The Business Times, 5 May 1998

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  • 12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 110/12/97 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes TUESDAY, MAY 5,1998
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  • 75 1 FOBEX BATES ust ss USS IJ83 £(US$/SS per 1.667 2.639 DM 1.788 1886 YKN 133JJ 1.188* MS 167? 0.431 HKS 7.748 0564 BAHT 38.63 0.041 RUP1AH 8,016 Q.OW •St to 100 wilts PUKE SATES SINGAPORE* 7.79 KUALA LUMPUR J1J0 JAKARTA 28.00 BANGKOK 14.71 MANILA OM HONGKONG 1026 TAIPEI 8lW
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  • 756 1  -  Voluntary guide to replace mandatory rales immediately By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] More than a year after introducing what many listed companies considered an "overkill" in corporate governance, the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) yesterday said it would replace the mandatory rules on audit
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  • 488 1  -  Team of six young managers reviewing bank's operations By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank has eliminated several private banking positions as part of a broad review of its operations, sources said. The bank would only confirm yesterday that Henry Lau, who
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  • 534 1  -  Expert panel to revamp BOT; top two quit to take rap for baht fiasco Prorn Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND set up a high-powered panel comprising international names to restructure the central bank after its harried governor resigned yesterday to take the blame
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  • 970 1  -  Govt also dismantles dm monopoly to meet two key IMF conditions From S N Vasuki m Jakarta INDONESIA yesterday bit the bullet and raised fuel and electricity prices, hiking petrol prices by a steep 71 per cent, and kerosene by 40 per
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    • 109 1 Hi inside Dtcfara* fidwy Australia's embattled conservative government seems likely to wait until late in the year to call an early election after a string of damaging setbacks. Yesterday, Australia's High Court ordered the resinstatement of 1,400 unionised dockers, Pglft ASMpptatfTbttMPgl The Pnpartj GMm DBS Land has said that It
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    • 65 1 How the baht battle was lost, Pg 7 Banking, Finance Insurance Supplement This time last year, Singapore's financial sector was chugging along with few signs of trouble ahead. Today, the situation could not be more different. Read what financiers, economists and other experts have to say of the new realities
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    • 114 1 fund release, Pg 6 Unrest seen to spread with price hikes, Pg 6 A profile of Singapore's best M m 'W 1 r V J <■ 7- <,» «'7; in^HiHi CHRIS LOH [SINGAPORE] (/rom Edmund Wee ofdesign firm Epigram, Economic Development Board managing director Ho Meng Kit and Andersen Consulting
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 278 2  -  From l Conrad Raj inNeiv York SINGAPORE needs talent from both at home and abroad to weather the economic storms like the one currently ravaging the region, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told some 200 Singaporeans on Sunday. Conveying the
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    • 363 2  -  It ropes in the EDB for its experience in bringing major industries here From' Conrad Raj in New York THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has set up a new department to promote the Republic as Asia's premier financial centre. The Financial Sector
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    • 453 2  -  Great scope seen for mergers, alliances, ventures in view of regional competition By. Audrey Tan SMALL and medium-size enterprises should ally with one another to expand and stay competitive, said Economic Development Board managing director Ho Meng Kit last
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    • 411 2  -  Contract a turning point for group here after its debarment by govt in 1996 By' Teh Hooi Ling A UNIT of German industrial giant Siemens has clinched its biggest contract ever in Singapore, marking a major turning point in the slightly
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    • 323 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Tourism By\ Frances Lui VISITOR arrivals continued its double digit plunge for the sixth straight month in March, plunging 21 per cent year on year, preliminary figures from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) show. The figure is only marginally better than
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    • 337 2  -  These include tight monetary policies, measures to curb wags increases Reports by Vikram Khanna RELATIVELY tight monetary policies in the first half of the *****, measures to limit domestic wage increases and tough financial regulation helped insulate Singapore, from the worst of
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    • 235 2 A NEW centre to train officials from the Asia-Pacific in technical aspects of economic policy was formally opened here yesterday by IMF managing director Michel Camdessus. The IMF-Singapore Regional Training Institute, (STI) which is a joint initiative of the International Monetary Fund and the
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    • 351 2  -  Better times just around the corner, foreign minister says By] Louis Beckerling CALL me Mr Optimism, said Japanese Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi here yesterday, adding that he was confident that better times for Asia lay "just around the corner". That was the upbeat public message
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
    • 645 4  -  THBPKOPBRTT coumM With the city suffering a massive property glut it is doubtful the group can generate any growth there By Lee Han Shih WHEN DBS Land released its 1997 results in March, the company told a roomful of analysts and reporters that it expected growth
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    • 354 4 Property auctions coming up Knight Frank Fnday, May 15 (11«n) at Grand Plaza Hotel, Bdkoom 1 Reeidentiel: 06 Emerald HiH Rd: 3-sty conserved buildno, 1,506 sqft/FH" < 25 Jin Sejarah: 2-sty bungalow, 7,353 sq M=H** 07-02 Avila Gdn, 17 Ftora Rd: apt 2.GB9 sq ft/FH" 144X3 Coat
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    • 505 4  -  Seme 50 onits sold t while Summerdale EC is said to have sold over 24 units By* Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] The relaunch of Springbloom condominium has met with good response with some 50 units sold over the weekend while Summerdale executive condominium, which cut its
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    • 414 4  -  Merger of REI and CB Commercial leads to firm with market capofUSs7B2m By. Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE! REI Ltd, the holding company for Richard Ellis' non-UK operations, has merged with New York-listed CB Commercial to form a global real estate company with more than 200 offices
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  • MARKETS IN TURMOIL
    • 398 6 Reuters [HONGKONG] The Asian crisis has ended the boom that Hongkong was experiencing in 1997, with the government yesterday unveiling a sharp deceleration in economic growth for the fourth quarter of last year. The economy grew 2.7 per cent in the
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    • 586 6  -  Phased disbursement tied to reforms will strengthen market confidence, he says By Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] IMF managing director Michel Camdessus said yesterday that he has recommended to the IMF's executive board that the first US$l billion (Ssl.6 billion) of financing to Indonesia
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    • 276 6 Student protesters warned against moving off campus Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's military chief yesterday said student protests against President Suharto were sliding towards anarchy, but demonstrations against the ageing ruler persisted. The government announced sharp hikes infUel, electricity and transport prices moves which
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    • 316 6  -  Insurer exempted from rotating stake in M'si&n anit to 51% From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur LEADING insurer American International Group Inc, which has secured a major concession from having to reduce its stake in its whollyowned Malaysian operations, and
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    • 416 6  -  Itarae also hart by SAP's plaa to delay ratings npffaie. From< Jennifer Veale in Seoul SOUTH Korea's stock market plunged more than 3 per cent for the second consecutive day yesterday amid growing fears that mounting labour unrest could undermine the
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  • FOCUS
    • 1738 7  -  The government inquiry into the affairs of the Thai central bank paints a picture of personal rivalry, secrecy and sheer incompetence By] Harish Mehta {BANGKOK] TOP officials of Bank of Thailand indulged in power-play and bitter rivalry and acted recklessly throughout the financial crisis
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  • REGION
    • 258 9 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA would consider allowing foreign equity participation in independent power producing companies on a case-by-case basis, a minister said yesterday. "We have to look at the individual applications. We can be flexible (on foreign equity participation) and on a case-by-case
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    • 304 9  -  Asia crisis casts doubt over dream of becoming developed nation in 22 years' time, says premier From} Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA may not achieve its dream of becoming a developed nation by the year 2020, said Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday.
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    • 214 9 MELBOURNE Continued business confidence after polls vital: report Reuters AN official Australian report painted a bright outlook yesterday for the Philippine economy, but stressed the importance of continued business confidence after next week's presidential elections. The report, released by Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander
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    • 227 9 PHNOMPENH Reuters DEPOSED co-premier Prince Norodom Ranariddh returned to Cambodia yesterday, saying he wanted to prepare for a July general election and hoped to meet Co-Premier Hun Sen, who ousted him last year. Prince Ranariddh, who has returned to Cambodia twice since late
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    • 512 10 SYDNEY Asian crisis seen as largest external shock for Australia AFP A SHARP fall in exports to Asia swelled Australia's monthly trade deficit to more than Asl.3 billion (Ssl.3 billion) in March, its worst result since officials began compiling records in 1971, data
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    • 474 10 CANBERRA Court order to re-hire dock workers seen as farther blow to govt Reuters AUSTRALIA's embattled conservative government seems likely to wait until late in the year to call an early election after a string of damaging setbacks. A
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    • 259 10 ■HONGKONG Reuters ONE of Hongkong's oldest department store chains. Wing On Co International Ltd, yesterday laid off more than 300 staff the latest casualty of Asia's financial crisis. The 91-year-old store chain said the cuts were due to the weak economy,
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    • 309 10  -  From 1 Toh Han Shih in San Jose, California US-BASED Cisco Systems will be setting up institutes in Asia-Pacific countries, including Singapore, over the next few years to train young people for the Internet generation. Cisco president John Chambers told
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    • 180 10 BEIJING AFX-Asia CHINESE Defence Minister Chi Haotian has said the inclusion of the Taiwan Straits directly or indirectly in the sphere of Japan-US defence cooperation guidelines is "totally unacceptable". The official Xinhua news agency quoted Mr Chi conveying China's position in talks
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  • THE WORLD
    • 504 11 WASHINGTON He cites fundamental chflngfrg in hqffjflfyM cycle, says reliance oc Asia growth major threat to boom Reuters PRESIDENT Bill Clinton offered further evidence of his bullish outlook for America's booming economy in an interview broadcast yesterday. The president said fundamental changes in
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    • 273 11 HAMILTON, Bermuda Acquisitions driven by banks'desire for economies of scale US BANKS will seek mergers and acquisitions to create more large "megabanks" in the future, said US Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta president Jack Guynn. On April 13, Nationsßank Corp announced plans
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    • 302 11 LONDON Reuters SOME pundits giving their verdict on the Bank of England's first year of independence will undoubtedly say UK rates should have gone up Caster and sooner. But hindsight is a useful thing when it comes to monetary policy and, crystal balls
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    • 386 11 FRANKFURT Bloomberg SPECULATION the Bundes bank will raise interest rates was revived after the compromise European Central Bank chief opened questions about the new bank's ability to act independently. European Union leaders named European Monetary Institute president Wim Duisenberg to head the
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 619 12  -  THE BOTTOM LDVB OPINION By Al Labita The writer is BT's Morula correspondent FILIPINOS feel flabbergasted that finally, they have broken free from the tenacious clutches of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although there has been no dancing in the streets, the end of
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    • 204 12 'Human rights groups are never satisfied with anything except five-star hotel accommodation for these people (illegal immigrants). If the human rights group are quite willing to finance, we are quite willing to put them in Shangri-La Hotel but they must pay for it They can't expect us
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    • 678 12 EDITORIAL IT is tempting to depict yesterday's High Court decision on Australia's docks dispute as a rout for the government and a resounding win for waterside workers. But while it will have a profound political impact not least on the future of Industrial Relations Minister Peter Reith
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    • 1229 12  -  Despite several warnings, the average investor has great confidence in the US alrcugth By] Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent LAST Monday, as Wall Street was taking a tumble, with the Dow Jones industrial average felling more than 200 points at one time, I
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    • 249 12  -  MAILBOX James Purves Singapore via Internet I FINALLY managed to buy a cash card today for my ERP device; it seems there has been a run on the cards from the suppliers. I did, however, discover that unless you have an
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    • 208 12  -  Denis Distant Singapore I REFER to the snippet "Going for 100 per cent" in your On the Grapevine column (BT. April 28) which mentions Stanchart as being the distributor for 90 (or 82 per cent) of the unit trusts available here. Investors in unit trusts
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    • 199 12  -  Ong Al Boon Director The Association of Banks in Singapore WE refer to your report headlined "ABS makes U-turn on charges for cheques" in The Business Times of April 30. The headline and report which stated, inter alia, "In an about face the Association of Banks
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 515 14  -  Club membership brokers expect gloomy outlook for '98 as transactions were down 50% in Ql, says yew smmiVASAy VEN SREENIVASAN THE advertised price for several prominent Singapore golf clubs hit record lows in April as the regional financial crisis continued to knock
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    • 956 14  -  FILM By I Susan Tsang AT the Silver Screen Awards of the Singapore International Film Festival, Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui spots the master of ceremonies. "Isn't that the MTV guy?" he remarks, and is soon posing for a photograph with Mike Kasem. Quite
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    • 267 14 HEALTH Reuters [NEW YORK] Government scientists are excited about progress with tests on two cancer drugs that are eradicating any type of cancer in mice, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The drugs, known as angiostatin and endostatin, have been made a
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 407 15  -  Agreements revised in view of concerns over potential conflict of interest By, Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Four medical specialists who are selling majority stakes in their practices to Asiamatrix will no longer be giving profit guarantees following a restructuring of the sale and purchase
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    • 363 15  -  Analysts point to flat Q3 results and say tliey're not surprised By, Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Investors yesterday dumped Creative Technology's shares, making it the top loser on the local bourse with a loss of $2.40, or 7.3 per cent down, at $30.50,
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    • 331 15  -  From! Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Securities Commission (SC) has pledged to ensure that there will be no repeat of the loss of confidence in the regulatory structure sparked by the controversial RenongUnited Engineers Malaysia (UEM) case last year. "All the issues
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    • 792 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Loh Hui Yin Assimilating a new acquisition is never easy. It would be more so for Singapore Airlines should its proposed purchase of a 25 per cent stake in rival carrier Thai Airways International materialise. Apart from the
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    • 194 15 Patrick Yeoh will also head Tnan Sing nnit SPP from Jnly 1 [SINGAPORE] Property group Tuan Sing Holdings said yesterday former DBS Bank president Patrick Yeoh will be appointed chairman of the company and its construction subsidiary SPP Ltd with effect from July
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    • 234 15 AFP, Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Securities Commission yesterday issued letters to Omega Securities Sdn Bhd and Alor Setar Securities Sdn Bhd to show cause why their licences should not be suspended or revoked. Both had earlier been placed under trading restrictions as "they
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
      • 518 16  -  Tax-free payment from govt for giving up fixed-line monopoly by 1999 Reports by] Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong THANKS to a hefty exceptional item, Hongkong Telecom's net profit was hoisted to HK517.03 billion (553.5 billion) for the year ended March 31, rising
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      • 324 16 NOT getting Singapore's second fixed telephone line licence recently could well have been a blessing in disguise for Hongkong Telecom. Emphasising that his remarks was not a case of sour grapes, Linus Cheung, the company's chief executive, said:
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      • 569 16  -  Cash-strapped group raises HKs99m from motorcycle unit sale From. Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong CASH-STRAPPED CP Pokphand, which is part of the giant Charoen Pokphand group of Thailand, has sold one of its assets in China in a bid to survive. However, the HK$99 million
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      • 351 16 Bloomberg [MANILA] The Philippines' largest developer, Ayala Land Inc. says profit tumbled about 43 per cent. The biggest shipping company William Gothong Aboitiz Inc lost money. And brewing behemoth San Miguel Corp's profit fell by more than 90 per cent. Even Jollibee Foods
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      • COMPANY Briefs
        • 94 16 [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank has received acceptances for 139,961,550 shares to its rights issue, representing 96.82 per cent of the total number of rights shares offeted. DBS had offered 141,625,977 shares at $8.50 for each foreign share held and $6 for each local share held.
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        • 54 16 [SINGAPORE] Goh Kian Hwee has resigned from the board and audit committee of Delifrance Asia with effect from April 30. Managing director Hugues Prince has also quit as audit committee member on the same day. Their places on the audit committee have been filled by Chan Wing
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        • 92 16 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Ekran Bhd said it used cash raised from a 300 million ringgit (5181.9 million) bond sale to buy back those bonds. The money was to have been used to finance the Bakun Dam hydroelectric project, which was shelved last year due to
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        • 91 16 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian General Investment Corp (MGIC) said yesterday it plans to sell its brokerage unit to Tongkah Holdings Bhd, a company controlled by Mokhzani Mahathir, a son of Malaysia's prime minister. The move came after the Securities Commission gave MGI Securities
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      • 271 16 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Standard and Poor's yesterday downgraded the local currency rating of Malaysian power company Tenaga Nasional Bhd from A-plus to A-minus and revised the company's outlook from stable to negative. The downgrade "reflects the pressure on the company's financial profile resulting from
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      • 211 16 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Pohang Iron Steel Co said yesterday it will cut prices for steel used by Korean exporters by as much as 15 per cent, giving local auto manufacturers and shipbuilders a competitive boost. To offset the price cut, the world's second-largest steel
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 427 17 Time Warner's Road Runer provides high-speed Internet access via cable TV Bloomberg [REDWOOD SHORES, California] Oracle Corp and Intel Corp will buy a stake in Time Warner Inc's Road Runner service, which provides high-speed Internet access over cable TV lines, according to
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      • 389 17 Titanic expected to contribute USsllom in the quarter Bloomberg [SYDNEY! Analysts expect News Corp to poet an 18 per cent rise in third-quarter profit to A 5442 million (***** million) from AJ376 million a year earlier. According to the average estimate
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      • 124 17 AFP [LONDON] British engineering group Vickers, already in the process of selling off Rolls-Royce, is also seeking to tie its engine-maker Cosworth more closely with US giant Ford, the Financial Times said yesterday. The daily quoted Vickers as saying that "initial conversations"
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      • 345 17 Bloomberg [GUETERSLOH, Germany] Bertelsmann AG said over the weekend it would withdraw its application with the US Federal Trade Commission to buy Random House Inc and re-submit it to provide more information on the purchase's impact on US publishing. Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for
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        • 74 17 Reuters [NEW YORK) Microsoft Corp is warning Wall Street that any action by the US Justice Deportment to delay the arrival of its Windows 96 operating system could have "broad, negative consequences" fbr the entire personal computer industry, the Wall Street Journal reported
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        • 84 17 Bloomberg [ADELAIDE] Southcorp Ltd, Australia's largest wine-maker, said it will sell three of its South Australia state vineyards as part of its plan to focus on premium f red varieties. The company said Southcorp Wines will sell its 870 hectare vineyard at Morgan and two
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        • 76 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] Body Bhop International said it is in "advanced-stage" talks with a potential US partner about pooling its money-losing US businesees into a joint venture. The UK coemetks and health products chain I may reveal the details at its annual meeting on
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        • 61 17 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Telstra Corp, Australia's largest telecoms company, said it can double the number of digital network access llnee in the next three years. John Loeco, Telstra's managing director, said analysts' forecasts that the company's ISDN (integrated servlcee digital network) access llnee will double
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      • 462 18 Even if they make strategic sense, a few will fail dne to execution risk Bloomberg [OMAHA, Nebraska] Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is sceptical about the wave of mergers that are remaking the banking and brokerage business in the US. "I think
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      • 192 18 Bloomberg [MANILA] Bank of the Philippine Islands said its profit rose 3 per cent in the first quarter as provisions for probable loan losses grew almost eight-fold. The banking unit of Ayala Corp said its net income climbed to 1.499 billion pesos
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      • 324 18 Govt decides to cat the price it pays to gold producers Reuters [SHANGHAI] At least 40 per cent of China's 1,200 gold firms wUI lose money in 1996 following a government decision to cut the price it pays producers for their gold,
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      • 156 18 Bloomberg Reuters [OSLO] Christiania Bank ASA, Norway's second-larg-est bank, said insurer Storebrand ASA turned down a merger proposal which would have created Norway's largest financial services company. The proposal follows a failed attempt backed by the two companies to combine last year, which was
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      • 207 18 SIM HI Report [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures were slightly easier yesterday but dealers said the fall was not significant as trade was very thin with both Japanese and London markets closed. Trading will resume in Tokyo tomorrow, after the Golden Week break. The most
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      • 165 18  -  Msa TAIWAN futures Cecilia Loh Cecilia boh, service dealer, Refco Singapore [SINGAPORE] The MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures gained 1.90 points in co-rela-tion with Taiwan stocks, which rose 67.14 points for the first time in a week on the possibility of the central
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      • 275 18 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [WASHINGTON] The same trio of oil-producing nations that cut global output in March will meet again this week to discuss ways to give prices another lift, the Saudi Arabian oil minister said yesterday. Although world oil prices have increased
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      • 295 18 AFX-Asia AFP THE US dollar and sterling succumbed to selling and eased against the mark in late afternoon trade yesterday amid fears German interest rates will be lifted in an effort to farther establish EMU after the weekend summit in Brussels, dealers said. The summit officially endorsed 11
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      • 192 18 Bloomberg [JOHANNESBURG] Liberty Life Association of Africa Ltd, South Africa's biggest publicly traded insurance company, and Standard Bank Investment Corp (Stanbic), the largest bank by assets, suspended merger talks, citing disagreement on price. Both companies' boards of directors will make a decision on
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      1463 20 Reuters jUI HONGKONG stocks drifted to a lower close yesterday with liquidity drying up as cautious investors remained on the sidelines with little news to spur buying, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index ended off 124.26 points, or 1.18 per cent, at 10,439.42 after hitting a low of 10,401.82.
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      508 20 Reuters FlShamkaiß Index +080 CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed mixed yesterday after a holiday on Friday as a rebound which started last week pushed the Shenzhen market higher but fizzled in Shanghai. The B share markets had gained sharply on Thursday led by rises in oversold stocks with
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    • 346 20 AFP PjWPhia «fU4 TAIWAN stocks rebounded 0.8 per cent yesterday on strong buying of technology shares, dealers said. "The technology sector set the lead to reverse the downward trend," said Tsai Chingchih of Chihyang Securities Investment. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 67.14 points to 8,360.60. Turnover
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      657 20 Bloomberg DOwpdUhla 48 INDONESIAN stocks fell after the government raised fuel and transport prices, effective today, increasing the likelihood of more social unrest. "On the one hand it's good they're complying with the International Monetary Fund, but I worry about the social unrest that's coming up it's unavoidable," said
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      786 20 AFP DsEfhig -ma THAI stocks plunged 2.8 per cent yesterday as investors waited for the resignation of top officials in the central Bank of Thailand, analysts said. An analyst with Kiatnakin Finance and Securities said governor Chaiyawat Wibulswasdi's resignation after the market's close was a psychological factor overhanging sentiment
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    • 291 20 AFP n Manila *218 PHILIPPINE share prices rose 1.2 per cent yesterday due to bargain-hunting, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 26.8 points to close at 2,208.12 points. Volume fell to 994.6 million shares worth 1.158 billion pesos from the previous session's 1.03 billion shares worth
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    • 411 20 AFP nOwnpoatelalg -14.73 SHARE prices yesterday closed 3.6 per cent lower on the Korea Stock Exchange over worries that labour unrest would worsen as the government vowed to punish illegal strikers, dealers said. "Investors are worried labour unrest will continue and worsen as militant unions have threatened to hold
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    • 587 20 AFP QAlONkarin *8J AUSTRALIAN share prices gained 0.3 per cent yesterday in thin turnover. The Australian Stock Exchange's main indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, rose 8.1 points to 2,812.3. National turnover totalled 260.71 million shares worth A 5662.5 million. The All Industrials Index climbed 25.6 points to 4,821.9 while
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    • 253 20 AFP n Wellington -ISJ NEW Zealand stocks fell 0.7 per cent yesterday, reversing early gains. The market rose more then seven points at the opening but spent the rest of the session in negative territory. The NZSE-40 Index lost 15.60 points to 2,237.69 on light turnover worth NZ557.5 million.
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      • 8435 21 INDUSTRIALS CBRSMMT pnARti Vol Day Mat Cap Mgfc Jlpw Cimpany hH -000 High Law Pft %mU 310 160 A|tnomoto 242 -3 4 246 241 13.4 96.1 148 72 Angk*s* 74 -1 44 75 72 17 109.1 NO 123 Appko Food Hlg 162 4 7 64 8 36# WO B*rj«y* Land
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      • 364 21 AFP PI Composite Index +L 46 MALAYSIAN shares ended 0.2 per cent higher yesterday on late local buying. shadowed by worries about the broad economy and corporate performance, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-share weighted Composite Index ended at 627.43 points,
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      • 187 22  -  WARRANT WATCH By' Ven Sreenivasan GEARING is one of the most important factors to consider in a warrant. This is because the higher the gearing, the more the warrant price rises when the price of the underlying share picks up. Let us take a
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    • 1942 22 Transaction date M.iv 4 MALAYSIAN STOCKS u» w» cwpr iS» roow cv m <LST 139 28 ffli 5000 AISSSOc 61 53 as 63 603 61 64 To JJ 14 24.* 62.6 653 123 mi 9001 AMOS 50c 28.5 unch 147 2U 283 28.5 28 53 J8 8.5 IUJ
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    • 5776 23 rSlu4l too* Or Or M Wt HLJ1 Lart Vat Day LastOuata Otv Otv YM Nat Cap Av« Hl<h ««M» Company SM 1000) High Law gggr S»IKr C w P/E_ $mM Prtca INDUSTRIALS 43 18.5 a 1020 ACE 0ynamics60c... 25 205 25 25 24 25.5
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      • 219 24 Stocks volume Ejsyfcnit HKlOc 8,472,000 Single* 15c 8,013,000 STEnggKk 4,305,000 'Rekapacific B»i 3.986,000 SIA Foreign 2,662,000 Keppel Corp 2,322,000 *TanChong50c 2,223,000 'Renong Bhd 50c 2,069,000 •M Resources 1,984,000 HKLandUSIOc 1.933,000 Stacks SIA Foreign 27,040,207 SingTel 15c 21,714,660 DBS Foreign 18,458,622 SPH 16,265.769 Creative T 25c 11,843,841 Keppel Corp 9,436,300 0C8C
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        58 24  -  -by Shiv Taneja UOB Foreign closed 30 cents lower yesterday at $7.20 on a volume of 1.02 million units, compared with its 10-day traded average of 1.83 million shares. The daily and weekly RSI and Stochastics are oversold, but the medium-term outlook continues to be negative. The sell
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      • 600 24  -  Market watchers say near-term prospects bearish given S'pore's exposure to region's events STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Singapore shares continued to slide southwards in thin trading as the market remained stuck in a bearish rut following the long May Day
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 168 24 THE hotel and service apartment market in Shanghai is suffering from a big drop in demand from the Japanese and the Koreans, traditionally its two biggest group of clients. Talk is that a large number of Japanese and Korean expatriates have moved from the higher end (monthly
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        • 65 24 WHO gives buyers of executive condominiums a $40,000 subsidy—the developers or the government? Going by an advertisement in the Chinese paper by Pideraco Land, it is the developer. Marketing its Rivervale project in Punggol. Pidemco said there are 40,000 reasons to choose Rivervale because "we give qualified
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        • 148 24 ACTOR Peter Ustinov once famously observed that he'd be chary about living in Australia since, to an alien visitor, it would have looked so large and unoccupied it would have been the perfect landing site. Well, somewhere in the vicinity of Adelaide this week, according to a report
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        • 74 24 WE'VE all heard about the 5Cs, now Hotel Inter continental at Bugis Junction is pushing the 6R concept to preserve the environment. Its mission statement for the environment is, "reduce, recycle, reuse, rethink, rationalise and recover". This works so well that the 6Rs has generated a seventh
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        • 89 24 HE WLETT-Packard has gone to town to broadcast it* role in the World Cup *98 soccer tournaments in France, ft is the "official supplier" and will deploy 75 types oTHP products, including2,ooo mnirtiwrita PCs, at 10 venues throughout Franca. The event, beginning June 10, is expected
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        • 98 24 MEGASTEEL, the new supersteel mill of Malaysia's Lion group, will open its doors in October or November. With a capacity of 2.5 million tonnes of hot rolled coil and sheets slated for domestic consumption, Lion group claims that it will save Malaysia 3.2 billion Malaysian ringgit (S| 1.38
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    • 291 25 Bridge News, Reuters TRADING remained sluggish for both Panamax and capesize trading with the May Day holiday curbing trade. But rates remained strong for handles and handymaxes from east coast South America. Trading all but came to a halt on the futures market with just 1 token trade.
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    • 489 25 AUSTRALIAN DOCK TURMOIL Court orders reinstatement, administrators to decide on jobs Reuters [SYDNEY] Australia's High Court yesterday ordered the reinstatement of 1,400 unionised dockers whose sacking on April 7 plunged the ports into turmoil and the country into its gravest industrial crisis for
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    • 212 25 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Lang Corporation chairman Chris Corrigan yesterday said his company will fund a return to work by the dockers he sacked last month, though he warned the operation will quickly collapse without the introduction of major reforms. The Lang subsidiaries, which employed
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    • 346 25  -  By] Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Chinese authorities have arrested 12 Indonesians on suspicion of hijacking the petroleum tanker Petro Ranger and smuggling in Chinese waters. The Malaysian-flagged tanker was hijacked in waters bordering Malaysia and Vietnam on April 16, a Chinese official said yesterday.
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    • 59 25 [HONGKONG] JetfoU Flores (centre) is sandwiched between Hongkong rescue vessels, following an accident when the jetfoil ferry, carrying 236 passengers enroute to the Portuguese enclave Macau, hit a sunken vessel in Hongkong waters, injuring more than 110 passengers and five crew. Injured passengers, including foreign
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    • 236 25  -  By\ Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko) is continuing to explore setting up an office here as its fourth bi-annual Tanker Event opened here yesterday. Speaking at the Singapore Tanker Event opening ceremony yesterday, Barry Desker, chief
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    • 369 25  -  China Shipping Development Go Ltd discussing farther restructuring From P T Bangsberg in Manila CHINA'S second largest shipping group, still struggling financially, expects more assets to be injected from its parent. China Shipping Development Co Ltd is part of China Shipping (Group)
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    • 1135 26 DUTCH AIR INDUSTRY The world's first commercial airline has decided that it has to work hard, and to form alliances, to survive Holland Horizon [ROTTERDAM] SHORTLY before the New Year, KLM Royal Dutch airlines and Alitalia announced that they are to work together, an important
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      • 890 39 THIS rsport compiled by Cockatt Marine Oil Ltd. showtprlce range* In US dollar* instead of "f** price* tor a more comprehenat ve description of the market Price* shown are baaed on nip ilied Mam MarkM movement* are Indicated. The Cockatt Bunker Price Index change and the
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      • 227 40 Rivals are competing for a contract from British carrier worth np to USs2b AFP [LONDON] British Airways, a faithful client of Boeing, is increasingly interested in buying aircraft from rival Airbus, The Times reported yesterday, quoting company sources. The two aircraft makers
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      • 291 40  -  By'. Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Canada 3000 has taken delivery of the first Airbus A 330-200 widebody twinjet with another slated for next month under a lease contract with launch customer International Lease Finanace Corporation (ILFC). The Canadian charter operator's fleet of A330-200S will
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      • 164 40 DHL teams up with Kuehne Nagel Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] DHL Worldwide Express, one of the world's leading international air express service providers, has formed a partnership with international freight forwarder Swissbased Kuehne Nagel. In a statement, DHL said Kuehne Nagel would use DHL's air express network to provide door to
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      • 476 40 Guilford to pay USs2BJ>m for straggling airline Reuters [MIAMI] Beleagured Pan Am Corporation has made known that it has another possible white knight awaiting in the wings to save it this time a New England railroad company. Pan Am said that Guilford Transportation
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