The Business Times, 20 May 1998

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  • 13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) ll(V12/97 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1998
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  • 67 1 n OT M1478J2 (-13.12) BT-SRI ***** (-2.93) nvrooop mm UI7J7 (-s.od) QfiSt+o.s62) EST" 0 ft STOCK MA1XET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSE COUP 664.42 +4.41 NIKKEI 16JH1JW M67.18 HANOSENO 9,449.11 *17.14 SET INDEX 346.46 -10.75 JAKARTA OOMP __***** >14JW MANILA COUP 106&9I -6168 TAIPHWPI 8,136.27 +138 SEOUL COMP *****
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  • 77 1 FOBEX BATES uss s$ USS 1.646 £(US$/S$ per 1.625 1678 DM 1.783 0.923 YEN 13(4 HUMS 1825 0.439 HKS 7.756 9111 BAIT. 3930 0.942 RIJPIAH 12,069 9014* St to HO urtits P1BE BATES SINGAPORE* 7.7t KUttA LUMPUR 11.50 JAKARTA 28.00 BANGKOK 1475 MANILA 22J0 HONGKONG 10.25 TAIPEI AM SYDNEY
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  • 1090 1  -  President's promise to resign seen as attempt to win more time in office Promt Greg Earl Keith Loveard in Jakarta LARGE student protests are set to continue in Indonesia today after President Suharto was seen attempting to win himself more time in office under
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  • 511 1  -  vya nnri' SN Vasuki R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Indonesian stocks surged 6.4 per cent and the rupiah steadied yesterday on news of President Suharto's new election plans, but analysts fear the euphoria may be short-lived because it was far from clear if opposition
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  • 358 1  -  Move won't spark new round of rate rise for now: analyst By I Silow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank said yesterday it will hike its prime rate back to 7.50 per cent from 7 per cent effective today, immediately raising questions in the
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  • 157 1 -euters [JAKARTA] Some 200 stockbrokers and other professionals demonstrated yesterday to demand that President Suharto quit, unimpressed by the veteran Indonesian leader's promise of reform. "The people do not have any more trust in Suharto. Why should he lead the reform process?" said stock exchange
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  • 512 1  -  (WMWttT The Indonesian crisis is entering a new phase with many imponderables, writes S If VAHUK1 SN VASUKI PRESIDENT Suharto has offered a truly Javanese compromise to Indonesians clamouring for sweeping political reforms. Instead of agreeing to step down, he announced the establishment of a
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    • 143 1 UHUDU WTO IMfaMIU Keep markets open to counter protectionism that may result from the Asian crisis, says PM Goh in a message to WTO leaders meeting in Geneva, Pg 13 The Singapore economy is headed for negative growth this year and the stock market will revisit the year's lows over
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    • 39 1 On hold: World Bank loan talks, P®4 Pressure on new reform council, Pg 4 Growing call in US for Suharto to quit, Pg S Funds to shun Indon shares, Pg 5 Fed leaves rates unchanged -Full report, Pg 12
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    • 9 1 raise fixed deposit rates for large sums, Pg 2
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOUSE & ABROAD
    • 402 2  -  DBS offering up to 15% a* interbank rates climb on regional volatility By i Clarissa Tan WHERE you would have got less than 5 per cent only two weeks ago, parking $50,000 or more in a fixed deposit for one month can
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    • 339 2  -  It«xpecU to sell up ti 100 cars with v&lne for money tack By i Christopher Tan GENERAL Motors expects to sell up to 100 Cadillacs in the first year here, representing 17 per cent of the top-end luxury market now dominated by brands
      SIEW YAW HOONG  -  339 words
    • 124 2 EIGHT charities are the beneficiaries of the $45,000 raised in conjunction with the 1997 Investment Fund Awards. The money was raised from an auction, a golf tournament, sale of tables at the March 6 awards night and angpow contributions. The Investment Fund
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    • 318 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Commerce By■ Jenny Lam THE retail sales index fell 16.8 per cent in volume terms in March in one of the sharpest year-on-year falls in recent years. For the first quarter, sales volume was down 11 per cent, the second straight
      Source: Dept of Statistics  -  318 words
    • 504 2  -  Credit Lyonnjus sees unemployment rate topping 4% From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE Singapore economy is headed for negative growth this year, and the stock market will revisit the year's lows within six months, said the research head of Credit Lyonnais Securities (Singapore). Painting
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    • 462 3  -  Bnt marketing will shift beyond S-E Asia to include Middle East, US, Europe By] Ronnie Lim DESPITE a market downturn due to the regional crisis, Sumitomo Chemical said it is proceeding with its US$3OO million (*****.2 million) petrochemicals project on Pulau Sakra, which
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    • 406 3  -  Phase one of DP group's project to be completed by 2000 Byi Conrad Raj A SINGAPORE-based group is planning a US$9O million (Ssl4B million) entertainment resort complex in Myanmar with facilities that include a casino and golf club. The first phase of
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    • 7 2 Editorial: Sentiment and the S'poreeconomy, Pg 14
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  • INDONESIA IN TURMOIL
    • 515 4 Pause seen until situation becomes clearer in the strife-torn country Reuters [WASHINGTON! Big World Bank loans and talks on commercial debt rescheduling became the latest casualties on Monday of Indonesia's political storm. The World Bank, which had been due to debate US$l.2
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    • 472 4  -  Indon political system may have to be revamped to meet growing demands By I SN Vasuki [SINGAPORE] If Indonesia's proposed new reform council announced yesterday by President Suharto decides to meet the growing demands for political reforms, it may mean having to revamp the country's
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    • 281 4 An unofficial translation of a statement read by President Suharto yesterday. 6 After listening to suggestions from uiemas (Islamic guidelines, elect a president and vice-president and estabschoiars), community leaders, mass organisations and the Hsh further regulations. armed forces (Abri), in order to save the country and the na-
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    • 330 4  -  From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TOKYO financial markets reacted favourably yesterday to the announcement by Indonesian President Suharto that he intends to remain in office for the time being in order to supervise a process of reform and an eventual transfer
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    • 411 4 Rising risk of default forces re-ev&la&tion, say analysts -loomberg [TOKYO] Japanese banks are under pressure to set aside reserves against loans to Indonesia defaulting as civil strife over tumbling exchange rates and surging inflation have thrown into doubt the fate of President Suharto's
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    • 566 5  -  Some senators want activist US role bat Clinton maintains it's a domestic issue From Leon Hadar in Washington PRESSURE is mounting on Capitol Hill in support, especially ft-om liberal Democratic lawmakers, for a more activist US policy aimed at removing Indonesian President
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    • 233 5 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Scuffles broke out in front of the Indonesian embassy here yesterday when about a dozen Indonesians disrupted a Malaysian protest and tore up placards calling on President Suharto to resign. Malaysian police intervened to separate the two groups which had gathered under
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    • 230 5 AFP Reuters [JAKARTA] The military commander in the Indonesian province of Central Java has issued orders for rioters to be shot on the spot, a report said yesterday. "In facing rioters, we should not use dialogue but they should be fought," Ma-jor-General Tyasno Sudarto
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    • 148 5 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia has postponed planned public transport fare increases, the official Antara news agency said yesterday. The move follows Friday's decision to partially roll back fuel price rises which had been put into effect on May 4. The eventual removal of fuel subsidies had been
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    • 551 5  -  Debt, inflation woes remain, even if political upheaval subsides, they say By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Regional fUnd managers said they will continue to avoid Indonesian shares, notwithstanding the Jakarta market's positive reaction yesterday to President Suharto's promise to implement reforms and to hold fresh
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    • 991 6  -  AUITfIBV Despite his attempt to secure a face-saving exit, Suharto must know that this Is the end-game In his long, uninterrupted rule By Yang Razali Kassim THE long-awaited announcement finally came yesterday, watched by millions of Indonesians and millions more around the
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    • 235 6 Reuters [SINGAPORE] The number of flights to Singapore from Jakarta Increased yesterday ahead of expected mass protests, said a Television Corporation of Singapore report. It said Singapore Airlines had added two flights to its normal schedule of seven, while charter landings at Seletar Airport,
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    • 36 6 [JAKARTA] Indonesian students on the roof and outside the parliament building carrying banners during a demonstration yesterday. Thousands of protesting students booed as President Suharto announced his plans for political reforms. REUTERS
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    • 381 6  -  Unrest has no major impact on S'pore product market By Ronnie Lim [SINGAPORE] Indonesian production of both crude oil and oil products has so far not been disrupted by the unrest there, which has seen a pullout of oil companies' personnel from
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  • MARKETS IN TURMOIL
    • 529 8  -  It also backs revival of debate on setting np of an Asian Monetary Fund From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TAKING a radical approach to solving the regional financial and economic crisis, a Japanese official committee yesterday proposed that the International Monetary Fund
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    • 317 8  -  From] Harish Mehta in Bangkok IN A sign that Thailand's ailing finance companies could be in their death throes, finance stocks fell more than 13 per cent yesterday as investors began selling on fears that the remaining finance companies will
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 552 9  -  Vice-President tells businesses he will keep regulation to the minimum From, Al Labita m Manila WITH President Fidel Ramos agreeing to become a senior official adviser to Joseph Estrada once he assumes presidential office on June 30, a continuation of economic reforms set
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    • 222 9 MANILA Bloomberg THE Philippine trade deficit narrowed 85 per cent to US$l4O million (***** million) in March, the lowest in nine years, as the peso's devaluation caused imports to contract. The National Statistics Office said in a report that the March
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    • 193 9 HANOI Reuters INTERNATIONAL donors will hold an informal review of Vietnam's economic reform policies next month, a World Bank official said yesterday. The mid-year review the first to be held for Vietnam by donors under the World Bank Consultative Group comes as concern
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    • 380 9 BANGKOK Exporters not as worried about liquidity: survey AFP CRISIS-HIT Thai exporters are more worried about rising costs and corruption than about the liquidity crisis said to be strangling economic growth, a World Bank survey has found. The survey found that capital cost rises resulting
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    • 171 9 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama MALAYSIA needs a clear national policy on foreign workers as the haphazard way they are recruited at present only encourages greater influx of illegal immigrants, the Malaysian Institute for Economic Research (Mier) said yesterday. "We don't see a clear
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG TAIWAN
    • 451 10 BEIJING To cushion April's 19.4% slide, services sector in backward areas may be opened to foreigners Reuters IN AN ominous sign for China's economy, foreign direct investment plunged in April amid the Asian financial crisis, figures released yesterday showed. To counter the fall, officials said
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    • 152 10 BEIJING AFP CHINA'S average urban incomes in the first three months of 1998 were up 5.2 per cent year-on-year to 1,533 yuan (*****) per month, the official China Daily said yesterday, citing a State Statistics Bureau survey. The survey, which covered 39,000 households
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    • SINO Briefs
      • 79 10 Reuters [HONGKONG] ABN Amro Asia yesterday said it was cutting its Hongkong economic growth forecast in 1996 to one per cent from 3 per cent. As property prices were falling fast. Hongkong was likely to see zero inflation in terms of the
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      • 63 10 AFP [HONGKONG] Authorities have cracked down on a flourishing illegal money exchange trade in Shenzhen, arresting 32 people including 17 from Hongkong, it was reported yesterday. The latest crackdown was made at the train station close to the border checkpoint with Hongkong, the Beijing-backed
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      • 46 10 AFP [BEIJING] China blasted European Parliament resolutions on Tibet and charges of organ-trafficking in China as "placing a regrettable obstacle" in the way of improving Sino-European relations. China Daily described the two resolutions, adopted last week, as "attacking China". —AFP
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      • 58 10 Reuters [HONGKONG] China's petrochemical Industry is likely to move into the black in April-June 1998 following losses in Ql, the official Securities Times said yesterday. It quoted a senior industry official as saying he hoped the sector would see profits in Q2 as
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      • 87 10 -FP [BEUING] Fires caused by lightning strikes are raging out of control across Inner Mongolia and have destroyed 13,000 ha of forest, China's Ministry of Forestry said yesterday. "If the weather conditions return to normal, we hope the fires can be controlled by this
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    • 313 10 BEIJING Reports of fonds for Democrats sheer fabrication: Bering Reuters CHINA yesterday dismissed as "sheer fabrication" reports that it contributed funds to the US Democrats in 1996. "Recently, some people and media in the United States speculated again about so-called participation by Chinese Individuals
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  • ASIA
    • 358 11 SEOUL 37% rise attributed to international loans, won's sharp depreciation Bloomberg Reuters THE South Korean government's liabilities totalled 50.45 trillion won (5557.8 billion) at the end of calendar 1997, up 37 per cent or 13.63 trillion won from a year ago, the
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    • 197 11 SEOUL Bloomberg SOUTH Korea's former deputy prime minister Kang Kyung Shik was jailed in connection with his role in last year's currency crisis, the Korea Herald and other newspapers reported. Mr Kang, who also served as finance minister until his dismissal last November,
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    • 284 11 NEW DELHI Request follows hints that US sanctions could jeopardise deal AFP US AVIATION giant Boeing yesterday urged the Indian government not to break off their 40-year relationship in response to the US sanctions imposed after India's nuclear tests. The requests followed
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  • THE WORLD
    • 333 12 WASHINGTON They accuse firm of ruing market dominance to crash Net browser rivals Bloomberg US AND state anti-trust enforcers sued Microsoft Corp, accusing the world's largest personal computer software maker of using its market dominance to stifle competition and crush Internet browser rivals.
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    • 264 12 WASHINGTON Reuters THE Federal Reserve yesterday left key US Interest rates unchanged as it weighed the risk of tight labour markets causing inflation to rise against the chance of Asia's crisis slowing the economy. The decision, confirmed by a Fed spokesman, left the
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    • 259 12 WASHINGTON Bloomberg LAURENCE Meyer Is mounting a bid to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board in 2000. Or so it appears. Mr Meyer is emerging as a leader of the central bank's "hawks" who want to increase
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    • 439 13  -  WTO MEETING Multilateral trading system crucial in supporting recovery of Asian economies By: Ronnie Lim [SINGAPORE] Countries should keep their markets open and stay committed to the multilateral trading system to counter the increased protectionism that could result from the Asian financial
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    • 319 13 GENEVA Bloomberg US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton, in a speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the World Trade Organisation, called on ministers to travel to the US next year to begin setting a new global trade agenda for the next century.
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    • 304 13 mBRUSSELS Bloomberg EUROPEAN Union finance ministers voted to go ahead with the abolition of duty-free shopping in July 1999, sweeping aside an Irish bid to save the tax-free perks. Only Germany and France among the 15 member nations backed Ireland's call for a
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 677 14  -  THE BOTTOM LIMB OPINION By Al Labita The writer is BT's Manila correspondent THE way it looks now, there is no stopping Joseph Estrada from the Philippine presidency. Mr Estrada leads the ruling party candidate, Jose de Venecia, by more than four million
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    • 127 14 'Since many Western governments have a propensity to make friends with their own enemies, it makes people wonder how reliable they are as friends. If I were the Indian premier, I'd be thinking along the same lines.' Wei Jingsheng China s exiled dissident, on US policy towards
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    • 622 14 EDITORIAL THE men from the ministiy have held their nerve. And so they should. The official growth forecast for the Singapore economy was unchanged in die quarterly report card released on Monday by die Ministry of Trade Industry, at 2.5-4.5 per cent Of course, there
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    • 1219 14  -  Its anti-competitive methods rile US authorities but Microsoft's clout can benefit consumers By Charles Morris The writer, a Wall Street consultant, is co-author of Computer Wars: How the West Can Win in a Post-IBM World BY SOME alchemy of bad behaviour and bad public relations, Bill Gates
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    • 801 14 What Israelis care about HOW can it be that in the same week Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to Washington to face a US-imposed deadline on the peace process, the Israeli public is far more interested in the fact that an Israeli transsexual won the
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 775 15  -  Amid the deluge of grey and beige, that gorgeous red dress is out there, says ammb-maiue schxro ANNE-MARIE SCHIRO NYT SAY to people in the fashion world that there is no colour on the runways and no colour in the stores, and
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    • 379 15 NYT [NEW YORK] The name Laura Ashley is enough to give hip minimalists nightmares of being smothered in lilacs or some other brutal array of florals. The label, which once made a virtue of English country style, has fallen out of favour with many
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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  • WIRED FOR BUSINESS
    • 801 18  -  US-based firm chalks up huge savings by processing sales through the Internet, writes tohbam"»■» TOB HAN SHIN WS- based Cisco Systems is not just the biggest supplier of hardware for the Internet, it is also one of the biggest users of the Net
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    • 426 18  -  It mm smart cards, Network Computer and virtual reality driving growth From'. Raju Chellam in Atlanta IBM Corp is betting that the Internet and related technologies are the key to the prosperity of the global hospitality industry. The disparate industry, with
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      • 68 18 FILM bufb can now Join the Singapore Film Society online. Membership to the society, which recently set up its official web site, coats S|Boa year, with a concession of SfSO tor students. Members get to see over 100 feature films every year for free. The film
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      • 100 18 BANKING and finance professionals can now access the Internet's first financial dedicated search engine, Finance Wise. Developed by IBM, Risk Publications and Xtranet, the free web-baaed search tool allows users to search for key financial information on the Net The site currently has more than 10,700 registered
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    • 539 19  -  Extraordinary item not treated as net loss dne to change in accounting policy By. Lee Han Shin [SINGAPORE] If not for a sudden change in its accounting policy, Neptune Orient Lines would have declared a whopping $297.3 million net loss
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    • 561 19  -  Sale of 40% stake to US venture capital firm H6Q Asia Pac By Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Homegrown Tele-Medical Services is gearing up for a potential listing on Nasdaq in New York following the sale of a 40 per cent stake to US venture capital firm H&Q
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    • 607 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Christopher Tan DAIMLER-BENZ's merger with Chrysler and its likely link-up with Nissan Diesel is a double coup for the German carmaker that couldn't have been more timely. Although unintended, the merger has, for one, dimmed the limelight on
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    • 185 19 [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank has decided to withdraw its 25-year secondary listing on the Stock Exchange of Hongkong due to declining interest. The bank said yesterday that the last day of dealing in its shares on the Hongkong exchange would be Thursday, June 25, and
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    • 115 19 [SINGAPORE] Khong Guan Flour Milling has suspended director- Robert Ang Chun Ti from his position as general manager for allegedly misappropriating $3 million. It said that "on or about" Feb 23, Mr Ang "deceived" the managing director into "cosigning a letter authorising the company's bankers to
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    • 260 19 Bloomberg AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] Hitachi Zosen Singapore Ltd, a shiprepair company, said fiscal 1996 profit rose 6.5 per cent, led by higher earnings from shiprepair and lower taxes. The profit was lower than analysts' estimates. Profit for the year ended March 31 rose
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    • COMPANIES
      • 364 20  -  Price of HK$l&3O a share represents 5.7% discount to its dose yesterday From. Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong US TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant AT&T has sold its remaining 16.5 per cent stake in local mobile service operator SmarTone for HKSI.44 billion (*****.4 million). The
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      • 260 20  -  Sales boosted by Dutch unit, better market conditions By, Annette Pan [SINGAPORE] Sesdaq-listed Jade Technologies yesterday reported a six-fold jump in interim net earnings to $2.98 million, boosted by substantial profit and sales contribution from its Dutch subsidiary and better market conditions since
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      • 295 20 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Merrill Lynch Co may buy Phatra Securities pic, the second-largest Thai brokerage and a unit of Thailand's Phatra Thanakit pic, the Nation newspaper said, citing a source at Merrill. Merrill, the largest US securities firm based on number of brokers,
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      • 47 20 [HONGKONG] A policeman talking on his radio as a disgruntled investor held a sign which said "Give back my investment" during a protest at the Securities and Futures Commission here yesterday. Investors of the failed CA Pacific Securities Limited are demanding speedy compensation. AFP
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      • 228 20  -  Diversified Filipino group plans to go public soon From, Al Labtta in Manila lONA Investments Pte Ltd, a Singaporean investment firm, has bought a 13.03 per cent stake in Manila's Macondray Co for US$25 million (Ss4l million), an official said yesterday. Macondray president
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      • 433 20 Reuters [HONGKONG] Citic Pacific Ltd shares hit a year low yesterday after some brokerages cut their earnings estimates for the company following the launch of a joint property development at a lower-than-ex-pected price. Bucking a higher market trend, the
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      • 144 20 Reuters [BANGKOK] Dhana Siam Finance pic said yesterday it had decided to postpone the sale of its 257.42 million share rights issue due to unfavourable Asian market conditions, including that in Thailand. In a statement to the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), the company said
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      • 202 20 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian government has paid 270 million Malaysian ringgit (SSI 15.9 million) to Ekran Bhd for work it has so far completed on the shelved Bakun hydroelectric project, Deputy Finance Minister Affifuddin Omar said yesterday. Bernama news agency quoted Mr Affifuddin
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 495 21 Move, after Pearson deal, seen necessary to help spread publishing costs NYT [NEW YORK] The sale of Viacom's Simon Schuster assets may not be over. Its chairman, Sumner Redstone, chose not to include the publisher's consumer trade company in the deal with Pearson
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      • 310 21 NYT [NEW YORK] The Sprint Corp is close to an agreement to spin off its wireless telephone business as a publiclytraded company which could have a market value of as high as US$9 billion (5514.8 billion). The spin-off will allow the
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      • 607 21  -  The software giant itself, not only its rivals, will be better off If competition is restored Commentary by. David Pauly IPauiy, writing for Bloomberg MICROSOFT Corp has a monopoly. Chairman Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft and owns 22 per cent of its shares, won't admit
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 452 22  -  At least five new unit trusts lined up to invest in US, Europe, global bonds Reports by I Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] The unrelenting bad news from Asia is prompting investment management firms to focus increasingly on the developed markets, with at least five new
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      • 327 22  -  High expenses, HK's lack of independence cited as reasons By. Louis Beckerling (SINGAPOREJ Japanese leas-ing-based finance group Orix Corporation has relocated its regional headquarters to Singapore from Hongkong. The group, which first established a presence in Singapore in 1972 through a joint
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      • 294 22 Move to euro and simultaneous need to tackle computer bug AFP [NEW YORK] The move to the euro on Jan 1, 1999. and the need to adjust computer systems to the world beyond the year 2000 are two difficult challenges that European banks will have
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      • 335 22 [SINGAPORE] OCBC Asset Management yesterday announced the launch of a US dollar-denominated global bond fund its 11th unit trust, second bond fund, and first US dollar unit trust. The Savers World Bond Fund will invest mainly in bonds of developed markets using the Salomon Brothers
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      • 218 22 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Citibank Bhd, the Malaysian subsidiary of Citibank NA of the United States, recorded pretax profit of 321.4 million Malaysian ringgit (Ssl3B million) for the year ended Dec 31,1997, compared to RM302.2 million in 1996, a rise of 6.4 per cent. Bernama news
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      • 288 22 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Thailand and Malaysia's recent threats to pull out of the International Natural Rubber Organisation (Inro) could put the existence of the cartel in jeopardy, analysts said. Both countries, the world's largest and thirdlargest rubber producers, are unhappy that Inro is not
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      • 202 22 SIMFIX Report Reuters [SINGAPORE] Simex Japanese government bond (JGB) futures fell yesterday, dragged from their recent record highs after a large round of profit-taking sales by a life insurance company in Japan, The Bank of Japan's statement that it would keep monetary policy unchanged
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      • 171 22  -  MSCITAIWAM FUTURES Charlie Kuo Charlie Kuo, service dealer, Refco Singapore [SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures saw mixed signs yesterday, with the May contract finishing up 0.6 point to 317.1 points. Short-covering and speculative buying offset the bearish effect brought about by the
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      • 273 22 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] World oil prices eased again yesterday as glutted markets continued to drown out hints by oil producers this week that output might be trimmed again later this year. Bulging storage tanks, sluggish demand and bearish trader sentiment more
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      • 270 22 AFP AFX-Asia London THE dollar extended earlier gains against the yen in late trade here as uncertainty ahead of the FOMC outcome combined with ongoing concerns about events in Indonesia to push the Japanese currency lower, dealers said. According to CIBC economist Audrey Childe-Free-man, although the Fed is
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        1238 22 MTERBAME CROSS RATES Mayl9 A$ C$ Bwb ECU ffr Pw HK$ Ind Its»—tot Yen Won Ml N2$ Pafc to Peso S$ tgj Sfr MT$ UK Pond US$ Australia 0.903 6.178 0.5*4 3.730 Ittt 4.835 25.2*5 75.1* 0 848 9.000 2.387 1.165 27.613 24.515 1.027 3.178 0.925 21.100 ***** 0J84 0.624
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    • 1878 23 SICOM FUTURES i/^/a RUBBER (futures dosing as at 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS c«nts/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jun 98 130.50 128.50 129.00 75 650 Jul 98 128.00 128.00 129.00 50 1765 Aug 98 129.00 129.00 129.00 50 2665 Sep 98 132.50 130.00 130.75 75
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    • 2330 23 LONDON Industrials May 19 Peace 31 Group 635.000 -l.000~ AB Ports 365.000 unch Abbey National 1064.000 21.000 Allied Domecq 619.400 5.400 Anut 193.000 6.000 Asda Group 184.200 3.800 BAT tod 575.000 10.000 BG Pic 331.400 4.400 BICC 161.000 -2.000 BOC Group 951.000 -9.000 BR Petroleum 935.400 0.400
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    • 1654 23 Bloomberg AFX-Asia Q Nikkei 225 ♦H7JB JAPANESE stocks rose for a second day, led by banks such as Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd, after Indonesian President Suharto said he'll step down after a general election. "The market's responding very favourably to the news that Suharto may not be in power
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      1488 24 Bloomberg FllhngSeng +37J4 STOCKS were mixed. The Hang Seng Index rebounded from a four-month low after Indonesian President Suharto said he would resign once new elections are held. The 33-stock Hang Seng rose 37.14, or 0.4 per cent, to 9,449.11. HSBC Holdings pic rose, while Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd
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      540 24 Reuters MShenzhenß Index +L2S CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed mixed yesterday with Shanghai falling as investors sold other issues to buy newly listed Jinzhou Harbour Group Co despite profittaking. The Shanghai B Share Index fell 0.60 point, or 1.24 per cent, to 48.25 as turnover expanded to US$B.62
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    • 341 24 AFP FIWP Index +L3B TAIWAN share prices closed barely higher yesterday with most investors on the side lines amid jitters over the drop of the local currency and the Japanese yen, dealers said. Uncertainties over the direction of US interest rates and fears of renewed unrest in Indonesia also
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    • 243 24 AFP Q Wellington -U NEW ZEALAND stocks fell 0.3 per cent yesterday to a four-month low amid concerns over the decline of Asian stocks and currencies. The NZSE-40 Index was down 7.6 points to 2,212.82 on heavy turnover of NZ5102.3 million. Telecom Corp was down four cents at NZ$B.42.
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      788 24 AFP QSETlafax -10.75 CONCERN over the crisis in Indonesia and panic selling in the finance sector sent Thai shares plummeting 3 per cent yesterday, dealers said. "It was 80 per cent due to internal factors, renewed trouble in the financial sector, and the rest was the Indonesian crisis," said
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    • 397 24 AFP Composite Intel +153 SHARE prices rose slightly yesterday on the Korea Stock Exchange amid active retail buying sparked by Indonesian President Suharto's promise to call new elections and not contest re-election, dealers said. Individual investor sentiment recovered considerably despite foreign selling of blue chips. Retail investors seem to
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    • 576 24 AFP FlAflOribairiM +8.7 SHARE prices edged up 0.3 per cent yesterday, encouraged by Indonesian President Suharto's announcement that he would call fresh elections, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index, gained 8.7 points to 2,742. The All Industrials Index rose 25.9 points to 4,757.9 while the All Resources Index lost
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      720 24 AFP n Composite Indei »24JK) INDONESIAN stocks closed up 6.4 per cent yesterday on thin volume with most investors sidelined by scepticism about President Suharto's promise to step down after new elections. The Composite Index rose 24.90 points at 413.82 on volume of 99.63 million shares worth just 86.54
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    • 295 24 AFP Q Manila -5&50 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 2.7 per cent lower yesterday on continued concerns over the political upheaval in Indonesia. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 56.50 points to 2,068.91. Turnover rose to 725 million shares worth 1.02 billion pesos. Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co dropped
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
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      • 407 25 AFP n Composite Index +4.43 MALAYSIA'S key stock index closed 0.8 per cent higher yesterday, boosted by Indonesian President Suharto's promise to hold elections and stand down. "Buying, however, became less intense as trading wore on, taking the composite index off highs as scepticism set
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    • WARRAHTS&OPTIONS
      • 3621 26 BONOS, LOANS ft WARRANTS wt '"8 Last Vol Day Last OuoU Avg High Low S|(M Company Sat* ♦or- (OOO) High Law Buvtr SaMar Prk» 23.5 9 m 3000 m AMOB c5.5******6 12 5 unch 3 12.5 12 5 H 20.5 8 3160 "Acar ******1 USS 10 8 11 95 8.5
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      • 185 26  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy TODAY we resume our look at soon-to-expire warrants, with the spotlight on Hotel Properties. It has a warrant in issue that expires in November which, like many of its other out-of-the-money companions in the local market, offers the buyer
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    • 2446 26 Transaction date May 19 MALAYSIAN STOCKS Cf Cr L«t Vol Day Last Ouote CM* Wv YM Nat M Cap High L— Mm Company SaK COOP) High Low Bwyaf Sa—r CV P/t SmM ~05 28 msSOOO AISB50C 515 *2 144 53 49 51 52 SO 3.3 2.1 21.0 S2JB
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    • 6472 27 Transaction date M.iv 19 I Gr Gr M *t !*M LMt Vol Day Last Quota Olv DW VM N.t C*» A«« Hkgp Um mm Cil!»y tm roow m> U» 8nyar 8—ac C» p/* $mN Prtca INDUSTRIALS 43 16.5 a 1020 ACE Dynamics60c... 17.5 -1.S
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 213 28 Stocks Volume STEngg 10c J3.598.000 *ingT«H5c 13.205.000 *RH8 Cap Wt99 8,201.000 •Renong 8M 50c 6,988,000 HK Land USIOc 6.372.000 •M Resources 5.065.000 'Nkapacific Bh 4,927,000 *MBf Capital 4,661,000 DBS Land 4,587,000 taSYtNt HRKk 4,020,000 Stocks SingTel 15c 31,622,610 S1A Foreign 31,062,364 DCS Foreign 30,382,740 MH 27,146,262 OCIC Foreign 22,512,418 STEnggWc
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        66 28  -  by\ Shiv Taneja DBS LAND closed one-cent higher yesterday at $2.21 on a volume of 4.58 million shares, compared with its ICHiay traded average of 2.54 million shares. In there near term, there appears to be more upside for this counter, but investors should be cautious. The mfdium-term
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      • 730 28  -  STOCK MARKET OOMMBMTIKT Rally on news of Suharto's reform plans proves short-lived as investors realise no quick end to political storm By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] News that Indonesia's President Suharto would resign after a general election brought on what proved to
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 154 28 HONGKONG property tycoon Cha Chiming has been very much in the news lately. He is about to clinch a deal to take over Sing Tao Holdings, a publishing group started by the late Tiger Balm founder Aw Boon Haw. So many in the media are
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        • 166 28 TELECOMMUNICATIONS infrastructure suppliers who had submitted proposals to upgrade Sing Tel Mobile's analogue AMPS network into a CDMA network were not in the cheeriest of moods yesterday. They had a rude shock after reading BT's report that Sing Tel Mobile is still undecided whether it wants
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        • 117 28 MANY leading hotels in Singapore are reporting full house as the volatile situation in Indonesia continues to drive plane loads of expatriates and Indonesians out of the country in search of temporary refuge. An investment banker who was hoping to have dinner with a colleague here found himself
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        • 102 28 AMONG the numerous speakers and companies featured in Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia's roadshow in Hongkong is one Andre Lee who is down to talk about Asian Debt Markets. Yes, it's the same Andre Lee whose huge appetite fix- risk brought down the once-mighty Peregrine investment bank. A Korean-American,
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        • 131 28 IT was a mere couple of hours' difference but it would have meant whether a state secret of Thailand was revealed to an audience of fund managers in Hongkong. For Thai Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanhaeminda was supposed to announce at 8.30 am on Monday in
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 321 29 Bridge News Reuters PANAMAX rates for Asia traders have firmed although trading was slow, but the rate on the key route from the US Gulf to Japan slumped to U5516.50 without combination ports, a drop of 50 cents. The morning Biffex session was quiet with 5 lots trading
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    • 440 29  -  Govt and those involved in the industry should share responsibility, conference told By Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The main lesson to be learnt from Singapore's worst ever oil spill last year is the need for greater cooperative effort between government and industry,
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    • 108 29 AFP [NOUMEA] Striking dockers on Monday were continuing a three-day blockade of the main port in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia in protest against the sacking of 49 of their colleagues. The blockade went without incident over the weekend with no ships
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    • 773 29  -  STRAIT TALE By\ Seafarer THERE are a lot of shipping events these days, too many perhaps. There are not so many people, though, who have the knack of spotting exactly what is needed and then of running something which is
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    • 136 29 Bloomberg [MIAMI] Norwegian Cruise Line, a subsidiary of NCL Holdings ASA, plans to add four ships to its 10-ship fleet for about US$l.3 billion (Ss2.l billion), in order to increase its ability to handle the rapidly growing demand for cruises. NCL signed a letter
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    • 320 29  -  From David Hughes inLondon A PSA Corp entry to the annual Seatrade Awards was among four finalists for the innovation section. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, presented engineering consultant Shum Siew Hung with a runner-up prize for his team's telescopic spreader for container handling
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    • 673 30  -  AFRICAN SHIPPING Kenya's port serving landlocked countries is strangled by poor roads, ageing equipment and colossal corruption By, Juliette Holller-Larousae AFP Mombasa port is a sorry sight these days, strangled by raindestroyed roads, its ageing equipment rusting and its activities staggering under colossal corruption. It
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      • 868 45 THIS rtport. compiled by Cockett Marina OU Lid. »howi price range* in US dollar* inttead at single price* for a mora oomprehen*lve description of th* market Ptlom ahown irt ba*ed on *verage-«lied atem Market movements art indicated The Cockett Bunker Prtoe Index chana* and the Individual
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      • 437 46  -  Circle IntTs 74% stake in Concord Express makes firm 3rd biggest behind AEI and McGregor By: Marcos Hand [SINGAPORE] Third party logistics provider Circle International's acquisition of Concord Express Singapore and CE Logistics-Asia will put the company in the top
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      • 319 46 Bloomberg [FORT LAUDERDALE] General Motors Corp was ordered by a Florida jury to pay US$33 million (5554.1 million) in damages to the family of a 13-year-old boy who was killed in a 1991 car crash involving an exploding Oldsmobile fuel tank.
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      • 57 46 [ROBERTSON, Australia] Emergency workers gather around the wreckage of a goods train after it derailed near Robertson on the New South Wales Southern Highlands, south of Sydney yesterday. Two men in thediesel locomotive were killed when the train, hauling 28 wagons, left the tracks caused
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      • 228 46 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Dutch airline KLM will sharply reduce losses in its traditionally weak final quarter to make good its pledge of record-high full-year ordinary net profits, analysts predicted. They said they were also hoping the cash-rich airline would announce a fresh buyback of state-owned
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      • 98 46 AFX-Asia [MANILA] Philippine Airlines wants officials of its pilots' union cited for contempt over the union's efforts to disrupt operations, according to documents filed with the labour department. PAL said officers and members of the Air Line Pilots Association of the Philippines should be "cited
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      • 290 46 Reuters [COLOMBO] Sri Lanka's parliament yesterday began a debate on the recent sale of a 40 per cent stake in Air Lanka which the opposition says smacks of corruption. The debate was called by the opposition United National Party (UNP) which
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        • 105 46 Oana-Antara [JAKARTA] The Indonesian government has so far approved a total of 106 charter flights to carry thousands of foreigners out of the country, a senior air transportation official said here yesterday. Zainudin Sikado, director general of air transportation, told reporters: "Including two charter
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        • 112 46 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Ford Motor Co, one of the largest carmakers in the US, may cancel a NT$lO billion (Ss49o million) investment in Taiwan planned for the next five years if the government gives in to the European Union's request to lower tariffs on passenger cars
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        • 117 46 Bernama-Xinhua [XIAMEN] The Taikoo (Xiamen) Aircraft Engineering Co Ltd (Taeco), a Sino-foreign joint venture in this port city ofFujian province, had repaired a total of 60 airplanes by last month, most of them from overseas. A company executive says that it is now the largest
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        • 108 46 AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong and the Maldives have signed an agreement allowing their airlines to fly over each other's territory, a government spokesman said. The agreement was signed in Male, the Maldives capital, the spokesman said. "The occasion is especially meaningful for Hongkong because this
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      • 260 46 Reuters [TOKYO] The long-stymied expansion of Japan's singlerunway Narita airport moved a step forward yesterday with the sale of land needed for a second runway by a farmer who had opposed the project for decades. An airport
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