The Business Times, 3 August 1998

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  • 13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 110/12/97 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://busmess-times.asia! .com.sg/ MONDAY, AUGUST 3,1998
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  • 48 1 I STOCK HABKET IUHfflS KM Cbufp STB i,Mi2B 4M BTSRL 44UI 1LM KLSEOOMP ***** -1S.7S NIKKEI 1W78J7--.+17.18 HANG SENG 7JMJ8 4tlJC SET INDEX. -2*72 _..-8.72 JAKARTA COMP—481.72 +tl« MANILA C0MP..„...1JI7J1 -7117 TAIPHWPI 7,882.81—-{71.72 SBOUL COMP..—mm CLSA CHINA B 606.36 -78.14 ADST ALLGRD 2,704.1 ~M.» DOW JONES
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  • 420 1  -  S'pore stockbroking review panel wants field opened np to firms outside industry By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Foreigners may be be allowed to own up to 70 per cent of a local stockbroking firm if the authorities adopt recommendations by a government-appointed committee
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  • 493 1  -  By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Malaysia's train services from Singapore continued to run smoothly on the second day of the opening of a new Singapore checkpoint at Woodlands, but Malaysian Immigration has still to decide how to endorse rail entry into
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  • 353 1 Reuters [SINGAPORE] It would seem rather odd for a South-east Asian central bank to be selling its own currency after more than a year of market turmoil and steep currency depreciation in the region. But that is what foreign exchange traders say the
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  • 572 1  -  New move to boost fund access for cash strapped nations will be market oriented From, Loll Hui Yin in Hongkong A NEW initiative to help cash-strapped Asian countries raise funds through sovereign bonds guaranteed by third-country governments is in the works. But
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 387 2  -  Merger won't create a bank bigger than all the others put together By Ang Wan May THE purchase of POSBank by DBS Bank may have created the largest bank in Singapore but it is still smaller than all the other banks put together
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    • 547 2 The decline is mostly because demand for new loans has fallen THE total volume of outstanding loans has shrunk only slightly since the start of the year, mostly because the demand for new loans has fallen, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
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    • 240 2 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] A senior Malaysian minister warned yesterday of "major consequences" if recent criticism in the Singapore media triggers a Malaysian backlash against the Republic, Bernama news agency reported. "I wouldn't want to see Malaysians hating Singapore but there'll be major consequences if that
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    • 291 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Construction By] Diana Oon NEW contracts awarded in the construction sector surged by 48 per cent year-on-year to $1.66 billion in May the first monthly growth this year. The growth came after four months of declines: new construction contracts fell by
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    • NEWS Roundup
      • 55 2 THE Land Transport Authority awarded a $17.6 million mechanical services contract to Shinryo Corporation on Saturday. The contract is for the supply, installation and commissioning of mechanical services for the Changi Airport Station, Expo Station and tunnels. The contract includes alteration work on Changi Airport
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      • 38 2 THE Friends of the National Museum group is conducting a series of lectures on the cultural heritage of Singapore next month. The Monday morning series will be held on Sept 14,21 and 28 from 9.30-llam.
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    • 157 2 •I THE MATTER OF THE COMPANES ACT. CAP. 50 AND 1 THE MATTER OF PWCE BEATER RENOVATION DESIGN (S) PTE LTD (In Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICS OF RESOLUTION At an ExtracmWy General Mteau of the members of PRICE BEATER RENOVATION DESIGN (S) PTE LTD duhl convened and held at Bloc* 2
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
    • 737 3  -  CRISIS WATCH An IMT-rapported programme conld boost International confidence efficiently to get capltal flowing back Into the conntry By Vikram Khanna AFTER the drastic downgrading of Malaysia's sovereign credit rating, the cancellation of a planned US$2 billion (553.4 billion) bond issue and a stockmarket
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    • 383 3  -  Firms say they prefer to wait and see especially on Indonesia From Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong TAIWANESE firms continue to eye investment opportunities in South-east Asia but the money would flow into these countries, particularly Indonesia, only when there
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    • 288 3 Obuchi vows tough decisions, quick action on economy AFP JAPAN'S government and ruling party leaders yesterday said they hoped to suspend fiscal austerity measures in a bid to revive the flagging domestic economy and the financial industry. Hiromu Nonaka, appointed chief cabinet secretary last
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    • 131 3 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Taichi Sakaiya, the new head of Japan's Economic Planning Agency, said the nation's economic growth for the year ending in March will be below expectations. The EPA's forecast of 1.9 per cent growth is "unachievable" and some of the agency's forecasts have been wrong,
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  • REGION
    • 513 5 JAKARTA Indonesian economy will start turning around from Sept next year, he says AFP INDONESIA President BJ Habibie has stepped up his campaign to distance himself from the Suharto regime, insisting the former president was no longer puUing the strings in
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    • 344 5 BANDAR SERIBEGAWAN Reuters, Bloomberg IN another move against his embattled brother, the Sultan of Brunei has stripped Prince Jefri Bolkiah of control over the collapsed conglomerate Amedeo. The Prime Minister's Office said yesterday that Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has appointed two international accountants
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    • 125 5 JAKARTA AFP INDONESIAN Foreign Minister Ali Alatas on Saturday denied that the United States is seeking locations in Indonesia to set up military bases or that Jakarta is prepared to sell Washington any. "First of an, there is no such demand from the Americans
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    • 523 5  -  Expansive policies needed to boost consumption From, Alan Boyd in Bangkok THAILAND is moving towards more expansive spending policies in an effort to stem falling consumption and keep the economy on course for a fourth-quarter recovery. The government will propose a fcudget
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    • 272 5 KUALA KLAWANG, Negeri Sernbllan Bernama IN the second such call within days, Umno Secretary-Gen-eral Sabbaruddin Chik yesterday urged party members to be always prepared to face the general election. "We have to be prepared always and must not be disunited as others including the
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    • 349 6 TAIPEI Move will boost stock market bat drag down local currency: analysts AFP TAIWAN'S central bank on Saturday announced it has cut the proportion of deposits that commercial banks are required to keep in reserve in a move to boost the sagging financial market.
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    • 317 6 SYDNEY Legal firms seek clients to take part in class action suits AFP AUSTRALIA'S Olympic city faces another week without safe drinking water while embarrassed officials work frantically to remove parasites that have contaminated Sydney's water supplies. More than three million residents have
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    • 320 6 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG lawmakers are calling on disgraced colleague Chim Pui-chung to step down, saying he risks damaging the credibility of the Legislative Council, local media reported yesterday. Chim, a flamboyant legislator who represents the financial services industry, was found guilty of conspiring
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    • 273 6 BEIJING Strong investment growth the key factor: survey Reuters CHINA'S economy will grow faster in the second half of 1998 than the off-target 7 per cent registered in the first half, spurred by strong investment growth, the China Daily Business Weekly said
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  • THE WORLD
    • 317 8 WASHINGTON US computer model predicts little impact on both in a doomsday scenario THE United States and Europe could largely absorb the impact of a "worst-case" Asian economic meltdown, according to a computer program designed by a group of US economists to
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    • 52 8 German neo-Nazis shouting nationalistic slogans during a march of about 600neo-Nazis through this eastern German town on Saturday. The march was organised by the ultra right-wing German National Democratic Party (NPD). The posters read: We are the real opposition! Work just for Germans!" and "NPD—the
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    • 263 8 LONDON Concerns growing about downtnrn in British economy Reuters THE Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee should not raise interest rates when it meets this week, according to a poll of top British economists by The Sunday Telegraph. The paper said 10
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    • 166 8 MOSCOW AFP, Reuters RUSSIA is likely to receive its September instalment of a U5522.6 billion (Ss39 billion) IMF-led economic bailout package, the Interfax news agency reported on Saturday. Stanley Fischer, the International Monetary Fund's deputy managing director, said Russia's chances of
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    • 197 8 LONDON Reuters BRITISH drinks groups Whitbread and Allied Domecq said yesterday they may merge their high street wine and beer shops in a deal that would create a powerful rival for the country's supermarkets. The companies confirmed they were in talks about a
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • 861 9  -  Studies say this trend will persist in most countries of the Asia-Pacific region By) Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Unbranded, assembled computer systems or what are called "white boxes" outsold all the major brands in most countries in the Asia-Pacific in 1997, according to independent
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    • 777 9  -  They also say NCB has cnt quantities quoted in the tenders By) Poo-Cheong Wai Ming [SINGAPORE] IT vendors competing in the latest period bulk tender exercise held by the National Computer Board (NCB) say they are feeling the pinch from increased
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    • 293 10  -  It will offer network integration services, remote access solutions and ISDN By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] CompuServe Network Services (CNS), now a subsidiary of World Com Inc, last week set up operations in Singapore and said Singapore would be one of four key hubs
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    • IT TAKES
      • 84 10 [SINGAPORE! CyberWay will soon receive from USA a 2 Megabits per second (Mbs) connection via satellite. This will increase CyberWay's bandwidth from the USA to 17 Mbs. CyberWay's bandwidth to the USA is 15 Mbs. This 2 Mbs satellite link is half the cost of an
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      • 76 10 [SINGAPORE] A Swiss logistics service provider chosen a logistics software developed by local firm IPACS. Atlantic Forwarding Ltd will fawpfcment the software, Logistics/2000, for its operations in seven countries, including China, Singapore and Malaysia. Logistics/2000 will help streamline Atlantic's air and seafreight operations as well
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      • 57 10 [SINGAPORE] Computer Associates (CA) recently launched VARsity Club for its partners in Singapore and Asean. The VARsity Club is a programme to help OA's partners, like distributors, resellers, OEMs and systems integrators, grow their business. VARsity Club provides CA partners with services, funding and resources
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      • 71 10 [SINGAPORE] Technology Infusion Programme, a series of courses on manufacturing and automation technologies, will offer a course on "Joining Technologies for Electronics Packaging" on Aug 19 and 26, Sept 2,9,16 and 23, and a course (Hi "Laser Micro-Machining" on Aug 18 and 25, Sept 1,8,15 and 22.
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      • 39 10 [SINGAPORE] ATM Year Asia 96, a conference and exhibition on ATM will be held on Oct 28 and 29 at the Singapore International Convention and Centre. For enquiries, call Adeline at *****70 or e-mail info^imark-com.com-sg.
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      • 61 10 [SINGAPORE] Oracled database server software is now offered on a trial basis with IBM Netfinity servers, which is IBM's line of servers using Intel chips and NT operating system. A trial licence allows IBM Netfinity customers to use Oradei free for 60 days. Oracle's high availability
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      • 73 10  -  -Go^fMby 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] 3Com chairman Eric Benhamou last week signed a letter of intent with three Chinese firms to form a joint venture focusing on network infrastructure systems integration and consultancy. The total investment from all parties in the venture will be
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    • 560 11  -  By Chee Keong Law The author is product marketing manager, Enterprise Systems, Asia South, Sun Microsystems SOME companies are under the erroneous impression that clustering is the answer to their computer downtime problems. This impression is partly perpetuated by some vendors touting "guaranteed availability at 99.95
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    • 426 11 Program turns PC into a truth verifier' by analysing voices LAT-WP WONDER Woman wrapped her golden lasso around people to squeeze the truth from them. Police wire suspects to polygraph machines. Now computer users can ferret out the truth with Truster. Or maybe not. Truster
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    • 622 13  -  By J&nn&ry, some govt bodies will start using PETs to provide services By' Toh Han Shih BY the end of next year, Singaporeans will be able to transact with nearly all government departments electronically through multimedia terminals called PETs (Public Electronic
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    • 220 13  -  It will manage the group's IT project from central location By\ Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Parkway Group Healthcare (PGH), Singapore's largest private healthcare provider, will use Tivoli Management Software to manage its heterogeneous and distributed IT environment in its Singapore opera- tions from a central location.
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    • 307 13 NYT [DELRAY BEACH, Florida] The Travel Company of Delray Beach is installing computer software that quickly searches all airfares available to find the lowest rate, the company announced at its first annual meeting recently. The system, called Flight Attendant, "does what a
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    • 109 13 Bloomberg [DENVER] US West Inc, the sixth largest US phone company, is offering a new service that lets computer users automatically safeguard information stored in their computers over the Internet. The service, called EBackup and offered through a venture with closely held Connected Corp,
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    • 324 14 Business Wire. [LA JOLLA, California] The Data Quick Product Development Group has released Share Data for Windows, a sophisticated business tool that allows lenders, title companies, builders, and realtors in the US to evaluate the explosive market and make the best decisions possible.
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    • 341 14  -  NUS institute and Siemens developing a technology that has big economic impact By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] YOU whip out your handphone, and pull out from it what looks and feels like a big plastic sheet. Only, the sheet is a computer
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 102 14 lOMEGA Corp has announced a new external Zip drive for use with the USB interface, as well as Buz multimedia producer, for Apple Power Mac G3. The Buz retails at $529 and "is the Industry's first combination video capture/compression/output card, Ultra SCSI and software
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      • 78 14 TOSHIBA Singapore is ready with the Satellite 2SOOCDS, a new notebook targeted at small businesses and individuals. The U551,399 (552,406) notebook "continues Toshiba's drive to make mobile computing an option for all computer buyers", it said. The 3kg system runs on 253 MHz MMX-enabled Pentium
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      • 98 14 COMPAQ Computer Corp has announced two new Armada series notebooks running on Intel's mobile Pentium 0. The Armada 1700 comes with 32 MB RAM, 4 GB hard disk and 24-speed CD-ROM in two models: the 266 MHz model with 1.3-inch TFT display costs $5,789 and the
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      • 71 14 QUARK Media House BV Singapore branch has introduced QuarkXPress 4.0 International English—the single language version of QuarkXPress Passport, for Mac users. It said multi user licences of QuarkXPress will now be available through Quark's distribution channel as standard 5 or 10 user licences. At the recent
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      • 73 14 LEXMARK International is out with Optra K1220, a new monochrome laser printer that is network-enabled and prints at 12 pages per minute. The $1,399 system incorporates a 33 MHz RISC processor, PCL 6 and PostScript Level 2 emulation, and offers fost printing and a duty
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      • 73 14  -  -flriMpflsi by Raju Chellam US-BASED Check Point Software Technologies Ltd is ready with the VPN-1 family of products that "empowers organisations ofall sizes to conduct secure, reliable and manageable business communications ova- IP networks". The suite comprises five solutions that can be mixed and matched
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 750 16  -  The SSO impressed p yvamod Friday with its confidence, poise and attention to the minutest details P Y VAN PRIDAY night's concert with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and its principal guest conductor Okko Kamu was an evening which belonged to the orchestra. Beginning with Mozart's Overture
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 521 17  -  Foreign investment beard wants firm to sell Perth site bought in '96c sources By- Ang Wan May AUSTRALIAN authorities have barred Hai Sun Hup from acquiring any properties Down Under, including its As2o million (Ss2l million) Brisbane hotel, until it sells a
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    • 171 17 Bernama IKUALA LUMPUR] Taiping Consolidated Bhd (TCB) has obtained court protection under Section 176 of the Malaysian Companies Act while it undergoes a restructuring exercise involving the disposal of three of the group's major assets: Star Hill Shopping £entre, JW Marriott Hotel Kuala Lumpur and
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    • 823 17  -  Call to open some sites for bidding merits consideration HAMO SEMO DVSIOHT By Quak Hiang Whai WITH operations at the new airport back on track, Hongkongers focused last week on what matters most to them property and property financing. The week started on a
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    • REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 516 18 It calls it a bid to detract from VWs defeat in the battle for Rolls-Royce Reuters [FRANKFURT] BMW AG dismissed a suggestion by Volkswagen AG (VW) chairman Ferdinand Piech this weekend that the two carmakers might merge, calling it a bid to detract from
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      • 359 18 Results will reflect Cathay Pacific, property woes Reuters SWIRE PACIFIC Ltd will announce a 36-42 per cent fall in interim net profit on Thursday due to losses in its Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd unit and a slump in the
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      • 312 18 Reuters [SYDNEY] A dissident small shareholder in embattled Australian resources giant, The Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd, yesterday said he would try to displace the BHP board with a team led by a.US paper and packaging executive. Businessman Derek Turner said on Channel Nine
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      • 294 18 Reuters [BOMBAY] Hundreds of Indian corp>orates have missed a new deadline to submit quarterly results, newspapers said, but capital market participants hailed the reporting requirement as a major step towards improved transparency. Earlier this year, capital market regulator Securities and
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      • 367 18 One forecast is for Asian charges excluding HE to soar 400% SCMP [LONDON] When HSBC Hold ings announces its first-half results today, eyes will be on just how much money the group has decided to put aside to cover its mushrooming bad
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 278 19  -  Enhanced Living Assurance 15 policyholders need to pay premiums for only 15 years By\ Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] The Insurance Corporation of Singapore (ICS) has launched the Enhanced Living Assurance 15 (ELA 15), which has the shortest premium payment term in the
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      • 351 19 WOCATNE N«» WOOtiPMCES COUPON MEREST OF CAYS Of (DCCLLONG GROSS MATUWTY YEAR RAISED RATE AMOUNT PAYMOrt ACCRUED ACCRUE) ««mON i* "A) m DATES WISEST MEREST) fl&D(%PA> 1 2 197 8 61/4 123.72 1/2 1/8 188 100.00 6.06 12.98 NS*****V"~y r Ti/8 *****
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      • 313 19 Bat chairman says bank has yet to find suitable opportunity Bloomberg [PARIS] Credit Commercial de France SA, France's fourth-biggest publicly traded retail bank, is open to alliances as competition and mergers intensify in the financial industry, said bank chairman Charles de
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      • 412 19 SCMP [HONGKONG] Hongkong's senior bank managers are preparing for a winter of mergers and acquisitions, with many now fearing the long-predicted consolidation of the sector will begin in the next 12 months. In an SBC Warburg Dillon Read report "Consolidation
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 543 20  -  WWBI Weeklyßoundup Hiroko Komiya MMS International This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [SINGAPORE] The UK's monetary policy meeting and the US' July employment report will mark the highlight of the week, while general pre-event caution
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      • 827 20 COMMODii- x Weeklyßoundup AFP (LONDON] Grains continued to lose ground as this year's wheat harvest pressed on in the US and France and as beneficial rains fell on the American "Corn Belt". Robusta coffee prices, meanwhile, built up a head of
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 251 22 LONDON AFP LONDON stocks saw a moderate slide during the week in the wake of Wall Street, with cautious traders chiefly eyeing company results amid pessimism over the British economy. The FT-SE 100 Index closed at 5,837 points, down from 5,892.3
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      • 687 22 n Sydney -409 THE Australian bourse lost 1.5 per cent over the week as it faced another bout of volatility amid financial markets' scrutiny of the economic credentials of Japan's new regime, brokers said. Labour force data due out in the coming days will be a key
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      • 433 22 TOKYO Traders remain cautions as foreign buying shows signs Of running QOt Reuters TOKYO stocks may eke out a slight rise this week as market participants look to the newly installed administration of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi to move quickly on Japan's wilting
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      • 1648 22 Q Paris -28J FRENCH stocks could fall this week on concern about prospects for profit growth. Carmakers Renault SA and PSA Peugeot Citroen SA could advance. The benchmark CAC 40 Index fell 28.1 points, or 0.67 per cent, to close the week at 4,177.31. The fall was
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      • 461 22 NEWYORK Q2 earnings growth likely to be worse than expected Bloomberg AMERICAN stocks may have trouble reaching records in the coming days as disappointing corporate profits batter investor confidence. "The quality of earnings has deteriorated," said Chris Davis of Davis Selected Advisers, which
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      • 377 22 HONGKONG Reuters HSBC Holdings pic is set to determine the direction of the Hongkong stock market this week with an interim report that will be scrutinised amid a batch of blue-chip earnings. Banking giant HSBC is due to release its results for the first
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 7468 23 CUMHMf prsdwts W98 Last VoI Waak Net Cap MHIt Law Ciwplay -000 High Law P/l $«dl 3W WO Ajlnomoto WO 32 200 WO 10.5 77.0 148 40.3 Angkui 43 uncft 78 43 41 10 63.4 290 123 Apollo Food Hlg 136 9 I* 136 4.8 33.2 388 182 6or}aya Land
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      • 385 23 AFP Composite Index -15.75 MALAYSIA'S stock market is expected to tread cautiously but with a downward bias as it anxiously awaits key bank results in the coming days after shrinking 3.8 per cent in the week to Friday. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's Weighted
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    • WARRANTS & OPTIONS
      • 166 24  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy MALAYSIA'S Hong Leong Credit's warrants have not been featured In this column before, so perhaps now is as good a time as any to do so. Under normal circumstances, we'd say that its figures
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      • 3140 24 1998 Last Vol «Mt Laat Ovot. Av« HM. Lw Itw Compony tot »or- COOP) HHP Loot 8«yor Sollor Prtco 23J 9 m 3000 m AM06 C5.5H*****6 ».S -I 6 93 93 9 S 20.S 4.5 3160 A Acar ******1 USS 4.5 -i 58 5 4.5 4 5 95 8 3164
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    • 4701 25 Week ended Jul 31 Or Or M Wt ,,,.,'***1 Lftftt Val *Mt LaatOua*. OI» Oh YM mt Cap Av« High L— am, Campany UH roop) High U» 0»yr 8a8ar H Of P/t $mS Prto mmimuu 11 r- -V I 43 12.5 1020 ACE 0yr\amlci20c....
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    • 1053 25 Ht|h ,99 *L»» StNo 'imiinr s2? roaoi L Dt» 0* ¥W Wat Cap -T-innt_ Ml room Mfh Caw luyw Mtar K r» M M S4 SO •2000 AB«>H M q.S( 79 J, ZT. 2 6 f« 2049 ASAutoWc 66 unch S64 68 5 62 65 66.5 15.0N 70 23
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • Article, Illustration
        380 26 Source: Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Research Source: JM Sassoon Stocks Velum MkKontlOc 71,160,000 ST Capital 25c 35.528.000 Panpac Media 5 32,611,000 *M Resources 25,395,000 TAC BtW 200 17,533,000 •Pub Bk Foreign 15,719,000 Frt Links 20c 15,437,000 06S Foreign 15,239,000 UXinWc 15,021,000 0C8C Foreign 13,973,000 StodW DBS Foreign 149,625,415 OCBC Foreign 85,111,653
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        66 26  -  by Shiv Taneja METROPLEX Bhd closed two-and-a-half cents higher last Friday at 19.5 cents on a volume of 2.94 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 2.1 million shares. Although the daily and weekly RSI and Stochastics are above the 25 level, there is more upside
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      • 701 26  -  THE WBHK AHHAD Fundamentally, local corporate earnings and Malaysia's woes will influence the market By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Technical analysis as a serious form of market research has traditionally been frowned upon by those more inclined towards studying' the fundamentals, or those who
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    • 105 22 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Charles Guerrier of Blk 96 Lor 3 Toa Payoh #13-28 Singapore *****6, have applied for a Public House Ist Class (Extended) Licence in respect of M/s Nextpage Pub located at 17, Mohamed Sultan Rd Singapore *****6, and that this application will be considered by
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    • 104 25 QIQ 7 K HE EBY GIVEN that, INg Say Hai. of Blk i pmeS 5 #08-167 Singapore *****9, have applied for a Retail Beer Shop Licence in respect of M/s ated at B,k 763 Pasir Ris St 71 #01-240 311(1 at th,s a PP ,icat 'on will be considquors L,cen
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    • 518 26 BUSINESS Xoiices NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Susan Lim Bee Tin of Blk 479 #04-237 Tampines St. 44 Singapore *****9, have applied for a Public House, First Class Licence in respect of M/s Parco Business Development Pte Ltd (Sketches) located at 11 Unity Street #01-14/15 Robertson Walk Singapore *****5,
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    • 166 26 r IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT,CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF WINQ TECK HOLDING PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Winding-up) NOTICE OF FINAL MEET!MO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 the final meeting of the members of the
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 280 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young ANOTHER week of sluggish activity in the sale and purchase market. This comes as no surprise on the back of the continued slide in freight rates coupled with the advent of the holiday season in Europe. The gap between sellers and buyers ideas
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    • 219 27 MX g ltol CWTDtetrlbuMcn -O.333 *0,005 4 rStaSU l T32 tm H ££&=fis "js "s Cr i 5sri ,up ——-0.43 *0.04 129 Hitachi Zosan 0.51 -0.02 m 'MCH0Mtog.J35riM jy*y**y— ♦o.oi 27 iMI2S vwd -I? w ;tp»»Cyp 2.44 unth 5l8 5222IKL 0 20 634 HeewMerfne 1.00 unch 1 °,H
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    • 423 27  -  In its second Indian venture, PSA will transform port into container terminal By\ Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] PSA Corp has sealed a deal to develop the Indian port of Pipavav in the state of Gujarat, its second Indian port venture to date. Under the
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    • 354 27 [SINGAPORE] Taiwan's Evergreen Group has acquired Lloyd Triestino di Navigazione, the Italian shipping company which is part of state-owned shipping group Finmare. A formal purchase agreement between Evergreen and Finmare was signed on Friday in Rome. Evergreen's acquisition of Lloyd Triestino has been approved by
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    • 697 27  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes EVERYONE in the shipping and shiprepair industries knows that enclosed spaces in ships can be deadly. Everyone in any position of responsibility should know the procedures to be taken before entering such spaces. Probably virtually all senior
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    • 495 27  -  By. Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] The number of outgoing empty containers almost doubled at the Port of Rotterdam in the first six months of the year as the trade imbalance heightens. The world's largest port said 14.3 per cent of the outgoing containers were
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    • 147 27 AFP [BEIJING] China's largest river shipping firm stands to lose millions of dollars in the face of a shipping ban along a quarter of the flood-swollen Yangtze River, official media said. "We expect heavy losses," a spokesman for the China Changjiang National
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    • 941 28  -  SHIP SAFETY While not of a scale of the Titanic disaster, the Ecstasy fire will probably contribute to the evolution of marine safety By Betsy Wade NYT [NEW YORK] UNLIKE the Titanic or the Andrea Doria, the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy lost not a
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    • 352 28 PACE Evergreen 6 ANL 3 Express T L M Accord 8 M Ahrenkiel 14 FoongSun 8 Appenship 5 Frota 15 AsiaOCl 14 Frt links 16 Astro 3 6 Link 4 Austral 9 Gemartrans 8 Avant 16 Genshpg 9 B'tang Mas 8 Glory Nav 13 BSA 7 HaiSunHup
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    • 15461 36 thebusinesstimes thebusinesstimes EXPORT ETA ETA Advartlaar VnmI Voyaga TaMphona I ETA CTA Advaftlsaf Vassal Voyaga TMphow I Nama Wuwbf Numtoaf I 05/04 31/06 NVK IWASHIRO IMS 45-*****2] I 05/04 31/04 Norsul IWASHIRO OKS 65-*****77 Tl» ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 w/ «/<" Eyargraan SANTA BARBARA 1 0242-007W tS-MIC Ivory Coast
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 559 43 fmrnt Voy No Bfth Arrtvrt p*p«ftir St Surxti 4 *****8 J01 KOftjsW 02.08/200 Cheung Son 845S J08 alongside 02.08/180C Crane Hop* 81 JB alongside 02.08/020 04 Pioneer 9802 J23 alongside 04.08/230 Drake 01 JK> alongside 06.08/060 Mk 3003 > ***** J13 alongside 06.08/1200 N 0 Sunday 8 J05
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      • 1674 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AMP LCL CARGO Bookln|/B«Unc« Rstls Ship Voy Mo Etb/Btr Pftod From To From IkiM MS 0 WOO U 02/BM 02/859 02/HM Acx MMm OUA 04/07M 8 02/BM 02/859 n/MO Q2/'50C 32/1659 a 02/1700 03*699 03.WK "J*" 03/09M 522? 03 2 1M ovmoo 4
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      • 184 43 Aaf 3. Ireland Republic Of: August Holiday. Any 10. Singapore: National Day Holiday. South Africa: National Women's Holiday. Anf 12. Thailand: HM The Queen's Birthday. Anf 10. Austria: Assumption Day. Belgium: Assumption Day. France: Assumption Day. Greece: Assumption Day. Italy: Assumption Day. Luxembourg: Assumption Day. Portugal: Assumption Of
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      • 937 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine OU Ltd, shows price ranges In US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are baaed on average-alxad stem. Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the Individual
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      • 398 43 CwtM MO Mm 993.1 0.9 *7 0.10 72 0.07 £522 Otmtti Wt» Hrii— Art *1—M— Miao* No*owE25 4 0 10 0 0 0 TST MO 966.8 OJ 16.0 0.08 24 0.03 bn. 300 Mil 992.8 0.9 19.0 0.H HI 028 »*/m u/u mi mm* No *>ow63S
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    • AIR & LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 546 44 United, American present their views before House aviation panel Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The two largest US airlines squared off before a House aviation panel over whether European Union regulators have authority to impose conditions on their alliances with European airline partners. The European Union
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      • 607 44 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] UAL Corp's United Air fines will buy 22 Airbus Industrie planes worth up to US$l.O5 billion (SSI.7 billion), completing a plan to build up the airline's fleet and giving the European aircraft-maker another victory over Boeing Co. Chicago-based United, the largest US carrier,
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      • 226 44 Indon economic downtnrn has led to fall in passenger loads AFP [JAKARTA] British Airways is cutting down its flights linking Jakarta and London from six times a week to twice a week due to decreasing passenger loads amid the economic downturn, the
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      • 263 44 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea has decided to push ahead with a shelved plan to build its second high-speed train project linking Seoul with the west of the country, officials here said yesterday. "We have asked for five billion won (556.9 million) for next
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      • 102 44 K LUMPURM Malaysian family asking a salesman some questions during a car carnival organised bv Edaran Otomibil Nasional Bhd, the distributor of Proton cars, yesterday. The Malaysian government has relaxed financing for CarS lnCr^o d the ceilin B? n c ar t0 85 per ant
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      • 330 44 Reuters [ZURICH] Swissair, the flagship airline of SAirGroup AG, is negotiating with Australian carrier Quantas about a partnership of some kind, a company spokesman said. If an agreement is reached, it could complete a network of code-sharing pacts on specific Asian-Pacif-ic routes that
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      • 186 44 AFP [NEW DELHI] At least eight people died when an Indian Airlines plane crashed just after take-off in the southern city of Cochin, the United News of India (UNI) reported. Six of the victims were on board the Dornier plane while two naval personnel
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    • 16 27 EU authority over airline alliances United, American airlines present their views before House aviation panel. BackPage
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