The Business Times, 3 May 1999

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 04&'12d»— 85* S INGAPORE Internet http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, MAY 3,1999
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    44 1 STOCK MAXKET INDICES STL 8JM8afTJTUBES_J0l.il— +7JI WflB '."r KLSEGOMP m MUEI l«,701.51..._-ai.7l HANGSWG SET INDEX tfttt +5858 JAKARTA OQMP.—496J2. +21.« MANILA OOMP 2,43l?0._..+48.23 TAIPEI WPl 7,171.17 -24 LIS SEOUL OOMP 78UI +1.11 CLSA CHDIA B MUC -llil AUST ALLOBD—.3,111.10—-21.71 DOW JONES 1I,789.04L.+99.37
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    FINANCE
    70 1 FOtEX BATES U8$ SS ua 1.731 t(U8*»ferI) LM A81« EUMXUM/SI PES B) 1.066 1.878 m 1.801 MM *Hf ™118A 1.458* KM MM MM BKI— 7.741 US RunaJl ZsmZlijur *810 100 Haits PUKE KITES SINGAPORE* UB KUALA LOTUS 1LM JAIAKTA 28.00 BANGKOK 14.75 MAMLA_ 2.10 BONGODNG MH HUB- &80 amm
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    'I'm not making a killing,' says Akbar
    912 1  -  FOCUS ON CLOB Big discounts affect only a few securities; pricing based partly on bank valuation Reportsby Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Kuala Lum-pur-based Akbar Khan yesterday refuted charges that he was going to make a huge killing with his 5.8 billion Malaysian ringgit (552.6
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    Set up legal redress tod, say Clob investors
    761 1  -  They say Akb&r's offer is'highly ridiculous', 'robbery' By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Clob shareholders should set up a legal fund and initiate a class action suit against the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange to recover their investments. This was one of the suggestions by
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    Closed-end fund being discussed: sources
    439 1 KL has approved unit trust offer, now tinder discussion with S'pore, they say [SINGAPORE] Singapore businessman Akbar Khan does not deny the existence of alternative proposals to the cash offer by Effective Capital but he refused to elaborate on the matter last night. "At present
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    Redas acts to avert pressure for more govt land sales
    433 1  -  It urges developers to keep low profile, be tactful with disappointed buyers By: Lilian Ang [SINGAPORE] In a bid to stave off public pressure for more government land sales in the wake of recovering property prices, the Real Estate Developers
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      264 1 imuw Start fcrNOL Neptune Orient Lines' USbaaed container division, APL, expects to see a USIIOOm contribution to its bottom line from the May 1 general freight rate hike on the east bound trans-Pacific trade, P|2l V i m Forecasts of Singapore's 1960 economic growth have now hit as high as
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  • FOCUS ON CLOB
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      KL should dump the Khan solution
      879 2  -  HASKHT MATTERS It mast consider potential rtsmage to the capital market from investors' perception that they've been given a raw deal By Eddie Toh THE "Khan solution" has finally been unveiled but it won't be the end of the saga. On Friday, Effective Capital
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      Justifications for deep discount hold no water
      428 2  -  Via faxes and e-mail, outraged Clob investors speak their mind Lucas Low Singapore via Internet I WONDER if it's still possible to give a dispassionate commentary on the Akbar Khan cash offer. In any case, I shall try. It is a voluntary offer,
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      CDP, as share owners, should demand its rights
      153 2  -  John Mak, Singapore, via Internet THE Central Depository (CDP) of the SES is legally the registered owner of the Clob shares at KLSE. So it can sell, hold or do whatever it deems fit on the KLSE, just like any other investor
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      M'sia cant achieve Vision 2020 this way
      203 2  -  Austin Morais Singapore I HAVE no intention to sell my Clob shares to Akbar Khan, nor do I intend to sell the shares in the open market when the Clob shares are released. I have bought them for long-term investment, and selected my
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      KL government is hurting the people of Singapore
      140 2  -  Joe Ratnam Singapore ROBBERY! My Clob purchases are a drop in the ocean, but there is a traitor in our midst. We should change his name to Ali Baba and find out who the forty or more thieves are. Many a time
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      Only fair solution is a staggered release of Clob shares
      299 2  -  Alan Chong Singapore AMID the howls of outrage at the Akbar Khan offer, the sensible thing for Clob investors to do is cool down and switch to a proactive mode: come out with a rationally argued alternative that the Malaysian
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    • Khan's offer a blessing in disguise?
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      337 2 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA "Ranked Among Australia's Best Universities" jg) IVIBA Doctor of PWosophy in folium t Mawfteort Singapore I7«i Intake 28 Mw Singapore 6th Intake »luly '99 lSmomhs only; 100% in Singapore L 1! I) CT* to successfully produce 7 PhD Wednesday •12 modules plus a project; 312 seminar
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      1999 growth forecasts hit 3.6%
      483 3  -  Economists raise estimates ahead of PM unveiling revised 0-2% projection By. Anna Teo FORECASTS of Singapore's 1999 economic growth have now hit as high as 3.6 per cent even before Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong announced the revised official growth projection on Saturday. At the
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      Balmoral residential site up for tender, 1st private sale in '99
      259 3 A FREEHOLD 16,100 square feet residential site at Balmoral is up for sale via tender, the first such private sale this year. As the land has an allowable plot ratio of 1.6, the successful buyer of the District 10
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      NTUC to spend $26m to upgrade Pasir Ris resort
      271 3 Food and fan zone, theme park to be included in project THE labour movement is spending $26 million to upgrade its NTUC Pasir Ris Resort, including building a theme park with rides similar to those in Australia and the United States.
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      Lock icon Growth in M2 dips to 27.8%
      348 3  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Money supply By i Carol Eng M 2 the broad measure of money supply grew 27.8 per cent in March year-on-year to a total of $165.6 billion, preliminary figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) show. This is a
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Dr M: DPM will take over when ready
      484 4 JITRA, Malaysia Some time after the GE, 'maybe after 1, 2,3 or 4 years', he says, in comment on published interview Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday says he will hand over the premiership to Abdullah Ahmad Badawi after the coming
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      Lock icon Tommy Suharto slams IMF for 'colonising'
      299 4 JAKARTA Fond is now main decision maker in the country, he charges AFP FORMER president Suharto's youngest son has accused the International Monetary Fund of meddling in almost all aspects of life in Indonesia, virtually "colonising" the country, a report said. "They (IMF) are
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      861 4 IHtM.MIT&T Keppel Telecommunications Transportation Ltd I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting ALL MEMBERS ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND the Annual General Meeting of the Company which will be held at the Board Room of Keppel Corporation Limited at 325 Telok Blangah Road, Singapore *****1
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      991 4 Marine I Industries I i Keppel Marine Industries Limited I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) H Notice of Annual General Meeting I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Board Room of I Keppel Marine Industries Limited at 55
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
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      Lock icon Be wary of hot money, say Asian finance officials
      587 5 Not regnlating hedge funds opens window for tnrmoil, they say; bnt US sceptical Reuters, AFP, FT [MANILA] Recession-hit Asia should be wary of short-term, speculative funds as the region recovers from turmoil caused by rapid currency declines, Asian finance officials warned.
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      Lock icon Emerging markets to get US$140b in private funds
      394 5 AFP [MANILA] Net private capital flows to emerging markets will reach US$l4O billion (*****.2 billion) this year as ihe Asian currency crisis begins to fade, with China grabbing the bulk of funds headed for Asia, an international group of financial institutions said
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      Lock icon M'sian recovery not due to forex controls: US
      255 5 Bank and corporate restructuring were the key: official AFP [MANILA] A senior US Treasury official last Saturday discounted the role of currency controls in Malaysia's improving economic prospects, and warned that the costs of maintaining the curbs would rise the longer they
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      Lock icon Better Asian credit ratings after reforms: S&P
      292 5 Agency has upgraded ratings of S Korea, Philippines, M'sia AFP [MANILA] Sovereign credit ratings in Asia's emerging markets have improved as a result of reforms and policies in response to the Asian currency crisis, rating agency Standard and Poor's said yesterday. "Pressures weighing
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      Lock icon Merpati airlines admits it's technically bankrupt
      139 5 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] PT Merpati Nusantara Airline is technically bankrupt, with debts of 1.8 trillion rupiah (*****.6 million) against assets of 830 billion rupiah, Merpati president commissioner Muchtaruddin Siregar told the Media Indonesia daily. "If we analyse it according to management laws, technically (Merpati) is
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      315 5 ADB president jumps to defence of bank against US attack, Pg 10 +Sun microsystems All you need to know about e.c©#nmerce With any one of our competitively-priced DOT .COM packages, you could easily be ".com-ming" your way to new business opportunities. For 16 years, Sun has been taking some of
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      2937 6 OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARIES (Incorporated in Singapore) PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNTS NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 5 for the year ended 31 December 1998 These notes form an integral part of and should be read in conjunction with the financial statements ecs andcom missions comprise commission income, advisory
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      2179 7 continued included in deposits and balances of banks and other financial institutions are the following: Croup Bank j Note Siooo ss'ooo ®!5!2 tvtZl SSolo 5»225 ss'iS2 Analyst!) by ind u 7 j 1998 1997 1998 '997 Agriculture, mining j Note SS'ooo SS'ooo Ss'ooo SS'ooo Balances arising from sale and quarrying
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      2402 8 continued Malaysia Nominees Nominee Malaysia too (Asmg) Sendirian senses coT'TflS 32. Provision, for diminution invalue of dealing and investment securities and other assets a Nominee, Nominee Malaysia ,00 Properties Jfwile Total Movement in provision for diminution in value of dealing and investment securities and other assets (Tempatan) Sendirian services during
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China Unicom to spend 7b yuan on CDMA: report
      399 9 BEIJING This small firm will take on the near monopoly of giant China Telecom Reuters CHINA Unicom will invest 7.0 billion yuan (Ssl.4 billion) to build a CDMA mobile phone network to challenge the near monopoly of China Telecom, the China
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      Lock icon Beijing won't ban us, says Chinese cult leader
      445 9 SYDNEY AFP, Reuters THE 10,000 cult members who staged the most daring protest in Beijing in 10 years were only trying to peacefully present the facts to the Chinese government, their leader said yesterday. Li Hongzhi, founder of the Falungong sect whose
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      Lock icon Shadow behind labour Day joy in China
      52 9 workers singing at a Beijing park yesterday as they continue to STiwfvnJ? Inter national Labour Day. China's Communist Party mouthpiece, h,??' newspaper marked Labour Day by hailing the "immortal feats" qf Chinese workers, but it made clear more job cuts were on the
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      Lock icon Stronger CIH Chernobyl virus was nearly done: report
      244 9 TAIPEI Alleged creator Chen said two designs were 80% completed AFP THE Taiwan computer wizard whose CIH Chernobyl virus damaged millions of computer programs worldwide had almost finished designing two more powerful versions, a report said yesterday. The Central Daily News said
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      Lock icon China ends free cars for civil servants
      272 9 BEIJING Country hopes to boost economy via private demand Reuters CHINA plans to ban more government officials from using free cars in a bid to stimulate private demand and boost the economy, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The reform would mean "hundreds
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        Lock icon Taiwan paves way for annuity system
        76 9 Reuters {TAIPEI] Taiwan's cabinet has approved the initial framework a senior citizens' annuity programme to provide basic protection for the island's growing number of elderly, local newspapers reported yesterday. The, to I be implemented at the end of2ooo, would give a monthly payment to
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        Lock icon WTO entry 'will cut China housing costs'
        86 9 Bridge News [SHANGHAI] China's hoped-for accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) would help the domestic real estate sector because lower tariffs on imports of essential building materials required by WTO membership would lower housing costs and improve quality, the official China Daily's
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        Lock icon China to lift price controls
        77 9 Reuters [BEIJING] China, home to some of the world's most polluted cities, will phase out decades-old price controls to promote the use of cleaner energy resources, the China Daily's Business Weekly reported yesterday. Price controls favouring the use of China's abundant but highly polluting coal
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      828 9 continued Contractor underlying Year-end Year-end principal positive negative I amount fair value fair value Note SS'ooo Ss'ooo SS'ooo Interest rate derivatives Forwards J Swaps *5.790 Futures 8.769 4W Options purchased 510 53 Options written ,o 's°° 1} J Other derivatives 8,769 4«Q77 Forwards Futures *41 1 HI i Total *9,406,657
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon ADB president jumps to defence of bank against US attack
      751 10  -  West wants it to fall in with emerging global development consensus From. Anthony Rowley in Manila ASIAN Development Bank president Tadao Chino yesterday defended the bank against a surprise attack on its policies and management by the United States governor,
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      Lock icon Indian industrialist calls for sell-off of govt firms
      221 10 NEW DELHI AFP THE new chief of India's top business forum urged the government yesterday to sell up to 75 per cent of its stake in firms like international carrier Air India and the country's largest carmaker. Rahul Bajaj, the owner of
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      Lock icon Obuchi says he won't call snap polls
      299 10 CHICAGO He wants to boost competitiveness; deal with jobless rate Reuters PRIME Minister Keizo Obuchi said on Saturday he was not considering calling a snap election and he wanted to enact steps to boost corporate competitiveness and address Japan's rising jobless rate as
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      821 10 J2imUed (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Thirty-Ninth Annual General Meeting of PRIMA LIMITED will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, 201 Keppel Road, Singapore *****9 on Wednesday, 26 May 1999 at 2.30 p.m. for the
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      85 11 I 111 Our New new corporate M fl| H H ft our our pledge to our A a providing them with the KBXBZb^^^^^^BH^H on assurance that we will never cease to seek v in what we The also a reminder to our people to devote energy and enterprise to satisfying
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Analysts jack up Dow forecasts as index steams on
      633 12 NEW YORK Better than expected US earning*, firm US and global growth hold np revisions Bloomberg IF the Dow Jones Industrial Average matched this month's performance for the next eight months, the benchmark would close out 1999 having tripled. While no
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      Lock icon WTO to meet again to decide on new chief
      314 12 GENEVA AFP THE World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Saturday failed to agree on a new direc-tor-general and adjourned a meeting of its executive council until today, diplomats said. The talks appeared to have ended in deadlock as they did on Friday,
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      Lock icon Rate hikes unlikely as US economy stays strong: Fed official
      237 12 SAN ANTONIO, Texas Reuters FEDERAL Reserve Bank of Dallas president Robert McTeer said on Saturday that he believes the US economy win continue to be strong and inflation-free in 1999, making it unlikely that interest rate hikes would be necessary.
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      Lock icon Going home
      55 12 [BELGRADE] American civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson breaking down yesterday after the formal release of US soldiers Christopher Stone (left), Andrew Ramirez (secondfrom right) and Steven Gonzales (right). Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ordered their release on Saturday without conditions 'in recognition of Jackson's efforts to achieve peace
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      Lock icon Goldman Sach IPO comes at bad time, say US analysts
      574 12 NEW YORK Financial stock rally nearing end, interest rates may rise Bloomberg GOLDMAN Sachs Group Inc's initial public offering was the victim of bad timing once: Wall Street's last major private investment bank had to cancel its share sale in
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      E-commerce plans hit banking snags
      783 13  -  Singapore firms not happy with what they feel is banks' unwillingness to accommodate their needs By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Singapore firms keen to offer electronic commerce are being frustrated by what they perceive as banks' unwillingness to accommodate the needs of ecommerce players. While
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      Lock icon Intel mulling over site for e-trade service centre
      548 13  -  Requirements include businessfriendly climate and big data pipes to rest of the region By. Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Singapore as a regional Internet hub? Intel Corp president and CEO Craig Barrett thinks it's quite possible, and getting it right could put the Republic
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      Clearer focus for the new-look SGI
      397 15  -  By] Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] No more Silicon Graphics Inc, it's now SGI. More than that, the maker of high-performance computers is getting a full image makeover along with its change of name, and senior SGI executives last week promised that the changes will be
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    • IT TAKES
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        Compaq launches regional call centre
        59 15 COMPAQ recently launched its regional call centre and customer service centre in Singapore. The regional centre will be the single point of contact for all customer warranty and sales support It will also answer requests for information on Compaq products and services. The regional call
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        Genesys appointment
        28 15 GENESYS Telecommunications Laboratories has appointed Edmund Ang as Asia-Pacific vice-president, who will be based in Singapore. Mr Ang was previously managing director of Richter Systems Asia.
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        From Autodesk to Adobe
        34 15 ADOBE Systems has appointed Cedric Chan as Asia executive managing director, who will be based in Singapore. Mr Chan was previously executive managing director for South Asia Pacific for Autodesk.
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        LIUP conference and exhibition
        42 15 THE National Computer Board (NCB) and IT firms will hold the first IT Local Industry Upgrading Programme (LIUP) Conference and Exhibition on May 18 at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre. For enquiries, call Gladys on *****89.
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        HP hardware for Telekom Malaysia
        33 15 HEWLETT-PACKARD will provide 20HPLH3 Net Servers to Telekom Malaysia, to enable it to offer Malaysian companies services in electronic commerce, online community, web hosting and managed network services.
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        Hyperion ties up with STCS
        31 15 HYPERION Solutions has tied up with ST Computer Systems Services, whereby the latter will resell Hyperion products and also provide systems integration and joint market activities.
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        ERL to distribute Cisco solutions
        18 15 ELECTRONIC Resources Limited (ERL) will distribute Cisco Systems' solutions to resellers in Singapore.
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        Promotion for Remedy man
        25 15 REMEDY Corporation has appointed David Hudson as Asia-Pacific managing director. Mr Hudson was previously enterprise software sales account manager for Remedy.
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        New Bass site
        57 15  -  Compiled by 1 Toh Han Shih BASS Hotels Resorts has launched a new Web site at www.basshotels.com. The new site offers information on Bass Hotels. This site provides links to affiliated Web sites, where you can search for the best available non-member rate and receive reservation confirmation
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      Case for effective communication
      554 15  -  Otherwise, Asian manufacturers risk losing their competitiveness, warns HP official By 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Asian manufacturers risk losing their competitiveness if information flow between them and their worldwide partners is ineffective, Hewlett-Packard strategic planning and modelling director Corey Billington said at a recent HP
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      No more wait with Internet2
      843 16  -  hi^ S P eBd Net tons of bandwidth encounters none of the congestion which plagues the Internet of today is, alas, onlv for researchers ri<rht nnw By) Raju Chellam IMAGINE a world where you are connected at modem speeds 85,000 times faster than your current
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      The Y2K dilemma— upgrade or revamp?
      524 16  -  By Sam Ghebranious The author is managing director (Asean), Novell Inc THE new millennium is around the corner, and the Year 2000 (Y2K) bug is set to strike those unprepared for it. Is your organisation ready? A US Senate Committee has predicted widespread social
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      Lock icon Whither Compaq after Eckhard Pfeiffer?
      1059 17  -  The abrupt removal of the Chief Executive Officer has thrown up new uncertainties and raised the bar for his replacement, says kenmeto james KENNETH JAMES THE "lead" came last week from a wellplaced industry contact: "Check it out, there's a shake-up at Compaq Asia-Pacif-ic." With
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      Gems to integrate NTU's info network
      254 17  -  By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] The Nanyang Technological University last week launched a unique, onestop, 24-hour information access and retrieval system that it said would change the way NTU staff and students work and learn. The system, Gems (Gateway to Electronic Media Services), is also
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      HP's slew of data storage products make their debut
      406 18  -  Line-up includes 3 CD-Rewritables and a new tape-backup solution By. Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] US giant Hew-lett-Packard Company last week announced a broad range of offerings under its data storage business, including three new CD-RW (rewritable) drives, a network backup tape drive,
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      Lock icon Messaging soon a two-way street
      699 18 This will be made possible through the ReFLEX wireless messaging protocol KR [CHICAGO) Following the much-publicised disappointment of Apple's Newton Message Pad personal digital assistant (PDA) earlier this decade, the PDA concept suffered a black eye that took time to heal. But heal it did,
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    • ON THE SHELF
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        Water-resistant prints from Canon
        91 18 CANON Marketing Services is debuting the BJC 7100 (right), a new colour inkjet printer that comes with waterresistant inks, even when using plain paper. The ink cartridge contains an ink optimiser which is a water-resistant fortifying agent. The optimiser is first released and a few micro-seconds
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        WinSoft Internment Fax Router here
        96 18 HOME-GROWN Win Soft Pte Ltd is ready with its Intelligent Fax Router (IFR) 3.0, which works with Microsoft Exchange version 5.0 onwards. It allows faxes to be sent directly to desktops via e-mail Earlier versions of the product supported Lotus Notes and Win NT. It
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        HP's Visualize workstations
        76 18 HEWLETT-PACKARD Co has unveiled the HP Visualize Personal Workstations (above), a new family of Win NT-based systems running on Intel's Pentium HI and P-m Xeon processors. They are targeted at technical and creative users who need advanced graphics capabilities, and 3D application performance in a Win NT
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        Acer's ultra-slim TravelMate
        66 18 ACER Computer International has launched its new Travel Mate 330 notebook computer, which is A4-size, barely an inch thick, and weighs 1.8 kg It runs on Intel's Mobile Pentium n 300 MHz processor, and comes with a 12.1-inch display, full-sized keyboard, Easy Link Combo Drive that lets
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        Apple's new streaming software
        67 18 APPLE Computer Inc has introduced QuickTime Streaming Server software, the underlying server technology that powers QuickTime 4's ability to stream live video and audio over the Internet. The software can be downloaded by developers as Open Source software from www.apple.com/ publicsource. It is also available as
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        Scanning appliance from Microtek
        100 18  -  Compitodby] Raju Chellam US-BASED Microtek Lab Inc has introduced the Image Deck stand-alone scanning appliance (right) that it claims is the first scanner to work without being connected to a PC. By simply plugging into a wall socket, the device scans on demand and outputs images
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      378 19  -  MUSIC Brazilian pianist Jose Feghali brought new life to a done-to-death concerto Byl Benjamin Loh TCHAIKOVSKY'S Piano Concerto No 1 in B-flat minor, Op 23, is a piece that has been played to death in concert halls the world over. In fact, it has come
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      714 21  -  Bate rise driven by boom in eastbound Asia-US trade that's expected to continue By] Marcus HanD [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines' US-based container division, APL, expects to see a US$lOO million (Ssl7o million) contribution to its bottom line from the May
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      740 21  -  Only four small-cap portfolio stocksstill in negative territory By: Louis Beckerllng [SINGAPORE] Penny stocks have bounced back into positive territory, lifting the 12month return on the BT small-cap portfolio to 12.3 per cent. The dramatic recovery in the prices of the stocks in
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      386 21 Depository receipts to be regulated, effective yesterday Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) is enhancing foreign interest in Malaysian shares through the regulation of depository receipts, it said in a statement yesterday. The regulation of the depository receipts
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      258 21 [SINGAPORE] In return for the sale of LC Hotels to LC Development (LCD), Lum Chang Holdings and Waterbank Properties will get new LC Development shares amounting to a 49 and 32 per cent stake respectively in the company. But LCD's ownership is not
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        598 22  -  IPO WATCH Offer price, at 10.43% discount to RNAV, is attractive By. Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] Analysts have given the thumbs up to Allgreen's initial public offering (IPO), which is priced at $1.03 a share. "I think the IPO price is definitely very
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        791 22  -  BEATING the ODDS About 65% of its doors are sold to the retail market in DIY stores in the West Ky- Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] IT'S a long drive out to Sungei Kadut where listed doormaker Chuan Soon Huat Industrial Group has
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        139 22 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Prolink Development Sdn, the property arm of Malaysia's biggest construction company Renong Bhd, has agreed to sell a parcel of land in Johor state to Bandar Raya Developments Bhd. Bandar will pay 434.9 million ringgit (*****.7 million) for
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        367 22 It's negotiating with 2 foreign firms on capital injection Reuters [BEIJING] China Infohighway Communications Co, an Internet service provider (ISP), is seeking foreign investment as an initial step towards an overseas listing, the Business Weekly of the China Daily
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        416 23 Comcast gets help from Microsoft and AOL in attempt to top AT&T's bid Reuters [NEW YORK] Cable television operator Comcast Corp last Friday enlisted two powerful allies, Microsoft Corp and America Online Inc, in its battle against AT&T Corp to buy Media One Group Inc,
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        223 23 Bloomberg [BONN] Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's No 1 phone company, scheduled a press conference for Wednesday to announce details of its plan to sell shares worth as much as US$ll.4 billion (5519.4 billion) in June to fund acquisitions abroad. The press conference will
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        257 23 Reuters (NEW YORK] AT&T Corp plans to cut 2,400 to 3,000 technicians jobs, about 2 per cent of its total workforce, to save the No 1 US phone company US$2OO million (Ss34o million) a year, the technicians' union said on Friday. The Communications
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        313 23 USsl7b deal with cellular company could be sealed soon Bloomberg [JACKSON, Mississippi] MCI World Com, the No 2 US long-distance phone company, is in talks to buy Nextel Communications for US$45 a share in stock, people familiar with the companies said. The
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        Lock icon US probes alleged price fixing by IPO underwriters
        463 25 Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, are among those subpoenaed Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US Justice Department is investigating whether securities firms illegally conspired to fix the amounts they charge companies to underwrite initial stock sales. Government antitrust investigators are "looking at the possibility of
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        316 25 IPO proceeds to be used for general corporate purposes Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Ask Jeeves Inc, which operates an Internet search service that lets people ask questions in plain English, filed to raise US$4l.4 million (5570.5 million) through an initial stock sale. Internet users seeking information
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        233 25 Reuters [FRANKFURT] DaimlerChrysler chief Juergen Schrempp said on Saturday that profits at its MercedesBenz cars unit took a hit in the first quarter from its troubled Smart mini-car. He was optimistic about the future of the two-seater Smart but would know where DaimlerChrysler stood with
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        199 25 FT [BUENOS AIRES] The Argentine government last Friday was set to accept the US$l3.4 billion bid by Repsol, Spain's leading oil group, to take control of YPF, Latin America's biggest private sector oil company. Ever since it sold a 14.99 per cent stake
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        379 26 Mediobanca coup shocks Italy finance sector, accelerates fall-out with Lazard FT [MlLAN] Italy's financial sector was shaken when Mediobanca, the secretive Milan investment bank, on Friday ousted Antoine Bernheim, an influential partner at the prestigious French bank Lazard Freres, as chairman of Assicurazioni
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        303 26 Reuters [LONDON] Telecommunications companies have been streaming into the international debt markets on both sides of the Atlantic last week and the bond splurge is set to continue, bankers said on Friday. A frenzy of corporate merger activity in the sector has led to
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        408 26 The USslo.6b stock swap will create 1 of 3 top Midwest banks Reuters [CHICAGO] Firstar Corp on Friday agreed to acquire Mercantile Bancorp Inc in a stock swap valued at US$lO.6 billion (SslB billion), creating one of the three largest banks headquartered in the
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          80 26 AFX-Asia [TOKYOJ Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Co Ltd and Compagnie Franceise d'Assurance Pour le Commerce Exterieur (COFACE) said they have agreed to jointly explore commercial credit insurance business in Japan. Under the joint venture, Yasuda Fire will offer its credit research and
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          143 26 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's 17 major commercial banks plan to spend 170 billion yen (552.4 billion) in the next eight months to stop the millennium bug from disrupting their computer systems, according to a report. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi has set aside 50
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          92 26 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Citigroup, the world's largest financial services company, is losing two top executives. Robert McCormack, 57, executive vice-president at the Global Relationship Bank, will retier in the next few weeks, and Dennis Martin, 55, executive vice-president for emerging markets, will retire at the end
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        139 26 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Goldman Sachs Group Inc filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to sell as much as one billion euros (Ssl.B billion) of notes that mature in 2009. The New York based investment bank will use the proceeds to provide
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        532 26 PRIME LEMPIMO RATES BANKS ABN Amro Bank NY 5 V« ABSA Bank Limited 6^ Agricultural bank Of China 6 ANZ Banking Group 6V4 Allied Irish Bank PIC 5 American Express Bank Arab Banking Corp 7>/« Arab Bank PLC 5* Asafti Bank Ltd 6 V? Ban Hin Lee Bank Bhd 6
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        554 27  -  if Weeklyßoundup Hiroko Komiya MMS International This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [SINGAPORE] It will not be surprising if the US seeks some kind of pledge from Japan for additional economic stimulus measures at today's summit
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        845 27 COMMODITY Weekly Roundup AFP [LONDON] Crude oil prices rose to a 15-month high point last week as all the signs were that the Opec cartel was adhering to pledges made in late March to cut back on production
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        1779 27 SICOM FUTURES Apr3t RU88£R(Mar« closing Mrt5J0pm> RSS1 CONTRACTS cMts/k«) Close Volume OpM Month W|fc Low Sett (tomes) Interest M«»» 97.00 50 Jun 99 98.75 250 Jul 99 K51.00 775 Aug 99 102.75 275 Sep 99 104.75 275 Oet/Dec 99 »7.50 900 RSS3 CONTRACT (USccots/kq) Volume Opm Month High
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        281 28 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG stock prices are likely to move higher in the coming week on inflows of foreign funds, dealers said. "There is no excuse for bigger profit-taking," said Ben Kwong, research director at Dharmala Securities, adding the market's movements would depend on
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        875 28 Q Sydney -20.7 AN avalanche of domestic data will dominate the Australian market in the week ahead with the inflation outlook remaining at the centre stage, brokers said. "Domestic credit markets will need to sort out what last week's above-expectations underlying inflation numbers and surprisingly low wages
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        485 28 Bat rising bond yields may be drawing equity investors' attention AFP THE Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.93 per cent last week and ended the month 10.25 per cent higher, its strongest monthly gain since early 1998. But the index failed to break the
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        344 28 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are likely to move narrowly in the upcoming holiday-stud-ded week with few trading incentives as investors stay away from the market, analysts said. "Given that we have only two days for trading next week, it is
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        Lock icon Rise in oil shares, cyclical stocks fuels Footsie
        403 28 LONDON Bloomberg UK stocks rose on Friday, as oil shares, led by Shell Transport Trading Co pic, gained for a fifth day in step with crude amid hopes for more cost-cutting mergers after Spain's Repsol SA made an offer for Argentina's YPF
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        1831 28 HPiuts +142.82 THE CAC-40 Index pushed to a new closing high on Friday, ending above the 4,400 level for the first time despite wobbling earlier when US GDP data showed such economic vigour some feared the Fed may tighten. The CAC-40 Index ended up 0.77 per cent
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        Lock icon KLCI likely to test psychological 700 points
        399 29 AFP Composite Index *28.04 MALAYSIA'S key stock market index is expected to test the 700-point psychological level in coming days after surging 4.3 per cent last week, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's weighted Composite Index gained 28.04 points to end the
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        177 30  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy AT the rate this market is going, penny warrants might soon become an extinct species. So we better focus our attention on the handful that are still priced below 20 cents, starting with today's feature, Teck Wah Paper's 2001 instrument.
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        486 32 Stocks Volume Frt Links 20c 88,089,000 PotiTiong Choon 10c 77.663,000 Lian Beng5c 69,524,000 ST Enqg 10c 64,085,000 Hotel Prop 59,041,000 SingTel 15c 51,226,000 LiXinWc 49,549,000 UIC 47,841.000 IPC Corpn5c 47.100,000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 45.368,000 Stocks S DBS Foreign 195,210.090 OCBC Foreign 167,993.934 SingTel 15c 156,383,010 City Oev 50c 128,857,170
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        Volatility boosts argument for 'buy-and-hold'
        653 32  -  TUB wuiiif AHEAD Investors should be aware of what really goes on in daily trading, especially in times of extreme liquidity By R Sivanithy THERE are many who feel comforted by the market's apparent sanity last week, when stock prices rose sharply then fell as
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        62 32  -  By Wong Woi Kong WING TAI shares rose 20 cents to $2.11 on a volume of 12.9 million shares last Friday, compared with its 10-day traded average of 10.1 million shares. The technical indicators, such as the RSI, Stochastics and MACD charts, are mixed, but the stock's steep
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      302 21 APL clinches 400 service deals on trans-Pac trade, Shipping Times Pg 1 NOL's financial health hinges on rate hikes, Shipping Times Pg 1 Goods Services Tax Workshops For those requiring hands-on practical experience to understand GST, we are conducting GST workshops on the dates shown below. The workshops are particularly
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      773 22 > R s*) Haw par* Haw Par Corporation Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Notice is hereby given that the Thirtieth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the 61st Storey, UOB Plaza 1, 80 Raffles Race, Singapore *****4 on 21
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      32 22 This is a weekly column on listed companies which did well in 1998 despite the economic recession Sunday Classified at Clarke Quay Every Sunday, 9am spm Buy h. Sefl h. FW k.
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      870 23 ACE DYNAMICS LIMITED (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENUAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 35th Annual General Meeting of ACE DYNAMKS LIMITED will be held at 1 Shipyard Road, Singapore *****8 on Tuesday, 18 May 1999 at 10.00 am for the following purposes: AS
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      237 23 r allgreen properties limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 16 May 1986) Invitation in respect of 250,000,000 New Shares of $0.50 each comprising:(1) 50,000,000 Offer Shares at $1.03 each by way of public offer; and (2) 200,000,000 Placement Shares by way of placement, comprising:(i) a minimum of 184,500,000
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      2291 24 BANK OF SINGAPORE LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARIES (Incorporated in Singapore) V PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNTS NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Cro c ot for the year ended 31 December 1998 These notes form n integral part of and should be read in conjunction with the financial statements '99® 1997 Group Bank
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      1390 25 ™e principal activities of the subsidiaries, their places of incorporation and business and the extent 33 Commitments of the Banks interest in the subsidiaries is as follows: Commitments are agreements to lend to customers in the future, subject to certain conditions 21. Non-performing loans of Such commitments can either be
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      23 26 ♦Due to a technical problem, the Quotation of S'pore Government Stocks column been held over Visions future ,//v BETTER THAN DREAMS »fi/ia PAST
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      106 29 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, NG SENG HIIAT of Blk 181 Boon Lay Dr *02-462, Singapore *****1, have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop Licence in respect of M/s NgTeck Huat Heng Kee located at Blk 175 Boon Lay Dr #01-332, Singapore *****5, and that this application will be
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      108 29 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, LEE BOK ENG of Apt Blk 110 Bukit Purmei Road #02-158, Singapore *****0, have applied for a Beer House First Class Licence in respect of M/s Bee Hian Seafood Restaurant located at Blk 82, #01-03 Tiong Poh Road, Singapore *****2, and that this application
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      237 30 f J*rima J2>imited (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE) NOTICE OF BOOKS CLOSURE DATE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Transfer Books and Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 8 June 1999 to 9 June 1999 (both dates inclusive) for the preparation of dividend warrants. Duly
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      143 30 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, JAMES ANDREW WESCHLER of 6 Claymore Road #15-02 Claymore Plaza, Singapore *****1, have applied for a First Class (Extended) Licence in respect of M/s The English PUB Company Pte Ltd located at 165 Penang Road, Singapore *****1, and that this application will be considered
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      104 30 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, LIM LI HWA of Blk 541 Serangoon NorthAve 4 *03-133 Singapore *****1, have applied for a First Class Beer House Licence in respect of M/s Lucky 128 Kopitiam located at 28 Lorong 15 Geylang Singapore *****5, and that this application will be considered by
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      102 31 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, UMTIONG KANG of Blk 858 Woodlands St 83 *01-218, Singapore *****8, have applied for a Beer House Ist Class Licence in respect of M/s 1018 Eating House located at 1018 Sembawang Road, Singapore *****4, and that this application will be considered by the Liquors
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      104 31 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, LEE CHIANG CHOON of 17 King's Drive Singapore *****5, have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop Licence in respect of M/s Crystal Wines Spirits Pte Ltd located at 01-08 The Promenade, 300 Orchard Road Singapore *****1, and that this application will be considered by
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      105 31 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, WEETECK SENG JON of 132 Lor Ah Soo *02-396 Singapore *****2, have applied for a Public House, First Class (Extended) Licence in respect of M/s Glitters Entertainment Pte Ltd located at 1A Neil Road Singapore *****4, and that this application will be considered by
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      786 32 [NOTICES"™'"*''^ l—1 UNITED ENGINEERS LIMITED (Incofporated in the Repubitc of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Eighty-Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 81A Clemenceau Avenue, sth Storey, Park Avenue Suites, UE Square, Singapore *****8, on Monday. 24 May 1999
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      430 32 J2>imited (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, 201 Keppel Road, Singapore *****9 on Wednesday, 26 May 1999 immediately after the conclusion of the
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      270 33 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE sale of the panamax bulker Chiyoshima Maru (68,000/89) continued the recent trend of improved levels for this type. After a number of inspections, competition pushed the price up to around US$lO.4 million. The buyers are said to be Greeks but as yet
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      241 33 kf ijo sj CWTOMrttvtlon—089 003 i62 Chun Hup 0.95 0.04 1429 Co*ce Investment—1-02 002 431 FreMtUnki 028 001 3624 OeHoMn* 0A2 003 280 HalSunHup 0.63 002 S39 IMC HoMlnqs-HK —5AO unch 0 JeryeHoMlngt 0.90 unch 881 Jurone Shipyard 7.05 020 1*3 KappelCorp 4.84 0J4 1813 KeppelFtLS 4.14 0.08
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      APL clinches 400 service deals on trans-Pac trade
      395 33  -  Confidential contracts on Asia-US west coast trade negotiated with deregulation of ocean shipping in US By] Marcus Hand [SlNGAPOßE] NOL's container and logistics arm APL has clinched nearly 400 confidential contracts on the AsiaUS west coast trade which were processd and negotiated
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      NOL's financial health depends on securing trans-Pacific rate hikes
      594 33  -  LINER SCENE By\ Marcus Hand WITH the annual general rate increase on the transPacific trade to the US implemented on May 1, it is make or break time for Singapore's national shipping line Neptune Orient Lines (NOL). The group's container shipping
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      Lock icon P&0 unit wins stake in Indon terminal
      189 33 AFP [JAKARTA] P&O Ports, a division of P&O Australia Ltd, has won the tender for the purchase of a 49 per cent stake in a state-owned container terminal at Indonesia's second largest port, Surabaya. P&O Ports paid U*****.7 million (*****.29 million) for the
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      Lock icon Johor Port's total cargo volume down slightly
      240 33 Bernama [JOHOR BARU] While the overall traffic at Johor Port slipped marginally from 20.81 million tonnes in 1997 to 19.32 million tonnes last year, it registered positive trends in other areas. The combined traffic of liquid and containerised cargo posted 2.61 per cent
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      Lock icon China Shipping to transport crude under joint venture
      451 33 Reuters [HONGKONG] China Shipping Development Co Ltd said that it would be a direct beneficiary of an oil shipping joint venture between its parent and a Europe-based shipping company. Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, China Shipping, with Hongkonglisted H
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        Number of ships and lives lost at sea increasing
        383 34  -  1998 also saw steep rise in bnlker sinkings, says lUA Reports by David Hughes inLondon MORE ships and lives were lost last year than in 1997, new figures from the International Underwriting Association of London (lUA) show. The lUA says 359
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        Lloyd's Register under pressure as NK grows
        284 34 UK-BASED classification society Lloyd's Register (LR) announced reduced income and, for the first time in several years, a deficit for 1998 as LR's share of the classification market continued to slip. Shipping Times understands current figures show LR with 19.1 per cent of
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        Salvage Association in major revamp
        151 34 AS PART of a major restructuring of the Salvage Association (SA), its general manager since 1986, Michael Ellis, is leaving the organisation. His replacement by the author of a recent business study of the SA, Roy Padgett, signals a "repositioning" of the surveying body in
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          ISF tackles problem of stranded crews
          79 34 THE Internationa] Shipping Federation (ISF), at its annual meeting in Rotterdam last week, considered the problem of seafarers left stranded in remote parts of the world by non-ISF-member shipowners. ISF president Rolf Westfal-Larsen said: "Responsible employers have a collective duty to consider all possible
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          Shippers defend ship scrapping
          91 34 SELLING old ships for disposal is not some devious means of getting rid of hazardous waste, said International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) president Rolf Westfal-Larsen. Speaking at the ICS annual meeting in Rotterdam, held with the ISF annual meeting, last week, he said: "We fUlly appreciate
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          Greenpeace joins fight against FOCs
          99 34 ENVIRONMENTAL campaign group Greenpeace International has joined the International Transport Workers' Federation's campaign against the use of open registers (Flags of Convenience FOCs). The organisations jointly prepared a report "Troubled Waters" for discussion by government representatives at last week's meeting of the UN Commission on
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          Shake-up at Royal Olympic Cruise Lines
          89 34 THE principal shareholders of Greek cruise company Royal Olympic Cruise Lines, Andreas Potamianos and Alex Keusseolglou, have taken control as co-chairmen of the crisis-hit listed company. Non-executive chairman Gordon Parham and two non-executive directors have resigned. The company lost US$B.l million (5513.7 million) in
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          Western Bulk Shipping restructures
          101 34 NORWEGIAN-listed owner Western Bulk Shipping (WBS) is restructuring by forming a new holding company, Western Bulk Carriers ASA, which will own its operating/chartering and brokerage businesses and 42,000 dwt, 1998-built bulker Western Iris. The move is designed to split WBS's operating and chartering activities from its
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      SHIPPING SCHEDULES INDEX
      320 34 PACE Frota 12 AMI J Frt links 14 Accord 8 CLink 4 AhrenkieI 14 <*Mrtr«w 6 AASCO 12 Genshpg M Appenslwp 5 Glory N,¥ m Austral 8 HaiSunHu P '2 Avant 14 Hi0 9 li 7 B'tang Mas 8 Haniift 3 BSA 7 Heung-A 4 TL M
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        599 47 >mw< Voy No Mrth Arrival Departure Etoffshore 8 01/99 J H alongside 04.05/1700 Hms Premium ***** J13 alongside 06.05/0700 Joint Spirit 6A J09 alongside 04.05/1800 Ju Piter Uc90 JTI alongside 05.05/2359 Marcopoio 12 02/99J J02 alongside 04.05/0900 Stott Azalea Anz56 J12 alongside 02.05/2100 Zeynep Ana 1/99 J17 alongside
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1744 47 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booklno/Bataoc* Rstls Ship VoyNo Etb/Btr Period From To From Aci Mtncu 02« 04/1400 M 02/1500 02/1*5* 02/1*00 02/1500 02/1659 02/1*00 2* 02/1700 03/0*5* 01/0*00 21 02/1700 01/0*5* 01/0*00 3 01/0700 01/115* 01/1400 4 01/1200 01/145* 01/1700 HUM 525 01/1200 M
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        VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
        437 47 Cjrbon 180 Mm WS.1 0.9 19.8 0.10 66 0.09 Apr» OmkHt Dattr 8mMm At* Afcmlntum Sediment No above £25 I 0 10 0 0 0 %MAI 300 Ave 907.4 0.4 a« 0.07 36 0X2 tin. 380 Mil 9917 U t9.S 0.09 58 0.04 Wwi in M/»
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        GLOBAL HOLIDAYS
        143 47 May 8 France: Victoria Day. May 13 Indonesia: Ascension Day. Germany: Ascension Day. France: Ascension Day. Austria: Ascension Day. Belgium: Ascension Day. Denmark: Ascension Day. Finland: Ascension Day. May 24 Germany: Whit Monday. France: Whit Monday. Austria: Whit Monday. Belgium: Whit Monday. Canada: Victoria Day. Denmark: Whit Monday.
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        788 47 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        Lock icon European air traffic up 5.4% in first quarter
        366 48 Number of passengers up 8%; airport council fears capacity constraints Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] European aircraft movements rose 5.4 per cent In the first three months of this year, while passenger numbers grew 8 per cent, Airports Council International (ACI) for the European region
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        Lock icon Philippine Airlines chairman may quit
        319 48 Offer to step down comes after creditor refuses to back restructuring plan Reuters [MANILA] President Joseph Estrada said Philippine Airlines Inc (PAL) chairman and chief executive officer Lucio Tan had offered to step down after a major creditor withdrew support for the airline's restructuring plan.
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        Lock icon Lufthansa to buy 60 jets worth US$1.6b
        217 48 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Lufthansa AG will place an order for 60 jets worth an estimated US$l.6 billion from Fairchild Dornier, marking a decisive victory for the US planemaker in its bid to launch a family of regional jets, people familiar with the contract
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          Lock icon Aer Lingus plans to join oneworld
          65 48 Reuters (DUBLIN) State-owned Irish airline Aer Lingua said It planned to join the oneworld alliance, which includes British Airways and American Airlines. An Aer Lingus spokesman said that the proposed alliance, which requires government approval, was with British Airways and American Airlines directly, but
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          Lock icon SIA, SAS in frequent flyer programme
          60 48 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines Ltd has started a Joint frequent Oyer programme with northern European carrier Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). The programme, which started on Saturday, allows members of the two carriers' frequent flyer programmes to accrue and redeem mileage on both airlines across
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          Lock icon Proton not planning to raise prices
          21 48 AFX-Asia Cnm'ranv rhtaf AvcwMitivo nfTirpr Mahnloat ArifftßOc pw*y cniei Qxocutivc on iccr Maufli6€i Arm wss
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        Lock icon Cathay's passenger volume up, load factor down
        217 48 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific Airways says that the number of passengers it carried in January and February rose compared with the same period last year, while the percentage of seats it filled fell because growth in capacity outpaced traffic growth. In its biweekly
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
        1595 48 OTT FUCHT ETA FII6HT ETO CZ353 2045 CZ352 0835 Adelaide BA7381 1930 BA7382 2055 Hanoi VNT41 1310 VH742 0905 0F81 1930 0F82 2055 S0175 1830 $0176 1035 Amsterdam GA973 0945 KL838 2300 TW740 MM KL837 1455 Hit Yal TG407 1540 TG408 1640 AkMM4 N***** 2045 N*****
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      19 33 Number of ships and lives lost at sea increasing 1998 also saw steep rise in bulker sinkings. Page 2
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      109 33 European air traffic up 5.4% in first quarter Number of passengers up 8% BackPage We can't deliver to Mars (yet), but our fast service covers the earth. O I or the most efficient service, in Asia and around the world, go with MOI We offer faster transit times, greater frequency
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      1166 34 1 NORTH AMERICA I EXPORT 1 1 OTHER DESTINATIONS 1 SSX SUPER SHUTTLE EXPRESS DIRECT TO LA WEST COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA (MARGARITA SERVICE) 1 wssa vor nasal ma umgkach daius Houston okaco nrvtox moococjtt vnsa vqt pT| rann |ym in—w I n j laSwiwiE ooaauKMNu MSI* m/is "osTos jiToj
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      756 34 a Lmes services represented :'|§l> by Members o» the Registry of /Wfft WSfJ) Accredited Shipping Agents falM S,ngapof Singapore Sh.pp.ng Association NORTH WEST EXPRESS UNE ACCEPTING CONTAINERS, BREAKBULK PROJECT CARGO TO DAMPIER/FREMANIU (MONTHLY SERVICE) MV "TBN" ETA SIN 20/05/99 BOOKINGS CALL JUUA/MONKA TEL 323 4374 CONTAINERS/ CONVENTIONAL CARGO W" UANG/SMGAPOKE/iUMU
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      39 35 CONTAINER SERVICE SPORE/JAKARTA/SEMARANG/SURABAYA VESSEIWOY SPORE JAKARTA SEMARANG SURABAYA PERMAJIO433-433 0105 05-05 07f15 PERMAI I 0434-434 10«5 12/05 14/05 PERMAJ *****-435 17D5 1»05 21/05 PERMAIIIOO2M29 05/05 0&05 PERMAJ *****0-030 12/05 15*15 PERMAI *****1-031 19/05 22A>5 PERMAI H 0032-032 26/05 2*05
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      1674 36 DSR-SEHATOR LINES TO UK/CONTINENT TO MEDnTORANEANCANADA J*®!!: wy sw itH im iw hm m m «sstt voy or spi fos w.c wm ™«»U* WOKO 02 05 24 OS »06 22« 23 OS 2S OS IBM SIM WKI M M 23 K 2S OS 27 OS 2005 KJI KAKJWIMAITA W,B?1 24.06
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      316 37 V—Eastern Car Ijnkr, Ltd. m \t\ kksmmtoto PH LTD J3SSL 1 SPECIALIZEIH ROUP HEAVY UfT UPTQ 450 TOWS EQ (SIMGAPOtE) PTE 09 LOADING FOR MANILA PORT KLANG MV -CORAL HERO" V.16 MV "OCEAN SAMPAGUfTA" V.20 ETA SN 29/04/99 EU MNL 04/05/99 EU SIN 30/04/99 ETA PKL 01/05/99 PORT KLANG/YOKOHAMA CALCUTTA/CHITTAGONG
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