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Companion Marble posts 1st final result .
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HONG KONG 1996-08-23
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Year ended March 31
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( in million HK$ unless stated )
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Shr ( H.K. cents ) 14.0
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Exceptional items nil
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Net 56.06
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Turnover 531.52
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Company name Companion Marble ( Holdings ) Ltd
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Books close N / A
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Dividend payable N / A
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NOTE - Marble and granite products distributor Companion Marble , a spinoff of construction materials concern Companion Building Material ( Holdings ) Ltd , was listed on the Stock Exchange on April 25 , 1996 .
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-- Hong Kong News Room ( 852 ) 2843 6368
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Softbank to procure $ 900 mln via forex by Sept 5 .
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TOKYO 1996-08-23
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Softbank Corp said on Friday that it would procure $ 900 million through the foreign exchange market by September 5 as part of its acquisition of U.S. firm , Kingston Technology Co .
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" It is in the contract that we pay ( Kingston ) $ 900 million by September 5 , " he said , adding that Softbank had already started making forward transactions to buy dollars .
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On August 15 , computer software retailer Softbank said it would buy 80 percent of Kingston , the world 's largest maker of memory boards , for about $ 1.5 billion in the latest in a series of high-profile acquisitions it has made in the United States .
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Shanghai Post and Telecomm net down .
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SHANGHAI 1996-08-23
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Half-year ended June 30 , 1996
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( in millions of yuan unless stated )
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Turnover 115.259 vs 123.157
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Net profit 20.318 vs 22.828
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Net asset per share 3.02 yuan ( no comparative figure )
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Earnings per share 0.14 yuan ( no comparative figure )
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Company name : Shanghai Posts and Telecommunications Equipment Co
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Note : the figures were unaudited .
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Promodes set to sell German assets - paper .
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PARIS 1996-08-23
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German retailer Promodes is in advanced talks about selling its German assets and the retailer 's board might decide as soon as Tuesday to sell the assets to Spar AG , Les Echos newspaper said on Friday .
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It said investment bank Rothschild & Cie was an intermediary in the talks and added that unlisted German retailers Metro , Rewe and Lidl were also still in discussions .
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Promodes has in Germany its Promo hypermarket unit with 36 Continent superstores , which is 1995 generated 4.7 percent of total Promodes sales .
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The French group entered the German market in 1990 , buying
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In June , Promodes signed an outline agreement to sell its Specia unit -- which runs 100 Dia stores in France -- to Germany 's Aldi .
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Promodes was not immediately available for comment .
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-- Paris newsroom +33 1 4221 5452
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PRESS DIGEST - Ireland - August 23 .
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DUBLIN 1996-08-23
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Following are highlights of stories in the Irish press on Friday .
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Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy .
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IRISH INDEPENDENT
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- Ireland 's biggest mortgage lender Irish Permanent ended weeks of stalemate when it announced it was increasing its mortgage lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point .
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- Two investors who claim to be owed nearly one million Irish pounds by fund manager Tony Taylor believe they may have lost their money .
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- A second Japanese trawler was under arrest on Thursday night as the Irish Navy and Air Corps continued a cat and mouse game with up to 40 vessels off the Irish coast .
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- The Irish Department of Enterprise and Employment has widened its probe into Taylor Asset Managers to include the investigation of investments of 10 more investors .
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- Irish exploration company Ivernia and its South African partner Minorco have received planning permission from the local county council for a major lead and zinc mine at Lisheen , County Tipperary .
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- Building materials firm CRH refused to comment on reports that it is about to pay 180 million pounds stering for U.S. stone and concrete business Tilcon Inc .
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IRISH TIMES
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- Mortgage lending rates are on the way up with banks and building societies poised to add around a quarter of a percentage point to their main variable rates of interest .
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- Members of a County Antrim Protestant family who were driven into exile by by loyalist paramilitaries two years ago returned yesterday to live in Northern Ireland in defiance of the threat hanging over them .
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- Talks will resume next Tuesday in an attempt to avoid a major strike in Irish retail chain Dunnes Stores .
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- Top dealers in the London office of U.S. bankers Merrill Lynch are transferring to Dublin .
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- The Irish plastics industry called on the government to support incineration to deal with plastics not suitable for recycling .
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Ford China JV posts 77 percent net drop in H1 96 .
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SHANGHAI 1996-08-24
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A Chinese truck maker in which Ford Motor Co has a 20 percent stake said it posted a 77 percent drop in post-tax profits in the first half of 1996 .
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Jiangling Motors Corp , in a statement in Saturday 's edition of the China Securities newspaper , said net profit in the period was 3.385 million yuan , down from 14.956 million in the same 1995 period .
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Turnover fell to 937.891 million yuan from 1.215 billion , while net assets per share were 1.88 yuan , unchanged , and earnings per share fell to 0.005 yuan from 0.02 yuan , the statement said .
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In the first half , the company said it produced 8,333 vehicles and sold 9,018 , but it did not explain the difference .
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It blamed the drop in profits on a weak vehicle market and said as its engine plant had only just started trial production , the company 's results would not improve in the short-term .
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Ford owns 138.643 million shares in the firm .
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The majority shareholder , with 51 percent , or 353.24 million shares , is Jiangling Motors Group .
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The company , in the southern province of Jiangxi , had about eight percent of China 's light truck market in 1994 .
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( $ 1 = 8.3 yuan )
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TENNIS - RESULTS AT HAMLET CUP .
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COMMACK , New York 1996-08-24
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Results from the
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Waldbaum Hamlet Cup tennis tournament on Saturday ( prefix
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number denotes seeding ) :
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Martin Damm ( Czech Republic ) beat Adrian Voinea ( Romania ) 5-7
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7-5 7-5
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5 - Andrei Medvedev ( Ukraine ) beat Karol Kucera ( Slovakia ) 7-6
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( 7-0 ) 6-3
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TENNIS - RESULTS AT TOSHIBA CLASSIC .
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CARLSBAD , Calif. 1996-08-24
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Results from the $ 450,000 Toshiba Classic tennis tournament on Saturday ( prefix number denotes seeding ) :
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Semifinals :
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1 - Arantxa Sanchez Vicario ( Spain ) beat 3 - Jana Novotna ( Czech Republic ) 1-6 , 6-2 6-3
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4 - Kimiko Date ( Japan ) beat 2 - Conchita Martinez ( Spain ) 6-2 7-5 .
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RALLYING - KANKKUNEN IN COMMAND AS MCRAE ROLLS OUT .
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JYVASKYLA , Finland 1996-08-24
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Finland 's Juha Kankkunen produced an impressive performance in his Toyota on Saturday to open up a 37 seconds lead after six stages of the 1,000 Lakes Rally , sixth round of the world championship .
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On a weekend overshadowed by Friday 's fatal accident , four times world champion Kankunnen emerged from the first five of Saturday 's 10 stages with a commanding advantage over his country 's latest prospect , Marcus Gronholm , also in a Toyota .
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World championship leader Tommi Makinen in his Mitsubishi was third but current world champion Colin McRae ended a bad week by crashing out .
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After being fined $ 250,000 by the sports governing body on Tuesday , the British driver rolled his Subaru 6.5 km into stage six .
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He and co-driver Derek Ringer were unhurt but team boss David Richards was furious with them .
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" It 's not unfortunate , it 's incompetent , " he declared .
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Kankkunen has set an astonishing pace for a driver who has not rallied for three months .
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" If you do a lot of something , sometimes it 's good to have a break .
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It 's not bad for an old man ! "
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said the 37-year-old veteran .
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Ford had a poor morning with Spaniard Carlos Sainz losing 90 seconds through turbo trouble while Belgian Bruno Thiry dropped four minutes when a transmission shaft snapped .
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MOTOR RACING - BELGIAN GRAND PRIX GRID POSITIONS .
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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS , Belgium 1996-08-24
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Grid positions
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for Sunday 's Belgian Grand Prix motor race after final
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qualifying on Saturday :
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