The Business Times, 14 September 1998

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  • 21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 110/12/97 85C S I N G A P O R E Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1998
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  • 71 1 FOBEX BATES USS SI US$ 1.714 £(USVS$peri) 1.688 1»11 DM 1.684 1.084 YEN 131.1 1.316* RM JJM 0.454 HKS 7.740 1223 BAHT 40.71 0.042 BUPIAH 11,775. 0.016* 'SStolMuits Fimims SINGAPORE* 7.86 KUALA LUMPUR 11.50 JAKARTA 28.00 BANGKOK 14.76 MANILA 22.90 HONGKONG... 112ft TAIPEI SYDNEY &46 TOKYO 2J0 SEOUL 14.96
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  • 1108 1  -  Downturn poses big worry for Asean as it reflects change in perception of region's prospects From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo ASIA is set to bear the brunt of a sharp cutback in Japanese investments in overseas manufacturing and business, which official circles in
    Source: Ministry of Finance  -  1,108 words
  • 750 1  -  Biging trend piles more pressure on suppliers Ity Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Disk drive makers are increasingly asking their suppliers here to bear logistics and warehousing costs, adding to the pressure on already-squeezed suppliers. The latest moves by drive makers are
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  • 1188 1  -  White House polls ont the stops to forestall moves to impeach president Prom Leon Hadar in Washington WITH President Bill Clinton's political career hanging in the balance, the White House has swung into action and launched a public and media campaign aimed at containing
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    • 176 1 DHBPB Accounting firms cot tekeiaipiy Hit on both the cost and revenue fronts, the Big Six accounting firms are slashing their intake of fresh graduates this year, and cutting starting pay by between 7 and 14 per cent, 2 NectaMe MMBts Guest soloist Alyssa Park gave a persuasive interpretation of
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    • 58 1 A taste of the economy [TOKYO] Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi eating 'dangoa rice dumpling, at a shop in a Tokyo shopping arcade. Mr Obuchi was there visiting small businesses on Saturday to see for himself the state of the economy. Japan faces its moment of truth, Pg 4 German
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 731 2  -  Most firms pitch starting salary at $1,700, down from $1,900 last year Carol Eng HIT on both the cost and revenue fronts, the Big Six accounting firms are slashing their intake of fresh graduates this year, and cutting starting pay
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    • 540 2  -  Region accounts for a third of cleanroom specialist's sales By Jennifer Lien GERMAN cleanroom specialist Meissner+Wurst (M+W), which has built many of Singapore's wafer fabrication cleanrooms, wants to move its overall Asian headquarters to Singapore. The company's activities in Thailand, the
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    • 327 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Electronics By, Jenniher Lien IN what's an increasingly rare positive showing among indicators for the domestic economy these days, new orders for electronic components in the US rocketed a whopping 70 per cent in July, latest available data from the US
      Source: US Commerce Dept  -  327 words
    • 151 2 Reuters SINGAPORE prison authorities yesterday denied that Nick Leeson, the rogue trader who brought down Britain's oldest bank Baring's, could be freed within days, TCS reported. It quoted a prison spokesman as saying that a report in the British newspaper Sunday Business
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  • CHANGE IN MALAYSIA
    • 656 3 Widening crisis could shift attitudes in favour of capital controls: analysts Reuters [HONGKONG] Malaysia's retreat from free markets could signal the start of a global backlash against the brand of tough medicine to cure economic ills offered by the IMF, analysts say.
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    • 315 3 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia has set a range for trading the ringgit after fixing the currency at 3.8 to the US dollar last week in a bid to curb an expanding black market. Banks and money changers will have a 2 per cent
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    • 382 3 Dr Mahathir says no govt action if meetings peaceful Bernama Reuters AFP [ALOR STAR] About 10,000 people attended a discussion late Saturday night in Kedah held by sacked Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Bernama news agency reported. During the discussion, held at Pondok
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    • 127 3 Bernama [JELI, Kelantan] Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has now made a 360degree turn and is attacking the very policies which he championed and implemented when he was in the government, Second Finance Minister Mustapa Mohamad said yesterday. "Merely because of
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
    • 556 4  -  New roles and probes aim to plug loopholes that allow transfer of funds out of country From From Peter Seidlitz and David Murphy in Beijing THE mainland authorities, concerned over the outflow of capital, have issued new regulations to stem the conversion
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    • 362 4 This will help bring investors back, says Democratic Party leader Martin Lee Reuters [HONGKONG] The chairman of Hongkong's Democratic Party, Martin Lee, yesterday called on the government to admit it was wrong to intervene in the local stock and futures markets,
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    • 353 4  -  But analysts doubt move will give a big fillip to market Prom Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong THE government has scrapped a couple of antispeculation property measures but analysts doubt they would provide a major fillip to the sagging market. Michael Choi, managing director
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    • 100 4 [BEIJING] A potential property buyer looking at model buildings at a real estate exhibition at a Beijing department store yesterday. Beijing s real estate market has suffered from a slowdown since the beginning ofJuly mainly because of the end of housing purchases by work units, which bought
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    • 429 4 They aim to work out common approach to dealing with turmoil AFP [BEIJING] East Asian economic giants Japan and China are due to sit down here today for unprecedented talks on the Asian economic crisis and the fate of
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    • 645 4  -  CRISIS WATCH It may be the epicentre of a global meltdown By Vikram Khanna FOR most of the *****, there seems to have been a certain complacency about Japan's economy and not only among the Japanese. There has been a feeling that while yes,
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    • 607 4 High rates over long term harmful to economy, he says Reuters AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian monetary policy, which has pushed interest rates up to around 70 per cent, could start to ease gently within a month or two if conditions are right, a
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    • 677 4 NOTICE OF MEETING OF BONDHOLDERS GOLDTRON LIMITED Trust Deed dated 7 April 1995 ("Trust Deed") Between the Company and HSBC Trustee (Singapore) Limited ("the Trustee") constituting 5548,420,000 6.75 per cent Convertible Bonds Due 2000 ("the Bonds") NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a meeting of Bondholders under the provisions of the
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 592 5 JAKARTA Economy, protests may bring instability of major proportions: analysts Reuters LAST week's outburst of student protests shows how fragile Indonesia remains after rioting and economic collapse in May ended the 32-year rule of autocratic former president Suharto. The combination of embryonic democracy sometimes
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    • 203 5 ■JAKARTA Reuters AT least 43,000 Indonesians in greater Jakarta are living without power after state-run electricity company PLN cut supplies because of bills unpaid during the country's economic crisis, Merdeka newspaper reported yesterday. Merdeka said some residents were burning garbage at night to
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    • 354 5 JAKARTA But no information available on the substance of meeting AFP Reuters SULTAN Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei held private talks here on Saturday with Indonesian President B J Habibie, the state news agency Antara said yesterday. Antara said the two heads of state held
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    • 138 5 ■JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA'S meteorology office said the capital, Jakarta, wUI be hit by major floods from October to December due to the La Nina weather phenomenon, the private SCTV television network reported yesterday. "The meteorology office has said Jakarta will be
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 365 6 BEIJING Domestic producers of key goods and commodities benefit from Bering's move AFP PRICES of key goods and commodities on the Chinese market have soared since the central government declared war on smuggling in July, the China Daily Business Weekly reported yesterday.
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    • 271 6 BEIJING But rising trade surplus eases fear of yuan devaluation Bloomberg CHINA'S exports and imports fell in August compared to the same month a year ago as the spreading financial crisis began to erode trade flows, the China Daily reported, citing customs
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    • 339 6 BEIJING AFP CHINA'S beleaguered building materials sector is expecting a boom through rebuilding after this summer's catastrophic floods, the official China Daily Business Weekly reported yesterday. Hampered recently by a sluggish market and slowing exports, the sector is also pinning hopes for a
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    • 217 6 HANOI Bernama-VNA COMMON points in China and Vietnam serve as the basis for friendship and cooperation between the two countries, chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National People's Congress (NPC), Li Peng, said. He was speaking at a reception in Beijing
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    • 75 6 [BEIJING] A female student from the Central Nationalities Institute in Beijing finding it difficult to take aim during shooting practice on Saturday. All first year university students throughout China have to receive a week of military training under the supervision of instructors from the People's Liberation
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    • 239 6 BEIJING Bloomberg CHINA'S deflation deepened further in August, with retail prices 3.3 per cent lower than for the same month a year ago, the People's Daily newspaper reported. August was the 11th month in a row that the retail price index reported
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  • ASIA
    • 336 7 ISLAMABAD Reuters PAKISTAN yesterday said there was no chance of default on its US$3O billion (5551.7 billion) debt because Muslim states had come to its rescue. "The prophets of doom and gloom ought to wake up now and recognise the upbeat note
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    • 422 7 SYDNEY Constitutional future back on agenda, bat Howard silent on issue in TV debate AFP Reuters OPPOSITION leader Kim Beazley placed Australia's constitutional future back on the political agenda here yesterday, saying he wanted an Australian head of state to open the
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    • 350 7 USYDNEY Move by National Party rivals in her constituency could unseat her in polls AFP RIGHT-WING party leader Pauline Hanson conceded yesterday she faces an uphill battle to keep her seat in the Australian Parliament after her National Party opponents in the constituency decided
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    • 458 7 NEW DELHI AFP THE Indian government promised export growth of 20 per cent when it came to power in March but the Asian financial crisis and bureaucratic red tape have strangled the pledge in its infancy. Exports in the first
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    • 394 7 NEWDELHI Thousands of starving villagers now lace diseases such as hepatitis AFP THE worst floods for 50 years in eastern India have left a trail of death and despair, robbing hundreds of thousands of people of their homes, livelihoods and, in many cases, their
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    • 177 7 TOKYO Bridge News JAPAN'S Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) plans to submit bills to the Diet next year aimed at nurturing new businesses and revitalising the country's regional economies, ministry officials said on Saturday. The bills will be based on two
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    • 191 7 KUANTAN Reuters PACIFIC Rim trade officials said yesterday they had achieved a breakthrough towards an agreement on lowering tariffs and opening up trade in nine industry sectors. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum said the talks, stalled largely due to objections from Japan
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  • THE WORLD
    • 441 8 THE CLDrrOW-LEWDISKY AFFAIR Speculation of a Fed rate cat this month and Wall St upheaval add to dollar's woes Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The US dollar is seen falling this week amid concern that economic troubles in Latin America will hurt the US
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    • 457 8 WASHINGTON LAT-WP AMERICANS analysed their president's sex life and debated his future on Saturday but early public opinion polls showed that they have not changed their minds about Bill Clinton since the titillating report about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky was released
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    • 213 8 LONDON Reuters SENIOR financial and foreign ministry officials from the Group of Seven (G-7) leading industrial countries gather in London today for an emergency meeting on the Russian financial crisis amid growing calls that "something must be done". Against the background of a
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • 670 10  -  Server unit shipments rose 12% but revenue dropped 20% in first half of year, says IDC study By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE) The Asia-Pa-cific market for computer servers shrank by over US$4OO million (Ss7l2 million) during the first half of this year as
      Source: IDC Asia-Pacific  -  670 words
    • 174 10 Bloomberg [FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts] Worldwide shipments of personal computers are expected to rise 11 per cent in 1998, down from earlier forecasts, even as shipments increase in the third and fourth quarters, market research said. IDC's earlier forecast for PC shipments this year was
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    • 572 10  -  As part of this aim, Singapore is hosting the Chinese Web Top By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Singapore has launched a national initiative to develop into an Internet hub for the Chinese language, plugging into a potential market of over one
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    • 462 11  -  COMDEX/ASIA '98 More than 140 Y2K consultants and vendors registered onNCß's Y2K system By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] The Millennium Bug will have its own pavilion at Comdex/Asia '98 that begins here next week, reflecting the surge in interest in the year
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    • 172 11 HERE'S a random sampling of some of the Y2K solutions from Singapore-based vendors: ♦WRQ Software Pte Ltd: Tools under its WRQ Express 2000 Suite to address Y2K issues on the desktop. For details, fax *****33. ♦ERA Technology Asia Pte Ltd: For solving the Y2K problem
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    • 545 11  -  By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] An e-com-merce pavilion will feature for the first time at the Comdex/Asia computer trade show opening next week in Singapore. This is in tandem with the expected announcement of the Singapore Electronic Commerce Masterplan by Deputy Prime Minister
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    • 831 12  -  Experience in robust voice networks will be a distinct advantage, Lucent's Asia-Pacific chief Mike Butcher tells kemmbth jambs KENNETH JAMES VOICE networks helped Lucent Technologies Inc grow into a US$26 billion (5546.3 billion) telecom equipment giant in just three years. But the future is
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    • IT TAKES
      • 77 13 {SINGAPORE] National Computer Systems has secured two contracts worth about $3.2 million, one each from the Ministry of National Development and the Supreme Court. NCS will provide IT services to these two organisations. MND has contracted to use NCS' services for three years and about 1,200 users
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      • 73 13 [SINGAPORE] Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have announced a five-year agreement to cooperate on research and development (R&D) on deep submicron devices and high frequency RF integrated circuits for telecommunications applications. CSM will provide NTU with wafers to characterise and model
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      • 85 13 [SINGAPORE] 3Com Corporation has helped to create a high-speed network that connects people, businesses and government in the Malaysian state of Sabah, called Sabah.Net. As part of Sabah.Net, Education.Net is being implemented, which will connect over 1,300 schools in the state, said Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Tham
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      • 35 13 [SINGAPORE] A seminar, Workflow Computing, will be presented by Singapore Polytechnic on Friday at the Vanda Room of Singapore Polytechnic. For registration and enquiries, call Ms Zaleha at *****41 or e-mail zaleha@sp.edu.sg.
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      • 85 13 [SINGAPORE] Cisco Systems has won a US$4 million (Ss7 million) contract from the Ministry of Education (MOE) to install the network infrastructure for schools and junior colleges in Singapore. The contract is part of a tender awarded under the second phase of the nation's
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      • 31 13 [SINGAPORE] Ascend Communications has appointed two executives for the Asia-Pacific region. They are Joseph Roissier as Asia-Pacific marketing director, and Mona Lee as Asia-Pacific channel business manager.
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      • 92 13  -  Compiled by 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Local Internet service provider Pacific Internet is offering a "guaranteed" quality of service to corporate customers of its Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) dial-up access and leased line services, by making a bold offer. Corporate customers will get 24-hour connectivity,
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    • 230 13  -  By. Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Swiss contract manufacturer Escatec Group last week signed up Dutch software company Baan Business Systems and US PC giant Compaq Computer as its enterprise solution partners. Under the agreement, Escatec will invest RM2.5 million in Baan's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
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    • 523 13  -  It has captured 5 per cent of the market in Singapore in six months By] Poo-Cheong Wai Ming [SINGAPORE] FRENCH company Genesys is making a splash in Singapore with its teleconferencing services, and already the new entrant hopes to challenge Singapore Telecom's (Sing Tel)
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    • 393 13  -  By] Kenneth Goh [SINGAPORE] Following the axiom that the customer is king, Onyx Software built a thriving business by focusing on enterprise customer management solutions for Microsoft Back Office. The latest release of its software solution, Customer Center, amply shows Onyx's commitment to the
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    • 289 14  -  Regional market opportunity 'worth about US$2 billion' Ry\ Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] HewlettPackard Co and 3Com Corp last week announced a tie-up to offer network printing solutions specially targeted at small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The alliance will offer printer connectivity and management
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    • 277 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Sun Microsystems Inc will make all its computers and software compatible with Microsoft Corp's Windows NT software by year-end to boost market share, said Chief Operating Officer Edward Zander. Sun, the leading maker of advanced workstations as well as the
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 88 14 PALMTOP maker Psion is ready to ship the Series 3mx by the end of this month. The system comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, database, agenda, calculator, world map and appointments diary. It can store 500 pages of A 4 text, has two expansion slots,
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      • 102 14 APPLE Computer South Asia has announced three models under its Powerßook notebook series, with 14-inch active-matrix display, 4 MB video RAM, 20-speed CD-ROM, and built-in lOßase-T Ethernet networking. Apple said with its new aggressive pricing, the systems are "priced below most competitive PC notebooks with 14-inch
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      • 84 14  -  -Compiled by J Raju Chellam AMERICAN Power Coversion (APC) has announced two new UPS (uninterrupted power supply) systems for desktop computers. Compatible with Apple, PC or Unix systems, the UPS systems allow users to replace the battery and provide visual and voice alerts on power problems
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    • 638 14 1 V MESSAGING/GROUPWARE WINNER LOTUS NOTES 4.5 Firmly established as the leading messaging and groupware application, Lotus Notes, a four-time winner, continues to set the standard for collaborative computing. It combines messaging, groupware, and the Internet. The included Document Libraries for Lotus Smart Suite and Microsoft Office help users store,
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 420 16 PERSONALITY Thousands torn up for director's memorial ceremony AFP [TOKYO] Thousands of fans queued to pay their last respects to director Akira Kurosawa at a memorial ceremony yesterday. Mourners of all ages lined up for several hundred metres to attend the ceremony at the Kurosawa
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    • 495 16 Alyssa Park gives a persuasive interpretation of Mozart, says DAVID CHOW LAST Friday evening heard the first of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra concerts in this year's Springleaf New Asia Series, celebrating young talents of Asian descent. The programme began with the introduction from Mussorgsky's unfinished
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 581 17  -  Some analysts' estimates of profits torn out to be way too optimistic Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] The art of financial forecasting has become finer, with margins of error growing ever wider, in the current turbulent times. A large number of analysts' forecasts were
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    • 175 17 AFP [RIYADH] The Saudi-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) on Saturday said it had granted Malaysia Airlines (MAS) a US$lOO million (*****.3 million) credit facility to modernise its fleet. The bank will buy an unspecified number of aircraft, which it will lease to the carrier
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    • 233 17 NST [KUALA LUMPUR] Total private sector investments in the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) are expected to hit 3.3 billion Malaysian ringgit (Ssl.s billion) by the end of 2003, Energy, Telecommunications and Post Minister Leo Moggie said on Friday. This commitment has been
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    • 884 17  -  HAWO SENG INSIGHT Purchase of roughly 15% of index stocks threatens free float By Quak Hiang Whai OVER dinner, a broker likened the Hongkong government's recent moves to intervene in the stock and futures markets and then to impose tough anti-speculation measures to
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      • 321 18 Salomon preparing to outbid Murdoch for Man U: Sunday Telegraph Reuters [LONDON] Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp has targeted English soccer club Newcastle United in a £220 million (Ss64o million) takeover bid, according to the Sunday Mirror newspaper. Meanwhile, the Sunday Telegraph
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      • 143 18 AFP [BONN] A proposed merger between Germany's leading car manufacturer DaimlerBenz and US motor company Chrysler is undergoing problems in meeting US legal requirements, the weekly Der Spiegel reported. In an article to appear today, the magazine said management in both firms were
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      • 324 18 Reuters [SHENZHEN, China] Chemical fibre maker Kunshan Three Mount has become China's first company to have its shares delisted for posting three consecutive years of losses, the Shenzhen stock exchange said on Saturday. Three Mount, which had A shares for domestic investors
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      • 481 18 Hyundai, Daewoo and Samsung tnrn it into domestic battle AFP [SEOUL] An international auction for South Korea's ailing Kia Motors Corp and its sister-firm Asia Motors may turn into a pitched domestic battle after the sole foreign contender Ford Motor dropped
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      • 373 18 Ng Fung Hong shares rise as first-half profit jumps 25.7% Reuters [HONGKONG] Ng Fung Hong Ltd's stable food distribution business and conservative management style has made it an outperformer amid Hongkong's weak economic environment, analysts said. "Food trading and supermarket businesses are very
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      • 131 18 Bridge News [HONGKONG] The Hongkong Securities Clearing Co said on Saturday it is probing 11 brokerages for failing to settle their August futures positions in the mandatory timeframe, the Sunday Morning Post reported. The probe comes after the government pressured the firm to enforce its settlement
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      • 223 18 Reuters [TOKYOI Japanese electronics and computer maker NEC Corp is expected to post an interim loss of 10 billion yen (*****.5 million) for the fiscal half-year ending Sept 30, a Japanese financial daily reported yesterday. The consolidated net loss for the first half
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      • 350 18 Govt to sell 30% of phone company in first major asset sale Bloomberg [ZURICH] Swisscom AG, the Swiss state-owned phone company, may raise as much as 9.1 billion Swiss francs (5511.3 billion) in a public share offering next month that will
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      • 442 19 Troubled Japanese commercial bank will also close branches, cat staff in restructuring plan AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Fuji Bank said on Saturday it planned to increase stocks by about 200 billion yen (552.6 billion) to boost its weak capital base and regain market
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      • 267 19 Merged firm will be second-largest US savings and loan Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Golden State Bancorp has completed its US$l.B billion (Ss3.l billion) merger with First Nationwide Holdings Inc, the parent of California Federal Bank, forming the US' sec-ond-largest savings and loan company. The
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      • 186 19 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] American Express Co (Amex), whose stock has fallen 36 per cent in the past seven weeks, said tumbling emerging markets and signs of a slowing US economy had only a "modest" impact on earnings. "We are not immune from the effects
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      • 224 19 Reuters [HONGKONG] Shanghai Commercial Bank Ltd (SCB) said a strategic investor with mainland Chinese shareholders has bought a 22.4 per cent stake in the Taiwanese-con-trolled bank, which will seek a local public listing. Cayman Islands-incorpo-rated Shanghai United International Investment Ltd bought the shares in
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      • 389 19 Brokerage hopes to restore links soured by Travelers tie-up AFP ITOKYOI Japan's Nikko Securities Co Ltd wants to be part of a joint investment trust company planned by four firms of the Mitsubishi business group, a press report said on Saturday. With the move,
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      • 560 20  -  SIMEX Weeklyßoundup Hiroko Komiya MMS International This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [SINGAPORE] Speculation of a coordinated monetary easing by the G-7 has returned, after the Bank of Japan made a surprising decision to lower its key
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      • 809 20 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP {LONDON! Gold prices shot up last week as the precious metal took on refuge status for investors taking cover from the effects of US President Bill Clinton's sex-and-lies scandal on equities markets and the US dollar. On
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 297 22 HONGKONG Bloomberg HONGKONG'S Hang Seng Index ended the week up 1.2 per cent at 7,538.60. The index fell for three straight days from Wednesday to Friday but earlier in the week, investors rushed to cover their massive positions in the market. Stocks
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      • 865 22 CI Sydney -35.7 AUSTRALIAN stocks are expected to fall on concern slower economic growth around the world will reduce company earnings, though investors may snap up some shares near their lowest prices this year. The prospect of lower earnings sent the benchmark All Ordinaries Index to its
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      • 494 22 I NEW YORK Market ignores figures showing economy is slowing AFP SHARE prices rose late last week as President Bill Clinton went on television to express contrition for an illicit affair after a week of ups and downs. The Dow Jones index of
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      • 1878 22 Q Paris -112.41 FRENCH stocks fell for a third day on Friday, led by Promodes SA after it said first-half operating profit declined. The benchmark CAC--40 Index fell 11.01 points, or 0.31 per cent, to 3,578.34. For the week, the index is down 112.41 points. CI Frankfort
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      • 407 22 LONDON AFP LONDON'S stock market reacted surprisingly moderately to a fairly turbulent week which saw operators first hoping for an easing of monetary policy in Britain and the United States then reacting to US President Bill Clinton's risk of being impeached. The FTSE-100 Index
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      • 333 22 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE stocks have only a limited chance of a recovery this week with the market's direction likely to be swayed by the parliamentary fate of key bills to fix bank loans, analysts said on Friday. "The Tokyo market's outlook
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      • 453 23 AFP PI Composite Index +5.09 MALAYSIAN share prices are expected to remain volatile over the coming week due to unresolved issues concerning the fate of over-the-counter trading of Malaysian shares in Singapore, dealers said. "This month is going to be very volatile. The implementation
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      • 9099 23 INDUSTRIALS Com—r s 1998 Last Vol Week Net Cap High Law Company Ml *000 Mql> L— M 310 170 Ajinomoto .215 -5 SS 260 215 11.9 87.1 148 35 Anqkasa 59 9 881 86 58 1.4 87.0 290 123 Apollo F ood HIq 175 25 16 180 165 6.1 70.0
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    • WARRAHTS&OPTTONS
      • 211 24  -  WARRANT WATCH R Sivanithy LOCAL penny stocks might come into vogue because of Clob's closure. This is a theme we have explored before and we want to take it up again once more. In this connection, rubber keypad maker San Teh's longer-dated warrant
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      • 3538 24 BONOS, LOANS ft WARRANTS m 1998 List Vol Weok Last Ouote Avg Mkjn Law Stno Company Sal* ♦of- COOO) High Low Buyer Setter Prlco 23.5 3.5 m 3000 m AMDS c5.5******6 6 298 6.5 3.5 5.5 6 20.5 3 3)60 *Acer ******1 USS 4 II 4 3 4 5.5 95
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    • 2491 24 Week ended Sep 11 MALAYSIAN STOCKS Or Gr 1998 Last Vol Wnk Last Quote Olv Otv YM Met M Cap Ht» Law Stno Company Sale COOP) High Law Buyer Sailor C'ot P/t j«t* 135 22 m$5000 AlSBSOc 25 -t5 4544 39.5 22 24.5 25 5.0 3.3 4.5 9.7
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    • 6488 25 Week ended: S«'p 11 Cr Cr M Wt 199a Last Vol Wttk Lilt Quota Olv Wv VM Net Cap Avq High Low StWo Company Sato COOP) Htgh Low Buyof Sottof H C'vr H P/t SmtlPrlco NULTI-INDUSTRY 142 49.5 mt >000 Acma50c 57 unch 549
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        421 26 Source: JM Sasoon Stocks Volume •Renong Bhd 50c 73,836,000 •MBf Capital 52,818,000 Keppel Land50c 45,967,000 •Pub Bk Foreign 45,293,000 *M Resources 41,120,000 DBS Land 39,618,000 *Rekapacific Bh 37,953,000 •Magnum Corp50c 36,331,000 *MBf Hldgs 50c 33,368,000 •Muipha IntlSOc 30,694,000 Unfa S OCBC Foreign 101,429,551 DBS Foreign 94,565,004 SingTel 15c 79,718,741 UOB
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      • 851 26  -  THE WEEK AHEAD Penny stocks on Sesdaq perking np, bnt market ignores cnt in prime, as threat of world stock meltdown looms large By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Things used to be a lot simpler before this financial crisis came along to complicate matters.
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        83 26  -  by Ven Sreenivasan THE trading volume for Hong Leong Properties last Friday was three times higher than the 10-day average of 882,000 shares. The counter is also significantly below its 52-week high of $1.26 after having slid south for much of the year. Still, the technicals show that
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 278 27 Simpson Spence Young There are a few more signs of activity of late with more sales being reported and rumours of a number of others in the pipeline. The end of the European holiday period is in sight, and this coupled with a few sellers biting the bullet
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    • 301 27 sa Mptt 'ooo tap* 8 w C WT Distribution L 0.2S5 unch Chuan Hup 0.33 *0.015 >700 Cosco invastmant 0.40 unch Fraiqht Links 0.I4S 0.005 7900 C8 HoMfeyp 0.215 unch Hal Sun Hup 0.275 a015 3380 Hit** Zosan 0.50 -0.025 2600 IMC Holdings HK 5.60 unch Jay* Holdings
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    • 582 27  -  This is the first year it has had two conversions ongoing at the same time ay Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Singaporebased Nortrans Offshore remains optimistic about the outlook of the offshore market as it took delivery of its third FPSO from Keppel Shipyard
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    • 701 27  -  DOCKYARD Ify] David Hughes IT will take some time to see exactly what the effects of the International Safety Management Code (ISM) wiU be on the shiprepair sector. The majority of the world's fleet, of course, are stiU not subject to
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    • 274 27 Evergreen, Nan Tai and Yangming get Beijing approval AFP [TAIPEI] Three of Taiwan's leading shipping firms have announced that they have gained approval from Beijing for their foreign-registered freighters to pay calls to Chinese ports. Evergreen Marine said on Saturday that five
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    • 403 27  -  By end-Oct, 736 staff will have taken redundancy cheqnes From. Jerzy Farynski in Sydney One of Australia's most serious and bitter waterfront disputes came to a formal end last week with an announcement by stevedores Patrick of the final settlement of its dispute with the
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    • 626 28  -  Reports from David Hughes in London THE managing director of Hongkong-based Anglo-East-ern Ship Management, Peter Cremers, has strongly refuted the argument that ships on open registries were more likely to be sub-standard than vessels flying the national flags of their beneficial
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    • 112 28 UNITED Kingdom-based West African liner specialist OT Africa Line (OTAL) has had its Benin trucking fleet, equipment and staff blessed in an ancient animist ritual known as Zangbeto, a dance of ghosts. The company that says the ju-ju ceremony was its way of showing respect
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    • 109 28 UK-based shipping and construction group P&O has reported a 16 per cent increase in profit, before reorganisation costs, to £152 million (SS44I million) on strong performances by its cruise and construction businesses. Over the past year or so, to improve performance, P&O has placed three
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    • 17060 35 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Adv*rtis*r V.S,* Voyag. T.l.p*on. ETA ETA Adv.rt,s.r VMS* VoYjg. T***on. SIN Dast'n sum* Nam* Number NumD.r SIN D.st n Not. Nam. Numtwr Numtwr 20/04 15/10 Kiwi Hung ROYAL CONTAINER RC804S 65-*****33 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'lvolre 20/09 royal container rcmhs 65 *****83
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      • 612 41 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jurofif Port Baoshishan 9809 J06 alongside 15.09/0600 Daebo Gemma 02 J09 alongside 13.09/0800 Hms Premium *****P J13 alongside 13.09/1030 Jinxi M jlO alongside 15.09/1500 Marco Polo 8 07/98 J15 alongside 13.09/2000 Niaga 61 05/98 J11 alongside 13.09/1900 Rainbow2 07/98 J16 alongside 14.09/1200 V
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      • 1853 41 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Bounce Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr period From To From At" Clow 901 16/2159 IA I3/150C 13/*59 13/1900 It 13/1500 U/*59 13/1900 a 13/1700 M/0659 14/0900 2t 13/1700 M/0659 14/0900 14/0700 M/1159 14/1400 4 M/1200 M/M59 M/T700 Aci Mucin OKA
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      • 204 41 Sep IS Japan: Respect of the Aged Day. Sep 16 Mexico: Independence Day. Sep 23 Japan: Autumnal Equinox Day. Sep 24 South Africa: Heritage Day. Sep 28 Hong Kong: Chung Yeung Festival. Taiwan: Teacher's Day. Oct 1 China: National Day. Hong Kong: National Day. Oct 2 China: National
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      • 883 41 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ud. shows price ran«es In US dollars instead at single prices for a more comprehensive description at the market Prices shown are based on averagesiaed stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bun ker Price Indei change and the
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    • AIR&LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 509 42 Plane's computers fed garbled info to data recorder, indicating fire or electrical problem LAT [HALIFAX, Nova Scotia] The sophisticated avionics computers on Swissair Flight 111 apparently began generating faulty information to the plane's flight data recorder about five minutes before the recorder cut off
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      • 171 42 AFP [MONTREAL] Air Canada and its pilots' association, on strike since Sept 2, have reached a "tentative contract agreement", both sides announced at a joint press conference here. The deal must now be approved by the striking pilots in a process expected to last three
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      • 359 42 Breakthrough ends 2-week strike over pay, job security Bloomberg [ST PAUL, Minnesota) Northwest Airlines Corp's pilots' union leadership approved a tentative contract, ending a two-week walkout over pay and job security that grounded the airline and frustrated travellers and businesses. The union's 17-member Master
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      • 463 42 Comment might have referred to dispute over selling slots Reuters [ZURICH] British Airways will fight any over zealous conditions that regulators might impose on its proposed alliance with American Airlines which has been on hold for over two years, BA chairman
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      • LOG Book
        • 110 42 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan Airlines Co Ltd (J AL) said it would reduce its group's interest-bearing debt by 100 billion yen (Ssl .3 billion) by the end of2ooo/01, partly by postponing aircraft purchases. The JAL group had interest-bearing debts totalling 1.27 trillion yen as
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        • 65 42 AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] China Airlines Co Ltd and EVA Airways Corp are set to be allowed to operate more European flights via Bangkok after Taiwan and Thailand revise their aviation pact, the Economic Daily News reported sources as saying. Three other Taiwan carriers, including TransAsia
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        • 101 42 Reuters [MICHIGAN] William Clay Ford Junior, great-grandson of Ford Motor Co founder Henry Ford will replace Alex Trotman as chairman of the company on Jan 1,1999. This is the first time in 19 years a member of the Ford family will head
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        • 95 42 AFP [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd launched a new television advert last Friday in the US and Britain to reinforce its image amid rising competition. Part of a Aslo million (5510.4 million) advertising drive, the commercial features 250 members of the Australian Girls Choir and
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      • 264 42 Reuters [NAIROBIJ German airliner Lufthansa said it would halt passenger services to Kenya next year, but planned to boost cargo service by 25 per cent. "It is very unfortunate that after serving Nairobi for 36 years, we are forced to take this
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