The Business Times, 11 May 1999

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    12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MlTAO>>i«n iliuiks 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ TUESDAY, MAY 11,1999
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    67 1 □sn 18C&38 (-37.07) n w-m fcj 7HLO6 (-10.37) □SQuanrruiES 278J0 (-1.70) nHABKETMOODc KB Mixed STOCK MASKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP 706.83 +14.16 NIKKEI *****.01 «)0.49 HANG SENG 13,16X20 +166.77 SET INDEX 490.43 +1118 JAKARTA COMP __674M 4.70 MANILA COMP __2*44£3 +3&07 TAIPEI WPI 7,***** +16.04 SEOUL COMP
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    FINANCE
    81 1 FOBE! BATES us$ ss 08$ 1.700 £(US$/S$ per L» I7tt EUR0(US$/S$ per E) 1.074 L826 DM 1.822 0J8S YEN 12(18 1.407* RM 1800 0.447 HKS 7.761 Oilt BAHT 3685 0.040 RUP1AH 7,800 0.022 St >0100 louts PUKE BATES SINGAPORE* 6.828 KUALA LUMPUR 11.60 JAKARTA 28.00 BANGKOK 14.75 MANILA 2190
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    Effective Capital refutes SES comments
    1327 1  -  FOCUS OX CLOB Cash offer is aniqne so there are no 'generally accepted standards', it says By Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Effective Capital, the Malaysian company controlled by Singapore-born businessman Akbar Khan which has made a multi-bil-lion dollar cash offer for all suspended Clob securities, yesterday
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    HSBC to buy RNYC, Safra Republic for US$10.3b
    797 1  -  This will double HSBC's private banking business Frorw Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong IN one of the largest takeovers of a US bank by a foreign institution, HSBC Holdings pic yesterday said it plans to buy US-based Republic New York Corporation (RNYC)
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    Marked rise in June COE prices
    491 1  -  Demand for bigger cars, commercial vehicles picks up By< Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] COE premiums for June rose convincingly as demand for cars, especially the bigger ones, resumed. In the second tender since four car categories were merged into two, premiums for certificates of entitlement
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    STI bucks Asia trend with 2% loss
    278 1  -  Greenspan, DPM's comments not shaken off yet By\ R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] US interest rate worries and recent comments that local stocks may be overvalued continued to haunt the stock market yesterday, with the Straits Times Index losing another 37.07 points or 2 per
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      133 1 DHBDE The Property Ottmnii Lee Kan Shih on why the government should resume land sales this year, Pg 4 UhMM Yang Razali Kassim looks at the factors at work in the presidential elections in Indonesia, Pg 11 BE] P m JL I Kftto boohing US President Bill Clinton, seeking to
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      19 1 Pull text of statement, Pg 2 'KLSE rally due to trading halt on Clob', Pg2 Market reports, Pg 18-22
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  • FOCUS ON CLOB
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      Lock icon Effective Capital responds to SES statement
      2552 2  -  Dato' Haji Mohamed Moiz Chief executive officer May 10, 1999 THEfollowing is thefull text of the response of Effective Capital Sdn Bhd (Effective Capital) to the statement of the Stock Exchange of Singapore Ltd (SES) on the cash offer. The SES statement of May
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      'KLSE rally due to trading halt on Clob'
      408 2  -  So it's grossly nnf&ir to demand today's price: NST writer Prom Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE spike in Malaysian share prices in the last few months is partly due to the termination of trading in Malaysian shares on Singapore's Clob International,
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      330 2 (±s SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Carbondale, Illinois, USA American MBA Internationally Accredited by AACSB 18 months 11 modules 495 contact hours Fully Accredited by NCACS 100% taught by University's professors 2nd Intake in Singapore Starting 28 May '99 100% in Singapore Management Education Centre «nDm one of America s 10 Anson
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Construction jobs awarded in February dive 73%
      308 3  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Construction By Corinne Kerk AFTER a sharp and sudden recovery in January, construction contracts awarded continued their downward momentum, plunging 73 per cent year-on-year in February, according to preliminary figures. Numbers from the Building and Con- struction Authority (BCA)
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      SAC denies it is closing its plant
      382 3  -  Sources claim $l.lb p&r&xylene plant to be mothballed for about three years By] Eugene Low SINGAPORE Aromatics Company (SAC) once again denied rumours that it will be closing down its $1.1 billion paraxylene plant here. Responding to queries from BT, an SAC spokeswoman
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      Lock icon Merrill Lynch sues ex-employee for US$25m
      309 3 The Straits Times INVESTMENT bank Merrill Lynch International is suing a former top-earning employee for more than US$25 million (5542.5 million) in the High Court here. It is alleging that Kevin Wallace, 48, who used to handle the share trading accounts of its private
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      321 3 YOU'VE GROWN YOUR BUSINESS DESPITE INDUSTRY HICCUPS, DOWNSIZING AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS. ARE YOU ABOUT TO BE UNDONE BY YOUR FINANCIAL SOFTWARE? After everything your business has survived, isn't it ironic that the biggest threat may be lurking down the corridor in the accounting department? The truth is, it's impossible
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Lock icon Resume govt land sales this year
      710 4  -  THE PROPERTY COLUMN A Colliers Jardine study suggests that the recent heavy demand for 99-year leasehold condos could lead to short supply in the so-called upgrader segment next year By Lee Han Shih THERE is a glut in the housing market, but the government
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      112 4 PRIME INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FOR SALE 1) Address 57 Senoko Drive Description 5 blocks of purpose-built office, factory and warehouse Land Area 28,989 sqm Gross Floor Area Approx. 22,006 sqm Tenure :JTC Leasehold 30+30 years wef 01 February 1982 2) Address 24 Senoko Drive Description 2 blocks of purpose-built office, factory
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Golkar may be banned from campaigning
      271 5 JAKARTA Reuters, AFP INDONESIA'S ruling party Golkar may be barred from campaigning for the June 7 elections after charges that it had used money from an aid programme for its own political gains, a newspaper reported yesterday. Media Indonesia quoted an official from the
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      Lock icon The return of the man with the Midas touch
      511 5 KUALA LUMPUR Bolton, Kejora shares soar with Samsndin Aba Hassan onboard Bloomberg SAMSUDIN Abu Hassan is back. Once one of Malaysia's best-known stockmarket players, Mr Samsudin is making his presence felt in his home country again by joining the boards of
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      Property sale campaign begins in KL on Saturday
      486 5  -  Month-long blitz to target locals, under RM250,000 homes From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S property developers are gearing up for yet another mass property blitz beginning this Saturday, barely four months after the first month-long Home Ownership Campaign closed in
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      Lock icon Lufthansa may manage PAL: official
      279 5 MANILA Bat it won't pot in fresh capital to help debt-laden airline Bloomberg, AFP [MANILA] Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's second largest airline, may take management control of Philippine Airlines Inc, though it's unwilling to invest any money, a senior Philippine official said yesterday. Trade Secretary
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
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      Lock icon M'sia to return to debt market with bond issue
      401 6 FT [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is to unveil a bond issue within the next fortnight that will demonstrate its emergence from the status of financial pariah and provide further evidence of Asia's rehabilitation in international capital markets. A successful outcome for the
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      Lock icon Sony wants Malaysia to maintain currency peg
      404 6 Company optimistic about recovery in M'sian economy; investments to continue AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Japan's electronics giant Sony Corp hopes Malaysia will maintain its much criticised currency peg to spur exports of domestic manufactured goods. The company's Malaysian operation, hopeful of strong growth here,
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      Lock icon Japanese private sector urged to invest in Asia
      399 6 Put money in Asian equities as growth in region seen: govt Reuters [TOKYO] The Japanese government aims to encourage Japanese private investors to sink money into Asian securities, as its public aid has helped these nations to weather the crisis and begin
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      Lock icon 'We're looking at 4% GDP growth for Korea this year'
      665 6 The central bank governor talks about challenges ahead and the desired exchange rate for the won Bridge News Following are selected excerpts from a recent exclusive Bridge interview with Chon Choi Hwan, the governor of South Korea's central bank, the
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      Lock icon Rupiah gains 2.7% as IMF sees 2% GDP growth
      409 6 Bloomberg, Bridge News, AFP [JAKARTA] The Indonesian rupiah gained as much as 2.7 per cent against the US dollar to a four-month high as investors grew upbeat about the economy, reinforced by the International Monetary Fund's improved economic projection yesterday. The
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      Lock icon Thai firms upbeat about recovery: report
      287 6 Bat they're worried about forex risks; political uncertainty Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai corporations are increasingly confident about prospects for economic recovery but are concerned about political uncertainty and foreign exchange risks, a government think tank said in a report. The Office of the National Economic
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      22 6 TT Ntl On top nftlUk HE i I HHIwMp WMKFi fit i *T"T* MrIT scene f-rSCT? fit i n: BuainesUT, ereryMonday in
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China must cut interest rates, says official newspaper
      254 7 BEIJING Reuters CHINA must cut interest rates again to counter deflation and safeguard the long-term stability of its currency, the official China Securities newspaper said yesterday. "The excessively high level of the actual interest rate and a growing deflationary trend are undisputable
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      Lock icon Beijing posts 9% value-added industrial growth
      408 7 BEIJING Industrial sector completed 170b yuan added value in April: statistics bureau AFP, Bloomberg CHINA clocked up a 9.1 per cent growth rate in industrial value added in April compared with the same period last year, the State Statistics Bureau (SSB) said in a
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      Lock icon Chinese experts to give cities economic advice
      184 7 BEIJING Scientists, economists, officials to tour the country Bernama ONE hundred leading Chinese scientists, economists, officials and business tycoons will tour the nation later this month to give advice on local economic development. From May to December, they plan to give eight lectures
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      Lock icon China Construction Bank profitable
      322 7 SHANGHAI Bat rate cuts will drain 6.8b yuan from coffers: report Bridge News THe China Construction Bank (CCB), one of China's four largest state-owned commercial banks, has reaffirmed its profitability but says interest rate cuts will drain an estimated 6.8 billion yuan (Ssl.4 billion) from its
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      Lock icon Foreign firms cool to China power growth
      361 7 BEIJING Poor demand growth despite 7% rise in power output cited Bloomberg A RECENT surge in power output in China is failing to revive the enthusiasm of foreign investors disillusioned by weak demand growth and tough negotiations with their local partners. China's electricity
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Aussie gold stocks suffer sharpest drop in a decade
      372 8 SYDNEY Investors dump them after UK sale, sending Gold Index down Bloomberg, Reuters [SYDNEY] Australian gold stocks yesterday posted their biggest one-day drop this decade, reversing last Friday's largest rally in six years, as investors responded to the plan by the
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      Lock icon Australia gets good data ahead of today's budget
      250 8 SYDNEY April job ads up 1.6%; business conditions remain strong AFP AUSTRALIA'S government yesterday received another raft of good economic news as it prepared to release a budget largely designed to fulfill election promises. A rise in April job advertisements showed employment
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      Lock icon French insurer Axa enters race to buy Korea Life
      270 8 SEOUL US group Met Life opts out after nearly a year of talks AFP FRENCH insurance group Axa and three other firms have joined the race to buy ailing Korea Life Insurance Co, one of South Korea's three largest insurers, financial
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      Lock icon Cricket fever
      72 8 [BOMBAY] Workers adding the final touches to a giant replica of the cricket World Cup in Bombay yesterday. The cup will be on display in more than 20 Indian cities during the tournament which is set to begin in England on Thursday. Cricket fever is raging across the
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      Lock icon Korean savings rate hit 13-year low in 1998
      181 8 ■SEOUL Bloomberg SOUTH Korea's savings rate last year dropped to its lowest level in 13 years and will probably fall again this year as the government spends more on unemployment benefits and consumer confidence returns. The proportion of national income Koreans, including
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon S'pore keeps 4th spot in forex league
      845 9 BASLE, Switzerland It maintains 4th position after London, US, Japan despite Asian crisis AFX-Asia, Bloomberg, Reuters SINGAPORE consolidated its position in the top league as a centre for foreign exchange transactions, a study by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) showed. The Republic
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      Lock icon Global financial crisis has eased, says G-10
      223 9 BASLE, Switzerland Bloomberg THE Group of 10 central bank governors said the global financial crisis has eased, and they expect economic growth of more than 3 per cent in the US and some recovery in re-cession-battered Asia, Bundesbank president Hans Tietmeyer said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Satellite launch market expected to triple in ten years
      316 9 PARIS Bloomberg DEMAND for satellite launches will likely triple over the next decade to as many as 163 a year, worth an estimated US$55 billion (5593.5 billion), as commercial use of satellites rises, said a space market analyst. An average of
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      Lock icon US scientist gave radar secrets to China: report
      193 9 WASHINGTON AFP A US scientist working at the Pentagon gave China classified information about advanced radar technology' being developed to track submarines, The New York Times reported yesterday. The research, which the defence department had jealously guarded, was divulged to Chinese nuclear
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Push for quick WTO entry for China
        76 9 Reuters [TOKYO] The world's top four trading powers will call for China's quick entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Kyodo news agency reported yesterday. In a draft statement prepared ahead of two-day talks beginning in Tokyo today, the US, Japan, the European
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        Lock icon Costlier goods from UK factories
        66 9 Reuters [LONDON] The cost of goods leaving British factories jumped last month, but core inflationary pressures in the recovering economy remained benign, economists said. The cost of manufacturing goods jumped 0.7 per cent in April to produce a year-on-year rise of 1.0 per cent, the
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        Lock icon Bill Gates donates US$50m
        41 9 NYT [NEW YORK] Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has given US$5O million (SsB4 million) to Columbia University's Joseph L Mailman School of Public Health for a programme to prevent mothers in developing nations from dying during childbirth. NYT
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      Lock icon Clinton apologises publicly for bombing of Chinese embassy
      648 9 BELGRADE AFP. Bridge News, Bloomberg, Reuters AMERICAN President Bill Clinton, seeking to contain widespread criticism of last Friday's Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade by mistake, has publicly apologised to China. "I want to say to
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      84 9 I FREE Property Management Seminar I I Commercial Retail Industrial Apartments Houses H I Adding value to your asset Economic facilities management H I Tenant retention Statutory compliance issues Tax GST effective accounting H Two identical seminars are to be held on H I SATURDAY 29TH MAY 1999 (3PM-SPM) AND
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Power balance shifts away from Java
      698 10  -  THB BOTTOM LDfll OPINION By Shoeb Kagda The writer is BT's Jakarta correspondent FOR the past five decades since achieving independence from Dutch colonial rule, Indonesia's political and economic landscape has been monopolised by the Javanese. The country's two long-serving presidents before B J
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      138 10 'British citizenship is not a bauble to be bought or traded. It is a privilege.' Gerald Howarth Conservative Member of Parliament, welcoming Britain's refusal of citizenship for the second time to Mohamed Al Fayed, the Egyptian-born owner of the renowned Harrods department store. 'It would take quite
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      Reinventing Singapore banks
      633 10 EDITORIAL UP until about two years ago, Singaporean banks could count on remaining largely local in their focus, having the retail domestic market mostly to themselves, and not being unduly pressured to either grow or innovate. As Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew suggested last week, this is
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      Lock icon Europeans look to Prodi to renew EU executive
      907 10  -  And Italy's former prime minister says he is ready for job of European Commission chief By Shada Islam The writer is a Brussels-based journalist who contributes to BT DISCREDITED by charges of cronyism and fraud made against some of its top officials
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      1056 10 Fallout from Matobfamdor AS THE Nato campaign against Yugoslavia drags on, it begins increasingly to take on the characteristics of Greek tragedy. Nato's stillstated belief that it can drive a man like President Slobodan Milosevic to capitulate through hi-tech, airborne weaponry alone, without ground troops, is
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    Lock icon Golkar and the presidential race
    2293 11  -  Marzuki's push for Wiranto has not been able to blunt Habibie's surprising lead in the run-up to the November presidential elections in Indonesia Reports by Yang Razali Kassim The writer is BT's regional analysis editor (Part n will appear tomorrow). [SINGAPORE] MARZUKI Darusman a surprise
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    An insider's view: Marzuki speaks
    1443 11 Q: Golkar has thrown up five candidates for the presidency President Habibie, Golkar chairman Akbar Tanjung, armed forces chief General Wiranto, Coordinating Economic Minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita and the Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X of Yogyakarta. How did these names emerge? A: These names came from a
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Hollywood goes Down Under
      486 12 Lower costs and a highly developed film industry attract filmmakers Reuters [SYDNEY] Hollywood has discovered Australia and film production Down Under is booming. The latest blockbuster out of Australia, Warner Bros' sci-fi film The Matrix starring Keanu Reeves, took a record US$BO-plus million (Ssl36 million) worldwide
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon SembCorp Logistics sells Wah Kwong stake
      404 13  -  $23m sale of holdings in HK shipping firm will rid group of debilitating division By Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] SembCorp Logistics (SCL) has sold its stake in Wah Kwong Shipping Holdings for $23 million in a move that will rid the group of the debilitating
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      Lock icon SIA expects to close deal on Ansett stake
      451 13 It hopes to sign pact with seller News Corp soon Bloomberg [TOKYO] Singapore Airlines, Asia's most profitable carrier, expects to strike a deal to buy 50 per cent of Ansett Holdings from News Corp within the next few weeks, executive vice-president Michael
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      Need to examine large price jumps before news
      828 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW R Sivanithy WHAT do Singapore Petroleum, Hind Hotels, Popular Holdings, Panpac Media and Hwa Hong have in common? For those who have been following the stockmarket action in the past month, the answer would be simple: all are thinly-traded
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      Lock icon Courts expects to beat analysts' forecasts
      197 13 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Furniture and home appliances retailer Courts (Singapore) Ltd says it expects to better analysts' earnings forecast for fiscal 1999 on improved sales and smaller provisions for bad debts. Six analysts polled by The Estimate Directory have forecast Courts' profit for the year
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      Is Omni Industries the next sale on the cards?
      489 13  -  Wnthelam has sold Liang Court; there are reports it may sell Delteq By Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Will contract manufacturer Omni Industries be the next firm in the Wuthelam stable to be sold? Electronics analysts are asking the question following Wuthelam's sale
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    • COMPANIES
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        Chase launches US$750m private investment fund
        325 14  -  It will invest in Asian companies to generate long-term capital appreciation By* Clarissa Tan [SINGAPORE] Chase Manhattan Corp has launched a private investment fund aimed at riding on the recovery of the Asian economies, a statement from the bank said yesterday. The fund was
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        Lock icon Brierley sells stake in Fletcher Challenge's forestry division
        249 14 Sale of 5J% share reaps NZs43m for the company Bloomberg [WELLINGTON] Brierley Investments Ltd has sold its 5.1 per cent stake in Fletcher Challenge Ltd's forestry division, reaping about NZ$43 million (5540.9 million) through the deal. Brierley gained the shares as part
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        Lock icon Johnson Electric buys Electric Motor Systems
        218 14 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Johnson Electric Holdings Ltd said it has acquired Electric Motor Systems from Lear Corp for US$3lO million (*****.8 million). It said the acquisition represents a significant step forward in Johnson Electric's strategy of strengthening its world leadership position in the design, development
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        Lock icon Tenaga set to report profit in H1 after 2 yrs of losses
        505 14 Power producer seen as major beneficiary of KL's currency peg Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Tenaga Nasional Bhd, Malaysia's largest power producer, is likely to have swung to a firsthalf profit, making it one of the biggest beneficiaries of the
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        704 14  -  It'll strengthen bank's future fond raising position in US From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE purchase of Republic New York Corporation (RNYC) and Safra Republic Holdings by HSBC Holdings will provide a good strategic fit in terms of product
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        537 14 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Fair value estimates of Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd shares are diverging sharply as analysts struggle to place a current price on the future earnings of a nascent Asian Internet and multimedia business. By different accounts, Hongkong Telecom is either an enfeebled
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          CDL unit cuts stake in NZ subsidiary
          75 14 [SINGAPORE] City Developments Ltd (CDL) subsidiary Educado Company Ltd has disposed of its 1.26 per cent shareholding, comprising 4.4 million ordinary shares, in CDL Hotels New Zealand Ltd (CDLHNZ) —a subsidiary of CDL Hotels International Ltd (CHIL), which is in turn a subsidiary
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          Ipco on rise in share price, volume
          72 14 [SINGAPORE] Ipco International has told the Stock Exchange of Singapore that apart from any effect arising from the company's announcement on May 4, its directors are not aware of any reason for the substantial increase in the company's share price and trading volume
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          Dragon Land unit sells golf course stake
          69 14 [SINGAPORE] Dragon Land subsidiary Qingdao Huashan International Country Club Co has sold a 10 per cent interest in its completed first 18-hole golf course with club house the Qingdao Huashan International Country Club—to the Jiangsu ChenXing Phosph Chemicals Group for 32.42 million yuan
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          SES nod for Inno-Pac placement
          68 14 [SINGAPORE] Inno-Pacific Holdings has received in-principle approval from the stock exchange for its proposed placement of 23.7 million new shares, or about 10 per cent of its existing paid-up capital, at 20 cents each to Tong Keng Meng. The net proceeds of about $4.7 million
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        Lock icon NTT units, H-P to collaborate on network applications
        228 15 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Nippon Telegraph Telephone Corp, the world's largest phone company, says two of its subsidiaries will form an alliance with Hewlett-Packard Co to strengthen their multimedia businesses. NTT-ME Corp, NTT-ME Information Xing Inc and Hewlett-Packard Japan Ltd, the Japanese unit of
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        307 15 Move aimed at holding off potential predators report Bloomberg [MADRID] Telefonica SA, Spain's biggest telephone company, wants to become part of a possible merger between SBC Communications Inc, the fifth-biggest local phone company in the US, and Telefonos de Mexico SA, Mexico's national telephone company,
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          Lock icon NEC in tie-up talks with GEC
          89 15 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's computer giant NEC Corp yesterday said it was in talks with General Electric Co of Britain over a telecoms tie-up. "We are currently under negotiation with the GEC group over telecoms cooperation," said an NEC spokesman. Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper said
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          Lock icon Canada's Teleglobe has big US$5b plans
          74 15 Bloomberg [MONTREAL] Teleglobe Inc, Canada's largest international long-distance phone company, plans to spend US$5 billion (SsB.s billion) over the next five years to boost the capacity and reach of its network, making it the world's largest. The company said the move will double the
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          Lock icon Ericsson in US$290m Guangdong deal
          68 15 Reuters [STOCKHOLM] Swedish group Ericsson yesterday said it had signed a US$29O million (***** million) contract with China Telecom to supply GSM mobile telephone equipment to Guangdong province. The project, set to begin in June and be completed in 2000, would bring the Guangdong Mobile
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          Lock icon Philips to buy US voice equipment firm
          45 15 AFP [AMSTERDAM] Philips said yesterday it will pay about US$59 million (*****.3 million) for US company Voice Control Systems which specialises in making voice-recognition equipment. It said VCS would become a key element of Philips Speech Processing. —AFP
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          Lock icon Toyota studying C & W's IDC offer
          55 15 Toyota studying C W's IDC offer AFP [TOKYO] Toyota Motor Corp yesterday said it was still studying an offer from Britain's Cable and Wireless which wants to buy International Digital Communications, a long-distance Japanese telecoms carrier. The British firm has put in a bid to buy up IDC, in which
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        Lock icon Chevron's proposed Texaco buyout will boost Asia business
        608 15 Talks on merger, which will give Chevron control of Caltex, being held Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Chevron Corp, the fourth largest US oil company, will raise its market share in the Asia-Pacific if it buys rival Texaco Inc as it will gain control of
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        Lock icon Lucent unveils single chip for Internet phones
        405 15 'Phone-On-A-Chip' distills fnntions of five chips into one Reuters, Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Lucent Technologies Inc said yesterday it has distilled the functions of five computer chips into a single chip for telephones that carry voice on Internet networks. Lucent, the world's largest telecommunications
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        Lock icon Microsoft to invest US$600m in Nextel
        447 15 Deal will pnt MSN Internet portal on mobile phones Bloomberg, AFX-Asia [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp, the world's largest software maker, said it will invest US$6OO million (551.02 billion) in Nextel Communications, a nationwide mobile phone company, to give Nextel's customers a wireless version of
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        Lock icon Plans to create Europe's largest steelmaker collapse
        402 16 FT, Reuters [BERLIN] Plans to create Europe's biggest steelmaker collapsed at the weekend when Germany's Salzgitter broke off talks with Arbed of Luxembourg after months at the negotiating table. The decision came after Salzgitter's management and workers shied away from a deal that
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        Lock icon US Treasuries may just not be worth the risk as yields soar
        693 16 Rising bond and equities prices are likely to keep the Japanese off bonds FT [LONDON] Is the bull market in western government bonds drawing to a close? To judge by the sharp rise in US Treasury bond yields
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        541 16  -  From, Neil Behrmann in London THE Asian stockmarket boom and growing hopes of economic recovery in the region are helping to spur metal prices. Since their low points in the past few months, threemonth nickel has surged by 50 per cent on
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        Lock icon Van der Moolen ups stakes in 2 firms
        310 16 It consolidates its interest in NYSE specialist firms Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Van der Moolen Holding NV, a Dutch securities trading firm, increased its stake in two New York Stock Exchange specialist firms last week and plans other acquisitions. Financial terms were not
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        Lock icon PwC poaches KPMG consulting practice in Belgium
        384 16 KPMG considers legal moves against some partners FT [LONDON] PricewaterhouseCooopers (PwC), the professional services firm, was expected to announce yesterday that it had poached the management consulting practice of KPMG in Belgium. This is a further sign of volatility among the "Big Five"
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        Lock icon ING, ASR, Fortis accept higher offer for NIB
        362 16 Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] Financial firms ING Groep NV, Fortis and ASR Verzekeringsgroep NV accepted an offer by ABP and PGGM, the Netherlands' biggest pension funds, to pay 72.50 guilders for Nationale Investeringsbank NV, valuing the investment bank at US$2.2 billion (553.7 billion). ING,
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          Lock icon Last hitch for Tower Corp listing
          104 16 Reuters [WELLINGTON] Just one hurdle remains to the NZ$l billion (S$96Q million) plan by Australasian funds management and insurance company Tower Corporation to demutualise and list on the New Zealand and Australian stock exchanges, managing director James Boonzaier said yesterday. Earlier, a special meeting
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          Lock icon Met Life drops bid for Korea Life
          87 16 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Metropolitan Life Insurance Co erf the US has abandoned efforts to buy Korea Life Insurance Co, leaving Axa SA of France and Korea's LG Group as the likeliest candidates to take over the company, government officials said yesterday. Axa (Europe's largest
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          New World launches convertible bond
          90 16 [HONGKONG] Hongkong property company New World Development launched a US$3OO million (Ssslo million) convertible bond yesterday, sources said The five-year bond carries a coupon 0f2.75-3.25 per cent and a conversion premium of 12-18 per cent, they said. New World stock was suspended from trading yesterday
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          Lock icon New appointments at Prudential
          77 16 Bridge News Bloomberg [LONDON] Prudential Corp pic, the UK's biggest insurer, said yesterday that group chief executive officer Peter Davis will become chairman in May 2000 when current chairman Martin Jacomb retires. The company also said f Jonathan Bloomer, who has been group finance director since
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        Futures down on fears of bank rate hike
        117 17  -  Reports MS& Singapore Index Christopher A Podbury, Jardine Fleming THE SiMSCI futures contract continued to edge lower in trading yesterday, along with the underlying cash market, on concerns that banks may be about to raise domestic interest rates. The front May SiMSCI
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        Futures up as buy orders provide support
        198 17  -  MSG! Taiwan Allures Charlie Kuo Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures finished higher yesterday as stronger April sales posted by financial issues offset concern about heavy selling by foreigners in Taiwan computer chip shares last Friday. The May '99 contract
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        Lock icon Oil glut shrinks as Opec keeps to supply cuts and demand rises: IEA
        360 17 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg [PARIS] A global oil glut is being eroded as Opec countries fulfil their promised production cuts, and demand increases, the International Energy Agency said. The lEA raised its estimate for 1999 global oil demand
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        312 17 Reuters, Bloomberg THE euro jumped over half a cent against the dollar in Europe yesterday after the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said the country's army had ordered some of its forces to start withdrawing from Kosovo. The euro jumped above US$l.OB to its highest since mid-April as dealers
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      1367 18 AFP 71 Hang Seng +166.77 HONGKONG share prices rose 1.3 per cent yesterday, boosted by an announcement by HSBC Holdings pic that it was acquiring a US bank and its European affiliate for a total of US$lO.3 billion (5517.5 billion), dealers said. Hongkong-listed HSBC said it was acquiring US
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      589 18 Reuters Q Shenzhen Binder -4J5 SHARE prices in Shenzhen plunged yesterday in panic selling kindled by fears of souring Sino-US economic ties as the result of Nato's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, brokers said. The hard currency B share index dived 4.15 points, or 7.25 per cent,
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      344 18 AFP P| WP Index +15UH TAIWAN share prices closed 0.2 per cent higher yesterday on buying support for stocks of raw-material companies, dealers said. "Shares of steel and paper companies remained strong because the market can't seem to find support elsewhere in the short term," said Cooper Liao, manager
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2201 18 UMDM v. »ffjjf. > < M«trMs MayM Nam *h 31 Croup 6.95 -0.07 AbtMy National 13.40 -0.29 A B Foods 4.67 -0.19 A B Ports 2.80 -0.01 Alliance Leicester 8.86 0.04 Alltel Domecq 5.39 -0.02 ANMd Zurich 7.75 0.04 Anglo American GoM 40 20 -0.60 ASOA Croup
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      1602 18 AFP H Nikkei 225 *30.41 TOKYO'S key stock index edged up 0.2 per cent yesterday, following a surge on Wall Street towards the weekend, but its topside was heavy due to caution over corporate earnings, brokers said. "The market opened at the day's high on the rally in New
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        8682 19 MOUSTMALS CoASMMf pniwti w Last Vol Day Net Cap H»8> Low Csmpany I* -OOQ HWl Lew P/t tm* 330 255 Ajinomoto 310 17.1 125.6 85 46 Angkase 75 unch 34 77 75 110.6 283 220 Apollo Food Hlg 280 10 8 280 270 9.7 112.0 204 115 Berjaya Land 158
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        Lock icon Shares rise as sentiment stays buoyant
        419 19 AFP AFX-Asia V% Composite Index +14J5 MALAYSIAN share prices closed 2 per cent higher yesterday on local and foreign buying support as sentiment remained buoyant, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 14.15 points to finish at 705.83, but off an
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        2188 20 BONDS. LOANS IVAMANTS m 32-Wk Lest Vol Oey Last Ouot A v« High Ln Stno Company Sat* *or- COOO) High Low Buyer SeUaf Price 25 3 i 31*0 "Acer ******1USS 21.5 231 23 21 2t5 22 35.5 4.5 s 3164 Acma ******4 30.5 -1 509 32 30 29.5 30.5 31
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        Freight Links 2002 wrt better than '99
        193 20  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy TOMORROW, Freight Links Express Holdings will put to a vote a controversial extension of the lifespan of its 1999 warrant by two additional years. The warrant will expire on May 28 unless the motion is passed. Normally, this
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        205 20 HONOKONO STOCKS Or 6r 52-Wk Last Vol Day Lot Ouot* OK OK YM Nat M C« Ht» Law Stwa Comaany 5a* fOOO) Law 8»yac *—f CMr >/t SW 345 173 5123 CDU*****MK 280 id 2*2-5 325 8 3.7 2.9 95 ***** 5124 Cathay Pac 20e HK_720 265 2.1
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      653 20 AFP Q Composite Index -0.76 INDONESIAN share prices closed slightly lower yesterday with a rally in select blue chips limiting broader market declines amid profit-tak-ing, dealers said. A dealer at a major local brokerage said sentiment was still firm but "the market needs some time to consolidate". The dealer
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      902 20 AFP SET Index *2M THAI shares finished up 0.4 per cent yesterday after a day of testing the psychological 500-point mark. Dealers said the market had not yet settled into a new range following steep rises last week as hopes rose of an imminent economic recovery. "The market is
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      318 20 AFP F1 Manila +38.07 PHILIPPINE share prices rose 1.5 per cent yesterday on strong participation by foreign fund managers spurred by a succession of interest rate cuts. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index gained 38.07 points to 2,564.83. A total of 2.3 billion shares worth 4.6 billion pesos changed
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      389 20 AFP P Composite Infai +3J2 SOUTH Korean share prices closed 0.4 per cent higher yesterday in mixed trading, dealers said. They said the index dipped briefly below the 800point level in early trade on profit-taking and higher money market rates before steady foreign buying emerged to lift the market.
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      651 20 AFP QAD Ordinaries +9.00 AUSTRALIAN shares closed up 0.3 per cent yesterday as a resurgent industrial sector made up for a correction in gold and other resource stocks, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed up nine points at 2,996.70. The All Industrials Index closed up 55.3 points at
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      281 20 AFP □Wellington -0.42 NEW Zealand's stock market closed static yesterday ahead of today's Contact Energy float, but trading was active in leading stocks. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended 0.42 point down at 2,226.65 with turnover worth a solid NZ$l5O million. AFP a*® u* nw *3vanta«aMDS 160 -0.01 133 Air
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      STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE: MAIN BOARD
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        369 22 Stacks Volume Allgreen 50c 34,356,000 Asia Foodt Prop 27,734,000 Uraco HldgslOc 15,745,000 Lk>nAslapac25c 15,528,000 IPCO W02 13,879,000 IPCO $1.70 12,619,000 Hotel Prop 11,901,000 Teamsphere 5c 10,715,000 Roly IntUSIOc 10,553,000 Hotung Inv HT5 10,466,000 Wwh Allgreen 50c 60,007,365 KeppelCorp 34,312,760 City Dev 50c 31,575,869 OCBC Foreign 31,573,361 SPH 28,098,302 DBS Land
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        Shares lose ground as investors head for sidelines
        653 22  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY But counters such as Pacific Century and some US$ stocks trade higher in big volumes By R Sivanithy TRADERS headed for the sidelines yesterday in a nervous session where there was no really bad news in the market to
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          008 for StarHub
          95 22 RECENTLY in this column, we shed light on how the Star Hub name came about. We can now disclose another of the many closely-guarded secrets that Singapore's latest fixed-line phone licensee is storing up for the big day when it is ready to unveil all that needs
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          Norton Rose may form venture here
          105 22 PAUL Giles, managing partner of Norton Rose, the English law firm, said it would be interested in forming a joint venture with a Singapore law firm if impending rules to liberalise the legal market are "workable". He was responding to a BT report that
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          Poor Porsche-less Alex Au
          134 22 LIFE can be tough when you go overseas to take up an assignment Take Alex Au, the chief executive of OCBC Bank, who moved from Hongkong to Singapore last year. In an interview with the South China Morning Post yesterday, the former vice-chairman of Hang Seng
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          Jack Chia saga continues
          128 22 THE Jack Chia saga Just refuses to end with the Chia family's lawyers last week asking for a fortnight's adjournment of a hearing they requested for the appointment of a judicial manager for half a dozen of the family's companies. Lawyer George Lim asked for the
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        HOT STOCK
        63 22  -  -By Wong Wei Kong PACIFIC Century Regional Developments shares rose 60 cents to $4 yesterday with 2.24 million shares traded, compared with its 10-day traded average of 1.4 million units. The technical indicators, such as the RSI and Stochastics, are mixed, and with the stock having had a
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      300 23 Bridge News, Reuters TANKER* Rates were showing very little change in most areas of the tanker market. Relatively healthy rates were reported for the big ships from the Persian Gulf and for Aframaxes in the Mediterranean, while Suezmax levels remained depressed with so little activity. ♦Ssangyong booked the
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      248 23 CWT attribution—0.86 0.01 SI ClMM Hup _____-0.97 -0.01 764 Coico Mi»«UiTfOt 0.96 -OOI 200 FraMlt Unki 0-28 0.01 5157 GBnoMngt 0.61 -0.01 1*4 HM Sun Hup 0.71 "0.01 779 HtCHafcSnqs-M —5.60 unch 0 Jw HaMn* 0.84 -0.03 476 Jurong Shipyard 6.95 -OAS 322 KapprfCorp U4 "0-26 7223 Mppa>fTEL».
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      Lock icon OOCL forecasts marked improvement in business in '99
      428 23  -  But serious challenges lie ahead, says head of HK-based company By\ Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Hongkongbased Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) expects to see a "notable improvement" in business in 1999 over last year, but it still sees "serious challenges" lying ahead. "We
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      China shipbuilding giant to be split into 2
      296 23 Move to stimulate competition by breaking np monopoly [BEIJING] The China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC), the country's largest shipbuilding company, is being restructured into two large corporate groups, said China Daily Business Weekly. One group will be known as the China Shipbuilding
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      Hanjin clinches USs160m order for eight ships
      226 23  -  By] Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] South Korea's Hanjin Heavy Industries won a US$l6O million (***** million) contract to build eight containerships for Germany's Reederei B Rickmers GmbH Cie. The yard said four of the 1,200 TEU (20-ft equivalent units) containerships were firm orders with
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      New Vietnamese deepwater port gets go-ahead
      335 23  -  From P T Bangsberg in Manila VIETNAM will go ahead with a deepwater port in the central province of Thua Thien Hue, a project backed by a US investment team. Officials said Prime Minister Phan Van Khai directed the Ministry of Communications and Transport
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      Ship attacked twice off Indonesia
      261 23 [SINGAPORE] A vessel was boarded by pirates twice in successive days in the latest incident against merchant shipping in Indonesian waters. f On the first occasion, personal effects and almost US$lO,OOO (S$17,000) in cash were stolen. The following day, a second attack was repulsed with
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      959 24  -  APL'S INFORMATION STRATEGY Aim is to build dedicated information highway linking customs brokerages, shipping lines and intermodal services By\ Felix Chan HANK Moreira's job description reads master-infor-mation strategy", conjuring images of tech-no-savvy mil--1 i on a i re s hunched over expensive machines in Silicon Valley.
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        1877 35 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Actomr 689 12/1200 n/1500 «/»S9 10/1900 it nmoo n/noo u K)fl700 n/o*M n/ow 21 10/1700 n/06M n/0900 3 n/0700 n/1159 ii/moo 4 n/1200 1VM59 11/1700 AKmuvt 2 *459* 12/1500 IA
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        186 35 May 13 Indonesia: Ascension Day. Germany: Ascension Day. France: Ascension Day. Austria: Ascension Day. Belgium: Ascension Day. Denmark: Ascension Day. Finland: Ascension Day. Switzerland: Ascension Day May 24 Germany: Whit Monday. France: Whit Monday. Austria: Whit Monday. Belgium: Whit Monday. Canada: Victoria Day. Denmark: Whit Monday. May 20
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        802 35 THIS report, complied by Cockett Ma rlne 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 indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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        408 35 Carton 180 Mix 990.0 0.9 19.8 0.09 75 0.09 May 6 Density Wit" Residue Ash Aluminium Sediment No above £25 0 0 8 0 0 0 380 Ave 9877 0.4 U.S 0.07 36 0.02 380 Max 991.7 18 19.5 0.09 58 0.04 Mgg v/v M/M M/M
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        Lock icon Alitalia joins transatlantic alliance with KLM, Northwest
        395 36 New Wings alliance to rival the other major global groups, oneworld and Star Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] Alitalia SpA joined the partnership between KLM Royal Dutch Airlines NV and Northwest Airlines Corp, allowing the alliance to increase the number of transatlantic flights. The three carriers,
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        372 36 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The Federal Aviation Administration said it fixed air traffic control system glitches in Chicago and New York that delayed hundreds of flights last week. A computer outage on Friday at an air traffic centre on Long Island that handles
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        221 36 Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airways, Europe's largest airline, unveiled yesterday its £250 million (***** million) cargo facility at Heathrow Airport, part of a plan to expand its freight and parcel hauling business. BA's World Cargo Centre will have capacity to handle 800,000 tons
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        259 36 M'si&n airline denies report of such an incident and 10 other similar incidents AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airline System Bhd said it did not fly over central London two weeks ago with near empty fuel tanks, New Straits
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        187 36 Dow Jones/Nikkei [TOKYO] The Transport Ministry and the New Tokyo International Airport Authority said yesterday that they have abandoned their goal of building a second runway at New Tokyo International Airport at Narita by the end of fiscal 2000. Construction of the 2,500metre runway has
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        343 36 Bloomberg [TOULOUSE, France] Europe's Airbus Industrie group, the world's No 2 commercial jet maker, dismissed a report that it is holding talks on forming an alliance with Lockheed Martin Corp of the US. The Seattle Times, citing unidentified industry officials, reported yesterday
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      1490 28 EUROPtAJK/SCAHDINAVIA/FINLAMD/BUSSIA SGP ROM ANW HBG THP ZEE LHV LHV THP ROM ANW HBG PKL SGP E DEVELOP RW-006 15/05 03/06 09/06 05/06 07/06 06/06 09/06 E RE WAR ORE 033 22/04 24/04 23*4 25,04 27/04 15/06 I»*s E DECENT RW-009 22/05 10/06 16/06 12*6 14/06 15/06 16/06 E REFINE RE-020
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      125 35 WULEGEND: R Thunderstorm T.mp«ratur. c A\. A Shower Weather Wind direction with speed m knots Rain Cloudy Sky Wave height Surface winds ore indicated by arrows which fly with the wind 0 OneM cir le represents calm or light and variable wmds One hotf fleche represents 5 knots I I—»■
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      97 36 American Air orders 8737s [SEATTLE] The Boeing Company confirmed an American Airlines order for three additional Next-Generation 737-800s. The airplanes are scheduled to be delivered in 2000, and are in addition to previous orders for 100 Next-Generation 737s by American. American Airlines is scheduled to receive 24 8737-800s this year
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