The Business Times, 26 March 1998

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    11 1 TheBusinessTimes MITA(P) 110/12/97 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1998
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Temasek to launch novel US$1b bond issue
    540 1  -  Zero-coupon bonds can be swapped for Sing Tel shares and will be listed on SES By, Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] Government investment arm Temasek Holdings will launch a US$l billion (Ssl.6 billion) issue of 5-year bonds Singapore's biggest ever that can be exchanged for
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    Keppel expected to announce takeover of Hitachi Zosen today
    498 1  -  It is likely to buy another 71.43% from yard's parent at under $1 a share By i Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Keppel Corporation is expected to announce today the acquisition of a controlling stake in shipyard Hitachi Zosen Singapore. Trading in Hitachi
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    Lock icon Rupiah climbs with influx of deposits into Indon banks
    691 1  -  Interest rate hike, prospect of IMF deal bring back savers From S N Vasuki in Jakarta THE Indonesian rupiah, which closed at 8,200 against the US dollar yesterday, has soared this week due to a rush of capital into the domestic
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    Lock icon KL hoists finance firms' capital target to RM600m
    537 1  -  Move to force mergers in face of non-performing loans Frori Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian central bank has raised the minimum shareholders' funds for finance companies from five million Malaysian ringgit (552.2 million) to a staggering RM6OO million. The move
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      104 1 rams BAAaigak Is the LDP trying to bolster its power by pressing corruption charges against high financial bucreaucrats? Pgll Ayimmrk The new BMW 3-series should easily give the Merc C-Claes and Audi A 4 a run for their money, wis i. ■!t :»'0:1 t oowomi IMUWI Full-year earnings NET (IBD
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      S'pore banks will consolidate sooner than expected: consultant
      542 2  -  He says revolution in financial services will benefit all businesses here Hy\ Siow Li Sen DESPITE the reservations of local bankers, consolidation of the Singapore banking industry will come sooner than later, says a leading financial management consultant. Earlier this month, two
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      Lock icon Growth seen slowing to 1.5% in Q3
      315 2  -  eye on the economy Outlook By. Audrey Tan SINGAPORE'S quarterly economic growth will slow to 1.5 per cent in Q3 this year, before a recovery gets underway, says UK-based Consensus Economics. But full-year gross domestic product (GDP) growth will likely be 3 per
      Source: Consensus Economics  -  315 words
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      Lock icon Asean must show West it can cope with turmoil, PMs agree
      355 2  -  Grouping will emerge from crisis as stronger entity, says PM Goh Reports by. Ronnie Lim in Bangkok TO overcome Western perception that Asia has been badly set back by the regional currency crisis, Asean leaders should show at next
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      S'pore investors in Myanmar air concerns over curbs on imports
      347 2 SINGAPORE investors in Myanmar are concerned that the country's import restrictions to cope with a foreign exchange crunch will jeopardise the operations of their projects in the country. BT understands that this was one of the main issues brought up
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      Taxi rides may cost more when ERP starts
      225 2 TAXI rides are likely to cost a little more once electronic road-pricing (ERP) starts. The Public Transport Council has given the green light for cab companies to pass ERP charges to the commuter. When the scheme starts along the East Coast Parkway
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      Int'l ISO seminar for hospitality industry
      124 2 AN ISO standard that spells out how clean and comfortable a hotel room should be. Or one that recommends specific terms for the exhibition management industry. Experts from more than 20 countries will be in Singapore from March 31 to April 1 to discuss
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      Lock icon Feb visitor arrivals down 22%
      326 3  -  Drop in Asian tourists lead to sharpest monthly fall in 10 years By, Audrey Tan VISITOR arrivals fell yet again by a double-digit percentage for the fifth straight month in February, due to fewer tourists from Asia. The 21.6 per cent drop, compared to the
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      It's full house at $24m German Districentre
      150 3 THE German Districentre a $24 million investment by German logistics company Logtrans Holdings Pte Ltd yesterday opened fully-ten-anted despite the current economic downturn in Asia. The 13,500 sq m building at Toh Tuck Link serves as a one-stop warehousing, inventory and distribution centre,
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      Local enterprises urged to change their mindset
      209 3 Creative action needed to tackle impact of crisis TO cope with the regional crisis, local enterprises were yesterday advised at a seminar to change their mentality and explore creative actions. This is especially so in financing and cash-flow management two top focus areas
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      SCV to spend $150m cabling landed homes
      489 3  -  Rollout starts April; residents to be charged $98 a month for two years By i Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Cable Vision (SCV) said yesterday it will spend $150 million over the next two years cabling landed properties. The rollout begins in April and SCV
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      Lock icon HDB to build 650 studio flats for elderly in pilot project
      352 3  -  By, Abdul Hadhi THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) will build 650 studio apartments for the elderly in a pilot project, National Development Minister Lim Hng Kiang said in Bedok yesterday. The move marks a shift from the past
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Lock icon HUDC market languishing
      520 4  -  It's up against attractively priced private, resale homes By. Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] HU D C units have taken a back seat with prices in the private residential and HDB resale markets falling back to attractive levels. The Straits Times' Classifieds section, which used to carry up to
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      New Orange Grove flats coming up
      134 4 CONSTRUCTION of a $100 million 206-unit service apartment project at Orange Grove Road began yesterday. The 183,000 sq ft plot of land, valued at $200 million, is owned by a trust set up by Arab merchant Shaik Sallim Talib for his family members. The
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      House Hunt
      1029 4 HDB transactions from 16 February to 13 March, 1998. Typ* PMtt Contact MM* Ma M locate* OMrtct Oak UndAm (STOOQ (Sfi 2-Room (Standard) Commonwealth Or 314 06-Mar-98 450 70 156 JlnBatu 1543 25-Fet>-98 473 78 165 OutramPk 316 27-Feb-98 463 95 205 TamanHoSwee 316 25-Feto-98 441 81 184
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      1041 4 If ELECTRONIC RESOURCES LIMITED I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) The Directors are pleased to announce the following results: 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1997 J group comity g 1897 1991 WP srooo srooo srooo sjooo p Turnover 1,453,536 919,104 58.1 841.246 506.640 66.0 Investment
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      230 4 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE I YISHUN Built-in 360,000/430,000 sq ft Land area 360,000 sq ft Tenure 29+30 wef 1 July 1989 90% Fully airconditioned Good loading facilities Ample carpark Own canteen Excellent corporate HQ Sale with vacant possession For more details, please contact: Dr Amos Koh 223 6533 Mr Nicholas
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  • BANK NEGARA ANNUAL REPORT
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      Central bank vows no let-up in tight monetary policy
      683 5  -  Move to fight rising inflation and to help restore investor confidence From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian central bank will maintain a tight monetary policy to combat rising inflation in a shrinking economy now expected to register a growth
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      KL will stick to high rates: central banker
      643 5  -  Froml Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA will stick with its high interest rate regime in its effort to maintain stability and instill confidence in the economic system, Bank Negara governor Ahmad Don said yesterday. He said the current interest rate level
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      Lock icon Debt servicing won't suffer, says Bank Negara
      288 5  -  Debt service ratio to inch up to 7% this year from 5% in *97 By] Meera Tharmaratnam in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S external debt situation is "manageable", with Bank Negara anticipating that Malaysia's debt service ratio will rise from 5.1 per cent in 1997
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  • MARKETS IN TURMOIL
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      Lock icon World GDP forecast revised to 2.6% from 3.1%
      407 6 Reuters [WASHINGTON} The World Bank, worried about Asia's financial turmoil, has revised its 1998 world growth projections down by half a percentage point, according to documents released on Tuesday. An internal paper published in tandem with the bank's report on Global Development
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      Lock icon More Indonesia properly firms may default on bonds: analysts
      466 6 Three major developers have declared inability to pay interest Reuters [JAKARTA] More Indonesian property companies are likely to default on rupiah bond coupon payments following on the heels of three leading real estate firms, analysts said yesterday. Property firms Ciputra Development,
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      Lock icon Indon loans: 10 big Japan banks agree to delay
      233 6 TOKYO Bloomberg TEN of Japan's biggest banks agreed to a plan to allow Indonesian companies to delay for up to six months repayment on principal for loans, said an official from a Japanese lender involved in the negotiations. US and European
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      Lock icon S Korea hits the road to sell US$3b worth of bonds
      364 6 Sale marks govt's first issne of overseas bonds AFP [SEOUL] The South Korean government will launch a promotion campaign this week to sell US$3 billion (Ss4.B billion) worth of bonds its first dollar-denomi-nated bond issue, officials said yesterday. The
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      Lock icon Taking note of optimism
      63 6 [JAKARTA] A teller writing a receipt for a customer after buying rupiah notes at a money changer in Jakarta yesterday. The rupiah slightly recovered against the US dollar trading at 8,300-B,4ooyesterday after a new wave of optimism swept the country on expectations it would reach an
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      Lock icon Growing foreign interest in Asia: US banker
      250 6 It shows recovery conld begin as early as this year, he says Reuters [HONGKONG] Growing foreign interest in Asian market bargains shows that a regional economic recovery is not too far away, and could begin as early as this year, a senior banker
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      Lock icon Big Thai firms set to tap int'l capital markets
      548 6 Banks, PTT Exploration, Telecom Asia among those in line Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand Inc is coming in from the cold. Some of Thailand's biggest companies Bangkok Bank pic, PTT Exploration Production pic, Thai Farmers Bank pic and Telecom Asia pic are lining
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      ABN Amro in talks with Thai Reinsurance
      318 6  -  From Harish Mehta in Bangkok JUST one week after it bought a controlling stake in a Thai commercial bank, ABN Amro Bank is actively looking to buy into other Thai financial institutions, and has already had talks with Thai Reinsurance Public Co. Surachai
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      Lock icon World Bank studying capital controls
      261 6 Asian crisis prompts it to consider short-term curbs Bloomberg {LONDON] The World Bank is considering the merits of short-term controls on capital flows following last year's drops in Asian currencies, which marks a possible change in its emphasis on free financial markets. Last autumn, the
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  • REGION
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      Lock icon Viets in no rush to embrace market economy: PM
      411 7 HANOI No remedy offered on how to maintain growth, reverse investment declines Bloomberg VIETNAMESE Prime Minister Phan Van Khai yesterday dismissed calls to speed up market reforms, in the wake of the country's first bond sale to international investors. Facing the
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      Lock icon Odd signal cripples China satellite
      202 7 BEIJING Reuters A MYSTERIOUS signal has hit a Chinese telecommunications satellite, disrupting share-trading, earthquake monitoring systems and pager services in China, the Beijing Youth Daily said yesterday. Chinese technicians were puzzled at the cause of the interference, which began on March 14, but investigators have
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      Lock icon Digging deeper for long-distance calls
      61 7 JAKARTA] A construction worker on Tuesday digging a hole along a street to install a new fibre optic telecommunication system as a man uses a public telephone booth in Jakarta. The Indonesian government raised international call rates by 25 per cent last Sunday to adjust
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      Lock icon Used car markets booming in Thailand
      204 7 BANGKOK Reuters BUSINESS is booming in Thailand's used car markets, as more people turn to less expensive, second-hand vehicles to beat the economic crunch. Sawasd Seelaburt, owner of a used car business, said the state-run Financial Sector Restructuring Authority (FRA) auction of cars was
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      Lock icon Brunei to close schools for 2 weeks as haze worsens
      374 7 BANDAR SERIBEGAWAN Citizens asked to fast for two days to pray for rain AFP BRUNEI authorities yesterday ordered all schools closed for two weeks as haze from forest fires in nearby areas worsened. Citizens of the largelyMuslim sultanate have also
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      Lock icon Perwaja gets RM710m loan from EPF
      138 7 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama THE Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) has provided Perwaja Terengganu Sdn Bhd with a 710 million Malaysian ringgit (Ss3l2 million) fixed rate term loan to refinance Perwaja's existing revolving notes facility from Arab Malaysian Merchant Bank Bhd. The facility, dated Jan 26
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      Lock icon World Bank to convene April 1 meet on Indon aid
      296 7 CANBERRA Jakarta officials, 20 donor countries invited: Downer Reuters THE World Bank will convene a major meeting on international humanitarian efforts to aid Indonesia on April 1, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday. Senior officials from Indonesia, 20 donor
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      Lock icon Unrest at Java campus
      139 7 SOLO, Indonesia Reuters INDONESIAN troops and students fought in the central Java town of Solo after the soldiers blocked an anti-government rally from leaving a university campus, witnesses said yesterday. About 1,000 students from the University of March 11th (UNS) joined Tuesday's procession demanding political and
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      Lock icon Ramos denies corruption charges
      228 7 MANILA AFP PHILIPPINE President Fidel Ramos yesterday denied charges of corruption in connection with real estate deals, and called his accuser an "unstable individual" guilty of "moral turpitude". "Apparently he is a very unstable individual and this whole set of accusations against him constitutes probably moral
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      Lock icon China forms third trading giant
      323 8 I BEIJING 'Sogoshosha' policy affirmed bat govt urged to watch debt ratios AFP CHINA has formalised a four-way merger to create a mammoth new trading company along the lines of Japan's and South Korea's all-purpose trading giants, the official China Daily reported yesterday. China General
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      Scrambling to head off deflation
      702 8  -  CHDVA WATCH Cuts in statutory reserve requirement, interest rates reflect urgency By Lu Ning After talking about it for more than two years, China's central bank finally did it. On Tuesday, the People's Bank of China announced that as from yesterday, the statutory reserve requirement
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      Lock icon Economic slowdown is strangling India: minister
      455 9 NEW DELHI Growth down to 5%, fiscal deficit rising, he warns as interim budget is unveiled AFP, Reuters INDIA'S new finance minister, in his opening address to parliament, gave a grim warning that the country was being strangled by an economic slowdown and a
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      Lock icon Japan to unveil economic package
      209 9 TOKYO AFP [TOKYO] Japan's ruling party has drawn up the outline of its latest economic stimulus package, reports and officials said yesterday, with income tax cuts nowhere to be seen. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) plans to announce the main points of its programme
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      Lock icon Bill rejected again – Howard can call polls any time
      333 9 Bill rejected again Howard can call polls any time CANBERRA Reuters AUSTRALIA'S parliament yesterday handed the conservative government its first trigger for an early election widely expected later this year. The upper house, the senate, rejected for a second time a government bill making it easier for small businesses to
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      Lock icon Ex-Nikko Securities' execs plead guilty to illegal payoffs
      255 9 TOKYO 2 ministry officials indicted in separate case involving bribes Bloomberg AFP NIKKO Securities Co former executives yesterday pleaded guilty in Tokyo District Court to charges of making illegal payoffs to a corporate racketeer and a Diet member. The politician, ruling party
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      55 9 Conferences Asia in Crisis Miri-Yenr Forecasting Planning MttfinvJ ECONOMIC RECOVERY WHEN AND HOW WILL IT HAPPEN? April V IWH four Scusoms Until. Sim!iif>on Icromv I i nil lev. Flic I conomist on tcrouw Ml Rjlllr I'l.ur. H n| ,ilu I <> w..V Ii l: l'» r >l r >l77 »V|
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Institute sounds warning over readiness for euro
      496 10 FRANKFURT Germany, France need to strengthen public finances before launch: EMI AFP THE European Monetary Institute (EMI) warned the pillars of the single currency, Germany and France, to strengthen their public finances, and issued reservations about the readiness of Italy and Belgium yesterday.
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      Lock icon US durable goods orders down 1.7% in Feb
      303 10 WASHINGTON Reuters ORDERS for costly manufactured goods dropped sharply in February, the Commerce Department said yesterday, pulled down by a steep fall-off in demand for commercial aircraft and parts that may partly reflect weakened exports to struggling Asian economies. New orders for
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      EU should upgrade ties with China: Brittan
      466 10  -  Region most face up to Beijing's growing global influence Fro\ Shada Islam in Brussels THE European Union should prepare to upgrade its political and economic ties with China following the appointment of the modernising reformer Zhu Rongji as premier and the country's increasingly
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      Lock icon Wider Swiss law against money laundering from April
      291 10 GENEVA Legislation will bring Bern in line with some others in EU AFP A NEW Swiss law against money laundering is to take effect from April 1 in a move to bring Bern in line with a number of European Union capitals
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      1587 10 ESUI HWA HONG CORPORATION LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Unaudited Full Year Financial Statement And Dividend Announcement Full-year financial statement on consolidated results for the year ended 31 December 1997. These figures have not been audited. Group Company SS'OOO srooo UMyeerio Miluwiw Clunge UMtywrlo Pwrtowyeer Cheng® 31 Decanter
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Going to bed? Big Brother goes with you
      724 11  -  THE BOTTOM LIMB OPINION By Russell Baker The writer is a columnist on The New York Times THE YEAR 1984 is dead and gone, but Big Brother lives. His inescapable eye and ear are watching, listening. Use the phone and hell tape
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      129 11 'Only a fool reports his company's income accurately.' A Chinese executive in Rimming, Yunnan province on the common practice of keeping multiple sets of company accounts. 'Fatherland of mine, I have been your soldier and that makes me happy.' Augnsto Pinochet coup leader and former Chilean dictator,
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      Yeltsin must set an example
      648 11 EDITORIAL Gripping though the Kremlin drama might be, what Russians and their friends abroad are most interested in is not personalities and portfolios but an end to the prolonged shilly-shallying over economic reforms and getting the job done. This is one revolution that might well
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      Lock icon LDP's hidden agenda
      1131 11  -  Japan's rating politicians out to grab power while no one is looking By. Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent THE saying that if you "give a dog a bad name" you might as well hang it has assumed a tragic reality in Japan, where senior
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      Club has to regulate traffic
      346 11  -  waTT-Pfwr Dr Chen Walter Roland Chen Walter Roland, BBM Chairman Tanglin Community Club Management Committee Singapore I REFER to your report, "On the Grapevine Community Property?" (BT, March 21-22). Although no cars are allowed to park under the covered porch, unless authorised, it is untrue
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      550 11 Tight money in Indonesia BANK Indonesia's move to nearly double the Interest rates on its benchmark instruments (SBI) to 40-45 per cent for papers of one week to two months should have been the best of the worst alternatives it has in addressing the threat of
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Looks that captivate at first sight
      913 12  -  The new BMW 3-series should easily give the Mercedes Benz C-Class and Audi A 4 a run for their money, says vek sreenivasam VEN SREENIVASAN AT first glance, the new BMW 3-series bears an uncanny resemblance to the current 5-series. Perhaps it is because
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      Riding out the crisis with a new model
      453 12 BMW hopes 3-series will help cushion expected fall in region's sales GERMAN car-maker BMW is counting on its new 3-series model to ride out a turbulent year in Asia. Senior company officials expressed confidence that enthusiasm for the new model to be
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    • BUMPER to BUMPER
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        Volvo plants bag import tax perks
        74 12 VOLVO'S Asian units Swedish Motor Assemblies Sdn Bhd of Malaysia and the Thai-Swedish Motor Assembly Co of Thailand are the first to secure a certificate of eligibility for the Asean Industrial Cooperation Scheme. Eligible parties qualify for preferential import tariff rates of zero to
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        Storm in a Land Rover? Just a Tempest
        84 12 LAND Rover will launch a replacement for the eight-year-old Discovery later this year. Called Tempest, the new offroader will feature self-levelling suspension seen in the Range Rover, and the automatic hill descent mechanism the Freelander has. Two years from now, the company
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        Beemer airbags head tests
        84 12 INDEPENDENT tests conducted by America's Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has found BMW's head-airbag system to be the best side-impact protection so far. A BMW 5-series equipped with the restraint was crashed into a rigid pole at 32 kmh, and the result "dramatically illustrates the key
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        Top engines at Mazda,Nissan
        65 12 TWO V-Sixes have been on automotive publisher Wards Communications' list of 10 best engines since 1995: Mazda's 2.3-litre supercharged Miller-cycle V 6 and Nissan's 3.0-litre VQ. The Mazda powerplant is described as a "butt-kicker in a tuxedo", and is found in the Millenia S. The Nissan
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        Travel for less at Wheels For Fun
        81 12 WHEELS For Fun, an organiser of driveaway holidays, turns 10 this year. To celebrate, it has in store packages at what it claims to be 10-year-low rates to destinations such as Awana Kijal Beach Golf Resort, Fraser's Hill, Pulau Pangkor, and a treasure
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        For racing machines
        72 12  -  Compiled by Christopher Tan BMW has designed a four-litre, 600-horsepower V 8 engine 1 specifically for US racing customers. Special features Include dry sump lubrication (via extraction pumps and a pressure pump), which allows it to be fitted at the lowest possible level for better centre of
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      Lock icon NatSteel posts flat $57m gain; huge jump in provisions to $46m
      615 15  -  Net profit attributable to shareholders drops 64.5% to $10.7 m Reports by Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Nat Steel Ltd yesterday not surprisingly posted almost flat net earnings for 1997, up 2.7 per cent to $56.82 million, and also reported
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      NatSteel may file anti-dumping petition
      333 15 [SINGAPORE] Nat Steel Ltd may file an anti-dumping petition against cheaper steel coming into Singapore from the regional mills affected by the Financial meltdown. "We may consider filing for anti-dumping," said NatSteel president Ang Kong Hua yesterday at a press conference to brief the media
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      Emerging Victor—son of Li Ka-shing making his mark
      883 15  - Emerging Victor —son of Li Ka-shing making his mark HOCK LOCK SIEW Quak Hiang Whai AT ANOTHER media scrum after a land auction recently, several female reporters could not break into the fierce scramble to find out what the commotion was about. Finally, one of them asked a cameraman at
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      CDL Hotels posts 40% drop in net profit
      629 15  -  Asian falls trim contributions from N America, Europe Fromi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong CDL Hotels International Limited, which contributed about 20 per cent of the pretax profits of parent City Developments in the past, yesterday reported a 40 per cent slump
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        Hospital Pantai ups AsiaMatrix stake to 17.2%
        463 16  -  Moves spark talk of takeover which sources say will be hostile, if it happens By, Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Another potential healthcare takeover may be shaping up as Malay-sian-listed Hospital Pantai has increased its stake in Ses-daq-listed Asia Matrix from 13.57 per cent to
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        Goldtron, Motorola settle suit
        115 16 [SINGAPORE] Goldtron Telecommunications (GT), a unit of Sesdaq-listed Goldtron Ltd, and Motorola Inc yesterday announced that they have resolved their pager patent dispute involving Goldtron's "Arpeggio" and "Legend" lines of pagers. A statement issued by GT yesterday said that the parties have entered into a licence
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        Super Coffeemix earnings fall 59% on exchange losses
        217 16 [SINGAPORE] Super Coffeemix saw its earnings fall 59 per cent last year to $4.5 million, due mainly to year-end exchange losses suffered by subsidiaries in Indonesia and Malaysia, the mainboardlisted company said yesterday. Turnover, however, grew 5 per cent to $108.45 million
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        Tide turns in favour of marine stocks
        443 16  -  SECTORAL MOVES Outlook brightens, Hitachi Zosen's trading halt sparks takeover talk Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Marine-based counters, which have long been in the doldrums, sprang to life yesterday amid expectations that prospects for the industry are brightening. Stocks like Samudera Shipping, Osprey Maritime and
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        Profit fall seen for S'pore banks
        407 16  -  From Neil Behrmann in London PROFITS of Singapore banks will tumble this year and then rebound in 1999, contends Salomon Smith Barney. Their results will be bleak this year because of a decline in lending and high loan loss provisions against exposure in Indonesia
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        Brilliant expects to maintain margins
        451 16  -  By, Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Local hard disk-drive component maker Brilliant Manufacturing expects to maintain its profit margins in spite of the current oversupply situation in the global drive industry, managing director Harry Koh said yesterday at a press briefing to launch the company's public share
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        Permasteelisa net up 38% to $ 12.8m
        173 16 Permasteelisa net up 38% to 12.8m [SINGAPORE] Strong contribution from China and Hong-kong-based activities helped raise the net earnings of re-cently-listed curtainwall specialist Permasteelisa Pacific, by a hefty 38 per cent to $12.8 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1997. The sharp rise in earnings, up from $8.3 million
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        Sino Land net up 33% to HK$1b on strong sales
        416 16  -  Strong interim despite HKs4oom provision; group upbeat on prospects From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong NG Teng Fong's Sino Land Co yesterday unveiled a 33 per cent rise in net profit for the six months to Dec 31, after a
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          Lock icon Dairy Farm gains US$80m from sale
          114 16 AFX-Asia [LONDON] Dairy Farm International Holdings has sold its 11 per cent interest in British grocery group Somerfleld pic for US$29O million (***** million) before expenses. The group expects a profit of about US$BO million from the sale to institutional investors. Dairy Farm received
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          ERL turnover crosses $1b
          113 16 ELECTRONIC Resources Ltd (ERL) yesterday reported a 78 jump in net profit to 120.8 million as turnover surged 58 per cent to $1.45 billion, the first time sales have crossed the $lb mark. The mainboard-llsted company attributed the strong growth to its China market. Earnings per
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          Teledata net profit drops 73%
          99 16 [SINGAPORE] Teledata reported a 73.4 per cent drop in group net earnings to $1.2 million for the year ended Dec 31 despite an 11.3 per cent rise in group turnover to $93.12 million. It cited its share in startup costs in the paging network business
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          Ace Dynamics back in the black
          78 16 (SINGAPORE} Industrial equipment supplier Ace Dynamics formerly known as Causeway Investment has returned to the black despite a 23 per cent lower turnover of $33.67 million. The group managed an after tax profit of $677,000 for 1997, compared to a loss of $7.34 million
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          Lock icon SM Summit says piracy suit has ended
          120 16 AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] SM Summit Holdings said Adobe Systems, Autodesk and Microsoft have ended their civil action against the CD manufacturer over piracy allegations. The three US-based software companies have not lodged an appeal against a decision by judicial commissioner Lim Teong Qwee to
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          Aztech to push out new modem
          86 16 [SINGAPORE! Computer multimedia manufacturer and supplier Aztech Systems is planning to start selling its latest model modem, the Aztech 56K USB modem in the second half of this year, at a suggested retail price of US$l59 (*****.40). Aztech says the modem will be one
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          Flextech to buy 60% of HK firm
          67 16 [SINGAPORE] Flextech Holdings has agreed to buy 80 per cent of Hongkong-incorporated electronics distributor Marvic. It will be buying 1.2 million HKfl shares in Marvic for HKII3 million (5«.7 million) from Ma Kwan Chim and Chia Ee Joo. Marvic, which mainly distributes Flextech-manufactured
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        Metro Pacific shares surge on merger talk
        246 17  -  Fron Al Labita in Man ila FOREIGN funds yesterday feasted on shares of the listed flagship of Indonesia's Salim Group on rumours of a "mega telecom merger" with the Philippines Long Distance Telephone (PLDT). Index heavyweight Metro Pacific Corp (MPC) shot up 3.6
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        Shangri-La Asia earnings fall 32%, hit by HK$193m charge
        442 17  -  Results also hurt by downturn in Hongkong tourism, start-up costs for new hotels From Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong A DOWNTURN in the region's tourism industry, start-up costs for new hotels and a HK5193.3 million (SS$4O million) charge led to a
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        Lock icon QAF posts $8.8m profit, below analysts' forecasts
        388 17 Meanwhile, Indofood shares surge 24% on talk that QAF will take over ownership Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] QAF Ltd posted a profit of 558.82 million for 1997, after setting aside money for doubtful debts and exchange losses from South-east Asia's currency crisis. The breadmaker, controlled
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        Samsung set to enter race to buy Kia Motors
        302 17  -  From Jennifer Veale in Seoul GIANT South Korean conglomerate Samsung appears set to enter the race to buy the debt-laden Kia Motors in a bid to save its fledgling carmaking venture. Only days after another bid for Kia by Hyundai, Samsung
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        Ads soon to woo buyers for six Sime Bank units?
        269 17  -  Central said to be making move to attract more bidders From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur IT MAY seem like a bizarre move but Malaysia's central bank will soon advertise the sale of six Sime Bank subsidiaries in a move
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        Lock icon Henderson Land interim down 28% to HK$3.84b
        190 17 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Henderson Land Development Co, one of Hongkong's biggest developers, said yesterday net profit for the six months ended December fell 28 per cent to HKS3.B4 billion (*****.5 billion), a smaller fall than some analysts had foreseen. Earnings per share were HK52.22
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
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        Lock icon UBS, SBC fire 20% of corporate finance staff in Asia
        313 19 Only rates and forex units now await consolidation, likely to be within 4 weeks Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Union Bank of Switzerland (ÜBS) and Swiss Bank Corp (SBC) Fired about 20 per cent of their combined corporate finance teams in Asia as
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        Lock icon Xerox to cut jobs, take US$1b charge?
        300 19 Bloomberg [STAMFORD, Connecticut] Xerox Corp will take a sec-ond-quarter charge of as much as US$l billion (Ssl.6 billion) to cut 11 per cent of its workforce as the office equipment maker moves to reduce expenses, according to a published report. The company is
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        Lock icon Goldman could be worth US$20b
        450 19 If it goes public, stock could fetch premium over rivals, say analysts Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Goldman Sachs Group LP could be worth almost US$2O billion (Ss32 billion) if it goes public, a possibility the last big Wall Street partnership is considering for the second time
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        Lock icon Apple shares up on talk of CEO decision
        128 19 Bloomberg [CUPERTINO, California] Apple Computer Inc shares rose 7.2 per cent on Tuesday on speculation that the board wiU pressure interim chief executive Steve Jobs to stay on permanently as CEO or leave to make room for a new leader. Apple shares
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        Lock icon Presenting a hot Java brew
        55 19 [SAN FRANCISCO] Alan Borate, president of JavaSoft, delivers his keynote address at the Worldwide Java One Developer Conference on Tuesday. At the show, JavaSoft's business unit announced the Enterprise Javaßeans 1.0 specification, which will make it easier for Apptivity users to create, deploy and manage
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        Lock icon Alcatel plans to cut another 8.000 jobs in Europe
        265 19 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Alcatel Alsthom SA wUI fire another 8,000 people in Europe this year, its final round of job cuts in an effort to reduce costs, said Serge Tchuruk, president and chief executive. The job cuts, from a total 154,000
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        More insurance disputes going to Ombudsman
        260 20  -  By I Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE's Insurance Ombudsman Bureau handled 15 general insurance cases last year a three-fold jump from 1996. This was also the highest number dealt by the bureau since 1991, when it handled the same number of general insurance disputes. The
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        Lock icon ING Barings to close London derivatives arm
        345 20 Move part of revamp to re-focus on investment banking in western Europe FT [LONDON] ING Barings is to close its London-based equity derivatives business as part of a re-organisation that gives priority to its investment banking activities in western Europe at the expense
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        Lock icon Amex, Visa gain higher share of US market in '97
        213 20 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] American Express Co (Amex)'s share of credit card purchases rose in 1997 at the expense of some bank cards, said industry newsletter Nilson Report. New York-based American Express saw its market share rise 0.74 percentage point to
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        Lock icon JGBs firm ahead of package
        247 20 Reuters (TOKYO) Japanese government bonds (JGBs) rose in afternoon trading yesterday ahead of an economic government stimulus package expected to be unveiled by the ruling party today, traders said. The yield on the key 182 nd government bond slid to 1.490 per cent. Key June
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        Futures contract up on Nasdaq record
        176 20  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES Charlie Kuo Charlie Kuo, service dealer, Refco Singapore Pte Ltd [SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures contract rose for the second day as the new record high in the US Nasdaq Composite on Tuesday eased worries over the 30
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        Lock icon Opec plans meeting to ratify supply pact
        264 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Opec oil producers yesterday announced an emergency meeting next week to ratify a historic pact aimed at conjuring price gains on sceptical petroleum markets. The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) said ministers would meet in Vienna on
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        Lock icon CURRENCY REPORT
        278 20 AFP London THE US dollar fell back sharply yesterday against a buoyant Japanese yen on fears that the Japanese authorities could be set to intervene heavily in support of the yen in the run up to next Tuesday's Japanese fiscal year end, dealers and analysts said. Dealers said
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        1232 20 DfTERBAlfK CROSS RATES Mar25 AS C$ tub ECU ffr N Htt Mh Npt* Yen Wow HI HgWilh N S$iH Sfr WT5 BUt Hml B$$ Australia 0.949 6.178 0.617 4.107 1.226 5.193 26.487 56.502 0.869 9.303 2.440 1.*****.742 24.933 1075 1335 0.999 ***** ***** 0.401 0.670 Canada 1.053 5.861 0.650 4.326
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1743 21 2725 RUIKi (Marts dosing at SJOpa) RSS1 CONTRACTUS ctntsAq) CtoM VolWM Open tout* High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Apr 99 ittJO i&OO fliOO 300 »0 May 98 113.50 113.50 113.50 50 2100 *198 116.75 3450 Jti/Sap 98 123.00 4245 Octfto 9* 129.00 5475 Jan/Mar 99 ***** 133.75 133.75
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2259 21 LONDON Indntrtals —a ftace *h 31 Group *****0 *1.000 AB Ports 377.000 3.000 Abbey National 1179.000 14.000 Allied Oomecq 566.400 -13.600 Amec 154.000 2.600 Asda Croup 199.200 -1.800 BAT tad 625.400 -14.600 BG Pic 317.600 0.600 BICC 147.000 1.000 BOC Group 1012.000 13.000 BR Petroleum 894.000 -10.000
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      1641 21 Bloomberg QNikka22S +5U6 JAPANESE stocks were mixed yesterday as banks fell on pessimism that prospects for economic recovery remain gloomy while exporters rose on expected buying by public pension funds. Banks and steelmakers tumbled on signs the ruling party is not likely to abandon its deficit-cutting agenda in order
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      Lock icon HONGKONG
      1543 22 Bloomberg FlHangSeag *166.20 HONGKONG'S benchmark Hang Seng Index rose to a five-month high, amid optimism China's move to cut interest rates reflects its determination to boost economic growth. Jingwei Textile Machinery Co Ltd and other mainland companies paced the gains. "It gives a signal to the market that what
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      Lock icon CHINA
      619 22 Reuters n Shenzhen B Index -OJS SHENZHEN'S A and B share indices closed lower yesterday despite news that China's central bank had cut its state bank interest rates and reformed its state bank reserve system, analysts said. The hard currency B Share Index dropped 0.15 point, or 0.16 per
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      Lock icon TAIPEI
      333 22 AFP QWPlnfcx +233J0 TAIWAN stocks rose 2.7 per cent yesterday, buoyed by overnight gains on Wall Street, dealers said. Sentiment was boosted by rallies on Wall Street and the absence of negative leads, said Stanley Hsu of Core Pacific Securities Co Ltd. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      673 22 AFP P Composite Index +2A4 JAKARTA shares closed 0.5 per cent higher yesterday amid renewed foreign buying in selected stocks, dealers said. "A couple of the foreigners had large buy orders," a dealer with a major local brokerage said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index was up 2.44 points
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      797 22 AFP □set Index -1020 THAI stocks fell sharply by 2 per cent amid selling in the energy sector and continued uncertainties over expected new provisioning rules for commercial banks here. Analysts said the announcement of an offering of new shares by the giant staterun Petroleum Authority of Thailand Exploration
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      Lock icon MANILA
      272 22 AFP P| Manila +&36 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.3 per cent higher at the end of a roller-coaster trading day yesterday. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 6.36 points to 2,311.42. Volume fell to 1.82 billion shares worth 1.31 billion pesos from 5.33 billion shares worth 2.36 billon
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      Lock icon SEOUL
      368 22 AFP H Composite Intel +L7l SHARE prices closed mixed in modest trade on the Korea Stock Exchange yesterday as foreign investors and institutions took profits amid a lack of fresh leads, dealers said. The Composite Index, however, ended in positive territory on a technical rebound after three sessions of
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      593 22 AFP Q All Ordinaries -10.4 THE imminent expiry of quarterly equity options caused falls in major stocks yesterday, brokers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's main indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, dropped 10.4 points to 2,781.6. The All Industrials Index fell 21.6 points to 4,782.3 while the All Resources Index
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      Lock icon WELLINGTON
      261 22 AFP □Wellington *2112 NEW Zealand stocks closed up one per cent yesterday amid expectations that current high interest rates may slide. The NZSE-40 Index was up 24.12 points to 2,339.65 on turnover of NZ5123.8 million. "There's been a lot of attention focused on Telecom Corp internationally," a dealer said.
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        8513 23 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products 1998 Last Vol Day Nat Cap mi Low Ca—MT Sala 'OOP Wg> Law w!I 310 180 Ajinomoto 270 -6 I 270 270 15.0 109.4 148 73 Angkasa 118 -1 39 120 118 2.7 174.0 290 123 Apollo Food Mtg 216 6.3 86.4 388 190 Berjaya Land 374
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        Lock icon Market up 0.7% in hesitant trading
        391 23 AFP M Compositelndex +4iS9 MALAYSIA'S key stock index closed 0.7 per cent higher in thin but volatile trade yesterday as Malaysia revised growth Figures and announced new measures which drew a muted response from investors, dealers said. "Trading was rangebound with some expectations of
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    • WARRANTS & OPTIONS
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        Still life yet in Country Heights wrt
        184 24  -  WARRANT WATCH i, we U -Ry R Sivanithy IT'S BEEN some time since we featured one of our favourite "sell" recommendations the warrants issued by Malaysian property firm Country Heights. The instrument has collapsed almost beyond recognition when last we featured it. Country
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2344 24 Transaction date Mar 25 iialaysiaii INT/N LMt Val Day Last Ouota Otv Wv J* »at NCl» M>» Law Stwa Campany m COOP) M>» Law Buyar Mj» CV P/I *i« 478 28 mt 5000 AISBSOc 104 *2 345 105 101 103 104 SO 33 U 416 106.7 137 12.5
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      STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE: MAIN BOARD
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      SESDAQ
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        218 26 Stocks Volume Easyknit HWOc 31,126.000 IPC Corpn 5c 24,487,000 •MBf Capital 18,664,000 •Uniphoenix 13,383,000 Asia FoodS Prop 11,855,000 Nippecraft 10c 10,669,000 Aztech 5« 9,888,000 PCI 25c 9,166,000 rteshe Hldqs25c 8,974,000 Samudera 10c 8.313,000 Stocks A •MBf Capital 13.788.560 •Unipboenix 13.403,885 FSH 13.367.728 DBS Foreign 11,487,434 SPH 10.846.457 Partway H 50c
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        Funds swing to second-liners, laggards
        703 26  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Dealer notes that market rally shows retail players still very much interested, institutions still keen to be invested in S'pore By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] A rebound in blue chips after a three-day correction; takeover speculation; a swing of funds to Sesdaq and
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        HOT STOCK
        70 26  -  -by Shiv Taneja EASYKNIT International Holdings closed 0.4 HK cents higher yesterday at 10.4 HK cents on a volume of 31.13 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 6.43 million shares. In the near term, the counter will trade sideways, though in the longer term, the
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
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          IMF staffers long Asian stocks
          54 26 IMF staff members are active punters in the financial markets. And the Washington grapevine has it that many of them—and World Bank staff too— are long on East Asian stocks, especially in the countries worst hit by the economic crisis. Now, what do these people
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          Litmus test for Asian names
          106 26 WE ARE told to watch out for the pricing of Thai Farmers Bank's secondary offering of shares today and response to a roadshow tomorrow for the Republic of Korea's US$3 billion (514.8 billion) bond issue. The latter, a global issue, is the first offering by
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          What a stinker!
          138 26 HERE is a real stinker of a story. According to news agency AFP, a man accused of stealing gas cookers threw human excreta at a police officer in a Colombo Magistrate's Court but missed the target and hit a ceiling fan. The court was immediately adjourned for
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          Watch Wall Street
          95 26 CHARTIST David Fuller, in his latest newsletter, sounds a cautionary word about Wall Street, which has repeatedly hit record heights recently. "How will it end? Probably in the conventional manner due to rising interest rates. If so, the preconditions for monetary tightening are not yet in sight
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          Tung's real fear
          110 26 HONGKONG chief executive Tung Chee Hwa has repeatedly pledged to Hongkongers that he will stand up to Beijing and fight for their interests. But apparently, he finds it easier to stand up to the master up north than stand before the "aggressive Hongkong press". At Tuesday's Hongkong
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          Motorists'strange habit
          103 26 IT SEEMS that Emas, the Land Transport Authority's expressway monitoring system "for a smoother ride", can sometimes have quite the opposite effect. There was an instance one Tuesday morning when it flashed a warning of a broken-down vehicle, slowing traffic down to a crawL But the car in
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      310 27 Bridge News Renter THERE was some activity evident for Panamaxes trading from Argentina or Brazil, but rates remained weak, brokers said. North Atlantic trading was minimal for these sizes, particularly from the US Gulf. Atlantic Capesize rates were described as dire. Light volume at 93 lots in a
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      486 27  -  SDIGAPORT 4k SDOON W Prospects for this year though remain bleak: Ocean Shipping By. Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Short sea container trades in Asia, particularly hit by the regional economic crisis, are set for a recovery in the next two years,
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      74 27 [SINGAPORE] Visitors and delegates to the SingaPort '96 exhibition and conference at stands put up by the ports of Taiwan yesterday. Over 450companiesfrom 30 countries are taking part in thefour-day show billed as the premier gathering of the maritime community in Asia. A Logistics Asia forum
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      South Korean yards are pulling in orders again
      645 27  -  MEWBUXLDS By: David Hughes JUST a few months ago it was almost impossible to find a shipowner willing to order in South Korea. The country's economic turmoil had frightened them off. Gradually confidence has returned and the major Korean yards are again
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      Dutch group looking into new terminal design
      402 27  -  By Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] To cater for the future requirements of global ports, a Dutch consortium led by ECT and the Port of Rotterdam is looking into a new terminal design which will be able to turn around new-generation 8,000-TEU ships in a
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      192 27 [SINGAPORE] The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) will step up controls on the quality of bunker sold in the port to maintain Singapore's position as the world's top bunkering centre. MPA director (port division) Captain Khong Shen Ping said yesterday: "We will introduce
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      Excelling through alliances
      795 28  -  LOGISTICS Companies forming close strategic partnerships with other participants in the field stand to add most value Ihj Jan Lyngdam Airlines and shipping lines, barge operators, train operators, trucking companies, warehouse operators, freight forwarders, integrators, terminal operators, port/airport authorities and many, many more are all vital ingredients
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      241 28 PAGE ECl 5 ACL 9 M AMI 3 EtWopian 6 Accord 8 Euroh4W 6 Appensftip 5 Exp Orient M Astro 3 E»«rgr*e« 6 Austral 9 FoongSun S BSA 7 GUnk 4 Batamindo 7 Gemartrans 8 Bayswater 8 <*»*« B'tangMas 8 HaiSunHup 8 CCMI
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        2006 41 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/St la net Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Ptrtod From To From 4a Ultc M2I 27/235* U 25/1500 25£4M 25/W00 25/1500 25/1451 25/mp 24 25/1700 until 26/0900 21 25/1700 24/0*51 2 VOW I 24/0700 24/HM 24/MOO 4 24/1200 24/MM 24/1700
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        208 41 Apr I Hong Kong: Ching Ming Festival. Apr 7 Brunei: Hari Ray a HaJi. Malaysia: Hari Raya Haji. Apr 0 Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Mexico: Maundy Thursday. Apr 10 Australia: Good Friday. Canada: Good Friday. Denmark: Good Friday. Finland: Good Friday. Germany: Good Friday. Hong Kong: Good Friday. Indonesia:
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        927 41 THIS report, complied by Cockett Marine OU Ltd. show* price ranges in US dollars instead of single price* for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on average-sited stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Indei change and the Individual
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        454 41 Cw*«i <80 Mi« 993.5 2.0 15.8 0.31 72 0.09 Hi 12 DxnJIf Wittr Rtiidut Art Alu«»inlu«| No *ow £25 5 2 1 .J 1 r—T- 380 Aw 964.6 0.4 14.2 0.06 26 0.02 ■5 380 Mil 992.3 1.0 19.9 0.M 64 0.06 IWW »M/M »M/M —Wi
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        442 42  -  Airline signed separate bilateral deals with United and Lufthansa earlier this month By] Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] If the various discussions currently being held are any indication of things to come, several Asian carriers look set to join the Star Alliance or
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        305 42 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Boeing Co was fined US$l4O,OOO (*****,000) for failing to adequately inspect 140 shipments of fasteners, the US Federal Aviation Administration said. Boeing workers at the company's Renton, Washington plant failed on Dec 17 and 18, 1996, to properly inspect the parts and record
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        49 42 [HONGKONG] A fireman hoses down the burnt out remains of a container which exploded in the Hongkong district of Tuen Mun. The container exploded while carrying a load of motorcycles, ripping out the rear door and top of the container and injuring the driver. REUTERS
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        504 42 Bloomberg [OMAHA, Nebraska] Union Pacific Railroad said it will bar most freight traffic to Mexico in an attempt to ease a year-long backlog that has clogged its already overburdened rail system. The ban, effective on Saturday, will
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        588 42 INQUIRY DITO KAL CRASH AT GUAM Probe aims to find oat why a pilot would fly a perfectly good aircraft into ground Reuters [HONOLULU] The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) opened a threeday hearing into the crash of a Korean Air
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        52 42 [MUNICH] The Al-2 aluminium concept vehicle by German car manufacturer Audi is presented to the media by Audi AG chairman of the board Franz-Josef Paefgen. Mr Paefgen had earlier announced the company's annual turnover figures, with increased pre-tax profits up 29per cent to 1.112 billion Deutschemarks (*****.9
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      22 27 logistics: Excelling through alliances Companies forming close strategic partnerships with other participants in the field stand to add most value. Page 2
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      240 27 ANA to join Stan Tjifthansa Airline signed separate bilateral deals with United and Lufthansa earl v h is month. Baok Page miss the best business opportunities in the Moritime Industry. See the latest maritime technologies and services, covering every sector of the maritime industry. 9ut fan- tAtac Discuss your specific
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      630 28 /fijjjSv Unas services representee Members o» the bVMemCerserftheAegtsfya< SingaporeFrwQf*Forwarders Accredited Shipping Agents GjMtf Association Singapore Sh*jp«g Associaton £runi3JV3 UpingTimesOnline Just talk to us... •IrisLim 740-2044 'Jarred Leong 740-2089 This is the first of a two-part series on the logistics business. The writer is director, sales A marketing of Kuehne Nagel
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      967 35 VESSELS VOY JED MLA LEH HAM THP RTM ZEE VILEDEMM4OSA V2SW 31/03 09AM 14/04 19AM 21AH 22/04 23/0* 24/04 \ALLE D 6 TANYA T2SW 06/04 17/04 22/04 26/04 29AM 30/04 30AM 01/06 V>J-E DE TAURUS A2SH 15/04 24AM 29AM 06/06 06/06 06/06 08/06 09*06 VILLE DAOUARIUS U2SW 21AM 29AM 04/06
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      47 38 To retrieve more schedules, just follow these simple steps... document 740-6000^^^F/^ tep be faxed Select the port Step key in the four 9 number /jy QJ digit code Key in your Example: r—L-i fax number To NEW YORK (NYC) 2275 c„o United States for calls within Singapore
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      138 41 [110E ~^^ps LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperature o Q X\ V Shower Weother —S Wind direction with speed m knots Rom > Cloudy Sky Wov Ke, 9 h Surtoco winds or* indicated by arrows which ffy with the wind One full circle represents colm or light ond variable winds One half
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      58 42 M.V. "LION HEART" V0Y.26 ARRD 21 MARCH 1998 Consignees of all damaged cargoes ex the captioned vessel is hereby notified that a general survey will be held on the 27 March 1998 *****200 hours at P9 (NTY's Office). No further survey will be entertained thereafter. As Agents: "K" LINE KINKAI
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