The Business Times, 6 April 1999

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITApJWJipW^ 85c S INGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1999
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    56 1 11 1 11 11 Dmao (+36.41) BT-SBI 6L5J9 13.56) DSZMSCI FUTURES 232.40 (+7.20) STOCK HABKET DQHCES Change KLSECOMP MM -4U NIKKEI 16J334.78 +44i>9 HANGSENG CM SET INDEX SM.7S 417 JAKARTA OOMP SK14 «t»l MANILA COMP —M41J? +11* TAIPEI WP! Cloaed SEOUL OOMP dosed CLSA CHINA B Closed AUSTALLOED
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    FINANCE
    80 1 FOBEX KATES USI SI USt 1.714 £(US$/SI per S) LIN 1781 ElfRO(US$/S$ per E) 1.177 IM1 DM L817 0*4 YEN 1SL4 1.421* Mf 18M 0.464 BO 7.1ft 0224 BAKT 17.71 0.041 80PIAH— Sjm MM* •SffMimtn ram bates > SINGAPORE* MS KUALA LUMPUR 11JI JAKARTA 38.M BANGKOK 14.71 Manila rum
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    Some economists hazard forecast of positive Q1 growth
    637 1  -  Economists more upbeat, bnt average forecast still at minnsOJ%:BTpoU By. Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] While most economists had earlier expected the Singapore economy to recover only in the second half of this year, some now say the recession could have ended in the
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    Lock icon S'pore stocks ride post-results rally
    598 1  -  By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The Singapore stock market has started the post-results season with a bang, with property stocks continuing to lead a broadbased rally which saw the key market index soaring to its highest level in 15 months. The benchmark Straits Times Index gained
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    Americaya Shoe goes bankrupt
    329 1  -  Japanese retailer, with 7 S'pore shops, rnns np 23b yen debt By: Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Japanese footwear retailer Americaya Shoe Co, which also operates in Singapore and Hongkong, was yesterday declared bankrupt by the Tokyo District Court. Americaya Shoe, established in 1925, has almost 100 stores
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    NEL voted most transparent listed firm
    616 1  -  L-Jacob, Labroy Marine also earn A grade: survey By, Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Nat Steel Electronics (NEL) is Singapore's most transparent listed company, followed by LindetevesJacoberg and Labroy Marine, according to a survey of more than 100 analysts. The survey, by Corporate Transparency Ratings Pte
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      130 1 DfgPPE Fw book lovers The National Library Board will be opening a library at Ngee Ann City, P|2 lTstea rate est Bank Negara has slashed the three-month intervention rate by SO basis points to &5% in a move to further ease interest rates to revive the Malaysian economy, Pfß Nato
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      17 1 Export* seen lagging, Pg 2 Property stocks jump to 12.5-mth high, Pg 15 Market reports, Pg 20-24
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      333 1 Thanksto thetankan ""v X w i i>4 s t« I>, V i8R lliRnSn V \fl&. i af 1 J J ■Me 1L > [TOKYO] Investors watching trading on the floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange were pleased yesterday morning. Share prices surged over230points in early trade following encouraging findings of
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Library for young book lovers to be set up at Ngee Ann City
      380 2  -  National Library Board aiming LibraryQOrchard at readers aged 18-30 By] Marissa Chew THE quiet fifth floor of Ngee Ann City's podium block will come alive in August with book lovers visiting a new 1,500 sq m (16,000
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      D'Manor cluster housing project sold out
      220 2 174 nnits taken up in just two weekends of marketing CENTREPOINT Properties' D'Manor cluster housing project was sold out yesterday, after just two weekends of marketing. The 174-unit development at Tanah Merah Kechil Avenue was soft-launched over the Hari Raya Haji long weekend and
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      General insurance cases: more handled by bureau
      271 2  -  By\ Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE'S Insurance Ombudsman Bureau (IOB) handled 19 general insurance cases last year four more than in 1997. In its latest annual report, the bureau said that out of the 19 cases, 16 were outside its terms of reference. Two
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      Lock icon Ex-Barings trader Leeson may be released on July 3
      478 2  -  One-third remission if he maintains his good behaviour By < Conrad Raj NICK Leeson, the rogue trader who bankrupted Britain's oldest investment bank, Barings pic, is expected to walk out of Changi Prison on July 3 after having served 52 months
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      Audit costs are nominal for private limited firms
      517 2  -  MAII.BAft Roland Ma, CPA Chan-Ma Co Singapore I REFER to Anna Teo's well-written article "S'pore reviewing need for auditing of private firms" (BT, April 5). I must declare my personal interest in this issue as a practising CPA. The reason often cited
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      Lock icon Exports seen lagging
      315 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Outlook By Audrey Tan WHILE external demand has shown some signs of a pickup, Singapore's export competitiveness still lags behind that of its competitors, says DBS Bank in its latest Investment Quarterly. Hence, the bank expects Singa- pore's non-oil domestic exports to contract
      Source: Ministry of Trade & Industry  -  315 words
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      Property, business services see 5% rise in operating receipts
      348 2  -  59% of 1997*8 $41 Jb comes from real estate activities By] Eugene Low OPERATING receipts in the real estate and business services sector increased by 5.1 per cent to $41.5 billion in 1997, compared with $39.5 billion in 1996, a survey
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      Ericsson's CyberLab is its first in Asia, 3rd in the world
      367 3  -  Swedish giant to spend $10m over two years on R&D for wireless data applications By' Teh Hooi Ling ERICSSON will pump $10 million over two years to set up in Singapore its first CyberLab in Asia. The Swedish telecommunications
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      Lock icon IT services growth in Asia expected to top 25% a year
      323 3  -  E-commerce is other high-growth segment: Dataquest By. Raju Chellam INFORMATION technology services and the rush to get into e-commerce will fuel the growth of IT in countries like Singapore between now and 2003, according to forecasts by researcher Dataquest,
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      Singapore ready to implement pact on telecoms equipment
      286 3 SINGAPORE is one step closer to accepting overseastested telecommunications equipment under an agreement endorsed by Apec telecoms ministers last year. The Telecommunication Authority of Singapore (TAS) said that Singapore had notified the Apec Telecommunications Working Group (ATWG) that it intended to start
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      Lock icon Precision engineering centre to help local firms
      312 3  -  By, Annette Pau THE government yesterday officially opened a new and expanded competence centre to boost the technological capabilities of local precision engineering (PE) companies. To be equipped with some $12 million worth of machinery and equipment by 2001, the Precision Engineering Application
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      172 2 LI FUNG DISTRIBUTION (SINGAPORE) LIMITED (Incorporated in the British Virgin Islands) VOLUNTARY CASH OFFER FOR INCHCAPE MARKETING SERVICES LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) REMINDER OF FINAL CLOSING DATE l| The Development Bank of Singapore Ltd ("DBS Bank") for and on behalf of Li Fung Distribution (Singapore) Limited ("LFDS"
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      190 3 W2 J EPSON THE POWFR t O CRE ATI Break the speed barrier. II II NIW II'SON SIYI US COI OK 900 1111 ■.lln Hi •,pr.-<l Itllolll |)l 111 I I I»t\ 10 l.lkc yoill lulMlll".'. 11l .lIIOIIICI I > 1. 1 11 I•. in business, soeed :s of the
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Lock icon Optimistic about properly market in the Philippines
      814 4  -  While some properly majors, daunted by the downturn, have put projects on hold, others including JTC and Ayala Land are looking for opportunities From Al Labita in Manila TALK about the Philippine property market and no one is more upbeat about its recovery
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      Lock icon Kiwi builders hope for pick-up
      467 4 Rising migrant outflow has hurt housing demand, but construction sector npbe&t on outlook Bloomberg [WELLINGTON] Demand for new housing in New Zealand could be hit by rising numbers of migrant outflows but building companies are still hopeful of a pick-up as the economy turns around.
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      Lock icon Sarawak reduces low-cost housing deposit
      146 4 Bernama [KUCHING, Malaysia] The Sarawak government has reduced the downpayment for the purchase of low-cost houses in the state from 1,500 Malaysian ringgit (*****) to RMSOO with immediate effect. State Housing Minister Celestine Ujang said: "We offered low-cost houses to successful applicants but they still
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      231 4 !|4 jBEB 9kJJ |H I Special Feature Shipping Times •27 April 1999 PCTftQ V I Published in conjunction with the Each of these topics is of crucial I Oceanology International 99 Pacific Rim importance to the Pacific Rim Exhibition Conference, this special countries and will ensure that the feature is
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
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      Bank Negara cuts 3-month rate to 6.5%
      440 5  -  Intervention rate slashed by 50 bps to help revive economy From. Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian central bank has slashed the three-month intervention rate by 50 basis points to 6.5 per cent in a move to further ease interest rates to
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      Lock icon M'sian business groups want stronger ringgit
      344 5 Reuters, AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian business groups, worried over the high cost of imports, yesterday urged the government to allow the ringgit currency to strengthen against the US dollar. Their call coincided with official data released yesterday showing that Malaysia's trade surplus jumped 88
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      Lock icon New Thai stimulus to promote investment
      133 5 Oana-TNA [BANGKOK] The Thai finance ministry is drafting additional tax incentive and investment promotion measures to further spur economic activity and private investment, a senior Thai official said here yesterday. Somchai Ridchupan, the director-general of the excise department, said that the new measures would
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      Lock icon Loan auction boosts Japan bank reforms
      423 5 Girt My manages to borrow <L3t yen at Mow market rate FT [TOlfYO] The financing of Japan's banking reform programme took a big step forward last month when the government agency responsible for it successfully borrowed 6.3 trillion yen (SI9O billion) in public auctions.
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      KL stocks fail to continue surge
      412 5  -  PM's hospitalisation dents market; White Paper on economy to be tabled today From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian stock market failed to extend its rise yesterday ahead of the tabling of a White Paper on the improving economy today. The Kuala Lumpur
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      Lock icon Jakarta to set up new bank supervisor body
      302 5 AFP [JAKARTA] The Indonesian government proposes to establish an independent body to supervise the activities of banks and other financial institutions by 2002, Finance Minister Bambang Subianto said yesterday. Mr Subianto told reporters the proposed new body will form one of the
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      Japanese firms finally turn cautiously upbeat: tankan
      620 5  -  Sentiment Index edges up for first time since Q2 '97 From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo AFTER nearly two years of deepening pessimism, business sentiment in Japan has finally turned the corner and has become cautiously optimistic, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) said yesterday
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Improper loans: First Thai finance firm charged
      347 6  -  Chao Phaya execs alleged to have wrongly given loans totalling 260 m baht From. Harish Mehta in Bangkok A DEFUNCT Thai finance company, Chao Phaya Finance Securities, has been charged in a Bangkok court with allegedly extending improper loans, becoming the first finance
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      Lock icon Gusmao orders E Timorese to fight Indon troops
      318 6 DILI, East Timor Rebel leader's order follows killing of 17 by pro-Indon militia AFP JAILED East Timorese rebel leader Xanana Gusmao ordered, all East Timorese to wage war against Indonesian troops after he learnt that a pro-Indonesian militia had killed 17 East
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      Lock icon Dr M still in hospital, condition unchanged
      321 6 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad remains in hospital with a lung infection and his condition is unchanged, an aide said yesterday. "He is OK," the aide told Reuters. "His condition remains the same." He was responding to stock market rumours
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      Lock icon King to get report on Anwar assault today
      200 6 KUALA LUMPUR AFP A ROYAL commission investigating injuries suffered by ousted Malaysian deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim in custody will present a report to King Tuanku Ja'afar today, the official Bernama news agency said. The three-man commission would also recommend action against Rahim
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      Lock icon Indon poll registration kicks oft with trickle of voters
      302 6 JAKARTA AFP THE registration of millions of voters for Indonesia's crucial June 7 elections got off to a sluggish start here yesterday with few registrants and many areas awaiting delivery of registration papers. Poll officials announced on Sunday that voter registration
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      Election willput Indon unity to the test
      652 7  -  LBTTHRFftOM JAKARTA Social Assure lines are now being manipulated bv parties more concerned with winning tho pnii« < n« <Tlt^ernt<on By Shoeb Kagda JNDONESIA'S human geography at times belies belief. In range and diversity, the country is ethnologically rich with 336 ethnic groups
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      Lock icon Soccer matches in the Spratlys
      115 7 MANILA Reuters VIETNAM and the Philippines have agreed to hold soccer matches between their troops garrisoned in the Spratly Islands to promote confidence in the disputed area, the Philippine Defence Department said yesterday. Defence Secretary Orlando Mercado made the proposal in talks with Vietnamese President
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      Lock icon Supachai heads for Europe on WTO campaign
      256 7 BANGKOK He will visit Germany, Portugal, Greece and Belgium AFP THAI Commerce Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi is to head for Europe tomorrow on another mission in his campaign for the top job at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), sources here said. Mr Supachai is
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      Lock icon Lucio Tan to rescue PAL if no investors found
      420 7 MANILA Tycoon will fork oat USs2oom in fresh capital: govt official AFP MAJORITY shareholder Lucio Tan will fork out US$2OO million (*****.7 million) in fresh capital to keep debt-lad-en Philippine Airlines (PAL) flying if it fails to draw new investors, a
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      Lock icon Pig virus: DAP wants govt to allocate RM720m
      165 7 I KUALA LUMPUR Bridge News MALAYSIA'S key opposition party, the Democratic Action Party (DAP), said yesterday it would call for an urgent debate in Parliament today to discuss the viral outbreak. Its leader, Lim Kit Siang, said the party would call for
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  • CHINA-HOHGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China gives licences to 4 foreign insurers
      407 8 BEIJING Move comes on eve of Zhn Rongji's visit to US, Canada and as WTO talks intensify Reuters ON the eve of Premier Zhu Rongji's visit to the US and Canada, China yesterday announced that it had given business licences to four more
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      Lock icon Unicom to invest US$3b in GSM system
      256 8 BEIJING FT CHINA Unicom, the second state telecommunications carrier, plans to invest the equivalent of US$3 billion (Sss billion) in building GSM mobile phone networks to challenge China Telecom, the dominant state carrier. The plans are the latest sign that Unicom, which has
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      Lock icon Local Chinese officials embezzle 264m yuan: report
      232 8 BEIJING They bnilt lnxnry homes and hotels with public foods AFP CHINESE leaders have called for stiff penalties after local officials embezzled 264 million yuan (Ssss million) of public funds to build luxury homes and hotels, state media reported yesterday. Inspections found that
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      Lock icon Days numbered for Chinese free trade zones
      300 8 SHANGHAI Reuters THE clock is ticking for China's free trade zones as tighter tax and foreign exchange policies and Beijing's drive to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) erode privileges that have made them special. The 15 free trade zones, which dot the
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      Lock icon Bering launching drive against tax cheats in April
      240 8 BEIJING FT CHINA plans to launch a nationwide campaign this month to catch a multitude of cheats who evade taxes by using fake invoices and falsify, ing receipts, contributing to a strain on central government finances that ranks as one of the
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      324 8 IUIj.I.MIFELS Keppel FELS Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Proposed Merger Between Keppel FELS Limited and Keppel Integrated Engineering Limited "oM^re3o As°l ,he Scheme <xumem obt>ln copies of the Scheme Document during nonn.l busine» houn (a) the registered office of KFL at 31 Shipyard Road, Jurong Town, Singapore *****0;
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      576 8 THE RRST SCHEDULE Expression Meaning CDP or "Depository* The Central Depository (Pte) Limited "Depositor" and 'Depository Register- meani 9S to in Section 130 A of the Companies "Securities Account" a securities account maintained by a Depositor with CDP -KFL Shareholder," "H?* *•''•9*— holder is CDP. the term reUtKjn to such
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon India govt stands firm in showdown with key ally
      454 9 NEWDELHI It rejects demand for dismissal of minister, braces for battle in Parliament Reuters INDIAN Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's fragile coalition set itself on a dangerous collision course with one of its biggest partners yesterday, but said it was ready
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      Lock icon Kazakhstan to float currency
      284 9 ALMATY, Kazakhstan Central bank stopped supporting tenge from yesterday Reuters KAZAKHSTAN has abandoned the defence of its fixed exchange rate and will let its currency, the tenge, find a free market value, Russia's Interfax news reported on Sunday. Interfax quoted central bank chief Kadyrzhan Damitov as
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      Lock icon Remembering a Tibetan martyr
      63 9 [NEW DELHI] Tibetan activists chant a prayer and one displays a placard featuring Tibetan activist Thupten Ngodup, who immolated himself in Delhi last year, during a demonstration near Parliament in New Delhi yesterday. About 100 protesters demanded that the UN Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva
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      Lock icon Dhaka market scam: Ex-chief of bourse charged
      242 9 DHAKA Fake deals inflated shares, lnring investors, say prosecutors AFP A FORMER chairman of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, Bangladesh's premier bourse, has been charged in court with luring investors to buy shares in fake transactions as part of a 1996 market scam, lawyers
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      Lock icon India body proposes takeover of refineries
      172 9 ■BOMBAY AFX-Asia THE Nitish Sengupta committee has proposed the takeover of Cochin Refineries Ltd and IBP Ltd by the state-run Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), The Economic Times reported. The committee was appointed by the ministry of petroleum and natural gas to recommend ways
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      846 9 Integrated Engineering Keppel Integrated Engineering Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Proposed Merger Between Keppel FELS Limited and Keppel Integrated Engineering Limited The directors of Keppel Integrated Engineering Limited wish to announce that the Scheme Document relating to inter alia the scheme rwKT) hoEe« n Sord£!° n h t
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      1065 9 THE FIRST SCHEDULE Expression Meaning "CDP" or "Depository" The Central Depository (Pte) Limited Depositor" and "Depository Register" have the respective meanings ascribed to them in Section 130 A of the Companies Act Chapter SO "Securities Account" a securities account maintained by a Depositor with CDP KIE Shareholders registered holders of
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Belgrade is dictating war logic to Nato, say analysts
      409 10 LONDON Reuters BELGRADE, not Nato, has seized the initiative in the war for Kosovo and is dictating the logic and tempo of the conflict, military analysts said yesterday. "We are nearly two weeks into the Nato campaign and all we have
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      Lock icon Nato ups attacks on Yugoslav military targets
      513 10 THE KOSOVO CRISIS Alliance members to begin airlifting 100,000 stranded Kosovo refugees Bloomberg, AFP, Reuters [BELGRADE] Nato intensified attacks against Yugoslav army forces as members of the 19-nation military alliance prepare to airlift at least 100,000 Kosovo refugees stranded at the border with
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      Lock icon US manufacturers' Q4 gain lowest in 3 years
      235 10 WASHINGTON Bloomberg PROFITS after taxes at major US manufacturers fell during the fourth quarter of 1998 to the lowest level in three years, the Commerce Department said. Retailers' profits were higher. After-tax profits at major manufacturers averaged 5.1 cents per dollar of
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      Lock icon Germany blocks Basle banking reforms
      307 10 LONDON FT BANK regulators have had to delay an overhaul of international bank capital adequacy rules after last-minute objections by Germany. The Basle committee of banking supervisors was scheduled to publish this Friday its proposals for sweeping reforms to its 1988 capital agreement the world
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      Lock icon Rouble crashes to lowest against US$
      206 10 MOSCOW AFP THE rouble crashed through the 25-to-the-dollar barrier yesterday, closing trading at a rate of 25.11 against the US unit, its lowest level to date. The rouble lost 28 kopecks on moderate volume of US$l35 million (***** million) of trade, the Itar-Tass news
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Libya hands over Lockerbie suspects
        100 10 Reuters, AFP [TUNIS] Libya yesterday handed over the two suspects in the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing to die UN for trial in the Netherlands, making legal history and ending more than a decade of waiting for families of the 270 people killed. Abdel Basset al-Megrahi,
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        Lock icon Case won't break up Microsoft: Gates
        143 10 AFX-Asia [LONDON] Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates has dismissed suggestions that the US Justice Department's lawsuit against the company could culminate in the break-up of Microsoft, the Independent newspaper reported. In an interview with Mrmrnnr published this week, Mr Gates says Microsoft is being
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        Lock icon UK engineering industry slows further
        104 10 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's struggling engineering industry slipped further into recession in the first quarter of the year and is unlikely to recover significantly until 2000, the Financial ffmnewspaper said yesterday. ft said the latest survey from the Engineering Employers' Federation, due to be released tomorrow,
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        Lock icon Oil pipe station bombed, says Iraq
        67 10 Reuters [BAGHDAD] Western warplanes bombed and destroyed another control station on a pipeline used by Iraq to export oil via its southern terminal of Mina-al-Bakr, the Iraqi News Agency INA said yesterday. IN A, quoting an oil ministry spokesman, said the raid took place
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      338 10 COUDERT BROTHERS International Attorneys Coudert Brothers, founded in New York City in 1853, it a leading international law firm with 26 offices worldwide. Corporate and Financial Lawyers IK Singapore Due to strong business growth in our regional practice, our Singapore office, established in 1972, requires enthusiastic lawyers who are client
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon People, public, private sectors as partners
      2081 11 S pore needs to unleash the creative potential of its citizens and get maximum performance out of people and organisations to reach common goals The following is an extract of a speech Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave at the Administrative Service annual
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      ADB's new chief stands up to World Bank
      854 12  -  TUB BOTTOM UMB OPINION By Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent SPARKS have begun to fly in the world of economic development with the arrival earlier this year of Tadao Chino as president of the Asian Development Bank. He and
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      115 12 'General Shelton and Secretary Cohen think we need to change the culture of the Pentagon, and make people more alert to the dangers that can flow from being too generous or you could say profligate or lax with operational details.' Kenneth Bacon the chief Pentagon spokesman, on
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      Missing link in Japan's recovery
      681 12 EDITORIAL ONE by one, the elements of Japan's economic recovery are slotting into place, the latest being yesterday's announcement by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) that sentiment among Japanese business firms improved in March for the first time in nearly two years. The process of
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      Easier import rules show India is serious on reform
      928 12  -  They can cut the fiar-al deficit ai>^ pave the way for opening op many closed industries By] Prem Shankar Jha The writer, former editor of The Hindustan Times, contributed this article to BT THE changes in India's ex-port-import policy announced on
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      962 12 IT IS not often that representatives of the global bond markets clash with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But moves by the IMF to encourage a number of developing countries to default on their foreign bond obligations have sent many into a lather. Apart from the
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      Lock icon Kings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be
      633 13 Oliver! songwriter Lionel Bart dies at 68 of cancer NYT [NEW YORK] Lionel Bart, the composer, lyricist and playwright best known for the musical Oliver!, died on Saturday in Hammersmith Hospital in London, his longtime hometown. He was 68. The cause was cancer, his
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      Lock icon Courier keeps his cool to win
      881 14  -  28-year-old American thrashes his British opponent in the Davis Cup and the fans go wild. bu. Barclay reports from the sidelines BILL BARCLAY AFP American Jim Courier kept his cool amid pandemonium in the National Indoor Arena on Sunday to win a marathon five-setter
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      Lock icon Duval clinches BellSouth Classic
      462 14 GOLF He is first since 1974 to win four contests before The Masters LAT-WP [DULUTH, Georgia] David Duval has continued his marvellous early season play by winning the Bell South Classic to become the first golfer to win four tournaments before The Masters since Johnny Miller
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      March golf club prices level off after rebound
      532 14  -  By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] As predicted last week, after having rebounded from lows in October last year, golf club membership prices seem to be levelling oVit. In fact, the prices of two of the most expensive clubs even fell slightly last month,
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      Lock icon Property stocks jump 4.7% to 12.5-mth high
      388 15  -  Surge fuelled by strong sales at new projects, return of foreign buyers By< Corinne Kerk [SINGAPORE] The SES Property Index yesterday broke through the 600-point mark to close at a twelve-and-a-half-month high, driven by news of strong take-up rates at launches of new
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      Lock icon OCBC Local hits 5-year high on market hopes
      484 15  -  OCBC Local shares gain 40 cents to $9.66 with 2L3m shares traded By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] OCBC is outperforming its peers in the stock market, with its Local tranche reaching a five-year high yesterday as the market seems to vote it
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      SingTel unlikely to go solo in world of alliances
      759 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Catherine Ong RECENT reports that the Global One phone venture is near collapse did not come as a surprise to those in the telecommunications industry, even though it was subsequently denied by Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom. The
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      Too few firms using Net to disseminate information: study
      614 15  -  By* Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Too few Singa-pore-listed firms tap the Internet to provide investor information, or have any investor relations function. And some firms said they were careful about releasing information as they were "traditionally conservative". These are some of the
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        Petronas hires independent valuer for 27% Proton stake
        528 16  -  It denies baying 13 other units owned by DRB-Hicom group From\ Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur IN a move that could end the pricing stalemate after more than five months of negotiations, Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has appointed a UK-based independent valuer
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        KepFels-KIE merger: plan for trading on May 24
        202 16 [SINGAPORE] Keppel Fels Energy Infrastructure Ltd, the company to be formed by the merger of Keppel Fels and Keppel Integrated Engineering (KIE), will most likely trade its new shares on May 24, the companies said. In a circular dated March 30, they
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        PSC sheds light on 57% profit jump
        293 16  -  By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Provisions Suppliers Corp (PSC), which last month posted a 57 per cent jump in 1998 net profit to $6.9 million, yesterday shed more light on its sharply improved results. In a statement to the stock exchange, PSC said its
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        AFP buys stakes in three Indon firms
        257 16  -  Indon unit plans to take USsl3J>m loan from Itochu By I Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] Asia Food and Properties (AFP) has bought equity stakes in three Indonesian companies. They are Rawa Bangunnyaman, an oil plantation company; Pratama Ronaperintis, an investing holding firm; and
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        Furnish guarantees, JC-MPH's MD told
        472 16  -  $2.72 m guarantees needed to file defence gjptinrt OT.r*g rlaimg By < Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Hong Leong Finance has obtained summary judgement for a claim of $2.72 million against the estate of the late Jack Chia who founded a publishing, property and trading empire bearing
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        84.1% acceptance for Li & Fung's cash offer
        268 16  - 84.1% acceptance for Li Fung's cash offer ffyi Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Li Fung Distribution (Singapore), the company that is buying over Inchcape Marketing Services (IMS), has garnered 84.1 per cent acceptance for its cash offer still below a stipulated mark for a better offer price. Financial adviser DBS Bank yesterday
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        69 16 [TOKYO] Makoto Hosoi, an employee of Japan's electronics venture Temco Japan, wearing a headset for military communications called HG-17 which features bone<onduction speakers and a bone-conduction microphone at the company s head office in Tokyo yesterday. The HG-17 enables a person to speak and listen to
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        SNP buys Thai pop-up book printing firm
        183 16 [SINGAPORE] Printing and publishing firm SNP Corporation will pay US$B.7 million (5514.8 million) for an 87 per cent stake in a Thai printing company which produces pop-up books for children, mainly for sale in Europe and the US. .SNP said yesterday the ac-
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        PSL missed targets due to project delays
        213 16 [SINGAPORE! PSL Holdings yesterday said its inability to meet turnover expectations was due to a number of factors, including delays in ongoing projects. The engineering and construction company posted a 1996 turnover of $26.4 million, some $9 million off a figure it stated
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        Siam Commercial Bank's CEO to quit on May 1
        573 16  -  Ailing b&nk in Tier-1 C&Dit&l Dl&n. giving Jr i govt right to change top management From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE president and chief executive officer of Thailand's fourth-largest bank, the troubled Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), yesterday said he was resigning
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          Datacraft CEO ups stake to 1.55%
          111 16 [SINGAPORE] Singapore communications and network systems integrator Datacraft Asia said yesterday ha chairman and chief executive officer Derek Petsr Althorp had raised his stake in the company to 1.52 per cent Datacraft said Mr Althorp exercised hi* share options at U551.375 a share, raising
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          DBS takes NDC unit into its fold
          69 16 [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank yesterday said that it wouki merge the operations of it* subsidiary, NDC Merchant Bank, together with its own. NDCs business and undertakings, comprising all assets and liabilities, will be transferred to DBS. This will result in improved customer service snd
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          Isetan MD,2 directors resign
          47 16 [SINGAPORE] Isetan managing director Nobuo Ishii and directors Gen Pukuhara and Takaahi Terasawa have resigned. The company said yesterday that Mr Ishii has been replaced by Hiroyuki Owada, effisctlve April 3. Mr Owada, 51, was previously the general manager of Isetan's Tachikawa store.
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          Second Chance details interim results
          122 16 [SINGAPORE] Giving further details on its half-year results, Second Chance Enterprises said the cloture of two gold outlets and two Second Chance outlets had caused turnover to fall 30 per cent to $14.0t million. The apparel division sew higher pre-tax profit despite lower turnover because
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        Lock icon Solid Q1 results expected for US chip makers
        448 17 Growing demand fuelled by networking and wireless applications Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Even amid signs of weaker-than-ex-pected personal computer demand, US chip makers are expected to report solid first-quarter earnings this month, as networking and wireless applications fuel more demand. So far, only
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        596 17 ITALIAN TAKEOVERS Showdown on Sat as Telecom Italia shareholders vote Reuters [MILAN] Olivetti managing director Roberto Colaninno's US$65 billion (Ssll2 billion) bid for Telecom Italia faces a crunch week that will determine the outcome of the bid and the future of both companies.
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        Lock icon LVMH to unveil US$8b-plus bid to Gucci
        350 17 FT [LONDON] The next stage in the battle for control of Gucci, the Italian fashion company, will start tomorrow when its senior executives will be presented with an US$B bil-lion-plus bid by their counterparts at LVMH, the French luxury goods group. At the
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        Lock icon Price a major block for Iridium in cellular market
        392 17 GSM extending its reach globally at much cheaper prices Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Iridium World Communications, which lost 28 per cent in its stock price last week on doubts over its funding and subscriber growth, faces other obstacles selling its global satellite-telephone network.
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        Lock icon Sumitomo, Daiwa bank venture eyes foreign partner
        376 18 Daiwa Securities SB Capital Markets launched with 206b yen capital Bloomberg [TOKYO] Sumitomo Bank Ltd, Japan's second largest bank and and Daiwa Securities Co, the country's No 2 brokerage, may seek a foreign partner to support some products and services at a joint
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        Lock icon Fiscal fitness
        71 18 [ISLAMABAD] Money makes the world go round, and the prospect of it is enough to call for a good old knees up. Pakistani passers-by yesterday danced to the tune of traditional drummers outside a Muslim Commercial Bank (MCB) branch in Islamabad, as the MCB launched a "MAALaMAAL (wealthy)
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        Lock icon TMB to cut NPLs to 32% by June
        191 18 Bridge News [BANGKOK] Thai Military Bank estimates that it will be able to restructure 15 billion baht (Ss6B7 million) of nonperforming loans by June in a move that will cut its NPLs as a percentage of outstanding credit to 32 per cent
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        Lock icon Rumours swirl of M'sian state firms planning bond issues
        285 18 But Petronas, Telkom, Tenaga officials keep mnm Bridge News [SINGAPORE] Persistent rumours have been swirling in the market recently that a handful of Malaysia's statelinked companies are considering bond issues to fond their projects, traders said. Oil company Petronas is said
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        698 18 Critics of bond rescheduling say it might push ap the cost of debt FT [LONDON] It is not often that representatives of the global bond markets clash with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But moves by the IMF to encourage a number of developing countries
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        America's best sellers
        507 18 Fortune 500 toting of largest US companies by 1996sales RANKING COMPANY 1996 SALES RANKING COMPANY 1998 SALES *98 *97 US$B»LLION <97 US$8ILLI0N 1 1 General Motors $161.3 51 49 Johnson Johnson $237 2 2 Ford Motor $144.4 52 56 BellSouth $23 1 3 4 Wal-Mart Stores $139.2
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        Lock icon C&W plans new global network: reports
        275 18 AFX-Asia, Reuters [LONDON] Cable Wireless pic is planning to create a new global networks company, controlled by the parent group, incorporating all the cables infrastructure whose ownership is at present divided among subsidiaries around the world, the Sunday Times reported. It is believed the
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        Lock icon M'sia halts Thai, Vietnam rubber imports
        177 18 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is halting the import of cheaper natural rubber from Thailand and Vietnam, in a bid to help its domestic rubber industry after world rubber prices fell 25 per cent in the last six months. "Imported rubber is making rubber cheaper,
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          Lock icon Krungthai Thanakit's separation plan
          82 18 AFX-Asia [BANGKOK] Krungthai Thanaklt {dans to separate the finance and securities business of the 12 finance companies it has acquired, in order to restore financial health after taking over the firms as requested by the Bank of Thailand. It said it foiled to meet the net
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          Lock icon Prudential in stake review
          70 18 Bloomberg (LONDON) Prudential Corp, Britain's largest insurer, is reviewing its &9 per cent stake in insursr SI James's Place Capital since thestake may soon rise to a point at 2 which it must sell or offer to buy shares. Prudential is examining what to do about
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          Lock icon Two to join Nomura-IBJ service
          54 18 AFX-Asia [TOKYO] France's Societe Generate and Goldman Sachs of the US will Join Nomura-EBJ Investment Services, the pension-ftmd alliance of Nomura Securities and Industrial Bank of Japan, Kyodo News Agency reported. It said the firms will join a pension ftind management service to be offered
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          Lock icon ABN Amro to control Manila bank
          69 18 Reuters [MANILA] ABN Amro Bank has signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire controj of Great Pacific Savings Bank, a unit of House of Investments. "The proposed acquisition would allow ABN Amro to establish a foothold in the Philippine banking market and to expand
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          Lock icon SG Asia Credit to resolve problems
          65 18 AFX-Asia [BANGKOK] SG Asia Credit expects to resolve its capitalisation problems by June 30, the company mfrV "SG Asia Credit (is) prepared to resolve its financial shortfall (via) recapitalisation (by) June 30. The Bank of Thailand has already agreed with the plan," it said.
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        Excitement as index ends in new territory
        229 19  -  m ri« Reports MSCI Singapore Index Bob Butcher, Jardine Fleming A SHORT-lived push to the lows in the first few minutes of trading in the MSCI Singapore Index led to nowhere but a bear trap. Although many markets were closed around the region,
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        275 19 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's annual cocoa output may reach between 450,000 and 500,000 tonnes by 2005 as plantation area expands, officials at the Indonesian Cocoa Association said yesterday. "Our output may reach as high as 500,000 tonnes by 2005. We can easUy reach this," PS
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        Lock icon Crude oil prices steady as traders keep an eye on Opec supply cuts
        226 19 EMERGY REPORT Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Crude oil was little changed as some California refineries resumed operation and big oil producers began a reduction of oil supplies. After surging as much as 40 per cent this year, prices
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        326 19 Bloomberg New York THE US dollar rose to a onemonth high against the yen as a survey showed business confidence in Japan improved less than expected in the first quarter, fueling expectations interest rates there will remain near zero. "People had already discounted any improvement" in the quarterly
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      841 20 Takeovers and tie-ups in sector hit record USs49b in last four months Bloomberg [PARIS] Takeover and merger agreements in the European drug industry reached a record US$4B.9 billion (5584.8 billion) in the last four months, and investors are betting there's more in store.
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      1602 20 AFP n Nikkei 225 +44.50 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.3 per cent higher yesterday as investors were relieved by the results of the key tankan survey which showed a slight recovery in business sentiment, brokers said. The key Nikkei 225 index surged to this year's high of 16,634.79
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        Lock icon Prices end lower on profit-taking
        320 21 AFP P Composite Index -4J3 MALAYSIAN share prices closed 0.8 per cent lower yesterday due to profit-taking on selected index-linked stocks by retail players, dealers said. "The bourse was up in the morning session and retail investors took profits in the later session," an institutional
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        Unwarranted hot pursuit
        206 22  -  WARRANT WATCH -By Ven Sreenivasan OUT-of-the money warrants are stUl being hotly pursued by retail players heU-bent on making a quick buck. Yesterday's actives list featured once more a bunch of penny warrants. WhUe the appetite to punt on near-expiry warrants began with the UIC warrant, the
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      317 22 AFP guana* ♦iaj> PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.6 per cent higher yesterday amid expectations of lower inflation data for the month of March, analysts said. The Composite Index added 12.96 points to close at 2,041.17. A total of 1.3 billion shares worth 1.16 billion pesos changed hands yesterday— AFP
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      703 22 AFP Composite Index -MUI INDONESIAN shares closed 0.2 per cent higher yesterday as giant rights issues unveiled as part of a recapitalisation programme sparked volatility in financial sector stocks, dealers said. The Composite Index closed up 0.91 point at 395.34. Turnover totalled 273.6 million shares valued at 103.33 billion
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      916 22 AFP PjSETlndg -437 THAI shares fell 1.8 per cent yesterday as anxiety mounted over the poor health of the finance sector, dealers said. Analysts said trading was hit by reports that the Stock Exchange of Thailand had imposed restrictions on Krungthai Thanakit and SG Asia Credit, as they had
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      STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE: MAIN BOARD
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        310 24 Stack! VotaKM Hotel Prop 30,577,000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 24,413,000 Wing Tai 25c 20,908,000 Orchard P 50c 17,668,000 CSC Sys S Engg 5c 13,716,000 Keppei LandWOO 13,620,000 AS Auto 10c 13,203,000 EconWtOO 12,462,000 Liang Huat Wt 12,173,000 Keppei Land50c 1 H,546,000 Stadu Wing Tai 25c -33,518,045 DBS Land Hotel Prop
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        Property, bank stocks lead as investors turn optimistic
        622 24  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Factors cited: 1998 large write-offs, economy and property market showing signs of bottoming oat By Ven Sreenivasan THE Singapore stock market got off to a strong start yesterday on optimism that corporates were headed into a better year foUowing
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          NPLs another business
          118 24 ONE BT reporter called up OCBC Bank's switchboard and asked for the new head of Its newest division, the Non-Performing Asset Management unit Back came the operator's almost immediate reply, "You mean the NPL unit?", which the reporter gathered was a reference to the non-performing loans unit
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          KL market cap 1.2 times GDP
          116 24 WILL the Malaysian stock market, which has shed a lot of fiit in over a year, get to be smaller than the real economy? It just might According to data from the latest Bank Negara report, market capitalisation tumbled to374.5billion Malaysian ringgit (S$170.8 billion)
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          End of a long dream?
          86 24 THE riverbank land for the development of the KL Linear City—originally touted to be the longest building in the world—may revert to the Malaysian government. The pro)ect remains frozen after more than a year following the government's move to shelve mega infrastructure projects to ease
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          OUB Securities enjoying tie-up?
          78 24 SINGAPORE'S OUB Securities is believed to be eyeing a piece of the action is a Malaysian stockbroking firm. According to market talk, OUB Securities is keen on a tie-up with Johorßaru*baeedPJß Pacific Securities. Talk has it that OUB Securities was initially looking to take a 30
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          47 24 HERE'S your chance to see 128 intelligent mice trying to win a robotic rat race. Just run to the Great World City atrium from today to Thursday to see the mice pit their intelligence (artificial of course) against one another at the 9th Inter-School
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        73 24  -  By Ven Sreenivasan OCBC bank's local stock, which has been climbing steadily in recent days, is currently above its 52-week high ot $9.45. Although the RSI indicates that the stock is overbought, it has solid long-term support at just above $8 as it heads towards its next target
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      274 25 Reuters [MADRAS] India's southern Madras port is planning to handle 37 million tonnes of cargo in 1999/2000 (AprilMarch), a senior port official said. "We'll be handling about 36 million to 37 million tonnes next year," Chennai (Madras) Port Trust chairman P
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        497 38  -  Passenger load factor in Feb rose 9.9 percentage points to 75.2 per cent from a year ago By. Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines (SIA) saw its load factors improve for a third straight month in February, boosted by higher passenger traffic. The
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        445 38 European group favoured over Boeing as supplier of 12 new long-haul aircraft Financial Times [STOCKHOLM] Scandinavian Airlines System, the three-nation Nordic airline, is likely to place a 13 billion Swedish kronor (552.69 billion) to 15 billion kronor order for long-haul aircraft with
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        622 38 AFP [NEW YORKJ The US automotive industry is betting on fuel cell-powered cars as an alternative to internal combustion engines in the 21st century, analysts say. "We have seen over the last years a competitive race between manufacturers to
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