock icon Halifax's £800m bid for Midshires tops rival offer by 25%
        335 20 FT [LONDON] Halifax, the United Kingdom's biggest mortgage lender, said on Sunday it was willing to pay up to £800 million (Ss2.l billion) for Birmingham Midshires Building Society, topping a £630 million ofTer from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) by
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        Lock icon Market cool to Japan stimulus talk
        214 20 WEI Report Reuters [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen and Japanese government bond (JGB) futures rose in thin, technical trade yesterday as the market remained cool to talk of further economic stimulus steps. Dealers said the credit market was boosted by some flight-to-quality buying as stock markets
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        Futures fall, then recover on late buying
        177 20  -  WOCI TAIWAN FUTURES Charlie Kuo Charlie Kuo, service dealer, Refco Singapore Pte Ltd [SINGAPORE! The Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures contract declined after the opening on concern that lower-than-expected first quarter earnings by Intel and Compac may signal a slowing down in
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        Lock icon Oil falls sharply amid Opec discord
        231 20 EMERGY REPORT AFP [LONDON] The benchmark Brent crude oil price fell sharply yesterday amid discord in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) cartel over how to shore up prices. Brent for delivery in April hit its lowest level since March 31,1994, at U5513.27,
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        CURRENCY REPORT
        273 20 THE dollar fell for a second day against the mark after a report showed a larger-than-expected gain in Germany's industrial production, fuelling speculation its economic recovery may be taking hold. The US currency was little changed against the yen as a drop in Japanese household spending was offset
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1656 21 SICUM rUTUEM Mar 9 lUMf I (Murts dosKm ts M 5.30pm) RSS1CONTRACT (S cwtsA*) Close Volume Open MawM» Htq* Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Apr* 119.50 825 May 96 121.75 121.00 ***** 1600 2875 Jim* 123.50 150 3325 Ji*/Sap96 129.00 4095 Od/Dtc 96 136.75 135.00 136.75 1500 6375 Ja*/Mar
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2260 21 LONDON Mvstriils ■«r« Noes Group 582 7 AS Ports 351.600 .600 Appey Notion* T163 -1 AMod Oomecq 569 10 Amec 155 -1 Asda Group 195.400 *7 •ATM 645 -3.400 BG Pk 306.200 -1.400 BICC 155 1 BOC Group 977 -4.400 BR Petroleum 640.400 -218.600 BTR 193.600 *8
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      1618 21 Reuters D Nikkei as jMI STOCKS closed slightly weaker yesterday despite a comment from a senior ruling party official that he wants a new economic package worth more than 10 trillion yen (***** billion) to be formed after next month, brokers said. The key 225-share Nikkei Average lost 0.93
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      1536 22 Reuters QHaog&ng *7156 STOCKS clawed back early losses in the afternoon to close yesterday slightly higher in cautious trade with the focus on growing tension between Indonesia and the International Monetary Fund. C The Hang Seng Index gained 74.56 points, or 0.68 per cent, to end at 10,994.09 after
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      597 22 Reuters Fl Shenzhen B Index jjjj CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed mixed in sluggish trade yesterday as investors clung to the sidelines amid fresh uncertainties over regional markets and the annual session of parliament, brokers said. The Indonesian rupiah's slump against the dollar hit markets across the region
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      380 22 AFP Flwrhdei +3U2 STOCKS inched up 0.4 per cent yesterday as investors switched their sights from technology plays to low-priced issues, brokers said. "Funds were moved to lowprice non-technology issues following recent negative corporate results of major com-puter-related companies in the US," said Samson Chueh of President Securities Corpo-
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      659 22 AFP DOf wtohte -1143 SHARE prices dropped 3.2 per cent yesterday amid concerns over a standoff between Jakarta and the International Monetary Fund, dealers said. The drop followed a weekend announcement by the IMF that it would withhold the next tranche of crucial bailout funds for Indonesia and statements
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      834 22 Reuters H SET Mac THAI stocks closed slightly higher in thin trade yesterday as investors returned to the market and bought communications and energy issues, brokers said. The steadiness of the baht, which failed to react to problems in Indonesia, also underpinned market sentiment, they added. The composite SET
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      325 22 AFP Q Manila PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.3 per cent lower yesterday in sideways trade and thin volume, analysts said. "The market is moving sideways and volume is thin," said a trader with ATC Securities Inc. The Composite Index fell 6.55 points to close at 2,175.41 points. Turnover fell
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      398 22 AFP nOwnpoatelnitex -1&27 SHARE prices closed 3.5 per cent lower on the Korea Stock Exchange yesterday with mounting tension in Indonesia pushing investors to the sidelines amid an absence of fresh leads, dealers said. They said renewed concerns over the Indonesian economy undercut investor sentiment across the board. "There
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      599 22 AFP All Ordinaries *IXI AUSTRALIAN shares rose half a percentage point yesterday amid light trading as the market shrugged off mixed news from Asia, opting to take its lead from London and Wall Street, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed at 2,680.8, up 13.1 points. The All Industrials
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      253 22 AFP n Wellington -26.71 THE sharemarket closed down 1.2 per cent yesterday on turnover of NZ$76.l million with Telecom Corp going exdividend. The NZSE-40 Index was down 26.71 points to 2,246.18 with Telecom, which accounted for 17.3 points of the fall, down one cent to NZ$B.O6. mrt in room
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        Lock icon Shares nudged lower, further losses seen
        466 23 Reuters, AFP CI Composite Index -4.48 RINGGIT softness and concerns about troubled companies nudged Kuala Lumpur shares to a lower finish yesterday, with prospects of further losses seen, dealers said. After trading in a seven-point band, the Composite Index representing 100 blue chips ended
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        Berjaya Land wt: worth a second look but expiry must be considered
        214 24  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy IN these trying times, what constitutes an "undervalued" asset is of course always open to debate if the market doesn't want to pay what appears to be the "fair" value, then it's arguable
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
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      STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
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      MAIN BOARD
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        223 26 Stocks Volume •Renong Bhd 50c 17,833.000 •M Resources 13,699.000 •MBf Capital 12,056,000 •Refcapacific Bh 8,854,000 •MBF Land Bhd 6,998,000 Easyknit HKIOc 6,120,000 •Uniphoenix 5,936,000 •Mulpha Intl50c 5.273.000 *lnnovest Bhd 5,056.000 ST Engg 10c 4,933,000 Stocks OCBC Foreign 24.227.505 SIA Foreign 18,904,639 SPH 16.865,918 DBS Foreign 14,603,533 SingTel 15c 12,875,818 Keppel
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        Lock icon Currency slide again takes its toll on stocks
        634 26  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Skidding rnpiah puts pressure on prices amid lack of any inspiring news; only encouraging sign comes from M'sian futures R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] The currency-led nervousness that crept into the local stock market in the later half of last week
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        HOT STOCK
        65 26  -  by Wong Wei Kong IPC Corp closed one and a half cents lower yesterday at $0.17 on a volume of 4.22 million shares traded, compared with its 10-day traded average of 7.83 million shares. The daily and weekly RSI and Stochastics suggest limited downside in the near term.
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          Format war hotting up
          180 26 ANYONE considering buying a digital video disk, or DVD, player from US$6OO (Ss99o) up might be interested to learn that a format war is developing between two delivery systems that might limit the number of movies available to one system or the other. Consumers who would
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          It's a buyer's market
          123 26 THE developer of the latest Executive Condominium (EC) project has sent out letters inviting executive flat applicants who did not take up its earlier offer to apply for a unit to visit its showflats again. To push its point, and maybe help find some buyers for
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          The haze will go on and on and on
          126 26 A "HAZE" version of the Titanic hit song, My Heart Will Go On, is circulating on the Internet, according to an intrepid surfer. It's a lament about how grey skies could soon make us blue again. Here're the first few lines
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          What the dictator said to the Fund
          86 26 WITH the IMF so much in the news these days, a contact reminded this column of a tragi-comical experience that the Fund had with a late African dictator. IMF officials had reportedly suggested to the gentleman that some of his country's financial woes
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          My Prada for your Gucci
          154 26 IT's a sign of the times. Something quite unthinkable is happening with that most powerful purchaser of branded goods, the Japanese housewife. London's Financial Times reports that pawn shops are doing a roaring trade in second-hand Guccis, Pradas and Louis Vulttons, upstaging up-market stores selling
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      318 27 Bridge News Reuters PANAMAX rates in the east jumped sharply with vessels fixed for period business at over US$9,OOO daily and rates for round voyages reported at over US$lO,OOO daily. The Baltic Freight Index shed 2 points to 1102 as the futures lost a bit of ground early
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        250 42 Bridge News (CANBERRA] Australia's competition watchdog has delayed its decision on the proposed alliance between Ansett Australia, Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines until it considers whether a further application from the airlines over the deal contravenes the trade practices act. Australian
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        164 42 Reuters [SYDNEY] Ansett Australia said yesterday its international airline would add one more weekly return flight to Denpasar in Indonesia to cope with a 30 per cent surge in Australian tourism to Bali. "While the Asian downturn has initially affected outbound traffic to some
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        478 42  -  Privatisation of South African Airways expected to be completed later this year By] Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Germany's Lufthansa are considering purchasing a stake in South African Airways (SAA) ahead of its planned privatisation. "Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa
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        213 42 AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong aviation authorities yesterday were clearing a backlog in flights caused by heavy fog that threw the airport into chaos and wrecked the travel plans of thousands of passengers. Civil Aviation Department spokesman Vincent Kan said airline schedules should be
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        431 42  -  It is launching new service in region next month From P T Bangsberg in Manila FEDEX, the world's largest allcargo airline, believes Singapore will weather the current economic uncertainties better than almost any other country in the region, and remains "very positive"
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        400 42  -  By: Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] All Nippon Airways (ANA) announced yesterday separate bilateral alliances with Lufthansa and United Airlines as it struggles with rising competition and hefty losses expected in the current fiscal year. Lufthansa and ANA confirmed yesterday that they have agreed to
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      20 27 Cathay Pacific braces for more turbulence HK airline battles a traffic slump resulting from the region's financial turmoil. Page 2
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      960 30 fcT DSR-SENATOR 111 Round the World Container Services EVERY SUNDAY 17 DAYS TO LONG BEACH 19 DAYS TO SEATTLE 21 DAYS TO OAKLAND NEWSffIP AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE: TEL: *****10 FAX ******0 TLX R8 ***** FOR ENQUIHY/BOOKING8: JENNY/LAY CHOQCATHEJUNE *****44/4043 PORT KLANGc 81NARAN MALIM SDN BHD TEL: 03-*****88 (5 HUNTING
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      2154 31 I VERY MONDAY 1 DIRECT TO JAPAN KOM 7 MVS NA«OYA MVS I SINGAPORE'S GENERAL AGENTS: 6 SHENTON WAY TIL 226 I*oo FAX: *****08 OUTWARD (B/L) *****02 JOHORE OfPKE; COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD #17-08 MS lIDG SALES/BKGS *****41/43 INWARD DEPT (D/ 0) *****85 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BND CB NO
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